toolbin

I like the one with the giant fish that keeps getting moved between the two aparts. And the chocolate factory.

kitkat

The chocolate factory and vitameatavegamin.

Mok

I like the one when Lucy loses her passport and can't pass the border. Also the grapes smashing episode, and the one with Superman.

JCWBobC

They are all great but I love the one where they are cooking bread and when it comes out of the oven it goes across the whole kitchen. They want to cut it but don't want to break the egg they used to cook it.

Another great one is when they hire a speach teacher so that when Little Ricky is born they will all know how to speak proper English. The teacher tells them their are 2 words they should never use "Swell" and "Lousy". Fred tells him to tell them the lousy one first. Then they have to sing this song about flowers in a garden-Fred's line is "Bibbety Bobbety Boo".

Charlie Goose

Gee, so many.

I especially love the season in Hollywood. Best one is when Lucy, Fred, & Ethel are in the Brown Derby and spot William Holden. When Lucy spins around and comes nose to nose with him is the single funniest moment in sitcom history, IMO.

Dubya

The one where Lucy tries to weasel her way into Ricky's nightclub act....oh wait

Seriously though the chocolate factory is always the first one that comes to mind among many great ones.

Toonview

Vitameatavegamin.

I still remember being home sick from grade school and catching that episode. I had probably seen it before but I was finally old enough to really understand the whole drunken gag. I laughed harder than anything I'd ever laughed at before. It's been over 30 years since then, but I still remember that moment clearly. Lucy's performance in that bit was flawless and I still laugh every time I watch it on TV or DVD.

PacMan2006

Love this show.

My favorites:

1) Lucy getting stuck in the freezer

2) Lucy and Ethel pretend to be Aliens

3) Lucy steals John Wayne's cement square from Grauman's.

RobCA

So many great episodes, but if I had to pick just one favorite, as hard as that would be to do, it would probably be the chocolate factory episode. I also love all the Hollywood episodes, especially the one with William Holden.

But if we're including episodes of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour in this, then my all-time favorite would have to be the one with Tallulah Bankhead.

Rob

das Monkey

Vitameatavegamin

An obvious choice, to be sure, but it's made me cry with laughter too many times to select anything else.

das

flagstone

Well, apart from the chocolate factory and Vitametavegamin, I'm also partial to "Lucy Gets A Paris Gown":

wmansir

I haven't watched many episodes but I caught part of The Kleptomaniac the other day it had a great scene where Lucy and Ethel burst into the apartment brandishing guns pretending to be on the run after robbing a bank:

Ethel: Did you get any of them?
Lucy: I got two - a flat foot and a private eye. I got the eye in the foot and the foot in the eye.

cornflakeguy

Any and all "I Love Lucy's" I have seen were viewed before I reached the age of 10. Hot summer days and school sick days inside the house before I discovered other TV is when I watched ILL.

I didn't really enjoy them much. At the age of 9 to 10 my comedy muscle has already been worked out by the likes of "Threes Company" and "All in the Family." The slapstick goofiness of ILL was a little below me....at the age of 10.

I will be the first to admit that this attitude may be and probably is wrong of me. In light of this thread, I will endeavor to see an ILL or two so I can get a taste of Lucy now that I am an adult.

Having said that, by favorite episode was with Superman. Because, hey. It was Superman.

Jimmy James

This thread is on the verge of inspiring me to create a thread asking about Andy Griffith next week. That's honestly more my speed than ILL.

Of the ones I have seen, I think I like the one with the grapes the best. I think that was called Lucy's Italian Movie from a quick web search.

John-In-VA

Ok, this isn't in reply to the question, but does anybody know if another comedy series has ever been set in as many difference locations throughout it's run? New York, Cali, Europe, Connecticut...am I missing any? I realize it wasn't physically in those places, but I can't remember another series that moved it's main set with such success.

Well here's a fave that just came to mind. In Connecticut Lucy goes on a rampage with a riding lawn mower and mows down the neighbor's tulips plus goes through town on freeways and all. The genius is that most of it was simply her explaining all the places she went and it was hilarius just picturing her doing that.

Brent L

While not my favorite one, I'd have to think about that for a while, the first one that I thought of when I read this topic is the one where Ricky ended up losing his job because he was demanding a raise, so they let him go to work elsewhere. Because of that, Lucy, Fred, and Ethel all called the club over and over again using different voices, making reservations. They ended up getting all of the seats in the club, and as they went to the club dressed up in different ways, they'd ask if Ricky Ricardo would be there that evening, and when the owner would say that he was no longer with that club, they'd all stand up and yell and leave. It ended up where the owner hired Ricky back, with a pay raise.

This thread is only going to lead to YouTube video being posted.

PacMan2006

I love this as well.

Doc Moonlight

"Lucy Goes to Scotland", a surreal mini-musical episode with Fred and Ethel as a two-headed dragon.

big whoppa

When I think of ILL, I always think of the chocolate conveyor belt and the grape mashing episodes.

sracer

"It's a moo moo"

I love this show!

maingon

I dont think i ever seen a whole episode of this show

das Monkey

Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular?

das

bloopbleep

lucy and john wayne
lucy and superman
the best.

mike harnish

The episode with Harpo Marx.

Jadow

the one where Norm takes on Cliff's mail route when Cliff is sick, and Norm gets busted!

Cheers FTW!