I’m Bill Frawley getting sloshed in his dressing room.
Let’s Be Behind-the-Scenes at “I Love Lucy”
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 30, 2024 12:24 AM |
I’m Desi popping up wherever the starlet guest stars happen to be.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 25, 2024 1:12 PM |
I'm Phil Ober, keeping an eye on Viv.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 25, 2024 1:15 PM |
I'm Elois Jenssen designing those harlequin patterned hostess pants with the crushy belt, 4 sizes too big to humiliate Viv but keep Lucy happy.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 25, 2024 1:19 PM |
I'm Mary Wickes, lusting after Lucille.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 25, 2024 1:45 PM |
I’m the first apartment without the window, not the second apartment with the window.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 25, 2024 1:49 PM |
Lucy was a cunt-the end
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 25, 2024 2:01 PM |
I’m the exhausted PA pushing that long, long loaf of fake bread through a hole in the kitchen wall and out of the fake oven. Lucy made me do it 25 times.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 25, 2024 2:13 PM |
I am Betty Furness, tired of dealing with that Cuban and his nympho wife. Goddam Westinghouse !!!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 25, 2024 2:14 PM |
I’m Lucy’s Borderline or Bipolar Disorder.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 25, 2024 2:27 PM |
I'm the twin beds in the Ricardo's bedroom.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 25, 2024 2:28 PM |
I am the conveyor belt with pounds and pounds of chocolates from See’s.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2024 2:29 PM |
I'm the hair style that aged Lucy 30 years between IIL and The Lucy-Desi comedy hour.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 25, 2024 2:46 PM |
I'm Bill Frawley's DTs.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 25, 2024 2:50 PM |
R7 That was actually real bread, which afterwards was sliced up and given to the audience to take home.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 25, 2024 2:50 PM |
I’m blue jeans.
You do NOT wear me on the subway.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2024 2:52 PM |
I'm sufficient.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 25, 2024 2:56 PM |
I'm Vivian's on-set psychiatrist.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 25, 2024 2:57 PM |
I'm the henna rinse.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 25, 2024 3:07 PM |
I'm Senator Joe McCarthy lurking in Little Ricky's room trying to gather enough evidence to prove Lucy is a Communist
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 25, 2024 3:13 PM |
I’m the woman whose “uh-oh ha ha ha” laugh was on the laugh track for virtually every episode.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 25, 2024 3:15 PM |
I’m Lucy slipping Chesterfields into a Philip Morris pack.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 25, 2024 3:24 PM |
[quote] I’m the woman whose “uh-oh ha ha ha” laugh was on the laugh track for virtually every episode.
You’re Lucille’s mother then.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 25, 2024 3:32 PM |
I'm the sweaty boozy night club costumes that the wardrobe person has to clean and freshen whenever Desi has a number in the club. *wink*
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 25, 2024 3:38 PM |
I’m the pancake on the ceiling.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 25, 2024 3:47 PM |
I’m Bill Frawley filling up the two headed dragon costume with fart gas.
Poor Viv.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 25, 2024 4:12 PM |
I’m the toaster that shoots the toast in the air.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 25, 2024 4:49 PM |
I’m Joan Davis, America’s Queen of Comedy!
Oh… wrong show.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 25, 2024 4:53 PM |
I’m “Shortenin’ Bread.”
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 25, 2024 4:55 PM |
I'm Mrs. Trumble. I'd diddle Little Ricky with a maraca when I'd babysit the little faggot.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 25, 2024 5:17 PM |
I’m Viv’s too small undergarments to make her look stocky.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 25, 2024 5:19 PM |
You mean you're Viv's too small undergarments to make her body look like a bag of doorknobs, r30.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 25, 2024 6:05 PM |
I’m Bill’s cute male assistant, tending to his “needs”. His needs consist of booze, corned beef sandwiches, switching the radio to the baseball game, and getting handsy with my supple ass.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 25, 2024 6:14 PM |
I'm the show's smashing success! I beat the other early sitcoms to the punch.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 25, 2024 6:25 PM |
I dont think it aged her. Her hairstyle was very mid 50's. The new one was actually more modern. It LOOKS old fashioned because it's what older women of our time wore, but back then it was more modern.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 25, 2024 6:28 PM |
Sorry that was meant for R12
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 25, 2024 6:28 PM |
I'm the poor stagehand being made to clean up the buckets of nasty slimy overcooked rice all over the goddamned chicken.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 25, 2024 6:31 PM |
*kitchen
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 25, 2024 6:32 PM |
R8 Refrigerators are the one thing that have diminished in quality and convenience from back then. And those things lasted for 50 years. Built yo last.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 25, 2024 6:34 PM |
It may have been modern but she looked a good 20 years in that iteration of the show.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 25, 2024 6:38 PM |
Too many of these examples are things ON the scene, not behind the scenes.
