Original Air Date: February 16, 1953

Delighted New Year, Ballers!!! I believed today’s episode had to do with keeping your resolutions, however I was incorrect. That’s next week, and today it has to do with getting typed the face. Which, pertained to think about it, is a quite strong metaphor for 2018 up until now.

So yeah, I can’t think I’m stating this, however TW: domestic abuse. That’s right, I Love Lucy requires a trigger caution. In all severity, I guarantee there were ladies in 1953 who snuggled sobbing after this episode. It truly embodies the “WTF” that began this entire job.

For this is a tale of 4 morons, an argumentation in trash individuals. My partner enjoyed the episode with me, mouth agape as mine, and simply silently asked, “How was this telecasted?”

Now all that stated, there’s no real abuse revealed. However in some way the truth that they navigated that and still discovered a method to haunt my musings makes it even worse in a manner. And while I recommend jokes, I do not tease trigger cautions, and I do not believe they’re for snowflakes. Survivors should not enjoy this episode.

OK! ENJOYABLE THINGS! Let’s start (places on her gas mask).

We open on Fred and Ethel attempting to get in the Ricardos’ apartment or condo. They bang the doors into each other’s faces, grumbling and arguing. They resemble the White Home personnel nowadays, however Fred and Ethel have more progressive worths.

Ricky is fretted they’ll wake the kid. You understand, possibly you should be more anxious about how your property managers (and most likely anybody) can continuously enter and out of your apartment or condo without asking? Like, get a lock?

This is another flashback episode, and it begins with 5 minutes of Fred grumbling the door injured his head. If you can envision a plume rubbing a bowling ball, that’s how difficult the door struck Fred. Besides, it’s another person’s door and even as proprietor, you’re trespassing. Simply thank Ricky for not suing you and go house.

In the flashback, Lucy is scary herself with a frightening book. It’s similar to Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Attempting to Murder Her— among my really preferred episodes.

LUCY: Mumble mumble “dismembering the house cleaner, getting rid of the body in the waste disposal unit” mumble mumble.

She holds true criminal offense consumed! If this female lived to hear the My Preferred Murder podcast, she ‘d lose her mind. Our woman would invest throughout the day knitting Karen and Georgia uncomfortable murder socks and baking inedible murder cakes.

Ricky wishes to check out the book, too, so they choose to read it together. However Lucy can’t check out unless she sounds it out, and Ricky can just check out in Spanish. Unexpectedly their issues make a lot more sense! They’re illiterate. Not surprising that she bought 700 pounds of meat by mishap back in season one.

They choose to resolve the issue by her reading it aloud. And she checks out as “aloud” as possible:

LUCY (reading): YOU DISLIKE ME DON’T YOU ?! DON’T YOU !!!! (acts out punching)

Simply then, Ethel and Fred method and hear Lucy behind the door, checking out from the book. It sounds rather plainly like abuse, despite the fact that it’s in fact really innocent.

ETHEL: We can’t simply bust in on them at a time like this!

You bust in on them when they’re consuming supper, nursing their child, and most likely when they’re making love. However sure, why not let this one slide. If you enter there today you may need to stop a male from beating his partner. You ‘d need to relabel the program, it would be an entire thing.

So rather, Ethel calls from her apartment or condo to state they’re showing up, and she provides iodine.

ETHEL: This is Ethel … your pal … who you can rely on in a minute of crisis.

That resembles stating ” Requiem for a Dream … the motion picture … which you can rely on in a minute of anxiety.” Going that path will just make things even worse, I guarantee.

Ricky tosses the book to Lucy and it strikes her in the face. Her eye begins to turn black, and obviously that’s when Fred and Ethel show up.

LUCY (joking): Ricky punched me.

RICKY: Yeah I lastly chose to BOOM, let her have it.

And here’s where it gets additional unusual: Fred and Ethel storm out due to the fact that Lucy declines to provide a long monologue about how Ricky struck her. Ethel is personally angered they will not amuse her with a melodrama, so she simply … leaves. However she returns the next day, enjoyed get an actually “juicy story.” She could not sleep due to the fact that she was so fired up to find out about how Ricky got Lucy’s hair and punched her in the face (I’m major– that remains in the episode).

