While trying to sell Mr. Mooney a vacuum cleaner, Lucy accidentally sucks up a stamp he'd just bought for $3,000. When it winds up on an envelope dropped into street mailbox, Lucy tries to fish it out and gets stuck. Her last resort is to infiltrate the post office and snatch the letter before it gets postmarked.moreless
The brand name of the vacuum cleaner Lucy and Viv try and sell is "Handy Dandy". This is the same brand of vacuum Sheldon Leonard sold to Lucy Ricardo in the I Love Lucy episode Sales Resistance.
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The close-up of Lucille Ball tied up in a mail bag, seen at the very end of this episode, is used in the kaleidoscope introduction sequence which opens the show beginning with season 4.
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Lucy: (pitching the vacuum cleaner) How would you like to surprise your wife with a wonderful gift?
Mr. Mooney: Why should I? She doesn't have anything on me!
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