You know, it's funny, I have seen episodes over and over for years, it never gets old. But, I have never seen a lot of things you talk about or mention. That is why I love you and your station so much! I believe it is the many and long commercials these days. When I was little (I am 62 years young), there was 1 commercial. You had to hurry if you had to go to the bathroom. And we usually made ice cream or popcorn before the movie/show started. I have the DVD of all the episodes. Now I'm excited to watch it and see all I've missed. As for my comment, I think they created the set according to the script. Back then nobody paid much attention to detail. We were so entertained by the show that bloopers weren't even thought of. Kind of like when you got your first cellular phone, nothing else mattered because you didn't know any difference. Another great one Rick! Thank You!!!!
Also in the 1955 episode, “First Stop,” Ethel claims they have a bed just like the one in the shack and every night for years she has to button Fred to the bed. But when we saw the bedroom in the episode mentioned, they slept in twin beds.
It amazes me that some people don't know that the Ricardo's originally lived on the fourth floor above the Mertz's, but then later moved to an apartment on the third floor next door to the Mertz's. It was in the third season of the show, and the episode was called "The Ricardo's Switch Apartments". A real I Love Lucy fan would know that.
I love this show but never noticed this blooper. This is my favorite tv show of all time and I own the whole boxed set. Thank you for continuing to keep the show alive and well!
Scott Margolin The refrigerator looks like something out of the 1920's....I always understood that people wanted that "monitor top" back in the day so they could prove to their friends they had an actual electric unit and not just an icebox.
It was called the "Monitor-Top" because of its resemblance to the gun turret on the ironclad warship USS Monitor commissioned by the Union Navy on February 25, 1862 at the cost of $275,000.
The Mertz’s apartment was also the Ricardo’s bedroom. The Home Sweet Home sign can also be spotted in the First Stop episode in the cabin they spend the night in.
Rick - Just wanted to tell you I just found you yesterday and I am loving your videos on behind the scenes - Its great- as a huge fan of Lucille Ball - and after meeting her in the late 80's before she passed away. I am so grateful for what you are doing here. Like I said huge fan been collecting stuff on Lucille Ball since I was 13 yrs old. now I'm 52 - SOOOOO BIGGGGG Cheers to you.
If it was real life you would think the landlord would have the biggest and most well furnished apartment in the building. This is something I wondered about since I was old enough to. Thank you it's wonderful information.
Thank you!! As an I love Lucy fan for my entire life, i too never thought we got to see the Mertz's apartment, i can clearly remember the living room and nothing else. Great vodeo! ❤
The "mystery door" in the Mertz's apartment (Lucy's new furniture episode) has mystified me for years. I always wondered how there could be two corridors outside the Mertz's apartment. In all future episodes, the window returned to its original place. A glaring blooper from the set crew, to be sure. Very strange when you consider how consistent the show was with other details. The creators of "I Love Lucy" never knew we'd be analyzing all these things over 60 years later!
Yes, you may be correct. Or else it could have been part of the wall in which the window was originally located. At any rate, we never see this mystery door again....only for this one episode! Very strange.
Well done!! Loved I Love Lucy! I know much of the dialogue! I do recall also perhaps when the Ricardo’s moved, they lived above/below one another, not side by side. The noise episodes?
Also, in the episode when they are on the road, and stop at that ‘inn’, the Mertz’ say they have a “bed just like that at home’, which is a double bed. In their apartment, they have twin beds.🤷♀️.
Great video, its weird tht in the episode they were next to each other, cause if i remember the Mertizes lived under the ricardos in the episode Breaking The Lease
It could be because the Ricardos move into a larger apartment on a different floor 3 or 4 seasons in (simultaneously with the filming being moved to another studio). So you'll find them living on the same floor as the Mertzes as well as on another floor depending on the position in the series of the episode. Unless, of course, it's a continuity error.
In Season 2, after the birth of Little Ricky, the Ricardos move from the 4th floor (above the Mertzes) to 3B (later 3D) on the third floor next to the Mertzes. "The Ricardos Change Apartments" "Lucy Tells the Truth"
Robert C In the same courtroom episode discussed in the video, in an early season before the Ricardos move, Lucy and Ricky carry the television down stairs.
Thank you Rick! I'm so busy watching the wonderful cast & story line that i'm not paying too much attention to the background. I will from now on. Fun video!!!
thank you so much for all your vids Rick..i watch Lucy every morning..even after all these years, i am still entertained by it..BTW, the Mertz's lived next door, upstairs and i believe also downstairs from the Ricardo's during the course of the show....
Great presentation again Rick! I noticed this many times too. I always thought they could have done a better job on the set for the Mertzes apt. but I guess they did not want it to upstage the Ricardo's. There are numerous inconsistencies also in the general positioning of the 2 units in relation to each other too. I find this so interesting!
Great sleuthing Rick! Very interesting! Now that you pointed these out I remember these shots of those rooms. With regard to the blooper, I wonder if they ever thought that anyone would notice or just did it for convenience? I guess we’ll ever know. Thanks for pointing it out! Love you videos! Please keep them coming!
