I Love Lucy — Season 1, Episode 16: Lucy Fakes Illness
Comedy, Family • 26 min • 6 seasons, 180 episodes • ★ 7.9/10
Episode synopsis
Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.
About 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 where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.