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TV We Love - Season 1 Episode 1 -
I Love Lucy
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02:28I think it might have to be, I love Lucy.
02:32In the late 1940s, CBS approached Lucille Ball about doing a network radio show,
02:36a sitcom called My Favorite Husband.
02:39When I married Liz, she couldn't cook, she couldn't sew, she couldn't clean.
02:43But later she overcame this lack of domesticity in a most ingenious manner.
02:47I got a maid.
02:50The show was about a kind of zany housewife, and it became a big hit.
02:55It was extremely popular.
02:58CBS approaches her and says,
03:00we want to make a television version of My Favorite Husband.
03:04CBS was really looking to claim this new industry.
03:08Television at that point hadn't existed.
03:10So it was this huge gamble.
03:14Lucille Ball was enough of a name that they thought,
03:16okay, she can translate to TV because we've seen her movies, we know her.
03:22Lucy took CBS's very generous offer
03:26and said, that's super great.
03:28I won't do it without my husband.
03:31And CBS was like, why are you making demands on us?
03:35She says, I'm not doing it without Desi.
03:37They said, well, we're not doing it with Desi.
03:40The problem was that CBS didn't want him to be her husband at all
03:42because they thought the American public would never buy the idea
03:45of this thick-accented Cuban married to an all-American girl.
03:49Oh, my God.
03:50It feels really bad to say.
03:52CBS didn't want Desi because they just didn't think
03:55that anyone would want to watch a show with a mixed-race marriage.
03:59It was a racist decision.
04:01I think it was unbelievably ballsy of Lucille Ball to do that,
04:06especially a woman at that time advocating for an interracial marriage.
04:12It would have been unheard of.
04:13She risks the entertainment deal of a lifetime.
04:17A woman who is an actress having her own idea
04:21and asserting herself with the heads of CBS,
04:26risking her own success.
04:28There is no comparable today for just how powerful CBS was in 1950.
04:33It really speaks to what a bold and brave woman she was.
04:38And I cannot believe that Lucy just said,
04:41OK, well, then bye, and walked out of that room.
04:44I think that it just shows the tremendous moxie that she had.
04:48I think if it would have been for Lucy,
04:51I would have stopped trying a long time ago
04:52because I was always the guy that didn't fit.
04:56When she did my favorite husband on the radio,
04:58they said that I wasn't the type to play the part.
05:01Being a refugee coming from Cuba,
05:04Desi has an amazing life story.
05:06His family lost everything in the revolution of 1933.
05:11After the Batista revolution,
05:13he and others in his family end up penniless in Miami.
05:16My first job in this country was cleaning bird cages.
05:19It's very true.
05:21We came to this country and we didn't have a cent.
05:25He reinvented himself as a self-taught musician
05:28and had this amazing musical talent.
05:31And he was so handsome
05:33and then got scouted to Hollywood and played the Latin lover.
05:40When Desi Arnaz meets Lucille Ball at RKO...
05:43They were starring together in a movie called Too Many Girls.
05:47Lucy was playing, like, the second banana character
05:50and Desi was one of the, you know, the handsome guys.
05:53That was kind of his job, was just e-hot.
05:55Lucy started out trying to be a serious actress.
06:03She moved to L.A.
06:03She was a Goldwyn girl and a Ziegfeld girl.
06:07And she'd been a steadily working actress,
06:09but she'd never broken through into an A-list star.
06:13As a B-movie actress, people noticed she was funny.
06:15That did happen and she got some wisecracking roles.
06:17But nothing that would at all give hints to what she could do.
06:22Desi was completely smitten.
06:27And they fell in love.
06:29Married in the early 40s.
06:31I think they were absolutely a true love story.
06:33But it was very, very difficult,
06:35the way their careers operated.
06:37He was leading his band and was constantly on the road.
06:40They famously often only saw each other at dawn or dusk
06:43as he was heading off to the nightclub
06:44and she was coming home from the studio.
06:46Lucy, you said that one of the reasons
06:48why I Love Lucy started was to keep you and Desi together.
06:52It was to have a family and live a pretty long life.
06:55You cannot have a baby over the telephone, long distance.
06:59I found that out.
07:01In the face of all this reluctance,
07:02it was really Desi who came up with an idea to sell the show.
07:06Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
07:07take the show on the road vaudeville style,
07:10performing to American audiences
07:12and proving that they would embrace them as a couple.
07:14They performed at a theater in New York.
07:17It was sold out pretty much every night.
07:20Indeed, this show was a boffo hit.
07:22Critics all over the country loved it.
07:24Audiences flocked to see it.
07:26And ultimately, CBS had to agree,
07:27well, maybe this would work.
07:32Well, it doesn't matter.
07:34You'll never be a success on television anyway.
07:37So CBS greenlit something called a test film.
07:41What do you mean I want to be a success on television?
07:43You don't have a pretty girl in your act.
07:45She was funnier than all the people he knew.
07:48So Ricky had to let her sort of be involved.
07:51But also, she was a pain in the neck
07:52because he had a business to run.
07:54Well, they're risky, risky, though.
07:56It was very much like their vaudeville act
07:58in which Lucy would clown around.
