Lucy and Viv plan a wedding for Lucy 's sister but the funniest part isn't the wedding itself. The groom spikes the punch and a tipsy Lucy and Viv deliver some of the shows biggest laughs .
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Champagne Punch and Wedding Cake Do Not Mix
kgraovac24 November 2023
Lucy's newlywed sister visits after a fight with her husband. When they reconcile, Lucy plans a big ceremony since the couple had originally eloped and missed out on a big wedding.
Voice-over actress Janet Waldo ("Jane Jetson", "Josie" of the Pussycats) plays Lucy's sister Marge and they give her Lucy's usual crying jag. Otherwise, she doesn't have much to do here, nor does future "Hollywood Squares" host Peter Marshall who plays her husband.
This episode is most remembered and enjoyed for the scene where Lucy and Viv unknowingly get sloshed on champagne punch as they attempt to decorate the wedding cake. It's not one of their all-time best, but their line delivery makes the scene -- even more so than the deliberate clowning.
Lucy looks old in the final scene at the ceremony, which ends very abruptly, BTW.
Voice-over actress Janet Waldo ("Jane Jetson", "Josie" of the Pussycats) plays Lucy's sister Marge and they give her Lucy's usual crying jag. Otherwise, she doesn't have much to do here, nor does future "Hollywood Squares" host Peter Marshall who plays her husband.
This episode is most remembered and enjoyed for the scene where Lucy and Viv unknowingly get sloshed on champagne punch as they attempt to decorate the wedding cake. It's not one of their all-time best, but their line delivery makes the scene -- even more so than the deliberate clowning.
Lucy looks old in the final scene at the ceremony, which ends very abruptly, BTW.
Dumb and illogical in many ways
FlushingCaps14 March 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of those shows where if you leave all thoughts of logical thinking at the door, you will find some laughs, but not too many. If you are bothered by not just one big flaw in logic but a constant abandonment of clear thinking, you will probably hate this episode, which recalls several of the worst episodes of I Love Lucy, a series which featured the same writers as this series.
We begin with the Carmichaels and Bagley's at supper, discussing a letter from Lucy's never-before-mentioned sister, who recently got married, eloping with a guy named Hughie. Viv asks Lucy about the letter but Lucy never got it. Now it appears the letter arrived before everyone went off to school that morning (first stop for the early bird mailman?) because Viv gave it to Chris who gave it to Sherman who gave it to Jerry, who, for reasons that can't be explained, put it into his school lunch box. Let's see, the letter was at the house, where Lucy would expect to get it. Nope, I cannot think of any reason why you would pass this thing around to different people instead of just leaving it, maybe, with the rest of the day's mail, or where mail usually goes, if you weren't going to hand it to Lucy right away. I cannot imagine being in my house as a kid, with an envelope in my hand addressed to my mom and giving it to anyone else for any reason.
Marge has written about how wonderful her married life has been so far. We soon shift to a knock on the door with Marge (Janet Waldo) coming in, bawling about the big fight she just had with her husband. We never get included on the details. Instead, we hear Lucy coming up with the cockamamie idea that her marriage wouldn't be having any troubles at all if they had only had a big wedding instead of an elopement.
So when Hughie comes knocking about 4 a.m. (played by Peter Marshall, later of Hollywood Squares fame) the couple quickly solve their problems just by seeing each other (I told you there was little logic in this one) Lucy finagles a way to get them to agree to a more formal wedding—but insists that it be later that day, specifically 13 hours away.
Now I know what you're thinking—considering they are already married, how do you get other friends and family members to agree to come to a wedding they will be invited to, by phone, that by the time they get the phone invitation, will be celebrated no more than 9 hours later? Well, Lucy and Viv do get a living-room full of people to show up, not that any of the guests are ever more than extras. The rest of the story dealt with them baking a giant wedding cake and then trying to decorate it. They had to "try" to decorate it because they both got drunk from the big punch bowl in the kitchen. Hughie had sneaked a large bottle of, I guess, champagne into the house and decided to pour it into the punch.
While Viv was standing near the punch bowl, Lucy pulled out the bride's wedding ring that she had because she had to give it to Jerry to be the ring bearer. Viv started to read the inscription and Lucy—in what was the stupidest move in this entire episode—not only chastised her for reading the inscription, but whacked her hands as she did so. Of course the ring dropped into the punch. Instead of fishing it out like normal people, they each filled cups with punch, ran their hands around in the cups, then, since they had sense enough not to put that punch back into the bowl, commenced to drinking cup after cup of the "tangy" punch.
The following scene of the two drunks trying to decorate the cake was easily the funniest part of the show, but the set up to get there just was too dumb to make this episode a good one to me. I won't give it away but the ending scene also seemed rather stupid and illogical to me as well—sort of a "we-need-a-real-quick-finish-because-we're-out-of-time" thing. I give it a 3.
We begin with the Carmichaels and Bagley's at supper, discussing a letter from Lucy's never-before-mentioned sister, who recently got married, eloping with a guy named Hughie. Viv asks Lucy about the letter but Lucy never got it. Now it appears the letter arrived before everyone went off to school that morning (first stop for the early bird mailman?) because Viv gave it to Chris who gave it to Sherman who gave it to Jerry, who, for reasons that can't be explained, put it into his school lunch box. Let's see, the letter was at the house, where Lucy would expect to get it. Nope, I cannot think of any reason why you would pass this thing around to different people instead of just leaving it, maybe, with the rest of the day's mail, or where mail usually goes, if you weren't going to hand it to Lucy right away. I cannot imagine being in my house as a kid, with an envelope in my hand addressed to my mom and giving it to anyone else for any reason.
Marge has written about how wonderful her married life has been so far. We soon shift to a knock on the door with Marge (Janet Waldo) coming in, bawling about the big fight she just had with her husband. We never get included on the details. Instead, we hear Lucy coming up with the cockamamie idea that her marriage wouldn't be having any troubles at all if they had only had a big wedding instead of an elopement.
So when Hughie comes knocking about 4 a.m. (played by Peter Marshall, later of Hollywood Squares fame) the couple quickly solve their problems just by seeing each other (I told you there was little logic in this one) Lucy finagles a way to get them to agree to a more formal wedding—but insists that it be later that day, specifically 13 hours away.
Now I know what you're thinking—considering they are already married, how do you get other friends and family members to agree to come to a wedding they will be invited to, by phone, that by the time they get the phone invitation, will be celebrated no more than 9 hours later? Well, Lucy and Viv do get a living-room full of people to show up, not that any of the guests are ever more than extras. The rest of the story dealt with them baking a giant wedding cake and then trying to decorate it. They had to "try" to decorate it because they both got drunk from the big punch bowl in the kitchen. Hughie had sneaked a large bottle of, I guess, champagne into the house and decided to pour it into the punch.
While Viv was standing near the punch bowl, Lucy pulled out the bride's wedding ring that she had because she had to give it to Jerry to be the ring bearer. Viv started to read the inscription and Lucy—in what was the stupidest move in this entire episode—not only chastised her for reading the inscription, but whacked her hands as she did so. Of course the ring dropped into the punch. Instead of fishing it out like normal people, they each filled cups with punch, ran their hands around in the cups, then, since they had sense enough not to put that punch back into the bowl, commenced to drinking cup after cup of the "tangy" punch.
The following scene of the two drunks trying to decorate the cake was easily the funniest part of the show, but the set up to get there just was too dumb to make this episode a good one to me. I won't give it away but the ending scene also seemed rather stupid and illogical to me as well—sort of a "we-need-a-real-quick-finish-because-we're-out-of-time" thing. I give it a 3.
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