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10 o’clock in the living room and all’s well! Lucy goes slapstick AND political in the same episode when the gang thinks their new neighbors are foreign agents and get into some pretty zany hijinks that could honestly be pulled from today’s headlines. It's Lucy’s amazing physical comedy mixed with Ricky, Ethel, and Fred buying right into the lunacy. Plus, actors ruin everything.

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References:

The O’Brien scene/Lucy hides in the closet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwbpHVzNwTA 

Books on the Hollywood Blacklist: 

Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780231184892 

Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780813168920 

“Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780813541983 

Dalton Trumbo - Blacklisted Hollywood Radical: https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780813169736

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Keep jiggling, Peggy! Its time for the Ricardos to team up against the worst possible adversary: horny teenagers. We get some classic Ricky moments and a reminder that Lucy Ricardo is an absolute babe. This is a suer fun bottle episode, even if there’s no Fred or Ethel. Plus, I try a new intro style. Let me know if you like it!

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Keep Jiggling’ Peggy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2LIev65bU

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Lucy wants to be in the show, what else is new? The Ballet is some comic excellence. This episode has everything we love about Lucy Ricardo - physical comedy, misunderstandings, an insistence on being in the show, a pie in the face! Make that two! This is one I loved so much, I got a little intense. Thanks for listening <3 

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References:

Lucy’s Ballet Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_5VGOfSCZI 

Burlesque Comedy: https://literaryterms.net/burlesque/#:~:text=Burlesque%20(pronounced%20ber%2Dlesk),of%20the%20literary%20genre%2C%20satire.

The Three Stooges’ Slowly I Turned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP1OBZfFK0

Abbott and Costello’s Slowly I Turned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KpsUlvzbkk

I Love Lucy’s Slowly I Turned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCbXl-BR-9U 

Lucille Ball performing Slowly I Turned as the vagabond on “CBS Opening Night”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnGpaY3VKY&t=72s 

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It's a Mertz/Ricardo throwdown episode! This week, the Ricardos are too loud and the Mertzes are too grumpy. What follows is one of the most hectic I Love Lucy episodes we've watched yet. Plus, cameos by two Lucy regulars - Hazel Pierce and the very lovely, very tragic Barbara Pepper.

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Anyone for tennis? It's my favorite episode of I Love Lucy (so far, but also, probably of all time).  Our beloved Lucy Ricardo is writing a play for her women's club, and it is a true masterpiece.  

Lucille Ball's mime work at the start of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxBL__fkqs
The final play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cod-GqBUhuc 

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Noel Coward - I recommend Hay Fever! https://bookshop.org/a/80960/9780573610042 

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Lucy wants a part in Ricky's show, and this time, she decides to "develop a complex" to get it! What follows is a master class (I know, I know, I overuse that term) in comedic character work. She's so good, folks. This episode is super playful and such a treat! Plus, we talk Tallulah Bankhead, who should 100 percent be even more of an icon than she is.

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Tallulah Bankhead and Amnesia: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2386581778284972
The Childlike Persona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Hxo4QuL04

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The original choice for Ethel Mertz is in the building, and she is nothing like our girl Vivian Vance, but she is a delight and a half! This week, Lucy decides to help her neighbor find love, and things...don't go great. This episode turns into a deeper dive on an unsung pioneer in Hollywood, Bea Benaderet.

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Welcome to The Amateur Hour, where Lucy Ricardo battles my new nemesis, a child named Jimmy (and another child named Timmy, who is not fully my nemesis). Required disclaimer because the internet loves to take things a bit seriously: I love children, I have nothing against children, but Jimmy is just the worst and I won't apologize for that. We talk failure in comedy, the very lucky and precise magic of the show, and how to find value in, frankly, a not great episode of a very great show.

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Lucy Ricardo is at the top of her game this week as she gets one over on Ricky at a Women's Club event.  This episode is jam packed with so many fun moments, it should be required viewing for any Lucy enthusiast. You get three songs, bad Lucy singing, Ricky being vexxed, Ethel wearing a giant corsage, Fred...existing! Its wonderful!

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Happy New Year! Today we're talking about this...interesting episode. There's a lot to cringe at and a lot to like! Lucille Ball is great even when the material is weird! Parts age really poorly but there is still value! Sitcom logic has never been nuttier!

A fantastic article about the history of Apache dance that I quote in this episode: https://socialdance.stanford.edu/Syllabi/Apache1.htm 

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