Yeah, that is a bit dumb. And your comment about two year-old Little Ricky giving a hoot is also silly.
This reminds me of a film I just watched called "A Rainy Day in New York." Timothee Chalamet asks his ditzy girlfriend, played by Elle Fanning, if she's ever been to New York. She replies "twice - the first time when I was two, and the second time when I was twelve." Uh, hello!! Since she wouldn't RECALL the first visit, she's really only been there ONCE! It's a funny line, but in the case of ILL, the line isn't funny and doesn't make sense. One wonders if it was scripted differently, and Ball just screwed up the line.
I've never cared for Ethel's dropping by the Ricardos after some errand and catching Lucy about to mime that Ricky's bought her a mink stole. Ethel says, "I haven't got time for games, I've got to get my dinner on", then abruptly turns to leave 10 seconds after she just walked in, saying "Hi!" If she's in such a rush to get dinner started, WHY did she even bother to drop by in the first place?? Bad scripting.
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[email protected] (6082)
4 years ago
Your comment about being two years old reminds me of one of Lucy's reasons for wanting to go by car. It might be Little Ricky's "only" chance to cross the USA? Huh? Didn't Lucy think he'd have a chance to travel when he was an adult? Geez!! Also, did she really expect a toddler to take in all the sights and appreciate them??
Ethel's remark about having to rush to get her dinner on didn't make too much sense either.
Two sandwiches before lunch? Yeah, either Ethel was being sarcastic or she usually cooked a huge midday meal. Of course, in the washing machine episode, she was only serving cold cuts.
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Costumer (1829)
4 years ago
>>> Uh, hello!! Since she wouldn't RECALL the first visit, she's really only been there ONCE!<<<<
Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. She has been to New York twice. It is utterly irrelevant if she remembers or not. I haven't seen the film; if there is some detail that she's an orphan, and doesn't know her birth (or original adopted) parents and has no memory of anything before four or five, she wouldn't make the statement.
Given what you have quoted, she was in New York when she was two. She was undoubtedly told this by her parents. She was there. She was also there at twelve. Ipso facto, she has been in New York twice. She can only tell you about her memories of being there at twelve. She may be able to tell you something about being there at two if her parents told her about the visit.
Things don't undo themselves because you don't remember them. An amnesia victim's life events all happened whether they are remembered. (Yes, I know that that level of amnesia is rare.) Someone who has been in a traumatic auto accident and doesn't remember what happened from several minutes before (my wife had that experience) was still in the accident even if they don't remember it.
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Garyandfilm (548)
4 years ago
You're a total ASS - you jump mid-thread into a topic which has ZERO to do with I Love Lucy to pound out several paragraphs (probably from your aging mother's basement) to lambast me about a comedic line, from a film you yourself admit you "haven't seen." Good f@#$ing grief!
Any idiot knows that if someone's been to NY twice it makes it twice! The wit (do you know the meaning of the word?) lies in the character's half-baked assertion that she consciously counts both visits to the big apple as legitimate recollections to discuss them as MEMORABLE separate trips.
Now that you stand corrected, kindly get lost and stop posting about films you've never seen.
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Costumer (1829)
4 years ago
I responded to the post as written. I'm sorry you are so easily upset about it. You post said absolutely nothing about the character saying either or both visits were memorable.
Your quote says: >>>This reminds me of a film I just watched called "A Rainy Day in New York." Timothee Chalamet asks his ditzy girlfriend, played by Elle Fanning, if she's ever been to New York. She replies "twice - the first time when I was two, and the second time when I was twelve."
Please point out where the girlfriend, or Timothee Chalamet's character say anything about memorability. She is asked if she has ever BEEN to New York. She aswers, she has BEEN there twice, when 2 and 12 years old.
If you meant, or thought the characters meant, that the trips were memorable, then you should have said that. You quoted the film in reference to this topic. Don't be surprised when someone responds. I will always take a reference to another film/show as supplying enough information for the other readers to appreciate the comment. If you don't supply it, any misunderstandings are your issues.
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Costumer (1829)
4 years ago
And just for your information, I moved out of my mother's house in 1981 when I got married. My wife and I have lived in our own home, which we own free and clear, for 40 years.
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