Lucy and Gale were perfect! I like the idea of Lucy trying to modernize the hardware store and Curtis rejecting the idea, this episode remains me of an episode from The Lucy Show.
When she turns on that blower and after the plug is pulled and Curtis just sits there with that expression, I expected Gale to say 'Mizzes Carmichael.......whyyyyyyyy did you DO that?' 🤣
Are you KIDDING me? I'm 7 years older than you and I still HAVE my floppy disks! The really huge ones from this time period. Used them in my MIS computer class in college. I didn't get rid of them because I thought they might be worth something one day as an antique! I also have the small hard ones. They still work. I actually have an external reader which hooks up to my desktop! I used them in work for years.
One of the best episodes of this short lived series. Where I worked back when this aired didn't get computers until 14 years later (in 1999, same year that I got one for home). Let me tell you there was some growing pains and a learning curve involved - and I'm an intelligent baby boomer with a college degree - can you imagine what it was like for Lucy and Curtis who were from the greatest generation or earlier? At least from this episode I learned when I first saw it never to put anything magnetic near a PC and to save backup sheets. It's a wonder that the writers (who did Lucy's other series) didn't include a scene where they tried to go to the city dump to retrieve the inventory sheets. On ILL, there was a "Bonus Bucks" episode where they went to a laundry to retrieve a winning dollar bill. Any one catch that Dave Madden who guest starred as the salesman was also on Alice (also written by Lucy's team) as Earl Hicks, one of Flo's boyfriends or earlier as Reuben Kincaid, manager of The Partridge Family?
Yes. Entering the computer age was painful. Good thing, I was born after WWII , when there was more clutter in a machine. I still thank God for my Grandparents.
Regarding Curtis' death, All In The Family did an episode just like this back in the '70's. Back when computers were reel to reel huge machines and punch cards were used to enter data, Archie was listed as dead. Edith kept getting cards and marketing phone calls, etc. Even Archie's friends were stopping by to offer condolences. They could not stop it. Finally, they got to the bottom of it. A man named Archie Binker died. The clerk typing the punch card made an error and typed it as Archie Bunker! 🤣😂 There is a wonderful scene when Archie, tired of all the marketing calls trying to take advantage of Edith's grief answers the phone and says "this is Archie Bunker talking to you from the grave.....wish you were here!" 🤣😂
Co-written by Arthur Marx, Groucho's distinctly moderately talented son, who spent so much of his career profiting from their fractured relationship. Lucy and Gale deserved better scripts.
@@tbec3011 WHAT was (or WASN'T) going through Ms. Ball's mind when this catastrophe took place? WHAT demographic was the show aimed at? The Walking Dead?
Today EVERYTHING is computerized. Like in the supermarkets. It even automatically does the ordering when inventory gets low. What drives ME crazy is how no one, not even the managers know why items are stocked for weeks or when they will be re supplied. Talk about back in the day; this was just a small mom and pop store. My very first job when I was 19 and in college was at K-Mart in 1984. I still remember the one Sunday when we all had to stay late after the store closed to do inventory. Just imagine counting everything in a store the size of K-Mart! Lucy was right. It IS very tedious!
In my opinion, this show was doomed from the beginning, because she was trying too hard to make lightning strike twice. It was the 80's, so what had worked for her in the 50's/60's, was rather outdated by this time. I give her credit for trying another series, but it wasn't the same with Desi. I think she would've had a far longer (and richer) acting career doing a dramatic series or more movie roles (like "Yours, Mine and Ours" from 1968), rather than looking a fool like this and getting abysmal ratings. Gary Morton was a solid man for her, but he wasn't Desi: she never got the happiness in the end that she gave everyone else. I think most people knew what a horrible turkey this show was, but feigned ignorance out of their love for her from 30 years prior. The show was awful, with the same formula and physical comedy. She should've stopped while she was ahead.