I Love Lucy is one of my favorite shows of all time! I own every single episode on dvd separated by season. They do have "special features" on every dvd and show any bloopers that where caught on each show...there where very few , especially when you consider that all the episodes where taped live without any do overs. I have to congratulate you though...this was not on the box set nor did I pick up on it! Which is rare because I know practically Everything about this show! Thanks for sharing! Good Work!
another blooper in the episode where they where going to Hollywood they stop at a place to rest . there is a bed and ethel potions fred in a way she said shes done for years guess they had to say that for story reasons. great video
Yes I to have seen that rest stop episode and that part of ethel and fred kills me with laffs alla time.....the writers and desi arnez did a great thing in spotlighting those two characters from those two fine and under rated actors. IMHO....and they should have done alot more of those spot light the secondary characters....oh well
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that ethel and fred had to separate beds. She said "lucy, how bout you let fred and I take the bed"...and then later she says "our mattress is just like that at home". I've been watching lucy for about 25yrs and that popped up instantly. Plus I never realized fred and ethels kitchen was bigger than lucy and ricky's.
How in the world did I never notice this before lol. Great catch Rick! All I can think of now is Lucy screaming when Ricky catches her haha. Cracks me up every time
The episode "Vacation From Marriage" was about changing the scenery of their married lives. Lucy has pointed out how predictable their lives are; saying and doing the same routine every day for their entire marriage. She wanted to break the ritual, to make things more interesting. There was no fight between them.
On Lost in Space, the interior off the Jupiter 2, there was a door on th back wall thst was used as a storage room for the first two years of show. In the third season, this same door would also serve as the entrance to the "space Pod" which was never there for the first two years.
It makes sense that the Mertzes and the Ricardo’s apartment were on the same floor because originally their apartments were directly on top of each other. Then, when little Ricky was born they move downstairs to a larger apartment, therefore it would make sense that their two apartments would be next to each other.
There's a window on the living room wall (piano) of Ricardos' apartment but just a wall on some other episodes. That may have been mentioned already; I didn't read all the comments.
They lived on the 4th floor (without the window) and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born (with the window). The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments."
@@LeeMastr Their 1st apartment did have a living room window which was seen in one episode where Lucy and Ethel are hanging out the window watching the new neighbors move in.
Hi Rick- I too caught the refrigerator and wall hangings in the Mertz kitchen too. From out on the balcony, those things changed. But I also caught one that you missed. From inside the Mertz kitchen, look out the open door before Lucy enters. The end of the balcony has an entire wall that is wood covered (brick covered on the outside around the door). Later when the Ricardos and Mertzes are haggling over the washing machine, there is glimpse of the wall at the end of the balcony. It is now brick covered (no wood). It is obviously two different sets that were not coordinated with each other.
Thanks for your videos - very enjoyable. The episode where Lucy & Ethel were pushing the washer back & forth always messes me up. The Mertzs lived below Ricky & Lucy. Several episodes had Fred banging on his ceiling, aka the Ricardos’ floor. For instance in the episode where the Mertzs left a get-together in Ricardos apartment after they had been enjoying the piano. Ricky continued to play the piano after the Mertz's left to go to bed, and Fred starts banging on his ceiling to get them to quiet down. Anyone remember more that inferred the Mertzs apartment was downstairs?
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
Did you ever note the spider crawling out of the cement form that they were making for John Wayne's Grauman's Chinese Theater? Lucy sees it but does not react.
rick nineg: Also if you didn't notice the scene after they finished the Mertz's apartment and Lucy and Ethel were sitting in Lucy & Ricky's apartment you can see little feathers floating down from where Fred turned on the fan and blew feathers everywhere.
Maybe I'm missing something but the Mertz's front door relative to the kitchen door changes angles. At 0:32 the doors are at 90 degree angles, but at 3:27 they look like they're at 45 degree angles to each other.
Rick, I've been a subscriber for a while, but I have to admit that I just saw how well organized your videos are in your "Playlists". I didn't realize you had so many categories, including ones that I didn't anticipate such as "Horror Movies" and "You Bet Your Life."
As always great video full of interesting facts. Thanks for your hard work and effort. This was obviously a blooper but it also served the plot to have a door there as opposed to a window. What I always enjoy about I love lucy is all of the light harted, iconic moments. Btw, I love to see a History of video on DesiLu Studios on your channel at some point; just an idea for for future content.
Something else about this door that doesn't make sense is, remember, Lucy's going through that door in order to get to the door to her own kitchen. But in "Never Do Business with Friends," we already saw that to get to the Mertz's apartment from the Ricardo's kitchen back door, Lucy would enter the Mertz's apartment from the Mertz's kitchen doorway (the back door that opens onto the shared balcony). And that's on the far opposite side of the Mertz's apartment from where this living room door is.
Very well researched, I forgot about the break from marriage video where they showed the Mertz's bedroom. I watch I love Lucy every night before I go to bed.
Great stuff....at 2.13 the exterior wall on the walkway outside of Ethel's kitchen appears to be made of wood while later, @ 2.23, the same exterior wall is brick.
The Ricardo's only lived above the Mertz's until they switched apartments with the Bensons after Little Ricky was born, from then on until they moved to Westport they lived down the hall from the Merrtz's
The Mertz's had a refrigerator, not an ice box. On top of the fridge are the condenser coils that are now flattened out and cover the back. That is a classic old refrigerator, the most classic is the GE monitor top.
iam also a i love lucy addict i still continue watching the show n laugh so much like if is my first time watching it at times i closed my eyes n picture myself on set is so good you have done the bloopers pinpointing the mistake which still worked well for their show good job
Hi Rick.. just two LITTLE minor notes on your comments.. 1.) The Mertzs's "icebox" as you call it is truly a refrigerator, granted, a very old-fashioned one that was popular in the 1920s and '30s, but, a refrigerator just the same. The motor was on top of the frig (unlike the kind made after WWII with the motor on the bottoms) and the cold air swirled around the food from the top down. and 2.) the "dresser" as you call it between the beds is called a night stand. A dresser is taller, wider and has several more drawers in it.
Hank Austin Your comment reminds me of Family Guy when Brian dates an older woman who uses terms like divan and lanai yet Brian is clueless as to which pieces she's referring to lol!!
Hank Austin, most companies made fridges with the motors in the bottoms in the 1920's and 1930's.....GE Monitor Top fridges were not the only fridges made back then.
@@ceil5001 Where my dad came from in Massachusetts the sofa was called the Divan. Where my mother came from in South Dakota the sofa was called a Davenport.
Hi Nick Great video! You are absolutely correct. The episode where Lucy buys Ethels birthday present and hides it in his apartment does show a couch against that wall where the window is. It also shows a closet on the wall to the right where the hallway window is I believe. It’s the episode that causes Lucy and Ethel to get into a fight over the gift Lucy picked out for Ethel. One of the most Hilarious episodes of all. Love your channel soooooo........much!
The episode where Lucy buys Ethel's birthday present gets hacked up to fit more commercials. The part where Ethel opens the present in front of Lucy is shortened by half. Wish they would either play the show in its entirety or cut from another part. The way it's cut almost makes that scene not make sense.
@@rickloera9468 Antenna 📡 TV is notorious for doing that! I absolutely 💯 % Hate that. It's the same with Bewitched. And you're right as far as the 'editing' goes. Entire integral scenes are cut ✂️ for stupid commercials that, if you didn't already know what was cut, you'd be lost.
The refrigerator in Fred and Ethel’s apartment is actually an older version of Lucy and Ricky’s… They were smaller because if you notice on top of the refrigerator that kept the refrigerator cold so that’s why the refrigerator was itself was smaller and before that it had to be packed with ice to keep cold before they came up with the device to keep the refrigerator and freezer cold
In the "El Break-o The Leas-o" episode, the Mertzes live below the Ricardos, and suffer falling plaster on their heads after a jam session from Ricky's band. Also, in most apartment buildings, there's a similarity between units. The Mertzes look as though they live in a different building. No bricks on the wall, an alcove with twin cupboards, etc.
Another thing. If you remember on the trip to CA, on their first stop they stayed in a cabin and Ethel states that they would stay in the full sized bed because they have been sleeping in one for years, but the beds in their apt are two twin sized beds. That's a little inconsistent. The inconsistencies are all over the place on this show, but back then, there were no "re-runs" and they didn't really need any continuity because who would notice?
Have you ever seen in redecorating the Mertz Apartment, its when the feathers are blown with the fan, in the next scene they are in Lucys apartment and a feather floats down.
Hey Rick. I'm pretty sure the mertzes had a refrigerator and that's not an ice box. It's one of the first refrigerators where the cooling coils were on the top of the refrigerator as you could see in the video. Really enjoyed your work. There is a lamp and one of the mertzes shots of their apartment. A black metal lamp with gold band around the shade and I have that lamp. A friend of mine gave me it from a retirement home when someone died. I often wonder if it's the exact lamp lamp
I just watched the Connecticut episode where Lucy buys all the furniture with Mary Jane Croft and when Lucy calls them to help her, I notice the Mertz apartment looks much nicer than it did in earlier episodes. Also, I have been watching I Love Lucy since 1967 and just noticed a TV Guide magazine with Lucy and Desi on the cover in the episode Breaking The Lease from Season 1 when Lucy is packing up the Ricardos items. It's sitting on the coffee table. You can see it the best right when the scene opens. After that it's a little harder to tell. The photo on the TV Guide cover is the one where Desi is wearing a straw hat and Lucy has her early open mouthed surprised "O" look.
You notice Fred and Ethel's door opens to the right or less sometimes the kitchen doors on the left or right wall sometimes there's a window on the wall but yet they never mentions changing apartments can someone help me solve that mystery?
The episode where Ricky brought his band to rehearse in their apartment just to annoy Fred & Ethel implied that their apartment was downstairs, under the Ricardos. In fact, the final punchline is where Fred walks into their apartment with a chandelier over his head (the vibration having knocked it off the ceiling.) So that's a continuity error from the episode where the washing machine is being slid across the balcony. Many other episodes have lines in the script with the words 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' too when referring to their relative locations. Second, the "ice box" is, in fact, an electric refrigerator. Very early models had the cooling coils on the top. Enjoyed this. Thanks.
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
I always found it odd the Ricardo's lived in this Brownstone and apparently were the best heeled tenants. The owners, the Mertzes seemed like the poor relations.
Actually the Mertz's did have 2 apartments. When the Ricardos bought Fred and Ethel a tv for their anniversary they had to take the tv downstairs to their apt.
You’ll also notice that the Ricardos (and anyone else coming from their apartment) always appear to be coming from the left when entering the Mertzes’ apartment which doesn’t make sense if the apartments are positioned as it would appear in the “Never Do Business With Friends” episode.
And How was the hallway connected based on the set up of Mertz's front door and Ricardos front door. Also, In the Noisy Neighbour's episode.... the Mertz's were downstairs. Hmm 🤔
The Ice Box at 2:15 is a 1920`s Frigidaire! Actual Refrigerator Electrically operated and very popular during that time! General Electric, Westinghouse also made these Refrigerators and Freezers in the early 1920`s to the early 1930`s when the more standard Refrigerators were produced! A Friend of mine still uses one Just like it! IT WORKS AWESOME! The Top that looks like Plates stacked on top of each other is the Radiator or Condenser (I forgot wich) If You ever heard 1920`s Music! Lyrics, I Collect 1920`s and 1930`s Records, You will here in some songs When a Boy or Girl gives a X Lover a cold shoulder! ie" Girl gives the cold shoulder, The Lyrics would be "She Gave Me The Frigidaire" ! Your Programs are FANTASTIC, And FUN!
