I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy (1951)

2 mistakes in The Business Manager

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The Business Manager - S4-E3

Other mistake: When Lucy responds to the money matter about her hair care, she states, "I can be a thin redhead or a fat brunette," when her real-life natural hair colour was blonde (later dyed to enhance her film career).

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Suggested correction: Lucille Ball was naturally blonde. Lucy Ricardo was a brunette. This is, at best, trivia.

Ricky Ricardo: Fred, how often is Ethel's checking account overdrawn?
Fred Mertz: Never.
Ricky Ricardo: Never? How do you manage that?
Ethel Mertz: It's easy. I never had enough money at one time to open a checking account.
Fred Mertz: She spends money like I'm printing it in the basement.

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Chosen answer: It's not known. She may have moved it to the spare room or it may be in a corner just off camera. There could be any number of reasons, though it probably took up too much room on the studio set, and it was removed, making it easier for the actors to move around.

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