Obviously I'm very new to this board so if you've already had a thread like this, disregard this and ignore me, lol. But I was just thinking, do you remember what your first episode was and how long ago it was?

I still remember being 3 years old and my sisters were watching it on TV and I kept thinking how annoying it was (give me credit, I was 3 and obviously didn't understand the plot or what was going on). It was the episode where Lucy thinks everyone has forgotten her birthday (again I apologize, I'm still working on learning the episode names and numbers). But then the next thing I knew, I was watching the show everyday, running home after elementary school to catch the last 10 minutes of the show, and all during junior high and high school always curling up in front of the TV late at night with a snack and ILL. And now here I am, 15 years after my first episode and still my favourite thing to do is curl up in front of the TV late at night with ILL. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif Somehow it seems to be the only escape from real life. Ok, enough of my journey down memory lane, what about yours?

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"Happy Birthday Mrs. Mertz, and I hope you live another 75 years!"

[This message has been edited by Roz1013 (edited 06-05-2001).]

Roz, the episode you are referring to is Lucy's Last Birthday, and that is a sweet episode (with a classic ending; I watched Ricky singing "I Love Lucy" more than a few times!).

I wish I could say I've watched ILL for years, but I only recently discovered it (!!!). I used to put N@N on to fall asleep to, and all I remember is that ILL was the show that was on when I went to bed, and how funny it was. It is hard to fall asleep when you are laughing all the time!

I think Lucy's Schedule may have been the first episode I watched from beginning to end, and it is still one of my favorites. I know what you mean about curling up in bed and watching ILL. My favorite thing to do is shut the lights in my room, close the door and close the blinds, so that I am in a darkened room. Then, I watch 2 episodes of ILL back to back... can't get much better than that!

betsy

Actually, I think my first episode was one of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours, though I don't remember which one (might have been the last one, which is sad really given the circumstances behind the whole thing!) I was babysitting back in 1994 (the 1st year Lucy was on Nick) and the kid I was sitting with liked watching N@N, so I watched it with him. Fell in love with it!

Cannot however remember which Lucy ep. was first. Too long ago!

P.S. Roz1013- Welcome to the boards!!!

Originally posted by dawsongirl:

P.S. Roz1013- Welcome to the boards!!!


Thanks, glad to be here. It's great to find people who love the show as much as you do that you can discuss it with! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

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"Happy Birthday Mrs. Mertz, and I hope you live another 75 years!"

I don't know what my first episode was, I can just remember watching it every night on N@N for as long as I can remember. I'm pretty sure I've seen all the episodes!!welcome to the board Roz!!!

-marta

Hello everyone!!

Sorry! I messed up last post. My first episode I saw was Lucy is enciente and I was
about 4 years old. I'm now 29! Back then I
didn't know they were reruns and Desi was
my first crush and still to this day I think
he was the hotty of his time!! LOL!! It seems
so long ago but,I know that I will forever
love Lucy and Ricky,they are the bomb and can't be beaten!!

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Amy M. Weaver

As a little kid in the mid-60's I remember the ep where Lucy babysits the little boy with glasses who turns out to be twins. I don't know why, but the earliest and clearest mental picture I have of ILL is the boy walking into the living room carrying a towel and drying his hands. I also remember hearing the audience laughing at that point and I didn't know what was supposed to be funny about that [maybe I often did it myself?].

I do remember Lucy being on in the daytime (ILL) and sometimes at night, too (The Lucy Show), and wondered why Lucy looked different, especially in her hairstyle, and why she called "Ethel" Viv. I also wondered why Ricky and Fred were not there on the nighttime show...but I didn't really care, because the guys were kind of scary to me. Especially Fred, who I thought, for some reason, was a 'mean man' who wanted to hurt Lucy.

I am not sure my first episode,but I started watching it when it began airing on N@N.It could of been the first episode.

I first watched the show at a neighbor's house.
My first episode was the one in which Lucy was worried about being dull... or something like that?
She tried to tell a joke (The "Lean" Porkchops), and it fell flat, and Ricky corrected it for her. She was goofing up stuff all through the episode.

That was "The Inferiority Complex", a very excellent episode!

I believe my first lucy episode was on the 'lucy desi comedy hour' and qiute possibly 'the ricardos go to japan'. I remember when i was a really little kid, i used to stay up late for 'snick', and 'the lucy desi comedy hour' came on right it. When i was little, i always watched it just to pass the time seeing that nick was the only channel i ever thought to watch. I also remember that it was during 'i love lucy' that i heard the news of my grandpa's fatal heart attack. One of the first 'I love lucy' espisodes i remember was the 'be a pal' episode, where lucy and ethel sang the 'pal' song. throughout my childhood, even during the years that i didn't watchlucy (6-13), i always new that song. Now i watch faithfully every night.

