We’ve lamented the scourge of Hollywood remaking classic films many times. Tacky updates of The Great Escape, The Birds and others. Well, it makes even less sense to tamper with great moments from the golden age of television.
Any list of classic early TV scenes is bound to include Lucy and Ethel on the chocolate line. So, imagine my chagrin at seeing footage from an apparent cable TV effort to recreate this iconic sketch.
Sorry, these guys just DON’T get it. Here’s a hint, folks, the conveyor is supposed to SPEED UP. That’s the comedy! What you have here is just eight minutes of workers wrapping bonbons and talking about miniature schnauzers. I laughed maybe four times, tops. I bet they’d do the Vitameatavegamin scene with MINERAL water!
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(above) TV grab from original “I Love Lucy” show.
(below) Workers oversee a chocolate line at the Harry & David factory in Medford, Oregon May 16, 2008. REUTERS/Adam Tanner
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I’m looking for the odd. Where’s the odd? Is it the beard net? Is it that weird brown tube behind the glass over the guy’s shoulder? Help me out here, Bob.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksNo, no, no… The thing here, Shawn, is that even though these are just normal people in a newsphoto, were PRETENDING that they are doing aremake of Lucy and Ethel on the chocolate line. If you stop pretending that, you break the mood for everybody.
- Posted by Robert BaslerThanks for splaining.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks