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The Diet - I Love Lucy season 1

'The Diet' - I Love Lucy season 1 - can Lucy lose enough weight in 4 days to fit into the showgirl's dress and be in Ricky's show?

In order to be part of Ricky’s show, Lucy starves and steams her way into losing 12 pounds of weight in 4 days.

Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): On behalf of the tubby trio, I welcome you to our flabby foursome.

In "The Diet", Lucy Ricardo learns that she’s gained 22 pounds since marrying Ricky. In order to replace a retiring singer in Ricky’s Tropicana nightclub act, she will need to lose 12 pounds in 4 days to fit into the singer’s outfit. Eventually, in the nightclub act Ricky sings "Cuban Pete" and Lucy sings "Sally Sweet"—both of these were featured in the Arnazes 1950 vaudeville tour and the subsequant I Love Lucy pilot.
Lucy fights with the Mertzes dog over a scrap of meat on a bone—the dog is never seen or mentioned again.

Posted by Tom Raymond, aka Raynbow on 10/05 at 10:59 PM