(Even though for some reason, today, the 21st of June, while now the 22nd cuz its late, they are showing three's company)

I'm bored, so I'm bumping up old threads that still could mean something.

Okay, so I posted that it was the last L&DCH, but I don't remember it being that one at all. But it almost had to be one of those...back when Nick used to have Lucy Saturdays (cuz I think that and maybe Fridays were the only days I babysat). I think that was ILL, TLS, and L&DCH. I seem to remember the first one the best so maybe it was that one.

Sorry! I messed up last post. My first episode I saw was Lucy is enciente and I was
about 4 years old. I'm now 29! Back then I
didn't know they were reruns and Desi was
my first crush and still to this day I think
he was the hotty of his time!! LOL!! It seems
so long ago but,I know that I will forever
love Lucy and Ricky,they are the bomb and can't be beaten!!

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Amy M. Weaver
OMG, Desi was my first crush too! He was just so HOT! I can still remember being 9-10 years old and dreaming about marrying him someday lol :lol: (this was before I knew he was dead). I think I even wrote a love letter to him once and kept it in my journal and started it off with "Dearest Desi" lol :lol: (I was a weird kid).
Anyway, I first got into I Love Lucy when I was about nine (I'm 18 now) when it was on N@N. I think my first episode was "Don't Do Business With Friends" but I'm not totally positive. I think that was it though.

I can VAUGLEY remember, when I was little (it had to be sometime in the early 60s, since I was born in 57) glancing over at our black-and-white TV once-this was either on a Saturday, or sometime in the summer-and seeing the "heart" opening, with the theme playing, then an aeiral shot of Paris with the words "PARIS, FRANCE". But that's all I remember of it.
Then, I can also remember when I was little, glancing at the TV and seeing Ricky walking out of their bedroom while the audience was laughing. But again, that's all I remember.
Then, years later, in the late 60s, a local station was showing it and my whole family was into "THE LUCY SHOW" at the time, and I can remember once, (I was in 4th grade) my brother came running in the room and telling me "JOE, LUCY'S ON AND SHE'S ON A LEDGE WITH SUPERMAN!" (it was the episode "LUCY MEETS SUPERMAN" or whatever it's called). I can remember running in and watching it, and I just caught the last 5-10 minutes, and I was so mad! I had heard about the series, and I had always wanted to see it.
But then the next day (since I now knew the station was showing it) I started to watch it regulary, and I think the first one I saw was the one where she falls in a giant washing machine. I remember that scene where she walked in, and her dress was all stiff, her face was all puckered up, etc. My sister laughed and said "She's all puttered up"! and I yelled at her something like "No, it's all puCKered up, not puTTered, you idiot"!:lol:

I'm not sure of my first ILL episode, but I believe I remember the first Lucy Show episode. My earliest memory of Lucy is of her inside of a boat as it is swaying back and forth. It was the funniest thing I had seen in my 8 or so years. In fact, a lot of my early memories of Lucy were of episodes of The Lucy Show that I haven't seen since. I also remember Lucy and Ethel buried in coal in the basement, and Lucy at some sort of beach house with Chris. I wish they would hurry and put this show on DVD so I can see these again.

My first ILL episode was probably an early one, and one that had a simple premise.

My first episode was in June or July of 2001; right before 9-11 which is actually the last time I have flown to date. My family and I were on our way to Hawaii for summer vacation leaving out of DFW.

I had recently started watching TVLand religiously and was hooked on All in the Family. Carrol O'Connor was the best!

On the way to the airport to Hawaii I heard breaking news on the radio that Carrol O'Conner had passed away and I remember being really upset in the airport.

On the 8+ hour airplane ride to Hawaii they played some movie. After the movie was over they played an episode of ILL. It was a California episode where Lucy and Ethel go on the bus tour of famous people's houses. I remember liking it but also being annoyed.

It wasn't until 3 1/2 years later; after getting married that I was hooked!

I just bought the Gift Set and am enjoying every moment!

