Thanksgiving Weekend TV Marathon: 'I Love Lucy'
Nov 27, 2008, 07:00 AM | by Lynette Rice
Categories: Happy Holidays, Television
TV Land: Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Why you should gobble up eight hours of Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel: It has been more 50 years since I Love Lucy aired on CBS, but the black-and-white sitcom (and its endless loop of quips about our heroine's henna'ed hair) will never grow tiresome. True, not everything about the Lucille Ball comedy would fly today if someone tried to reboot the series: Imagine if a contemporary comedy featured a wife who ridiculed her husband's Cuban accent. But classic moments -- like when Lucy inadvertently cements a costume beard to her face -- remain irresistible.
Must-see episode: Nothing says Thanksgiving more than that unforgettable scene from "Job Switching" (a.k.a. "The Candy Factory") in which Lucy and Ethel shove gobs of bon-bons down their pie holes. It still makes us bust a gut.
How about you, PopWatchers? Planning on a Turkey Day ass plant courtesy of I Love Lucy? Does watching that clip give you a stomach ache or make you hungrier? And come on back after you wolf down a few hours and share any thoughts/dreams/new observations you may may have stumbled upon during your TV gluttony.
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