-In
The Tour when Lucy is laying down in Richard Whidmarks den. Watch at the doorway
you can see someone holding Richard's dog Cap until its his time to enter.-In
The Tour when Lucy is laying down in Richard Whidmarks den. Watch at the doorway
you can see someone holding Richard's dog Cap until its his time to enter.
-In
"Paris at Last" Ethel says she bought a bag when she went shopping. It
was a leapard print document case. Earlier in "Passports," when Lucy
goes to visit Helen Kaiser, Lucy is carrying that very same bag. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
-In "Sales
Resistance" Fred buys Ethel an new Handy Dandy washing machine. However, a
mere 14 episodes later in "Never Do Business With Friends," Ethel
calls her washing machine an "old relic" and says, "honestly, I
think it was one of the first ones ever made." (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In the I LOVE LUCY pilot episode, right before Ricky gets up, a shadow
quickly passes by the dresser in front of his bed. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In episode #1, "Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to murder her", when
Lucy and Ricky are dancing, you can see part of the bedroom at the left side of
the screen. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- You can see the shadows of the production staff on the walls in the background
in several episodes, especially in "The Seance" #7. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In the episode "Breaking the Lease" #18, Ethel plays such songs as
Sweet Sue. In a later episode (where Ricky directs and all girl band), Ethel can
definatly not play the piano. In "Ragtime Band" #173, Ethel can't play
the piano there as well, and then in the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour with Ernie and
Eadie Covax, Ethel plays the piano accompaniment for Eadie's song. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "The Ballet" #19 Fred's ex-vaudeville partner was named Ted
Kurtz. Later on in the run of the show he had transformed into Barney Kurtz. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "The Gossip" #24, Ricky said that Bill and Grace Foster lived in
3B. Later in "Anniversary Present" #36, they lived in 2A. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" #30, when Ricky is singing, you see
Lucy standing in the apartment setup, watching and smoking a cigarette. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #35 "Ricky Asks for a Raise," Lucy, Fred and Ethel do the
quick-change act to get Ricky's job back. One of the three is seated at a table
supposedly for 12, but there's only 4 places set at the table! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "Vacation From Marriage" #41, Lucy & Ethel are in the kitchen
talking about how each of them can predict what their husband will do and say
down to the last word. Ethel says "he hasn't varied 5 minutes in 22
years." Then in the following scene, Fred says that after 25 yrs of
marriage - Guess to Fred it feels like 25. :-) But then again in "The
Courtroom" #42, they indicate it's for the 25th, yet only one year earlier
the had celebrated their 18th anniversary. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- #43, "Redecorating"; you can see Fred waiting in the hallway to come
on for his scene. It is when Ricky wants to check out what Ethel and Lucy have
done where you see Fred behind them in the hallway. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- #44 "Ricky Loses His Voice", when Ricky is singing in the beginning
of the show with Marco playing the piano, he tells Marco to call Lucy. Marco
answers with, "OK, Des."... instead of Ricky. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song" #47, you can see Lucy untying her
dress to make her pant fall down. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #49 "Ricky Has Labor Pains," Lucy is sitting in a big comfy
chair reading a magazine which if you look closely you can see she is reading an
article about the show she's in. The front cover clearly says: "I Love
Lucy". (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "The Camping Trip" #64 Ethel was able to drive a car. In
"Lucy Learns to Drive" #109, she asked Lucy to teach her how to drive. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Ethel Mertz's middle name was Louise in "Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same
Dress" #69, but in "The Middle-Dollar Idea" #79, it had become
Vivian's real middle name, Roberta. In "Ethel's Hometown" #113, it was
Mae. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #109 "Lucy Learns to Drive" If you look closely at the
ground you can see a cable pulling the Pntiac into the Cadillac when Ethel steps
on the gas. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #111 "First Stop!", when Lucy gets out of the car to look at
a sign, her jacket is white, when she gets back in the car it's black. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #111, "First Stop", when the bed moves back an forth you can
see a track or wire on the floor moving the bed along. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In episode #124 "Harpo Marx," Lucy had a friend named Caroline
Applebee, but in a later episode #54 "Club Election", Lucy bribed the
same friend only now her name was Lillian Applebee.
