Awesome / I Love Lucy

• After putting Lucy on a strict schedule, Ricky brags to his boss that he's got her, "Just like a trained seal" as part of his bid to become the new manager of the Tropicana. The boss's wife hears that, informs Lucy, and teams up with her and Ethel to teach their husbands a lesson. At the end, the boss tears up Lucy's schedule and tells Ricky, "Being a slave driver is no way to run a home! [Beat] But it is the way to run a night club, Mr. manager!"
• The group managing to break out of jail and get out of Bent Fork in "Tennessee Bound." One of the few times when a Zany Scheme in the show actually works.
• In "Breaking the Lease", this is one of the few times where Ricky and Lucy actually work together to get one over on their adversaries (in this case: Fred and Ethel) and they win. For context, Lucy and Ricky had a falling out with Ethel and Fred over the phone because Ricky and Lucy kept making too much racket. Unwilling to pay in advance for 5 months' rent, Ricky and Lucy use the "Mexican Hat Dance" song to get them to surrender, played by Ricky's entire band, and some moments after the song plays at full blast, Fred and Ethel surrender the lease. But, of course, Lucy and Ethel are too attached to each other, and Ricky and Lucy decide to stay.
  • Fred and Ethel get one in on Ricky and Lucy before throwing in the towel. During the party, Lucy notices that more and more people they don't know have been turning up unannounced. One of them reveals that Fred and Ethel had been selling tickets to Ricky's apartment performance and raking in some cash!
• In the “Pioneer Women” episode, representatives from a women’s society that Lucy and Ethel have applied to join turn up their noses at the Ricardos and the Mertzes for being involved in show business. Lucy replies by defending her husband and friends, announcing she has no desire to join the society anymore and dismissing the representatives out of her apartment! Her speech impresses Ricky so much that he forfeits the episode-long bet and decides to buy her a much-needed dishwasher.
• In one episode, Lucy and Ethel have an argument while several other women are present and they decide to split the group with one half with Ethel demanding her table and everything on it. Lucy counters with, "That is my tablecloth!" and effortlessly yanks the tablecloth aside without disturbing a single thing on top of it. Her confident expression is what truly sells it.
• From the episode guest-starring Harpo Marx:
  • Harpo plays "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" on the harp. Gotta see it to believe it.
  • Lucy does the Mirror Routine... with HARPO!!!
  • How he gets her in the end is another moment in and of itself: by turning his hat into a yo-yo and pulling it back into his hands after she drops hers. The routine ends with them hugging each other.
• In "Lucy and Superman," Lucy, who is dressed up like Superman, is stuck on a window ledge with her cape caught^note She had believed Superman would not be able to attend Little Ricky's birthday party and opted to do the job herself and Superman himself (played by George Reeves) almost casually hops across the ledge from the window to help her out. Doubles as a funny moment.
• A minor one for Little Ricky in "Lucy Does the Tango": Little Ricky and Bruce Ramsey - a couple of six-year-olds - somehow manage to hide away two hundred fully-grown chickens in the space of a couple hours.