Nathan Martinez Check your cable provider to see if they have ME-TV, only available in parts of the country....they show only vintage shows uncut and with full before and after credits.
The Mertz’s apartment was suppose to be downstairs.. like in the 2nd season episode called, The Courtroom.. Ricky & Lucy bought the Mertz’s a television for there 25th wedding anniversary.. and Lucy & Ricky was carrying the television downstairs to the Mertz’s apartment from the Ricardos apartment.. in the 2nd season episode, Never Do Business.. they lived across from each other.. from the Balcony scene with the washing machine.. hehe.. :)
Love ur bloopers I’m forever looking for mistakes in any show u can see above head microphones sometimes ty for detailing all the little mistakes ur awesome
Yeah look for the falling feather in Lucy's living room when she shows Ethel her new furniture when the show ends when the feathers where in the Ethel's apt.
I've wondered about the layout of the Mertz's apartment. Supposedly, they go directly from the living room to the kitchen, then there's just the patio. Where's the bedroom? Where's the bathroom?
@@ricknineg The door you say goes from the living room to the kitchen would actually go to a hallway that would lead to the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. It is kind of obvious because if you look at the door that Fred picks into the kitchen from, it is a swinging door that he pushes into the kitchen but the door that you claim goes to the kitchen from the living room is a regular door that opens out into the living room.
Similar to the one-time appearance of that door in the Mertz's apartment, note what happens in the Ricardo's bedroom after they return home from Europe in season 6. Suddenly their bedroom window is gone! Unlike the situation with the Mertz's door/window, I can think of no plot reason for the window to disappear.
There is another rather big blooper between the Ricardos and Mertzes apartments. In the episode about doing business with friends where they argue over the washer the back balcony of both apartments is all on one level. However, in the episode where Lucy and Ricky give the Mertzes a TV set as an anniversary gift, Lucy and Ricky have to bring the set down stairs!
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
Rick, the first generation refrigerator is referred to as a "turret top." These were first generation design amd a huge improvement from ice boxes when the ice man stopped by regularly to deliver a block of ice. No electricity, simply an insulated box with a drip pan on the bottom.The kids in the household usually garnered the pan emptying duty.Bet you can figure out how that turned out occasionally.Turre tops were a big step up for sure and lasted for decades.
I would have never have put that door bit together, Rick, but I did know the rest of the stuff. The "icebox" was actually an old electric fridge with a motor on top: popular around 1930.
Hey Rick... What about the country home when the Ricardos moved out to Connecticut and the merchants followed. Was that filmed at the same Studio? I'm just wondering you don't hear much about it so just interesting to see what you think or what stories you have to tell about the house out in the country.
I’ve been watching the show all my life (I’m 31) and I’ve NEVER noticed this lol. My mind is blown.
You know, it's funny, I have seen episodes over and over for years, it never gets old. But, I have never seen a lot of things you talk about or mention. That is why I love you and your station so much! I believe it is the many and long commercials these days. When I was little (I am 62 years young), there was 1 commercial. You had to hurry if you had to go to the bathroom. And we usually made ice cream or popcorn before the movie/show started. I have the DVD of all the episodes. Now I'm excited to watch it and see all I've missed.
As for my comment, I think they created the set according to the script. Back then nobody paid much attention to detail. We were so entertained by the show that bloopers weren't even thought of. Kind of like when you got your first cellular phone, nothing else mattered because you didn't know any difference.
Another great one Rick!
Thank You!!!!
Also in the 1955 episode, “First Stop,” Ethel claims they have a bed just like the one in the shack and every night for years she has to button Fred to the bed. But when we saw the bedroom in the episode mentioned, they slept in twin beds.
Good memory. Good point
“Never do business with friends” is one of my favorite episodes. So funny
It amazes me that some people don't know that the Ricardo's originally lived on the fourth floor above the Mertz's, but then later moved to an apartment on the third floor next door to the Mertz's. It was in the third season of the show, and the episode was called "The Ricardo's Switch Apartments". A real I Love Lucy fan would know that.
Yes after little Ricky came. Lucy wanted a bigger apartment. And they switched
I love this show but never noticed this blooper. This is my favorite tv show of all time and I own the whole boxed set. Thank you for continuing to keep the show alive and well!
Mine too 😻😻😻
And mine!
The Mertzes' "ice box" is actually an early refrigerator. The round thing on the top is the compressor.
compressor and coils, which are now hidden behind & underneath
Jerry DiCairano
Yes, those were called "Monitor Top" refrigerators, and the compressors came in spheres or cake-like shapes.
Scott Margolin The refrigerator looks like something out of the 1920's....I always understood that people wanted that "monitor top" back in the day so they could prove to their friends they had an actual electric unit and not just an icebox.
It was called the "Monitor-Top" because of its resemblance to the gun turret on the ironclad warship USS Monitor commissioned by the Union Navy on February 25, 1862 at the cost of $275,000.
Yes, I was just about to say this. It is a fridge.
The Mertz’s apartment was also the Ricardo’s bedroom. The Home Sweet Home sign can also be spotted in the First Stop episode in the cabin they spend the night in.
“Be Hopeful!” I love ❤️ that. It makes me smile every time! Thanks! 🤓
Rick - Just wanted to tell you I just found you yesterday and I am loving your videos on behind the scenes - Its great- as a huge fan of Lucille Ball - and after meeting her in the late 80's before she passed away. I am so grateful for what you are doing here. Like I said huge fan been collecting stuff on Lucille Ball since I was 13 yrs old. now I'm 52 - SOOOOO BIGGGGG Cheers to you.
