I liked the back east-Danfield ,Conneticut -with Viv better than the California episodes.However,with that said,there were some really good California-based episodes-My favorites:1)The one with Jay North as Mooney's very bratty nephew Wendel,who gets his comeuppance when Lucy,dressed up as a robot "spanks brat's butt",much to Wendell's dismay and Mooiney's delight. 2)The one with Lucy and the late Mel Torme as rock and roll singers 3)The episode with the late Howard Morris as Lucy's date.The ending in which Mooney says at first softly to Lucy"Mrs.Carmichael,lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place.(then,louder almost pleadingly)Why must you?" is funny. and 4)The hilarious parody of "The Twilight Zone"",in which Lucy accidentally gets Mr.Mooney fired,Lucy,and Mr.Mooney team up to drive bank president Mr.Cheever crazy so he will hire Mr.Mooney back.Remember these?What are your favorites>

I liked the back east-Danfield ,Conneticut -with Viv better than the California episodes.However,with that said,there were some really good California-based episodes-My favorites:1)The one with Jay North as Mooney's very bratty nephew Wendel,who gets his comeuppance when Lucy,dressed up as a robot "spanks brat's butt",much to Wendell's dismay and Mooiney's delight. 2)The one with Lucy and the late Mel Torme as rock and roll singers 3)The episode with the late Howard Morris as Lucy's date.The ending in which Mooney says at first softly to Lucy"Mrs.Carmichael,lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place.(then,louder almost pleadingly)Why must you?" is funny. and 4)The hilarious parody of "The Twilight Zone"",in which Lucy accidentally gets Mr.Mooney fired,Lucy,and Mr.Mooney team up to drive bank president Mr.Cheever crazy so he will hire Mr.Mooney back.Remember these?What are your favorites>
And I forgot one:The one where Viv comes to visit Lucy,who has a broken leg,and reminisce about the "good old days".The ending,in which Mr.Mooney waits on both Viv (who broke her leg,)and Lucy,who still has a broken leg,hand and foot,is hilarious.

My favorite California based episode is the very first one ,Lucy at Marineland. I also like Lucy Goes To a Hollywood Premiere and Lucy Bags a Bargain, (the Department Store episode).

Anxious to see Viv Visits Lucy and the other 2 Vivian episodes in seasons 5 & 6!

My favorite is the episode where Lucy goes to Jack Benny's house and he takes her down to his vault. I also like all the episodes with Viv. The one with Phil Harris composing a song in Lucy's apartment was pretty good too.

Lucy in the Music World (aka the Wing-Ding episode) from S4

Viv Visits Lucy from S5

Lucy Meets the Berles from S6
Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account from S6

Most of my favorites are from S1 and 3 however.

I'm very surprised with what several of you are listing as your favorite California era episodes because most of them are from the fourth season, and the fourth season is, hands down, my absolute least favorite season of this series. Except for season 4 of Here's Lucy, I think it was Lucille Ball's weakest season ever. There are only two episodes in season 4 that I think are worthwhile: the one with Dean Martin and the one with Robert Stack. Most of the rest I can't even sit through. I much, much prefer the 5th and 6th seasons to season 4.

One of my problems with season four is there's this ridiculous theme, episode after episode, where Lucy somehow manages to "coincidentally" run into Mr. Mooney somewhere in the far-flung greater Los Angeles area. In one episode, "Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere," this actually happens twice in the same episode: first on the Beverly Hills street corner where Lucy is selling maps (and Mooney just happens to pass by on his bicycle), then at the premiere in Hollywood, where Lucy is working as a page and Mr. Mooney bizarrely shows up as an invited guest. None of this passes the believability test. And Lucy, with her movie star obsession and movie magazine collecting, comes across as the most shallow person on the planet. So it's hard to like her.

This Lucy-coincidentally-runs-into-Mr.-Mooney theme happens in "Lucy at Marineland"; "Lucy and the Golden Greek"; "Lucy and the Stunt Man"; "Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty"; "Lucy and the Return of Iron Man"; "Lucy Bags a Bargain"; "Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere"; and "Lucy and Bob Crane." And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.

Besides this, there are too many waaaay over the top themes, like Lucy being chased around her apartment by a gorilla in one episode, and Lucy chasing a gorilla in another. (Give me a break!) But the absolute most ridiculous scene ever was when Lucy allows herself to be shot out of a cannon. That premise is absurd on several levels. Something like that would NEVER have happened in the previous seasons. And thankfully, there was nothing that ridiculous in the two seasons that followed.

