Desi Arnaz

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

Popular Culture’s Influence: How Lucille Ball Inspired Me Everyone develops into a different person, but there’s no doubt that we take inspiration from others. Being exposed to horror movies at a young age by one’s parents can make a child fearful, or give them an appreciation for movies and what makes them scary. Likewise, being introduced to comedy at a young age can mold a child’s taste in humor or appreciation for the genre. Popular culture has helped influenced many of us, and it has made us

1. I Love Lucy, the show, is about the life of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Lucy is like a housewife in the 1950s in New York City. It is a comedy where it is about the daily life of a marriage. Where the couple are of different origins since her husband Ricky is Cuban and Lucy from US. The show inspires in a comic and different way since the difference between cultures is mixed as well as the role of man and woman. Lucy plays the role of a housewife where he longs to have a business or a race his ambitious

A lot has changed in the years of TV, but in terms of sitcoms between the two shows I love Lucy and the Simpson there has been a lot of change. I love Lucy is an American television sitcom that was made in 1951 and ended in 1957. I love Lucy was an old modern television showed that was in black and white, the picture was old and not as advanced as television today. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom started in 1989 and is still showing as of today. The Simpsons is a more colorful and also

In contrast to other shows at the time such as Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best Lucy’s show was a refreshing rendering of the American housewife. As the lecture from week two stated, most shows at the time focused on “cookie cutter” versions of the American middle class family. I Love Lucy showed that a woman could be messy, silly, scheming, emotional, and driven in addition to being a housewife. Her television persona was demonstrating a more realistic interpretation of what it meant

The Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy There are many American shows that are considered classics. Two of these shows are The Andy Griffith Show created by Arthur Stander and I Love Lucy created by Jess Oppenheimer et al. Although there are many similarities between the two shows there were also a number of important differences. In this essay it will be argued that many of the differences between the two shows are the result of their different settings and the fact that they were produced a many

Lucille’s portrayal of this ditzy schemer did not exactly fit the view of a traditional American 1950’s housewife, revealing the show’s willingness to push social issues. Lucille Ball insisted that her real-life husband Desi Arnaz play her husband in the show. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were the first on-screen interracial couple. One of the biggest displays of “I Love Lucy” pushing the envelope was her real-life pregnancy on the show, which at the time

melds Cuban politics and American society. The I Love Lucy show is used a depiction of the American Dream by portraying Desi Arnaz as a successful musician in contrast to the Castillo’s. Eugenio Castillo, who was born and raised in the US, is forced to deal with the repercussions of political climate in Cuba, which advocates his disinterest in his heritage. However after meeting Arnaz he was reminded about his parents’ ideal life and began to recognize his culture again in the following quote: “there

Ball continually opened the door for women in comedy and television, changed the way women were perceived in the media, and was even the first woman to own a television studio. In the beginning, Lucille had to fight to portray her relationship with Desi Arnaz

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. –- Will Rogers Television’s rise in popularity throughout the fifties saw the emergence of the situation comedy, a style that captivated audiences by presenting a story with a beginning, a middle, and a happy end. One of the most popular of these shows, I Love Lucy, continues to appeal to both young and old some forty years later -- and counting. For most people, the answer to how I Love Lucy continually and effectively draws viewers