Over and over and over, episodes of I Love Lucy would run. Endlesly.
One day, I catch an episode where Ricky is destroying the apartment bric-a-brac in Hollywood.
What did Lucy do, I wondered? I would think about that episode every now and then, so finally one day I watched the episode to just see what her stunt had been.
There had been no riding on machinery, falling into vats, being doused with oil. What could her stunt have possibly been? The episode aired, and what a corker it was.
Lucy sought to get Ricky more money by posing as his agent, calling herself Miss McGillicuddy, and asking the studio head (Parley Baer) to give Ricky a raise, or he would have to take those other (non-existent) offers he was getting.
Baer did the exact opposite and said he wouldn't stand in Ricky's way, thereby releasing Ricky from his contract.
Lucy, still in her hat and glasses disguise, makes her way back to the Mertzes in her apartment.
She tells them what her plan has resulted in.
"They released him from his contract" she says, looking ill.
"What are you going to do now?" "I don'no," Lucy says with her trademark cry.
Yea, she had pulled one doozy of a stunt this time! She tells Ricky what she did, and this brought about the destroyed apartment.
As she sought to get the rubble out from under the couch, Ethel and Fred enter.
"He tried to hide her body under the couch," Ethel says.
"I got an idea!" Lucy exclaims.
"How can you stand there and say those four horrible words?" Ethel asks.
Lucy calls up the studio, knowing they have never seen her, and slightly disguising her voice, says Ricky doesn't have an agent and the woman is an imposter.
But as she asks the operator to ring the studio again.
"She's a cool one," Ethel declares. "She's returning to the scene of the crime." Vivian Vance delivered her lines like a gun-moll with an incredible understanding of the situation.
Had Ricky actually killed Lucy, Ethel would have just declared something like Lucy got what she earned, or she should have ducked and dodged Ricky when he was coming at her. Ethel would have called that spade a spade.
One day, I catch an episode where Ricky is destroying the apartment bric-a-brac in Hollywood.
What did Lucy do, I wondered? I would think about that episode every now and then, so finally one day I watched the episode to just see what her stunt had been.
There had been no riding on machinery, falling into vats, being doused with oil. What could her stunt have possibly been? The episode aired, and what a corker it was.
Lucy sought to get Ricky more money by posing as his agent, calling herself Miss McGillicuddy, and asking the studio head (Parley Baer) to give Ricky a raise, or he would have to take those other (non-existent) offers he was getting.
Baer did the exact opposite and said he wouldn't stand in Ricky's way, thereby releasing Ricky from his contract.
Lucy, still in her hat and glasses disguise, makes her way back to the Mertzes in her apartment.
She tells them what her plan has resulted in.
"They released him from his contract" she says, looking ill.
"What are you going to do now?" "I don'no," Lucy says with her trademark cry.
Yea, she had pulled one doozy of a stunt this time! She tells Ricky what she did, and this brought about the destroyed apartment.
As she sought to get the rubble out from under the couch, Ethel and Fred enter.
"He tried to hide her body under the couch," Ethel says.
"I got an idea!" Lucy exclaims.
"How can you stand there and say those four horrible words?" Ethel asks.
Lucy calls up the studio, knowing they have never seen her, and slightly disguising her voice, says Ricky doesn't have an agent and the woman is an imposter.
But as she asks the operator to ring the studio again.
"She's a cool one," Ethel declares. "She's returning to the scene of the crime." Vivian Vance delivered her lines like a gun-moll with an incredible understanding of the situation.
Had Ricky actually killed Lucy, Ethel would have just declared something like Lucy got what she earned, or she should have ducked and dodged Ricky when he was coming at her. Ethel would have called that spade a spade.