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Season 1 · Episode 1 · Overall #1

The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub

Aired October 15, 1951 Directed by Marc Daniels Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr.

About This Episode

Ethel would like Lucy and Ricky, help Fred and Ethel celebrate their 18th wedding Anniversary. Ethel wants to go to a nightclub and Fred wants to go to the fights. Twist and turns throughout the episode reveal, in the final scene, where Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel ultimately spend their 18th wedding anniversary.

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About This Clip

In this clip we hear the very first joke ever made on I Love Lucy. Lucy and Ethel are washing the after dinner dishes. Ethel tells Lucy that she and Fred will be celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary and Ethel would like Lucy and Ricky to help celebrate this momentous occasion with them. The audience finds out Ethel would like to celebrate by going to a nightclub. In the next scene we find out that Ricky and Fred have a different idea for the celebration.

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