Somebody mentioned liking "Lucy, the Robot." That one really surprises me. Lucy, herself, didn't even like that episode. It seems very stale to me. Well, to each their own, I guess. The fourth season, to me, just seems like the result of a last-minute concept that was rushed into production. In fact, this format pretty much was a last minute decision as Lucille Ball's plan had been to end the The Lucy Show and start a new series based on her 1964 Lucille Ball Comedy Hour special that had guessed-starred Bob Hope. But CBS urged her to find a way to continue The Lucy Show. Also, Desilu determined it should continue at least another season in order to get past the 100-episode mark, which is considered the usual minimum number of episodes needed to run a series in syndication.

I digress a bit. But anyway, I like the 5th and 6th seasons much, much more. The show had adapted to the new format by then, and there were a number of episodes in those two seasons that were genuinely funny. There were also some stinkers, but it was generally an entertaining show in the last couple seasons, with a few standout episodes. None of the fourth season episodes, to me, were standouts or even funny.

I was going to say "Lucy at Marineland" would not be a "Lucy Coincidently Runs into Mr. Mooney" episode, because he took Lucy and Jerry to Marineland.----But actually its the ULTIMATE instance of this. Mr. Mooney just happened to get transferred to Los Angeles to the bank Lucy went to.:lol: I get what you're saying, totally unrealistic!!!

I was going to say "Lucy at Marineland" would not be a "Lucy Coincidently Runs into Mr. Mooney" episode, because he took Lucy and Jerry to Marineland.----But actually its the ULTIMATE instance of this. Mr. Mooney just happened to get transferred to Los Angeles to the bank Lucy went to.:lol: I get what you're saying, totally unrealistic!!!

Yeah, I can remember when I first saw that episode as a kid. That scene where Lucy, newly arrived in Los Angeles, is directed into that office at the bank for assistance and there's Mr. Mooney! Huh??? No way, I thought. And then the rest of the season pretty much continued that way. Not only did it seem implausible that Lucy and Mooney would run into one another that way, but the fact that both of them moved to Los Angeles without the other knowing about it just didn't make sense to me. After all, wasn't Mooney stopping by Lucy's house in Danfield practically every week? He knew all her business, and with all the gossip in that town, Lucy knew all of his. Think about it: Lucy owned a house in Danfield. She couldn't just get on a plane for California without taking care of that. It would have taken some time to deal with that. If she was selling the house, renting it, or whatever, you'd think Mooney and the Danfield bank would have some inking about it, and they'd have to know why she was vacating the house: "I'm moving to Los Angeles." That's not a secret she could have kept from Mooney, and surely everyone in Danfield would have been talking about it.

As for all the other fourth season coincidental encounters, coincidences do happen, but not quite like that! I once ran into some people I knew from the U.S. while walking down a street in Madrid. Another time I ran into a friend from the U.S. while boarding a plane in Milan, Italy. And on another occasion, I met a couple on a train train in Germany, bound for Prague, and during the course of our conversation I found out they were the aunt and uncle of a friend of mine. And another time, I was visiting New York City and ran into a friend (also visiting there) while crossing a crosswalk in opposite directions on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. But these events involved different people and occurred over the course of several years, not once a week with the same person!

The writers had to make changes to the show after Vivian Vance left, so these coincidental encounters with Mr. Mooney, regardless of how convienient or unrealistic they are, is the direction the writers chose to take. With TV shows, it is easy to write a script and create any type of scenario. Without Viv, The Lucy Show seasons 4-6 aren't as good as seasons 1-3, but the last 3 seasons still contain a fair share of good episodes. Viv did return for that one episode in season 5, and another in season 6.

The Lucy Show seasons 4-6 aren't as good as seasons 1-3, but the last 3 seasons still contain a fair share of good episodes. Viv did return for that one episode in season 5, and another in season 6.[/QUOTE]

Viv appears twice in season 6.

[QUOTE=markway895]The Lucy Show seasons 4-6 aren't as good as seasons 1-3, but the last 3 seasons still contain a fair share of good episodes./QUOTE]

I agree with that. My problem with the fourth season is a feeling the writers were just plain lost on what to do with the show without Vivian and simply didn't know how to make the new format work. By the fifth season they gained their footing and came up with enough laugh-out-loud episodes to keep my interest. None of the fourth season episodes, to me, are laugh-out-loud funny, and are often embarrassing: e.g., Lucy being shot out of a cannon, Lucy chasing a gorilla who stole her autograph book, Lucy being chased by a gorilla inside her own apartment. As I mentioned above, too many plots that season were a huge stretch. One critic at the time summed it up as follows in this January 1966 column: "Lucille Ball came along with a dramatic demonstration of talent triumphing over wretched material. The premise was that Lucy, to win a Linkletter prize, had to remain silent for hours. Things were pretty ridiculous. Since Lucy lost her regular costar, Vivian Vance, the show occasionally reaches pretty far for laughs."