The thing about all the "Lucy" shows, is that they were always a copy of a copy of a copy. "I Love Lucy" being the original copy, and then the other ones to follow. And all getting a bit inferior as they went along, and "Life With Lucy" being the absolute worst. I think at this point, Lucy needed to become more of a supportive character, instead of having the plot centered around her. She was at an age here where people aren't really interested in what an old lady is doing during the day. Each show got worse as time went on, relying on old/played-out jokes and gags that couldn't keep up with the times. She never really outgrew her original character or stretched her acting chops: she was forever "Lucy Ricardo", trapped in 1951. "Life With Lucy" was an idea that should've been left on the cutting-room floor: her heart wasn't in it, anyway, because Desi was dying at the time. At some point as a Hollywood actor, you have to hang it up and realize you've had your time already: you're too old and/or washed-up. LET IT GO!
@@gabrielleangelica1977 OK fair enough. I grew up in a middle sized American city and I was a kid during this period. I realize that you are from New York so it is completely diverse there since I went there when I was a kid, but I did a lot of traveling when I was younger, and there were so many American cities that had mainly a black or white population. Yes there were Asians and Hispanics and Middle Eastern people, but it was on such a low scale that you didn’t really see large numbers of them and I was a city that was close to. 1 million people. My city now a lot more diverse but that didn’t come around until way past 2000s. 10 years ago I went to Charleston West Virginia and it was the same thing. I felt like I took a step back in time where I just saw mainly black-and-white people only. that was my point. But I realize that your experience again was quite different since you grew up in New York, which is not like a lot of mid sized US cities throughout the Midwest and south. NYC seems to have a very diverse population that started a long time ago. I’m sure a lot of other major US cities were like this as well, but there was a lot of middle size US cities that weren’t believe it or not. I am not black or white so I felt very bizarre growing up in a city where it was mainly black and white and I definitely fell out of place but there were a lot of places like this. Plus on TV you know they didn’t like showing as much diversity back then, as you can tell. I know some chosen the 80s started to show diversity but it didn’t seem like it was the norm always. I feel a lot more comfortable now that diversity is shown on TV and most of the US has a diverse population. I enjoyed New York because of this and other places I went that also had a diverse population like Los Angeles and Toronto. I would’ve preferred to grow up in a city like that. I know NYC isn’t perfect and It has its problems but it’s nice that you had that rich multicultural environment from the start!
@@ZXM23NYC32LA2ZEE I live in Queens 👑 which is the most diverse place in the world 🌎. The Hallmark channel still makes me laugh. Characters live in a picture perfect town. However NYC has become a living hell. Crime, rats, expensive and we do have thousands of migrants coming in every day. We are overwhelmed and can't take proper care of them. I'm planning to move on out!
If you feel that way, you had better ONLY watch current sitcoms with its sex and vulgarities. Because its clearly evident you have no appreciation for classic shows.
Unfortunately this program was a flop. Weak plots, corn ball jokes, and Lucy had on way too much makeup and was not a believable character. The reliance on slapstick was not enough to carry the show. If the writers had toned down Lucy's cornball slapstick humor and tried to develop a character that was harmonious with her age the outcome could been different. And Lucy herself realized that the show was not very good. What a sad ending to an otherwise outstanding career.
So interesting to see Lucy and Gale use a computer 😃 like they time travelled
This was my favorite episode. The plot and lines were funny! Much better than 1977's Lucy Calls The President.
I think lucy and gale would be going crazy with the technology today in 2022 with laptops haha
Could you imagine Curtis trying to use a smartphone? LOL
Yesssss 😂lol
Did every 80s sitcom take place in a living room?
The paper printouts sure bring back memories.
So far, best episode of the season.
This is GREAT!
Yep 👍
❤
I would loved to have seen Lucy and Gale in a live production of ON GOLDEN POND!
Lucy and Gale were perfect!
I like the idea of Lucy trying to modernize the hardware store and Curtis rejecting the idea, this episode remains me of an episode from The Lucy Show.
When she turns on that blower and after the plug is pulled and Curtis just sits there with that expression, I expected Gale to say 'Mizzes Carmichael.......whyyyyyyyy did you DO that?' 🤣
Floppy disks.. god I feel old at 50 😂
Are you KIDDING me? I'm 7 years older than you and I still HAVE my floppy disks! The really huge ones from this time period. Used them in my MIS computer class in college. I didn't get rid of them because I thought they might be worth something one day as an antique! I also have the small hard ones. They still work. I actually have an external reader which hooks up to my desktop! I used them in work for years.
