Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio is one of my personal favorite episodes. Ricky Ricardo comes home, and at the end of the day the Ricardos and the Mertzes are listening to a radio quiz show, where Ricky surprises everyone by knowing the correct answers to the quiz. Lucy, impressed by her husband’s brilliance, signs herself and Ricky up for the Mr. and Mrs. Quiz Show. However, it turns out that Ricky only knew all of the answers since he was in the studio at the time that the show was recorded!
Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
What to do? Lucy decides to visit the office of the quiz show producer, under the excuse of wanting to get some audience tickets for her friends, with the purpose of stealing the answers for tonight’s show with herself and Ricky. After the normal shenanigans, Lucy leaves with what she thinks are the answers – only to be wrong. She (once Ricky learns what Lucy has done, and unable to back out due to the publicity) memorizes the wrong answers. The answers given are wrong, but hilarious. Their only chance is to answer the final, bonus question – which Ricky inadvertently does.
Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio is available as part of the season 1 I Love Lucy DVD collection.