Also, it's seems too soon for another ILL thread; the last one was terrific and this one is tired.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 25, 2024 6:38 PM |
r40 has STATED HER BOUNDARIES.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 25, 2024 6:39 PM |
"I’m Joan Davis, America’s Queen of Comedy!"
You're also America's Queen of Cuntery. You've somehow managed to out-cunt a cunt like Lucille Ball.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 25, 2024 6:43 PM |
Stage Manager? PA??
That was me!!
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 25, 2024 6:58 PM |
I’m all the Vitametavegamin bottles eventually migrating to the Our Miss Brooks set.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 25, 2024 7:04 PM |
I’m 3D.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 25, 2024 7:11 PM |
I’m Vivian Vance telling Lucy “I’d tell you to go fvck yourself if Desi hadn’t already taken care of it” when Lucy snapped because Viv almost missed a cue.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 25, 2024 7:16 PM |
... and I'm the makeup scissoring they did later, r46.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 25, 2024 7:18 PM |
I’m Lucy letting the ladies use the can in her dressing room, initially the only women’s toilet within the required distance for the health department.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 25, 2024 7:53 PM |
I'm Lucy's 27th unfiltered Chesterfield of the day. 20 more to go!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 25, 2024 7:58 PM |
I'm Vivian's increasingly large potamus.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 25, 2024 9:39 PM |
I'm the writers. We're trying to figure out how to get the "Little Ricky's Circumcision" past the censors.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 25, 2024 9:40 PM |
I'm Cesar Romero, servicing Desi's uncut Cuban pinga in his dressing room.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 25, 2024 9:42 PM |
I'm the piano no one ever played.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 25, 2024 9:56 PM |
They played the piano when it was in the front down stage, but they never played it when it was against the window in the new apartment.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 25, 2024 10:34 PM |
They also played it in the Connecticut house.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 25, 2024 10:34 PM |
I'm Desi's shoe lifts.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 25, 2024 10:55 PM |
[quote] They played the piano when it was in the front down stage, but they never played it when it was against the window in the new apartment.
They did once. When Lucy was stuck in the trunk, Ricky brought home his pianist from the club and he played the song on the piano at the window while Ricky practiced his drumming on the trunk.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 25, 2024 11:06 PM |
We're Teensy and Weensy. We have our own thread around here somewhere. Just stopping by to remind everybody we don't need no ricochet romance!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 25, 2024 11:07 PM |
Random ILL thought but a couple of days ago I was watching an episode and they cracked a joke about Kinsey....you know from the infamous Kinsey sex studies? I thought that was probably the most risque joke they ever told on the show.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 25, 2024 11:12 PM |
r59 wasn't that the episode where Ricky wanted Lucy to do anal but she refused?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 25, 2024 11:16 PM |
R60 no it was the one where they all gave each other gonorrhea
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 25, 2024 11:21 PM |
That was a good one r61. I loved Ethel's line: "Fred got it from some whore over on 11th Avenue, then he gave it to me, and now the whole damn apartment building's got it!"
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 25, 2024 11:24 PM |
I’m Aunt Martha.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 25, 2024 11:33 PM |
[quote] wasn't that the episode where Ricky wanted Lucy to do anal but Gary talked her out of it?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 25, 2024 11:33 PM |
I'm Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh, taking the old scripts and replacing the cover page with one that says "Alice" for 25 years in the future.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 25, 2024 11:38 PM |
I'm Linda Lavin, insisting that Bob and Madelyn work a singing and dancing number into those scripts. OR ELSE.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 25, 2024 11:41 PM |
I'm Bob Carroll's eyebrows.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 25, 2024 11:53 PM |
I’m Lucy on the phone to Casting, “Couldn’t you hire a Little Ricky who could enunciate? I have to repeat every goddamn line the kid says.”