😅😂 me too.I am.41.
One of the best episodes of this short lived series. Where I worked back when this aired didn't get computers until 14 years later (in 1999, same year that I got one for home). Let me tell you there was some growing pains and a learning curve involved - and I'm an intelligent baby boomer with a college degree - can you imagine what it was like for Lucy and Curtis who were from the greatest generation or earlier? At least from this episode I learned when I first saw it never to put anything magnetic near a PC and to save backup sheets. It's a wonder that the writers (who did Lucy's other series) didn't include a scene where they tried to go to the city dump to retrieve the inventory sheets. On ILL, there was a "Bonus Bucks" episode where they went to a laundry to retrieve a winning dollar bill. Any one catch that Dave Madden who guest starred as the salesman was also on Alice (also written by Lucy's team) as Earl Hicks, one of Flo's boyfriends or earlier as Reuben Kincaid, manager of The Partridge Family?
Larry Anderson was a very good looking man! I thought he was the best part of “Lucy” family. He brings much needed realism to the series.
Once he took off those "Clark Kent" glasses....YOWZA!!!!!!😁
Yes. Entering the computer age was painful. Good thing, I was born after WWII , when there was more clutter in a machine. I still thank God for my Grandparents.
I remember those cars by the pool!
Regarding Curtis' death, All In The Family did an episode just like this back in the '70's. Back when computers were reel to reel huge machines and punch cards were used to enter data, Archie was listed as dead. Edith kept getting cards and marketing phone calls, etc. Even Archie's friends were stopping by to offer condolences. They could not stop it.
Finally, they got to the bottom of it. A man named Archie Binker died. The clerk typing the punch card made an error and typed it as Archie Bunker! 🤣😂
There is a wonderful scene when Archie, tired of all the marketing calls trying to take advantage of Edith's grief answers the phone and says "this is Archie Bunker talking to you from the grave.....wish you were here!" 🤣😂
I thank you
That woman is STILL SCREAMING HER LINES!!!!
Co-written by Arthur Marx, Groucho's distinctly moderately talented son, who spent so much of his career profiting from their fractured relationship. Lucy and Gale deserved better scripts.
Actually, this is one of the better scripts.
@@tbec3011 WHAT was (or WASN'T) going through Ms. Ball's mind when this catastrophe took place? WHAT demographic was the show aimed at? The Walking Dead?
The guy who plays Leonard is a genius.
it doesnn't SEEM to have a bad switch
This was an episode of 'Alice' from 1983 or 84. Same writers...
Aww now days, counting innovatory is computerized. This is how they counted back in the day.😂😂
Today EVERYTHING is computerized. Like in the supermarkets. It even automatically does the ordering when inventory gets low. What drives ME crazy is how no one, not even the managers know why items are stocked for weeks or when they will be re supplied.
Talk about back in the day; this was just a small mom and pop store. My very first job when I was 19 and in college was at K-Mart in 1984. I still remember the one Sunday when we all had to stay late after the store closed to do inventory. Just imagine counting everything in a store the size of K-Mart! Lucy was right. It IS very tedious!
2 YEARS LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The show suffered from too much of the people who weren't Lucy and Curtis (Mr. Mooney). The family was awful.
Yes, outside of the great Lucy and Gale Gordon, bad casting with the family. 😣
10:10a.m. 9/27/2024
I suppose one could say this show was really no worse than The Lucy Show/Here's Lucy.
I loved both of those shows to me they were good.
This show appealed only to the senior crowd..outdated
In my opinion, this show was doomed from the beginning, because she was trying too hard to make lightning strike twice. It was the 80's, so what had worked for her in the 50's/60's, was rather outdated by this time.
I give her credit for trying another series, but it wasn't the same with Desi. I think she would've had a far longer (and richer) acting career doing a dramatic series or more movie roles (like "Yours, Mine and Ours" from 1968), rather than looking a fool like this and getting abysmal ratings.
Gary Morton was a solid man for her, but he wasn't Desi: she never got the happiness in the end that she gave everyone else. I think most people knew what a horrible turkey this show was, but feigned ignorance out of their love for her from 30 years prior. The show was awful, with the same formula and physical comedy. She should've stopped while she was ahead.
