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I like when Lucy needs to go to the hospital to have little Ricky.

When they practice leaving for the hospital, Ricky says very solemnly, “The time has come!”

The Flintstones based the episode Wilma had Pebbles on that episode.
 
F_Marturana said:
And the censors at the time were all very nervous about depicting a pregnant woman. They had to not use the word “pregnant” but “expecting”.
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Yeah, and she was the first woman to shown pregnant on a TV show. It was unheard of back then.
 
Dolphin said:
She got yelled at a lot in that show, I only saw it twice, my mother refused to show my family that show. She hates it so much
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The yelling wasn’t taken seriously. I know that sounds terrible but “things were different then”. She also yelled right back.
I personally thought Archie Bunker, whom everybody thought was awesome, was way worse than Honeymooners. Edith rarely asserted herself, and pretty much played dumb through most of the show.
 
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F_Marturana said:
And the censors at the time were all very nervous about depicting a pregnant woman. They had to not use the word “pregnant” but “expecting”.
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My mother insisted when I was growing up that “pregnant” was a rude word for anyone but a doctor to use, and that it was considered good manners to say “expecting”. It was similar to the saying that ladies don’t “sweat”, they “perspire”.
 
Psalm30 said:
Yeah, and she was the first woman to shown pregnant on a TV show. It was unheard of back then.
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Crazy, I can’t understand why that would be controversial. I guess that is one of the few ways in which times have changed for the better.

The funny thing is that the maternity fashions of the day were like tents - you truly can’t tell by looking at her in those episodes whether there is a baby bump under there or not, much less have any idea how far along she is. But maybe that is the idea - perhaps with those super-flowy shirts, you would be less likely to receive unsolicited comments on your belly from strangers in the store.
 
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My all time favorite TV program. When I was pregnant, I watched the reruns in the evening. After my daughter was born, I would be nursing her and when the music played, she would jerk her head toward the TV. She clearly recognized the music!
 
F_Marturana said:
I like when Lucy needs to go to the hospital to have little Ricky.

When they practice leaving for the hospital, Ricky says very solemnly, “The time has come!”

The Flintstones based the episode Wilma had Pebbles on that episode.
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I think that’s one of the best episodes.

I have sort of a “love-hate” relationship with the show. I sometimes watch the free ones on Amazon at the end of the day just to clear my head. I realize it’s satire and that it’s supposed to be humorous, but the show portrays them as having an extremely unhealthy, dysfunctional marriage and the childishness exhibited by the characters — especially Lucy — is annoying at times.

The going to the hospital episode is extremely humorous and is one of the few episodes that doesn’t involve lying, scheming, arguing, spanking, temper tantrums, etc. and I do like that one.
 
EnglishTeacher said:
Crazy, I can’t understand why that would be controversial. I guess that is one of the few ways in which times have changed for the better.
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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. :woman_shrugging:t2:
 
Yeah, I think it’s really sad that they broke up. I read that Desi’s last words to Lucy were in a phone conversation. He said, “I love you, too honey. Good luck with your show.” For some reason that gives me goosebumps.

A friend of mine — a very big Lucy fan — did a presentation about the life of Lucy and Desi for our public speaking class in high school. At one point in her speech she said, “Lucy and Desi were two people who could not live together but could not stand to be apart.” I think that summed things up pretty well. She also mentioned that after Lucy died (some time after Desi died), people commented that she was happy because she was once again with Desi.
 
Psalm30 said:
I think she actually went to the hospital after filming the show. It was a scheduled cesarean
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Desi Arnaz Jr. was born the same day the episode of the birth of Ricky Ricardo Jr. aired - January 19, 1953.

Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated as President of the U.S. the next day. “I Love Lucy” murdered the inauguration in the TV ratings that week.
 
They aired the episode when Lucy did give birth. But I feel she now might have been in leave. There were a number of filler episodes where Ricky and Ethel would remember things about the past, and the episode would be a flash back.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Lucy, Vivian and Gale Gordon “Mr. Mooney” were absolutely hilarious. I have to say I found the three of them funnier than Lucy and Desi.
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You may already know this, but Gale Gordon was originally slated to play Fred Mertz. He still had a commitment to “Our Miss Brooks” so it went to William Frawley.

Also I didn’t know about Lucy’s arthritis. It just makes all the slapstick from her eighties “Life With Lucy” show that much more painful to watch.
 
The show’s principle writers reminisce. I watched all the reruns too in the afternoons after school.

 
For fans of Desi and Lucy don’t miss them in the
movie The Long, Long Trailer. A must see for Lucy fans
 
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