08:00Yes, he was a tune.
08:01And you guys just have a job.
08:03All right?
08:04Go to it.
08:06She'd flop on the stage like a barking seal.
08:09The pilot is weird.
08:18I won't lie.
08:19She was 40 years old
08:21when she started playing that role on TV.
08:25Even in today's time,
08:27that's considered a little bit older
08:29to be the lead of a TV show.
08:31Honestly, if you'd seen the pilot,
08:33you wouldn't have greenlit it either.
08:34What's interesting about the failed pilot,
08:37it needs to be reworked.
08:39And so it's like all of this work
08:41to retool their whole lives
08:43to do this show
08:44might not even happen.
08:48What do we do now?
08:49In those days,
08:57most television programs
08:58were sponsored by a single advertiser.
09:02And so they had to find a sponsor
09:04that would pay to put the show on the air.
09:07They probably thought,
09:09what company's going to sponsor a show
09:11with a mixed-race marriage in it?
09:13Which is gross,
09:14but I'm just reporting.
09:15Their major sponsor
09:18ended up being Philip Morris.
09:21Oh, Desi, you're so good to me.
09:24Well, honey, you deserve the best.
09:26When Philip Morris stepped up,
09:28that really took it off the shelf.
09:30And Desi had all of these
09:31really advanced tech demands.
09:34Videotape hadn't been invented yet.
09:36There was no way to preserve
09:37a television signal,
09:38which was this flickering image
09:40that went out live over the airwaves.
09:42Pretty much every television broadcast
09:43before that is lost to time.
09:46And Desi was the one who said,
09:47let's do it on film.
09:49When Desi said,
09:50well, why don't we film it?
09:51CBS said, that will cost more.
09:53And if you do that,
09:54you're going to have to take a pay cut.
09:56And Desi had one condition.
09:57He said, I want to own the negatives.
09:58I want to own the film.
10:00CBS laughs about this
10:02in the negotiation
10:03and says to Desi,
10:04who's going to want to watch them
10:05after they air?
10:06CBS couldn't really get its head
10:08around the notion that
10:09television programs
10:10were going to be shown more than once.
10:11So it turned out to be
10:12an unbelievable deal.
10:14They say,
10:15we want to produce the show ourselves
10:16and sell it to you,
10:18which flips the entertainment
10:19business model on its head.
10:22It could be re-shown.
10:24So the rerun was born.
10:25And if it could be re-shown,
10:27it could be re-sold.
10:28So ultimately,
10:28the syndication market was born.
10:31In a very real way,
10:32Desi's innovations also helped
10:33draw the center of television production
10:35from the East Coast to the West Coast
10:37and made Los Angeles
10:38into the center of television production
10:40that it remains today.
10:42Sitcoms were not shot as multicams.
10:45No one really had expertise
10:47in how to light the set.
10:49Lucille Ball kind of needed the pressure
10:51of performing it like a play.
10:53That doesn't work without Carl Freund.
10:56Desi hired Carl Freund,
10:58the Academy Award-winning cinematographer.
11:00Figuring out how to light the entire set
11:03so that there were no shadows,
11:05so all of the cameras could pick up
11:06the movement at the same time.
11:09In comedy,
11:10if you can capture both the action
11:12and the reaction
11:12with multiple cameras running at once,
11:14then you completely capture the spontaneity.
11:16Then the trick was how to get an audience
11:18onto a motion picture soundstage,
11:20which was basically a working factory floor
11:22with all kinds of fire hazards
11:24and dangerous cables.
11:26And it had never been done.
11:28Lucille Ball always said
11:29that she was dead without an audience.
11:32Lucille Ball,
11:32as Desi wisely knew,
11:34performed better in front of people.
11:36There was pushback,
11:37how are we going to do that?
11:38Do we fit people in here?
11:40It was Desi who figured out
11:41that they could get about 300 people
11:43into a soundstage.
11:44Ladies and gentlemen,
11:46Mr. Desi Arnaz.
11:51As you know, this is film.
11:54And that's why you see
11:54all these cameras down here,
11:56because it's just like making a movie, see?
11:59The mother of my children,
12:00ladies and gentlemen.
12:02He plays Lucy.
12:03Lucille Ball.
12:06And then the audience is there
12:09and you're in front of the audience
12:10and it's so quick and fast.
12:15Finally, the show went on the air
12:17in October of 1951
12:19and it was more or less
12:20an overnight sensation.
12:22The first episode of I Love Lucy
12:23that premieres,
12:24the girls want to go to a nightclub.
12:26Well, look, Lucy,
12:27Monday's Fred's anniversary
12:28and he wants to go to the fights.
12:30Yeah, well,
12:31Monday's Ethel's anniversary too
12:32and she wants to go to a nightclub.
12:33The fact that they found
12:35Vivian Vance and William Frawley
12:37and they were as great as they were.
12:40I mean, Vivian had been a stage actress
12:41who knew that she could go toe-to-toe with Lucy
12:44and that they both had
12:45the best comic timing ever.
12:48William Frawley was often a heavy in movies.
12:51Did we know he could be lovable as Fred?
12:54They're great at musical comedy too.
12:55Did we know that?
