pop cultured

Here’s a classic I Love Lucy episode, from 1952. In “The Freezer”, Lucy and Ethel get a second hand walk-in freezer and decide to stock it with a bulk order of beef to save money. They unwittingly order 2 sides of beef, not realizing that that amounts to 700 pounds of meat! The butcher won’t let them return any of the beef, so the girls head down to the local met shop and try to finagle some deals with the customers. They promptly get kicked out of the butcher shop.

In the end, the girls get home and have to hide all the meat from their husbands .  Lucy attempts to store the meat in the broken furnace and she accidently gets locked in the freezer. Later, when Ethel and Ricky find her, she’s a “human popscicle”. Worse yet. Fred has fixed the broken furnace and lights it so Lucy tells them  all to “grab a knife, a fork and a bottle of ketchup and follow me to the biggest barbecue in the whole world!”

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