We all know ILL was done in front of a live audience. But like other sitcoms, they needed to dub in some laugh tracks in post production if the audience didn't laugh or some other issue occured.

A true ILL lover has to know about that one lady (in the laugh track) that says "Uh-oh...oh ho ho ha ha ha...". They play that line in just about every episode where appropriate. Who else notices this laugh line? I grew up with this laugh track lady. I feel like she's an old friend like Aunt Sally (Pecan Praulines).

That "Uh-Oh" line is one of those things Lucy fans just don't seem to talk about.

Apparently, the "uh-Oh" lady was Lucy's Mom, Deedee Ball, according to the "Bewitched Forever" book by Herbie J. Pilato. There was a note that one of laugh tracks that was used in a couple of 2nd season episodes came from "I Love Lucy".

Now if we can only find out who did the "Right ON!" on each Good Times episode.....

Yeah, and besides the "Uh-Oh Lady," there were several other reoccuring laughers. Sounds are so hard to describe in writing but most of us are aware of the unique laughs. There is also a man with a belly-laugh that many people think is Desi. It's not, though. I wonder how they name and catalog the laughs in their library so they can go back and use them at certain times!

"Leave it to Beaver" had some unique audience sounds and occasionally I hear them on other shows, like the lady with a high-pitched chirp. I think laugh tracks were shared within the industry. :lol:

Hey, MowerDan! :)

It must be something in the Jersey air because, I was thinking the exact same thing this morning. When I came on here to post it, you already had. LOL

There are are a couple other "laugh-lines" heard quite often. There was the screaming lady. Like, the audience would burst out in laughter and then you would hear this "HEEEEEE!" kind of laugh. Then, there was the one that sounded like a little kid laughing, followed by and asthma attack. LOL :)

Speaking of laughs, does anybody remember that audience members laugh that stuck out on Rhoda? It sounded like a slow "Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!" ;)

Whereabouts in New Jersey are you located, MowerDan?

Hey, MowerDan! :)

Whereabouts in New Jersey are you located, MowerDan?

I'm from Toms River, NJ (originally Union City). My parents moved us down to Toms River in the late 1960s along with countless others from North Jersey. We still have tons of relatives from up there. There are very few natives still in Toms River. I guess we scared them all off. Now they're further south in Tuckerton.

Toms River, eh? We're practically neighbors. I am located in Edison, New Jersey. It's exit 131 0ff the Garden State Parkway & exit 9 off the New Jersey Turnpike.

Apparently, the "uh-Oh" lady was Lucy's Mom, Deedee Ball, according to the "Bewitched Forever" book by Herbie J. Pilato. There was a note that one of laugh tracks that was used in a couple of 2nd season episodes came from "I Love Lucy".

Now if we can only find out who did the "Right ON!" on each Good Times episode.....

I think the rumor that this "uh-oh" was Dede was started by Bart Andrews. But according to Gregg Oppenheimer, the location in the audience where Dede would sit was too far away from the sound recording equipment for her voice to be recorded so distinctly.

Speaking of laughs, does anybody remember that audience members laugh that stuck out on Rhoda? It sounded like a slow "Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!" ;)

Supposedly, that was the show's producer, Lorenzo Music, who also supplied the voice of Carlton, the doorman.

i always here people talking about the uh oh lady but i never heard her but i did hear one woman say oh no in one episode

That uh oh lady got annoying. Married With Children has someone like that too, but it's just a laugh very distinct.

I was watching The Lucy Show on RTN tonight and heard the "Uh-Oh" part of that laugh, but without the laughing part!

Yes, same laugh track machine was used on that series. And others even to this day, which is a nice way for those people to still be around.

Even though a show is filmed before an audience, there is a process called "sweetening" where the laughs from the live studio audience or canned laughter is used to "enhance" audience response. Even though "I Love Lucy" was filmed before an audience, sound engineers along with the show's producers still had the flexibility of giving a joke more laughs in editing or cutting out laughter in parts where it wasn't necessary.

Virtually every sitcom uses laugh tracks or "sweetening".

Yeah, except for one thing, on the NEW shows, they are not needed because nothing is ever THAT FUNNY, whereas on LUCY, they sometimes had to cut out some long laughs also for time restraints, LOL! I would think that they need those laugh tracks also in the case of them redoing the same scene nowadays ten times in a row and then getting no laugh at all unless they use the machine, LOL!

