Video URL


7329_lucy_money
Subjects

1950s
B&W

Clip from “I Love Lucy” episode. This is a classic job switching episode from the TV show:Ricky returns home from work, angry, and crosses his arms across his chest as he calls for Lucy. Lucy enters the room happily and offers him a hug, but stops short when she sees his angered mood, she turns and heads the opposite direction. Ricky calls her back, gesturing with his finger, and asks her about a check she wrote to the Beauty Parlor. Lucy jokes about the bank, saying “That’s why they call them tellers, they go around blabbing everything they know.” Ricky lectures her and she jokes that he doesn’t give her enough money, typical argument about Lucy spending Ricky’s money, Fred and Ethel Mertz interrupt and the two husbands discuss the spending habits of their wivesFred tells Ricky that “when it comes to money there are two types of people - the earners and the spenders, otherwise known as the husbands and the wives” After some discussion, the two couples decide to switch places for a week, to switch gender roles, the husbands will do the housework and domestic chores while the women work outside of the home for a week.Traditional gender roles, gender stereotypes, trading places, switching places, feminism, post-feminism, money, women’s spending habits, housewives, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, Fred and Ethel Mertz