What I think it’s hilarious how the tray on where the bread is on expanded along with the bread 🍞. Lol.

I have never noticed this before. As a fourth wall observer maybe we were not suppose to notice.

Hi, I always thought it was just the other side of the counter. That the counter was behind me.

Wow ! I never noticed the counter not being there.......but I always wondered how the bread tray grew as "long " as the loaf of bread did !!!!!!!!

Removing the counter is the only way the long loaf scene could have worked. I think they made the right call in doing so. It’s kind of like seeing through the fourth wall. Thanks for showing this, Rick.

This is one of my favorite episodes. My favorite line is from Lucy when she is kneading that big mound of dough. She turns to Ethel and says in a joyful tone, “ It’s a happy little loaf, isn’t it??!!” 😂 My birthday is 10/15 which is of historic meaning to the show. I am 71, so I watched the very first episode. I did not notice the absence of the counter. I was too engrossed in the scene and the characters. I really enjoy your video research. Thank you. 😁👍🏼

I love it the way it is. The fantasy of Lucy was great and nothing could ever take away.

Very good Rick! I’ve seen this episode countless times and realized the bread was impossible but NEVER that the counter was gone. Love your Lucy videos best because I like to think you can’t point out things I didn’t know. Then, of course, you Always do. Much love ❤️

I always noticed that sometimes the counter was there, and sometimes it wasn't. I guess we love the show and the characters so much we give them all the creative licence they need!

I’ve been watching I Love Lucy since I’ve been a child of the 70’s (I’m now in my mid 50’s and old!! LOL) and I’ve seen this episode millions of times and honestly NEVER even noticed the counter being gone!!! I love your videos, please keep posting!! ❤️

Good eye Rick! I m in my late 6o's and a lover of the old I Love Lucy tv show. So I have seen this episode dozens and dozens of times and have never noticed the missing counter in the oven scene.

It's amazing. I've been watching this show pretty much my whole life, over 40 years. Never once realized all these small bloopers. The way you explain it with the "fourth wall" view is so great. I'm a huge fan of your channel, love the way you narrate everything. I've been watching these episodes again with fresh eyes and new perspectives thanks to you!!

"Fourth Wall" and "suspension of dis/belief" are great concepts to consider when thinking about any TV show, but especially one as well-beloved as "I Love Lucy". Thanks for presenting these ideas.

The "darkness" on the floor that you mention at 3:40 is not caused by the missing counter. That is the shadow of the loaf of bread. Notice the shadow is a straight line until you get to the oven door. The oven door is casting a wider shadow. This shadow is caused by a "key light" or "kicker light" that is above and behind the actors facing the camera. It's what makes the top of the loaf of bread stand out and shine so much.

I never noticed. No way around it🤷🏽 Don't mess with perfection!!!! That giant loaf of bread pinning Lucy against the sink is HYSTERICAL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The producers just sliced the kitchen beyond the counter to make the scene less half-baked 😆

Usually in a car scene and you see the actor driving, the rear view mirror is usually NOT there. This is so you can see the actor better in the scene. Yep! To pull off that gag, they HAD to remove the counter. But, it would be more hilarious to think the "bread did it" LOL

Honestly, I would be more concerned with where they got a "timber saw" in their urban environment. I am one that would not consider their a blooper. Above all, the story and sight gags would be more important than the set pieces. Remember, there was no rewind or counter bar in the 1950s...their style of filming would be to create a focus on the actors and situation presented. Continuity is very much a modern thing. Lucy and Desi were truly pioneers the believe that a tv show, and individual episode, might someday be more than a "just in the moment" thing. I suspect lots of early TV people, who came from Film and Vaudeville background were of the mind that the term "show" was just that...an evenings performance. That is speculation, but it would explain why they were keen to let Lucy and Desi keep the rights. By the late-1960s and the 70s, reruns were common... you could see it all again next summer. By the 80s and 90s you could have them on tape. The Franchise as we know it...with fandoms, Trekkies and the like could now maintain their modern beliefs.

I noticed the intermittent counter many times. Sometimes it is there when they need to eat or do something....and then disappears when it would block the audience. Never noticed the wall cut out though during the bread scene. I love that episode too. Great job Rick!

Love it I didn’t notice it until you pointed out and I’ve been watching Lucy for 50 years

I've been watching Lucy since the early 60's and never noticed the counter's absence in this scene! Thanks Rick.

Your Lucy videos....all of them......make me so happy !!!!!!! I adore you !!!!!

💕 I never really thought of the counter..but I knew there would've been furniture, a wall or something that would've blocked our view of the huge loaf of bread. So I saw it as if the camera were between whatever should've been there & the oven ! And I was always fine with it. Because it was funny as heck !! One of my all-time favorite episodes !! 👍🏼😍

I too have watched this at least 500 times and NEVER NOTICED ! Thanks ! I ❤ LUCY !