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x5UiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1qkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=836,662923&dq=the+lucy+show+vivian+vance&hl=en

The episode being referenced here is the one that ends with Lucy being chased around her apartment by a gorilla.

The episodes from the 5th and 6th seasons that I find at least have some good laugh-out-loud moments are the following. And there are several other episodes besides these I enjoy, even if they don't give me a belly laugh.

Season 5

113 5-03 26/Sep/66 Lucy, the Bean Queen
115 5-05 10/Oct/66 Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding-Ding (*love* this one)
116 5-06 17/Oct/66 Lucy Goes to London
117 5-07 31/Oct/66 Lucy Gets a Roommate
119 5-09 14/Nov/66 Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft
120 5-10 21/Nov/66 Lucy and John Wayne
124 5-14 02/Jan/67 Lucy's Substitute Secretary
129 5-19 13/Feb/67 Lucy Meets the Law (*love* this)
132 5-22 06/Mar/67 Lucy Meets Sheldon Leonard

• Season 6

133 6-01 11/Sep/67 Lucy Meets the Berles
134 6-02 18/Sep/67 Lucy Gets Trapped
135 6-03 25/Sep/67 Lucy and the French Movie Star (*love* this)
141 6-09 06/Nov/67 Lucy Gets Mooney Fired
144 6-12 27/Nov/67 Lucy Sues Mooney
145 6-13 04/Dec/67 Lucy and the Pool Hustler
149 6-17 15/Jan/68 Lucy Gets Involved
151 6-19 29/Jan/68 Lucy and the Stolen Stole
155 6-23 04/Mar/68 Lucy and Sid Caesar

As I mentioned before, I only like two episodes from the fourth season: "Lucy Dates Dean Martin" and "Lucy, the Gun Moll." But none of the episodes from the fourth season strike me as laugh-out-loud funny.

Lucy The Superwoman, was the most over-the-top to me. I understand this storyline was intended for Gilligan's Island! It should have stayed on Gilligans's island! :lol:

Lucy The Superwoman, was the most over-the-top to me. I understand this storyline was intended for Gilligan's Island! It should have stayed on Gilligans's island! :lol:

Oh yes, and then there's that episode! I remember when I first saw it years ago, thinking it seemed like something more suitable for Gilligan's Island than a Lucy episode, not realizing it was written by Sherwood Schwartz's brother. No wonder! What made Lucille Ball's comedy work was that it was grounded somewhat in reality. That episode is a prime example of how to make a Lucille Ball comedy not work.

It would have been nice is The Lucy Show could have come back for the fifth season Patrick Duffy/Dallas style, with her waking up and realizing the entire fourth season was just a dream (or a nightmare). Maybe even waking up in Danfield. :) Perhaps it would have gone something like this:

LUCY: "Viv! Viv!

(Vivian comes running into Lucy's bedroom.)

VIV: "Yes, Lucy, I'm here. What's the matter?"

LUCY: "Oh Viv, I just had this terrible, terrible nightmare. I dreamed I was suddenly living in California. I sent my precious son away to military school, which is a terrible thing because if I had slept another hour more I was going to start calling him Jimmy! But anyway, you wouldn't believe this dream. At one point some people from a TV show let a gorilla loose in my apartment and it was chasing me all over my living room. At another point, I went to a Hollywood premiere where a famous actress came with a gorilla as her escort. And that gorilla stole my autograph pad and I was dumb enough to start chasing him inside and outside the theater. At another point, my adrenal glands went berserk and somehow made me fly through the air like Peter Pan. And then there was this really horrible moment when I got shot out of a cannon. And all throughout this nightmare, no matter where I went and no matter what I was doing, Mr. Mooney would suddenly appear!"

VIV: "Oh my dear, Lucy. I need to find you some help, quick! That's one impossibly crazy, unbelievable dream . . . even for you!"

My favorite seasons are 1, 2, 3 & 6 tied, 5, then 4. Season 4 is just awful for me. Only a couple of episodes I really enjoyed, especially the Dean Martin one. That's a real laugh there. Season 5 was better but I really enjoyed Season 6.

