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dawsongirl · 08-03-2001, 03:46 PM

Tell us your favorite scene(s) from any ILL episode.

One of my favorites is from episode #113- Ethel's Hometown. It's the scene where the gang is performing that show, trying to upstage Ethel. For some reason, every time Fred walks out with those trees, I die laughing!

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callmetootie · 08-03-2001, 04:32 PM

From #79: Lucy's Million Dollar Idea:

Lucy and Ethel do a commercial for Aunt Martha's Famous Mayonnasie. The guys at the place where it will be shot, want to see Aunt Martha in real life, who is dead. Lucy dresses up in old rags, and Ethel plays Lucy.

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Roz1013 · 08-04-2001, 01:35 AM

One of many....

The kleptomaniac episode where Lucy is trying to be sly and have a conversation with Fred and Ricky inbetween cookooing the whole time.

In the episode where Lucy keeps 'jelling tiger' and crawls out onto the ledge to make everyone think there was an intruder, the scene where she comes back in the window after Lucy, Ricky, and Fred have been pulling her leg thanks to the neighbor's phone call that tipped them off just gets me, especially the look on Lucy's face when she first pops her head back in the window just kills me every time.

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"Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

08-04-2001, 09:23 AM

I love that Ethel's Hometown episode, but I got my biggest kicks when the reporter, and her father, were boasting about Ethel's big movie career, and Ricky got angrier by the second.

I cry laughing when I watch the interpretation scene in "Paris at Last" in the Police STation. It's funny in French, German, Spanish AND English!

I also love that scene in The Kleptomaniac, and in the 2nd episode (The Girls want to go to a club?) when Ethel and Lucy dress up as hillbilly girls on a "blind date" with Ricky and Fred.

Wow...it's hard to pick just one. I know I'm leaving out a bunch. I just finished watching the Hollywood episodes. The Bill Holden episode, where Lucy's rubber nose changes, The "STar Upstairs" scene where Ethel tries to distract Ricky by talking about a cake recipe......those are just a few.....

dawsongirl · 08-04-2001, 01:41 PM

Thought of another one.

Episode #5- The Quiz Show. The scene where that bum comes in and Lucy thinks it's the man from the game show. That scene is one of favs and I can't believe I forgot it the first time!!!

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Terry Ross · 08-04-2001, 07:58 PM

Iknow I'm passing the buck on thisone but any scene from the Hollywood trip is classic.
I just can't pick one.

But Fred with those growing trees is hysterical!

Mignon · 08-06-2001, 07:46 PM

I love that bit where Lucy has a part in a picture and she has to be shot, and fall down the long staircase. They end up shooting it so many times that in the end the director starts the scene with her already dead! Lucy paints her name on her shoes so her friends know that the body is her!

Another one is the one where William Holden comes to meet her and she has already embarrassed herself around him that day, so not wanting to upset him she puts on a disguise of a fake nose! Then she lights a cigarette onlt to set light o the end of her nose!

[This message has been edited by Mignon (edited 08-06-2001).]

Roz1013 · 08-07-2001, 02:28 AM

I have a question about that. I read in one of my many Lucy books that Lucille Ball didn't really mean for her nose to catch on fire and that the dipping her nose in the coffee bit was an improvisation, but before that happens, you can see her deliberately elongating her nose as if she knows what's going to happen. So my question is, is my book wrong? Was that bit really scripted? Or did Lucy really improvise that?

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"Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

Mignon · 08-07-2001, 08:34 AM

She did elongate her nose before that, but that was because she pushed it to one side and it got squashed!
Good reason to watch that scene again, but would they really carry on if she caught alight by accident? I'd like to think they'd stop filming!
(BTW B, this is Q

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mahlerfan · 08-07-2001, 05:05 PM

The writers have stated that the script did call for Lucy's nose to catch on fire; however, Lucy improvised the coffee cup bit because the laugh went on so long.

Roz1013 · 08-08-2001, 01:40 AM

Interesting that I asked that just the other day, because I just read it in 'Lucy in the Afternoon' along with many other neat stories. See the 'Behind the Scenes' thread.

