Lucy ricardo gave birth to little ricky in season two. Lucille ball absolutely loathed sardines, but she choked them down for the sake of the episode. The blackandwhite series originally ran from october 15, 1951, to may 6, 1957, on the columbia broadcasting system cbs. Join the conversation and connect with cbss i love lucy. But reallife lucy and desi didnt want their baby on screen for obvious reasons, so they cast a wide net in search of a set of similarlooking twins. I love lucy was one of the first tv shows to be filmed in hollywood. Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant but how to tell ricky. Megan mullally, grace, debra messing, will, eric mccormack, jack, sean hayes, grace pregnant, will.
Originally broadcast in 1953, sales resistance begins with the fieryhaired heroine impulsively buying a vacuum from the handy dandy salesman, much to rickys dismay. More than 60 years ago, a pregnant lucille ball couldnt call. This is a discreet reference to series writers bob carroll jr. The lost pilot unaired pilot i love lucy wiki fandom. Lucy s desire to star in a tv commercial, despite ricky saying no, gets her in a. The cbs broadcast standards refused to allow the word pregnant to be uttered by any of the characters, so they said that lucy was expecting instead. Directed by ralph levy, it was shot before a live audience at cbs columbia square in hollywood, california, on march 2, 1951, and sold to cbstv in the summer of 1951. She fails at the audition, so she pretends to have had a male visitor so that ricky would believe its not safe to leave lucy home while hes away. When lucy learns that shes going to have a baby, she tries to find the. The episode lucy is enceinte first aired on december 8, 1952 enceinte being french for expecting or pregnant, although the show never displayed episode titles on the air. In total 180 episodes of i love lucy were produced, plus a pilot episode. Only after an agreement that a priest, minister and rabbi would approve each episode. Up until this time, most shows were done in new york.
I love lucy pregnant women are unpredictable tv episode. Fred and ricky find out that the visitors hat and gloves left behind, actually belong to fred. In the episode, jess falls down a set of stairs and breaks multiple bones, which. Ricky wont let lucy go with him and his band on the road, so she auditions for him with her saxophone. What little ricky from i love lucy looks like now twins. I love lucy season 2 episode 12 lucy s showbiz swan song. See more goofs when ricky sings rockabye baby, he mixes up the verses towards the end. In addition, sponsor philip morris made the request that lucy not be seen smoking during the pregnancy episodes. Perhaps one of the best episodes of the series aired in 1952. Lucy reading the mccalls magazine with i love lucy visible on the cover. As any mother can attest, the hormones of pregnancy really do a number on you during those nine long months. Quoting wikipedia later, during the second season, lucy was pregnant again with second child desi arnaz, jr. The best of i love lucy volume 2 contains many classic episodes from seasons two and three of i love lucy. But such was the clout of lucille ball at the time.
Lucy s always getting herself into trouble, and the episode this collector barbie celebrates is no different. Pregnant women are unpredictable lucille ball wiki fandom. The episode that showed little rickys birth was watched by 44 million viewers, meaning 72% of all u. I love lucy, lucy is enceinte more than 60 years later and more. The episode was the culmination of an unprecedented pairing of the fictional pregnancy of lucy with the reallife pregnancy of lucille ball. In this classic scene from i love lucy, lucy finds out she pregnant and. I remember reading about some commotion when the lucy pregnancy was written into the storyline, and also when lucille ball was visibly pregnant on screen, since it was something that you never saw before on televison. Every i love lucy fan knows this episode from season one. This is clearly a word for pregnant that is no longer used in the english lexicon. More than 60 years ago, a pregnant lucille ball couldnt call herself. More than 60 years ago, a pregnant lucille ball couldnt.
On this day, december 8, in 1952, the i love lucy episode titled lucy is enceinte, using the french word for pregnant, first aired, marking the first major television show to acknowledge pregnancy. There are too many quintessential clips from i love lucy to count. Lucy was one of the first women to be shown onscreen as pregnant. Two of the happiest episodes from the second season of i love lucy, as the real life pregnancy of lucille ball is preserved for alltime. Watch i love lucy season 2, episode 15 lucy is enceinte. Lucy is enceinte i love lucy a blog about lucille ball. Pregnant women are unpredictable follows lucy preparing for the baby to arrive. Lucy decides to explore her artistic side and takes up sculpting. This is the third of eight installments to focus on controversial episodes. Watch full episodes of i love lucy, view video clips and full episodes on cbs.
