S3.E22

Lucy and Carol Burnett

Episode aired Feb 8, 1971
TV-PG
30m

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8.0/10

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Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball salute the Hollywood of Yesteryear, as they recruit jobless entertainers at the unemployment office to stage a variety show. Highlights: Richard Deacon and Car... Read allCarol Burnett and Lucille Ball salute the Hollywood of Yesteryear, as they recruit jobless entertainers at the unemployment office to stage a variety show. Highlights: Richard Deacon and Carol spoof Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald; Carol and Lucy (as Betty Grable and Alice Fay... Read allCarol Burnett and Lucille Ball salute the Hollywood of Yesteryear, as they recruit jobless entertainers at the unemployment office to stage a variety show. Highlights: Richard Deacon and Carol spoof Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald; Carol and Lucy (as Betty Grable and Alice Faye) doing "Chicago" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; Lucy as Marlene Dietrich singing "Falli... Read all

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Nothing Extraordinary for a Burnett Guest Spot

Having both been fired, Lucy and fellow secretary Carol Krausmeyer run into each other at the Unemployment Office, they round up some out-of-work showbiz folks and put on a salute to Hollywood.

Lucy seems to be fired for the plot purposes of this episode only because of course, by the next episode she's back at the Agency without explanation.

Burnett reprises her Carol Krausmeyer character from Season 2's "Secretary Beautiful" episode but the results this time are lukewarm and lacking the sparks the earlier episode had from the two ladies' rivalry.

This one just isn't as funny. Burnett makes a boob/Raquel Welch joke in the early scene and then another one about then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

Jack Benny makes a cameo appearance in two scenes just a few weeks after having an entire episode about his autobiography.

The musical numbers in this one are nothing special. Lucy plays Marlene Dietrich and Carol plays Ruby Keeler. The finale has the entire cast and chorus doing "Singin' in the Rain" and Jack Benny strolls onstage offering $5 umbrellas for rent. 6/10.

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Trivia
The Scarlet O'Hara dress on the mannequin is the same one Lucy Carmichael wore in 1965 as Lucybelle in "The Founding of Danfield," a community theatre play featured in "Lucy Meets Arthur Godfrey". She will wear it again in "Lucy and Flip Go Legit" which opens season four of "Here's Lucy".

Goofs
One mannequin on the 'soundstage' doesn't get identified. It is dressed in Roman armor. It may possibly represent Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959), but was cut for time.