Anyone a fan of I Love Lucy?

[Cat0727]

Big time fan. I Love Lucy was one of my favorite TV shows growing up and still is. I used to watch it with my grandma.

 

[DisneyNutMary]

I'm a big fan. My grandmother was named Lucy, and had the same personality as Lucy Ricardo, she was so funny....and oddly enough, my grandmother worked in a candy factory, and when my mom was a kid, she and her siblings used to get all the candy my grandmother stuffed down in her pockets when she was running behind the line.
I don't know if it's really true, but someone once told me that the fight in the stomping grapes scene was real. The Italian woman was getting annoyed with Lucy, and Lucy realized and played along while they kept the cameras rolling.

 

[IDoDis]

I find it interesting that while Fred & Ethel were supposed to be an older couple than the Ricardos, Vivian Vance (Ethel) was actually 2 years younger than Lucille Ball. Her contract also stated that she had to gain 5 pounds per year or something like that so that she'd be rounder than Lucy.

BTW, William Frawley (Fred) was 22 years older than Vivian Vance.

The kid who played Little Ricky was not Desi Arnaz Jr. like many people thought. His name was Richard something but had his stage name changed to Richard Keith because it was easier to remember. He was able to play the drums at the age of 2 which is what helped him get the part of Little Ricky.

 

[travelbug]

In the episode where Lucy sneaks into Richard Widmark's house while they're all in Hollywood, the house they show was actually Lucille Ball's own house.

 

[piglet50]

love this show. my earliest memories are of my grandmother and me taking a morning break from "housekeeping" to have a coke for me and a cup of coffee for her and watch Lucy. I loved my grandma and wanted to do everything that she did. when this show comes on my thoughts always go to grandma.

 

[luv2sleep]

Love Lucy! I have no trivia but I love this thread!

 

[tabby1881]

I just discovered some interesting things about the show:

1. In the Conneticut episode where the wax tulips melt, the lady judge is the actress who voiced Maleficent/ Lady Tremaine.

2. In the France episode with the potato sack dresses, one of the model in the potato sack is Cher's mom.

3. A very young Aaron Spelling is in the Tennesse Ernie Ford episode where they go to jail.

4. In real life Lucy was older than Ethel and Ricky.

Does anyone else have trivia?

I Love Lucy: Still funny after all these years. I'm a big Star Trek fan. In one of the later series (Enterprise, I believe) even Vulcans stranded on Earth in the 1950's liked the show
Also, the actress that OP mentioned who played the judge/voiced Maleficent also played Barbara's mother in My Three Sons.

 

[MnMomtoboys]

I find it interesting that while Fred & Ethel were supposed to be an older couple than the Ricardos, Vivian Vance (Ethel) was actually 2 years younger than Lucille Ball. Her contract also stated that she had to gain 5 pounds per year or something like that so that she'd be rounder than Lucy.

BTW, William Frawley (Fred) was 22 years older than Vivian Vance.

The kid who played Little Ricky was not Desi Arnaz Jr. like many people thought. His name was Richard something but had his stage name changed to Richard Keith because it was easier to remember. He was able to play the drums at the age of 2 which is what helped him get the part of Little Ricky.

Vivian Vance had to be 10 to 15 pounds heavier than Lucy until they went to the hour long segment.

William Frawley had to promise not to show up to work drunk or he would be fired. His drinking was pretty bad until then. He also had it written in that if his favorite ball team made the world series they would work around the world series schedule. They ended up doing that for several years.

 

[luvflorida]

I have been a HUGE fan of I Love Lucy since I was a little girl, and that was a loooooooooong time ago! I remember crying one day when I was around seven years old, because I was watching I Love Lucy on tv, and my mom had to go grocery shopping and I had to go with her, and she wouldn't wait until the show was over.

I grew up at a time when you had to catch the reruns on tv, before DVRs and all the new technology available nowadays. I remember setting up my little reel-to-reel tape recorder and setting the microphone in front of the tv and recording the audio from each show. I would listen to the shows when I went to bed at night.

