# Lucille Ball 100th Birthday Appreciation Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucille-ball-100th-birthday-appreciation-thread/591701>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucille-ball-100th-birthday-appreciation-thread/591701 "2011-08-06T05:23:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucille-ball-100th-birthday-appreciation-thread/591701/21 "2011-08-08T23:29:15Z")

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> [@mlees](#):
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> Did he ever hit or spank her on air?

Yes I believe Ricky Ricardo did that. Can you imagine if that happened in 2011? If a married couple (husband spanking wife) as a punishment for buying a pair of new shoes (and not a sex fantasy thang). Some things that were shown in the “olden” days would not be shown in the present.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Qup9lOPQfg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGDEgRCh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLAKh9Y1VqYxrtl1_mex8aC-V1GtTw "I Love Lucy - Lucy's Spankings") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qup9lOPQfg)

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucille-ball-100th-birthday-appreciation-thread/591701/22 "2011-08-09T14:52:11Z")

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> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> Yes I believe Ricky Ricardo did that. Can you imagine if that happened in 2011? If a married couple (husband spanking wife) as a punishment for buying a pair of new shoes (and not a sex fantasy thang). Some things that were shown in the “olden” days would not be shown in the present.

I don’t think Ralph Cramden ever spanked his wife, although he always threatened “bang, Zoom! To the Moon, Alice!”. I was wondering if Ricky was all bark, no bite.

The audiences might be more forgiving if they believed that the husband would never _really_ hurt their wives.

(I don’t recall if Al Bundy ever threatened Peg Bundy.)

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