Wow! How lucky are you to have met her! Jealous! I have the show on DVD 📀. I really enjoy it.
Did you notice the feather come floating down in the Ricardo apartment after Lucy tried to fix the mertzs chair?
If it was real life you would think the landlord would have the biggest and most well furnished apartment in the building. This is something I wondered about since I was old enough to. Thank you it's wonderful information.
I agree.
Thank you!! As an I love Lucy fan for my entire life, i too never thought we got to see the Mertz's apartment, i can clearly remember the living room and nothing else. Great vodeo! ❤
The "mystery door" in the Mertz's apartment (Lucy's new furniture episode) has mystified me for years. I always wondered how there could be two corridors outside the Mertz's apartment. In all future episodes, the window returned to its original place. A glaring blooper from the set crew, to be sure. Very strange when you consider how consistent the show was with other details. The creators of "I Love Lucy" never knew we'd be analyzing all these things over 60 years later!
Kenneth Bjorkmann Wasn't it a closet in the episode "Madam X" when Ethel checked it for Fred's gray suit..?
Yes, you may be correct. Or else it could have been part of the wall in which the window was originally located. At any rate, we never see this mystery door again....only for this one episode! Very strange.
Well done!! Loved I Love Lucy! I know much of the dialogue! I do recall also perhaps when the Ricardo’s moved, they lived above/below one another, not side by side. The noise episodes?
Also, in the episode when they are on the road, and stop at that ‘inn’, the Mertz’ say they have a “bed just like that at home’, which is a double bed. In their apartment, they have twin beds.🤷♀️.
Thanks Rick!...we've seen these episodes 100's of times over the years and love trivia like this & the BLOOPERS too!...BIG ILove Lucy fans!
So glad you liked it!
Great video, its weird tht in the episode they were next to each other, cause if i remember the Mertizes lived under the ricardos in the episode Breaking The Lease
It could be because the Ricardos move into a larger apartment on a different floor 3 or 4 seasons in (simultaneously with the filming being moved to another studio). So you'll find them living on the same floor as the Mertzes as well as on another floor depending on the position in the series of the episode. Unless, of course, it's a continuity error.
In Season 2, after the birth of Little Ricky, the Ricardos move from the 4th floor (above the Mertzes) to 3B (later 3D) on the third floor next to the Mertzes.
"The Ricardos Change Apartments"
"Lucy Tells the Truth"
Check out the number of the apartment in Changing Apts right before Fred moves in the last piece of furniture....Blooper Alert. :) 3B to 3D haha
Right they did live underneath them.
Robert C In the same courtroom episode discussed in the video, in an early season before the Ricardos move, Lucy and Ricky carry the television down stairs.
Thank you Rick! I'm so busy watching the wonderful cast & story line that i'm not paying too much attention to the background. I will from now on. Fun video!!!
After watching it for so long, this things are just so apparent to me. My eyes wander and see things :)
Great video! I have watched Lucy hundreds of times and never noticed this. Awesome
Thats what I try to do...point out the little things haha. Thanks for supporting!
Thank you for posting this information. I enjoyed watching it.
thank you so much for all your vids Rick..i watch Lucy every morning..even after all these years, i am still entertained by it..BTW, the Mertz's lived next door, upstairs and i believe also downstairs from the Ricardo's during the course of the show....
Yes! - thank you. I recall downstairs.
I used to wonder about that connecting deck in back, but never caught this particular blooper! LOL!
Great presentation again Rick! I noticed this many times too. I always thought they could have done a better job on the set for the Mertzes apt. but I guess they did not want it to upstage the Ricardo's. There are numerous inconsistencies also in the general positioning of the 2 units in relation to each other too. I find this so interesting!
Great sleuthing Rick! Very interesting! Now that you pointed these out I remember these shots of those rooms. With regard to the blooper, I wonder if they ever thought that anyone would notice or just did it for convenience? I guess we’ll ever know. Thanks for pointing it out! Love you videos! Please keep them coming!
I Love Lucy is one of my favorite shows of all time! I own every single episode on dvd separated by season. They do have "special features" on every dvd and show any bloopers that where caught on each show...there where very few , especially when you consider that all the episodes where taped live without any do overs. I have to congratulate you though...this was not on the box set nor did I pick up on it! Which is rare because I know practically Everything about this show! Thanks for sharing! Good Work!
Well thank you, Teresa. I tend to study these classic TV shows and find interesting things about them and share them with all of you!
another blooper in the episode where they where going to Hollywood they stop at a place to rest . there is a bed and ethel potions fred in a way she said shes done for years guess they had to say that for story reasons. great video
Absolutely. The Motel episode is such a classic. But it couldn't have happened like that given that the Mertzes had twin beds at home.
Yes I to have seen that rest stop episode and that part of ethel and fred kills me with laffs alla time.....the writers and desi arnez did a great thing in spotlighting those two characters from those two fine and under rated actors. IMHO....and they should have done alot more of those spot light the secondary characters....oh well
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that ethel and fred had to separate beds. She said "lucy, how bout you let fred and I take the bed"...and then later she says "our mattress is just like that at home". I've been watching lucy for about 25yrs and that popped up instantly. Plus I never realized fred and ethels kitchen was bigger than lucy and ricky's.
How in the world did I never notice this before lol. Great catch Rick! All I can think of now is Lucy screaming when Ricky catches her haha. Cracks me up every time
The episode "Vacation From Marriage" was about changing the scenery of their married lives. Lucy has pointed out how predictable their lives are; saying and doing the same routine every day for their entire marriage. She wanted to break the ritual, to make things more interesting. There was no fight between them.
