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Got a bad rap; it was about the ratings.

posted 13 years ago by SimplemindedSociety
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If the ratings were high, they would have said how great it was. Here's Lucy was worse.

Disagree with u on here's Lucy now it wasn't as good the other two but it wasn't bad at all

lucie arnez made here's lucy difficult for me to watch

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[–] gc18 9 years ago

It's really all about what the advertisers want. There are bad shows that stay on and good ones that are canceled.

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[–] MyMovieTVRomance 8 years ago

putting Gale Gordon in the series and keeping the writers from her other series was a mistake.

I disagree completely – I thought it was a sentimental, sweet touch, having Gale Gordon there with Lucy on her final series.Also, I'm glad she brought her old writers over. The series might've been canceled, but that's only because people's collective humor was different by the 1980s, but that doesn't mean that the old-fashioned brand of humor that her writers brought wasn't good too. It just wasn't given much of a chance.

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[–] gerard-21 9 years ago

It didn't get a bad rap, it was awful I actually saw it when it debuted. My mom was a huge Lucy fan and was terribly disappointed, almost embarrassed for the star. We knew right then and there it was a bomb.

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[–] MyMovieTVRomance 8 years ago

The viewing audience wanted to see her, but not in this set-up. For one, her TV family was bland and squeaky-clean.

You say that like it's a bad thing? Lucy's shows are the only shows outside of other programs from the classic days of television of the 1950s and 60s, where I can see truly innocent, clean family. And it's wonderful. I think she made the right move, with a family like that in her last sitcom.

I think viewers were expecting something along the lines of The Golden Girls. Instead, we got something old fashioned

Well, that wasn't Lucy's or the writer's fault then – it would of been the audience's fault – for expecting the wrong thing, instead of just appreciating it for what it was.

Plus, people use their disdain for the way Lucy aged as a reason to criticize the program. Her aging process and the quality of the program are not one and the same.

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