... the only slight (small) interest is the 2 older actress's, but the show is awful, what's with the audience always laughing hysterically to "smart quips?" it's bad and you can see/hear the strain of it not working very well - the 2 lady's, good, everything else loud, unfunny & awful :( thumbs down ...
sharei watched this during its first run. now i can see how bad it was. interesting that it gets so many good reviews here. to each their own. p.s i always thought the 1st roger was kind of creepy.
shareOh, it's just a show of its era -- a too loud, jarringly colored, late-'60s domestic sictom produced by Lucy's ex and starring two brash but likeable broads and their pointless supporting cast shouting all their lines while the studio audience over-cooperates.
How could it be any different than this? It wouldn't.
Funny, I didn't see the show for forty years and rarely saw it even then, yet the theme song I remember every note of from my childhood.
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I loved this show as a kid, watching it on a small black and white set. I recall kids coming in to school the next day and reenacting scenes from it for Show and Twll.
The actual yelling of lines used to drive me crazy on The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. Especially Desi Jr., and Lucie Arnaz: they HONKED their lines like angry geese.
So it was interesting to see Desi Jr. on an episode of Mothers In Law tonight, and happily, he spoke his lines at a reasonable volume. It makes me wonder whose direction it was on Desilu shows to play for people in the next zip code. I'm an episode and a half in, and I'm getting a headache.
The actual yelling of lines used to drive me crazy on The Lucy Show, and Here's Lucy. Especially Desi Jr., and Lucie Arnaz: they HONKED their lines like angry geese.
Oh, it's just a show of its era -- a too loud, jarringly colored, late-'60s domestic sictom produced by Lucy's ex and starring two brash but likeable broads and their pointless supporting cast shouting all their lines while the studio audience over-cooperates.
How could it be any different than this? It wouldn't.
Funny, I didn't see the show for forty years and rarely saw it even then, yet the theme song I remember every note of from my childhood.
Love this show as a kid, love watching the reruns now at the ripe old age of 56. I have always been a fan of Eve Arden, and I think Kaye Ballard is very funny. I think I always related to her because of my Italian heritage. It reminds me of I Love Lucy and I do laugh out loud. Can't ask for anything more than that! :-)
I think the show's kind of cute. It's refreshing.
sharePoor Desi trying trying for the success of the Lucy show in the fifties, and maybe it not working like before in the late sixties. I could not remember this show though a friend of mine remembered it well. Its basicly Lucy and Ethel getting into the kind of shtick and shenanigans that they did now with different people. It prob didn't help that the Carmel actor quit as Roger after season one due to not getting a promised raise if not actually a salary reduction.
shareIt prob didn't help that the Carmel actor quit as Roger after season one due to not getting a promised raise if not actually a salary reduction.
I thought the same thing scottstvshop - it was Lucy and Ethel, take 2. I watched a few during the marathon also.
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