Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

♪ Sí, señorita ♪

other than that garbage...

Desi says, "Thank you," turns back to Lucy and says...

Yeah? Let's do the show.

- ♪ ♪ - Hey, company for dinner?

But as you can see, I got her back to sleep.

To Mr. Alfred Lyons, Chairman of the Board of Philip Morris.

"Pedro? Julio? Juan? Guillermo?"

I'm minding my own business, listening to Walter Winchell, and bam.

- if it was the only available air-conditioning in the... - Des.

I need to use the phone to call my fiancé.

I'm opposite Henry Fonda.

and we didn't want to lose Fonda.

Does it need to sound ominous? Can't they just come in?

Back then, it wasn't considered much worse than being a Republican.

- I'm confused. - Yeah, me, too.

It won't take long. We just need to make an adjustment.

- Oh...! - Oh, no.

and it takes me a minute and a half to pick a horse.

(laughs) - I want you to know I'm not trying to be forward.

♪ Ay, ay, ay ♪

Now, this studio has a handshake understanding with Metro and Warner,

- Gracias. Gracias. - Really, really. - Congratulations, Des.

JESS: Act one, "Interior, the Ricardo's living room, night."

- Was that to me? - Yes.

"You were rudely attentive, but now you're obnoxiously..."

I'm the executive producer of this show.

Any cultural differences will make for good comedy.

I'm... (clears throat) not sure what words to use.

But it should have everything to do with my performance in The Big Street.

I sure know that, Lucy.

LUCILLE: Well, then you're an idiot.

- Yeah, "Lucy Gets Blacklisted." - That's not a joke, Bob.

A long time ago, Lucy accidentally checked the wrong box on her voter registration.

Oh, yeah. (chuckles)

Because you are the "I" in I Love Lucy.

- This studio has talented makeup artists. - "I'm Angie.

- Cameras up. - Cameras up.

They want to see themselves on television.

Listen, why don't we get together for a drink or a swim this weekend,

- I still can't catch my breath.

And my fervent wish for you is that, one day,

A couple of days before shooting started,

He raised my little brother and me, and I wanted to please him.

She talked about having a home.

LUCILLE: "Westinghouse."

♪ So if you like the beat ♪

You don't think I want to be in the same city at the same time as my husband?

You don't drink at work.

she got mad and went home to her mother.

All right, then.

You're a bandleader.

- Oh, yeah. - Are you sure you're all right?

Somehow, the city editor, a woman named Agness Underwood,

Uh, "Hypocrite? What's a hypocrite?"

(chuckles): Lucy in a vat of grapes for five minutes.

Desirèe llévate el paraguas

"Ricky tiptoes in back of her.

You really think, this week, right now, is the best time to talk about this?

(softly): Yeah.

We live in the same house.

- Can I talk to you for a second, boss? - Sure.

It means you're kinetically gifted.

- What do we have here? - WOMAN: Yeah, Desi!

- No, I don't care about that. - I care about it.

What were they doing?

- (chuckles) - They invented the whole thing?

And you should go fuck yourself, Betsy.

Another generation?

It's in four-inch type.

I say I've got some good news and you say, "Uh-oh"?

How many times you got to 'splain?

and now a new message, which is that I look too good.

How about you come to the club more to watch the show?

I guess they do.

So Ethel elbows Fred.

that Lucy was and is in no way involved with the Communist Party.

Is he talking about having me killed?

The weight always comes back. I can't keep it off anymore.

our director joined the Army during postproduction,

14 years, and it was Wally Pipp.

Second in command.

Seriously? That was it?

There was a significant drop-off in the number of people using water

MADELYN: "Because those are Spanish names.

- Yes. - Or bad for you?

- You change subjects faster than... - Keep up.

WILLIAM: Thank goodness you're all right.

Because we want you at the weight you were when we cast you.

Settle. And action.

All right. (clears throat)

- (audience whispering) - (man in audience clears throat)

- Why are we holding? - I'm not sure.

Like Lucy turns to Desi and says,

Uh, Joe Strickland, CBS.

- Am I right? - Yes.

(band playing "Cuban Pete")

I'm reading scripts.

'cause I don't know how many more people will fit around the table.

That's what we came to talk about.

(phone ringing in distance)

WILLIAM: It's an eclectic group.

You're wondering what's going on.

So let's do our show.

♪ She said, "I am the star" ♪

- I'm not sure what. - Okay, thanks.

- ♪ Jell-O puddings ♪ - ♪ Yum, yum, yum. ♪

- Got it. Got it. - (door opens)

Ay, maybe it'd be better if we didn't spend the little time we have

- "Lucy Tells the Truth." - BOB: That one's Madelyn's idea.

- Desi... - "We've given you

Can I call you Lucy?

Oh, that's a sign of a poorly written screenplay.

I'm a contract player at RKO.

Hey. The whole piece was invented out of thin air?

And all I have to do to keep it is kill every week for 36 weeks in a row,

Gruen, the finest watch you can wear.

They're not gonna let us do it.

That was a whole new side of you we've never seen.

and doing it in front of the whole crew!

LUCILLE: You philandering bongo player!

RICKY: Who's coming for dinner, Lucy?

MADELYN: Ricky bets Lucy that she can't go two days without lying,

Lucy Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo.

French toast, bacon and potatoes.

♪ In a Portuguese bar ♪

- You've memorized it? - I've memorized worse writing than this.

It has to be coherent, because if it's anything goes, then nothing's funny.

and she'll be back when she's back.

I got you some breakfast from the commissary.

"All I ask from you, if you agree with them,

LEVY: Is it too early to raise a glass?

Good, because if I'm rewritten by a priest, a minister and a rabbi,

No, I was going to ask you why you're not a movie star.

This isn't happening.

I just want it to be a different show.

Then I question your comedy IQ.

Desilu, Lucy's whole career... mine, too...

But I don't make that decision.

I've thought it, if that means anything.

And she stomps grapes.

- Thank you. - Another baby.

They'd have to be California redwoods,

And it worked out.

If your wife played Lucy once in a while,

has a photostatic copy of the affidavit showing you registered in 1936

but you do need to know that Danny does jokes... few people do it better.

- I'm sorry? - At home.

I made some phone calls.

Okay, come on. And directing this week, Donald Glass is back with us.

And I can cinch the back a little.

Few times a week.

Someone said they spotted you going out here.

Should we open the champagne, take our clothes off

You're not telling these people that I checked the wrong box.

and answering questions about why motherhood is too salacious

I wanted to circle back again and express

"Was confronted with her membership in the Communist Party."