"I LOVE LUCY!"-- Desi OFFENDED When Others Made Fun on His English During Filming of the Show!

[@craiglaw7578]

Desi’s accent was one of the gems of “I Love Lucy”. If Desi really learned how to drop his accent …. and just delivered lines …a lot of the charm would’ve disappeared. He really was funny!

[@melissastruxness512]

Sorry I have not commented lately. For some reason have not been seeng your stuff in my feed lately. Saw this luckily. Gonna have to make sure I look at your channel to catch what I missed. This show is my absolute all time favorite. Those 4 were perfectly matched

[@summermazur3064]

Desi was brilliant. He could switch from English to Spanish in an instant and also knew the scripts of all the actors. He must have had to write his own Spanish lines, too, since the writers only would put "Ricky: Something clean in Spanish" in the script. The only flub we can name is the famous one from "Cuban Pals", which ended up being so endearing. Desi's talent is often overlooked.

[@joannelynnepettigrew2277]

Happy turkey day Rick! And "thanks-for-giving" all the smiles!! Hope I splained that well!

[@elizabethharrison7306]

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Rick

[@craiglaw7578]

Thanks!

[@JaneDoe-ov1hb]

YAY! I'm thrilled to see more Lucy content!❤Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you and anyone reading this 🦃

[@stevengreco8961]

Great channel!

[@gailwatson4927]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick and family. Thank you for the information.

[@mamas.8259]

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody

[@lifepathnumbernine6607]

Her black laced blue jeans 😂

[@johnwilson1489]

I love your videos. Always interesting

[@bejoyful]

Happy Thanksgiving from Canada to you Rick and your new Bride! The charm between Lucy and Ricky is their differences said always with love; why this show sustains all time.

[@stanzelko5243]

It's always interesting to find out what makes people laugh and what doesn't and why. Thank you for this episode.

[@resnir]

In addition to being his wife, when Lucy made fun of his accent, the jabs incorporated her spectacular timing and inflection.

[@dianetheisen8664]

Evertime I see 👀 this video 📹, I LOL and smile 😁❤️🐶🐾‼️

[@MarkBridges-ed9hs]

Watched I Love Lucy through your the day today. Love your videos and your inside information.

[@joeanderson9852]

❤❤

[@timtmt522]

Happy turkey day Rick to you and your new bride!🦃

[@deborahleroy5323]

That is very understandable back then people did not think or care before they spoke and it was very hurtful.

[@eliseh.7474]

Thank you, Rick. If you watch closely you can see Desi very deliberately step on the lace costume. I loved this episode. It's demonstrative of human foibles and insecurities. I think it's innocently amusing when Lucy is jealous and pokes fun of Ricky's accent. It baffles me how these episodes translate into Spanish, however. Love your channel, Rick, muchisimas gracias. I ❤ Lucy and you.

[@jons.6216]

Fun bit of trivia about learning English, Rick. I read in a biography about Carmen Miranda that she was promised bonuses for the amount of English words she learned and eventually exceeded expectations!

[@theastewart6721]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick to you and your bride! Yes I recall when Lucy makes fun of his English. It’s usually when they are fighting. I can remember an episode when Ricky says “ And don’t make fun of my English and she scoffs and says Ha! That’s English? with a haughty demeanor. But the exact episode escapes me at the moment. Fun video! 😊

[@joangravitz3280]

I've watched movies Desi made before I Love Lucy. I think he has less of an accent in those films. But, it doesn't matter. I adore Desi. I might even LOVE Desi.

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

Desi was a pioneer in television sitcom production. and he NEVER got his due.

[@joangravitz3280]

@mysticakhenaton1701 i agree. One hundred percent.

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

Generation X here/1965-1982...I still LOVE this show, I watch it on the Catchy T.v channel, here in Chicago.

[@rager-69]

I liked it when Ricky would rant in Spanish and the way Lucy would react, especially when Ricky would mime doing some harm to someone.

[@trishamorriston3737]

Happy Thanksgiving To you Mr. Ning and to your family 0:58

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family

[@1014Donna]

The black lace blue jeans episode!

[@jennyrine7216]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick 🦃

[@ddavenpAZ]

“I know those who haven’t subscribed. I’ve seen you.” Is that Ricknineg as Rod Serling at the end of the video or Big Brother? lol. Great video today and very intelligent reasoning on how they made Ricky Ricardo’s occasional struggle with English humorous but not a joke. Your explanation was perfect! 👍🏻

[@mamas.8259]

Happy Thanksgiving❤

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Well! Old married man Rick giving us a video about marriage! Enjoy your first Thanksiving as a married couple ❤

[@mamas.8259]

❤

[@brettdamkroger1371]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@silvereagle2061]

I don't think this show would fly today.

[@pamelamays4186]

In that episode Ethel was really trying to stir up trouble between Lucy and Ricky.

[@PaulTesta]

Happy 1st Thanksgiving to Mr. & Mrs. 9G! 🦃

[@Jared_Wignall]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick, I hope your day is going well. This is an excellent video, so thank you for the video as it’s very well done. Have a great day and take care!

[@SusanDiPaolo-g6s]

Watched an episode yesterday. "Radio" and "rodeo". I loved when Lucy repeated Ricky's English pronunciation. Agree. It's OK for spouses to do it.

[@donnicholas7552]

Happy Thanksgiving, Rick! 🦃Lucy making fun of Ricky's accent was one of the main jokes in the show.