12:57Lucy and Desi now had
12:58two amazing counterparts.
13:01That is a gift.
13:07I love Desi Arnaz.
13:13I loved his accent
13:14when I was a little kid.
13:16When Ricky Ricardo would like
13:17get angry and rattle off
13:19a really fast rant in Spanish.
13:21He's in show business
13:27and she wants to get into it.
13:30He wants to keep her out of it
13:31and keep her at home
13:32as a happy housewife
13:33and she is constantly scheming
13:35and dreaming of ways
13:36to get into the act.
13:38They've already hired another girl
13:39to do the commercial
13:40and they won't be needing you after all.
13:43Goodbye.
13:45Now you stand right over here.
13:46Yes, sir.
13:47Now let's try it once
13:48and remember
13:49be bright and vivacious.
13:50Yes, sir.
13:51All right.
13:51Vitamina vegemin.
13:53Vitamina vegemin.
13:54Vita vita med...
13:55Vita...
13:56Vita medagen.
13:58Vita vita...
13:58I'm not even going to be able to say it.
14:01Vitamina vegemin.
14:03It's so tasty too.
14:09Vitamina vegemin.
14:10If you watch that sequence
14:12you cannot believe
14:14she did that in one take.
14:15Which she did.
14:18This is Lucille Ball at her best.
14:22It's just like candy.
14:26Vitamina vegemin.
14:27Oh my God.
14:28That was so...
14:30Oh.
14:34That's the funniest drunk performance
14:36ever on television.
14:38Alcohol 23%.
14:40She's doing a commercial.
14:43She's slowly, slowly, slowly
14:44getting drunker.
14:45Well, I'm your vitamina vegemini banger.
14:50Do you pop out a party?
14:55Are you unpopular?
15:00The slow rise of it
15:03is just brilliant.
15:06That is a lesson
15:12in comedy timing.
15:19It changes television.
15:22The show was already doing
15:23really, really well.
15:25But Vitamina vegemini
15:27put it over the top.
15:28It's right after World War II
15:40and all of a sudden
15:41there's a boom in everything.
15:43And so TV could boom
15:44along with it.
15:46Soon enough,
15:47I Love Lucy
15:47became the number one show
15:49on television.
15:50That writing crew said,
15:52we are here
15:53and now we're going to be here.
15:54We've got them on the hook
15:55and now let's reel them in.
15:56Season 2 premieres
15:58with the chocolate factory.
16:00Job switching
16:00is what the episode
16:01is actually called.
16:02Who do you think
16:03does the housework?
16:04And who do you think
16:05cooks all the meals?
16:06Yeah.
16:06Oh, anybody can cook
16:08and do the housework.
16:09Ha!
16:09I'd just like to see
16:10you two try it for a week.
16:12So they decide
16:12to switch roles
16:13in the house.
16:14And the men stay home.
16:16The girls go and get jobs
16:17at a chocolate factory.
16:19Ricardo,
16:20I'm going to put you
16:20to work chocolate dipping.
16:22You say you've had experience.
16:23They used to call me
16:24the Big Dipper.
16:24The C's candy chocolate maker
16:28did not even know
16:29what I Love Lucy was.
16:30Hey, this is fun.
16:33They kind of had this history
16:34of bringing in
16:35like real professionals
16:35who had no acting experience.
16:37What do you do
16:38when you nose itches?
16:39That's why it was so funny
16:40because these people
16:41were genuinely trying
16:42to do what they were doing
16:44up against this complete clown.
16:46Ha!
16:48Ricky and Fred
16:49say that we'll make dinner.
16:51What do you know about rice?
16:52Well, I had a throne at me
16:54on one of the darkest days
16:55of my life.
16:57He decides to make
16:58a pound of rice per person.
17:00Hey, Ricky, watch this!
17:02Oh, no!
17:04Stop that rice!
17:05Hurry up, please!
17:06Well, they hadn't rehearsed it
17:07with the real rice.
17:08Desi accidentally falls.
17:12And he can hear the audience
17:13in real time
17:14with this explosive laugh.
17:15So he arranges to fall
17:17by accident on purpose
17:18two more times
17:19before the scene ends.
17:20He's a ham.
17:21All he had to do
17:26was be committed
17:26and he was.
17:28If one piece of candy
17:29gets past you
17:30and into the packing room
17:31unwrapped,
17:32you're fired.
17:34Yes, ma'am.
17:35Let her roll!
17:36In the last five minutes,
17:39Lucy and Ethel
17:39get put on a conveyor belt.
17:41Well, this is easier.
17:43Yeah, we can handle it, okay?
17:45We've all been
17:46underwater at work.
17:47We've all felt like
17:48we can't keep up.
17:49and it accesses
17:51something in us.
17:52The first time
17:53I watched Lucy
17:54in the chocolate factory,
17:56I just couldn't believe
17:57what I was saying.
18:02It was just brilliant.
18:07That, I think,
18:08is the standard
18:09by which every other sitcom
18:10has come from.
18:12Having an A story,
18:13having a B story,
18:14having running gags.
18:15You're doing splendidly.
18:17Speed and effort!
