I have been out of phase with the rest of the planet on the question of this show for all of my life. Even as a six year old I couldn’t buy I Love Lucy as “funny”. I considered Lucy a moron even that far back.
You knew she was a communist at a young age?
There were lots of domestic comedies back in the 1950s and early ‘60s in which the woman of the house was the comic factor while the husband had the sense.
Even LAVERINE AND SHIRLY later used every comic plot that had already been used by I LOVE LUCY.
You should see some of the older broadcasts of I MARRIED JOAN.
Lucy drives me crazy, can’t watch it.
Wow, I always thought I was the only person in the western world that didn't find her funny. I guess there's two of us.