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I Love Lucy Season 4 Episode 12

Lucy Learns to Drive

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AIRED: 1/3/55

Lucy learns to drive and then teaches Ethel everything she knows. The crash course begins as Ricky buys a brand new convertible for their California trip. Lucy wants to learn to drive it, and Ricky reluctantly agrees to teach her. With that experience under her belt (she can't really be blamed for that U-turn in the Holland Tunnel, can she?), she sets out to teach Ethel to drive. It's a good thing the car's insured. It is insured, isn't it?moreless

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Lucille Ball	Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo
Desi Arnaz	Ricky Ricardo
Vivian Vance	Ethel Mertz
William Frawley	Fred Hobart Mertz

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TRIVIA (3)
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- In the last scene when Lucy "freezes," if you look closely a fly lands right on top of her head
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- You'll notice a cable pulling the Pontiac when Ethel starts it up and it crashes into the back of Fred's Cadillac.
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- Lucy offers to teach Ethel how to drive a car in this episode. Yet in episode #64, "The Camping Trip," Ethel knew how to drive.
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QUOTES (2)
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- Lucy: (looking at the cars she wrecked) Ethel, how do you suppose those cars got that way?
  Ethel: What cars?
  Lucy: (winking) That's right.
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- (Lucy tells Ethel she should learn to drive, too.)
  Lucy: That way, you're not so much dead weight.
  Ethel: Well perhaps I'll develop other talents like folding up road maps and keeping an eye out for clean restrooms.
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- As Ricky tells Fred, the '55 Pontiac has 180 horsepower and an automatic transmission. Pontiac replaced its straight eight with a new V-8 engine in 1955.
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- The 1955 Pontiac convertible seen in this and following episodes was part of a product placement deal with General Motors.
  
  Madelyn Davis (nee Pugh) mentions in her book that each of the writers received a new car because of this placement deal every few months for about two years.
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