[@mrfloxin]

Happy Thanksgiving to you Rick! I know your thankful for Thanksgiving with your wife! Gobble Gobble for sure!

[@byronbrewer33]

Happy Thanksgiving, Rick!

[@sallyn2393]

I think the writers did a good job with the accent jokes, coming from Lucy they were mostly endearing and funny. Great topic, Rick. And Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃🍁♥️

[@tigger06]

Making fun of his English... As Lucy would say, "That's English ???!!"

[@LordBeerusHakaiGod]

Happy thanksgiving to the king and queen of the Nineg Kingdom

[@mamas.8259]

🦃🦃🦃🦃❤

[@MsBackstager]

Cuban man 'splainin.

[@AlexRamirez-fj4dj]

I am latino and my dad when he 1st worked in nyc he was struggling to perfect his english some even made fun of him which made him mad. I never found it offensive it was part of the charm and also the spouse interaction is what made the show work. Also couples always fight so it is expected to poke fun at each other. My parents loved the show as well. Some of the situations that came up were hysterical

[@SailorBarsoom]

On the old "Sonny & Cher" show, they would say funny little insulting things to each other. Everybody laughed. At the end of the day, no matter what they said, you knew they still loved each other. Then they got a divorce. They tried to do the show anyway, but that stuff they said just wasn't funny anymore. This observation is not original to me, but I can't remember who I heard say it. I think it was from before KZbin.

[@briangriffin4937]

@@SailorBarsoom I used to watch the Sonny & Cher Show on CBS when I was in high school. I could sense the tension between them when they insulted each other during the opening dialogue. Sonny split and in the later years it was just the ‘Cher Show.’

[@itsallme7979]

Happy Thanksgiving Rick

[@davest123va]

When the gang is embarking on the S.S. Constitution and Lucy has to embark by helicopter, Ricky exclaims, "A hay-ya-copter! Isn't that dangerous?" Fred says, "Yeah, for the hay-ya-copter." Always thought that was funny and a rare mocking by Fred. Almost seems adlibbed. Although a funnier one from an earlier episode where Ricky is trying to pronounce "cuddle" but it sounds like "curdle" and Fred says, "Curdle?" Ricky, "Yeah!" Fred , "Oh, like that song 'Curdle Up A Little Closer'". LOL!

[@leesalawitch1386]

Spanish is my fourth language, and I speak it at work. I learned Castillian Spanish with good enunciation. Most people I speak with are from Mexico or Latin America with muddier accents. I've adapted mine to be better understood. So I can imagine how Ricky felt speaking English slower and enunciating better

[@cjmarshall0221]

Great piece, as usual Rick. I'd like to submit an additional piece of information for the files. I think Desi kind-of mellowed out a bit as time when on concerninging his accent. There is a little routine between him and Argentinian actor Fernando Lamas in the episode "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley" in the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. "Ricky Ricardo: I understand you met my wife, Lucy. Fernando Lamas: [remembering his skiing accident with her the day before] Eh, yes. Ricky Ricardo: Uh, you see, we had a fight, y'know, so, and she came out here alone, y'know, and then she saw you and she got an idea, and she, she got somebody telling me that you were seeing a lot of each other, so that I would come up here because I was yealous. Fernando Lamas: Uh, yealous? Ricky Ricardo: Sí. Celoso. Fernando Lamas: Oh, yealous! Real funny. And shows that both men were good sports about such things.

[@debbiemanning3644]

Yes it must have been difficult playing that role with so much talent. At least they gave him the night club.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

I bet it nearly drove him to what he called a physiochiatrist. For the most part, they made sure that only Lucy made fun of his accent; audiences liked it less when Ethel or Fred did it. Similarly, Vivian Vance didn't like the Ethel fat jokes, debunking the long-running myth that she was contractually obligated to be overweight for the show, astutely saying that if Ethel really is fat and they make fun of her, the audience won't laugh, they'll feel sorry for her and hate the others for being mean to her.

[@jehobden]

It's a bit unusual that for Ricky, "explain" became "'splain", since when I studied Spanish in school, I learned that a Spanish word never started with 'S' followed by a consonant. There would usually be 'e' with 's', so an English word like "school" becomes "escuela" in Spanish. I'm sure they both came from the same Latin root, but Spanish adds that extra syllable in this case.

[@marlenepearson3936]

I thought it was very cute when Lucy would make fun of Ricky's English. It wasn't like it was all the time. So, it didn't come across as mean. Happy Thanksgiving 😊 Rick. 👍

[@asteverino8569]

Something about english as a second language. I know some young people in Nigeria who speak better english than I. They just have an accent. The accent is secondary and should not be difficult to learn. Don't criticize people who have learned english well, especially if you only speak one language. 🤔 Thanks Rick. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@eloiseockert9233]

I read or heard (maybe from your channel?) Lucy would NOT allow anyone else making fun of Desi's English

[@christophercruz8359]

I've always liked the way Fred made fun of Ricky's English, to be honest. The way Lucy does it annoys me, and because they are husband and wife, I find it demeaning.

[@randytim512]

Yes it was funny and the only one else who did it was Fred but very rarely.

[@SaigonlEntertainment]

BBQ show were at the end when Lucky said to Ethel what do with Ricky's shirt ? she said give it to Fred use it for Lawn mower. After that you can look at Ethel's face that the line is mistake? look at the video and tell me what you think?