Original Air Date: February 16, 1953

Hey Ballers! It’s election day down in Alabama, and would you think it? Our next episode of I Love Lucy is an election episode. In honor of my mom’s house state, I’m going to provide credit to the Lord and Hero Jesus Christ for bringing an election episode on election day. There is just no other description for this wonder. Now let’s share some sweet tea and bitch about the brand-new assistant pastor.

I’ll likewise pre-empt anybody’s worries. Yes, this is the episode where Little Ricky stands for the very first time (in a package). No, I’m not going to make a Roy Moore-dates-babies joke. That would be apparent, overstated, and honestly, gross. I’m going to make a Roy Moore and shopping malls joke rather, since that’s a hotter take.

Last but not least, ideas and prayers to all y’ all citizens out there today. Keep in mind, no matter what you choose or how bad it may make you look, Alabamians created windscreen wipers and the portable electrical listening devices, and nobody can ever take that far from you.

We open on Ricky holding an infant. An INFANT! That’s right, THE INFANT IS HOUSE! Lucy is back, being in a hot toilet sitz bath keeping her anal cracks at bay.

Nope JK she headed out shopping due to the fact that infants do not alter the essential realities about an individual, and shopping is Lucy’s essential fact.

Regretfully, the child appears like a flower arrangement or perhaps a covered turkey.

Ethel can be found in searching for Lucy:

Ethel: The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League is fulfilling on Friday today.

Ricky: Why could not you fulfill on Wednesday?

Ethel: We attempted that however nobody might make it.

Then out of no place the three-week-old starts talking. That child seems like Harvey Fierstein tossed up a gremlin and they both began singing “Down in Fraggle Rock.” Do they accept return orders on these things?

Ricky suggests cancelling the club entirely, and he’s not incorrect. The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League (or, possibly, WAFAL) is neither fine, nor artistic, nor a league. And it does not fulfill on Wednesday. It’s rubbish, like that child’s odd alien sounds.

Then we move into a flashback. These keep occurring due to the fact that Lucille Ball was on maternity leave at the time. In preparation, they shot some episodes beforehand so she might have time to recuperate from her real-life birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. (Since regardless of what television informs you, bitch ain’t out shopping. She’s resting on that hot toilet sitz bath keeping her anal cracks at bay!)

WAFAL desires a clubhouse. Ricky desires them to fulfill on the back fence “like the other felines do.” What does that even suggest? Does he suggest they keep themselves tidy and are tough to please and specific about where they poop due to the fact that if that’s ladies hear us holler.

Lucy got an incredible sweatshirt and bag that cost her 3 months’ worth of allowance, and all the ladies enjoy it. Take note, for it returns later on like some haunted cashmere ghost.

Lucy wishes to enact Ruth Knickerbocker, while Ethel believes she’s peaceful and mousy. However obviously Ruth has a punch bowl with a lots of cups, so they let her in. This is what I keep attempting to discuss to my other half when he desires me to Marie Kondo the punch bowl away. I clutch that crystal monstrosity to my chest and inform him I REQUIRED THIS TO KEEP MY PALS.

WAFAL Member: Have you heard the dirt about Marian?

Lucy: Marian Strong?

WAFAL Member: Yes! You understand how she’s constantly attempting to pretend she’s “someone?” Well she got her come-uppance. I encountered her in the street a few days ago, and she had on the most– MARIAN!!!

They begin gossiping about Marian, and after that Marian can be found in and you understand these are the ladies who dislike ladies. These are the ones with the fresh brand-new Medium post about how we remain in a warlock hunt today and ladies need to find out to take a rape joke.

Lucy keeps wishing for an election. However when they do not provide her one, she talks down all the positions as being below her, due to the fact that screw these individuals. She was likewise gon na be Time Publication’s Individual of the Year, however she would not accept an interview. UNFORTUNATE!

And after that they choose Ethel for president.

We invest a whole scene adoring Lucy’s brand-new bag. However you can see it in Ethel’s eyes: for one quick and wonderful minute, she’s going to be unique.

Any of us who have friends understand how terrible it is when they are successful or experience joy. So naturally, Lucy stands and requests more elections– you understand, to be reasonable and whatever. This isn’t Lucy’s finest minute. In reality, this is a high speed train wreck that will end in flames the color of Lucy’s hair.

Lucy: I want to caucus.

President: Caucus ?!

Lucy: Didn’t you view the conventions on tv?

No. No, Lucy, this is WAFAL, not NARAL. These ladies completely chose their agents on their wedding.