Jan 26, 2020 i love lucy season 2 episode 11 pregnant women are unpredictable. They considered filming another take but decided the scene was so purely. The lucy show lucille ball 30 full episodes pizzaflix. Its a sweet and downright quaint to modern eyes episode thats about. Following i love lucy, a further one hourlong episodes were produced under the title of. Ricky does his best to deal with pregnant lucy s emotional needs. Join the conversation and connect with cbs s i love lucy. I love lucy season 4 episode 30 end credits reuploaded. Watch i love lucy episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. And other classic episodes such as the gang not believing lucy cant go a day without lying in lucy tells the truth.
May 17, 20 114 videos play all i love lucy full episodes i love lucy full episodes 18 i love lucy bloopers you probably did not noticeseason 2 duration. It seems precious now, but the episode s title, lucy is enceinte, is a french allusion to balls expectant state they werent allowed to say pregnancy on air. I love lucy, lucy is enceinte more than 60 years later. When lucy tells ethel that shes been fatigued, unenergetic, and been mysteriously gaining weight, ethel suspects that lucy may be pregnant. Ricky has labor pains ultimate i love lucy wiki fandom. I love lucy season 2 episode 11 pregnant women are. I love lucy is an american television sitcom starring lucille ball, desi arnaz, vivian vance, and william frawley. In the camping trip lucy and ethel insist on going with ricky and fred to their camping trip. I love lucy lucy tells ricky shes pregnant in color.
Nov 20, 2019 a guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the tv series i love lucy. Season 2 pregnant women are unpredictable on directv. Favorite episodes during pandemic i love lucy discussion. When lucy was pregnant with little ricky during the second season of i love lucy, it was one of the first times a pregnancy was shown on tv.
The episode is about that when lucy learns that shes going to have a baby, she tries to find the right way to tell this to ricky. When lucille ball became pregnant, desi arnaz invented the rerun by reairing some episodes from the first season to give lucy some rest. Watch i love lucy season 2, episode 19 ricky has labor pains. With lucille ball, desi arnaz, vivian vance, william frawley. Lucille ball crafted a oneofakind comedy persona that just cant be topped. Of course, this makes me think of the episode where she does have.
Lucy ricardo is said to be six months pregnant in this episode. Later in the same episode, the redhead has an urgent desire for another meal at the inconvenient hour of 4 a. When ball became pregnant for the second time, the couple incorporated it into the story line of i love lucy. Even weirder, i ve watched lucy cries wolf three times this week. The lucy show lucille ball 30 full episodes youtube. Lucy goes to the hospital is an episode of the 1950s american television show i love lucy in. You must be a cbs all access subscriber to enjoy this video. Looking back at i love lucy 64 years later new york. At the time, lucy was five months pregnant, but the networks rules prohibited her from saying she was pregnant on air. Sixty years ago today the i love lucy episode entitled, lucy is enceinte aired.
Lucy is enceinte is famously controversial for the parameters of its time. The show welcomes lucy and ricardos baby in lucy goes to the hospital. Lucy cant believe ethel would even suggest something so outrageous after lucy has remained childless for all 11 years of her marriage. Pregnant women are unpredictable was the 46th overall episode of i love lucy, which first aired dececmber 15, 1952 on cbstv, also the 11th episode of. Pregnant women are unpredictable i love lucy wiki fandom. Lucy wasnt allowed to say pregnant on tv, so she came. I love lucy hilariously shows how strange pregnancy.