18:20When more than a million
18:21American households
18:22vote on the funniest scene
18:23in television,
18:24the conveyor belt
18:25was voted the funniest scene
18:27in television history.
18:28Audiences were, like,
18:34salivating for this show.
18:36They were captivated.
18:38You couldn't go anywhere
18:39without seeing Lucy and Desi
18:41on a magazine cover.
18:43Everything is going very well.
18:45Better than anyone
18:46might have even been able
18:47to dream.
18:48The sponsors are happy.
18:49The network's happy.
18:50The audience is happy.
18:51Lucy and Desi are happy.
18:53Stores are changing
18:54their hours of operation
18:55around the airing
18:58of I Love Lucy
18:58on Monday nights.
19:00And then Lucy gets pregnant.
19:02Lucy!
19:04Is that you, sweetie pie?
19:06And this is personally
19:07great news for them
19:08because they'd so much
19:08wanted children.
19:09But CBS and Philip Morris
19:12go nuts.
19:13It suddenly becomes,
19:15what does that mean
19:15for the show?
19:16Are we going to pause
19:17the show at its highest?
19:20Do we stop?
19:21Do we rework it?
19:23You can't have this
19:24pregnant woman on the air.
19:25What are you going to do?
19:26Can you shoot around her?
19:27And Desi's like,
19:27no way,
19:28because when Lucy gets pregnant,
19:29she really balloons.
19:30CBS and Philip Morris
19:32did not want
19:33Lucy Ricardo to be pregnant.
19:35Philip Morris essentially said,
19:37you know,
19:38in no uncertain terms,
19:39we're not moving forward
19:40with this show
19:40if there's going to be
19:41a Ricardo baby.
19:42That's not going to work for us.
19:43She can't be pregnant on TV.
19:46They said to themselves,
19:48Lucy Ball is pregnant.
19:49Why can't Lucy Ricardo
19:50be pregnant?
19:51Lucy and Ricky
19:52could have a baby.
19:53Okay,
19:53take it from real life.
19:55Their number one sponsor
19:56is a cigarette company.
19:58You know,
19:59what does that look like?
20:00Do we just pause for a year?
20:03The studio heads
20:03were freaking out.
20:05The sponsors
20:06were freaking out.
20:08So finally,
20:09Desi goes over the heads
20:10of the brass
20:11to the chairman
20:12of Philip Morris,
20:13the sponsor,
20:14and says,
20:14you know,
20:14we've given you
20:15the number one show
20:15on television.
20:16We're now being told
20:17that we can't do
20:18this plot line.
20:19If you don't want that,
20:20then it's okay with us,
20:22but we'll then have
20:23to cease being responsible
20:24for giving you
20:24the number one show
20:25on television.
20:26And then a memo
20:27comes through
20:28from Philip Morris
20:28that says,
20:29don't F with the Cupid.
20:31Gee,
20:32I'm going to have
20:33to go on a diet.
20:33You know,
20:33I could hardly get
20:34into my dress
20:35this morning.
20:36Hey, Lucy,
20:37wait a minute.
20:39You don't suppose...
20:41That's not in the Constitution
20:42that you can't say
20:43pregnant on TV.
20:43That was CBS's rule.
20:46I'm telling you,
20:47being an expectant father
20:48is pretty tough on a man.
20:50Yeah, I know,
20:50but you've got to
20:51go along with it.
20:52You couldn't even say
20:53the word pregnant
20:54in those days.
20:56Right.
20:56They say,
20:57I had to say expectant.
21:03It is so funny today
21:04to think that
21:05they weren't allowed
21:06to use the word pregnant.
21:09Then they're so brilliant,
21:11they make it into a joke
21:12with expectant.
21:13They worked it in.
21:14You don't suppose
21:15you're going to have a baby?
21:17Oh, of course not.
21:21Once she starts showing,
21:22they put her in
21:23very baggy shirts
21:24so that it's not too obvious.
21:26They had a minister,
21:28a priest,
21:28and a rabbi on set
21:29to make sure
21:29that nothing was offensive.
21:31It was incredibly taboo
21:33to portray a pregnant woman
21:36on television at that time.
21:37What did the doctor say?
21:39Ethel,
21:41we're going to have a baby.
21:43We are?
21:52Famously then,
21:53Lucy became pregnant
21:54in real life
21:54with their son,
21:55Desi Jr.,
21:56which was very controversial
21:57because there'd never really
21:58been a pregnant character
21:59on a television show.
22:00When she finds out
22:01she's going to have a baby
22:02and she needs to tell Ricky.
22:03She spends all day
22:04trying to find a quiet,
22:05private moment to tell him.
22:06She goes to the Tropicana.
22:08Ricky has passed a note
22:09that says,
22:09my husband and I
22:10have just found out
22:11that we're going to have
22:11a blessed event.
22:13That's how they said it.
22:15Ricky reads the note
22:16and doesn't realize
22:16who it's from.
22:17He sees that Lucy's in the crowd
22:19and he kind of jokingly
22:20points at her like,
22:21oh, is it you?
22:22And she nods
22:22and he realizes
22:23that she's pregnant
22:24and that he's going
22:26to be a dad.
22:27Honey, no.
