Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

It's hit cruising altitude.

How many people know that?

Look, I'm not here to get a job for my nephew.

I don't hear anyone talking about it.

What home are you talking about?

You don't need to write down everything we say in here.

Why doesn't Lucy hear him?

- "Of course, Mr. Arnaz." - She's nice.

- Sound speed. - And mark.

as we've heard him do a hundred times, he says...

And she needs to be smarter?

My career's gone as far as it's gonna go.

All right, no problem.

and then merrily, in a slightly exaggerated manner,

carry a basket of laundry in every scene.

Have you ever seen me drunk at work?

(exhales sharply)

Invent a way to see what's on the radio.

He has to spend time away from you so that he can feel like he's not the...

I know why you like drinking.

- I know. - Hmm.

Tip Tribby, VP of Public Relations for Philip Morris.

The apartment of Ricky and Lucy Ricardo.

Too Many Girls.

- Look what you can still do. - Still?

I'm in my room taking my midmorning nap.

and they'll loan us Holliday or Hayworth,

Well, how hard is the trombone?

You really want me to come down to the club?

- Let's all do our individual jobs. - (sighs)

- Ah. - But there's absolutely no chance you haven't used that before.

I was answering Mr. Macy.

VIVIAN: Don't worry about it.

- Let's give him a hand. - (applause) - Hey, thanks. It's good to be back.

- Lucy... - Did they get it exactly right?

"Ricky tiptoes in back of her and reaches around

OLDER MADELYN: There was a minute there

that I'm setting a nice table, right?

Outside of that room, we make it a point not to talk about who wrote what.

Well, he's about to do that thing where you cover someone's eyes

Why is this so hard to understand?

what do you call it?...

"I mean Mexican. Cuban. Latin.

- Not too much fat, is there? - VIVIAN: There certainly is.

But that doesn't mean he's not Cuban.

we've been through worse than this.

They're not gonna base their findings based on how this week's sh...

No one's noticed that?

You know, Bataan was a hit, too.

Ah, let's go back.

I wanted to fix this beat.

(sighs heavily)

- (knocking) - Mr. Arnaz?

and then I'm going to bring you out

Then what the hell are we talking about?

It-It's a telegram for Mr. Arnaz.

it's a beautiful spring day and Liz is just going to the kitchen

Desi was on a soundstage working with a piano and a drum and Ann Miller.

Let's talk about this after lunch, huh?

Looked at Lucy and said, "The hair is brown but the soul is on fire."

I'm sorry. She was jumping on every stage direction.

the biggest asset in the portfolio of Philip Morris tobacco, Westinghouse.

- A young lady? - A cute young chick.

♪ Because it's the dance ♪

Uh, you're right.

From, "You're right, he's not going to do me out of dinner."

Sincerely," et cetera, et cetera. Thank you.

That was me, yeah.

- What's going on with you, honey? - Don't gaslight me.

And-and even if they did, we don't want to see this girl pregnant.

You mean the acting?

Is she talking to me?

MADELYN: After 47 hours,

- Which part? - I got the part, Des.

- LUCILLE: Nothing. - Nothing!

"Do you think I'd call and go crawling..."

- Then believe him. - I do believe him.

Yeah, they're called children.

(scoffs softly) You've asked them?

and then another seven weeks after that before I won't fit in the frame.

WILLIAM: Have we hired anyone to play Ethel yet?

- What? - You heard her right.

- Very funny. - "Ricky kisses her

since George M. Cohan, who loved America so much he wrote the same song five times.

- One sec. - Yeah.

- So a different reason. - Mm, yeah.

You're doing it right in front of him.

- ♪ Arriba con la conga ♪ - ♪ Arriba con la conga. ♪

That was very sweet, but, no, thank you.

It's a tough business.

I don't see how we could do the show without Desi either.

He's seven years old.

They don't have it.

Yeah, there's no one within the sound of her voice who doesn't know that.

You asked me to give away my job title like it was a parking spot!

My friend and I saw the midnight show and the 2:00 a.m.

I've had to have this conversation a hundred times.

(strumming guitar)

It's not gonna take long.

- And then Lucy says, "Bill? Sam? Pat? Ralph?" - Yeah.

(chuckles softly)

OLDER MADELYN: Look, she was always tough on the writing,

I'm surprised because you're terrible at it.

there aren't gonna be many left in the script.

No. The Confidential story.

I'm saying he's seven years old and they made him sign a loyalty pledge.

- Okay. - That's 15 minutes!

- Lucy... - They only got the picture wrong.

and go skinny-dipping in the pool?

We cannot have an all-American girl married to a man who isn't American.

Regular scissors aren't strong enough to cut through the stems.

She said my mother looks like a weasel.

♪ She got a job with a band in Harlem ♪

OLDER MADELYN: It ended up being a good show that night.

'Cause nobody was leaving home during I Love Lucy on Mondays.

a private session, called her in again, and that's why we're sitting here.

he had to sign a loyalty pledge.

I'd love to hear more of that Moss Hart wit on the show.

Ours was directed by Donald Glass.

(lively chatter)

I know, but listen.

- I'm restaging the dinner scene. - (car door opens, closes)

I was doing some laundry and...

Rusty Hamer plays Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show.

(panting continues)

Doesn't the table look beautiful tonight?

(whispers): Okay.

Can you see where CBS might be concerned that there's an it to have?

- I've written plenty of funny... - No.

Oh. You two want to be alone out here?

Season two, episode four.

(band playing lively music)

"It's none of your fucking business."

(laughs) All right, all right, all right.

(hushed): I woke up and you weren't there.

by jumping up and down on everyone who works here

♪ The big red letters stand for the Jell-O family ♪

And I don't want to do the version with my pants off in front of 200 people.

to watch the show unobstructed and introduce you to the rest of the cast.

LUCILLE: Since last night? Since 27 hours ago?

- It's been buried under bad movies. - (laughs)

- Yeah. Edward R. Murrow is one of our t... - I was kidding.

- I'm sorry? - We buy it.

He cared about the little guy. He cared about workers' rights.

That is your lipstick.

I can't see him being the fifth vice president of anything.

but technically, yeah, I am.

The hypocrite joke is for episode nine. That's the script we're working on, okay?

I... (exhales heavily) I couldn't sleep.

we're all gonna have weeks like this before that committee's done.

An eight-episode arc starting with Lucy telling Ricky the happy news

(exhales heavily)

- You've never done that before. - I know.

Did you get all that?

This meeting is several floors below my general interest.