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The I Love Lucy Collection: Never Do Business With Friends / The Courtroom [VHS]

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In the washing machine episode, Lucy and Ricky give away their washing machine to the Mertzes because they buy a new one. But then they claim that they're the reason for all of the mistakes it is causing. When some guy wants to buy the machine, they now start to argue on keeping it for their own. In the similar The Courtroom episode, Lucy and Ricky buy the Mertzes a large tv for their anniversary gift. When Ricky pitches in to try to help its technical problems, he busts the screen. In anger, Fred kicks the Ricardos' tv and sends them both to court. But of course, both of these arguments result in friendship again.

"Never do Business with Friends" is good advice as most of us know, so this episode works well because the audience can relate to the situation. Scenes where the clothes fly out of the washer(in the little-seen Mertz kitchen) and Lucy and Ethel doing tug-of-war with the washer on the back porch are very funny. Probably for the first time in the series, we hear that Ethel is from Albuquerque (in actuality,Vivian Vance's hometown was Cherryvale,Kansas, where she was born Vivian Roberta Jones on July 26,1909). Elizabeth Patterson does her stint as Mrs. Mathilda Trumbull. "The Courtroom" is a slightly lesser effort where the funniest scenes are on the witness stand. When Ethel shows her legs to the judge, Fred says heatedly "What are you trying to do Ethel? - lose the case for us?" Lucy's make-up in this episode is very heavy but she looks younger than 41- notice how white her teeth are when she growls outrageously; a dental cosmetic makeover was obviously used.

Every episode of "I Love Lucy" is a riot. Lucille Ball's amazing presence on the screen is enough to keep everyone at home watching until the very end. I stay up late just to watch Lucy shows on TV. Definitely the best American comedy.