On Lost in Space, the interior off the Jupiter 2, there was a door on th back wall thst was used as a storage room for the first two years of show. In the third season, this same door would also serve as the entrance to the "space Pod" which was never there for the first two years.
It makes sense that the Mertzes and the Ricardo’s apartment were on the same floor because originally their apartments were directly on top of each other. Then, when little Ricky was born they move downstairs to a larger apartment, therefore it would make sense that their two apartments would be next to each other.
How did I never notice that? Not only was that second door never there before or after, but it is in a weird spot. The hallway would have to turn.
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Nice episode.......keep up the great work!
These videos have made me see I Love Lucy in a new light
In a good way right?
Yes in a very good way.Thank you so much.
There's a window on the living room wall (piano) of Ricardos' apartment but just a wall on some other episodes. That may have been mentioned already; I didn't read all the comments.
They lived on the 4th floor (without the window) and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born (with the window). The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments."
@@LeeMastr Their 1st apartment did have a living room window which was seen in one episode where Lucy and Ethel are hanging out the window watching the new neighbors move in.
Hi Rick- I too caught the refrigerator and wall hangings in the Mertz kitchen too. From out on the balcony, those things changed. But I also caught one that you missed. From inside the Mertz kitchen, look out the open door before Lucy enters. The end of the balcony has an entire wall that is wood covered (brick covered on the outside around the door). Later when the Ricardos and Mertzes are haggling over the washing machine, there is glimpse of the wall at the end of the balcony. It is now brick covered (no wood). It is obviously two different sets that were not coordinated with each other.
The buffet in the Marta’s apartment changes too. I really enjoy these videos!
Sometimes sets get changed to accommodate the script at hand. Those are not bloopers, it's called "poetic license".
Cool blooper thanks for all your great videos
Thanks for your videos - very enjoyable.
The episode where Lucy & Ethel were pushing the washer back & forth always messes me up. The Mertzs lived below Ricky & Lucy. Several episodes had Fred banging on his ceiling, aka the Ricardos’ floor. For instance in the episode where the Mertzs left a get-together in Ricardos apartment after they had been enjoying the piano. Ricky continued to play the piano after the Mertz's left to go to bed, and Fred starts banging on his ceiling to get them to quiet down.
Anyone remember more that inferred the Mertzs apartment was downstairs?
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
I guess we are not supposed to notice that. But, we do.
Did you ever note the spider crawling out of the cement form that they were making for John Wayne's Grauman's Chinese Theater? Lucy sees it but does not react.
rick nineg: Also if you didn't notice the scene after they finished the Mertz's apartment and Lucy and Ethel were sitting in Lucy & Ricky's apartment you can see little feathers floating down from where Fred turned on the fan and blew feathers everywhere.
Maybe I'm missing something but the Mertz's front door relative to the kitchen door changes angles. At 0:32 the doors are at 90 degree angles, but at 3:27 they look like they're at 45 degree angles to each other.
Interesting Rick l never noticed that great blooper!
I never would have known this info if I hadn’t watched your videos. Cheers & many thanks.
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Rick, I've been a subscriber for a while, but I have to admit that I just saw how well organized your videos are in your "Playlists". I didn't realize you had so many categories, including ones that I didn't anticipate such as "Horror Movies" and "You Bet Your Life."
Thanks so much! I love organization
As always great video full of interesting facts. Thanks for your hard work and effort. This was obviously a blooper but it also served the plot to have a door there as opposed to a window. What I always enjoy about I love lucy is all of the light harted, iconic moments. Btw, I love to see a History of video on DesiLu Studios on your channel at some point; just an idea for for future content.
Great idea! This is something that I could do for sure. Thanks Brian!
Something else about this door that doesn't make sense is, remember, Lucy's going through that door in order to get to the door to her own kitchen. But in "Never Do Business with Friends," we already saw that to get to the Mertz's apartment from the Ricardo's kitchen back door, Lucy would enter the Mertz's apartment from the Mertz's kitchen doorway (the back door that opens onto the shared balcony). And that's on the far opposite side of the Mertz's apartment from where this living room door is.
Very well researched, I forgot about the break from marriage video where they showed the Mertz's bedroom. I watch I love Lucy every night before I go to bed.
Great stuff....at 2.13 the exterior wall on the walkway outside of Ethel's kitchen appears to be made of wood while later, @ 2.23, the same exterior wall is brick.
I noticed this blooper the last time I watched “Lucy Wants New Furniture.” :) Great blooper to highlight!
This is great Rick! To my eye the Mertzes’ kitchen was comparatively huge! I wonder if that set was repurposed for other scenes in other episodes.
Hmm, very good thought!
I thought the very same thing! But their living room is tiny.
Loved it.
But of course, the Mertzes live beneath the Ricardo's. That was always established, especially in the "breaking the lease" episode.
Even after the RIcardos switched apartments after Little Ricky was born. Their new apartment had a window in the living room.
The Ricardo's only lived above the Mertz's until they switched apartments with the Bensons after Little Ricky was born, from then on until they moved to Westport they lived down the hall from the Merrtz's
The Mertz's had a refrigerator, not an ice box. On top of the fridge are the condenser coils that are now flattened out and cover the back. That is a classic old refrigerator, the most classic is the GE monitor top.
iam also a i love lucy addict i still continue watching the show n laugh so much like if is my first time watching it at times i closed my eyes n picture myself on set is so good you have done the bloopers pinpointing the mistake which still worked well for their show good job
Don't we see the Metz bedroom on the Madam X episode?