Watch i love lucy streaming online hulu free trial. It played so fresh, as its never been a favorite, despite how wellwritten and acted it is that break in lucy s voice when she asks ricky if he has the right time. Not only are your emotions all out of whack and causing some occasional bouts of. With lucy pregnant, ricky is even more baffled by his wacky. The publicity stunt to deliver lucille balls reallife and tv son on the same 1953 evening this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. The episode lucy is enceinte first aired on december 8, 1952 enceinte being french for expecting or pregnant. In that episode, lucille ball lucy tries to find a unique and creative way to announce her pregnancy to ricky. Jan 06, 2016 zooey deschanel was pregnant during filming for season five of new girl. Coming on the heels of the episode that put the nail in the smothers brothers coffin and a brass eye pedophilia special thats still squickinducing today, its tough to consider this 1952 i love lucy episode as controversial television. I love lucy pregnant women are unpredictable tv episode 1952. Jul 26, 20 more than 60 years ago, cbs aired lucy is enceinte, the season 2 episode of i love lucy in which lucy lucille ball and ricky desi arnaz find out theyre going to have a baby. At lunch, hes too preoccupied with work to listen to her, then its off to the clubwhere luc. They were originally going to do another take, but because desi and lucys reactions were so natural they decided to leave it alone. Ricky develops labor pains because he is jealous of the attention being lavished on the expectant lucy.
The show starred lucille ball, her reallife husband desi arnaz, vivian vance, and william frawley. Her first coincided with the filming of the series pilot, in which ball is clearly showing, but her condition is never acknowledged. Lucy ricardo is said to be six months pregnant in this. From season two of i love lucy, episode 50, lucy informs ricky that she is pregnant. Coming on the heels of the episode that put the nail in the smothers brothers coffin and a brass eye pedophilia special thats still squickinducing today, its tough to consider this 1952 i love. I love lucy s02e10 lucy is enceinte video dailymotion. Desi arnaz accidentally flubbed the rockabye baby song when lucy confirmed being pregnant. I also watched the show where lucy learns shes pregnant.
Lucys desire to star in a tv commercial, despite ricky saying no, gets her in. The first lady of tv comedy, lucille ball, in the followup to her classic series i love lucy. Pregnant women are unpredictable was the 46th overall episode of i love lucy, which first aired dececmber 15, 1952 on cbstv, also the 11th episode of season 2 of the series. In the first one, lucy dips a dill pickle into a papaya milkshake, in the second, she pours sardines and. The ended up writing the pregnancy into the show, which was initially opposed by the producers of the show. Lucy is enceinte 10 of the best i love lucy episodes. Watch full episodes of i love lucy, view video clips and full episodes on. I love lucy s 2 e 10 lucy is enceinte recap tv tropes. Controversies in i love lucy 50s and 60s television. Mar 27, 2007 i love lucy was the first show to have a female headline and get first billing.
Lucy dismisses ethels guess that she is pregnant because she and ricky have been married for eleven years and havent had any signs once. When lucille ball and desi arnaz welcomed a son into the world, so did the characters they played on i love lucy. I love lucy is an american television sitcom that originally ran on cbs from october 15, 1951 to may 6, 1957, with a total of 180 halfhour episodes spanning six seasons including the lost original pilot and christmas episode. Ricky does his best to deal with pregnant lucys emotional needs. The cast of the show could not say the word pregnant or pregnancy on the air, but could instead use the word expecting. Episode guide season 2, episode 11 pregnant women are unpredictable ricky cooks while pregnant lucy stews. Despite popular belief, lucy s pregnancy was not televisions first onscreen pregnancy. At lunch, hes too preoccupied with work to listen to. Ricky trudges out into the cold weather to return with another frozen treat. Desi arnaz accidentally flubbed the rockabye baby song when lucy confirmed being. In those more chaste times, cbs wouldnt allow use of. Lucille ball announces pregnancy in adorable i love lucy. Lucy ricardo tells ricky ricardo theyre having a baby youtube. Three days after i love lucy premiered, in october of 1951, her sword and sorcery fantasy adventure epic magic carpet, costarring raymond burr, and where she plays a mysterious middle eastern princess, princess narah.
This means that you could potentially watch one episode of i love lucy three different ways and see something a little different each time. Pregnant women are unpredictable is the eleventh episode of i love lucy, and the fortysixth episode overall. The mccalls magazine that lucy reads in the comfy chair included an article about i love lu. Her second pregnancy was written into the second season of i love lucy.
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