Cousin Ernie visits the Ricardos and won't leave. Lucy gets creative trying to find a way to get him to go home.Cousin Ernie visits the Ricardos and won't leave. Lucy gets creative trying to find a way to get him to go home.Cousin Ernie visits the Ricardos and won't leave. Lucy gets creative trying to find a way to get him to go home.
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- TriviaWith this episode, Tennessee Ernie Ford became the first celebrity guest to appear on the show and use his own name. While he does not portray a famous person in the episode he does go by the name Ernie Ford (from Bentfork Tennessee).
- GoofsErnie says he arrived in New York at about noon and arrives at the Ricardo's at about 9 p.m. after walking from Long Island. The walk from the center of Long Island to East 68th Street where the Ricardo's live is 48 miles and, according to modern Google Maps calculations, would take more than 16 hours to walk. There is no way Ernie walked this distance in 9 hour time frame given, especially since some of that time was spent with him riding the subway.
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Cousin Ernie: You must be Cousin Lucy, and there's Cousin Ricky, too. How're you?
Ricky Ricardo: How are you. Did you say, cousin?
Cousin Ernie: Oh, yeah, it's just a habit. Down in Tennessee, everybody calls everybody else 'Cousin'.
Ricky Ricardo: Oh.
Cousin Ernie: 'Course, down in Tennessee, everybody *is* everybody else's cousin.
- SoundtracksTheme From 'I Love Lucy' (Instrumental)
Written by Eliot Daniel
Performed by Wilbur Hatch and the Desi Arnaz Orchestra
Featured review
My title, for this show's 2-part program "The Naive Native", Part 1 of 2.
I will also leave a comment in the "Tennessee Ernie Hangs On" episode. (Part 2 to me) This comedy & slang put together is truly humorous, from beginning to end! The show needed something to boost it back up to its "normal" rating of number one! When Tennessee Ernie Ford was picked & he accepted to do the numerous slang terms, "in my dictionary" I phrase them as "Numerous AND Humorous"! In "Tennesssee Ernie Visits", my favorite scenes & quotes are: Scene 1, "Ernie" walking and looking around the doors, then finally whispers in Ricky's ear, as if he was looking for an outhouse, and Ricky told him 'it's by the bedroom'. Ernie pretended to be shocked. That scene got me to create the term, for restroom "The Outhouse, In The House!". I call it by that term quite a bit, when company is here, or I am at someone else's house. The most humorous quotes, to me were, "Ernie" calling Long Island "a Lond Island" & William Frawley aka "Fred Mertz" nicknamed "Cousin Ernie" as "Li'l Abner", referring to Al Capp's comic strip. I like Ford's singing, through out all three episodes, especially when he, "Fred Mertz", "Ethel Mertz", "Ricky Ricardo" and "Lucy Ricardo" sang together as a 5-part quintet, and in the concluding song is trivia to me, that "Lucy" did not sing "off-key", as in all (or almost all other songs she sang!). In Sincerest Honesty. 63x927is58401.
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