It has some very funny ones in it including:
Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account (I love Lucy and Jack Benny together)
Lucy Gets Trapped (one of my favorite of the entire series)
Lucy Gets Mooney Fired
Lucy Sues Mooney
Lucy Gets Involved (another one of my favorite of the entire series)

Lucy The Superwoman, was the most over-the-top to me. I understand this storyline was intended for Gilligan's Island! It should have stayed on Gilligans's island! :lol:

LOL Lucy The Superwoman is a HILARIOUS episode! Some great visual gags are in that episode. :lol:

LOL Lucy The Superwoman is a HILARIOUS episode! Some great visual gags are in that episode. :lol:

Hmm, to each his own, I guess. I just find the entire episode silly, like a cartoon, and silly isn't funny to me. That's why I hate Gilligan's Island. I'm with markway895 on this one.

My favorite seasons are 1, 2, 3 & 6 tied, 5, then 4. Season 4 is just awful for me.

I'm about in complete agreement with you on this. That's exactly how I would rank the seasons, except maybe I would say 3, 6 and 5 are all tied. I don't know whether 6 is better than 5 or if they're tied. Other than than, I think you've got it right.

Only a couple of episodes I really enjoyed, especially the Dean Martin one. That's a real laugh there. Season 5 was better but I really enjoyed Season 6.

I agree with your assessment of S4. And the Dean Martin episode is the best. I also like the one with Robert Stack. Besides those, there's not much else to write home about.


It has some very funny ones in it including:
Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account (I love Lucy and Jack Benny together)
Lucy Gets Trapped (one of my favorite of the entire series)
Lucy Gets Mooney Fired
Lucy Sues Mooney
Lucy Gets Involved (another one of my favorite of the entire series)

Yes, these are great episodes, except I'm not too fond of the one with Jack Benny, for reasons similar to why I don't like "Lucy, the Superwoman." And I do love Jack Benny.

Others on my list of favorites from S6:

Lucy Meets the Berles
Lucy and the French Movie Star
Lucy and the Pool Hustler
Lucy and the Stolen Stole
Lucy and Sid Caesar

I forgot all about "Lucy The Pool Hustler", LOL. That one is funny. I was just going through my VHS tapes from Nick @ Nite last night watching some of Season 6 and watched that one again. It is really amazing how crisp the transfers are on these CBS sets compared to the worn out syndicated copies we were used to watching for years and years.

Hmm, to each his own, I guess. I just find the entire episode silly, like a cartoon, and silly isn't funny to me. That's why I hate Gilligan's Island. I'm with markway895 on this one.

I guess it depends on what each person defines as silly. For example, a couple Lucy Show episodes that come off silly to me are Lucy Buys A Sheep and Lucy The Good Skate. However, I think Lucy The Superwoman is very funny, I enjoy those visual gags. I can see that one being a Gilligans Island episode, Gilligan eats some unknown fruit from a tree and develops superhuman strength. :lol:

I guess it depends on what each person defines as silly. For example, a couple Lucy Show episodes that come off silly to me are Lucy Buys A Sheep and Lucy The Good Skate. However, I think Lucy The Superwoman is very funny, I enjoy those visual gags. I can see that one being a Gilligans Island episode, Gilligan eats some unknown fruit from a tree and develops superhuman strength. :lol:

Yes, different definitions of silly. For me, when the comedy looks like a cartoon, then it's silly. And that's exactly how "Lucy, the Superwoman" appears to me: like a cartoon. They're doing things in that episode that would be physically impossible in real life. Even if someone's adrenal glands were to malfunction, that wouldn't result in someone flying through the air, or all that other stuff that happens in that episode. None of it makes any sense.

Re: "Lucy, the Good Skate," yeah, it seems unlikely that a person in that situation would not be able to find a better remedy than showing up at a dance in roller skates. That seems like kind of a stretch. But is what happens to her physically impossible? Is it physically impossible for your feet to swell so much already tight skates can't be taken off without damaging them? I don't think so. I think it is possible, so I can go with the flow and accept the story that's being told there. It's a somewhat plausible situation. "Lucy Buys a Sheep," for me, isn't a particularly funny episode, but there's nothing in it that seems beyond reality. It's believable, so I don't find the script embarrassing.

If this were a show where the basic premise were about a witch or a genie, then I could accept an episode like "Lucy, the Superwoman." But this is supposed to be a show about a mother with two kids -- a mere mortal -- working as a bank secretary in Los Angeles. So plots like that lose me completely.

