4. I LOVE LUCY
"Lucy Does a TV Commercial" 5/5/1952
Sip by drunken sip, Lucy Ricardo made a TV commercial and Lucille Ball made TV history. "It was one of her favorites," says daughter Lucie Arnaz of the famous Vitameatavegamin episode. "The night it happened, she realized she'd hit the jackpot." The show's writers had to concoct a way of getting Lucy drunk without the character knowingly imbibing. "They never allowed her to get drunk on purpose," says Arnaz. "She never wanted anything that would be a bad influence." So what was in those bottles? Apple pectin. "The prop man, Herb Browar, searched and searched for something gruesome enough to help her make that face," says Arnaz, who recently ordered up the product for "An Evening With Lucille Ball," a stage production she's directing. "I finally got to taste it-and now I know why Mom made that face. It's like biting into a lemon. Or drinking that stuff they give you the night before you go in for your colonoscopy."
That should've been higher. I saw it countless times when I was a kid & it still cracks me up to this day.

Hell, I crack up just thinking about it.

