# I Love Lucy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216 "2015-07-26T07:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/41 "2015-07-29T22:48:30Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > It’s timeless for me, too. I have all the DVDs. I don’t usually re-watch shows, so this is rare. I love anticipating certain scenes; when Lucy tells Ricky she’s pregnant at the Tropicana; rehearsing for when Lucy needs to go to the hospital, then it all going to Hell when she actually goes into labor; Ricky showing up at the hospital in his work clothes 😃 ; all of vitameatavegemin; etc. 🙂 When my daughter gave me the complete boxed set (shaped like a heart) for Christmas several years ago, I literally cried at how happy it made me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/42 "2015-07-29T23:43:50Z")
Interesting. I don’t like cringe humor either. (I hate, for example, _Meet the Parents_.) But I didn’t ever think of _I Love Lucy_ as cringe humor. Lucy does stupid things, yes, but I never felt like anything bad happened to her, so there was no point to cringe. What was going to happen to her was just silly, often even resulting in Lucy winning even though she very well shouldn’t have. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/43 "2015-08-01T06:46:50Z")
I grew up on it. It was funny. Same with Gilligan’s island, my favorite Martian, Joe Mcdoakes, Machale’s navy. Maybe that’s why my country’s all screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/44 "2015-08-01T10:33:59Z")
> [@gracefulfatsheba](#): > > I’ll never stop finding the show funny. The only thing that dims the fun a bit is knowing the real-life conflicts between the cast. Are you kidding?? That’s icing on the cake! ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/45 "2015-08-04T21:47:38Z")
I think my funny bone is tickled more by verbal comedy than physical. I love Burns & Allen, Abbott & Costello, the Marx Brothers, and Jack Benny. Never laughed very hard at Lucy, Laurel & Hardy, the Three Stooges, or Red Skelton. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/46 "2015-08-04T22:43:26Z")
Then it would follow that you are a Jay Ward fan, yes ? ( nice username !! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/47 "2015-08-05T21:09:13Z")
My mother always hated that show. When I was a kid and it would be ow she would insist we turned the channel even if she had been in the other room not even watching the television. It all came to light one day when I was about 16. My brother and I were veging out in the living room and an episode was on. My brother says “that’s something Ma would do” :eek::smack: D’oh! That’s it!! My mom would do dopey shit like Lucy, things that would drive my old man nuts and would never work out in the end for her. \*\*SHE WAS LUCY!!! \*\* To this day we’ll tease her about that every now and then.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/48 "2015-08-06T15:55:44Z")
I recently rewatched the whole series (maybe 9 months ago?) and one thing that really stood out was the level of continuity between episodes. I mean “easter egg” levels of continuity. One example that really stands out is that in an earlier ep, Lucy puts on a show (“The Pleasant Peasant”, IIRC) and Ethel gets the lead (Lucy’s a witch). Ethel gets a solo song “Lily of the Valley”. From that episode onward, you can hear Ethel whistle or hum that song if she’s happy or just mellow (like she’s doing dishes and just zoning out). Little stuff like that keeps cropping up. Which is quite literally decades ahead of it’s time. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/49 "2015-08-06T15:58:25Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > I recently rewatched the whole series (maybe 9 months ago?) and one thing that really stood out was the level of continuity between episodes. I mean “easter egg” levels of continuity. > > One example that really stands out is that in an earlier ep, Lucy puts on a show (“The Pleasant Peasant”, IIRC) and Ethel gets the lead (Lucy’s a witch). Ethel gets a solo song “Lily of the Valley”. From that episode onward, you can hear Ethel whistle or hum that song if she’s happy or just mellow (like she’s doing dishes and just zoning out). > > Little stuff like that keeps cropping up. Which is quite literally decades ahead of it’s time. I never noticed this, or really any other things like it that I can think of. Please do share with this Lucy fan other things you noticed (or have you read about it anywhere?). ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/50 "2015-08-06T18:35:19Z")
Did Desi finally ever send Lucy to the moon? (I’m sorry) ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/51 "2015-08-06T18:57:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **I Love Lucy** will be the reason aliens seeks us out. > To destroy us. Gods, I hate that show! Wasn’t funny then, isn’t funny now, won’t be funny after Alien Armageddon. Very funny. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216/52 "2015-08-06T23:13:52Z")
> [@sparky\_1](#): > > Did Desi finally ever send Lucy to the moon? > > (I’m sorry) For mixing up your '50s sitcoms, Norton? 😉 Seriously, I’ve been watching _ **The Lucy Show** _ late at night the last few weeks. I can’t say I _hate_ the show—I fondly remember watching it in second grade—but _yeeeeeesh!_ :smack: the quality of the writing! Maybe the reason I have such fond memories is that it’s the kind of stuff I was churning out in grade school, one lame joke after another! And those music cues—holy crap! It’s like they’re there to paper over the cracks in the action (transitions never were Lucy’s big thing). But the thing that grates on me most is her voice! Hit me on the side of the head and call me stupid, but damned if she doesn’t sound just like a middle-aged woman who’s smoked at least two packs of unfiltered cigarettes every day for the last 20 years! Jesuchristo, maybe I do hate the show after all! :eek: :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-lucy/726216.md?page=2)