Episode
I Love Lucy: Men Are Messy
Overview
Fed up with Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him.
Details
- Series
- I Love Lucy
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1951-12-03
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Men Are Messy is Episode 8 in Season 1 of I Love Lucy. It aired on 1951-12-03. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 7: The Séance
Lucy tells an important talent agent that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. The agent is also interested in the occult. So Lucy arranges a séance.
Episode 9: The Fur Coat
Ricky returns home with expensive mink coat that he has rented for an act at the club. Lucy jumps to the conclusion that it's her anniversary present.
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Episode 6: The Audition
Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.
Episode 10: Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer
Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.
Episode 5: The Quiz Show
When Lucy needs to balance her household accounts, she decides to go on quiz show. To win the $1,000 cash prize, she has to introduce her "long lost first husband" to Ricky.
Episode 11: Drafted
When Lucy opens Ricky's a telegram ordering him to appear at Fort Dix, she assumes that he has been drafted. Ethel suspects that Fred has been drafted as well when she hears, Fred is joining Ricky.
Episode 4: Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her
After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.
Episode 12: The Adagio
Lucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.
Episode 3: The Diet
To her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on twenty-two pounds since marrying Ricky. When one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, she tricks him into promising, she can be in the show if she fits into the dancer's size twelve costume.
Episode 13: The Benefit
Ethel wants Ricky to a headline a benefit show for her women's club, but Lucy refuses to ask him, unless she can be on the bill too.
Episode 2: Be a Pal
Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.
Episode 14: The Amateur Hour
Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.