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Yeah, Lucy says something along the lines of "The policeman mentioned that traffic was backed up all the way into New Jersey". So there was a cop involved, and amazingly he didn't arrest her.
It is ridiculous that she's apparently a full driver an episode or two later. They could have just said that she doesn't drive very much and needed to brush up on it as opposed to not driving at all. It would have made more sense.
I completely agree and that scene has always bothered me. Sure she was acting nutty but he crossed the line there. I felt like it served him right to get knocked out and robbed by the actual jewel thief.
One of my favorite episodes as well. I never understood though why Lucy couldn't just call up her mother or something and ask her to lend her money to get new tickets. It might not have been too convenient, but it sure as hell would have been preferable to that road trip with Mrs. Grundy.
I love Mrs. Grundy too, what an odd character she was.
Oh yeah, I forgot about The Diet, that was pretty bad, even for her.
Also it was pretty awful of her in Lucy Does a TV Commercial to ruin the job for the other girl who had been cast in the commercial.
Also you know it's totally ridiculous that Lucy and Ethel (and perhaps Fred) would all just be let off the hook like that. In real life, even they'd replaced the slab of cement, they'd still be looking at a lengthy prison sentence.
Well I think also it's arguably the worst thing Lucy ever did over the course of the series. I mean, she committed outright vandalism.
I'd say Paris at Last! was probably my favorite of the Europe episodes. That translation scene alone was classic ILL.
Completely agree, Ricky Needs an Agent is the best one for me.
Well I'd say Lucy's Night in Town, but I don't know if that should technically count since much of it is set in the city.
Yeah, there's a couple moments I guess.
The Courtroom - I don't know if "creepy" is necessarily the right word, but I've always found something a bit disquieting about this episode. Just how purely vicious the two couples are to each other here never sat right with me, and the judge seems like kind of a creepy guy.
Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation - Now I find it a hysterically funny bit, which it is. But I remember as a kid being unnerved by Lucy getting covered with all that crap on the game show, I'm not really sure why though.
The Tour - All those animal heads in Richard Widmark's house used to give me the creeps.
Nursery School - That operation scene with the doctor speaking. It feels very out of place for the show and comes across as a bit eerie.
I don't know if I can list five specifically that I won't watch, but I really dislike a majority of the first season episodes and have no desire to watch them again. Drafted of course is just putrid and it makes no sense when you take into account Fred's age and the fact that it was a clearly established fact on the show that he already served in the military during WWI.
A lot of the first season just has this odd, off-kilter quality that's hard for me to describe exactly, but I don't like it.
There are a few in subsequent seasons that I have no interest in seeing again though, mainly Mertz & Kurtz, Lucy Goes to a Rodeo and the Orson Welles one.
I love the Europe episodes, not as much as the Hollywood ones, but there was still a lot of great stuff in them and I love the sense of adventure they had.
The bicycle one is great, though it gets a bit frustrating to watch.
I believe it was said by Fred in the Hawaiian Vacation episode referring to Lucy in her old lady disguise to fool Frank Nelson's character.
It was season 7.
Not positive, but I think Redecorating and Lucy Wants New Furniture.
[quote]To me, this would've happened here. HOWEVER, Andrew, you raise an interesting question about
what characters did and didn't know.
Two examples to me that follow your train of logic.
I don't think Fred and Ethel, and all those party guests EVER found out that Lucy and Ricky
were in the closet. They wanted to keep that their secret.
I don't think Ethel, Fred, OR Lucy managed to untangle that bizarre ending to "Ricky Minds the
Baby", when Little Ricky winds up in his crib (Fred brought him there).
Any other incidents?[/quote]
Well one that comes to mind is that final episode of season 1, Ricky Asks For a Raise. It ends of course with Ricky turning down the offer to be rehired at the Tropicana after Lucy's scheme works better than it should have, since it appeared that Ricky had a huge following. Of course Ricky ends up back at the Tropicana with the events of that episode conveniently forgotten. But it's fun to think about what may have happened. Did Ricky ever find out about what the three of them did? Did he figure it out beforehand and was he just toying with them about not taking the job? Or maybe Lucy admitted to it and told Ricky to just take the job back while he still could.
Curiously though, we never see or hear from Mr. Littlefield (Gale Gordon) again. And later on Ricky owns the Tropicana himself.
[quote]After Holden left, don't you think Ricky would've asked Lucy WHY she put putty on her nose, and what
led up to this? Of course, Lucy would've confessed. I don't see how this qualities as a question
when it's so obvious (and understandable) that Ricky would've found out.[/quote]
Well if I recall, Holden made up some harmless story about him (as not to embarrass her) and Lucy merely encountering each other at the Brown Derby. So I don't think it's out of the question that Ricky could have just accepted this as the reason as to why she was apprehensive about seeing Holden again, hence the putty.
But you're right, given the fact that it happened in a public setting, I guess it's not surprising that word of the incident eventually would reach Ricky.
Ok, there's no need to get excited.
True, although it still wasn't deliberate.
Yes, you're right. This was one case where I felt sorry for Lucy. Like I said, the whole ordeal wasn't her fault and she got stuck with the blame for it.