I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy

Lucy plays the dominant parent role in their son's life. Realizing that he needs to spend more time with his son, Ricky agrees to spend his vacation at home to care for little Ricky.

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The Ricardos are hosting an evening with friends. When the last guest to arrive introduces his date—all the men at the party fawn over her. Disgusted by the men's behavior, Lucy and Ethel begin to doubt their own feminine wiles.

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Lucy and Ricky's thirteenth anniversary is rapidly approaching. In an outward show of affection, they buy each other gifts—golf clubs for Ricky and fur for Lucy.

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The Ricardos are being interviewed for a "day-in-the-life" magazine article on happy married couples. The interviewer arrives at 7 AM just in time to encounter Lucy making breakfast in a frilly lace apron, while Ricky walks in wearing a smoking jacket.

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The Mertzes get a pair of new tenants. Sam and Nancy Johnson are from Texas and reportedly have inside knowledge of a certain oil stock that is about to shoot through the roof. Lucy and Ethel are excited by the prospect, but Fred and Ricky have doubts.

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How long can Ricky Ricardo go, without losing his temper? When Lucy buys a new hat for $49.50, Ricky goes ballistic. To make a point, Lucy bets Ricky the cost of the hat that he'll lose his temper long before her next purchase.

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Hurt that no one seems to care for his home movies, Ricky declares that he will never show them another feature of his...not even the TV pilot he's creating. Jealous of his project, Lucy enables the help of the Mertzes and creates her own musical western.

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Ricky scoffs at his wife and Ethel when they adamantly participate in the hunt for the "Bonus Buck" that will win them prize money from a newspaper contest. Later, Ricky discovers one of the lucky bucks in his own wallet.

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Lucy desperately wants to accompany her husband on his concert tour of Hawaii, but Ricky can't afford to bring her along. Unsatisfied, Lucy decides she'll win a trip for herself and neighbors, The Mertzes, by entering a television game show contest.

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In an attempt to compete with her wealthy friends, Lucy pledges $500 (that she doesn't have) to charity. Luckily, Ethel spots an ad in Billboard magazine willing to pay $500 to anyone willing to perform a stunt to publicize a new movie, Women From Mars.

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Lucy wants to be a published author after hearing about another housewife who made a fortune doing it. Ricky and the Mertzes don't like it when they discover Lucy's book plays too close a resemblance to real life including anecdotes from their own lives.

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Lucy organizes an orchestra among her girlfriends, but it plays so horribly that she asks her bandleader husband, Ricky, to come to a rehearsal and give them some advice. His direction does little to help.

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Lucy decides to try a new look, despite her husband Ricky's objections. She borrows a black wig from her hairdresser Roberta, who tells Lucy it makes her look like a whole different person. With that in mind, Lucy decides to play a little trick on Ricky.

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Ricky becomes interested in a diner that is for sale so the Ricardos and the Mertzes all buy it together. Right away, Ethel and Fred feel they are doing all the work while Lucy and Ricky have all the fun.

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Lucy's mother writes to ask if she and her husband "Xavier" would be so kind as to entertain "a friend's roommate's cousin's middle boy, Ernest" when he visits New York.

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Lucy and Ricky, tired of the extensive visit by their cousin Tennessee Ernie, try to get rid of the likeable character by pleading poverty. Ernie then tries to help his gracious hosts out of their fiscal desperation.

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Golf pro, Jimmy Demaret, visits Lucy and Ethel on the green to show them how the game is really played after they're misled by Ricky and Fred. Lucy and Ethel decide they'll learn how to play golf to spend more time with their husbands.

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Ricky books a two-month summer job in Maine and decides to take Lucy and Little Ricky. For the summer, they want to sublet their apartment at a profit, but their friends and landlords, the Mertzes, are not in favor.

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Ricky Ricardo hires business manager Mr. Hickox to solve the family budget problems. Lucy, dissatisfied with her new $5 per month allowance, manages to find a loophole in the business manager's system.

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Lucy agrees to help her neighbor Fred Mertz impress an old vaudeville buddy who's in town for a visit. Lucy poses as the Mertzes maid "Bessie" to make Barney Kurtz believe Fred hit it big in real estate.

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Lucy feigns a crisis to test Ricky's love after hearing a story about a woman whose husband ignored her pleas for help while being robbed—she assumes Ricky would turn his back on her too.

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Lucy plays Cupid and tries to bag a bachelor for a husband-hungry girlfriend. Lucy organizes an evening to show her unmarried friends, Dorothy and Sam, how wonderful marriage is.

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Ricky agrees reluctantly to host a new television show, sponsored by Phipps Department Store, and learns they'd like him to host with his wife Lucy. When Lucy finds out that Ricky didn't want her in the show, she sets out to sabotage the program.

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When Ben Benjamin arrives at the Ricardos' apartment, Lucy mistakes Ben Benjamin, a Hollywood talent scout, for a burglar and nearly ruins Ricky's chance for a film career.

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Lucy sees Ricky's screen test as an opportunity to get discovered as a new movie star.

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Lucy Ricardo meets her Spanish-speaking mother-in-law for the first time and her efforts to be a gracious host turn disastrous. Lucy's inability to speak Spanish and her in-law's inability to understand Lucy's pantomime erects a wall of misunderstanding.

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Despite the reservations of her husband, Lucy decides to help Fred pick out a birthday present for Ethel. She picks out a pair of toreador pants, which Ethel thinks are unflattering as well as too big.

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Ricky Ricardo paces the floor, awaiting word from Hollywood about his screen test. Lucy can't use the phone for fear the line will be busy when Ben Benjamin tries to call for Ricky.

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A movie contract for Ricky necessitates a change in scenery and the hanging of a "for rent" sign on the Ricardos' New York home. The Mertzes, willing to give up tenants but not friends, sign on for the trip.

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For their trip out west, Ricky buys a new car to replace the old, beat-up one Fred bought. Lucy convinces her husband to teach her how to drive it. After one driving lesson, Ricky is a harried and beaten man.

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Lucy's mother wants to join the Ricardos on their road trip out west. As anticipated, Ricky blows his stack when he hears that Lucy's mother wants to go along, and continues to complain that everyone's going on the trip.

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The Ricardos and the Mertzes have a hard time finding accommodations that will please everyone on their trip to California. Ricky is driving and sacrifices his passengers' appetites for the sake of making mileage.

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The Ricardos and the Mertzes are arrested when they're caught speeding in Bent Fork, Tennessee. Although Ricky just wants to pay the fine, Lucy protests that they are being treated unfairly.

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The Ricardos and the Mertzes, on the last leg of their NY-to-Hollywood motor trek, stop at Ethel's hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Under the impression that Ethel has been called to Hollywood by the movies, the townsfolk give her the star treatment.

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After five weeks on the road driving across the country, the Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive at their destination – Hollywood. With stars in her eyes, Lucy heads for the Brown Derby, a restaurant frequented by celebrities, with Ethel and Fred in tow.

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