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The Worst Episodes of I Love Lucy

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The Worst Episodes of I Love Lucy

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. Background image for Lucy Goes to Scotland
    7.2/10(417 votes)

    #1 - Lucy Goes to Scotland

    S5:E17

    The Ricardos and Mertzes are on their way to Paris, but first Lucy wants to go to Scotland to seek members of the McGillicuddy family into which she was born. In a classic dream sequence, Ricky appears as Scotty MacTavish MacDougal MacCardo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The Adagio
    7.3/10(500 votes)

    #2 - The Adagio

    S1:E12

    Lucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.

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  3. Background image for Lucy Plays Cupid
    7.4/10(507 votes)

    #3 - Lucy Plays Cupid

    S1:E15

    The Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself.

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  4. Background image for Lucy Goes to a Rodeo
    7.4/10(304 votes)

    #4 - Lucy Goes to a Rodeo

    S5:E8

    Fred has a Western-themed show coming up at his lodge and he wants Ricky to perform in it. He can’t — but Lucy and Ethel volunteer (Lucy yodels “Home on the Range”). The reason Ricky can’t appear is that he has a “radio” show that night. Or is it a “rodeo” show?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Drafted
    7.5/10(503 votes)

    #5 - Drafted

    S1:E11

    When Lucy opens Ricky's a telegram ordering him to appear at Fort Dix, she assumes that he has been drafted. Ethel suspects that Fred has been drafted as well when she hears, Fred is joining Ricky.

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  6. Background image for The Amateur Hour
    7.5/10(489 votes)

    #6 - The Amateur Hour

    S1:E14

    Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.

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  8. Background image for Cuban Pals
    7.5/10(430 votes)

    #7 - Cuban Pals

    S1:E28

    Lucy burns with jealousy when she gets an eyeful of Ricky's dance parter Renita (Lita Baron) from the "old days" in Cuba. She was a child then, but no more! Determined to keep them apart, Lucy heads to the club in disguise, and finds herself in the clutches of a wild man named Ramon.

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  9. Background image for The Inferiority Complex
    7.5/10(355 votes)

    #8 - The Inferiority Complex

    S2:E18

    When no one laughs at her jokes or wants her to be their bridge partner, Lucy comes to the conclusion that she is inferior to everyone else. Worried by Lucy's behavior, Ricky goes to the psychiatrist (or "fizz-a-key-a-tryst" as Ricky pronounces it,) to find the remedy. But it turns out that this doctor's "remedy" isn't exactly what Ricky had in mind.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for The Indian Show
    7.5/10(390 votes)

    #9 - The Indian Show

    S2:E24

    Even the arrival of the baby hasn't dampened Lucy's showbiz aspirations. Wanting to get into the new Indian act at the Tropicana, Lucy pays off one of the performers and appears herself, carrying Little Ricky papoose-style on her back.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Young Fans
    7.6/10(482 votes)

    #10 - The Young Fans

    S1:E20

    A shy young teenager named Peggy has a major crush on Ricky. Ricky, however, is tired of all this "attention" that this girl is giving him, so asks Lucy to have a talk with her. During their conversation, Lucy asks Peggy to think of some other boys her own age that she might like to go out with instead. Peggy, it seems, also likes a boy named Arthur Morton. Unfortunately, Arthur is painfully shy and cannot dance, so Lucy volunteers to give him a dance lesson. But it is then that Arthur becomes infatuated with Lucy! To get the two off their backs, Lucy and Ricky come up with a solution: they will dress up and act like 90 year olds, and scare their "young fans" back to reality.

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  12. Background image for Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song
    7.6/10(393 votes)

    #11 - Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song

    S2:E12

    Despite her pregnancy, Lucy wants to appear in Ricky's Gay Nineties revue at the Tropicana. After a disastrous audition, Lucy disguises herself and sneaks into the barbershop quartet number, and then proceeds to ruin it.

