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**Job Switching - I Love Lucy episode 39**, season 2, originally aired 9/15/1952

Another episode that has become one of the most-loved I Love Lucy episodes, Lucy and Ethel decide to prove that their work is just as hard as Ricky and Fred’s, the girls and guys switch places for a day—this includes the classic Candy Factory routine—speed it up a little!

After driving an employment agency to distraction, Lucy and Ethel find work in a candy factory, working on candies on a conveyor belt. Of course, each time their supervisor checks on them she increases the speed of the belt—"speed it up a little!"—with Lucy and Ethel desperately trying to keep up, eventually stuffing the candies in their mouths and their blouses—a hilarious physical comedy scene that has to be seen to be appreciated, culminating in a fight with their supervisor.

Of course, Ricky and Fred are no better than Lucy and Ethel - Fred burns three of Ethel’s stockings and Ricky starches Lucy’s stockings. At the end, everyone reconciles and goes back to their "easy" normal jobs.

Job Switching is available as part of the season 2 I Love Lucy DVD collection.

Courtesy of YouTube, you can watch a clip of Lucille Ball): What kind of jobs do you have open?
Employment Agent: Well what do you do?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): What kind of jobs do you have open?
Employment Agent: Well what do you do?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): What kind of jobs do you have open?
Employment Agent: You go first this time.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Alright, what do you do?
Employment Agent: What kind of jobs do you have... Oh. Cut it out.

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Yes, ma'am. I'm a dipper from way back.
Forewoman: Yes?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): They used to call me the big dipper!

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Fred, how often is Ethel's checking account overdrawn?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Never.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Never? How do you manage that?
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): It's easy. I never had enough money at one time to open a checking account.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): She spends money like I'm printing it in the basement!