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Lucy’s Showbiz Swan Song - I Love Lucy episode 12 , season 2, originally aired 12/22/1952

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The now-pregnant Lucy tries, for one last time, to "get in the show" as Ricky is putting on a Gay Nineties revue—failing all else, she "crashes" the Barbershop Quartet number (singing Good Night Ladies), leading into a "pie fight" of shaving cream.

Highlights of the episode include the auditions, including Pepito the Spanish clown with imitating a baby, riding the world’s smallest bicycle and imitating a lion tamer—also the quartet ‘practicing’ in the Ricardos’ apartment, Ricky demonstrating his ‘Irish’ accent.

Lucy’s Showbiz Swan Song is available as part of the season 2 I Love Lucy DVD collection.

Quotes from I Love Lucy - Lucy’s Showbiz Swan Song

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): We can work up a cute song and dance number.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): I hope you’re not thinking of me as part of ‘we.’
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Sure, we’ll be a couple!
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): A couple of what?

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): [singing] I was strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of May! I was taken by surprise . . . (looks at Ricky) by a pair of roguish eyes…
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): [singing] And you can put that parasol away, bom bom!

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I’ll sing it with an Irish accent.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): This I gotta hear.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I’ve been practicing. You’ll be surprised.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): That’s for sure.

Trivia about I Love Lucy - Lucy’s Showbiz Swan Song

Music performed on this episode included “Carolina in the Morning”, “Strolling Through the Park”, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”, “Goodnight Ladies”, and “Sweet Adeline”. The first performer to record “Carolina in the Morning” was ... William Frawley!

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