Hi Rick.. just two LITTLE minor notes on your comments.. 1.) The Mertzs's "icebox" as you call it is truly a refrigerator, granted, a very old-fashioned one that was popular in the 1920s and '30s, but, a refrigerator just the same. The motor was on top of the frig (unlike the kind made after WWII with the motor on the bottoms) and the cold air swirled around the food from the top down. and 2.) the "dresser" as you call it between the beds is called a night stand. A dresser is taller, wider and has several more drawers in it.
Hank Austin Your comment reminds me of Family Guy when Brian dates an older woman who uses terms like divan and lanai yet Brian is clueless as to which pieces she's referring to lol!!
LOL I hope that sweet angel Rick didn't get his feelings hurt, because that was not my intentions by any means.
Hank Austin, most companies made fridges with the motors in the bottoms in the 1920's and 1930's.....GE Monitor Top fridges were not the only fridges made back then.
@@ceil5001 Where my dad came from in Massachusetts the sofa was called the Divan. Where my mother came from in South Dakota the sofa was called a Davenport.
Hi Nick Great video! You are absolutely correct. The episode where Lucy buys Ethels birthday present and hides it in his apartment does show a couch against that wall where the window is. It also shows a closet on the wall to the right where the hallway window is I believe. It’s the episode that causes Lucy and Ethel to get into a fight over the gift Lucy picked out for Ethel. One of the most Hilarious episodes of all. Love your channel soooooo........much!
Thanks so much Jen! Thats sweet
The episode where Lucy buys Ethel's birthday present gets hacked up to fit more commercials. The part where Ethel opens the present in front of Lucy is shortened by half. Wish they would either play the show in its entirety or cut from another part. The way it's cut almost makes that scene not make sense.
@@rickloera9468 Antenna 📡 TV is notorious for doing that! I absolutely 💯 % Hate that. It's the same with Bewitched. And you're right as far as the 'editing' goes. Entire integral scenes are cut ✂️ for stupid commercials that, if you didn't already know what was cut, you'd be lost.
The refrigerator in Fred and Ethel’s apartment is actually an older version of Lucy and Ricky’s… They were smaller because if you notice on top of the refrigerator that kept the refrigerator cold so that’s why the refrigerator was itself was smaller and before that it had to be packed with ice to keep cold before they came up with the device to keep the refrigerator and freezer cold
There's no UHF or VHF antenna connected to the 4 open terminals on the back of the TV set.
Very good. Love the research and detail.
Thank you!
In the "El Break-o The Leas-o" episode, the Mertzes live below the Ricardos, and suffer falling plaster on their heads after a jam session from Ricky's band.
Also, in most apartment buildings, there's a similarity between units. The Mertzes look as though they live in a different building. No bricks on the wall, an alcove with twin cupboards, etc.
Another thing. If you remember on the trip to CA, on their first stop they stayed in a cabin and Ethel states that they would stay in the full sized bed because they have been sleeping in one for years, but the beds in their apt are two twin sized beds. That's a little inconsistent. The inconsistencies are all over the place on this show, but back then, there were no "re-runs" and they didn't really need any continuity because who would notice?
Have you ever seen in redecorating the Mertz Apartment, its when the feathers are blown with the fan, in the next scene they are in Lucys apartment and a feather floats down.
nailed it again thanks Rick😍
Hey Rick. I'm pretty sure the mertzes had a refrigerator and that's not an ice box. It's one of the first refrigerators where the cooling coils were on the top of the refrigerator as you could see in the video. Really enjoyed your work. There is a lamp and one of the mertzes shots of their apartment. A black metal lamp with gold band around the shade and I have that lamp. A friend of mine gave me it from a retirement home when someone died. I often wonder if it's the exact lamp lamp
Cool informative video Rick. Thank you for sharing this. 💯
I just watched the Connecticut episode where Lucy buys all the furniture with Mary Jane Croft and when Lucy calls them to help her, I notice the Mertz apartment looks much nicer than it did in earlier episodes. Also, I have been watching I Love Lucy since 1967 and just noticed a TV Guide magazine with Lucy and Desi on the cover in the episode Breaking The Lease from Season 1 when Lucy is packing up the Ricardos items. It's sitting on the coffee table. You can see it the best right when the scene opens. After that it's a little harder to tell. The photo on the TV Guide cover is the one where Desi is wearing a straw hat and Lucy has her early open mouthed surprised "O" look.
Definate blooper ... another nice job of investigative work!
You notice Fred and Ethel's door opens to the right or less sometimes the kitchen doors on the left or right wall sometimes there's a window on the wall but yet they never mentions changing apartments can someone help me solve that mystery?
I have never caught that blooper from that episode & I've been watching the show since I was a little kid for over 40 years
The episode where Ricky brought his band to rehearse in their apartment just to annoy Fred & Ethel implied that their apartment was downstairs, under the Ricardos. In fact, the final punchline is where Fred walks into their apartment with a chandelier over his head (the vibration having knocked it off the ceiling.) So that's a continuity error from the episode where the washing machine is being slid across the balcony. Many other episodes have lines in the script with the words 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' too when referring to their relative locations.
Second, the "ice box" is, in fact, an electric refrigerator. Very early models had the cooling coils on the top.
Enjoyed this. Thanks.
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
YES! I noticed that too! I’m glad I’m wasn’t crazy lol. Great eye. Love this show and all the Back history. Good job again.
Haha, yup
Right on, Rick! Be hopeful!☀️🌞👍
You can see the condensing coil on top of what is clearly a refrigerator
I always found it odd the Ricardo's lived in this Brownstone and apparently were the best heeled tenants. The owners, the Mertzes seemed like the poor relations.
