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I Love Ricky Relationships

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The relationships in I Love Lucy center on Lucy, Ricky, and her friendships with her landlords and neighbors, Fred and Ethel. Lucy, often the one who instigates and devises the plans, drags her willing friend Ethel through a maze of misguided schemes in hopes of becoming famous. Feeling challenged by Ricky, who opposes her not-so-brilliant ideas, Lucy retaliates with trickery and indiscretions that never work out as she planned. Adding to the comedy, when Ricky finds out what Lucy has done, he is so mad that he begins to yell in Spanish and it is obvious that Lucy does not understand what he is saying. By the end of the episode, Ricky has forgiven Lucy and all is well again. In Friends, Rachel’s relationships were more complex in that they

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