I Love Lucy (TV Series) Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her (1951) User Reviews

Reading Murder Mystery goes to Lucy's head

[frankmortjr · 8/10 · 11 June 2006]

Lucy loves to read mysteries. She enjoys them so much that it seems to go deep into her psyche. She is reading it and Ethyl walks in the room and Lucy has her wits scared out of her. Another time Ricky walks into the room and Lucy has her senses frightened again. Each time she is scared the book she is reading jumps out of her hand and out the window. She is so involved with the drama that is unfolding in the book she does not know when people enter into the room. Lucy tells Ethyl about the story she is reading. The story is about a husband that is planning to murder his wife. Ethyl suggests that isn't that something and imagines out loud about what would a wife do if she found out her husband was trying to murder her? Lucy starts to imagine what she would do if Ricky was going to murder her. Between finding one of Ricky's props for a show at the nightclub, which happens to be a gun and overhearing Ricky in the midst of a conversation, Lucy is sure Ricky is about to kill her. Lucy is so scared and jittery that Ricky gets some sleeping powder from Fred. He puts it in a drink that he is going to give to Lucy. Lucy sees Ricky placing it in her drink and is positive Ricky is trying to poison her. So she makes a toast with Ricky and switches glasses. Ricky then switches glasses. Finally, Lucy is sure Ricky has the poison glass. At the very last second she stops Ricky from drinking it. She does not want Ricky to die even though he wants her dead to run off with another woman. She tells Ricky this. Ricky said that he did not have the doctored drink anyway. He further explains that she drank it. Lucy begins to grab her throat and thinks she was poisoned and is dying. She goes to lay down. Ricky leaves for the nightclub. Lucy gets up and is determined to get to the nightclub and confront Ricky and his new girlfriend. Lucy makes it to the nightclub and there Ricky tells her everything. Lucy is now happy and Ricky is happy and the Mertez couple is happy. Great show with Ricky being an excellent front man to Lucy and her slapstick humor. I enjoyed this show very much.

Who's Theodore?

[migrjo1949 · 8/10 · 1 May 2020]

"Lucy: Theodore?"

Was this a bi-curious reference...on American television...in 1951?

Probably the best episode from the first season.

[gregoryserrano · 9/10 · 12 July 2020]

As the title states, Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to kill her, and minus the now infamous blooper of switching cups, this episode deals with comedy and drama in the most perfect manner! Why didn't Ethel try to help her in a more direct manner than sending Fred up there? Why was Lucy seemingly okay with Ricky killing her? My favorite line was the subtleness mention of homosexuality with the "Theodore?!" comment-ok, ok, not exactly, but it was the best we'd have gotten in the 1950s!

Lucy shows off a great talent for pantomime.

[mark.waltz · 10/10 · 26 July 2020]

There's two things to view at the same time in this classic episode, one of the very best. She's convinced that Ricky is trying to kill her after reading a murder mystery novel and he proceeds to act it out for her. At one point, she's looking for certain items, and she's in the background preparing for him to try to kill her. When he slammed the door shut, she acts as if she's been hit by a bullet, but of course she has not and that leads to her scheming with Ethel to protect herself from being a murder victim especially when she finds up the list of women (and one man!) whom she suspects are going to be her replacement.

So what's a husband to do when he you must convince his wife that she's wrong about him trying to kill her? Fred gives Ricky a tranquilizer so Lucy will calm down and come to her senses, but Lucy realizes what he's up to and switch the glasses which he proceeded to switch back. That creates more hilarity as she overacts in her feeling that these are her last minutes. Ethel witnesses what she thinks are Lucy's last moments which results in one of Lucy's funniest lines ever, "I got a micky from Ricky!" Classic comedy doesn't get any better than this!

Technically the first show

[angelahptrio · 7/10 · 24 May 2020]

It is technically the pilot yet it isn't. The episode is the first one shot official if you don't include the lost one. Anyway, I love how Lucy gets so into the murder mystery novel she's reading and when someone taps her shoulders, she screams and throws the book. It's a cute episode I enjoy her preparation in case Ricky tries to kill (he doesn't). I imitate her movements.