Keep in mind though, that by the 4th season this wasn't really a sitcom about a mother with two kids anymore, at this point the kids had basically been written out of the show. With Viv gone also, it had become a Lucy and Mr. Mooney show, along with the numerous guest star appearances. So with Lucy now clearly in the forefront, the writers were probably just trying to create different funny situations to put Lucy in, some scenarios were more realistic or believable than others. In all of Lucy's sitcoms, she does tend to get herself in exaggerated situations that wouldn't happen to the average person, that is the basis for the humor. Sometimes the humor is silly, other times the humor is genuine and funny. I've noticed that the last episode in each season of The Lucy Show tends to be a very funny one, the season 4 finale Lucy The Superwoman is no exception in my opinion.

Regarding the episode Lucy Buys A Sheep, I don't see anything realistic about that episode at all. For one thing, it is unrealistic for Lucy to buy a sheep expecting it to keep her grass cut instead of doing the normal thing and buying a lawn mower. And aside from that, how did Lucy plan to keep the grounds clean with the sheep pooping all over the place from eating the grass? Or was that subject considered taboo for 1960's TV? :lol:

Regarding the episode Lucy Buys A Sheep, I don't see anything realistic about that episode at all. For one thing, it is unrealistic for Lucy to buy a sheep expecting it to keep her grass cut instead of doing the normal thing and buying a lawn mower.

Really? I beg to differ. There is nothing unrealistic about this premise at all. Sheep do eat grass. And if they eat enough of it, the grass won't get very tall. So the idea of someone using a sheep to cut grass is quite realistic and certainly possible. If fact, it's so realistic that people actually do this. Check out this story about a school in Pennsylvania that bought sheep for this very purpose:

http://tweentribune.com/content/school-plans-use-sheep-cut-grass

And here are several more similar stories:
http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/07/30/mow-better-florence-man-farms-out-his-woolly-workers?SESS01975abeb322aaddba85d9f777b56aea=gnews
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464486/Council-swops-lawnmowers-sheep-cut-grass.html
http://guides.wikinut.com/Keep-geese-and-sheep-to-cut-your-grass/27kjyvcc/

People actually do this. You can't get any more realistic than something people actually do in real life. But never in the history of mankind has a person had adrenal glands that made them fly.

Keep in mind though, that by the 4th season this wasn't really a sitcom about a mother with two kids anymore, at this point the kids had basically been written out of the show.

My statement was that this is supposed to be a show about a mother with two kids -- a mere mortal -- working as a bank secretary in Los Angeles. The relevant point is not about whether or not the kids still appear on the show (she's still the same character whether the kids are around or not), but that this is supposed to be a show about a mortal human being. If this were a show about a young woman working in a newsroom at a TV station in Minneapolis, or about a sheriff raising a son in a small town in North Carolina, or two woman living together in an apartment in 1950s Milwaukee, it's the same point: these characters are supposed to be mortals in situations that, while in some cases they might sometimes be exaggerated, they are still on some level relatable and believable, which is why shows like that worked so well. Others, like Gilligan's Island, crossed too far beyond that line of believability and came across as too cartoonish for my tastes. I think kids probably like it more than adults.

In all of Lucy's sitcoms, she does tend to get herself in exaggerated situations that wouldn't happen to the average person, that is the basis for the humor.

Exaggerated, yes, but not impossible. At least the episodes that worked the best were not situations outside the realm of possibility. Lucy Ricardo is a huge fan of William Holden. She goes to the Brown Derby and winds up in a booth next to him. After making a fool of herself while trying to catch a glimpse of him, she's nervous and embarrassed and tries to get away, but winds up running into a waiter causing him to spill food all over Mr. Holden. Is it likely that such a scenario could take place? Maybe not likely, but absolutely possible. And it's something most people can probably relate to. I have no doubt someone has bumped into a waiter and caused him to spill food on a customer. That could certainly happen and probably does happen somewhere in the world every day. But never in the history of the planet has someone flown through the air because of malfunctioning adrenal glands.

In the next scene at the Ricardo's hotel, Lucy tries to disguise herself so that Mr. Holden won't recognize her. Is it likely that a person in her situation would try to disguise herself the way Lucy did? I don't really know. But I do know there is nothing impossible about a person wearing a disguise. And I doubt that it's impossible that part of that disguise could catch on fire. However, I do know that it's physically impossible for a woman like Lucy Carmichael to crush cans with her bare hands. This is why "L.A. at Last" is such a classic episode and works so well: the script is crafted so intricately, taking the viewer into a situation that, yes, may be exaggerated, but all along the way has a firm basis in reality. The viewer can go along for the whole ride without suspending disbelief very much, if at all, because all along the way they're seeing a situation play out that is possible, relatable, and could conceivably happen.

