Thursday, June 09, 2005
"I'm Your Vitamenavegamin Girl!" - take 99
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Episode 30 - "Lucy Does a TV Commercial"
Lucy tricks Ricky into letting her do a commercial during a television variety show. The commercial is for Vitameatavegamin Vitamins, and Lucy is the Vitameatavegamin girl. Don’t miss this classic episode.
First aired May 5, 1952.
Episode 36 - "Job Switching"

That Wacky Redhead #30 - in The Chocolate Factory episode - a colorized poster

Episode 36 - "Job Switching"
Convinced that they need to do something more lucrative than keep house, Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a candy factory. The girls are forced to work at a conveyer belt that brings the sweets to them faster than their unskilled hands can pack them.
This episode is a classic among classics.
First aired September 15, 1952.
"But does your head spin like Linda Blair's?"
--> In order to do some serious damage control for Ricky,
Lucy decides to conduct a seance and
introduces poor Ethel as the professional
"psychic-for-hire".
"Does she do air traffic control on the side?"
Episode 7 - "The Seance"
Lucy suddenly becomes interested in numerology and superstitions. After advising Ricky that it’s a good day for him to make deals, she realizes that she read yesterday’s horoscopes and that today is actually a bad day for Ricky. She thus says “no” to a very important business call for Ricky from Mr. Meriweather. In the process of putting things right, Lucy conducts a seance.
First aired November 26, 1951.
Classic Ethel quote: “Ethel to Tillie, Ethel to Tillie, come in Tillie.”

Vivian Vance - Lucy's neighbour and best friend

Everyone's a fashion critic
Episode 89 - "Lucy Is Envious"
A wealthy ex-schoolmate of Lucy’s is collecting for a charity. Lucy tells her friend to put her down for “five.” But when the uppity friend arrives to collect the pledged funds, Lucy is shocked to learn that her “five” meant five hundred dollars. In order to raise the money, Lucy and Ethel get a job dressed as two maids from Mars in a stunt to publicize a science fiction movie. They “invade” the top of the Empire State Building and scare the daylights out of a group of hotel patrons.
First aired March 29, 1954.
Episode 33 - "Lucy’s Schedule"

That Wacky Redhead #22

Episode 33 - "Lucy’s Schedule"
After Lucy is late for a dinner appointment with Ricky’s boss Alvin Littlefield, Ricky puts his wife on a rigid time schedule. Ricky tells his boss about this new schedule, adding that he has Lucy jumping around like a trained seal and that Littlefield should come over to see her perform. When Lucy gets wind of the plot, she schemes with Ethel and Mrs. Littlefield to teach their time-conscious hubbies a well-deserved lesson. Gale Gordon makes his first guest-star appearance as Alvin Littlefield, Ricky’s boss.
First aired May 26, 1952.