- In episode #127 "The Tour," Lucy and Ethel get off the bus to get a
Richard Widmark grape fruit, when the bus pulls away it shows them still on the
bus. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Tennessee Ernie Visits" #94, when Ricky is explaining to Lucy
how they are going to let Ernie find the ticket in the hallway, Ricky is
immitation Ernie findin the ticket and bends down to pick it up. The camera goes
down too, and if you look at the bottom of the screen, you can see a cord
running across the floor. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "The Fox Hunt" #143, as soon as Lucy gets on the horse, the horn
is blown, and the horse takes off. As it takes off, in between some bushes, you
can see someone pulling the horse. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy Meets Bob Hope" #154, Lucy, Ricky, and Bob do the song
"Nobody Loves the Ump". In this routine Lucy gets her cleats stuck in
the new floor section so she had 1'x1' squares on the bottom of her shoes. Right
after the routine ends, the tile squares suddenly disappear from her feet. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #171, "Lucy Raises Chickens"; when Lucy, Fred, and Ethel are
in the kitchen taking a break from rounding up the chickens, Little Ricky comes
in from outside, you can see a hand from outside the "house" pushing
him through the door. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In episodes originally broadcast only a month apart in 1952, Ricky mentioned
that he and Lucy had lived in the Mertzes' apartment building for five years,
then nine years; and then a few segments later, he gave the exact move-in date,
August 6, 1948! By 1954, it had sudddenly leaped to twelve years," says
Bart Andrews in "The 'I Love Lucy' Book." (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- The Ricardos phone number seemed to change alot. First is was, Murray Hill
5-9975, then is became Circle 7-2099, then again is changed to Murray Hill
5-9099. For this blooper, though, there is an explination. To ensure that fans
would not call the number and actually get a hold of someone, the phone company
would tell them which numbers they could use that would not be already assigned. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "The Ricardos Visit Cuba" #162, Uncle Alberto ruins his hat while
listening to Ricky and Little Ricky play the drums, and seconds later the hat is
as good as new. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy Wants to Moves To The Country" #167, when Lucy, Fred, and
Ethel dress up as gangsters to try to get the deposit back, there is a
Grandfather clock by the front door and there are plates on the fireplace
mantel. Then when the Riccardo's actually move in, the spot where the clock was
is empty, but a few episodes later, the same Grandfather clock is back next to
the front door, and the same plates are back up on the fireplace mantel. I guess
the Riccardo's shopped at the same store as the previous owners. :-) (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy Thinks Ricky is Going to Murder Her" #1, you can see Lucy
purposely dropped the frying pan she was using to protect her from Ricky. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- When the cast gets ready to go to Hollywood, they state that they'd never had
a car before. But when Lucy and Ricky go to Connecticut to "renew"
their vows ("The Marraige License" #26), Ricky is driving a car (since
he owes the gas station man money and since he says several times I'll go get
the car). Now this could simply be because the car wa rented for something but I
found it rather interesting. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to Murder Her" #1, the couch in the
living room is different from the couch in "The Girls Want to Go to a
Nightclub" #2. It was the same style... almost. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- And what happened to Butch, Fred's dog in "The diet" #4. We never
heard of him again. Plus, when Little Ricky brings "Fred" the dog home
"Little Ricky Gets a Dog" #165, we find out that everyone signed a
lease saying no pets... AND in #9, "Drafted", Lucy believes she hears
Little Ricky crying, but Ethel explains that it's just Mrs. Trumbell's cat.
