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Sales Resistance - I Love Lucy episode 45, season 2, originally aired 1/26/1953

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After Lucy buys a "Handy Dandy Kitchen Helper" and finds it to be virtually worthless, and when she tries to return it the salesman "upgrades" her purchase to the Handy Dandy Vacuum Cleaner! Lucy tries to sell the vacuum cleaner to recoup her money, and when that fails, Ricky tries to return it ... only to demonstrate that he doesn’t have any sales resistance, either.

A very funny episode, with Lucy’s interaction with the flim-flam sales person a highlight—especially so when she tries to return the product! Also, later on in the episode when Lucy tries, and fails, to use the salesman’s techniques to sell the vacuum cleaner—dropping dirt on a person’s carpet, only not being able to vacuum it up when the lady reveals that she didn’t pay her electric bill that month! Of course, the final scene is a funny conclusion, with Ricky and Fred revealing that they are even bigger suckers, Ricky having bought a new refrigerator and tightwad Fred having bought a new washing machine for Ethel.

Sales Resistance is available as part of the season 2 I Love Lucy DVD collection.

Quotes from I Love Lucy - Sales Resistance

Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): (asking how much Lucy has spent on a new kitchen gadget) Lucy, how much?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): It cuts down on the time a wife spends in the kitchen.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Lucy, how much?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): About 2 hours?

Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): And now ladies and gentlemen, I’m about to demonstrate the Handy Dandy Kitchen Helper. It’s something you shouldn’t be without. It peels and spices, cuts and rices, skins and dices at lowest prices.

Trivia about I Love Lucy - Sales Resistance

This is the first of five flashback episodes that were filmed in August and September of 1952, and aired after the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. to give Lucille Ball time to recuperate. In episodes 45 and 46 it was explained that Lucy was still in the hospital.
After the episode originally aired, an announcer mentioned that Desi Arnaz’s song, "There’s a Brand New Baby at Our House" was available on the Columbia record label, with the I Love Lucy theme song on the flip side.