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Like pretty much everyone who spent any time in the USA in the 2nd half of the 20th century, I was aware of Lucy Ball on television.
As an adult, I was somewhat surprised to find out she had 3 separate shows, "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy Show", and Here's Lucy". My impression had been that it was all one very long running show, with Lucy and various subsidiary characters, that had been on the air since about a decade before I was born and was still going when I was in my teens. Episodes were often on tv on reruns. I watched only irregularly. I thought it was sometimes very funny indeed, sometimes not, and often repetitive and annoying.
I haven't watched a Lucy episode in many years, so I'm not sure why it popped up in my dream. I likely saw a brief promo for it on "METV", which Hollie and I watch regularly for the "Svengoolie" comedic horror host Saturday nights.
Anyways, my dream:
Ms Hollie and I were hired as extras for Lucy's show. It was the original one filmed in black & white. Most of the show was a series of chase scenes on foot. Lucy & Ricky, sometimes with Fred & Ethel and sometimes not, were in one group. Hollie & I and a couple of other extras were in another group. A third group of people was chasing both of us. Sometimes we were running the same way, sometimes in opposite ways, our paths intersecting and clashing in wacky hijinks. At one point we were running through an office building, and Lucy shouted "We're being chased by a tiger! Quick, we need to find a veterinarian!" which was a laugh line. Then we were being chased up some stairs and Lucy's group and Hollie & my group were separated again.
At the end of the take Hollie was out of breath. I contemplated that I couldn't always do running like this (in my dream I was in condition where some days I could run but other days not), and I wondered if we were put in an episode with so much running to get rid of us, since the show usually didn't have much running. Then with the extras and crew we sat down at picnic tables to a meal served on paper plates. It included zucchini and french-fries, and I was pleased to find they were quite tasty.
As an adult, I was somewhat surprised to find out she had 3 separate shows, "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy Show", and Here's Lucy". My impression had been that it was all one very long running show, with Lucy and various subsidiary characters, that had been on the air since about a decade before I was born and was still going when I was in my teens. Episodes were often on tv on reruns. I watched only irregularly. I thought it was sometimes very funny indeed, sometimes not, and often repetitive and annoying.
I haven't watched a Lucy episode in many years, so I'm not sure why it popped up in my dream. I likely saw a brief promo for it on "METV", which Hollie and I watch regularly for the "Svengoolie" comedic horror host Saturday nights.
Anyways, my dream:
Ms Hollie and I were hired as extras for Lucy's show. It was the original one filmed in black & white. Most of the show was a series of chase scenes on foot. Lucy & Ricky, sometimes with Fred & Ethel and sometimes not, were in one group. Hollie & I and a couple of other extras were in another group. A third group of people was chasing both of us. Sometimes we were running the same way, sometimes in opposite ways, our paths intersecting and clashing in wacky hijinks. At one point we were running through an office building, and Lucy shouted "We're being chased by a tiger! Quick, we need to find a veterinarian!" which was a laugh line. Then we were being chased up some stairs and Lucy's group and Hollie & my group were separated again.
At the end of the take Hollie was out of breath. I contemplated that I couldn't always do running like this (in my dream I was in condition where some days I could run but other days not), and I wondered if we were put in an episode with so much running to get rid of us, since the show usually didn't have much running. Then with the extras and crew we sat down at picnic tables to a meal served on paper plates. It included zucchini and french-fries, and I was pleased to find they were quite tasty.
