Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

We're all tense.

- WILLIAM: To what? - The dinner scene.

It was a tribute to him, and to say that I checked the wrong...

And Madelyn was a hundred percent right.

Lucy, you need to tell me right here and now what the hell is going on.

She sometimes, for the sake of comedy, is infantilized.

It's 10:00 a.m., Vivian, so, you know, of course.

♪ Calla mientras la cuna se balancea ♪

I don't hire the directors.

- Quiet please! - Quiet please!

for the rest of the year while continuing to pay our contracts

- No, we don't. - Maybe we don't. It's hard to say.

You're not a pinup girl.

- Oh! - Guess who it is.

- Ah, yes, of course. - (laughter continues)

taken this stuff seriously?

I said what I felt.

We'll work on that.

This conversation went poorly.

I like this a lot, Tommy.

♪ Mi niña tiene sueño ♪

That's the guy's niece.

That's why we're holding.

Does Ricky honestly, truly believe that there might be eight different men

RICKY: I thought you said they weren't speaking to each other.

Where's that been?

I wasn't making myself clear?

- So I... - We need to re-block the dinner scene.

♪ Of Latin romance ♪

For the sake of the joke, the audience will take the leap with us.

they're chasing the original testimony, something,

You'd be more concerned about what?

(audience laughter)

Okay, Madelyn's got a new joke for the second act.

LUCILLE: I'll take a tetanus shot.

She thinks she's being fixed up with an eligible guy.

That was a knockout dress.

In the meantime, please remember that Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel,

Well, is this the right week for this shit?

♪ They bring a happy ring, the maraquero ♪

Back onstage for notes!

Lucy doesn't acknowledge him.

Let's just forget about this for a half hour.

We'll know when it's on its feet.

- (audience laughter) - I'll call Carolyn and tell her I'm sick.

our groundbreaking camera system that allows the studio audience

Come with me for a drink.

At the top, it should be clear

Miss Rosen, will you come in please, with a pad and pen?

You don't love me, and I don't love you,

- No! I literally said that 30 seconds ago. - (sighs)

When the soldiers came

You made the joke. I just put the button...

Instead, you tried to convince him he was the title character or some bullshit.

They will, but you'll need a busload of orthopedists when they land.

They're running a caption that says, "Note the cancellation at left."

He devised the camera system that we use.

♪ I'm the craze of my native street ♪

- No. - Do you understand the conditions

(thunder rumbling softly)

I still don't know why they did that.

♪ So full of spice ♪

Why isn't Danny Thomas's kid named Rusty Thomas?

That's not at all what I was gonna say.

I really don't know.

and covers her eyes with his hands."

but her publicist brought her a copy on Sunday night.

♪ And Cuban Pete doesn't teach you in a hurry like Arthur Murray ♪

I got some modeling work, I was hired and fired as a Ziegfeld Girl

What are you doing?

They'd meet at the top of Mulholland.

- He doesn't have to. - He...

You could be playing Ethel.

- Was everything all right in there? - Yeah.

Okay, well, imagine if Wally Pipp had scheduling problems,

Scheduling problems.

It's not like you've suddenly given voice to your feelings.

Don't panic. It's simple.

VIVIAN: I'm saying take it easy, that's all.

the one with all the names.

I need you to help me save my marriage.

it was like her life depended on whether a joke was a "B" or "B"-plus.

And I have no idea what the fuck you were talking about, Bill.

I mean, they just cheered for you out there.

The reviews were valentines, and I didn't bang a drum.

JESS: We'll get there. The point is

Will you tell us your name please?

She takes a pitcher and pours water into the vase...

Walk me to the stage. We're an hour behind.

Can't get better till it gets bad.

who routinely walk into their apartment?

Are there any grape vineyards around here?

Scheduling problems.

You hanging in there?

We did. It's television.

I go out and meet him when he's touring, he brings me up for some sketches,

It was all my fault.

("Cuban Pete" playing)

You think we're still filming a show?

Before the table read. You told them I checked the wrong box.

She's right. You look great.

Settle. And action.

- Got it. - Hmm.

You did it in front of Desi is my point.

"the number one show on television,

The Winchell broadcast?

I'm about to make you less comfortable.

You were rudely attentive, but now you're obnoxiously indifferent."

I called the chairman of the committee.

- (whispers): Just tell me. - Tell me why you think...

After the testimony, they stamped "canceled" on the card,

- There were a number of obstacles. - That's accurate.

OLDER BOB: There was a Broadway show

- It's over now. - Thank you.

Rusty Hamer from The Danny Thomas Show.

- Is everything all right? - WILLIAM: The three of us

The writers can get some fun out of this.

(audience laughter)

We have to establish right away that I'm setting a fancy table.

Fellas, can we, um...

♪ And now see how happy they are ♪ (chuckles)

And, yes, I would.

I'll send someone to pick up my clothes, okay?

"What? You think I'd allow my pride..." Hmm.

I cannot go through that again.

- "Oh, yeah?" (chuckles) - Yeah, that's good. That's good.

Who's the baseball player that you talk about?

Mr. Koerner isn't the president. He's the head of production.

- It was you, right? - Yeah.

But, yeah, he's insulted.

It's not good for you.

LUCY: How do you like the new water glasses, Ricky?

Except I don't want to do My Favorite Husband.

This isn't for beginners, you know. This isn't school.

♪ A la nanita nana, nanita ella ♪

I don't mean literally cutting the flowers in the scene...

(plays gentle guitar riff)

how they pick the grapes, how they press the juice out with their feet.

'cause your original question was...

Jesus Christ, I just proved out there that the Herald-Express got it wrong.

You see the problem?

(audience laughter)

Hey, is now a good time?

I'm the one trying, every week, to...

Kind of people go to a bar on a Wednesday morning?

"Do you think I'd call him and go crawling back?"

- Lucy is working on the flowers. - We're cutting the flowers for time.