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On Break + The Lucy Desi Center

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The Lucille Ball Little Theatre in her hometown of Jamestown, New York.

The Lucille Ball Little Theatre in her hometown of Jamestown, New York.

Hey everyone! I’m taking a break this week!

I’ll be back next Friday with a full write-up of one my favorite episodes: “Breaking the Lease.”

But I can’t leave you hanging without something Lucy that makes you say W…T…F…, so here’s a thing you need to know exists:

The Lucy Desi Center for Comedy in Jamestown, NY, houses a comedy museum and tons of special events. And unlike what’s inside, it’s no joke. (See how lame my comedy is this week? THIS IS WHY I need a break.)

Programming includes the 2015 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, where headliners this year include Jerry Seinfeld and Nick Offerman. And registration is also now open for the Lucy Town Half Marathon and 5K, taking place October 10-11, 2015 in Jamestown, NY. (Yes of course, some people run it in Lucy costumes.)

But most importantly, the center is the new home for that hideous-as-hell Lucy statue we all wish our nightmares would forget. 

At some point in this process, I intend to visit. Shouldn’t be too difficult considering I have about a million years left before I’m done with these people.

See you next week!

I Love Lucy S01 E017 – Lucy Writes a Play

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(Or: Lucy writes two plays)

**Get the WTFacts here first!**

OMG, Ballers. OMG OMG. This week Lucy writes a play. And when I’m not making the big bucks writing Lucy satire, I have a lucrative career as a playwright.

This is going to be so. much. fun.

We open on Lucy surrounded by books and a typewriter. It looks like “Lucy Goes to Medical School” but that episode never happened because it would have been a break in natural law.

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I Love Lucy S01 E16 – Lucy Fakes Illness

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(Or: 26 minutes of terrible psychiatric advice)

**Get Your WTFacts Here!**

Hi, Ballers! I’m so excited for this week. For the first time in a while, this week’s episode doesn’t involve any serious abuse or torture. Well Fred tortures a few jokes, but that’s about it.

It DOES however, involve unapologetic, unrelenting false information about the human brain. Let’s break down this breakdown.

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I Love Lucy S01 E15 – Lucy Plays Cupid

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(OR: Lucy is assaulted twice, then traded on the black market.) 

**Wanna keep up? Episode Watch Party!**

Oh my, Ballers. Where do we even start this week? I’m going to start at the beginning, but be warned: there will be a detour. I’ve been waiting for this episode, and dreading it.

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Episode Watch Party S01 E15: “Lucy Plays Cupid”

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Satirical commentary of I Love Lucy every Friday! Here’s the info to watch ahead, plus all the WTFacts for this week. 

This Week’s Episode:

“Lucy Plays Cupid”

Original Air Date:

January 21, 1952

*Note – I’m going to have to stop putting up videos of the full episodes, because… CBS. If, let’s say, hypothetically, there are videos of every single episode out there somewhere on some very well-known site, and all you have to do is use the search feature, you didn’t hear it from me.

This Week’s WTFacts:

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I Love Lucy S01 E14 – The Amateur Hour

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(OR: Lucy Takes a Horse-Size Birth Control Pill)

**Wanna keep up? Episode watch party!**

Ballers, bad news: Lucy is fuuuuuuuuucked. She bought a dress on sale, and now she has to “smooch Ricky into it” so she can keep it. Funny, normally you smooch people out of dresses, not into them.

Ethel leaves to “smooch Fred” into letting her keep the plunger she bought. Let’s say it together: Ethel has a shitty life.

Oh, that great deal Lucy got for the dress? It was $59.95 + tax. Today that’s $535.25 + grounds for divorce. Then she complains she has nothing to wear. WOMEN!

What Ethel doesn’t tell Fred is this plunger has a vibrating feature.

What Ethel doesn’t tell Fred is this plunger has a vibrating feature.

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