starting with the premise that all racial typecasting,is absurd artificial construct; cuba, is not a mono-racial society; yet, cubans, would not have seen {ricky} dezi,as non-white.

Thank you for a wonderful show! Lucy reruns were still airing on TV when I was a little kid (Nick at Nite, etc), but I haven't seen an episode in years. I had forgotten how wonderful it is... I guess the only place to see these things now is online. To the internet!

I never loved Lucy very much, but I sure loved your show about her!

Interracial? Lucy and Ricky are an "interracial couple"? She's of the English-speaking race, and he's of the Spanish-speaking race?

By that definition, my in-laws are an interracial couple: She was born in Baltimore and he in Paris, and though they're both bilingual, she's evidently of the English-speaking race and he's of the French-speaking race.

Justin Bond is sad man. He talked about Lucy as being a blueprint for queer identity by identifiying with Lucy/Ethel dressed as aliens and belittling "small minded" people. And then he goes on to talk about respect for those who are different.

So in his worldview, he thinks he is smarter than others (including his "barren wasteland" suburban neighbors) because he is queer and he admires those who can dress up and belittle those squares by disprespecting them.

He sounds angry and pathetic and not due to being rejected by due to being smug, superior and not at all practicing what he preaches. He's the type the complains about not being accepted but wants to be able to reject others at will. Sad, sad man.

Do we really need to hear this perspective from someone so bitter? So many like him are bitter but so many love to blame it on others. Its all internal from internal causes.

I Love Lucy, I do...&
I'm also a big fan of Jackie Gleason, &
"The Honeymooners"...for conflict, & conflict resolution on T.V.

I absolutely love this production. It brings back a lot of memories. "A hadsome Latin with an Accent!" I love it!

Listening to the broadcast now. Would someone tell that woman from The Office that "Cuban" is not a race.
Thank you.
P.S. Neither is Hispanic.

My fiancé and I have been notified that we are the national finalists in the Lucille Ball Hometown Wedding Giveaway. We are one of five couples in the running for a dream wedding in Jamestown, New York, on Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday and 60 year anniversary of the show I Love Lucy.

My fiancée, Jonathan Moctezuma, and I have been together as a couple for six years. The reason I entered this contest is because the "I Love Lucy" television show has been an integral part of my life. I grew up in a Mexican American household learning my first words of English watching the show.
The couple in the contest with the most votes wins an expense-paid wedding in Jamestown, New York. We have the opportunity to be part of this historic contest to celebrate the life of Desi and Lucy.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.You can view our video and vote for Jonathan and myself at:

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The story of Lucy and Desi is epic, tragic, and finally, glorious. Whatever their flaws and imperfections, these two preternaturally gifted artists sublimated their own suffering and spun it into gold, holding nothing back and leaving nothing behind in their quest to the world everything they had.

Why do all Studio 360 shows sound alike? The tics are growing predictable and tired: the truncated, interruptive editing, the bug-like puerile voices desperate to channel "hip young male" on the unconscious assumption that this is where the "value added" lies, the obvious, un-funny pseud-quips. How about a little actual creativity for a change?

I really enjoyed the show but I must ding it for "no shout out to vaudeville." Neil in Brooklyn notes some traces of the great tradition's presence on the small box. Many of the great "bits" in Lucy's show came right out of classic stage. You've posted the mirror sequence used by the Marxes onstage (and stolen THEN) in For example, the justly famed "Vitameatavegamin" is a riff on the old Red Skelton Guzzler's Gin sketch (Ziegfeld Follies, 1943, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al2xOOTMmLo )

Awesome program !! I have all the dvds and the whole colllection !! I love I Love Lucy !!! Thanks for sharing !! She brings me out of my deepest depression !! The episode of Switching Roles. formally know as The Candy Episode,is my al l time favorite !! Lucy and Ethel made a great team. The show will always be a classic !!

"Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" were created a number of years after "I Love Lucy," and neither of those shows were centered around the female lead. So, comparing the dishrag housewives in those series to Lucy Ricardo, is like comparing the adult male leads in those shows to Milton Berle. TV in the early '50's was coming off of a sort of vaudeville tradition. And you had other zany women (as well as men) in those years: Gracie Allen ("Burns & Allen"), Joan Davis ("I Married Joan"), and Gale Storm ("My Little Margie"). Also, Mary Livingston ("The Jack Benny Program") and Audrey Meadows ("The Honeymooners") were not exactly obedient mates, either. It was really in the later '50's to early '60's that the suburban Stepford wives dominated (or were dominated, as the case may be).

Great show all around. Justin Bond's impressions are so beautiful.

I'm 24 years old and have been obsessed with all things Lucy for more than half of my my life so far. I just want to say that for only having 45 mins. to encapsulate something as important as "I Love Lucy", you guys nailed it! The interview with Dan Cahn was especially a treat!

Wonderful show - it brought back so many memories! I loved Lucy and wish today's sitcoms were as funny, thoughtful and groundbreaking.

I thought this was an excellent production itself, about the Lucy Show.