I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy (1951)

5 corrected entries in season 1

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Correction: That was the joke.

Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her - S1-E1

Corrected entry: Halfway through the episode, Ricky is talking on the phone about props for that night's show at the club. You can hear both sides of the conversation. At the end of the call, Jerry on the other end says, "See you later, Des" to Ricky. He used Desi Arnez's real name instead of his character's.

Correction: He says 'dad', not 'Des'.

Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her - S1-E1

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ricky tries to get Lucy to have the drink that will put her to sleep, from the audience's point of view, Lucy is on the right side behind the living room table with the altered drink on the table in front of her. Ricky is to the left with the unaltered drink in front of him. While Ricky is repeating Lucy's spinning/clapping movement, Lucy switches the glasses around. When they are done dancing, Lucy ends up behind the table to the left, with the altered glass again in front of her. Ricky points to the wall and tells Lucy, "That is the biggest spider I have ever seen!" While Lucy is examining the wall, Ricky switches the glasses back around. The unaltered glass is now in front of Lucy. She then proceeds to drink while Ricky smiles at her plan's apparent "failure". If you have watched the glasses carefully, you will realize that Ricky is actually the one who ends up with the altered drink, not Lucy.

Correction: For years I also thought this was an error, but it's not. When Lucy first starts out with the "poisoned" cup, it's the one on the audience's right. After Lucy switches it once and Ricky switches it back, the cup on house right IS back in the same place, however Lucy wasn't drinking from that cup, but took the cup at house left (the "unpoisoned" cup) So the episode is correct.

Lucy Fakes Illness - S1-E16

Corrected entry: When Ricky puts a green light bulb in Lucy's room, it causes her to think she has turned green. When she looks at Ricky and Fred, they look green to her as well, but Ricky and Fred claim that they do not look green to each other, so Lucy believes that she's "looking at the world through green eyeballs." Ethel is not trying to deceive Lucy, but when she returns to the room she only comments on Lucy looking green. But she should also have seen that Ricky and Fred looked green, and thus been able to expose the ruse.

DavidK93

Correction: Since Ethel was not in on conning Lucy, Fred said to Ricky that Ethel was going to have to get the "Go-Bloos" too. Later, he made reference to Ethel being in bed sick with the "Go-Bloos".

Correction: No microphone can be seen dipping into view at the top of the screen in this scene.

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Question: I know this show is from the time period when a lot of couples had two beds in their room. Just out of curiosity, when did it become acceptable to show a couple's bedroom with a single bed on TV?

Answer: According to Snopes.com, there is no definitive answer, but the mid-1960s is the most verifiable date with "The Munsters" being cited as the first, although others claim "The Brady Bunch" showed the first couple seen in a double bed. An early TV show from the late 1940s titled, "Mary Kay and Johnny" is also thought to have shown the married couple's bedroom as having a double bed, although probably not with them in it. However, this was when TV was aired live, and there are no surviving episodes, only anecdotal accounts.

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Something that is funny is that in the movie "A Christmas Story," they show the parents having two twin beds in their bedroom. In a real situation, they should have shown them having a double bed. Lucy and Ricky had twin beds pushed together in an early episode, which would have been pushing television boundaries in that time.

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