I agree.
Exactly.
Actually the Mertz's did have 2 apartments. When the Ricardos bought Fred and Ethel a tv for their anniversary they had to take the tv downstairs to their apt.
It was the Ricardos who changed apartments. That’s how they ended up on the same floor.
Rick Keep up the good work I'm so wondering how I never noticed this the zillion times I've watched it on TV.
2:35 .. that's a full refrigerator, not an ice box ... that round screened item on top is the refrigerant compressor.
You’ll also notice that the Ricardos (and anyone else coming from their apartment) always appear to be coming from the left when entering the Mertzes’ apartment which doesn’t make sense if the apartments are positioned as it would appear in the “Never Do Business With Friends” episode.
Hi Rick..... Never gave it a thought about the Mertzes app. Door on left side of Rm. Have a nice day Rick!
Really cool!! Thx. 👍❤️😍😎
Thanks Donna! Have a great day!
And How was the hallway connected based on the set up of Mertz's front door and Ricardos front door.
Also, In the Noisy Neighbour's episode.... the Mertz's were downstairs. Hmm 🤔
The Ice Box at 2:15 is a 1920`s Frigidaire! Actual Refrigerator Electrically operated and very popular during that time! General Electric, Westinghouse also made these Refrigerators and Freezers in the early 1920`s to the early 1930`s when the more standard Refrigerators were produced! A Friend of mine still uses one Just like it! IT WORKS AWESOME! The Top that looks like Plates stacked on top of each other is the Radiator or Condenser (I forgot wich) If You ever heard 1920`s Music! Lyrics, I Collect 1920`s and 1930`s Records, You will here in some songs When a Boy or Girl gives a X Lover a cold shoulder! ie" Girl gives the cold shoulder, The Lyrics would be "She Gave Me The Frigidaire" ! Your Programs are FANTASTIC, And FUN!
their kitchen is also shown in the washing machine show where lucy sells ethel her old washing machine
The script writers & the set designers were genius's.
Where can I watch I Love Lucy other than the DVD?
Nathan Martinez Check your cable provider to see if they have ME-TV, only available in parts of the country....they show only vintage shows uncut and with full before and after credits.
The Mertz’s apartment was suppose to be downstairs.. like in the 2nd season episode called, The Courtroom.. Ricky & Lucy bought the Mertz’s a television for there 25th wedding anniversary.. and Lucy & Ricky was carrying the television downstairs to the Mertz’s apartment from the Ricardos apartment.. in the 2nd season episode, Never Do Business.. they lived across from each other.. from the Balcony scene with the washing machine.. hehe.. :)
Love ur bloopers I’m forever looking for mistakes in any show u can see above head microphones sometimes ty for detailing all the little mistakes ur awesome
Yes the Ricardo's apt was above the Mertze's apt.
Yeah look for the falling feather in Lucy's living room when she shows Ethel her new furniture when the show ends when the feathers where in the Ethel's apt.
I've wondered about the layout of the Mertz's apartment. Supposedly, they go directly from the living room to the kitchen, then there's just the patio. Where's the bedroom? Where's the bathroom?
Hollywood magic
@@ricknineg The door you say goes from the living room to the kitchen would actually go to a hallway that would lead to the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. It is kind of obvious because if you look at the door that Fred picks into the kitchen from, it is a swinging door that he pushes into the kitchen but the door that you claim goes to the kitchen from the living room is a regular door that opens out into the living room.
It's awesome to see their apartment
Love the site, you sound too young to know so much about the show-Kudos to your good eye!!
I love to watch l love Lucy . It is interesting how you point blobbers
Similar to the one-time appearance of that door in the Mertz's apartment, note what happens in the Ricardo's bedroom after they return home from Europe in season 6. Suddenly their bedroom window is gone! Unlike the situation with the Mertz's door/window, I can think of no plot reason for the window to disappear.
There is another rather big blooper between the Ricardos and Mertzes apartments. In the episode about doing business with friends where they argue over the washer the back balcony of both apartments is all on one level. However, in the episode where Lucy and Ricky give the Mertzes a TV set as an anniversary gift, Lucy and Ricky have to bring the set down stairs!
As Ricky would say: "ay-ay-ay." They lived on the 4th floor and then moved to a larger apartment on the 3rd floor after Little Ricky was born. The episode is called "The Ricardos Change Apartments." Imagine that!
Rick, the first generation refrigerator is referred to as a "turret top." These were first generation design amd a huge improvement from ice boxes when the ice man stopped by regularly to deliver a block of ice. No electricity, simply an insulated box with a drip pan on the bottom.The kids in the household usually garnered the pan emptying duty.Bet you can figure out how that turned out occasionally.Turre tops were a big step up for sure and lasted for decades.
Thanks for that interesting knowledge. Always love learning!
You want to see an ice box in a fifties show just watch the Honeymooners
I would have never have put that door bit together, Rick, but I did know the rest of the stuff. The "icebox" was actually an old electric fridge with a motor on top: popular around 1930.
Thanks Kirk! Glad you enjoyed it. I did hear after it was the first type of fridge essentially
Hey Rick...
What about the country home when the Ricardos moved out to Connecticut and the merchants followed. Was that filmed at the same Studio? I'm just wondering you don't hear much about it so just interesting to see what you think or what stories you have to tell about the house out in the country.
Exactly the same stage and space as 2nd Ricardo apartment from Season 3 and forward
@@ricknineg thanks Rick! This is really great that you are the I L❤VE LUCY guru!
The Mertz's, not the Merchant's.