First, if I was rating on the costumes alone, this would be a perfect 10! Insert the plot, 9/10, insert the drawn out first half, 8/10. And this is where we are! Had they focused more on the club scene and less on Ricky demanding a raise, this could've easily been another Vitemeatavegimin episode. Fred in drag is my favorite!
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36 Reviews
This is a hard episode to analyze...
29 October 2021
Such a perfect mixture of good and bad! Sophisticated humor and corny dialogue! As the episode suggests, Ricky thinks he's going bald and vanity sets in. Unfortunately, the plot doesn't get any deeper than that, but the ending is funny!! Even if it isn't very believable.
I really enjoy when other folks join the normal 4some!
29 October 2021
This episode sees Ricky's boss and the boss' wife join Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel for the dinner from Hell! Tick, tock, tick, tock, the biscuits are hard as a rock!
When they start throwing the food, omg!! Instant tears of laughter! I only wished his boss and the wife were on more than just a couple of episodes. Her facial expressions were priceless! Then again, maybe that's why Lucille Ball didn't want her around 🤔
When they start throwing the food, omg!! Instant tears of laughter! I only wished his boss and the wife were on more than just a couple of episodes. Her facial expressions were priceless! Then again, maybe that's why Lucille Ball didn't want her around 🤔
Lucy's answers to the quiz questions will have you rolling!
29 October 2021
This is a pretty solid episode throughout, with very well timed humor mixed with sophisticated interactions and interesting conversation. It does go a bit stale toward the middle, but the ending more than makes up for it! Some of the best lines of the series.
This is a hard-to-watch episode...
29 October 2021
Lucille Ball is almost always hilarious, but this is pretty cringy! The dialogue, the costume, the ridiculousness of it is just a bit over the top. It's one thing to be slapstick but this just made the four of them look completely stupid and not in a good way. The only savior is the bit of humor in-between all the idiocy.
The infamous drunken episode...
29 October 2021
This episode is among the best of any series! And to think she accomplished this without Ethel! Everyone knows the story by now so I'll skip the synopsis and just add that I am hard to get laughing and she made me do just that. I'm a big Lucy fan but largely just because I love the series' naivety, not so much because I find it funny per se. But this is definitely an exception and there's a reason it's heavily promoted and hyped-and if you're one of the minority who haven't seen it, stop reading this and go on! Yes, right now. You won't regret it.
Perhaps the best episode of the entire series!
29 October 2021
Like I said, likely the best! From opening to ending, it's full of knee-slapping laughter! "Little" Ethel and Lucy purchase a freezer from her uncle and decide to start it off with meat. Unfortunately they're not math whizzes and order a side of beef!! Of course, they can't allow the boys to find out so Lucy and Ethel attempt to hide the meat when they come back unexpectedly. While Ricky serenades Ethel, Lucy serenades the freezer, where she, along with the beef, become frozen solid!! Absolutely hilarious!
This is surprisingly boring for a Lucy episode.
29 October 2021
The humor begins and ends when Lucy meets Ricky's "little" Cuban dance partner, who is now all grown up! This is one of those TRYING TO HARD FOR HUMOR episodes that seems a bit dialogue limited and rushed. Didn't find it funny really at all. That said, it's watchable, just not an episode I'd recommend someone to watch if they've never seen the series before.
Lucy takes things!
17 October 2021
This is an amazing episode! Humor throughout, with the best parts being when Lucy is caught by Fred and Ricky and pretends to be a bird imitator! A similar episode is done on Three's Company many years later, an obvious homage to this. Lucy at her best!
This is a bit of a stretch for comedy...
17 October 2021
Ricky plays a joke on Lucy, which she takes to be true. I'm never a big fan of episodes that show her as ultra-naive, and this one certainly does just that. There's definitely some funny moments with the town scenes and the mayor and sheriff and all that, but it gets to be a bit of a headache as well. Fortunately it ends right before it becomes too much, or otherwise the rating would've been much lower. Definitely not a "classic," but certainly not bad either.
The Good Old Days, which are now even older...
17 October 2021
This is a hilarious episode that often reminds me of my own critiques of the technological world in which we live. Absolutely hilarious dialogue and physical comedy that keeps the viewer guessing what will happen next. Even despite the ridiculous bread scene that kills the "suspended in disbelief" vibe, it's one of my fav episodes.
A joke gone wrong!
6 September 2021
Hilarious! Lucy's voiceless gossip scene, the boys telling the girls gossip in their sleep, them believing it and the best part of it all...the ending! When al is revealed to be true. Lucy not letting Ethel in on it is icing. Lucy wins again, as always.
Not as funny as expected.
6 September 2021
Lucy tired of Ricky's new moustache so she glued one on herself. Funny enough! Except that's kinda the beginning and ending of the humor. Truth is, she doesn't look nearly as ridiculous as it sounds which kills the vibe for the remainder of the show, and even the ending fails flat once it is revealed to a movie scout. Similar themes in later episodes work out much better, which might explain my heavy critique of this one.
Mediocre episode with a predictable ending.
6 September 2021
Fred and Ethel fight which leads to Lucy and Ricky fighting which leads to him leaving and Lucy furious. Of course they make up in the end and all is well.