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"Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

davy's niece · 08-13-2001, 10:12 PM

awww the first one all the way!! its the best its so cute. lol they are so funny! lol

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08-04-2001, 09:23 AM	#4
Betsyp Guest Posts: n/a	I love that Ethel's Hometown episode, but I got my biggest kicks when the reporter, and her father, were boasting about Ethel's big movie career, and Ricky got angrier by the second. I cry laughing when I watch the interpretation scene in "Paris at Last" in the Police STation. It's funny in French, German, Spanish AND English! I also love that scene in The Kleptomaniac, and in the 2nd episode (The Girls want to go to a club?) when Ethel and Lucy dress up as hillbilly girls on a "blind date" with Ricky and Fred. Wow...it's hard to pick just one. I know I'm leaving out a bunch. I just finished watching the Hollywood episodes. The Bill Holden episode, where Lucy's rubber nose changes, The "STar Upstairs" scene where Ethel tries to distract Ricky by talking about a cake recipe......those are just a few.....
Betsyp Guest Posts: n/a

08-03-2001, 03:46 PM	#1
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,128	Favorite Scenes Tell us your favorite scene(s) from any ILL episode. One of my favorites is from episode #113- Ethel's Hometown. It's the scene where the gang is performing that show, trying to upstage Ethel. For some reason, every time Fred walks out with those trees, I die laughing! ------------------ Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!!

08-03-2001, 04:32 PM	#2
callmetootie Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 06, 2001 Location: Clifton Park, NY Posts: 4,768	From #79: Lucy's Million Dollar Idea: Lucy and Ethel do a commercial for Aunt Martha's Famous Mayonnasie. The guys at the place where it will be shot, want to see Aunt Martha in real life, who is dead. Lucy dresses up in old rags, and Ethel plays Lucy. ------------------ Andrew Carden

08-04-2001, 01:35 AM	#3
Roz1013 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 05, 2001 Location: USA Posts: 261	One of many.... The kleptomaniac episode where Lucy is trying to be sly and have a conversation with Fred and Ricky inbetween cookooing the whole time. In the episode where Lucy keeps 'jelling tiger' and crawls out onto the ledge to make everyone think there was an intruder, the scene where she comes back in the window after Lucy, Ricky, and Fred have been pulling her leg thanks to the neighbor's phone call that tipped them off just gets me, especially the look on Lucy's face when she first pops her head back in the window just kills me every time. ------------------ "Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

08-04-2001, 01:41 PM	#5
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,128	Thought of another one. Episode #5- The Quiz Show. The scene where that bum comes in and Lucy thinks it's the man from the game show. That scene is one of favs and I can't believe I forgot it the first time!!! ------------------ Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!!

08-04-2001, 07:58 PM	#6
Terry Ross Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 20, 2000 Location: New Jersey Posts: 196	Iknow I'm passing the buck on thisone but any scene from the Hollywood trip is classic. I just can't pick one. But Fred with those growing trees is hysterical!

08-06-2001, 07:46 PM	#7
Mignon Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 06, 2001 Location: UK Posts: 16	I love that bit where Lucy has a part in a picture and she has to be shot, and fall down the long staircase. They end up shooting it so many times that in the end the director starts the scene with her already dead! Lucy paints her name on her shoes so her friends know that the body is her! Another one is the one where William Holden comes to meet her and she has already embarrassed herself around him that day, so not wanting to upset him she puts on a disguise of a fake nose! Then she lights a cigarette onlt to set light o the end of her nose! [This message has been edited by Mignon (edited 08-06-2001).]

08-07-2001, 02:28 AM	#8
Roz1013 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 05, 2001 Location: USA Posts: 261	I have a question about that. I read in one of my many Lucy books that Lucille Ball didn't really mean for her nose to catch on fire and that the dipping her nose in the coffee bit was an improvisation, but before that happens, you can see her deliberately elongating her nose as if she knows what's going to happen. So my question is, is my book wrong? Was that bit really scripted? Or did Lucy really improvise that? ------------------ "Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

08-07-2001, 08:34 AM	#9
Mignon Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Aug 06, 2001 Location: UK Posts: 16	She did elongate her nose before that, but that was because she pushed it to one side and it got squashed! Good reason to watch that scene again, but would they really carry on if she caught alight by accident? I'd like to think they'd stop filming! (BTW B, this is Q )

08-07-2001, 05:05 PM	#10
mahlerfan Member Occasional Poster Join Date: May 25, 2000 Location: Altanta, GA Posts: 18	The writers have stated that the script did call for Lucy's nose to catch on fire; however, Lucy improvised the coffee cup bit because the laugh went on so long.

08-08-2001, 01:40 AM	#11
Roz1013 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 05, 2001 Location: USA Posts: 261	Interesting that I asked that just the other day, because I just read it in 'Lucy in the Afternoon' along with many other neat stories. See the 'Behind the Scenes' thread. ------------------ "Don't take this personally Ethel, but I'm sick of the sight of your face."

08-13-2001, 10:12 PM	#12
davy's niece That'd be me Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 24, 2001 Location: Los Angeles BABY! lol California usa Posts: 256	awww the first one all the way!! its the best its so cute. lol they are so funny! lol ------------------ ~~Ashley~~ “In a perfect world human beings would co-exist harmoniously, like a rainbow of colors each layer vibrant and clear by itself but inunison… Boundless, Breathtaking, Celestial…”