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I Love Lucy Collection 2: Best of [VHS]

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This collection is a wonderful treat for any I Love Lucy fan. The episodes on this set are timeless and are definitely some of Lucy's best! You get the following episodes, plus a tape that's nearly an hour long featuring music clips from the show:

"Lucy & John Wayne" (aired 10/10/55)- After Lucy and Ethel stole John Wayne's footprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater, Ricky calls the Duke and asks him to make a replacement, but it's not that easy.

"Mr. & Mrs. TV Show" (aired 11/1/54)- When Lucy finds out that Ricky tried to decline a Mr. and Mrs. TV show just to keep her off of television, she sabotages what she thinks is a dress rehearsal of the show.

"Lucy & the Loving Cup" (aired 1/7/57)- Ricky is the host of a dinner honoring Johnny Longden and he has a loving cup to present to the jockey. To get back at Ricky for making fun of her new hat, Lucy puts the trophy on her head. The only problem is, she can't get it off.

"Lucy Tells the Truth" (aired 11/9/53)- Since Lucy lies a lot, the Mertzes and Ricky bet her that she can't go twenty-four hours without telling a lie. The result? She insults her friends and has to admit her age and the real color of her hair.

"Tennessee Bound" (aired 1/24/55)- Ricky gets arrested for speeding in Ernie Ford's hometown of Bent Fork, Tennessee. After Lucy gets sassy with the officer, he puts her, Ricky, Fred and Ethel behind bars. Guess who comes to the rescue?

"The Operetta" (aired 10/13/52)- Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta, but they're completely broke. So she writes postdated checks to the theatrical supply company, but when the checks bounce, they come and take back everything in the middle of the performance.

"Lucy Gets A Paris Gown" (aired 3/19/56)- Lucy pretends to be on a hunger strike until Ricky buys her a Paris gown. So he and Fred decide to get back at her by making outfits and hats for Lucy and Ethel out of burlap bags.

"Lucy Goes To the Hospital" (aired 1/19/53)- Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse their roles in taking Lucy to the hospital. When she announces that "this is it," chaos erupts. Later, Little Ricky is born.

"The Golf Game" (aired 5/17/54)- Lucy and Ethel are tired of sitting back and watching Ricky and Fred play golf all the time, so they decide to take up the game themselves. To discourage them, the guys come up with bizarre rules.

"Lucy Gets in Pictures" (aired 2/21/55)- Thanks to a director friend of Ricky's, Lucy finally lands a part in a movie. She plays a Ziegfeld-type showgirl who gets shot during her descent down a staircase. But Lucy's heavy headdress does her in long before the gun goes off.

