Product Details

• Actors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, HiFi Sound
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: CBS Fox Video
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301365496
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,034 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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I Love Lucy - Vol. 2: Lucy Does a TV Commercial / Lucy's Italian Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lucy pitches Vitameatavegamin and Stomps Grapes, June 12, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love Lucy - Vol. 2: Lucy Does a TV Commercial / Lucy's Italian Movie (VHS Tape)

This volume from the "I Love Lucy" collection features two of the episodes in Lucille Ball's comic triple crown (the third being the chocolate factory skit). In "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (Episode #30, May 5, 1952), Ricky is set to host a TV variety show and Lucy wants to do a live commercial for (all together now) Vitameatavegamin. Although she fails to win Ricky's support after staging a mock show inside their television set, Lucy arranges to get the gig anyhow. She starts off great, but the problem is that Vitameatavegamin contains twenty-three percent and with each rehersal Lucy gets progressively drunker and funnier. Lucille Ball considered this the best bit, and one of the hardest, she ever did.

Equally memorable is the classic grape vat scene from "Lucy's Italian Movie" (Episode #150, April 16, 1956). The Ricardos are in Europe when an Italian movie producer tells Lucy that he wants her in his new film, "Grapola Pungente." Finding out the title translates as "bitter grapes," Lucy takes this literally and heads for the nearest vineyard where she has a memorable encounter with Teresa Tirelli stomping grapes in a vat. You have to love any tape that gives you two of the redhead's all-time best comedy bits.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do you poop-out at parties?, April 24, 2000

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This review is from: I Love Lucy - Vol. 2: Lucy Does a TV Commercial / Lucy's Italian Movie (VHS Tape)

This is obviously a classic episod in my favorite show. This is my favorite episode of all time. this is about lucy getting drunk on accident while practicing her tv commercial over and over. this medicene called vitameatavegamin is supposed to help you feel secure and not poop-out at parties, w/ 13% alchahol. WATCH IT!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Her most popular titles!, August 19, 2002

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duke14 "duke14" (NE Philly, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Love Lucy - Vol. 2: Lucy Does a TV Commercial / Lucy's Italian Movie (VHS Tape)

I would actually rate this a 3 because I've seen thes episodes so much that it just has bore me out. But for a first-timer, a definite 5. In the vitablablabla episode, Lucy tries for a tv commercial and finds herself drunk in the middle of Ricky's singing. In the wine thingy, she is attracted by a producer as an actress inside of a grape vat in making wine. She turns messier than she has ever turned before! These are probably 2 of her top 3 most popularly loved episode or movie or anything in all of her career!