#I love Lucy was my special interest in elementary school so I’m very passionate about it

[yeehawkpierce]

It’s so funny when reading fics to see people use I Love Lucy as a typical 50s tv show (which is fair bc it was very popular) but then make some comment about it containing “husband hates his wife” jokes or some other gender role nonsense bc it immediately becomes very obvious that they haven’t watched the show. Ricky Ricardo is the original Wife Guy and I will not hear otherwise. neither male character has an actual job and the women are the ones doing outlandish schemes and the parenting duties are pretty evenly split between the couple, etc. theres several episodes dedicated to showing how gender stereotypes are ridiculous. Like yeah Fred and Ethel constantly bitch about each other but it’s mutual and lighthearted and it’s usually Ethel badmouthing Fred so if anything it’s the “secondary character hates her husband” show lol (but their on screen weirdness was probably a byproduct of Vivian Vance and William Frawley hating each other. Actually everyone hated that guy bc he’d show up drunk and was generally rude). But anyway. Enough unwarranted slander against my favorite old tv show please 🥺