22:28Yes.
22:28Really?
22:30It's me!
22:32I'm going to be a father!
22:34He sings while they dance together
22:36and they're crying.
22:39They want to be parents so bad.
22:40We're having a baby.
22:43The emotion,
22:44that scene when they really cried,
22:46nothing can top that.
22:47Lucy was in her early 40s,
22:49which especially at the time
22:50was quite old to be having a child.
22:52I bet he's going to look
22:53just like you.
22:54Oh, I hope not.
22:56You can just see
22:57the fourth wall
22:58kind of goes away.
23:00I'll bet she'll speak
23:00with an accent like you.
23:02Lucy and Desi
23:03really break character.
23:05This is not just happening
23:06on screen.
23:06This is really happening
23:07to these two performers
23:08I adore.
23:09My baby
23:11and me
23:15It's such a beautiful,
23:17truthful moment.
23:18Thank you.
23:26Ricky, this is it.
23:28This is it!
23:29This is it!
23:29This is it!
23:30Let's go!
23:31The whole episode
23:33is Lucy getting ready
23:34to go into labor
23:35at any minute.
23:36Desi's doing
23:37the best performance
23:38of his life
23:39as Ricky,
23:39freaking out.
23:42There's a creative genius
23:44and an ambition
23:45to Desi Arnaz
23:46and there's also
23:46some P.T. Barnum.
23:48Ricky has to go to the club
23:49and he gets into
23:50like some crazy makeup.
23:51Alfred!
23:53He's here!
23:54Yippee!
23:56Then he runs
23:57to the hospital
23:57in the makeup still.
23:59Oh, thank heavens
24:00you're back.
24:01How's Lucy?
24:01Oh, she's great
24:02but I'm a wreck.
24:04He isn't going
24:06to let the opportunity
24:07of the birth
24:09of the baby
24:11to America's sweetheart
24:12go by
24:13without it being
24:14a major splash.
24:16And it ends
24:17with little Ricky
24:18being presented
24:19to the world.
24:20This beautiful,
24:21like super round-headed
24:22little baby.
24:24It's not a coincidence
24:30that the scheduled
24:32C-section
24:32of Lucille Ball's baby
24:34is on the same day
24:36that the episode airs.
24:38For them to arrange
24:39for her to actually
24:40have her own child
24:42on the day
24:43that the show airs
24:44is just so wonderful
24:46but again,
24:47speaks to her
24:48business sense.
24:49She knew that would be
24:50a great publicity stunt.
24:51The news headline
24:53that goes around
24:54is Lucy sticks
24:55to the script.
24:55It's a boy.
24:57The real life
24:58Desi Arnaz Jr.
24:59was born on the same day
25:00as little Ricky
25:00and it was a sensation.
25:02It drew an audience
25:03that was larger
25:04than tuned in
25:04for Dwight Eisenhower's
25:06inauguration as president
25:07the next day.
25:07I mean,
25:09this is event television.
25:10The episode in which
25:12little Ricky is born
25:13to this day
25:14holds the Nielsen
25:15share ratings record
25:16for most households
25:17with televisions
25:18tuned into the same thing
25:20at the same time.
25:21A record that is
25:22most likely
25:23never going to be broken.
25:25Nobody does that today.
25:27That's more than
25:28the Super Bowl.
25:29That's more than anything
25:30that we could even imagine
25:31in television today.
25:33In Chicago,
25:35at quarter past the hour,
25:37halfway through the show,
25:38the water pressure
25:39in the municipal water system
25:40suddenly plunged
25:41because everybody
25:42was flushing the toilet
25:43at the same time
25:43in the first commercial break.
25:45It's just,
25:46it's unheard of.
25:49Lucy and Desi
25:50are really
25:51the first major
25:52celebrity power couple
25:54in television.
25:56People feel invested
25:57in them as human beings.
25:59They feel let into their lives.
26:01That's really the genius
26:02behind the show
26:03is it's very parasocial.
26:05A lot of celebrities now
26:07really recreate.
26:08I mean, Taylor Swift
26:09is like, you know,
26:10the expert of this, right?
26:11Her name is Lucy,
26:13both on and off camera.
26:14It's fairly meta.
26:16It almost makes the sitcom
26:17even more believable.
26:19Desi Jr. experiences
26:20a lifetime of being confused
26:23with little Ricky
26:24from the show.
26:27Hi, Pony.
26:28Hi, partner.
26:30They took me in
26:32as their own child
26:34and introduced me
26:36to their children,
26:37Lucy Jr. and Desi Jr.,
26:39who I became
26:40really good friends with
26:42as a kid
26:43and we grew up together.
26:44We've got to get
26:44out of that outfit, dear.
26:45You know,
26:46we want to surprise Daddy
26:47and he's going to be home
26:48any old dear.
26:49There was always
26:50that dynamic
26:51of people getting us
26:54mixed up.
26:55I think in Desi's mind,
26:57it was very hard.
26:59He wanted to do
27:00what I did.
27:02After the pregnancy episodes,
27:03they are riding high.
27:04The show,
27:05it just feels untouchable.
27:07They are at the top
27:08of the world.
