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Lucy is Matchmaker - I Love Lucy episode 62, originally aired 5/25/1953, season 2

In Lucy is Matchmaker, Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) is becoming upset with all of the attention that her attractive single friend Sylvia Collins is getting from her husband, Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz). Lucy decides to play matchmaker for Sylvia with a friend of Fred Mertz (William Frawley) named Eddie Grant. After a very funny bit where Lucy tries to drop a subtle hint to Eddie that he should find a girl to show him New York City, Ricky berates the red-faced Lucy. When Sylvia can’t make it to the rendezvous that Lucy has arranged, Lucy goes to tell Eddie. Fred Mertz is there to pull a prank on Eddie, only to misunderstand why Lucy is there—and when Ricky comes along, he misunderstands as well—as does Eddie, who dashes out at the sight of Lucy’s husband. Eddie, Ricky and Fred all get the wrong message—and thinks that Lucy is the one interested in him.

Lucy (with Ethel along as a chaperone) goes to see Eddie and clear up the misunderstanding. After a comic routine tricking their way into Eddie’s hotel room, Lucy explains the situation, and introduces Eddie to Sylvia over the phone. Once the situation is explained, Eddie tries to make amends by offering Lucy and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) the lingerie that he sells at half off—until their husbands show up while the girls are trying the lingeries on!

Lucy is Matchmaker is available on the I Love Lucy season 2 DVD collection.

Funny quotes from Lucy is matchmaker—I Love Lucy

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) [speaking of their friend Sylvia’s dress at the party]: All I know is every man in the room was waiting for her to exhale.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): I’ll say. Fred’s eyes bugged out like a bullfrog with an overactive thyroid.

Marion Appleby [talking about Sylvia Collins]: What’s she got that we haven’t got?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): No husband.

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): [to the other girls] We have got to find Sylvia a husband.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): I’ll make the sacrifice; she can have mine.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): A bachelor! And young, too. A real, live bachelor right here in my own trap!

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): After all, if this guy is fortunate enough to still be single after all ...
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) [interrupting]: What?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): I didn’t mean it that way. I mean if he’s smart enough to still be single ...
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): How’s that?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): There must be some word that describes what I’m trying to say.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): The word is ‘stupid’.

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Lucy! You, here, dressed in that! You must be out of your mind!
[Ethel comes out in a nightgown]
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Ethel! You, here, dressed in that! He must be out of his mind!

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Okay, Ethel, they want the real story, let’s give it to them.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Ehhh?

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