The thing about all the "Lucy" shows, is that they were always a copy of a copy of a copy. "I Love Lucy" being the original copy, and then the other ones to follow. And all getting a bit inferior as they went along, and "Life With Lucy" being the absolute worst.
I think at this point, Lucy needed to become more of a supportive character, instead of having the plot centered around her. She was at an age here where people aren't really interested in what an old lady is doing during the day. Each show got worse as time went on, relying on old/played-out jokes and gags that couldn't keep up with the times.
She never really outgrew her original character or stretched her acting chops: she was forever "Lucy Ricardo", trapped in 1951. "Life With Lucy" was an idea that should've been left on the cutting-room floor: her heart wasn't in it, anyway, because Desi was dying at the time. At some point as a Hollywood actor, you have to hang it up and realize you've had your time already: you're too old and/or washed-up. LET IT GO!
Her best show was definitely I love lucy ❤.
Any people of color in the neighborhood?
Yes, and where are all the transgendered people too!??
@@ZXM23NYC32LA2ZEE I live in Queens 👑 NY; this is all foreign to me!
@@gabrielleangelica1977 OK fair enough. I grew up in a middle sized American city and I was a kid during this period. I realize that you are from New York so it is completely diverse there since I went there when I was a kid, but I did a lot of traveling when I was younger, and there were so many American cities that had mainly a black or white population. Yes there were Asians and Hispanics and Middle Eastern people, but it was on such a low scale that you didn’t really see large numbers of them and I was a city that was close to. 1 million people. My city now a lot more diverse but that didn’t come around until way past 2000s. 10 years ago I went to Charleston West Virginia and it was the same thing. I felt like I took a step back in time where I just saw mainly black-and-white people only. that was my point. But I realize that your experience again was quite different since you grew up in New York, which is not like a lot of mid sized US cities throughout the Midwest and south. NYC seems to have a very diverse population that started a long time ago. I’m sure a lot of other major US cities were like this as well, but there was a lot of middle size US cities that weren’t believe it or not. I am not black or white so I felt very bizarre growing up in a city where it was mainly black and white and I definitely fell out of place but there were a lot of places like this. Plus on TV you know they didn’t like showing as much diversity back then, as you can tell. I know some chosen the 80s started to show diversity but it didn’t seem like it was the norm always. I feel a lot more comfortable now that diversity is shown on TV and most of the US has a diverse population. I enjoyed New York because of this and other places I went that also had a diverse population like Los Angeles and Toronto. I would’ve preferred to grow up in a city like that. I know NYC isn’t perfect and It has its problems but it’s nice that you had that rich multicultural environment from the start!
@@ZXM23NYC32LA2ZEE I live in Queens 👑 which is the most diverse place in the world 🌎. The Hallmark channel still makes me laugh. Characters live in a picture perfect town. However NYC has become a living hell. Crime, rats, expensive and we do have thousands of migrants coming in every day. We are overwhelmed and can't take proper care of them. I'm planning to move on out!
A mix of dated jokes, bad acting and shocking scripts make a dog's breakfast!
If you feel that way, you had better ONLY watch current sitcoms with its sex and vulgarities. Because its clearly evident you have no appreciation for classic shows.
Superb acting, well-crafted scripts, believable characters and stories make this an excellent show. You are the one who is dated, bad, and shocking.
@@nonenoneonenonenone Go for a long walk off a short pier😀
I like Ike, I LOVE Lucy, drop dead...!!
@@deebernard9296 you drop dead😆
Unfortunately this program was a flop. Weak plots, corn ball jokes, and Lucy had on way too much makeup and was not a believable character. The reliance on slapstick was not enough to carry the show. If the writers had toned down Lucy's cornball slapstick humor and tried to develop a character that was harmonious with her age the outcome could been different. And Lucy herself realized that the show was not very good. What a sad ending to an otherwise outstanding career.
This show was gawd awful. Is that Eydie Gourmet singing the song?! Sure sounds like her if it isn’t.
Yes. It is. it might be the best part of the show.