I believe my very first episode of ILL that I watched was the
one where Lucy tried to "teach" Ethel how to drive. Never
mind that in an earlier episode about the hunting trip, Ethel
KNEW how to drive! Anyway, what I remember most about
that night I saw my 1st ILL episode, that was the same night
of a bad earthquake in California-forget which city. I believe
this was in the fall of 1989. If my memory serves me right,
they even ended up cancelling The World Series because of
this.

I don't remember exactly in terms of my first ILL episode, but I do know that I was first exposed to the show when I was 7 or 8 -- back in the mid 1970s.

One thing I do remember about watching the show as a kid is that my mother was watching with me one day and made an offhand comment that, "they were really married you know! And they had kids together!" I didn't know. I remember thinking that was the coolest thing I'd ever heard -- married on TV and also married in real life. I couldn't get over it -- I got such a kick out of the fact that these people really were married in real life. It made the love even more believable for me. :)

If memory serves me correctly, I believe the first "I Love Lucy" episode I saw from beginning to end was Lucy and John Wayne, the second episode from the fifth season of "ILL." I feel so out of place, I don't have a real long story - other than the information about the first episode I saw, I remember being at my father's house, him turning on TVLand, and us watching "ILL."

The first episode I ever saw was "Lucy's Show Business Swan Song", the scene where they're all at the piano and Lucy can't hit the notes. It was Christmas 1970, and I was at my Great Grandmother's house in Pittsburgh. She said Lucy was on, and I said "that's not Lucy". I had only seen "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy", but watched the show and I remember laughing when the stuck the brush with shaving cream in Lucy's mouth during the barbershop quartet at the club. I guess I didn't think it was Lucy because she looked so much younger.

I don't really remember the first episode I ever saw, but I do remember being at my Grandparent's house when I was about 4 y/o and seeing the "hearts on satin" closing credits and I remember that it was on a station out of Detroit (WKBD ch.50) that was on our local cable lineup then. That's probably my earliest memory of the show. I think the first time I remember actually watching an episode from start to finish was when it came to N@N around '93/94. So my first episode was probably one of the early ones.

Wow....I'm 47 and my mom said I started watching I Love Lucy when I was about 4 or 5...so some 42-43 years ago. I don't remember which one I saw first...but for some reason "Lucy Gets Locked In The Freezer" has always brought back memories of childhood.....so maybe that was the first one I saw.

If one of the local stations in my area had played ILL reruns when I was a little kid I suppose there's no way I would remember the first episode I ever saw, but in fact (for whatever strange reason) one of them only began running them when I was ten years old.

I could scarcely tell the difference between The Lucy Show (weekday mornings) and Here's Lucy (Monday nights) the first time I saw ILL. I was about 6 or 7 and the family had stopped in Dearborn on the way back from a visit to Grandma and Grandpa. It took me a minute to recognize Lucy, mostly because her voice sounded so much different than I was used to hearing it. Viv (who's Ethel...?) was more recognizable and now that I think of it, she was probably who I recognized first, then realized the other woman was Lucy. Desi and Wm Frawley were complete strangers as far as I was concerned, but I was certainly fascinated with this 'old Lucy Show' I'd found.

Oh yeah, the episode! It was an easy one to remember: 'Lucy Hires a Maid.'

The very first Lucy I remember seeing was the Madame X episode. I was about 7 or 8 and it used to come on WTTG Channel 5- washington DC. I remember time-taping them when I was 12 or 13 every morning. In fact that summer, my TV schedule used to be:

9:00-10:00: 2 episode of I Love Lucy (Channel 5), then The Facts of Life on USA
10:00-11:00: 2 episodes of Designing Women on Lifetime
11:00-12:00: The Price is Right or Knots Landing on TNT (Used to tape that too)
12:00-12:30: Name that Tune- Family Channel
12:30-1:00: Face the Music- Family Channel
1:30-2:00: Let's Make a Deal- Family Channel
2:00-2:30: 100000 Pyramid- USA
2:30-3:00: Press Your Luck- USA
after that just cartoons on Nickelodeon

the first one I remember seeing was the one where George Reeves guest-starred as Superman. I didn't see the whole episode, but I remember back then (about 1968 or 69) WFIL (now WPVI) in philadelphia used to show a talk show in the afternoons and one day my brother turned it on, and I left the room. Then, later he came running out to me laughing and saying "Lucy's stuck on the ledge with Superman"! or something like that, and I said to him "Is Lucy on"? and he said "Yes"! and we both ran out to the TV where they were showing the scene with them on the ledge. I remember we were just in time to hear her say to him "Can you teach me to fly"?
Then I remember when it was over I yelled at him for not telling me it was on.:lol: