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

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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.

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!

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!

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!

"Hello, friends, I'm your Vitameatavegimin girl. Are you run down, listless... do you poop out at parties? Are you unpopular? WELL ARE YOU??" Filmed in 1952, this holds up as one of Lucy's finest moments on film. Her duck-like voice is delightful and she's hilarious as she gets progressively snockered. Vivian Vance does not appear in this episode. The man who played the director, Ross Elliot and the script boy Maury Thompson had to bite the insides of their cheeks to keep from cracking up. The contents of the bottle was apple pectin. They say you can catch a peek of the Ricardo apartment in the scene where Lucy gazes adoringly at Ricky; it's in the background of where she's standing.

It isn't difficult to see why comedienne extraordinaire, Lucille Ball, was given the title of the Queen of Comedy. The two episodes, featured here, are classic examples of her brilliance in physical comedy. "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" is a scream. The gist of this episode is based around Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her boundless pursuit of celebrity, much to the chagrin of Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) her controlling bandleader husband (this wasn't too far from the truth, by the way). Specifically, she finds an outlet for her dramatic tendencies in an advertisement for a liquid multivitamin, that promises the consumer newly realized effervescence, is loaded with amino acids....and alcohol. Lucy must take a big tablespoon after every take for the commercial, and....well, you'll have to watch and see what happens next. "Lucy's Italian Movie" takes place in (where else?) Italy, with Lucy and Desi, and that famous scene with Lucy in the vineyard, stamping grapes with one of the locals. I don't want to divulge too many plot twists here. You just need to buy this and see for yourself. The comedy is, both, timeless and memorable. Wonderful!! They don't make shows like this anymore.