The Lucy Show Season 2, Episode 18: Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing

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Lucy Plays Cleopatra

The Danfield Womens Volunteer Fire Fighters do the play Cleopatra for their annual thearter group play. Lucy gets cast as Cleopatra and no man in town wants to be in the play, except for the director who plays Caesar, Viv ends up playing Anthony and the show is interupted by a fire in another part of town.

30 min

2

Kiddie Parties, Inc.

One of the kids needs money for a birthday party they're going to, but Lucy and Viv don't have it. To solve they're money problem they start up a birthday party, throwing business. At their fist party, everything bad that could happen, happens.

30 min

3

Lucy and Viv Play Softball

Lucy and Viv have an after season softball match for the womens volunteer fire department. Lucy is benched until another player gets dilusional and Lucy catches the winning ball in her huge and oversized pants!!

30 min

4

Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault

Lucy follows Mr. Mooney into the bank vault and then closes the door for privacy, causing them to be locked in until the next morning.

30 min

5

Lucy and the Safe Cracker

Lucy accidentally locks Mr. Mooney in the bank vault and finds a ""can opener"" turned candy store owner to open the vault. Once he opens the vault, he goes back to his old ways and steals several bags full of money and locks Viv and Lucy in his candy shop.

30 min

6

Lucy Goes Duck Hunting

Enamored with her handsome, wealthy blind date, Lucy agrees to go duck hunting. After frightening all the ducks away, Lucy creates her own duck call, luring swarms of ducks.

30 min

7

Lucy and the Bank Scandal

When Lucy finds a note in Mr. Mooney's office that reads ""ten thousand dollars buried in back yard,"" she and Viv spend the night digging up Mr. Mooney's backyard.

30 min

8

Lucy Decides to Redecorate

Lucy tries to wangle money out of Mr. Mooney to redecorate, but can only manage enough to do a few things herself. Things are going good until she decides to use fabric paint on her sofa and the sprayer malfunctions.

30 min

9

Lucy Puts Out a Fire at the Bank

When Mr. Mooney and the town finance commitee refuse to fund the incompetent Danfield women's volunteer fire department, Lucy sets off a smoke bomb in the bank so the volunteers can rush in and pretend to save the day.

30 min

10

Lucy and the Military

Lucy tries to sneak into a Military Academy disguised as a cadet to visit her son, Jerry, before visitor's day.

30 min

11

Lucy's College Reunion

Lucy goes to her college reunion. While she's there, she helps Chris and some of her friends steal the bell tower statue. She and Viv end up having to put it back or suffer the consiquences. They get locked on the top of the tower, until the dean discovers them.

30 min

12

The Loophole in the Lease

Sherman leaves the water in the bathtub running and it runs over, making the plaster in the ceiling below collapse. Mr. Mooney convinces Lucy that it's Viv's fault and they threaten to throw Viv out if she doesn't pay for the damages. They take out their lease and in it, it says that the rent will be considered down payment for the house, after five years, if the tenant desires. Viv has Mr. Mooney and Lucy thinking that she will and they end up trying to steal it from her, while she's sleeping.

30 min

13

Lucy Conducts the Symphony

Viv's cousin comes to New York to play percussion in Manhattan. When he arrives at the house, he's a nervous wreck and Lucy tries to relax him by telling jokes, but gets the hicups from laughing. Lucy tries to cure him by hypnotizing him, but she puts him in a heavy sleep and he won't wake up. Lucy ends up playing in the symphony in his place and makes the conductor mad and she takes his place.

30 min

14

Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale

Lucy needs Mr. Mooney to give her some money to buy Chris a dress for a dance, but Mr. Mooney is in the hospital with a broken leg. Lucy is a hospital helper and on the next day she has work, she tries to get Mr. Mooney to sign the check. She gets kicked off the floor Mr. Mooney is staying on and dresses as a doctor to get into his room.

30 min

15

Lucy Goes to Art Class

When both Lucy and Viv enroll in an art class to win the affections of handsome John Brooks III, Vivian tricks Lucy into posing for the class so she can get a date with Brooks.

30 min

16

Chris Goes Steady

Chris decides to go steady with a boy who turns out to be Mr. Mooney's son. Lucy and Mr. Mooney don't like it and team up to show the kids a lesson by teaching them the real responsiblities of a serious relationship. And then the two adults must camp out in a treehouse to make sure the two don't elope.

30 min

17

Lucy Takes Up Golf

Lucy takes up golf to keep a man interested in her.

30 min

18

Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing

When Lucy happens upon Ethel Merman at the bank, then Ethel and Mr. Mooney must make up a fake name and tell Lucy that she only looks like Ethel Merman. Soon after, Lucy is in need of money, as usual, and decides to let this Ethel Merman look alike rent a room. Soon after Lucy is giving her lessons how to perform and sing like Ethel Merman.

30 min

19

Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show

When Lucy discovers that Ethel Merman and Mr. Mooney made up a story to hid the singer's real identity, she can't help but come up with the nerve to as Ethel to perform at her son's boy scout pageant. Ethel accepts and she does the show, along with Lucy and Mr. Mooney.

30 min

20

Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant

Lucy and Viv buy a restaurant and every theme they make it, flops.

30 min

21

Lucy Takes a Job at the Bank

Mr. Mooney hires Lucy to give a new toaster to anyone who opens a savings account. Lucy tries to drum up business by getting her friends to close out their savings accounts and then redeposit the money as new accounts, leading to a rumor that the bank is failing!

30 min

22

Viv Moves Out

Lucy and Viv have a fight and Viv decides to move out. Mr. Mooney makes Lucy get a new tenant and Viv wants to move back in.

30 min

23

Lucy Is Her Own Lawyer

A dog in the neighborhood barks all night and Lucy decides to sue the owner, Mr. Mooney!

30 min

24

Lucy Meets a Millionaire

When Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani asks Lucy on a date, Lucy spills spaghetti sauce all over Mr. Fabriani's best suit, compelling her and Mr. Mooney to break into the cleaners.

30 min

25

Lucy Goes into Politics

Lucy and Viv want to get into Mr. Mooney's political campaign. Mr. Mooney tells Lucy to make an important call, but Lucy forgets.

30 min

26

Lucy and the Scout Trip

Lucy and Viv have to replace a man on the scout trip and Lucy gets lost in the woods.

30 min

27

Lucy Is a Process Server

Lucy takes a job as a secretary at a law firm and is horrible at it so they demote her to process serving. So she has to serve a subpoena to Mr. Mooney!

30 min

28

Lucy Enters a Baking Contest

When Vivian makes some comments about Lucy's baking ability, Lucy enters a baking contest to prove her otherwise. Lucy then swaps hers and Vivian's entries in the contest, which leads to a food fight!

30 min