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Wondering What Happened After...

posted 5 years ago by [email protected] (5497)
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Did you ever wonder what happened when some events are mentioned or alluded to but never mentioned again? I know there's only so much that can be shown in a thirty minute episode. But sometimes I "fill in the blanks" when the characters talk about an even that is never shown.

For example, at the end of "The Sublease" the Ricardos are headed to Del Mar, California to spend the summer. I tend to think that booking got cancelled too. I have my reasons.
When Lucy is deciding on planes, trains or automobiles for their trip to Hollywood, there's no mention that they were just in California. If so, Ricky would've probably said that they could just fly out like they did when they went to Del Mar. And when they stop in Ethel's home town, Lucy tells Mr. Potter that they've never been in this part of the country before.
I wonder where they did spend the summer. Did they sublet their apartment again?

In "Lucy Gets in Pictures", the Mertzes run into an old show biz pal who gives them a role in his movie. Ethel stresses that their work will take "two WHOLE WEEKS". They probably had a part in a big musical number. I always wondered if their part ended up on the cutting room floor or was it in the film. Did the two couples go see it when they got back to New York? I wonder what Lucy's reaction would've been to seeing her best friend get a movie role when she herself wanted to be in a movie so badly.

Did Eddie Grant and Sylvia Collins hit it off? I always wonder if their date was a success. Even if Lucy was successful at matchmaking, Eddie was only visiting New York on a sales trip. Did he propose to "Syl" and get her out of New York and subsequently out of Lucy and her married friends' hair? lol

And did Ethel actually get a small part in that Italian movie that Lucy wanted to be in, Bitter Grapes? It would've only been a cameo role. But I bet Ethel would tell everyone about her part in a foreign film!

I'm just curious about what went on in the part of their lives that we didn't see.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 5 years ago

Well, anything could've been anything, as it's all left to our imaginations.

I highly doubt Fred and Ethel did anything more than be in one or two background musical numbers in their old
MGM musical. And in "Bitter Grapes", I sense Ethel had no dialogue, just was an American tourist in a closeup
or something, smelling flowers.

I agree - Lucy would have a hard time supporting both by attending their openings. After all, only Lucy's FEET
were used.

I always wonder if Fred, Ethel and Ricky ever finally believed Lucy in "Lucy Cries Wolf." It IS curious that ETHEL is
the one with the strange-men-knocking-at-your-door-jitters just several shows later in "Ricky's Movie Offer."

I always wonder whatever happened to Arthur Morton and Peggy Dawson? Did they really get together? At the
end of the series, it would've been cute if they were the very young newlyweds who showed to rent that Ricardo
apartment.

[–] [email protected] (5497) 5 years ago

It would've been cute to see Arthur and Peggy as the newlyweds. Or how about Eddie Grant and Sylvia?
Lucy could've said to Ricky, "So I was pretty good at matchmaking, wasn't I?"

But the show never mixed characters from other episodes.

As I wrote before, I do think they would've found out that Lucy was telling the truth in "Lucy Cries Wolf". I would bet that the guys who tied up Lucy robbed another apartment in the building. Either that or they robbed another apartment nearby after Lucy had her run in with them.
It would've made the papers and Lucy could've said, "See, I told you those robbers were real!"