There's some pretty funny lines in this episode, mostly between Fred and Ethel, so it's definitely good for the comedy aspect, but it goes too far from believability with Lucy falling out of the window! Even though it really is an awesome scene.
There's some pretty funny lines in this episode, mostly between Fred and Ethel, so it's definitely good for the comedy aspect, but it goes too far from believability with Lucy falling out of the window! Even though it really is an awesome scene.
"They're going to blow up the capital!"
6 September 2021
Omg! Lucy and Ethel gawking at the new neighbors, Lucy as a chair, Lucy convinced they're going to blow up the country, her gunshots, the police officer's comment that he "hopes she grows up to be a nice big sofa!" Every bit of it is eye watering laughter!
The only reason this doesn't get a 10/10 is because the repeated dialogue between the O'Brians was a bit stale.
The only reason this doesn't get a 10/10 is because the repeated dialogue between the O'Brians was a bit stale.
Lucy and Ricky the elderly!
6 September 2021
This is one of those weird episodes that starts off kinda corny and annoying, but is saved by costume and dialogue as Lucy and Ricky portray very convincing elderly folk! Much of the series dealing with costumes do a somewhat poor job making it believable but that wasn't the case here! One of my all time favorite moments is Ricky continuously telling Peggy to "keep shaking!"
Lucy the Ballerina...need I say more?!
6 September 2021
Lucy and the instructor have such great chemistry! It's a shame there wasn't more interaction amongst them in later episodes. This is physical comedy at its best as Lucy attempts to prove she is a ballerina! I wasn't a bi fan of the "Martha" skit, though, and I thought the ending was very rushed since it was meant to be the climax to everything else.
Relatable to so many people!
6 September 2021
This episode is wonderful from start to finish! Them starting out all cozy, singing, and complimenting one another, to fighting, threatening to move out, and breaking the lease in the greatest way possible! This is one of those episodes I'd suggest for anyone to watch if it's their introduction to the show! Ethel and Fred covered in sheet rock and chandelier is just icing on the cake!
Bad beginning, good ending!
6 September 2021
This episode is so boring through the first half, then it becomes absolutely hilarious as they produce two very different plays and Ricky inadvertently combined them as a Cuban British general. Everything about the play scenes worked fantastically, from Lucy cutting through the door to Ricky's mishaps to them changing the setup only to realize they each had the same idea! Unfortunately, it's hard to even stay awake through the first several minutes as we go through slow motion Lucy acting out the parts in a very unfunny fashion.
Hilarious! Only killed by the ending.
6 September 2021
Lucy's multiple personalities are superb, and in of themselves warrant a 10/10 rating! However, as funny as the moments of her waltzing around as a movie star, and kicking Ricky for not doing as she wants in childhood mode, the mock doctor and the mystery "disease" seemed too stupid of an idea to work on Lucy. She's a scheming mastermind, but can't distinguish from a green bulb and actual green color? Had they went a slightly different route, people might have been discussing this episode instead of Vitameatavegimin.
Hilarious and bland all at once.
6 September 2021
This episode presents some of the funniest dialogue in the series, but also some of the most boring. I really liked the scenes of Lucy cooking dinner for Mr. Ritter, but it gets a bit much around the time she introduces the kids! And the winking and "sexy" walking scenes seemed too much like forced humor for my taste. Not a bad episode overall, but far from the best.
Lucy and the twins for the win!
6 September 2021
I really enjoyed this episode, largely because it is one of the few to introduce children into the fray, and honestly, any episode that slightly deviates from the usual Lucy & Ethel trope is entertaining.
These two kids are pure evil though! So much so that it was hard to laugh at some of the dialogue intended to be funny, but they were true comics to hold their own alongside Lucille Ball!
These two kids are pure evil though! So much so that it was hard to laugh at some of the dialogue intended to be funny, but they were true comics to hold their own alongside Lucille Ball!
Great episode that showcases Lucy's musical "talents"
6 September 2021
Lucy is an awful singer and it never gets old! I really love that Ethel is center stage making the call instead of it being Lucy all the time-ok, ok, so Lucy forces her to use her to get Ricky to perform but her position still stands. The corny jokes to end the show were very well presented and hilarious, even though they wouldn't have been funny at all had anyone else made them. A gem from season one!
One of the worst episodes...
6 September 2021
Fred and Lucy dancing was hilarious! I felt they should've done more with those two, as opposed to a constant Lucy & Ethel. However, the French man story was very lame and too ridiculous to even be funny. Totally unbelievable, and the duel between him and Ricky was almost unwatchable. One of the worst segments in an otherwise amazing series.
Lucy and Ethel as one
5 September 2021
This is one of those few episodes that showcase Lucy and Ethel as (nearly) equal rather than Lucy "with" Ethel, which makes it much more enjoyable to watch. It also does a lot in presenting Fred as a solid character, which again isn't the usual focal point of most episodes. That said, I must agree with the other comments that the fake sobbing, while entertaining at first, quickly annoys, which kills some of the humor. The ending is great, though, with all the guests in the closet getting tangled together!
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