27:08It is my pleasure
27:10to present
27:11the Television Academy's
27:121953 National Award
27:13for the best situation comedy
27:15to I Love Lucy.
27:20Nothing can go wrong, right?
27:22And, you know,
27:25Joe McCarthy shows up
27:26on the scene.
27:27And before news cameras,
27:29Senator McCarthy
27:29in a dramatic confrontation.
27:31You can't make good
27:33and honest motion pictures
27:34in an atmosphere of fear.
27:36And Lucy,
27:37the most famous person
27:38in the world
27:38in television,
27:40gets accused
27:40of being a communist
27:41at the height
27:41of the McCarthy era.
27:42This was in the middle
27:43of the Red Scare.
27:44It's a real dark stain
27:46on the business.
27:47People were being
27:47wrongfully accused
27:48of being communists
27:50and really impacted
27:51a lot of talent
27:52in Hollywood.
27:53That's the way
27:54her life works, right?
27:55Like, every time
27:56something goes wrong.
27:58This time,
27:58it's the thing
27:59that could genuinely end her.
28:01All the other things,
28:03they're all pittance
28:04compared to this.
28:06This is the thing
28:06that can get you
28:07put in jail,
28:08get you blacklisted.
28:10People really, really
28:11are scared of communists
28:12at this point.
28:13This could end the show
28:14and put hundreds
28:15of people out of work
28:16and ruin everything
28:18that they've worked for.
28:27Lucy was a legitimately
28:28registered member
28:29of the Communist Party.
28:31The news really seized on it.
28:33Lucy's a Red.
28:36In hair and in, like, spirit.
28:38Lucy's a commie.
28:40It's really debatable
28:41whether she cared
28:41about politics really at all.
28:43Like, in her spirit,
28:44who knows?
28:46She did it as a favor
28:47to her grandfather
28:48because he helped raise her.
28:51It's a big scandal.
28:54Lucy's really scared.
28:55She's scared she's gonna get booed.
28:57She worked so hard
28:58for her career.
29:00It was terrifying for her.
29:03Desi went out
29:04before they filmed
29:05the next episode.
29:06And he says that
29:07she's not a communist,
29:08that she loves America,
29:09that he loves America.
29:11Desi Arnaz was very
29:12patriotic about America.
29:14Desi had a perfect
29:15response to that,
29:16which is,
29:17the only thing read about Lucy
29:18is her hair.
29:19That's not even real.
29:20My wife, Lucille Ball.
29:22People leap to their feet,
29:24applaud, screaming,
29:26and it's over.
29:28She was able
29:29to overcome it all.
29:30But I think the fact
29:30that even she got dragged
29:32into it says a lot
29:33about what was going on
29:34in America in the 1950s.
29:37Desi pretty much
29:38shut it down.
29:39Desi was a badass.
29:40He just really knew
29:42how to talk to people.
29:44They are so important
29:46to the American people
29:47that Lucy gets out
29:48of communism.
29:50Like, it's like,
29:50Lucy gets out of McCarthyism
29:52because of how important
29:53she is.
29:54I Love Lucy is still
29:55enduring because it's funny.
29:56It's still, first of all,
29:57just a fun watch.
30:01Isn't it beautiful?
30:03And you get a bunch
30:04of classic episodes
30:05that are the ones
30:05that people who really
30:06love the show
30:07go back to the most.
30:08And you get all
30:09of these celebrity guests.
30:11William Holden shows up.
30:12John Wayne shows up.
30:20Harpo Mark shows up.
30:24I'm inspired by
30:26what that show
30:27was able to do
30:28that we're not allowed
30:30to do on television now.
30:32There are takes
30:34on that show
30:35that last four minutes
30:37with no dialogue.
30:38And, of course,
30:39Lucy goes to the famous
30:40Brown Derby restaurant
30:41and she runs into
30:42William Holden.
30:43And, of course,
30:43she just wants
30:44to be a star, right?
30:45But she ultimately
30:46sets her nose on fire.
30:47Tell me, Mrs. Ricciardo,
30:59have you ever
31:00considered acting?
31:02Has she ever
31:03considered acting?
31:06Somebody said,
31:07do you have a favorite one?
31:08And you just said
31:08the word grapes
31:09and people broke
31:10into applause.
31:11I was a grape stomper.
31:12The woman that
31:19Lucy recorded
31:20that scene with
31:21very notably
31:22was Italian
31:23and she did not
31:24stage wrestle Lucy.
31:27So I made a dance
31:28out of it like this
31:29and finally I slipped
31:31and in slipping
31:33I hit her
31:34and she took offense
31:35and so she hauled off
31:37and let me have it.
31:37She tipped me down
31:45by the throat
31:46and I had grapes
31:48up my nose
31:49in my ears
31:50and she was choking me
31:52and I'm really beating her
31:54to get her off.
31:59And we had to stop
32:00and somebody had to
32:01come in and say,
32:02look, let her up eventually.
32:05We had to get on
32:05with the scene.
32:06She said, oh yeah,
32:07don't we want to get him
32:08out.
32:14This woman
32:15doesn't realize
32:16this is like stage combat.
32:18We need to take it easy.
32:19She almost drowns.
