Silly Observation

[NCVARick]

Originally posted by onlyonelucy:
No, they didn't use laugh tracks and YES, that was DeDe saying "uh-oh"

They didn't use laugh tracks per se (except as mentioned above in the "Ricky Minds the Baby" episode), but there was sweetening done from time to time throughout the series. While it's been reported ever since Bart Andrews' first book that the "uh-oh" voice was Dede, there is still disagreement on that. And it was a recorded voice used over and over again (listen closely: it's an "uh-oh" followed by a twitering laugh), so the jury's still out on that.

[NCVARick]

Originally posted by Joicetti:
I think I read somewhere that Desi apparently destoryed the blooper and outtake reels, simply because it would have saved Desilu the cost of storing all that film.

That's possible. However, according to G. Oppenheimer, the show was so well rehearsed that bloopers were extremely rare. So there probably wouldn't been too many bloopers available even if they did survive.

[TVLanFan]

Originally posted by Joicetti


I think I read somewhere that Desi apparently destoryed the blooper and outtake reels, simply because it would have saved Desilu the cost of storing all that film. At the time Desi and company probably though the footage was useless, so why hang on to it? In retrospect, I bet he and millions of fans wished some of that footage was still viewable!

Joy

I think that makes a lot of sense...while I don't watch blooper shows anymore, I used to watch them in the mid-late 70s (when they were only broadcast as an occassional special) and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about bloopers from I Love Lucy...and I've never seen any ILLucy bloopers since...you'd think that, if they did still exist, they would have found their way to a broadcast by now...