I thought it may be fun to list all the absolutely "could never happen in real life" scenarios Lucy and The Gang got into on "I Love Lucy". I'll start with a few:

The GIANT loaf of bread coming out of an oven only a couple feet deep. :rolleyes:

Little Ricky going from aged two to aged 5 or six in one year. Kids do grow fast but c'mon!!

People being so stupid they can't recognize their own husbands or wives while they're wearing really cheesy costumes. :lol:

Fred did recognize Ethel not once, but twice while she was incognito. :lol: Once while wearing the back end of the horse and the time she wore the black wig. :lol:


Mistakenly eating face cream instead of dip and NOT noticing the difference. :crazy:

Mistakenly eating face cream instead of dip and NOT noticing the difference. :crazy:

Must have been a hella good book!! :read: :groucho But I've eaten some prepared dips in jars that taste like hemmoroid cream so what do I know? :lol:

Must have been a hella good book!! :read: :groucho But I've eaten some prepared dips in jars that taste like hemmoroid cream so what do I know? :lol:
:brent I don't even want to ask how you know what hemmorhoid cream tastes like.


Lucy and Ethel hitting those two actors on the head with those vases and they come out of it ok.

Lucy in the laundrymat and going through all that starch and God knows what. :eek:

Lucy and Ethel being on the top of the Empire State Building. You couldn't pay me enough money to do that stunt. :crazy:

Lucy climbing out on the ledge of their high rise apartment so she could be superman.....

Lucy getting the loving cup stuck on her head...WTF

What about the scheme do sell Aunt Marthas Old Fashion Salad Dressing....

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Little Ricky going from aged two to aged 5 or six in one year. Kids do grow fast but c'mon!!



I think Ricky went from three to 5. In the European episodes, where Lucy is upset that she is missing his birthday, it is mentioned that he is turning three. Then voila, "Lucy and Bob Hope", he is now talkative and 5 :)

Fred thinking his wife could be preggers in DRAFTED and her thinking that HE could be DRAFTED at his age.

On that line, SPLAIN I offer up any plots where the Mertz's look like they're amorous. The thought of those two bumpin uglies is too much for me. I have to lie down now with a cold rag on my head. :lol:

On that line, SPLAIN I offer up any plots where the Mertz's look like they're amorous. The thought of those two bumpin uglies is too much for me. I have to lie down now with a cold rag on my head. :lol: And THAT's nothin compared to how THEY felt when they read a script where they had to be lovey dovey, LOL!
They both deserved the Emmy for being able to do those scenes at all, LOL!

Oh yeah. Do you know they had to dub in the sound of Ethel kissing Fred in the ep "Ricky And Fred Are TV Fans"?? They did. Too funny. You just hear this fake smooching sound. :lol:

Or when she almost kissed him in the Equal Rights episode? :lol:

Hey maybe I got that wrong. I was talking about the one where Ethel kisses Freddie through the bars when they're in jail. Yeah maybe that was "Equal Rights". I goofed. :crazy:

Cutting an elecrical wire with metal scissors and not getting a shock or seeing an enormous spark where the scissors touch the bare wires.

When changing a flat tire, having the jack pump up high enough to go theough the top of the fender. They don't go that high.

Lucy and Ethel being made to do dishes in the equal rights episode.
The whole scotland episode :lol:

Or when she almost kissed him in the Equal Rights episode? :lol:

:lol: that part always makes me laugh when i watch that episode.

Stealing John Wayne's cement block from Grauman's Chinese Theater. It just happened to be loose. lol.

The whole scotland episode :lol:

Well that was a dream so I don't consider that impossible. :D

Little Ricky going from aged two to aged 5 or six in one year. Kids do grow fast but c'mon!! [/B][/COLOR]

That's a big exaggeration. Little Ricky was born in the January 19, 1953 episode. Four years later, in the January 14, 1957 episode ("Lucy and Superman"), he turned 5. So they only advanced his age one year, not three to four years like you're suggesting.

That's a big exaggeration.
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It was supposed to be. I am the Queen of Hyperbole. ;)

Well that was a dream so I don't consider that impossible. :D

Exactly :lol:

OK here's another. How about the idea that 2 little boys can hide 200 full grown live chickes in their houses! And BTW I wonder what happened to those poor little kittens Bruce Ramsey hid! :p

Almost everything in Lucy In The Swiss Alps(I love the episode though)the band climbing that mountain insturments and all and inexperinced hikers the Ricardo's and the Mertzes climbing the mountain and without any guide.:crazy:

Lucy losing 20 pounds in 4 days to get into that outfit to sing with Ricky.

Stealing John Wayne's cement block from Grauman's Chinese Theater. It just happened to be loose. lol.

No, they didn't decide to steal John Wayne's footprint and then discover that his block was loose. It was the other way around: they discovered his block was loose THEN, consequently, decided to steal it. And there's certainly nothing unusual about a block of cement being loose. I've seen that happen many times. Maybe it's unusual for Grauman's, but it happens.

The four of them breaking out of jail with files and then to square dance the sheriff and his daughters into a rope, making them felons!! LOL!

In Lucy Cries Wolf at the end when Ricky, Fred and Ethel actually think that Lucy tied herself up making them think that she ran into trouble. Come on! That rope was all the way around her! DUH!

It's not implausible for them to think Lucy tied herself up; or if she didn't do it herself, that she might have paid Mrs. Trumball or somebody else to do it. :lol: But combining her story-- that the 2 thugs took her down to the basement and tied her up-- coupled with the fact that she must have clumb 7 or 8 flights of stairs (their apartment is on the 3rd floor [where she "appeared in 3D"] with her feet tied tightly together... as well as that no one else in the building heard her screams at first and at least looked out, or saw her being abducted or jumping up all those steps ... :crazy:
BTW I happened to have watched my old tape of this ep last night, and I'm sure it was cloth, not rope, she was tied with.

Regarding the John Wayne ep, has there actually been a case of of theft of a star's block from Grauman's Chinese Theater?

Stealing John Wayne's cement block from Grauman's Chinese Theater. It just happened to be loose. lol.

:lol: Exactly. I am sure if another star other than Wayne was on "ILL" then his her block would just happen to be "loose" too so it could be swiped easily. :D :cool:

The four of them breaking out of jail with files and then to square dance the sheriff and his daughters into a rope, making them felons!! LOL!

In Lucy Cries Wolf at the end when Ricky, Fred and Ethel actually think that Lucy tied herself up making them think that she ran into trouble. Come on! That rope was all the way around her! DUH!
That scene where they are square dancing, I love to see how Ricky gets the rope from the wall WHILE THE SHERIFF is watching him do this and yet doesn't think nothing of it. :lol: Duh!

When Lucy fakes being sick to be in Ricky's show, we see a scene where Lucy appears green because of a lightbulb. Ethel can't easily decipher that EVERYONE ELSE AND THE WHOLE ROOM APPEARS GREEN? :crazy: :lol:

Mario, the visitor from Italy, was working at the pizza place. Lucy goes in to work for him so he could get his check. There is no way a place can withhold the wages of someone if they already worked two days. And there is no way they would hire a stranger (Lucy) on the spot without going through the proper procedure of hiring someone.

No, they didn't decide to steal John Wayne's footprint and then discover that his block was loose. It was the other way around: they discovered his block was loose THEN, consequently, decided to steal it. And there's certainly nothing unusual about a block of cement being loose. I've seen that happen many times. Maybe it's unusual for Grauman's, but it happens.

i know. i found it funny & impossible that his footprints were loose at Grauman's Chinese Theater. i've been to Grauman's many times and have had no such luck. :lol:

how about in the equal rights episode, when Lucy and Ethel can't pay their bill, so they have to go in the back and wash dishes? C'mon; a resturant would NEVER do that!!!

how about in the equal rights episode, when Lucy and Ethel can't pay their bill, so they have to go in the back and wash dishes? C'mon; a resturant would NEVER do that!!!
Listen, if I was in Lucy's position, my man would have paid that bill. No ifs, ands or buts about it! There is no way in hell my man would leave me like that to wash dishes. Lucy really messed up big time there. :mad: :crazy:


I agree with you, no restaurant that I know of would do that. I asked that question on here before. What if you go to a restaurant, eat but have no money. What would they REALLY do in that scenario?

There is no way a place can withhold the wages of someone if they already worked two days. And there is no way they would hire a stranger (Lucy) on the spot without going through the proper procedure of hiring someone.

Maybe he would if he knew what he was doing was illegal, and it would seem he should know that. Just pay him the cash with no mention on the books, and replenish his petty cash fund; and if he had an accountant who he thinks might get him into trouble, then just inflate other expenses to make all funds balance. And he should have known Mario couldn't make a legal claim for his wages if it was illegal for him to be working there to begin with. But it's also true that that I/N Board rep didn't mention any penalties againt Martinelli-- but maybe that's because Martinelli was already known as a cagey one, and they knew they couldn't prove he was unaware that Mario was undocumented to work. Overanalysis, overanalysis,.....:crazy:

What if you go to a restaurant, eat but have no money. What would they REALLY do in that scenario?

