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"In Palm Springs" Question **POTENTIAL SPOILERS**
ETHEL MERTZ -- TROUBLEMAKER!
Was Fred Right that Ricky Should Pay for the Motorcycle?
Your Favorite Encounter Between Lucy and a Celebrity
Ethel's Fist Pumps
Episodes When Lucy Cleaned Up Her Own "Mess"
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Her Rise to Top Stardom at MGM Took Some Time
Presenting Lily Mars
What Were Some of the Nicest Things Lucy Did?
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I have a friend who used to make an odd sound running his tongue against his upper teeth when we were kids. It sounded sort of like a very soft grunt of a piglet. I have no idea how he did it, and he couldn't explain how he did it. Like you, he eventually outgrew it.
You're right. I think everyone has an odd habit or two.
To quote Gladys Kravitz after she's zapped by the Purenthians' "N Gun" on Bewitched: "None of us is perfect, you know."
I guess it was just supposed to be that Larry's latest potential cash cow client, "Mr. Giddings," was so conservative that HE wouldn't understand Samantha's turning hippie.
You're welcome.
Still, as you've pointed out, it does leave a big plot hole unresolved. Why didn't Louise just say to Larry something like:
"Larry, that could be Samantha's cousin, Serena. Remember the mixup we had when Sam and Darrin were in Chicago and I stopped by their house and thought Samantha was at home? It turned out to be her cousin, Serena, and they're almost identical. We should make sure it isn't Serena in the paper before you start jumping to conclusions."
Of course, we all know that if she had, there wouldn't have been an episode, but other than hat, it defies logic. lol
That's funny, PJ.
But I think Fred's jingling habit was probably the least annoying of the quartet's, so I'm not completely surprised that you didn't pick up on your Dad's habit.
Me neither. Just watching her do it in that episode sort of turns my stomach!
That would probably be my number 2 choice, too.
Even if I found Lucy's constant stirring her coffee annoying, she wasn't always drinking coffee or tea. Ricky could start drumming his fingers any time he got nervous or edgy.
The craziest thing about this episode, is that it DOES acknowledge that Louise and Serena have met before. After Larry invites himself and Louise to dinner at Samantha and Darrin's so they can see Serena for themselves, Serena files off in a huff after Darrin insults her, and refuses to stay for dinner. Samantha shows that she can pose as Serena for the evening. The only problem is that she can't be both Samantha and Serena at the same time.
When the Tates arrive, as Darrin is greeting them and taking their coats, "Serena" (Sam in disguise) enters the room and Darrin says, <i>"You remember Louise Tate, don't you, Serena?"</i> Samantha/Serena responds, "Oh sure!" Then, to Larry: "Hey Cotton Top that's a wild looking chick you've got there!"
i don't think Ricky is being mean when he wants to avoid contact between Lucy and celebrities. Her terrible record of embarrassing and outrageous behavior when she meets up with a celebrity speaks for itself. Moreover the problems almost always arise because Lucy is completely self-absorbed and feels her needs/wants always should take precedence over everyone else's. In the episode with Cornel Wilde, for example, she perfectly ready to get the hotel's nice bellhop ("Bobby") fired just because she wants to get a look at Mr. Wilde to complete her "100 Celebrity Sightings List." I can understand why Ricky doesn't want her to be at the lunch with Richard Widmark, as he later says to Widmark about Lucy: "She's a very nice girl, but something happens to her when she gets close to a movie star."
I like the John Wayne episode a lot, though I can't understand how Lucy, Ethel and Fred wouldn't realize that stealing Wayne's footprints from the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre wasn't a crime. In the episode when Lucy and Ethel hold a raffle for a TV set to finance their trip to Europe, when the District Attorney tells Lucy that she's committed Fraud and that it's a crime punishable by imprisonment, Lucy says she wouldn't have done it if she'd known it was a crime.
As for Robert Cummings, he was a successful film actor from the late 1930s through the 1960s, and in the 1950s starred in a very successful TV sitcom, Love That Bob. I can understand why many viewers today would have no idea who Cummings, Tallullah Bankhead and Erine Kovacks and his wife Edie Adams were, among others, but at the time the shows were produced they were all extremely successful, well known and admired celebrities.
I like the Fred MacMurray episode, too, especially when they're all racing across the desert to beat each other to file the Uranimum claim.
The ILL Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League women remind me of that classic movie THE WOMEN (1939).
It's a very funny movie, but the basic themes that Men are born to cheat on their wives and women are born to drive them to it through their constant catty clannishness with each other is pretty discouraging.
I agree that it's inappropriate to repeat unkind comments about other people, but I guess it made good comedy for ILL and other shows.
I think Lucy also criticized Carolyn's stinginess. As she was dealing out the cards didn't she say something like, "Carolyn when are you going to buy a new deck of cards? We've been playing with the same dirty old deck since I've known you!"
I did like Lucy's comment to Marion: "Stop cackling. I've been waiting 10 years for you to lay that egg!"
No kidding P.J.!
That episode when Lucy insists on getting further details about the friend who got a black eye from her husband, and that she's so delighted/excited about the incident has always bothered me a lot.
And remember in the "Club Elections" episode how "Lillian" Appleby was just about to spill some dirt about "Maron Strong" to Lucy and Ethel. Just as Lillian was about to speak, Marion walked in the door and they all embraced. To top it off, Lillian then nominates "her very dear friend" Marion for one of the Club offices!
The women on ILL were very untrustworthy.
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