Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Desilu, Lucy's whole career... mine, too...

has a photostatic copy of the affidavit showing you registered in 1936

"Ricky tiptoes in back of her.

MADELYN: Ricky bets Lucy that she can't go two days without lying,

I'm reading scripts.

Lucy Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo.

Should we open the champagne, take our clothes off

Desirèe llévate el paraguas

Then I question your comedy IQ.

- Cameras up. - Cameras up.

The weight always comes back. I can't keep it off anymore.

♪ So if you like the beat ♪

I say I've got some good news and you say, "Uh-oh"?

- No, I don't care about that. - I care about it.

Few times a week.

Second in command.

(chuckles): Lucy in a vat of grapes for five minutes.

- I'm not sure what. - Okay, thanks.

"Pedro? Julio? Juan? Guillermo?"

- ♪ ♪ - Hey, company for dinner?

- Can I talk to you for a second, boss? - Sure.

And all I have to do to keep it is kill every week for 36 weeks in a row,

Someone said they spotted you going out here.

You're wondering what's going on.

It has to be coherent, because if it's anything goes, then nothing's funny.

Yeah? Let's do the show.

How about you come to the club more to watch the show?

And you should go fuck yourself, Betsy.

- Am I right? - Yes.

They want to see themselves on television.

- I'm confused. - Yeah, me, too.

You don't think I want to be in the same city at the same time as my husband?

- Yeah, "Lucy Gets Blacklisted." - That's not a joke, Bob.

- Desi... - "We've given you

MADELYN: "Because those are Spanish names.

- Got it. Got it. - (door opens)

You're a bandleader.

And I can cinch the back a little.

I'm the executive producer of this show.

There was a significant drop-off in the number of people using water

Settle. And action.

14 years, and it was Wally Pipp.

Ay, maybe it'd be better if we didn't spend the little time we have

and she'll be back when she's back.

No, I was going to ask you why you're not a movie star.

And it worked out.

They're not gonna let us do it.

Because you are the "I" in I Love Lucy.

I'm... (clears throat) not sure what words to use.

This isn't happening.

And she stomps grapes.

Like Lucy turns to Desi and says,

LUCILLE: Well, then you're an idiot.

but you do need to know that Danny does jokes... few people do it better.

Oh, that's a sign of a poorly written screenplay.

JESS: Act one, "Interior, the Ricardo's living room, night."

To Mr. Alfred Lyons, Chairman of the Board of Philip Morris.

What were they doing?

♪ She said, "I am the star" ♪

And my fervent wish for you is that, one day,

I've thought it, if that means anything.

Gruen, the finest watch you can wear.

LUCILLE: You philandering bongo player!

I just want it to be a different show.

"All I ask from you, if you agree with them,

- (chuckles) - They invented the whole thing?

(band playing "Cuban Pete")

So let's do our show.

- ♪ Jell-O puddings ♪ - ♪ Yum, yum, yum. ♪

and we didn't want to lose Fonda.

♪ Sí, señorita ♪

- Thank you. - Another baby.

WILLIAM: Thank goodness you're all right.

But as you can see, I got her back to sleep.

Okay, come on. And directing this week, Donald Glass is back with us.

But it should have everything to do with my performance in The Big Street.

How many times you got to 'splain?

- Why are we holding? - I'm not sure.

Another generation?

RICKY: Who's coming for dinner, Lucy?

All right, then.

She talked about having a home.

'cause I don't know how many more people will fit around the table.

A couple of days before shooting started,

Listen, why don't we get together for a drink or a swim this weekend,

He raised my little brother and me, and I wanted to please him.

So Ethel elbows Fred.

You don't drink at work.

she got mad and went home to her mother.

Seriously? That was it?

- I still can't catch my breath.

French toast, bacon and potatoes.

- if it was the only available air-conditioning in the... - Des.

I got you some breakfast from the commissary.

I guess they do.

Back then, it wasn't considered much worse than being a Republican.

I'm minding my own business, listening to Walter Winchell, and bam.

All right. (clears throat)

Hey. The whole piece was invented out of thin air?

- This studio has talented makeup artists. - "I'm Angie.

- Gracias. Gracias. - Really, really. - Congratulations, Des.

Does it need to sound ominous? Can't they just come in?

- Oh...! - Oh, no.

and answering questions about why motherhood is too salacious

"Was confronted with her membership in the Communist Party."

- Yes. - Or bad for you?

I sure know that, Lucy.

Uh, Joe Strickland, CBS.

It means you're kinetically gifted.

(softly): Yeah.

- You change subjects faster than... - Keep up.

You're not telling these people that I checked the wrong box.

I need to use the phone to call my fiancé.

♪ Ay, ay, ay ♪

Desi says, "Thank you," turns back to Lucy and says...

They'd have to be California redwoods,

It's in four-inch type.

Can I call you Lucy?

- Oh, yeah. - Are you sure you're all right?

That was a whole new side of you we've never seen.

- I'm sorry? - At home.

Uh, "Hypocrite? What's a hypocrite?"

Is he talking about having me killed?

and it takes me a minute and a half to pick a horse.

That's what we came to talk about.

(phone ringing in distance)

I wanted to circle back again and express

I made some phone calls.

- "Lucy Tells the Truth." - BOB: That one's Madelyn's idea.

Good, because if I'm rewritten by a priest, a minister and a rabbi,

(laughs) - I want you to know I'm not trying to be forward.

our director joined the Army during postproduction,

- Was that to me? - Yes.

Now, this studio has a handshake understanding with Metro and Warner,

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

You really think, this week, right now, is the best time to talk about this?

Because we want you at the weight you were when we cast you.

LEVY: Is it too early to raise a glass?

♪ In a Portuguese bar ♪

other than that garbage...

Oh, yeah. (chuckles)

Any cultural differences will make for good comedy.

But I don't make that decision.

It won't take long. We just need to make an adjustment.

that Lucy was and is in no way involved with the Communist Party.

and doing it in front of the whole crew!

We live in the same house.

WILLIAM: It's an eclectic group.

and now a new message, which is that I look too good.

- You've memorized it? - I've memorized worse writing than this.

A long time ago, Lucy accidentally checked the wrong box on her voter registration.

Somehow, the city editor, a woman named Agness Underwood,

I'm a contract player at RKO.

If your wife played Lucy once in a while,

- (audience whispering) - (man in audience clears throat)

- What do we have here? - WOMAN: Yeah, Desi!

I'm opposite Henry Fonda.

LUCILLE: "Westinghouse."