They all begin battling while Lucy takes a fellow member into the kitchen area and offers her magnificent sweatshirt away. She rather actually strips for the task and gets the election. If we required that as a nation, we ‘d have Martin O’Malley as president today, and you ‘d hear absolutely no grievances from me. “We simply selected whoever was most popular” is a lot much better than “Boom oops the world simply ended.”

The next day, Lucy and Ethel collect with Ricky and Fred to play cards. If both ladies leave that space with their eyes still in their sockets, we need to make them secretaries of state.

Their hubbies display their other halves’ project mottos:

” Pleased you will be with Lucy, cast your vote and wait till you see.”

However they get slowly even worse:

” Nertz to Mertz!”

” A choose the redhead is a choose a deadhead.”

Truly low, however likewise sorta real? Like how nowadays the mottos state “PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T ELECT THE PEDOPHILE!”

And after that a big battle occurs. Both of these ladies will connive their method to the leading to win the desirable presidency and its all-powerful control of the 13-person WAFAL gang.

Lucy and her pal take a survey, and it’s connected 6-6. Possibly they need to attempt pandering to the Jewish vote. LOLOLOL simply joking. Jews weren’t allowed this club.

Ricky is consuming pork and beans (see? not into Jews) out of a can, probably due to the fact that Lucy and Ethel are so hectic marketing and Ricky can’t make himself anything besides an open can of mush. No PB&J, no grilled cheese. Not even a damn banana. This guy is going to be a dad and if Lucy gets stuck in traffic one day, his whole household will starve to death.

Ruth Knickerbocker is the tiebreaker for the WAFAL election. So Ethel and Lucy have actually been hectic taking her all over town, wining and dining her like a number of lobbyists.

Fred: Simply believe how involved my life will be if Ethel is president of that club!

Ricky: Simply believe how involved my life is with Lucy simply being Lucy. Kid, she’s not going to be chosen president of that club if I can assist it.

He conceptualizes some method to torpedo Lucy’s aspirations. May I suggest taking advantage of a systemic culture of harassment and abuse? It’s worked for you previously. He chooses to sway the Knickerbocker vote. So he calls info.

Ricky: I do not understand how to spell it. Possibly Nikerboker?

Hey! That’s my IKEA desk light!

However Ms. Knickerbocker has a date with Fred Mertz currently.

Later on at the club, both males attempt to sway Ms. Knickerbocker far from electing their better half. Ricky romances her by singing about Havana and how broke he is bring individuals around in his taxi. Yes, absolutely nothing gets abundant, white Upper East Side socialites going like a bad latino taxi driver asking for “dinero.”

He begins singing seductively to Ms. Knickerbocker and after that brings her approximately dance.

On K Street, they offer steak suppers and work with high-end hookers to get individuals’s votes. On I Love Lucy, they do the very same.

Ricky functions Ms. Knickerbocker more than he ‘d ever include Lucy in his program, and all for the objective of making certain this complete stranger votes versus his better half and enables him to maintain his power as other half.

This is some major Francis Underwood shit.

However then Lucy and Ethel are available in. It ends up the club connected the vote, and both ladies won. And in some way Ethel is thoughtful about it. Her crap pal took half the magnificence from her however she simply smiles and holds it in till Christmas, when she can lastly ask Santa for some much better pals.

And after that they learn the young boys have actually been seducing the incorrect Knickerbocker. They have actually been pursuing Ruth’s senior mother-in-law. However due to the fact that of abundant white ladies’s classist, racist fetish for the unique, the impoverished cabby act absolutely worked. That randy MILILF is all set to take her Cuban vocalist house and be una chica sucia por toda la casa.

When It Comes To WAFAL, they’re screwed. They need to dissolve instantly. Lucy and Ethel running a club together makes that club by its nature damaged and a threat to world affairs. They will not rule in self-respect like the Narnia kids, let’s be clear. This is no kindhearted dictatorship. They will likely not yield the next election, which will lead the group into constitutional crisis and trigger an irreversible rift, if not full-blown civil war.

Ideally Lucy makes it through, due to the fact that otherwise Ricky is simply gon na feed that child canned pork and beans every meal till he’s a teen and undoubtedly takes his daddy to court to require complete emancipation.

And when his claim goes to trial and ends up being an innovative minute for the future of household law, we can simply hope and hope we have actually chosen excellent judges. Or at the minimum, that already Ricky’s kids still live far, far from a specific judge in the fantastic state of Alabama.

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