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I Love Lucy:Complete Second Season Reviews
Ground Breaking, and Hilarious, Second Season
After winning audiences over with the first season, Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred came back for a second season to the delight of television audiences. This set will delight their modern fans just as much.
There were 31 episodes in the second season, and they are faithfully presented here on 5 discs. The season opened with the famous "Job Switching" episode that finds Lucy and Ethel working in a chocolate factory. Also well known from this season are the episodes surrounding Lucy's pregnancy and the birth of Little Ricky, something quite daring for TV of the 50's. Other highlights include "The Club Election," "Lucy Changes Her Mind," "Lucy's Last Birthday" (which is the only time the words to the theme song are heard), and "Never Do Business With Friends." So what if the stories are sometimes predictable or little attention is paid to previous episodes (Lucy gets new furniture and Ethel gets a new washing machine twice in one season). This is classic TV at it's funniest.
My only real complaint from the previous season was the size of the set. That complaint has been completely removed this time around. As I previously said, all 31 episodes are on just five DVD's, keeping the cost and the size much more reasonable. Everything else remains the same. The episodes have been lovingly restored to perfection. You'll never see them looking better. Frankly, I find the series hard to watch on TV any more since it looks so lousy there. Sound is still mono. It won't blow you away, but it sounds sharp. Each disc still has plenty of extras, including guest cast, an episode of "My Favorite Husband" each, original openings, restored footage, and production notes and behind the scenes pictures as appropriate.
This set is a dream come true for any I LOVE LUCY fan. If that's you, be sure to pick it up today.
The groundbreaking sitcom that starting it all...
Widely considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, show in television history, I Love Lucy signaled the ascendance of the prime time TV era. The brainchild of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy revolutionized the television industry with its extensive use of a live audience and the employment of multiple camera angles. The result of true comic genius, the show's ability to entertain is just as relevant today as it was fifty years ago...
Real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play the prominent roles of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, a married couple living in a New York apartment complex. Ricky is a Cuban-born band leader who wows night clubs with his act, while Lucy is a homemaker. Lucy and Ricky's best friends are landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz who often become intertwined in Lucy's get-rich-quick schemes, screwball ideas, and comic shenanigans. Former masters of the stage, the cast comes across as a likeable bunch, with Lucille Ball stealing the show with her goofy antics and brilliant facial contortions. If ever there were a television classic, then I Love Lucy is it...
The I Love Lucy (Season 2) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "The Anniversary Present" in which Ricky is spending time with a beautiful neighbor who is helping him find the perfect anniversary present for Lucy. But Lucy and Ethel are convinced that Ricky is having an affair, and they set out to spy on the two "home wreckers"... Other notable episodes from Season 2 include "Redecorating" in which Lucy unwittingly sells all the furniture after Fred and Ricky conspire to tell her she's won a home decorating contest, and "The Camping Trip" in which Ricky tries to keep Lucy (and Ethel) from horning in on his and Fred's camping retreat by taking her on a "trial run" (which he plans to make a miserable experience). But Ricky doesn't know that Lucy's on to his scheme, and she's determined to turn the tables on him...
Below is a list of episodes included on the I Love Lucy (Season 2) DVD:
Episode 36 (The Anniversary Present)
Episode 37 (The Handcuffs)
Episode 38 (The Operetta)
Episode 39 (Job Switching)
Episode 40 (The Saxophone)
Episode 41 (Vacation from Marriage)
Episode 42 (The Courtroom)
Episode 43 (Redecorating)
Episode 44 (Ricky Loses His Voice)
Episode 45 (Sales Resistance)
Episode 46 (The Inferiority Complex)
Episode 47 (The Club Election)
Episode 48 (The Black Eye)
Episode 49 (Lucy Changes Her Mind)
Episode 50 (Lucy is Enceinte)
Episode 51 (Pregnant Women are Unpredictable)
Episode 52 (Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song)
Episode 53 (Lucy Hires an English Tutor)
Episode 54 (Ricky Has Labor Pains)
Episode 55 (Lucy Becomes a Sculptress)
Episode 56 (Lucy Goes to the Hospital)
Episode 57 (No Children Allowed)
Episode 58 (Lucy Hires a Maid)
Episode 59 (The Indian Show)
Episode 60 (Lucy's Last Birthday)
Episode 61 (The Ricardos Change Apartments)
Episode 62 (Lucy is Matchmaker)
Episode 63 (Lucy Wants New Furniture)
Episode 64 (The Camping Trip)
Episode 65 (Ricky's Life Story)
Episode 66 (Ricky and Fred are TV Fans)
Episode 67 (Never Do Business with Friends)
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