Hmmm... guess it was landlord privilege. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Lucy says that she can only play "Gloworm" on her sax in "The
Saxophone" #40, but later on she says she can play "Sweet Sue"
and knows several other tunes when the dreaded instrument comes out. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- In "Lucy and John Wayne", when Ethel barges in saying "Have you
seen the morning paper?!", something flies out of Lucy's hand! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "Too Many Crooks", when the girls tell Fred which way the REAL
Madam X went, Fred runs the opposite way, which would take him right out to
Lucy's living room window! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "Redecorating the Mertzes Apartment", after the feather fiasco
when Lucy and Ethel are in the Ricardo's living room, you can see a feather
float down from above the set! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In the I Love Lucy Christmas Special where the gang are remenencing about old
times, at one point Fred turns on the lights on the tree and within 10 seconds,
they pop back off. Pay attention to Lucy during this scene, she deliberately
pulls the plug on the tree, causing the lights to pop off. She covers up for it
by laughing. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "Too Many Crooks", Lucy has a little trouble with her dialog,
saying, "Ricky, have you seen your silvo-silver cigarette case?"
- In "Dancing Star" #125 Lucy is in the dressing room getting ready
when she accidentally calls Ethel "Viv.." (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In "The Long, Long Trailer" there is a scene near the end of the
film where Nicki told Tacy to throw out all the rocks and other things she had
collected, because they were going to climb to 8,000 feet the following day and
couldn't afford the extra weight. They started up the mountain, made a curve,
and drive past the camera. In the reflection on the side of the trailer there
are figures of at least three people. One behind the camera, one with a light
reflector, and another standing to their left (apparently the director). Unless
one looks closely they are not noticed. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #168 "Lucy Hates to Leave" The scene opens with the clock on
the wall showing 2:00 a.m. Ricky is pacing the floor, worried about their big
investment, all the while smoking a cigarette. Lucy gets up and while consoling
him, he puts the smoldering cigarette in an ashtray. After reassuring him, Lucy
and Ricky get back in bed and Ricky, feeling better, goes to sleep. The next
scene opens with the clock on the wall indicating 3:00a.m.,an hour later. Now
it's Lucy who can't sleep. They both get up to talk again and that's where I
noticed the blooper. The cigarette in the ashtray is still smoldering! I don't
know what you might think, but to me, a cigarette cannot smolder as much as that
one did for an hour. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #128 "Lucy Visits Grauman's", at one point after she gets
her foot stuck in the cement, she pretends to be sleeping in Fred and Ethel's
hotel room, but get a good look at the room. It is seen in a later California
episode ("The Great Train Robbery") and it is completely different! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #108 "Getting Ready," Fred drives off to the right in the
Cadillac, and the camera follows him. You can see far down the street and part
of the audience! (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- This is a blooper for every Connecticut episode. As all Lucy fans know, in the
Ricardo's kitchen, there is a stairwell leading upstairs, but where does it go?
If you look up the stairs out in the front of the house, you can see that it
doesn't go over far enough to reach the kitchen. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #98 "Lucy Cries Wolf", a neighbor calls and tells Ricky that
Lucy is out on the window ledge, Ricky tells Fred and Ethel that she's out there
by writing something on a piece of paper, he didn't write enough to tell who
told him that Lucy was out there, so only he knew who called. Later when he
closes the window and Lucy comes in, they say that they knew she was out there
and Ethel says who called and told them, but Ricky was the only one who knew who
called (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #80 "Ricky Minds the Baby", after Ricky tells the story he
later says to Lucy that he never heard "A mice giggle so loud". But
she never really made any noise when she laughed, all she did was smile. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #9, "Drafted", Lucy believes she hears Little Ricky crying,
but Ethel explains that it's just Mrs. Trumbell's cat. (Hmmm... what ever
happened to no pets allowed?) Also, Lucy boo boo'd. Little Ricky was not born
yet in the first season. (thanks to ranina98@yahoo.com)
- Episode #33 "Lucy's Schedule", Phoebe Littlefield makes a mistake
when she says "if my Alvin sees what he likes here tonight..."
