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Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the works of Lucille Ball into the ol’ VCR. 

I have a soft spot for comedic women in older media. Doris Day. Carol Burnett. The works. 

Am I saying none of the roles or sketches they took weren’t problematic? Absolutely not. Did they deal with a lot of sexism on sets? 100%. Were their lives off-screen sometimes controversial? Yup. 

I fully recognize all of this context, and I’m not here to defend it. 

As someone who has been writing on the internet for over 12 years, I just respect comedy when I see it and hear it. I even briefly did stand up. I loved it, but I let a couple of jerks get inside my head and never returned to the mic. That’s why I throw comedy into pieces here at the B Movies Blog. 

Mfw I start dissociating during a phone call 

Now, I do think Carol Burnett is on a different level, and she’ll get her own piece soon. But, I do think Carol and Lucy exist in similar spaces if that makes sense. I digress. 

I grew up on I Love Lucy reruns. I even have an I Love Lucy clock I thrifted hanging in my kitchen. If you don’t still laugh at the likes of the Vitameatavegimen commercial and conveyor belt episodes, I can’t relate. 

Additionally, if you’ve never seen the likes of The Long, Long Trailer or the original Yours, Mine and Ours, I have to insist you watch them immediately…particularly for the fake eyelash scene in the latter. 

I want to think Lucille Ball would work with the likes of Tina Fey if she were acting during modern times. I also think she would, y’know, actually get credit for producing and some of the other things she did. 

RIP Lucille Ball, and thank you for the comedy you gave us. 🖤

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