I Love Lucy: Season 2

S2·E1 Mytharc

Job Switching

Sep 15, 1952

Ricky wants Lucy to try working for a week, so she and Ethel get jobs at a candy factory, where they are totally inept-especially at wrapping chocolates-due to a speeding conveyor

S2·E2 Core

The Saxophone

Sep 22, 1952

When Lucy fails her saxophone audition for Ricky's band, she tries to stop him from going on the road by pretending there's another man in her life. Ricky gets back at her by hirin

S2·E3 Core

The Anniversary Present

Sep 29, 1952

Lucy thinks that Ricky is pitching woo with a sophisticated neighbor. The woman is actually a jeweler who Ricky has commissioned to fashion a pearl necklace to surprise Lucy with

S2·E4 Core

The Handcuffs

Oct 6, 1952

After Lucy snaps a pair of antique handcuffs on herself and Ricky, they realize there's no key. A locksmith is found, but not before the Ricardos go to bed handcuffed together, and

S2·E5 Core

The Operetta

Oct 13, 1952

Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta, but they're completely broke. (Lucy, the treasurer, seems to have spent it all to pay her own bills.) Thus, Lucy and Ethel write and

S2·E6 Core

Vacation from Marriage

Oct 27, 1952

The Ricardos and the Mertzes take a week off from their in-a-rut marriages. But each spouse misses the other too much, and despite a last-ditch attempt to make each other jealous,

S2·E7 Core

The Courtroom

Nov 10, 1952

The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary, but Ricky's zealous tuning causes it to blow up. Fred retaliates by breaking the Ricardos' set (by kicking it!

S2·E8 Core

Redecorating

Nov 24, 1952

Waiting to find out if she has won a home furnishing contest, Lucy won't leave the house, much to Ricky's annoyance. He tells Fred to call her and say that she's won. In her joy, L

S2·E9 Core

Ricky Loses His Voice

Dec 1, 1952

Ricky's laryngitis makes it impossible for him to perform in a big reopening show for the Tropicana. So Lucy substitutes herself, the ex-vaudivillian Mertzes, and a chorus line of

S2·E10 Core

Lucy Is Enceinte

Dec 8, 1952

Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant-but how to tell Ricky? At lunch, he's too preoccupied with work to listen to her, then it's off to the club-where Lucy finds the right mo

S2·E11 Core

Pregnant Women are Unpredictable

Dec 15, 1952

Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby they're having than about her, especially after he buys her presents like bonnets and rattles. But when he takes her out for a night on

S2·E12 Core

Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song

Dec 22, 1952

Despite her pregnancy, Lucy wants to appear in Ricky's Gay Nineties revue at the Tropicana. After a disastrous audition, Lucy disguises herself and sneaks into the barbershop quart

S2·E13 Core

Lucy Hires an English Tutor

Dec 29, 1952

Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky won't give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free, but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: he'll get to si

S2·E14 Core

Ricky Has Labor Pains

Jan 5, 1953

Ricky develops "labor pains" because he is jealous of the attention being lavished on the expectant Lucy. So she decides to throw him a "daddy shower," which Fred turns into a "sta

S2·E15 Core

Lucy Becomes a Sculptress

Jan 12, 1953

Lucy decides to explore her artistic side and takes up sculpting.

S2·E16 Core

Lucy Goes to the Hospital

Jan 19, 1953

Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for pregnant Lucy's trip to the hospital. It turns out to be predictably chaotic, but Lucy does deliver Little Ricky.

S2·E17 Core

Sales Resistance

Jan 26, 1953

Convinced his wife is a sucker for a sales pitch, Ricky demands that she return the vacuum cleaner she bought from a door-to-door salesman. Instead, she tries (unsuccessfully) to s

S2·E18 Core

The Inferiority Complex

Feb 2, 1953

When no one laughs at her jokes or wants her to be their bridge partner, Lucy comes to the conclusion that she is inferior to everyone else. Worried by Lucy's behavior, Ricky goes

S2·E19 Core

The Club Election

Feb 16, 1953

Because they both want to be president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League, Lucy and Ethel both engage in cut-throat competition. Prior to the elections, Lucy and Ethel ind

S2·E20 Core

The Black Eye

Mar 9, 1953

Lucy misses catching a book tossed to her by Ricky, and winds up with a black eye that Fred and Ethel are convinced was intentional. Trying to patch things up for the Ricardos, Fre

S2·E21 Core

Lucy Changes Her Mind

Mar 30, 1953

Whether it's getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant, Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper, so Lucy tries to play a tri

S2·E22 Core

No Children Allowed

Apr 20, 1953

When a cranky tenant (Elizabeth Patterson, in her first appearance as Mrs. Trumble,) threatens to move because of Little Ricky's loud crying, Ethel makes it clear that her friendsh

S2·E23 Core

Lucy Hires a Maid

Apr 27, 1953

Lucy's sleepless nights with the new baby are exhausting, so the Ricardos hire a maid. Unfortunately, this new maid turns out to be a terrible shrew, who takes better care of herse

S2·E24 Core

The Indian Show

May 4, 1953

Even the arrival of the baby hasn't dampened Lucy's showbiz aspirations. Wanting to get into the new Indian act at the Tropicana, Lucy pays off one of the performers and appears he

S2·E25 Core

Lucy's Last Birthday

May 11, 1953

Convinced everyone has forgotten her birthday, a forlorn Lucy sits on a park bench and meets up with a group of musical "lost souls." To embarrass Ricky, she brings them to the Tro

S2·E26 Core

The Ricardos Change Apartments

May 18, 1953

Now that they have Little Ricky, Lucy insists they need more room, and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cl

S2·E27 Core

Lucy Is Matchmaker

May 25, 1953

Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes (Hal March, as Eddie) who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? He's a lingerie salesman, a fact that j

S2·E28 Core

Lucy Wants New Furniture

Jun 1, 1953

Lucy tries to hide some new furniture she bought without Ricky's permission in the kitchen. Discovering his wife's extravagant purchase, Ricky insists that Lucy pays for it from he

S2·E29 Core

The Camping Trip

Jun 8, 1953

Lucy fears that she and Ricky don't have enough in common, so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred don't want her (or Ethel, for that matter,) hornin

S2·E30 Mytharc

Ricky and Fred are TV Fans

Jun 22, 1953

With Ricky and Fred glued to a TV fight, their wives go to the local cafe, where service is so slow that Lucy makes change for herself at the cash register and the girls are arrest

S2·E31 Mytharc

Never Do Business With Friends

Jun 29, 1953

The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes for $35. When it breaks down the next day, the Mertzes want out of the deal. A tug-of-war ensues, however, when the Mertz