There will always be exceptions, but the majority of people use a lawn mower to cut their grass. That is why the premise of Lucy Buys A Sheep is unrealistic. The premise is not impossible, but is unrealistic to the majority of people.

In Lucy The Superwoman, they might have gone a little too far with a few things but overall I think the episode is very funny. And in times of urgency, people have been known to come up with unusual strength so the episode is not completely unrealistic. I like the opening part of the episode in Mr. Mooney's office, then the next scene in Lucy's apartment where the mishaps continue. The part where she lifts the piece of furniture is a bit too contrived, but the other visual gags are pretty funny. Like when she opens the door to the refrigerator and then the door falls off. :lol:

There will always be exceptions, but the majority of people use a lawn mower to cut their grass. That is why the premise of Lucy Buys A Sheep is unrealistic. The premise is not impossible, but is unrealistic to the majority of people.

This is getting ridiculous. By your latest definition, nothing on TV is realistic because it doesn't reflect what the majority of people do. The very premise of the episode is that nobody in the house wants to mow the grass, so that's why Lucy buys a sheep. If you're trying to find a way to keep the grass cut without mowing, what other options are there besides getting a sheep? That's about the only real, viable option other than killing the grass. Those links I provided for you (that you curiously don't bother to address) are about real, actual people doing the same thing and for the same reason. Lots of people. It's real. Here they are again:

http://tweentribune.com/content/scho...heep-cut-grass
http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/07/30...77b56aea=gnews
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cut-grass.html
http://guides.wikinut.com/Keep-geese...rass/27kjyvcc/

Since when is something "unrealistic" just because the majority of people don't do it? That's not even a valid point. The majority of people don't work in a television newsroom, so does that make The Mary Tyler Moore Show unrealistic? The majority of young married couples don't live in their wife's parents' home, so does that make All in the Family unrealistic? I live close enough to my job that I am able to walk to work. Most people don't do that. So am I unrealistic? Come on!

In Lucy The Superwoman, they might have gone a little too far with a few things but overall I think the episode is very funny.

Fine, you think it's funny. But I doubt you are with the majority opinion. Story lines like that are out of character from what people expect from Lucille Ball. She was not known for surreal Gilligan's Island type plots, at least not up to this point, and I would venture to guess that deviating from those expectations was not good for her show and disappointing to fans.

And in times of urgency, people have been known to come up with unusual strength so the episode is not completely unrealistic.

Right, having unusual strength brought on by adrenal glands is not unrealistic, but flying through the air as a result is completely unrealistic and physically impossible (a point I keep making over and over).

The part where she lifts the piece of furniture is a bit too contrived, but the other visual gags are pretty funny. Like when she opens the door to the refrigerator and then the door falls off. :lol:

None of it is funny to me because the plot loses me from the very first physically/scientifically impossible thing she does.

The final scene of Lucy The Superwoman, the scene that takes place in the lab, that is where the episode goes a little too far, that scene is mostly silliness. But the rest of the episode is very funny. Lucy Dates Dean Martin is an entertaining episode, Dean is great as always, but to me nothing happens in the episode that's extremely funny. A couple spoken lines here and there are good for a chuckle or two and that's about it.

As far as your sheep argument goes, I am aware that some people do this I don't have to see your links in order to prove your point. All I'm saying is it's an unrealistic premise for an episode because the majority of people don't use sheep to keep their grass trimmed, the majority of people do not relate to this premise. With the Mary Tyler Moore Show, the majority of people might not work in a TV newsroom, but most everyone has seen the news on TV now and then, so this is a premise that the majority of people can relate to. Conversely, the majority of people do not relate to the premise of using sheep to keep the grass cut, it is an unusual and uncommon practice. If this is beyond your comprehension, then sorry I cannot help you any further. :wave:

One of my favorite CA based eps., is Lucy Meets Sheldon Leonard. Here, Mary Jane finally becomes a full-fledged accomplice in one of Lucy's schemes, what Vivian/Ethel used to be. I thought she was great!

Agreed 100% I always thought they never gave Mary Jane enough to do. With her whiny voice and goofy looks she was very funny.