32:26She like beat her up.
32:28That was Lucille Ball's
32:30favorite episode
32:31on record
32:32of I Love Lucy.
32:34Don't do that
32:35at the table, dear.
32:35Do that again, son.
32:37Ricky.
32:38Look like he's
32:39going to be a drummer.
32:40Well, he certainly is not.
32:41That's the last thing
32:41in the world
32:42I want him to be.
32:43I started playing drums
32:45when I was
32:46like two years old
32:47on trash cans
32:48in my backyard
32:49in Lafayette, Louisiana.
32:50The audition for the
32:54I Love Lucy show,
32:55they were looking to expand
32:56the part of Little Ricky.
32:58I went to meet Lucy
33:00there in her glory.
33:02There she was
33:02in the flesh.
33:04And she looked at me
33:05and she said,
33:06well, he's cute,
33:07but what does he do?
33:09My dad said,
33:10he plays the drums.
33:11She said,
33:12well, there's a set of drums.
33:13So I played,
33:15started jamming on the drums.
33:16Finally, Desi himself
33:18came over,
33:19started playing with me,
33:20stood up after a while,
33:21laughed and said,
33:22I think we found Little Ricky.
33:36My dad said,
33:37this is huge.
33:38You know,
33:38this is a big deal.
33:39Here I am,
33:40like four and a half years old.
33:42I was Little Ricky.
33:44The Babalu episode,
33:45the Ricardos go to Havana.
33:47Lucy meets Desi's family
33:48and it's this whole dynamic there.
33:50I love that episode.
33:51It's so sweet.
33:52Glad you've made my son,
33:55Ricky Jr.
33:56It's a lot of pressure,
33:58you know,
33:58for a little kid.
33:59I did other shows after that,
34:01but this was the big one.
34:02It was in front of a live audience.
34:04You did one take
34:05and that was it.
34:10It hurt my hand so much to do it
34:12because I'm not used to playing,
34:13like that,
34:14you know,
34:15the Congos.
34:16And it's like my voice cracked
34:19and it was like web.
34:24It was just kind of funny.
34:27And Lucy was very demanding
34:29and everybody being right on cue.
34:31Desi treated me really,
34:32really good.
34:33He teaches how to fish
34:35and ride horses
34:36and swim.
34:38I had a heart for him.
34:40We can't stash away
34:42five dozen eggs.
34:43You get the longest recorded laugh
34:45in I Love Lucy history.
34:47They raise chickens.
34:48Well,
34:49I'm going to put some
34:49in my blouse.
34:50Lucy puts a ton of eggs
34:52in her shirt
34:53and then has to practice
34:54a tango.
34:54She keeps committing.
35:01She doesn't break.
35:03The more the audience
35:04is laughing,
35:04the more she goes for it.
35:08It's the only time
35:09they ever cut a laugh down
35:10in the show's history.
35:19By the fall of 1957,
35:21Desi and Lucy were pretty exhausted
35:22from the weekly pace
35:23of the show.
35:27It's unusual for a show
35:28to end when you're on top.
35:31They could have probably
35:32kept going,
35:33but I think they were just,
35:34they were tired
35:35and the show ends.
35:37I think they called it
35:38at the right time.
35:39She understood that
35:40leave them wanting more.
35:43There was identification
35:44with an American audience,
35:46but with audiences
35:47all over the world,
35:48we found out.
35:49They didn't have to understand
35:50the language
35:51to understand the predicament
35:52and the way I got in
35:53and the way I got out
35:54and the love at the end.
35:57We always had a happy ending.
35:59And domestic situations
36:00are very easily identified
36:03all over the world.
36:04When the bar is set
36:06that high,
36:06that early,
36:07we can all be grateful
36:08for what happens
36:09for what happens in entertainment
36:09thereafter.
36:12Because Desi had retained
36:14the rights to I Love Lucy,
36:15there were so many episodes
36:16in the can
36:17that they were worth
36:17quite a lot.
36:19They made the decision
36:20to sell them back
36:21to CBS
36:22for something like
36:23$5 million.
36:24With that nest egg,
36:26it became the seed money
36:27that allowed them
36:28to buy the RKO Studios lot
36:30in Hollywood,
36:31which is where they'd met
36:31in 1940.
36:32and that made them
36:34the largest physical plant
36:36of movies and television
36:37in all of Los Angeles,
36:39bigger than any
36:39of the other big studios.
36:41Lucille Ball was
36:42the first female studio head.
36:46She was,
36:47by all accounts,
36:48pretty good at it.
36:49After she bought him
36:51out of the company
36:51in 1962,
36:52she went on to lead it
36:53and thereby became
36:54the first female head
36:56of a studio in Hollywood.
36:56it was the general motors
36:58of television.
37:00She was being asked
37:01to do something
37:02that no other woman
37:03was being asked to do.
37:05She was brave enough
37:05to leave her marriage.
37:07She was brave enough
37:08to keep coming up
37:10with new opportunities
37:11for herself
37:12and her talent.
37:14They just consistently
37:15produce more and more
37:17great shows,
37:18not just comedy TV.
37:20The Untouchables.
37:25Odessi Lu production.
