Freddie2 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Is this the first time the flashbacks were colorized? I honestly can't remember. I wonder if Bob Schiller watches these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 They were colourized for last year's show, I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Lucy's never going to get to Pismo Beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie2 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Room 423 lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Room 423 lives! Well, some of it. I guess they thought #bustlegate was body shaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 And Ricky licking the stamps didn't make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryCarter Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 I love checking Twitter during the commercials and seeing the diverse audience enjoying the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Me too. I particularly like the ones who seem to be either just watching it for the first time or have recently seen the light. Wondaful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropicjeff Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 What a wonderful program. Very excellent despite the dialog trimming. I wish someone would fix that lint on Ricky's shirt on the Christmas show...and those trick colored lights that turn white every year when they are turned on! Sure wish this would be a weekly series....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 I hesitate to say the following because it may imply that it was downhill after (and she still had a dozen or so years of great performances in her) but "Gets in Pictures" has to be the pinnacle of I Love Lucy and it's episode #116 with another 86 Lucy Ricardo episodes ahead of her (I'm counting Lucy Ricardo on "Ann Sothern" and "Danny Thomas") What is amazing is that her heavy headdress/wobble bit looks like it was honed to perfection over a long period of trial and error practice, when in fact, she only had 2 days to work on this, simultaneously working on the rest of the episode. Does anyone have the script for this? I'd like to see what is written for the whole exchange with director Williams concerning "friends back home" because there seemed to be a lot of ad-libbing.Two things I never noticed before: when the camera pans to Williams amidst the cameras saying "roll 'em", Desi/Ricky is standing with the group of technicians. And I never noticed Lucy's side-glance to the new lead girl as she plots to take the shot instead. "Well...he missed" The split second between 'well' and 'he' is textbook for any actor studying comic timing of a line reading. I know they had to cut something but I did miss the bustle story, made all that much funnier by the way it's brought up. Fred: "The funniest thing happened when we were leaving the wardrobe department". Ethel: "I didn't think that was so funny". I would suggest to CBS that next Christmas they run their new episode first and THEN the 1956 Christmas episode. I'm not one who looks down on the Danny Thomas Lucy Show episode as a direct rip off of this episode. Yes, she does the same stagger when she's wearing the building-substituting for headdress but Holy Cow! This is 10 years and almost 200 episodes later. A lesser actress with fewer tricks would have trotted this bit out every third episode! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 That friends back home bit always seemed different to me. Not bad but just a line delivery that I'm not use to Lucy Ricardo doing. I'd love to see how this was written too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie2 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 The special was the highest rated broadcast of the night, with 6.7 million viewers and a 4 share. How does this compare with the other years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 I think there was one year it hit 8.5 million viewers but I don't think it ever won the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison Posted December 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/friday-tv-ratings-vampire-diaries-dr-ken-blue-bloods-ncaa-football-dateline/ The I Love Lucy Christmas Special scored the highest rating of the night with 6.7 million viewers beating out ABC's 20/20 and Last Man Standing that drew 6.38 and 6.32 million viewers, respectively. However, in terms of the coveted 18-49 demographic it came in at 7th place (out of 13 contenders) with a 0.9 share. NCAA Football was 1st with 1.7 share, Dateline NBC and Shark Tank tied at 2nd with 1.2 share and 20/20, Last Man Standing, and Fox College Football pregame all tied at 4th place with 1.1 share. Of the three programs that CBS aired last night, it was the I Love Lucy Christmas Special that did the best in ratings and share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Let's hope CBS is pleased enough with the ratings that they re-run this closer to Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 I'd forgotten per Ricky reading her postcards that Carolyn Appleby was once again referred to as Lillian...although she'd soon be Carolyn again when she stopped over in Hollywood for a visit! Do we know why the back and forth?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Morenzi Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 I'd forgotten per Ricky reading her postcards that Carolyn Appleby was once again referred to as Lillian...although she'd soon be Carolyn again when she stopped over in Hollywood for a visit! Do we know why the back and forth?? Yeah, this particular usage of the name Lillian was especially bizarre, given she'd been Carolyn for a few years by this point. Surely someone on set could've remembered the other name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 They couldn't even remember Lucy Carmichael's son was named Jerry. Well, if the Lucy Book is to be believed, they could, but Lucy wouldn't. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 They couldn't even remember Lucy Carmichael's son was named Jerry. Well, if the Lucy Book is to be believed, they could, but Lucy wouldn't. haha True...and I've always wondered why Jimmy himself didn't say something?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 True...and I've always wondered why Jimmy himself didn't say something?? It's not like he, Candy or Ralph were just waiting in the wings for their characters to be written back in. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 http://deadline.com/2016/12/huskies-pac-12-championship-ratings-i-love-lucy-holiday-special-fox-cbs-1201864012/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 It's not like he, Candy or Ralph were just waiting in the wings for their characters to be written back in. LOL Now there you had me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucille Ball fan Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 Once again another great color Christmas special. The I Love Lucy Christmas Special is now a Christmas tradition. Thanks to everyone involved with this years special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickie Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 CBS is repeating the special on Christmas night at 8pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 CBS is repeating the special on Christmas night at 8pm. That's a sure sign of success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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