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The Best Episodes of I Love Lucy Season 2

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The Best Episodes of I Love Lucy Season 2

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana...

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  1. 9.4/10(856 votes)

    #1 - Job Switching

    S2:E1

    Ricky wants Lucy to try working for a week, so she and Ethel get jobs at a candy factory, where they are totally inept-especially at wrapping chocolates-due to a speeding conveyor belt that has them stuffing chocolates in their mouths, blouses, and hats.

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  2. 8.9/10(535 votes)

    #2 - Lucy Is Enceinte

    S2:E10

    Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant-but how to tell Ricky? At lunch, he's too preoccupied with work to listen to her, then it's off to the club-where Lucy finds the right moment and just the right way to tell him.

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  3. 8.7/10(509 votes)

    #3 - Lucy Goes to the Hospital

    S2:E16

    Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for pregnant Lucy's trip to the hospital. It turns out to be predictably chaotic, but Lucy does deliver Little Ricky.

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  4. 8.7/10(426 votes)

    #4 - Ricky and Fred are TV Fans

    S2:E30

    With Ricky and Fred glued to a TV fight, their wives go to the local cafe, where service is so slow that Lucy makes change for herself at the cash register and the girls are arrested. They finally prove their innocence and get home to husbands who didn't know they were gone.

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    Director:William Asher
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  5. 8.6/10(438 votes)

    #5 - The Handcuffs

    S2:E4

    After Lucy snaps a pair of antique handcuffs on herself and Ricky, they realize there's no key. A locksmith is found, but not before the Ricardos go to bed handcuffed together, and Ricky has to do a TV show with his "attached" wife trying to upstage him.

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  6. 8.6/10(405 votes)

    #6 - The Camping Trip

    S2:E29

    Lucy fears that she and Ricky don't have enough in common, so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred don't want her (or Ethel, for that matter,) horning in on their summer retreat, so Ricky decides to take Lucy on a "trial run" in the woods and make her life miserable. But Lucy is wise to his plan, and guess whose life is made miserable in the end?

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    Director:William Asher
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  8. 8.5/10(386 votes)

    #7 - Never Do Business With Friends

    S2:E31

    The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes for $35. When it breaks down the next day, the Mertzes want out of the deal. A tug-of-war ensues, however, when the Mertzes want the machine back after a repairman offers them $50 for it.

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    Director:William Asher
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  9. 8.4/10(395 votes)

    #8 - Lucy Changes Her Mind

    S2:E21

    Whether it's getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant, Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper, so Lucy tries to play a trick with an old, unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. Fred warns Ricky of Lucy's plot, and Lucy is soon in over her head.

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    Director:William Asher
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  10. 8.4/10(376 votes)

    #9 - Lucy Wants New Furniture

    S2:E28

    Lucy tries to hide some new furniture she bought without Ricky's permission in the kitchen. Discovering his wife's extravagant purchase, Ricky insists that Lucy pays for it from her allowance.

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    Director:William Asher
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  11. 8.3/10(429 votes)

    #10 - Redecorating

    S2:E8

    Waiting to find out if she has won a home furnishing contest, Lucy won't leave the house, much to Ricky's annoyance. He tells Fred to call her and say that she's won. In her joy, Lucy sells all the old furniture, leaving Ricky with the job of buying it back.

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  12. 8.3/10(392 votes)

    #11 - The Black Eye

    S2:E20

    Lucy misses catching a book tossed to her by Ricky, and winds up with a black eye that Fred and Ethel are convinced was intentional. Trying to patch things up for the Ricardos, Fred sends Lucy flowers, but inadvertently uses his own name instead of Ricky's.

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    Director:William Asher
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  13. 8.3/10(384 votes)

    #12 - No Children Allowed

    S2:E22

    When a cranky tenant (Elizabeth Patterson, in her first appearance as Mrs. Trumble,) threatens to move because of Little Ricky's loud crying, Ethel makes it clear that her friendship with Lucy is more important than a rental agreement. But Ethel doesn't let the Ricardos forget her loyalty.

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    Director:William Asher
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  14. 8.3/10(373 votes)

    #13 - Lucy Is Matchmaker

    S2:E27

    Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes (Hal March, as Eddie) who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? He's a lingerie salesman, a fact that just might get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire.