Hopefully people are smart enough to bring enough cash or a credit card and not get into that situation. No one can eat free in a restaurant any more than they can walk into a store, put new clothes on and leave saying "Sorry I don't have any money". The restaurant would attemp to get info about the diner (address, phone), and maybe take a piece of "collateral" from the diner until he/she can bring back the cash or credit card. Very often ass-holes "dine and dash" and end up with a free meal. But I've known owners to run after them and catch them. Then they're arrested. :happyface

Which makes the Lucy episode even more implausible. The owner of the restaurant should have told Ricky, I don't know what your beef is with these ladies, but you all came in together and I expect my bill to be paid. No separate checks. You all can haggle it outside as to who owes who what.

Hey back in the 50's people lived more on the "honor system". If the owner wanted you to work to pay off the fact you didn't have cash to pay for your meal then that's what you did. This washing dishes thing wasn't just made up by the Lucy writers. I've known older people who'd say things like they hoped they weren't dining with deadbeats so they wouldn't be stuck washing dishes all night.:lol: Now for safety and sanitation reasons OF COURSE no one would be asked to do that today. It would be against the labor board. :crazy:

Which makes the Lucy episode even more implausible. The owner of the restaurant should have told Ricky, I don't know what your beef is with these ladies, but you all came in together and I expect my bill to be paid. No separate checks. You all can haggle it outside as to who owes who what.
Irene, I think the manager was in on it, wasn't he? Didn't Ricky go talk to him and kind of set it up for him to tell them they had to wash dishes to pay for their part of the bill? I haven't seen this episode in awhile, but it seems like he did.

Irene, I think the manager was in on it, wasn't he? Didn't Ricky go talk to him and kind of set it up for him to tell them they had to wash dishes to pay for their part of the bill? I haven't seen this episode in awhile, but it seems like he did.
He was. My thinking was the owner should have said, "No. I want to be paid." I mean, the guy has a dishwasher, what was in it for him to be in on the men's bet with the ladies? I know, I know, I am reaching for something here that is impossible but since we are discussing plot impossibilities, this particular plot has always been one that annoyed me.

Oh, okay. I get what you're saying. Like why would he even agree. It always kind of bugged me how at the end when the cops came the guy wasn't around. Wasn't he supposed to stay til they were done?

Oh, okay. I get what you're saying. Like why would he even agree. It always kind of bugged me how at the end when the cops came the guy wasn't around. Wasn't he supposed to stay til they were done?
Yeah, I guess he was worried for having them washing dishes when they were not legal employees and could have gotten in trouble. :lol: He was like the pizza restaurant owner who was trying not to pay Mario for his wages even though Mario was not legally supposed to be working. :eek:

Must have been a hella good book!! :read: :groucho But I've eaten some prepared dips in jars that taste like hemmoroid cream so what do I know? :lol:


I just HAVE to ask this (LOL) but how do you know what hemorroid cream
tastes like?

I just HAVE to ask this (LOL) but how do you know what hemorroid cream
tastes like?
:eek: :lol:

i know. i found it funny & impossible that his footprints were loose at Grauman's Chinese Theater. i've been to Grauman's many times and have had no such luck. :lol:
Same here. :lol:

Ok, no one mentioned this and I am surprised...

LUCY AND THE HELICOPTER! :eek: No way that would have happened.

You'd think that some cops would have been able to stop that lawn mower Lucy was runnung amok on too. She didn't have to go the wrong way on the Boston Post Road threatening people's lives! I mean shoot the dang tires out or something! :lol:

You'd think that some cops would have been able to stop that lawn mower Lucy was runnung amok on too. She didn't have to go the wrong way on the Boston Post Road threatening people's lives! I mean shoot the dang tires out or something! :lol:
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Little Ricky going from aged two to aged 5 or six in one year. Kids do grow fast but c'mon!!

Little Ricky aged by actual time, am I not correct? He was born in 1953, and in the Italy episode ("It's she's-a birthday too!") he turns three. He may look older in 1957, but he only looks 5-6, and he's supposed to be four. Not big of a deal, if I am concerned.

how about running into John Wayne and making him do those footprints like what was it? 5? 6 times?

or faking a baby made out of cheese. and stuffing 25 lbs. of cheese into some orchestra instruments

Yeah, that flight back from Europe was a cheesy episode, wasn't it?

Whenever Lucy and Ethel tried to disguise themselves from Ricky and Fred. I'm sure they're not going to recognize them. :lol: