I Love Lucy<\/em> is one of my Mom\u2019s all time favorite shows.\u00a0 If not the favorite.\u00a0 I grew up listening to that theme (and thinking how cool it sounded), and watching the episodes.\u00a0 I particularly loved William Frawley\u2019s grouchy portrayal of Fred.\u00a0 Of course everyone is tossing out the accolades and the praise today, this being Lucial Ball\u2019s 100th anniversary of the date of her birth.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth mentioning, however, that Desi \u2013 the man who loved Lucy \u2013 was every bit the brains behind the outfit, and many things that various stories have credited to Lucy today, in terms of innovation and production of the show, belong to him.\u00a0 <\/p>\n She, of course, was every bit as important and creative and innovating, and it was her perfect comic timing that set the stage for all television comedians of the future.\u00a0 But we shouldn\u2019t forget that Desi also contributed and, in fact, it was as a team that they left their mark and changed the way television would always be produced.\u00a0 In many ways, their show was the Citizen Kane<\/em> of television, teaching of what this relatively new medium was capable.\u00a0 Its popularity is in a league all its own, and my Mom still enjoys regaling us with tales about how stores would close early on the nights Lucy was on, and the almost national obsession when she was pregnant and about to give birth.<\/p>\n And yes, they wouldn\u2019t have said pregnant.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 Compared to what is out there today, it\u2019s a shame sometimes that someone decided it was time to say it.\u00a0 Because look at where it has gotten us.\u00a0 But that\u2019s for another post about another time that is no more. Today, it suffices to say \u2018Happy Birthday Lucy\u2019, you made us laugh, and changed an art form.\u00a0 And that\u2019s not bad in a single life. <\/p>\n I leave everyone with one of the best skits from a show filled with them.\u00a0 The show was so influential and so immitated that sometimes watching it can seem a bit stale, as we\u2019ve seen it all before a million times.\u00a0 But I Love Lucy<\/em> was where it all came together for the first time, and in its day, it was like nothing anyone had ever seen.\u00a0 Despite the time and distance from that era, despite the copies and imitations, some of the skits still look fresh and hilarious all these years later.\u00a0 Several leaped to mind, but I found this one worthy of a look.\u00a0 Laugh and enjoy. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Love Lucy is one of my Mom\u2019s all time favorite shows.\u00a0 If not the favorite.\u00a0 I grew up listening to that theme (and thinking how cool it sounded), and watching the episodes.\u00a0 I particularly loved William Frawley\u2019s grouchy portrayal of Fred.\u00a0 Of course everyone is tossing out the accolades and the praise today, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n