I Love Lucy pioneered many of the things that later sitcoms relied on. Like accidentally inventing the rerun:
Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club wrote retrospectively:[77]
I Love Lucy […] is one of the two foundational texts of American TV comedy, along with The Honeymooners. The series is legitimately the most influential in TV history, pioneering so many innovations and normalizing so many others that it would be easy to write an appreciation of simply, say, the show’s accidental invention of the TV rerun.
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Ricky makes breakfast [2:41]
“Best TV Show of All Time”:
The show – which was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, by cinematographer Karl Freund – won five Emmy Awards and received many nominations and honors. It was the first show to feature an ensemble cast.[8] As such, it is often regarded as both one of the greatest and most influential sitcoms in history. In 2012, it was voted the 'Best TV Show of All Time' in a survey conducted by ABC News and People magazine.[9]
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Lucy writes a novel [4:22]
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Lucy Ricardo was ambitious.
Of all the sitcoms ever aired, I Love Lucy might be the most influential. Released during a time when women were expected to be wives and mothers and nothing else, Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo shattered that conservative notion by wanting and pursuing more. TV had seen nothing like it before, and without I Love Lucy, other influential television shows like Seinfeld wouldn't have been made.
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Stuck in a rut [3:22]
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Desilu’s innovations included the 3-camera technique, which became the sitcom standard.
With I Love Lucy (1951), she and Desi promoted the 3-camera technique now the standard in filming sitcoms using 35mm film (the earliest known example of the 3-camera technique is the first Russian feature film, "Defence of Sevastopol" in 1911). Desi syndicated I Love Lucy. Lucille Ball was the first woman to own her own studio as the head of Desilu Productions.
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Desi gets an English lesson [2:18]
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You have to be fearless to be funny. Brave enough to risk failure.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
Geisha Lucy [2:48]
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This might explain the pioneering use of a live studio audience:
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
Lucy gets a Spanish lesson [4:01]
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Comedy is important.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Harpo meets Lucy [3:46]
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Smart lady:
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
At the Tropicana, performing “Cuban Pete” with Ricky [3:21]
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So c’mon in the cafe and grab a cuppa...
...and a nice nosh...
...and join us!
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