Weirdest Episode Ever: Lucy Gets Eaten by a Dragon
Added 2022-12-12 08:24:17 +0000 UTC“Lucy Goes to Scotland” (January 6, 1956)
It’s our second I Love Lucy episode and also our second “It was all a dream!” installment of Weirdest Episode Ever. So what is to be made of a dream sequence where Lucy Ricardo is ultimately fed to a dragon? Perhaps not much, but if you want to approach it from a perspective of dream analysis, it’s very likely that Lucy’s sacrifice has something to do with Lucille Ball’s impending divorce and her allowing celebrity to triumph over her personal life. And that’s not even saying anything about Vivian Vance and William Frawley playing a two-headed dragon that can’t stand being yoked to its other half.
Listen to our previous I Love Lucy outing, about how it just might have made the first gay joke in sitcom history.
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Leslie Halpern, a film critic, wrote a book in 2003 called Dreams on Film. It looks interesting; right now it is only available in paperback format. There is also a pretty good though by no means complete Wikipedia entry called "Dream sequences." Some famous dream sequences I recall from movies/tv are... Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. has a memorable dream sequence that is funny and hallucinogenic. In Luis Bunuel's unsettling Un Chien Andalou...and later in a dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound, there are unhinged dream sequences designed by the fervent mind of Salvador Dali. Skipping far ahead, an infamous/famous dream sequence revolved around the return of Bobby Ewing to Dallas! I remember watching that live when it first aired and thinking WTF this show has jumped the shark, and it had LOL.
Steven Ripley
2024-06-01 20:53:24 +0000 UTCBoring facts: Lucy and Desi rejigged their show to be an hour-long only once a month (as opposed to half-hour one a week) later in its run because their marriage was dying and they couldn’t take it (and I think also cause they were in over their heads running newly established DesiLu Studios). That was the Lucy-Desi comedy show. Same show basically, diff format.
Costa
2022-12-15 03:41:11 +0000 UTC
