"I Love Lucy" Episode Showdown Quiz

Answer: 12

In "The Diet", the Mertzes' dog, Butch, is introduced who is then never seen again. No mention of him or his whereabouts ever appears in the series again.

Answer: Slowly I Turn

In "The Ballet", Ricky is searching for both a ballet dancer and a burlesque comic for his new act. Lucy wants the ballet job desperately (as always) and enrolls in a ballet class run by the strict Madame Lamond. After failing at ballet, she decides to hire a burlesque comic teacher in hopes that she can at least be the comic in the show.

When Lucy is callrd to the club to replace a sick dancer, she assumes it's the comic they need. She ends up beating Ricky and the dancers.

Answer: Friar/Squire Quinn

In "The Operetta", Lucy loses club money and can't pay for the fundraising show, so she writes an operetta to raise money. During the show, the cast drowns Lucy out because why? She can't sing! The postdated check she wrote bounces, and props taken away while the show is still going on.

Answer: false

In "Lucy And Ethel Buy The Same Dress", the *Wednesday* Afternoon Fine Arts League does a benefit TV show. The girls perform the song "Friendship". Lucy buys same dress as Ethel and furious with each other, tear their dresses apart onstage.

Answer: "Don't Let This Happen to You"

In "Lucy Writes A Novel", Lucy decides to become an author after reading about a woman who won $10,000 for her book. Ricky, Fred, and Ethel find themselves the central characters in Lucy's first novel, "Real Gone With the Wind".

Answer: true

In "Lucy Learns To Drive", Ethel claims she doesn't know how to drive a car, but in earlier episodes, she has been already been driving for some time.

Answer: Give him a manicure

In "Homecoming", on their return from Hollywood, Ricky is a real star now. The Ricardos' neighbors join in for a grand homecoming celebration in Ricky's honor. Even the Mertzes begin to see Ricky through new eyes as adulation is heaped on him. When Ricky begins to succumb to the nonsense and go "Hollywood," Lucy begins to worry.

Answer: 150

In "Deep Sea Fishing", real, large tunas were used to create the slimy and stinky effect. The director commented that these real fish were able to bring out even more realistic expressions from the cast members. The fish were ordered and paid for especially for the show, and the final effect was fabulous.

Answer: gobloots

In "Lucy Fakes Illness", Ricky won't hire Lucy for his new act, so Lucy consults a book on abnormal psychology for a solution. When Ricky arrives home and finds out that Lucy is faking a nasty case of the "gobloots," he calls in an actor to play a physician who diagnosed her.

Answer: A Tree Grows in Havana

In "Lucy Writes A Play", Lucy writes a tender, heartwarming story of a Cuban tobacco picker in "A Tree Grows in Havana." She tries to get Ricky to star in it. When he refuses, Lucy settles for Fred. However, Fred's Spanish accent is so terrible that she changes the play's setting to England. Ricky wants back in, but doesn't realize that the play has been revamped until he's on stage.