“Lucy thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her” Season 1, Episode 1, Filmed 9/8/51, Aired 11/5/51

I saw the movie “Single Man” tonight. It’s Tom Fords first movie staring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Colin Firth was pretty much the whole movie, and he was AMAZING! It was a very heavy and sad movie, however, I always get a thrill when I see actors who do an amazing job at their art. Lucy gave me that same thrill in episode “Lucy thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her”.
This is such a good episode! Not that there are really any “bad” episodes according to me. Lucy reads a Murder Mystery and thinks, “Ricky is trying to kill me”. She does a lot of slap stick humor that is over that top, but it always works when she does it and it’s always very enjoyable to watch.
I watched this episode with my boyfriend Matt and at one point Lucy says “Dead? as in ‘as a doornail’?”, Matt then said “where did that saying come from? ‘Dead as a Doornail?’”, so I “asked Jeeves”. The saying comes from the nails in your door where the Knocker was. If you were popular, someone was constantly knocking at your door, therefore wearing down the nails in the door, making them dead. Always fun to find out where those expressions come from. http://www.obcgs.com/sayings.htm
The book Lucy was reading was called “The Mockingbird Murder Mystery”. Lucille Ball had a fear of birds. She wouldn’t go into rooms that had birds on the wallpaper or wear clothes that had birds on the fabric. This fear stemmed from when her father died. The day he died a bird flew into the house and they couldn’t get it out. From then on Lucille felt birds were bad omen. She wouldn’t go into a dressing room until someone had checked it for her. Like many comedians, Lucille had a lot of demons. It’s always been interesting to me how someone who could make me feel so good and laugh so hard could be a depressed person. I wish I couldn’ve put Lucille in the audience to watch “I Love Lucy”, the laughter therapy would have done her good.