This is one of my favourite slapstick comedy routines played by Lucy and her on-screen brother-in-law Harry played by the magnificent Gale Gordon. As expected both Ball and Gordon deliver such a precision and hilariously executed comedy routine one cannot help but get caught up in the short 22 minutes of the episode and not feel good at the end of the episode.
On Saturday morning, Lucy's day off, Craig gets accepted into the 3rd standby football team and is expected to play at his 2PM game, and wants his mom and sister Kim to come and watch the game. But before Lucy can leave, Harry calls her up and needs some dictation taken, but promises to have her in and out in less than an hour so she can join Craig and Kim. Lucy reluctantly goes to Harry's house and is all set to take dictation but needs more light, so she can see what she's writing down.
She goes to turn the lamp on, and it's not working. Harry explains to her that the lamp is controlled by the switch on the wall, but when he tries switching it off and on, the lamp still doesn't come on. Lucy believes she can fix it by tightening up the wires behind the switch, so she takes the switch off the wall and it comes right off and sees that the electrical wires have become detached and fallen behind the wall. She tries to reach for them but can't reach, so she asks Harry to dig behind the wall and pull them out because he has longer arms. He puts his arm in the wall and grasps what he thinks is the wires, but gets stuck trying to pull his arm back out. Lucy says she can get him loose by scoring a bit of the drywall, but when she tries to do that, the drywall cracks and falls off.
Harry becomes outraged (as usual) but she still insists that she can still fix it if she can get behind the wall. Harry is so vehemently against this, so he reaches behind the wall himself and gets shocked by some live wires, hilariously executing a shocking performance!
Lucy goes in behind the wall and fireplace, and pulls on what she thinks is the wires, and the phone goes flying off the table. Then she pulls another wire and while Harry is putting the phone back on the table, the chandelier comes crashing down on him.
Lucy breaks a little bit more of the drywall, and crawls behind looking for the wires but finds a scary animal behind the fireplace and when she comes out from behind the wall, Harry reaches in and pulls out a little kitten.
And when Harry decides to look up the fireplace to see if he can see some wires, Lucy bangs on the bricks with a poker, and black soot from the chimney comes pouring down on him.
Finally, when Craig and Kim come into the house on their way to the football game, they see the damage that Lucy and Harry have caused and Craig says he can fix it. Harry insists that he can't, and Craig says he needs a little more light. So he grabs the lamp and Harry says, "That lamp doesn't work", and Craig says, "It will if you plug it in!"
Brilliantly and hilariously played by all 4 actors, "Lucy The Fixer" is at the top of my best and funniest episodes of Here's Lucy.
As I said in the title, they certainly don't make comedy like this anymore.
On Saturday morning, Lucy's day off, Craig gets accepted into the 3rd standby football team and is expected to play at his 2PM game, and wants his mom and sister Kim to come and watch the game. But before Lucy can leave, Harry calls her up and needs some dictation taken, but promises to have her in and out in less than an hour so she can join Craig and Kim. Lucy reluctantly goes to Harry's house and is all set to take dictation but needs more light, so she can see what she's writing down.
She goes to turn the lamp on, and it's not working. Harry explains to her that the lamp is controlled by the switch on the wall, but when he tries switching it off and on, the lamp still doesn't come on. Lucy believes she can fix it by tightening up the wires behind the switch, so she takes the switch off the wall and it comes right off and sees that the electrical wires have become detached and fallen behind the wall. She tries to reach for them but can't reach, so she asks Harry to dig behind the wall and pull them out because he has longer arms. He puts his arm in the wall and grasps what he thinks is the wires, but gets stuck trying to pull his arm back out. Lucy says she can get him loose by scoring a bit of the drywall, but when she tries to do that, the drywall cracks and falls off.
Harry becomes outraged (as usual) but she still insists that she can still fix it if she can get behind the wall. Harry is so vehemently against this, so he reaches behind the wall himself and gets shocked by some live wires, hilariously executing a shocking performance!
Lucy goes in behind the wall and fireplace, and pulls on what she thinks is the wires, and the phone goes flying off the table. Then she pulls another wire and while Harry is putting the phone back on the table, the chandelier comes crashing down on him.
Lucy breaks a little bit more of the drywall, and crawls behind looking for the wires but finds a scary animal behind the fireplace and when she comes out from behind the wall, Harry reaches in and pulls out a little kitten.
And when Harry decides to look up the fireplace to see if he can see some wires, Lucy bangs on the bricks with a poker, and black soot from the chimney comes pouring down on him.
Finally, when Craig and Kim come into the house on their way to the football game, they see the damage that Lucy and Harry have caused and Craig says he can fix it. Harry insists that he can't, and Craig says he needs a little more light. So he grabs the lamp and Harry says, "That lamp doesn't work", and Craig says, "It will if you plug it in!"
Brilliantly and hilariously played by all 4 actors, "Lucy The Fixer" is at the top of my best and funniest episodes of Here's Lucy.
As I said in the title, they certainly don't make comedy like this anymore.
