I Love Lucy
Summary
The bestI Love Lucyquotes prove why it is one of the most influential sitcom in video history . Appearing on CBS , I Love Lucyran for six seasons , had 180 installment , gain ground five Emmy Awards , and was the first written telly program to film in 35 mm motion-picture show in front of a live studio interview . The stars of the show were Lucille Ball ( Lucy ) , her real - life-time husband Desi Arnaz ( Ricky Ricardo ) , and their two in effect friends and neighbor , Vivan Vance ( Ethel ) and William Frawley ( Fred ) .
With Lucy and Ricky as the focus of the shape , the four live in New York City , where Ricky was an entertainer . Wanting to be celebrated herself , Lucy seek to be a part of her married man ’s act and usually collude tricks with Ethel to do so . What transpired was fantastic boob tube in the ' 50s and even to this day . I fuck Lucystill has reruns on tv set today and ABC News and People Magazine conducted a sight in 2012,with it constitute the Best TV Show of All Time(viaABC News ) . Thanks to the bestI Love Lucyquotes , it remain a beloved show over 70 years after it debuted on TV .
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10"Sure, Says Right Here ‘We Work Miracles.'"
Lucy To Ethel
This quote fare from the installment " Charm School " and it involves Lucy jabbing her good friend Ethel with a lighthearted insult . After being snubbed by Ricky and Fred for attending a swish party , Ethel and Lucy are sick of and tired of being left out . The pair learn about Phoebe Emerson ’s Charm School and debate whether they should enroll . Lucy agrees with Ethel that the charm schoolhouse could figure out miracle , but her input comes off as offensive after agnize how much work Ethel might need .
The girls expend all week trying to become classier version of themselves and , in the end , their men thought their new looks were horrendous . In return , the guys also changed their appearance , leading to the four of them calling it a tie . The quote and the entire storyline were cumbersome , as even when Lucy went to Phoebe Emerson ’s Charm School , the proprietor insulted her without even realizing it . It seems almost mean - spunky , but Lucy have back as much as she make , so it all mould out .
9"Ethel And I Have Decided That You Have Married Us And Not A Television Set."
Lucy To Fred & Ricky
This installment is funny sinceI Love Lucyis a television show , yet it still makes fun of people who watch too much television . The main storyline sees the couple get a brand - new television receiver , which was still comparatively fresh to many American house during that earned run average . Fred and Ricky loved the TV and started drop a plenty of time look out everythingthey could which did n’t go down well with their married woman . finally , Lucy and Ethel had to sit their husbands down and let them know that they were more of import than the telecasting .
Ethel and Fred may have been old than Lucy and Ricky , but the foursome arrest along great , and the woman were not about to permit a newfangled gizmo in the dwelling house come in between their relationships . This shew the hamper that Ethel and Lucy have with each other , and they stay stronger when they ’re standing together and allow the military personnel love what is really authoritative in their family . Of naturally , I Love Lucywas the most - look on show of that epoch , so evidently , sports fan at home did n’t heed this advice .
8"I Was Going To But Then I Asked Myself, ‘Why?'"
Lucy To Ricky
One of the thing that seems foreign in today ’s high society is the fact that Lucy and Ricky sleep in separate bed despite being get hitched with . This is because the standards & practices for the networks banned scene that showed two people in the same bed , even if they were wed . During the meter thatI Love Lucywas on the air , marital TV couples partake in a seam was reckon " disgraceful " and many censors felt it send the wrong message to kids watching the show . As a result , most display had two beds , one for the married man and one for the married woman .
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In this specific scene , Ricky walks into the chamber and see Lucy sitting in her seam . He looks at his wife , and asks , " I consider you were going to get up ? " Lucy , in a funk , only reply with thisI Love Lucyquote , usher her weariness at the moment . This might be one of the most relatableI Love Lucyquotesfrom the entire series , because it is easy to see how hard it is for her to find motivation to do anything on some days , even if that is just have out of bottom .
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7"I Can’t Help It, Eating Is My Hobby."
Ethel To Lucy
The first season introduced an episode call " The Diet . " As expected , this is an episode where the mold concern about the fact that they put on a few extra pounds and need to do something to lose the weighting . Each of the four chief characters call to deplete better and mislay that added weight . The episode remain more or less problematic in the modern Clarence Shepard Day Jr. because it is mostly productive shaming and even Ricky bribe Lucy to lose 12 pound with the promise he will let her into his next show if she does so .
However , it also contains a perfect agate line , specially come from Ethel . She famously sound out " I ca n’t help it , eating is my hobby " and she ’s never been more relatable . By the last of the episode , Lucy much starve herself for five Clarence Day to look her best in Ricky ’s show . She did a great job and made Ricky proud until she swoon after the show , was carried away to the hospital for being dehydrated , and realized that losing all that weight is n’t worth it if it suffer the person in the remnant .
6"Ever Since We Said ‘I Do’ There Are So Many Things We Don’t."
ThisI Love Lucyquote sound a lot worse than it really is . This is during a conversation between Lucy and Ethel while they are clean in the kitchen and Ethel mention how Ricky is a bandleader and Lucy ’s life should be full of nightclubs and company all the clip . Lucy said that was what she thought would take place when she wed him , but that is n’t how things turned out . This inverted comma isLucy bewail the fact that she and Ricky never do anything fun or romanticist togetheranymore , which makes it a pitiful statement .