I think it's part of the charm of the show. It seems real enough, cause at the same moment as I'm watching the episode, I'm also going... "Uh oh..."
I don't know, I think it's one of those things that really gets on your nerves or you just don't pay much attention to because you're used to it.

That "Uh-Oh" line is one of those things Lucy fans just don't seem to talk about.
I don't get why you state that. I have talked abt that lady many a time with other ILL fans. I think what it is, you haven't seen a thread "lately" regarding that topic.

I don't get why you state that. I have talked abt that lady many a time with other ILL fans. I think what it is, you haven't seen a thread "lately" regarding that topic.

Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that statement as well because I have seen that "uh-oh" lady discussed on I Love Lucy message boards through the years far too many times to count. In fact, I just came across this yesterday on the TV Party website:
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On most of the old "I Love Lucy" shows, there was always a point in the show where Lucy set herself up to get in a jam. The studio audience usually saw the trouble coming before Lucy did, and reacted accordingly.

But there was one woman on the soundtrack of nearly every episode, who I like to call the "Uh-Oh Lady". The "Uh-Oh Lady" button had to be the most frequently used control on the laugh track machine. She popped up on countless episodes of "I Love Lucy", and I think that I've heard her on other shows, too.

If you've never noticed her, here's what she does: Lucy decides to do something stupid to get in a show or meet a movie star, and then at the crucial moment, you hear (on the laugh track) a woman saying, "Uh-Oh, hee, hee, hee!!" Every time that I hear her during an episode of Lucy, I yell out, "Hey, it's the "Uh-Oh Lady". I'd be interested to know how many times they used her on the laugh track.

I can envision a little old lady in a nursing home somewhere today telling her friends that she used to be the Uh-Oh Lady on the laugh track of "I Love Lucy". "Yessiree, I was on nearly every show. More than Mrs. Trumble!"

Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that statement as well because I have seen that "uh-oh" lady discussed on I Love Lucy message boards through the years far too many times to count. In fact, I just came across this yesterday on the TV Party website:
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On most of the old "I Love Lucy" shows, there was always a point in the show where Lucy set herself up to get in a jam. The studio audience usually saw the trouble coming before Lucy did, and reacted accordingly.

But there was one woman on the soundtrack of nearly every episode, who I like to call the "Uh-Oh Lady". The "Uh-Oh Lady" button had to be the most frequently used control on the laugh track machine. She popped up on countless episodes of "I Love Lucy", and I think that I've heard her on other shows, too.

If you've never noticed her, here's what she does: Lucy decides to do something stupid to get in a show or meet a movie star, and then at the crucial moment, you hear (on the laugh track) a woman saying, "Uh-Oh, hee, hee, hee!!" Every time that I hear her during an episode of Lucy, I yell out, "Hey, it's the "Uh-Oh Lady". I'd be interested to know how many times they used her on the laugh track.

I can envision a little old lady in a nursing home somewhere today telling her friends that she used to be the Uh-Oh Lady on the laugh track of "I Love Lucy". "Yessiree, I was on nearly every show. More than Mrs. Trumble!"
Thank you for that. :lol: Yep, I think the "uh-oh" lady NOT being talked abt would be a crazy thing. :crazy: :lol:

I don't get why you state that. I have talked abt that lady many a time with other ILL fans. I think what it is, you haven't seen a thread "lately" regarding that topic.

Ireneparalegal,

I'm not on these boards very often. Look at my number of posts versus yours. That's a no-brainer there. Not everyone lives on these boards.

Ireneparalegal,

I'm not on these boards very often. Look at my number of posts versus yours. That's a no-brainer there. Not everyone lives on these boards.
Reread my post. I am stating you may not have seen a thread regarding that particular topic. No one is getting nasty or mean here. Post count has nothing to do with bringing up a topic that has been discussed before. I got the impression from your post that you had not seen the topic discussed before. I merely stated, it had not been discussed LATELY. Although, any die-hard I Love Lucy fan knows abt the woman in the audience.

No one lives on these boards. It is a place to visit, chat and play games on. I don't go by what a post count represents. That means nothing. I see a member, a fellow fan, etc. I don't see JOIN DATE nor do I look at anyone's post count to see if what they post has relevance or not. Whether one has 75,000 posts or 75 posts, it makes no difference.

