She goes outside and Ricky appears riding a horse. But hen just gets off the horse and goes inside, leaving the horse on the sidewalk
In that episode we don't actually see Ricky get off the horse: it's left to the audiences imagination to fill in the blank. I assumed since he rode the horse home, he'd leave it there and then ride it back to work.
Likewise, with the baby elephant since the audience is clued in that Lucy is going to teach Ricky a lesson because he thinks she is a kleptomaniac, the audience assumes that Lucy borrowed all of the props like the gun, jewelry, handbags etc., and more than likely borrowed the baby elephant from a friend or someone she knew at the circus. If the episode went along the lines that she really was a klepto then yes, there would be an assumption that she stole the elephant which then would lead to how did steal etc.
I do agree that a lot of the what happens on the show stretch the imagination. OTOH, the writers did a really good job on most episodes to explain what something was and why it was there, to set up the joke, so Lucy has a reason to do something this way or that.
The
Passports episode was a good example: Fred brings up the old trunk, Ethel establishes that there's a hole in it, Lucy reinforces that for the audience when Ethel asks, "How will you breathe?" and she responds "there's a hole in it," before she gets in to the trunk.
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trollomatic
8 years ago
>>>If the episode went along the lines that she really was a klepto then yes, there would be an assumption that she stole the elephant which then would lead to how did steal etc.
She deliberately stole John Wayne's footprints.
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