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    Director:William Asher
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  15. 8.2/10(391 votes)

    #14 - The Anniversary Present

    S2:E3

    Lucy thinks that Ricky is pitching woo with a sophisticated neighbor. The woman is actually a jeweler who Ricky has commissioned to fashion a pearl necklace to surprise Lucy with on their anniversary. Lucy takes to spying before the deal can go down and almost loses out on her big surprise.

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  16. 8.2/10(495 votes)

    #15 - The Operetta

    S2:E5

    Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta, but they're completely broke. (Lucy, the treasurer, seems to have spent it all to pay her own bills.) Thus, Lucy and Ethel write and star in the musical, but when their postdated check bounces for the costumes and scenery, the rental company repossesses everything in midperformance.

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  17. 8.2/10(399 votes)

    #16 - Lucy Becomes a Sculptress

    S2:E15

    Lucy decides to explore her artistic side and takes up sculpting.

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  18. 8.2/10(410 votes)

    #17 - Sales Resistance

    S2:E17

    Convinced his wife is a sucker for a sales pitch, Ricky demands that she return the vacuum cleaner she bought from a door-to-door salesman. Instead, she tries (unsuccessfully) to sell it. Ricky insists that he'll return it-and ends up buying a refrigerator.

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    Director:William Asher
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  19. 8.2/10(375 votes)

    #18 - The Ricardos Change Apartments

    S2:E26

    Now that they have Little Ricky, Lucy insists they need more room, and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cluttering their apartment with baby things and assorted junk.

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  20. 8.1/10(400 votes)

    #19 - The Saxophone

    S2:E2

    When Lucy fails her saxophone audition for Ricky's band, she tries to stop him from going on the road by pretending there's another man in her life. Ricky gets back at her by hiring several "lovers," and hiding them in Lucy's closet. But Lucy gets the last laugh in the end!

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  21. 8.1/10(415 votes)

    #20 - Vacation from Marriage

    S2:E6

    The Ricardos and the Mertzes take a week off from their in-a-rut marriages. But each spouse misses the other too much, and despite a last-ditch attempt to make each other jealous, they all decide that they'd rather be in a rut with their mates.

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  22. 8.1/10(419 votes)

    #21 - The Courtroom

    S2:E7

    The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary, but Ricky's zealous tuning causes it to blow up. Fred retaliates by breaking the Ricardos' set (by kicking it!) The foursome end up in court, where they manage to destroy the judge's TV, too!

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  23. 8.1/10(355 votes)

    #22 - The Club Election

    S2:E19

    Because they both want to be president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League, Lucy and Ethel both engage in cut-throat competition. Prior to the elections, Lucy and Ethel independently engage in a little "spywork." It seems that half the club plans on voting for Lucy and the other half plans to vote for Ethel. But there is one undecided vote--that of the new member, Ruth Knickerbocker. So Lucy and Ethel both go to extremes to sway Knickerbocker's vote.

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    Director:William Asher
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  24. 8.0/10(411 votes)

    #23 - Lucy Hires an English Tutor

    S2:E13

    Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky won't give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free, but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: he'll get to sing at the Tropicana. Of course, Lucy neglects to tell Ricky this.

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  25. 8.0/10(373 votes)

    #24 - Lucy Hires a Maid

    S2:E23

    Lucy's sleepless nights with the new baby are exhausting, so the Ricardos hire a maid. Unfortunately, this new maid turns out to be a terrible shrew, who takes better care of herself than of Lucy or the apartment. Unable to get the gumption to fire her, Lucy wrecks the apartment, hoping it will make the maid quit.

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    Director:William Asher
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  26. 8.0/10(397 votes)

    #25 - Lucy's Last Birthday

    S2:E25

    Convinced everyone has forgotten her birthday, a forlorn Lucy sits on a park bench and meets up with a group of musical "lost souls." To embarrass Ricky, she brings them to the Tropicana, only to discover that a surprise birthday party awaits her.

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    Director:William Asher
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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Job Switching" is the best rated episode of "I Love Lucy" season 2. It scored 9.4/10 based on 856 votes. Directed by William Asher and written by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, it aired on 9/15/1952. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Lucy Is Enceinte".