This best of collection comes with 3 VHS's. Two of the tapes have 10 of the most memorable I Love Lucy episodes. Each tape has 5 episodes from the show. The other tape is Babalu Music! I Love Lucy's Greatest Hits. The video has songs such as Cuban Pete, Straw Hat Song, Cheek To Cheek, Babalu, I Love Lucy, California Here I Come, We're Having Baby and many many more. The episodes in this collection include
Lucy and Jonn Wayne: Lucy and Ethel end up stealing John Waynes footprint. So now they have to get it back without getting in trouble. So they get John Waynes footprint and signature to give it back. But everytime they get his signature and his footprint in the cement something bad happens to it. So they keep asking him if he can do it again.
Mr. and Mrs. TV Show: Lucy gets a TV producer to interview Ricky so they can be in a TV Show. Well Ricky doesn't want her in the show. So when he goes to the TV producer they end up doing a Mr. and Mrs. TV Show and Lucy would play his wife in the show. Well earlier Lucy said she wouldn't be in the show even if he begged her. Well now he needs Lucy in the show. So he tricks her into getting into the show and then Lucy finds out why he needed her in the show so she comes up with a way to get back at Ricky.
Lucy and the Loving Cup: Ricky is suppose to present a loving cup to jockey Johnny Longden. Well Lucy jokingly puts the loving cup on her head. Well now she can't get it off and has to go get it off. Well when Ethel takes her on the sub they end up losing eachother and Lucy is by herself with the loving cup on her head. She ends up making it intime for the reward but still has the cup on her head. Ricky then presents the reward with Lucy's head in it.
Lucy Tells the Truth: Ricky, Ethel, and Fred bet Lucy $100 that for 24 hours she can't tell the truth. Well she makes it for a hole day telling the truth except when she wants to audition for a show. Lucy said she speaks Italian even though she doesn't. And thats when she lost the bet but Ricky ended up paying for the bet instead.
Tennesse Bound: The Ricardos and Mertzes got a $50 fine for driving at 30 mph when the speed limit was 50 mph. The sherif says if anyone was to say the word boo that person would be put in jail and wait 48 hours to be let out. Ernie Ford comes to the Rescue to let Lucy out by sawing the bars of the cage and by singing a song so the sherif doesn't know they are sawing the cage. Well the sherif decides to let Lucy loose but soon finds out the cage had a big hole in it to let Lucy out. Now all 5 of them were put in jail. Then Ernie decides to marry the sherifs daughtor to let them all out. Well then the sherifs daughtor said no he said that Ricky would be happy to bring his daughtors to California with them. Well Ricky said no but the daughtors wanted to dance with Ricky before they got put in jail again. Well they all square danced and ended up tying the sherif and his twin daughtors up and they got loose.
The Operetta: Lucy writes a play. She ends up paying for the costumes and the props for it with the club treasury. Well there isn't any money in the club treasury. So during the performance people start to take away the costumes and props because there wasn't any money in the club treasury at the time.
Lucy Gets a Paris Gown: Lucy really wants the new paris gown. Ricky says no and so she decides to go on a hunger strike. She wont put a bite in her mouth untill Ricky finally gives in. Well he finally buys her the dress but finds out she has bean sneaking food in. So he takes it back. Later Ricky and Fred decide to buy Ethel and Lucy dresses that were made differently. When Lucy and Ethel found out about the dresses they got really mad. The next day they see their same exact dresses on two models. Now they have original dresses but they ended up burning them.
Lucy Goes To The Hospital: This is it. Lucy is ready to have the baby and everybody is going nuts. Ricky has his opening that same night. When he gets a phone call at the club he rushes down to the hospital to see his baby boy.
The Golf Game: Lucy and Ethel are sick of the boys always talking about golf so they decide to take on basketball to talk about all time like the boys do with golf. But then they decide they will take on golf and Ricky and Fred decide to teach the girls how to play golf. Except they aren't the same rules most people play. They made up the rules to the sport to make it so confusing and tough so the girls wouldn't like it. Well when the girls end up playing with a proffesional golf player they talked to him about their husbands so when he plays with the boys the boys will get a full treatment for what they did to the girls.
Lucy Gets In Pictures: Lucy tries out for a movie. She ends up being a show girl in a major MGM musical. She was the girl that gets shot in the movie. But she has to wear a huge hat on her head that she cant carry. So the producer decides to give that part to one of the other showgirls and Lucy takes her part. Well Lucy is not happy about this. She wants to be the one that gets shot. Well she ends up getting her way by laying on a bed with a sheet over her except for her feet. She ends up writting Lucy Ricardo on the bottom of the shoes so her friends new it was her because she told all her friends that she was going to be in a movie.

It doesn't get much better than "I Love Lucy." The episdoes on this edition are just great. The sweetest episode, "Lucy goes tot he hospital" is on the second video and still after 50 years brings a smile to my face. This video is a must have for Lucy fans. The extra video, Babalou Music is WONDERDUL! Contains some of my very favorite clips of music from "I Love Lucy." The sweetest one is when Ricky sings "Cheek to Cheek" to Lucy. It almost makes me cry everytime!!! This video is well worth it!!!

In this decade, every episode of "I Love Lucy" will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Every episode is still funny as funny as it was when they first aired. The shows are good. The shows are wholesome. They are healing and warm and will make you feel good. Buy them on VHS or DVD today.