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Even though I was born in the late 90s, I came across this show and fell in love with the humor and with Lucy and Ricky’s relationship. ❤️ Possibly one of my favorite TV couples next to Gomez and Morticia.

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I like that film. When I was very little I thought it was s longer episode of I love Lucy.

They characters are called Nicky and Tacy I think.
 
I think you are right. I was thinking Micly, but when I saw Nicky I am pretty sure that
was Desi’s
character. I think you are right about Lucy’s
character being Tracy. I drew a blank on
that one.

It was just on a couple of weeks ago.
I probably have seen it about 40 times.
It is a cute movie.
 
The whole scene getting over that steep mountain and the trailer being so heavy with all the boulders she was storing.

What were they supposed to be for?
 
I think she was collecting them as souvenirs and maybe to border a garden when they found a permanent trailer park to live in.

I am sure when the movie was made their new car and new trailer were very modern.
 
Remember when Lucy got the hostess pants for Ethel:

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Lucy: you get yourself s little off the shoulder blouse, a black crushy belt and little ballet slippers and your all set.

Ethel: what for, Halloween?
 
Psalm30 said:
I don’t know for sure — so take with a grain of salt — but I think it had something to do with the fact that there wasn’t allowed to be any indication that the characters were having sex.

In all the scenes in their bedroom, there are two separate single beds, rather than one full or queen sized bed. In the earlier episodes, the single beds are next to each other, but in later episodes they have a night stand in between them. But none of the episodes ever show one big bed.

So, I guess if a character is pregnant, then that implies she and her husband had sex, and that was considered inappropriate to show on television
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I am sure you are right. It is especially funny, though, because not only were they portraying a married couple on TV, but they were married in real life, too. It’s hard to imagine anyone thinking a married couple’s pregnancy or shared bed an inappropriate thing for TV, although of course I realize times were different back then.

From what I have read, though, audiences loved the pregnancy episodes, so perhaps TV executives over-estimated their sensitivity?
 
I think there is an episode where Fred and Ethel share a bed. Which is weird, because they weren’t married in real life. They barely liked each other.

I saw a film once with Gena Rowland and Jose Ferrer. They played a married couple and I’m sure they snuck in a scene to toy with the censors. They went to bed in their own separate beds. He had one solid color set pajamas, she had matching pajamas in a different solid color. The next morning he had her top she had his bottoms. 🤔
 
I read that she (Vivian Vance) had to keep an extra ten pounds on so that she would look older than Lucy. She really was a beautiful and talented woman in her own right. She also resented William Frawley being her husband, she thought he looked old enough to be her father.

Also, William Frawley rarely read the scripts or showed up for rehearsals. When it came time to tape, they would have to feed him his lines and work around his lack of preparation.
 
Little_Mary said:
I read that she (Vivian Vance) had to keep an extra ten pounds on so that she would look older than Lucy. She really was a beautiful and talented woman in her own right. She also resented William Frawley being her husband, she thought he looked old enough to be her father.
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I have heard this, too; poor Vivian. They wanted her character to be older and frumpier than Lucy. She was actually only two years older than Lucille Ball. Frawley was easily old enough to be her father; he was 22 years older than Vivian.
Little_Mary said:
Also, William Frawley rarely read the scripts or showed up for rehearsals. When it came time to tape, they would have to feed him his lines and work around his lack of preparation.
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Interesting; I imagine she resented that, too. They did not get along offscreen at all; by all accounts they couldn’t stand each other.
 
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Amusing story about that. The TV executives really did not want her shown as expecting on TV (not that it could be ignored since she was pregnant in real life). So they brought in a Catholic Priest, A Protestant Minister, and a Rabbi to ask them if this whole plot thread was “indecent”. All three had the same response: “What’s bad about a married woman expecting and having a baby?” So they did it.
 
That film with Rowlands and Ferrer is 1958’s The High Cost of Loving, done at MGM. Doesn’t turn up too often anymore.
 
I went back to watch some of my favorite episode moments and just remembered this fun little cross over. 😆

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Wow, Frawley was born in 1887! He was a veteran of
over 100 movies when he joined I Love Lucy.
Evidently, Desi gave him an ultimatum - he would get
3 chances if he ever arrived late or drunk to work.
He wasn’t. The article I read said he always knew his
lines.

He later was on My 3 Sons, but didn’t like their method of filming because MacMurray was able to fim his lines separately so each episode the scenes were filmed out of sequence, unlike I Love Lucy.

I think he was Catholic. William Frawley died in 1966.
 
ScouseGirl said:
Never seen the show, but my husband seems to have heard of it and says she also used to get spanked - like, proper over-the-knee spankings - albeit that I understand it was meant to be humorous.
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Lucy did get spanked by Ricky in “The Lucy Show”. In those days, a husband spanking a wife was considered humorous and also it was seen as sexy, which is why it was in so many adverts, etc. There were also episodes where Lucy would hit Ricky with a newspaper or something like that. I’ve read that they were using their real-life marital problems and fights as plot material for the show, because he was apparently chronically unfaithful to her and they fought a lot.
 
Little_Mary said:
Also, William Frawley rarely read the scripts or showed up for rehearsals. When it came time to tape, they would have to feed him his lines and work around his lack of preparation.
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That kinda reinforced his character. Disinterested and curmudgeonly.
 
F_Marturana said:
Any I Love Lucy fans on CAF?

I’ve always loved the show, since I was a little girl.
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Enjoying I Love Lucy on Amazon prime for the last couple day. I loved it also since a young girl.
F_Marturana said:
I think there is an episode where Fred and Ethel share a bed. Which is weird, because they weren’t married in real life. They barely liked each other.
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Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in their show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, had some episodes with a shared bed. Ozzie, supposedly a pretty conservative person, felt that since they were married they should be able to share a bed in the show.

Interesting though, many couples at that time really did have their own separate beds.
 
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