Kitchen nook vs. kitchen table

[Ireneparalegal]

We have seen episodes where the Ricardos have a nook OR a table in their kitchen. When we see the episode of the large bread coming out of the oven and also when Lucy is buying groceries for her neighbors to make money, those are two scenes where we don't see either the table or the nook (for obvious reasons).

[Madame X]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

We have seen episodes where the Ricardos have a nook OR a table in their kitchen. When we see the episode of the large bread coming out of the oven and also when Lucy is buying groceries for her neighbors to make money, those are two scenes where we don't see either the table or the nook (for obvious reasons).

It seems that the nook/counter was in the old apartment and it went through some changes. At first the front had ruffles, then it was plain and then for the rest of their time in that apartment it had striped roosters on the top border. In "Pioneer Women," the nook was there in the beginning of the episode, but in the scenes where the girls bake the bread and also when Ricky takes a bath in the tub it is conveniently gone.

When the Ricardos moved to the new apartment, they had a small, round table in the kitchen. In season four, as in "The Business Manager," the table was usually gone (where did they eat?). They didn't show the kitchen much in season five and in season six the table was back.

Of course, then in the Connecticut house they had tables everywhere!

[tdr]

Doesn't that compare to the one time (only time I remember) that we see a window facing the audience, when Lucy and Ethel were spying on the new tenants [the actors] moving in? The window is 'there' because it would be hard to just simulate it being there to be spying from. The Burns & Allen show sometimes did things like-- they 'knocked' on a door that wasn't there, or took manyh high steps to walk "next door", which was only a very few feet. But the ILL concept was not to play directly to the audience in the same sense as a variety show, but to consider the set 'closed,' with one wall 'invisible' and still get audience responses. The window was normally part of the invisible wall, but this scene needed more than playing to the air and just implying it was there. In the scenes brought up in this thread, the nook was normally not invisible, but there are a few scenes in which it is required to be in order for the action to be seen. But I had never noticed that the table was usually gone in season 4 and that the kitchen was seldom shown in 5. Perhaps this was just progressiveness from experience; put the table in only if needed, as the fans knew it was really there, like the wall we don't see.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Madame X

It seems that the nook/counter was in the old apartment and it went through some changes. At first the front had ruffles, then it was plain and then for the rest of their time in that apartment it had striped roosters on the top border. In "Pioneer Women," the nook was there in the beginning of the episode, but in the scenes where the girls bake the bread and also when Ricky takes a bath in the tub it is conveniently gone.

When the Ricardos moved to the new apartment, they had a small, round table in the kitchen. In season four, as in "The Business Manager," the table was usually gone (where did they eat?). They didn't show the kitchen much in season five and in season six the table was back.

Of course, then in the Connecticut house they had tables everywhere!

In Pioneer Women it makes me wonder how Lucy got that bathtub in the apartment and into the kitchen in the first place. Ethel obviously didn't help her because Lucy showed it to her when we first seen the tub. Also, how did she empty that tub after Ricky used it?

I never enjoyed the nook. I preferred the table they had. I think the designs on the nook just made it seem horrid and not at all pretty.