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10/10.The greatest sitcom ever made.It's humor and jokes were perfect, genius lay in the chemistry between Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel.I would gladly say this is still superior over all these horrible ones of the modern era. From All In The Family and Maude to Roseanne to Friends and The Big Bang Theory, they all stank.The reasons are numerous mainly because they viciously insulted each other with no hint of actual caring as well putting politics in there.It'd have been absurd for I Love Lucy to defend either position on The Korean War for example.You got the feeling watching them they were more like family than friends, almost like they lived together.I would suggest avoid Season 6, not very good as well as the two spin off shows unless you're a serious die hard fan.I saw this show in reruns on Nick At Nite during the summer on Tuesdays when I was a kid, loved it.Most episodes typically focused on Lucy then Ricky then Ethel.Barely any focused on Fred, my favorite character.He played the straight man to them all brilliantly.This show was perfect otherwise.Some, myself included, shall always view this also as one of the greatest American made shows of all time.
Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio - S1-E32
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, after Fred and Ethel walk in, when Lucy and Ethel walk away from the kitchen shutters carrying things, the stage microphone and stand can be seen at the right side of the screen. (Later in the episode, when Lucy and Ricky appear in the quiz segment an identical microphone is on stage with them). (00:00:35)
Lucy Ricardo: How much do you want to bet?
Fred Mertz: Ten dollars.
Ethel Mertz: Well what's the matter with twenty dollars?
Ricky Ricardo: What's the matter with thirty dollars?
Lucy Ricardo: What's the matter with fifty dollars?
Fred Mertz: What was the matter with ten dollars?
Trivia: Fred and Ethel's bickering relationship didn't require much acting; in real life Vivian Vance and William Frawley didn't care for each other at all.
Question: I know this show is from the time period when a lot of couples had two beds in their room. Just out of curiosity, when did it become acceptable to show a couple's bedroom with a single bed on TV?
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Answer: According to Snopes.com, there is no definitive answer, but the mid-1960s is the most verifiable date with "The Munsters" being cited as the first, although others claim "The Brady Bunch" showed the first couple seen in a double bed. An early TV show from the late 1940s titled, "Mary Kay and Johnny" is also thought to have shown the married couple's bedroom as having a double bed, although probably not with them in it. However, this was when TV was aired live, and there are no surviving episodes, only anecdotal accounts.
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Something that is funny is that in the movie "A Christmas Story," they show the parents having two twin beds in their bedroom. In a real situation, they should have shown them having a double bed. Lucy and Ricky had twin beds pushed together in an early episode, which would have been pushing television boundaries in that time.