Lucy is accused of being the notorious red-haired shoplifter who has been victimizing area stores.Lucy is accused of being the notorious red-haired shoplifter who has been victimizing area stores.Lucy is accused of being the notorious red-haired shoplifter who has been victimizing area stores.
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- TriviaIn his office, the wall map behind Lt. Finch is that of the Chicagoland area.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Lucy Carmichael: Oh, boy. That's the biggest sale I ever went to.
Mary Jane Lewis: What a mob!
Lucy Carmichael: Yeah, I never saw such pushing and shoving in my life. Push push push! Shove shove shove! And some of the women still wouldn't let me through! What's so funny?
Mary Jane Lewis: Whoever said women were the weaker sex never went shopping with us.
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A Great "Sleeper" Episode and a Must-See
Lucy is mistaken for a red-headed shoplifter and ends up in jail, but she thinks the cops have incarcerated her for merely littering.
This is a great "sleeper" episode in that it sneaks up on you, but darned if it isn't one of the best of Season 5. The smart script builds wonderfully scene-by-scene, the dialog crackles and the casting is superb.
The interrogation scene is hilarious with the incredulous cop remarking "Boy, what nerve", and "She's the coolest chick I ever saw" at Lucy's nonchalance regarding the charges against her. Ball did not need wacky stunts with props or physical comedy to be funny when she had well-written scripts like this. She knew her way around a line but wasn't offered the chance so much on this series like on I LOVE LUCY.
Iris Adrian steals the show as Lucy's hard-as-nails cellmate. She plays the stereotype of the tough cookie from all those Women-in-Prison flicks to the hilt but with a great comic slant, and a large part of the episode's power comes from her. Claude Akins plays it straight as Lt. Finch and Byron Foulger appears as the timid jewelry store owner.
I had forgotten how good this was. One of the best-written offerings of the season, and of the entire post-Vivian era.
This is a great "sleeper" episode in that it sneaks up on you, but darned if it isn't one of the best of Season 5. The smart script builds wonderfully scene-by-scene, the dialog crackles and the casting is superb.
The interrogation scene is hilarious with the incredulous cop remarking "Boy, what nerve", and "She's the coolest chick I ever saw" at Lucy's nonchalance regarding the charges against her. Ball did not need wacky stunts with props or physical comedy to be funny when she had well-written scripts like this. She knew her way around a line but wasn't offered the chance so much on this series like on I LOVE LUCY.
Iris Adrian steals the show as Lucy's hard-as-nails cellmate. She plays the stereotype of the tough cookie from all those Women-in-Prison flicks to the hilt but with a great comic slant, and a large part of the episode's power comes from her. Claude Akins plays it straight as Lt. Finch and Byron Foulger appears as the timid jewelry store owner.
I had forgotten how good this was. One of the best-written offerings of the season, and of the entire post-Vivian era.
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