ETHEL: You understand how wild those Cubans are when they seethe.

Previously in the episode, Fred states something comparable:

FRED: She needs to understand much better than to attempt that hot-blooded Cuban.

This episode is among those Go Out minutes when pasty individuals resemble “OMG I had no concept such wholesome, respectful white individuals could be so gross” and everybody else resembles “Truly? We have actually been informing you for 400 years.”

Lucy gets tired of Ethel’s prodding and lastly narrates of how Ricky beat the shit out of her. In the story, she cringes and asks for her life, and after that he chuckles and kicks her. She acts it out in a scene I personally felt made the TW.

It resembles she’s composing Tough to Enjoy, Based Upon the Unique Cold Stone Downer by Manipulate (And if you do not understand that recommendation, then I do not understand you)

Ethel deals with the ruthless attack story like a maple bacon donut:

ETHEL: Oh this is even much better than I anticipated!

She needs to know what made Ricky so mad, so Lucy states she informed Ricky she loves another male.

Now to be reasonable, in this scene, Vivian Vance isn’t provided the opportunity to be a great individual. Her lines are so bad, they do not provide her space to play a compassionate person. It resembles that time SJP was required at gunpoint to star in Sex & & the City II due to the fact that why else would a living goddess have actually consented to that dumb-as-bricks motion picture.

Outdoors, Fred faces Ricky on his method to wedding rehearsal.

FRED: I wasn’t truly aching with you, I was simply accompanying Ethel.

Fred discusses he understands precisely how Ricky feels. He inform Ricky he ought to be a male about it and ask forgiveness.

FRED: If you provide her an opportunity to brood, it’ll cost a lot more than flowers.

So it’s truly a monetary concern. Ricky discusses that absolutely nothing occurred (due to the fact that absolutely nothing did) and strolls off. So Fred takes it upon himself to send out Lucy flowers on Ricky’s behalf.

OK so let’s wrap-up: Fred’s going to purchase flowers for his pal, an abuse victim, to persuade her to stick with the male who Fred thinks simply beat her ridiculous. Who is this person, Bob Weinstein?

FRED (finalizing): Beloved I like you, I like you, I like you. Permanently yours, Fred.

He understands far too late that he signed with his own name, so he runs house.

Back in your home, Ethel’s sitting there gradually consuming a banana. I indicate, truly? It makes me question if this entire episode is a meta-symbolic social satire of internalized misogyny. (It’s not).

Ethel took the flowers to Lucy’s location and now wishes to examine them to learn who Lucy’s in love with. On the other hand Fred wishes to get to the card to eliminate his name, however he winds up concealing in the closet.

Ethel is so fired up to learn Lucy’s secret enthusiast! She’s entirely bathing because delighted energy you can just feel when your friends’ marital relationship liquifies into absolutely nothing.

However the card states Fred’s name!!! Fred comes out of the closet, and Ethel strikes Fred in the confront with the flower box. He goes out with a shiner, sees Ricky, and punches him in the face.

Can’t we simply Video Game of Thrones this thing and exterminate the whole Mertz household?

The next day, Fred can be found in with a shiner from the flower box and states he thinks them now, that you CAN get a shiner from a book. Due to the fact that he provided one to Ethel when he tossed a book at her.

If anybody in this program in fact provided somebody a shiner, it would be Fred to Ethel. Or me to Fred, pending time travel.

Truthfully how do you make this episode amusing? It wasn’t amusing then, it isn’t amusing now. It resembles in those cooking reveals when they hand all these fantastic chefs a musty octopus and resemble MAKE A DESSERT and they do however, like, it does not look that fantastic due to the fact that they’re chefs, they’re not all-powerful stove-demons who can alter the laws of chemistry. That’s this episode and me.

MAKE A JOKE, JO! Well okay however likewise here’s the number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE.

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