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The episode is " The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub , " and it is Ethel and Fred ’s anniversary . While the guy rope require to see the big fight , the ladies require to be wined and dined at a nightclub . make up one’s mind to go their separate ways , the guys get dates ( through Ricky ’s agency ) and Lucy form a deal with the agency to replace their dates . It all backfired because they ended up going to the fight anyway , meaning Ricky and Fred got their way .
5"I Don’t Know But How Dare You."
One of the most unique part ofI Love Lucyis that Lucy married a Cuban . At the clip that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz pitched the show , CBS was n’t indisputable America would purchase the fact that these two were together in real aliveness . Their love was real , though , andBall and Arnaz had been splice since 1940 . Their veridical love life story help makeI Love Lucyeven better than it could have been since they did n’t have to fake that vista of the character ’s relationships .
Some of the show ’s good parts are when Ricky is rattling things off in Spanish , leave alone Lucy jumble and annoyed that he was * probably * talking about herin a negative way , and she had no idea what he was really saying . In one setting , Ricky is rattle off a few words in Spanish when Lucy say " How defy you . " Knowing she has no clue what he said , he involve her anyway , and she repeats , " I do n’t make love , but how dare you . " It was a scene that picture even their misunderstandings resulted in funny moments .
4"Here I Am With All This Talent Bottled Up Inside Of Me."
" And You ’re Always Sitting On The Cork "
In the episode " The Ballet , " Lucy notice out Ricky is in desperate penury of a danseuse for his show . Always wanting to find stardom , and always beg for a speckle in one of Ricky ’s shows , Lucy commence carry ballet lessons to master the fine art so she can advance the occupation . Lucy make this scuttlebutt , show how much confidence she has in herself , even if she has no estimate what she is doing , and has to somehow figure things out along the way in decree to even get a prospect to take the leg . Here , she trains at Madame Le Mond ’s socio-economic class .
In this case , she deliver the goods and all her heavy study pays off . However , when she does get the chance to perform , she realizes that she see the burlesque comic human activity and not the concert dance number , and everything rifle incorrect . Viewers might notice that by the time that Lucy stick the chance to perform , she has bruises all over her body . What is really interesting is that those were veridical bruises that Lucille Ball got while breeding to learn ballet for the installment throughout the week .
3"That Won’t Be A Novel, That Will Be A Short Story."
If anything , Lucy and Ethel are savagely good with each other , and while it might come off as rude or condescending , it is always in the name of love and friendly relationship . In the episode " Lucy write a Novel,“Lucy assure Ethel that she plans to write her own novel . The title isReal Gone With the idle words , and when Ethel ask what Lucy is writing about , she tells her that she is " writing about things I know . " That is what leads Ethel to deliver this quip , basically sound out that Lucy does n’t eff a pot and surely not enough for a novel .
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However , it seems Lucy was being serious and she was writing a novel about her aliveness and everyone in it . This really put off Ricky , Ethel , and Fred , who on the Q.T. interpret the manuscript as she write it and does n’t want anything she wrote about them to terminate up being impress . deplorably , there is a miscommunication between Lucy and the publishers , and her dreaming make out break up down . However , as Ethel ’s citation exhibit , that was n’t anything that should have submit Lucy by surprise .
2"Gee, Why Is It That Everything That’s Wonderful Costs Money?”
If there is anyI Love Lucyquote that is just as true today as it was when the show aired 70 age ago , it is one that Ethel says to Lucy about money . The idea of the lack of money is something that plays out a stack in the situation comedy . Lucy is a shopaholic and like to drop money almost faster than Ricky can make it . Ethel , on the other hand , is n’t so lucky because Fred has a very tight - mass posture about disbursal , and his wife pays the Leontyne Price by not get what she want most of the time , which run to this quote .
Ethel is n’t haywire as the in effect things in lifespan are n’t always gratuitous . While Ethel bemoans the fact that she ca n’t afford to buy things that would certainly make her happy , it leads the fair sex to do something almost unheard of in that era . They went and get problem at the chocolate mill so they could have money of their own to spend . Fred might have a tight bag on his money , but Ethel knows if she desire to afford thing to make herself happy , she needs to make her own money , and that is incisively what she does .
1"You Mean To Tell Us That We Have Equal Rights."
Ethel To Fred
" But You Certainly Do n’t Give Us A Chance To Act Like It "
There are a lot of thing that might not sustain up well today in shows likeI Love Lucy , based on the era that the history came from . However , while there is sexism , body shaming , and more involved in many stories , there is also a strong backbone of women ’s rightfield issue , something that Lucille Ball was strongly in favour of , and when abig actor like Lucille Ballsaid something , audiences hear . If there is oneI Love Lucyquote that signifies this way of thinking , it is one that Ethel says to Fred . While she says it in jest , it forge home what women like Lucy were think at the time .
Ethel mockingly asks why , if they have equal right , the men around them do n’t seem to act like it or deal them as equals . ThroughoutI Love Lucy , Fred kept a strong grasp on what Ethel could and could n’t do and Ricky had a dominant personality over Lucy . However , at the same time , both Fred and Ricky were made to attend like clown much of the time , and Lucy made certain that she did everything she could to ensure that she was treated with as much respect as possible , making her one of the strongest feminist pattern on television .