37:26The Untouchables,
37:29which really created
37:30kind of the crime TV genre
37:32as we know it today.
37:36Dessi Lu produced
37:37what became
37:38The Twilight Zone.
37:41In 1966,
37:43there were two pilots
37:44in development
37:44and her business advisors
37:46told her that she'd wind up
37:47having to sell the studio
37:48if she greenlit them.
37:49But she believed
37:50in both of those shows
37:51and she gave the go-ahead
37:52and the two shows
37:54were Star Trek
37:54and Mission Impossible.
37:56don't want to sue them.
38:01Lucille Ball gets to a point
38:03of having the confidence
38:04to overrule
38:05her all-male board of directors
38:07not once but twice
38:09to greenlight and fund
38:11the pilot
38:12of what becomes Star Trek.
38:14That was one
38:14that she got a lot of flack for
38:16but she believed in it
38:17and now some people
38:18call her the mother
38:19of sci-fi TV.
38:20They look like
38:21women from Mars!
38:22Lucille Ball had vision.
38:27She was a smart businesswoman.
38:28who was brave
38:30and also very, very savvy.
38:33Desilu Studios
38:34became the largest producer
38:35of television content
38:36in the world.
38:37Because of what Lucille Ball did
38:39in forming Desilu Productions
38:40and really was responsible
38:42for the entire invention
38:44of syndicated American television
38:47and that is what gave us
38:49all the shows
38:50that we love today
38:51to be able to be seen
38:52in repeats.
38:53Lucy and Desi
38:54created television
38:56as we know it.
38:57To this day
38:58that's still how
38:59television operates.
39:00That all started
39:01with I Love Lucy.
39:02Most shows fade
39:10and their legacy fades.
39:12Maybe they spoke
39:12to the times
39:13when they aired
39:14but they don't age well.
39:15I Love Lucy
39:16is so timeless.
39:17For me
39:17as a TV watcher
39:19I Love Lucy
39:20is the iconic show.
39:23The way that
39:24she functioned
39:26as a lead character
39:27is also
39:29really impactful.
39:30You know
39:30you see that
39:31in like Maud
39:32Mary Tyler Moore
39:34Murphy Brown
39:34this kind of
39:35woman with a dream.
39:37A show like Carol Burnett
39:38her physical comedy
39:40definitely was influenced
39:42by Lucy.
39:42We all are
39:44influenced by Lucy.
39:46I was all about
39:47Lucille Ball
39:47but then you
39:48once you learn
39:49everything that Desi did
39:50like you can't
39:51separate
39:52Lucille Ball's success
39:53from Desi Arnaz's genius.
39:55Like their geniuses
39:56complemented each other
39:57in this gorgeous way
39:58that made
39:59everything work.
40:01their last words
40:02to each other
40:02are I love you.
40:04Then a few days later
40:05Lucy is honored
40:07at the Kennedy Center
40:08with a Kennedy Center
40:09honor.
40:10The biggest award
40:11an American performer
40:12can get.
40:13When she gets announced
40:15everybody jumps
40:16to their feet.
40:18This is 30 years
40:20after I Love Lucy.
40:21She couldn't believe it.
40:22Robert Stack
40:25reads a letter
40:26that Desi wrote
40:27on his deathbed.
40:29I Love Lucy
40:29had just one mission
40:31to make people laugh.
40:33He talks a lot
40:34about how
40:35I Love Lucy
40:36would have been
40:36nothing without Lucy.
40:38Desi concluded
40:39Lucy was the show.
40:42Viv and Fred
40:43and I were just props.
40:45Damn good props
40:45but props nevertheless.
40:49P.S.
40:51I Love Lucy
40:52was never just a title.
40:54And I mean
40:59he'd been dead
40:59for maybe five days.
41:01Lucy is beside
41:02herself crying.
41:04I Love Lucy
41:04was never just a title.
41:06I think that was
41:06like a really beautiful gift
41:08that he gave her
41:09at the end
41:09in such a public way
41:10and to just say
41:11you were
41:12the heart and soul
41:13and the spirit
41:14and the star
41:14and it was wonderful
41:16to be able to support you.
41:17It's so beautiful.
41:18I love Lucy
41:21and she loves me
41:23We're as happy
41:26as Stu can be
41:29Sometimes we quarrel
41:32but then
41:32How will love
41:36make it up again
41:37Lucy kisses
41:39like no one can
41:41She's my missus
41:44and I'm her man
41:45And life is heaven
41:47you'll see
41:49Cause I love Lucy
41:51Yes, I love Lucy
41:53And Lucy loves me
41:57And I love Lucy
41:59And I love Lucy
42:00and I love Lucy
42:01and I love Lucy
42:03and I love Lucy
42:05and I love Lucy
42:07and I love Lucy
42:09and I love Lucy
42:11and I love Lucy
42:13and I love Lucy
42:14and I love Lucy
42:15and I love Lucy
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42:17and I love Lucy
42:18and I love Lucy
42:19and I love Lucy
42:20and I love Lucy
42:21and I love Lucy
42:22and I love Lucy
42:23and I love Lucy
42:24and I love Lucy
42:25and I love Lucy
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