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  13. Background image for Ragtime Band
    7.6/10(305 votes)

    #12 - Ragtime Band

    S6:E21

    When Ricky refuses to bring his rumba band out to Westport to play for a Historical Society benefit, Lucy and the Mertzes put together a combo of their own, with Little Ricky on drums.

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  14. Background image for The Audition
    7.7/10(515 votes)

    #13 - The Audition

    S1:E6

    Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.

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  15. Background image for The Benefit
    7.7/10(457 votes)

    #14 - The Benefit

    S1:E13

    Ethel wants Ricky to a headline a benefit show for her women's club, but Lucy refuses to ask him, unless she can be on the bill too.

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  16. Background image for The Publicity Agent
    7.7/10(425 votes)

    #15 - The Publicity Agent

    S1:E31

    Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.

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  17. Background image for The French Revue
    7.7/10(333 votes)

    #16 - The French Revue

    S3:E7

    Ricky is planning a French revue for the club, and since Lucy is determined to be in it, she hires a Frenchman to coach her. When Ricky forbids her to come near the place, she tries various disguises, and finally succeeds as a chorus girl.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Oil Wells
    7.7/10(360 votes)

    #17 - Oil Wells

    S3:E18

    The Ricardos and Mertzes as oil millionaires? Lucy and Ethel get a hot stock tip from their new neighbors from Texas. But Ricky and Fred say no. At first, anyhow. But are these neighbors swindlers? Lucy and the gang eventually think so, so they come up with a plan to find out.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Mertz and Kurtz
    7.7/10(391 votes)

    #18 - Mertz and Kurtz

    S4:E2

    Fred's globetrotting old vaudeville partner, Barney Kurtz, shows up, so Fred says he's a real-estate tycoon (with a red-headed maid to prove it). Actually, Barney's a cook in the Bronx, but his grandson is coming for a visit, so it's on with the show.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Fox Hunt
    7.7/10(338 votes)

    #19 - The Fox Hunt

    S5:E16

    Tally ho! In England, Lucy hounds a movie producer (Walter Kingsford) about her riding prowess and ends up on a fox hunt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer
    7.8/10(468 votes)

    #20 - Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer

    S1:E10

    Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.

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  22. Background image for Lucy Writes a Play
    7.8/10(448 votes)

    #21 - Lucy Writes a Play

    S1:E17

    Lucy writes a play set in Cuba hoping to cast Ricky, But when he refuses, she has to settle for Fred and changes her setting to England.

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  23. Background image for The Marriage License
    7.8/10(450 votes)

    #22 - The Marriage License

    S1:E26

    Lucy thinks she and Ricky aren't legally married because his name was misspelled on their marriage license. So she wants them to renew their vows at the same place in Connecticut where Ricky first proposed to her. But they run out of gas getting there.

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  24. Background image for Ricky Loses His Voice
    7.8/10(397 votes)

    #23 - Ricky Loses His Voice

    S2:E9

    Ricky's laryngitis makes it impossible for him to perform in a big reopening show for the Tropicana. So Lucy substitutes herself, the ex-vaudivillian Mertzes, and a chorus line of middle-aged showgirls from the Flapper Follies of 1927. Look for Barbara Pepper as one of the showgirls.

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  25. Background image for Pregnant Women are Unpredictable
    7.8/10(386 votes)

    #24 - Pregnant Women are Unpredictable

    S2:E11

    Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby they're having than about her, especially after he buys her presents like bonnets and rattles. But when he takes her out for a night on the town, she thinks he's lost interest in the baby.

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  26. Background image for Ricky Has Labor Pains
    7.8/10(385 votes)

    #25 - Ricky Has Labor Pains

    S2:E14

    Ricky develops "labor pains" because he is jealous of the attention being lavished on the expectant Lucy. So she decides to throw him a "daddy shower," which Fred turns into a "stag party," which Lucy and Ethel crash.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Lucy Goes to Scotland" is the worst rated episode of "I Love Lucy". It scored 7.2/10 based on 417 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/20/1956. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Adagio".