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 25, 2024 11:55 PM |
R62 they would have never let them use the word "damn", are you crazy? Way too dirty
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 26, 2024 12:01 AM |
I'm Don Loper hoping my guest appearance will lead to a spin-off, which I like to call Loper's Ladies.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 26, 2024 12:35 AM |
I’m the set carpenters who are forced to create a very accurate looking NYC subway platform set that gets used once for five minutes.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 26, 2024 1:18 AM |
I’m the lady attached to the big, heavy harp in the back row of Ricky’s band at the club who none of the guys help down and invite out with them for a bite at lunchbreak—always the player, but never played. :(
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 26, 2024 1:43 AM |
We're the Art Department, who week after week effortlessly make audiences all over America believe the Ricardos and the Mertzes are actually visiting a different European country. On a budget!
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 26, 2024 1:47 AM |
[quote]Random ILL thought but a couple of days ago I was watching an episode and they cracked a joke about Kinsey....you know from the infamous Kinsey sex studies? I thought that was probably the most risque joke they ever told on the show.
Especially notable since they had to change the lyrics to "Too Darn Hot" in the movie version of "Kiss Me Kate," which was released around the same time (1953). "According to the Kinsey report ... " became "according to the LATEST report ... "
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 26, 2024 2:02 AM |
I'm Mrs. Richard Carlson, hoping my appearance on the show will lead to some major magazine covers and a modeling contract.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 26, 2024 2:03 AM |
I'm Vivian Vance spending some extra time in makeup after getting roughed up by the hubby again.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 26, 2024 2:08 AM |
I’m Georgia Holt. I’m one of the models in the Paris episode. I’m doing this because I got a ten year old brat at home named Cher.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 26, 2024 2:09 AM |
Stop it mom. You're being mean.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | April 26, 2024 2:18 AM |
I’m a nobody by the name of Aaron Spelling who gets hired to play a hick. I’m odd looking but bet I’ll have a gorgeous daughter one day.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 26, 2024 2:32 AM |
I'm the Franciscan Ivy dinnerware.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | April 26, 2024 2:35 AM |
[quote]gorgeous daughter one day
I didn't know Aaron had another daughter, r79
by Anonymous | reply 81 | April 26, 2024 2:36 AM |
I'm also Aaron Spelling, and I think some day in the future I'll be a big producer and create Lucy's most successful sitcom.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 26, 2024 2:39 AM |
We’re wax tulips.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 26, 2024 3:00 AM |
Did somebody say two lips? Was it Lucy?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 26, 2024 3:05 AM |
I'm Spring Byington, filming "December Bride" on the Desilu lot. Mary Wickes better keep her hands off of MY Lucy!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 26, 2024 3:14 AM |
[quote]I'm Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh, taking the old scripts and replacing the cover page with one that says "Alice" for 25 years in the future.
I'm Jess Oppenheimer, taking the old "My Favorite Husband" scripts to Madelyn and Bob so they can make a few minor tweaks and turn them into "I Love Lucy" scripts.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 26, 2024 3:15 AM |
I’m Frawley waiting for my entrance cue in plain sight of the camera.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | April 26, 2024 4:56 AM |
I'm the Swiss cheese on white bread sandwich from the Desilu commissary, handily shoplifted by Fred Ball that afternoon to be tucked into Lucy's backpack for the Alpine avalanche episode.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 26, 2024 1:11 PM |
I'm the daily "rubdown" William Frawley gets at the Hollywood Athletic Club after work from Sven.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 26, 2024 1:20 PM |
I’m Gary Morton, watching initial airings and thinking “Damn, why’d they spend so much money on this!? I could do it much cheaper if anyone would let me!”
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 26, 2024 4:20 PM |
I'm Liberace visiting the set and fending off Viv's sexual advances.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 26, 2024 6:15 PM |
I'm Richard Widmark's grapefruits.
And I also play Bobby the Bellboy.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 26, 2024 6:27 PM |
I’m Lucy ripping off Viv’s false eyelashes.
“NOBODY WEARS FLSE EYELASHES ON THIS SHOW EXCEPT ME!”
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 27, 2024 7:35 AM |
I'm Barbara Eden, hiding from Desi in my dressing room.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 28, 2024 1:16 AM |
I'm the reproduction of a Degas. I'm in the second apartment.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 28, 2024 1:36 AM |
I’m Lucy and Desi chowing down on fried chicken at the table read and not offering to share.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 28, 2024 8:00 AM |
[quote]I’m Lucy and Desi chowing down on fried chicken
This is a euphemism, surely.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 29, 2024 12:04 AM |
I’m your uncle vaudeville. There were no goddam laugh tracks.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 29, 2024 2:56 AM |
I’m Tallulah Bankhead showing off her cooch backstage after ripping off her slacks.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 29, 2024 7:11 AM |
And I'm Mary Wickes, getting moist at r99.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 30, 2024 12:24 AM |