And I'll never forget the moment I held in my hand the first three-episode VHS tape of I Love Lucy. It was just unbelievable to me that I could OWN I Love Lucy episodes! In the early/mid 1980s, Columbia House started putting episodes on VHS tapes, and you could join the "club" and every six weeks a new VHS tape containing three episodes would be delivered through the mail. My son was around five years old at the time, and I couldn't wait for each tape to arrive so we could sit and enjoy the show together. I made sure each of my three kids grew up loving Lucy, too!

I sill own the complete set of I Love Love Lucy shows on VHS. I also have every episode on DVD, along with all the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour shows. I also own: The Long, Long Trailer and Forever, Darling, two movies that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz starred in, various magazines and tv guides featuring Lucy, and a bookcase full of books devoted to I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, and other cast members.

And for anyone who is a real fan of the show, check out the new stage show that has been travelling the country, I Love Lucy on Stage. It opened last year in Los Angeles and was such a success that they decided to go on tour. They recently completed a long run in Chicago and are now touring the East Coast. I haven't seen the show yet, but will when it hits my area of the country early next year. The show has been receiving rave reviews. It is set up so that the audience feels like they're at a taping of an actual I Love Lucy episode from the 50s, complete with vintage commercials. Can't wait to see it!

The comedy in I Love Lucy is timeless. It was funny way back in the fifties and continues to be funny today. I Love Lucy had some of the very best comedy writers ever, and one of the best casts of any tv show.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

I've seen every episode multiple times...love it. Lots of episodes available for free if you have Amazon Prime.

 

[IDoDis]

One of my favorite episodes was when Lucy was ready to go to the hospital to have her baby. I still laugh watching it today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUXK6cP7QwE

 

[CaliBear]

I love this show so much and that tulip episode is one of my favorites. All the Tennessee Ernie episodes are also faves.

 

[Diznygrl]

I Love Lucy has been one of my favorite shows since I was a child. I've seen each episode a hundred times but I will NEVER get tired of watching it!!! I really want to go see that I Love Lucy stage show if I ever get the chance.

I have a cat named Lucy. Originally I was going to name her one true love/companion cat either Ricky or Desi, but for some reason neither of those names ever "stuck". So he ended up with a completely unrelated name (Bandit), but she's still Lucy.

 

[Disneyland1084]

I just discovered some interesting things about the show:

1. In the Conneticut episode where the wax tulips melt, the lady judge is the actress who voiced Maleficent/ Lady Tremaine.

2. In the France episode with the potato sack dresses, one of the model in the potato sack is Cher's mom.

3. A very young Aaron Spelling is in the Tennesse Ernie Ford episode where they go to jail.

4. In real life Lucy was older than Ethel and Ricky.

Does anyone else have trivia?

According to IMDB, Vivian Vance was born in 1909, two years before Lucille Ball.

 

[NY Disney fan]

According to IMDB, Vivian Vance was born in 1909, two years before Lucille Ball.

Could be. I have read articles that Ethel was younger.

Trivia: In the episode where Lucy learns the vaudville routine "Martha" ("Slowly I turn....") when she gets beat up by the guy, you hear Desi Arnaz laughing super loud in the audience.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Could be. I have read articles that Ethel was younger.

I also had read that Ethel was actually younger, so this really surprises me too. I thought I'd also read that she didn't want to be "married" to Fred Mertz because the actor was really so much older than her.

 

[tabby1881]

I have to admit, though, that there was one episode that scared me when I was little. I think that Lucy had a dream that she was back in Scotland, and that she was going to be fed to a dragon? Fred and Ethel played the dragon in the dream. That kind of scared me! A two headed dragon I think Ricky had to rescue her?

 

[TLSnell1981]

I definitely Lucy. She's my hero!

 

[MnMomtoboys]

I also had read that Ethel was actually younger, so this really surprises me too. I thought I'd also read that she didn't want to be "married" to Fred Mertz because the actor was really so much older than her.

Ethel and Fred HATED each other. You never see them kiss on screen.

 

[ols386]

I Love Lucy, one of my all-time favorites.