Funny innuendo in "Ricky & Fred are TV Fans" - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

summer.breeze · 09-06-2012, 10:06 AM

Not sure if anyone has ever brought this up before, but I just caught a very funny and very edgey (for the 1950s) innuendo in the episode "Ricky & Fred are TV Fans".

When Lucy and Ethel are sitting in the kitchen near the beginning of the episode, Ethel comments, "You know [Fred] has got himself trained so he can do anything in less than a minute?"

Anything? Haha.

And the best part is the laughter from the audience. It's not as spontaneous as their laughter at more innocuous jokes ... they kinda start laughing, as if they're hesitant, and then it grows.

Just thought that was very, very funny.

JR1 · 09-25-2012, 12:42 PM

Never picked up on that- will have to go back and see.

jayman75 · 10-26-2012, 08:50 AM

Kind of like the episode where Ricky's manager sent cards to all the women who had visited his nightclub. Lucy and Ethel went to the woman's apartment to take a survey, and the woman asks if their name is Kinsey. :-)

A sex survey!!

PrettyinPink55 · 10-26-2012, 11:06 PM

Very clever how they snuck a few innuendos like that in there when in some episodes Lucy and Ricky weren't even allowed to share a bed!!!

09-06-2012, 10:06 AM	#1
summer.breeze Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jan 10, 2012 Location: IL Posts: 6	Funny innuendo in "Ricky & Fred are TV Fans" Not sure if anyone has ever brought this up before, but I just caught a very funny and very edgey (for the 1950s) innuendo in the episode "Ricky & Fred are TV Fans". When Lucy and Ethel are sitting in the kitchen near the beginning of the episode, Ethel comments, "You know [Fred] has got himself trained so he can do anything in less than a minute?" Anything? Haha. And the best part is the laughter from the audience. It's not as spontaneous as their laughter at more innocuous jokes ... they kinda start laughing, as if they're hesitant, and then it grows. Just thought that was very, very funny.

10-26-2012, 08:50 AM	#3
jayman75 I Love the 80s! Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 27, 2000 Location: THE GREAT UNITED STATES Posts: 3,809	Kind of like the episode where Ricky's manager sent cards to all the women who had visited his nightclub. Lucy and Ethel went to the woman's apartment to take a survey, and the woman asks if their name is Kinsey. :-) A sex survey!!
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10-26-2012, 11:06 PM	#4
PrettyinPink55 Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: Feb 11, 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 24,601	Very clever how they snuck a few innuendos like that in there when in some episodes Lucy and Ricky weren't even allowed to share a bed!!!
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09-25-2012, 12:42 PM	#2
JR1 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 07, 2009 Location: USA Posts: 742	Never picked up on that- will have to go back and see.