instead of "if my Alvin likes what he sees here tonight..." (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #17, "Lucy Write a Play", a few minutes after Lucy finishes
the last page, Ethel walks in and there are two scripts, one for Lucy and one
for Ethel. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #110, "Califonia, Here we Come", Mrs. MacGillicuddy says she
is going to take her book to Dory Schary, but in the Dory Schary episode while
they are California, Mrs. MacGillicuddy repeatedly asks "Who's Dory Schary?" (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #11 "Jealous of Girl Dancer", Ricky and Rosemary are
practicing a dance routine when Ricky purposely steps on her dress, causing it
to tear, then he acts like it was an accident. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #38 ,"The Operetta", the men are taking the props. When they
start to take Ricky, you can see one of the peasant girls waiting to run out as
if the men were chasing her. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #57, "No Children Allowed", Ethel accidentally refers to
Mrs. Trumble as "old Mrs. Trimble" when talking to the club women. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #43, "Redocorating", Lucy and Ethel decide to wallpaper the
room. Ricky comes home and wants to see what they have done to the bedroom. As
they are walking down the hallway to the bedroom, Ricky walks in the room and
Lucy walks behind him. If you watch carefully after Lucy enters the room, you
can see Fred standing there and he backs up behind the wall waiting for his cue.
He backed up realizing that he was in the camera's eye. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #96, "The Golf Game", when they are about to play, Lucy gets
to go first because she was second from the top. When Lucy and Ethel played
Jimmy DeMarit, he went first because he was fourth down from the top. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #125, "Dancing Star", Lucy is trying to convince Ricky that
she danced with Van Johnson. She says, "I did-I vanced with Dan." (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #51 "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", she says "This is it!" and Fred purposely unlocks the suitcase letting everything fall out. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- Episode #6, "The Audition Show", when Buffo crashes through the
kitchen door, you can tell ita fake because the real door is laying up against
the wall in the kitchen. (thanks to anthony@bestweb.net)
- In the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour where little Ricky gets a horse, as the race
begins, we see Whirling Jet bolter to the outside rail. Lucy reveals herself by
removing her fake mustache, then Whirling Jet trots away from her. We see her
"double" on the racetrack running towards the horse, and we notice
that she (or he) DROPS the whip onto the track at the same time. Then, during
the race, we see that the whip is attached to the wheel of Whirling Jet's sulky! (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
- Episode #88, "Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation", when Freddy Filmoore asked
Ethel & Fred whose mother she was, they said it was Ethel's mom. Ethel's
last name was Potter. When Freddy told everyone that Mother Mertz was sick, it
should have been Mother Potter. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
-Episode #43 "Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment", towards the end,
Lucy and Ethel are sitting on Lucy's sofa (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
-Episode #108 "Getting Ready", I string can be seen pulling off the
front grill of the car (thanks to pascetti18@hotmail.com)
-In the episodes where they celebrate their anniversaries, the date changes from
episode to episode. In episode #121 "Hollywood Anniversary" they say
it is on one day and in episode #36 "Anniversary Present" Lucy makes a
big deal about a day circled on the calendar, but it is a different day! (thanks to pascetti18@hotmail.com)
-In episode #30 "Lucy Does a TV Commercial", Take a look at the
curtain that hangs down the back of the TV set. After Lucy gets out the curtain
is on TOP of the Tv and Desi promptly pushes it down. In the next cut to the
master (obviously a different master) the curtain is back up again. (thanks
to jpd1@mediaone.net)
-In episode
#36 "The Anniversary Present", Ricky gives Lucy a string of pearls for
their anniversay, but in the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode #12 "The
Ricardos go to Japan", Lucy doesn't have any real pearls and is determined
to get some. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
-There are quite a few episodes where Ricky mentions that he couldn't speak English until he came to the USA, but in the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode #1 "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana" Ricky CAN speak English (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
-In episode #65 "Ricky's Life Story", Ethel is looking at a picture of Ricky making arroz con pollo in Life magazine and says that she' seen him like that a dozen times, but in episode #39 "Job Switching", Ricky definatly CANNOT make it. (thanks to Cheezylu Productions)
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