Reread my post. I am stating you may not have seen a thread regarding that particular topic. No one is getting nasty or mean here. Post count has nothing to do with bringing up a topic that has been discussed before. I got the impression from your post that you had not seen the topic discussed before. I merely stated, it had not been discussed LATELY. Although, any die-hard I Love Lucy fan knows abt the woman in the audience.

Thanks for the reply, Ireneparalegal. My only point was that after watching ILL for 40 years, that lady, has never really been discussed amoung friends, family, or whoever even though we all knew about it.

My bit about the number of posts was to point out that I'm not on these boards enough to know about that topic's history.

Over the years I always used to notice the Uh Oh lady and I noticed her on more than just the I Love Lucy show. I've heard her on Dennis The Menace, Mr. Ed, Leave It To Beaver and other shows I don't specifically remember now. But I know I've heard herd her in more shows than just Lucy. I wonder if she's still uh ohing it in a nursing home somewhere or is now up in that great Uh Oh in the sky.:rolleyes:

I wonder if she's still uh ohing it in a nursing home somewhere or is now up in that great Uh Oh in the sky.:rolleyes:

That's funny.:lol:

I'd love to have her "uh-oh..." laugh track on my ring tone.:crazy: :lol:

That's funny.:lol:

I'd love to have her "uh-oh..." laugh track on my ring tone.:crazy: :lol:


I love that! :lol: You're giving me ideas. That would certainly be a unique ring tone. And I can imagine the faces of people hearing it, wondering where they've heard that "uh-oh" before.

I love that! :lol: You're giving me ideas. That would certainly be a unique ring tone. And I can imagine the faces of people hearing it, wondering where they've heard that "uh-oh" before.
That would be hilarious!!!

I too have heard that "uh-oh" on other shows. Is it safe to say that it was ILL that it came from?

That would be hilarious!!!

I too have heard that "uh-oh" on other shows. Is it safe to say that it was ILL that it came from?

I'm not so sure. ILL is the earliest use of that "uh-oh" that I've heard. But it's possible it came from some old radio show. Clearly it's a recording because it sounds exactly alike every time. Most of the laughs on ILL are authentic, but there's some obvious sweetening here and there. In "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub" they went overboard with the sweetening. If you listen closely to the laughs in that episode, you'll hear several laughs played over an over again, within minutes (or moments). I think after that, they must have toned it down -- a lot. I remember digging up a New York Times review of ILL that came out the day after it first premiered and the reviewer was griping about all the noticeable sweetening. Jess or somebody must have read that!

Yeah, and besides the "Uh-Oh Lady," there were several other reoccuring laughers. There is also a man with a belly-laugh that many people think is Desi. It's not, though.
Are you certain of that? It sounds EXACTLY like the "ho...ho...ho" laugh that Desi had :eek:

Are you certain of that? It sounds EXACTLY like the "ho...ho...ho" laugh that Desi had :eek:
Yes, I've heard Ricky laughing that Ricky laugh in the background many times on I Love Lucy, not on other shows though, that one was strictly reserved for Lucy. But as far as it being someone beside Desi, I never thought that it was, it sounds just like him. Not many people have that distinct laugh like the Ricky laugh.:lol:

I'm not so sure. ILL is the earliest use of that "uh-oh" that I've heard. But it's possible it came from some old radio show. Clearly it's a recording because it sounds exactly alike every time. Most of the laughs on ILL are authentic, but there's some obvious sweetening here and there. In "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub" they went overboard with the sweetening. If you listen closely to the laughs in that episode, you'll hear several laughs played over an over again, within minutes (or moments). I think after that, they must have toned it down -- a lot. I remember digging up a New York Times review of ILL that came out the day after it first premiered and the reviewer was griping about all the noticeable sweetening. Jess or somebody must have read that!
Interesting Rick. Also, the "uh-oh" sounds like the woman was real close to the mike or something. Which leads me to believe, as you stated, it probably was a radio show sound bit. Since Lucy was on the radio, it wouldn't surprise me to know that Lucy may have had a hand in this or even those in the editing department may have come up with the idea of using radio show audience sounds, clapping, laughter, etc. That makes so much sense Rick. Thank you for that. ;)