I think they filmed it as they should have. I like you have seen that episode so many times, and to be honest, I’ve never noticed the counter missing. You have a great eye for the details!

Hi Rick....You know yrs ago when I was little. My Grandmother laughed so hard when she seen Lucy bread coming out of the oven. But since you mentioned about the oven you take better notice!

I just thought we were looking through the cabinet that was supposed to be there to get the full effect and never thought of it as a blooper.

I noticed but did not care... The site gag was great!

To leave in counter would take away from the effects of the super long loaf of bread lol

Yea silly and unrealistic... love it, make believe... great visual gag even if it's impossible...

I never noticed that, I love this show I have every season on dvds.

In 50 years of watching these episodes, it never dawned on me that the counter disappears. The cutout in the back of the oven was always obvious, even without seeing it.

You were spot on with this discovery. I wouldn’t call it a blooper because removing the counter was done on purpose and not accidentally.

Love your stuff Rick.

Never noticed the difference until you pointed it out, Rick. Does it bother me? Heck no! It made for a great Lucy scene, and that's all that matters. Keep up the cool work!

That Episode Was 6 Years Before I Was Born. 4 Years Before My Parents Even KNEW Each 0ther. 😂😂😂😂😂 But I've Seen That Episode. Lucy Was HILARI0US EVERY Episode!!!

I have no problem with this at all. I’d rather see the bread come out rather than have the view obstructed but the wall. I never noticed it to be honest and applaud you Rick for spotting this. Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing!

I enjoyed, and still do enjoy I Love Lucy sooo much! I wouldn’t have minded how they made the show. I never did notice there was no counter, or the hole behind the oven. I just love the show, and imagine it the way it was meant to be. Thank you for sharing! I love your videos about my favorite shows! 👏👏👏

Thanks for pointing a few things out I had not noticed, here is one in return. There is a still used in this video with a dog ( which is from The diet) see that painting in the background? It is also located on the wall in The Lucy Show episode Lucy and George Burns. It is in George Burns apartment and it's quick if you don't look it's gone. Back to this episode I saw a interview where Lucy said she was scared of the saw and I guess id be too.

Excellent video. Very interesting topic. I have seen this episode numerous times and I never thought about this but you are right as far as these bloopers go. Thanks for a great video

It's called suspension of DISbelief.

It's the magic of television and we just roll with it. I find it humorous and think we're probably expected to just roll with it.

Should be “Suspension of disbelief”.

There is an episode where Lucy and Ethel are looking out of the window which is on the fourth wall of the first apartment, watching new neighbors move in.

I don’t mind bloopers. If I notice, I think it adds to the reality of the show. You don’t see too many bloopers in today’s shows.

Seen this episode of few times, never noticed the counter. This just happens to be one of my favs❗😎🇺🇸

Watching this show is so much fun. As far as the "willing suspension of disbelief" goes, I've always felt there's "reality" and "Lucy reality." So, counter or no counter, who cares. Viewers still get to enjoy the ride! PS: Hallmark Channel, as of August 6, has eliminated "I Love Lucy" from its daily lineup. Very disappointed about this move. Would be interested in knowing how others who support this channel are coping. Could we change Hallmark's mind?

I read in Desi Arnaz' autobiography the loaf of bread was real.

So interesting! Things you wouldn’t pick out while watching, to me it doesn’t matter how they did it the episode was a success! I love Lucy can’t do wrong 💕 Great video, thanks!

I've watched this COUNTLESS times and I've NEVER noticed this before! lol thx 4 sharing! 🙏🏼🙏🏼💜💜 Jeannine

That is cool, thanks for the uplifting ending!

Lucy is hilarious, period. They (production co.) Ahead of their time. Pioneers in "sitcom"

They couldn't have done it different. I love Lucy.

I loved the comedic aspects of the show itself, I didn't care about technicalities of the set at all. I watched it because I loved the entertaining part of it and the awesome characters 🥰

IMP this was done perfectly for Lucy. As others have said we vision the counter behind us. I like how the oven shelf/rack comes out about as long as the 🥖. But that loaf needed support also. Funny episode and thanks for talking about it. I love the little bloopers that really had to happen back then. I would rather have to deal with them than the junk on tv these days!

Thanks Rick for sharing Have a great Day.

I guess I didn’t really notice that a counter was there when it was need in the one apartment and when it wasn’t when they needed to show the all of the kitchen. Very interesting Rick. This is something that’s really cool that most of us never noticed. Keep up the great work!

I remember as a kid thinking how the oven wasn't deep enough for the loaf of bread...LOL

My mom had an island counter on wheels that could be moved anywhere in the kitchen.

Wow, Rick! Another great catch! I actually just watched this episode (yet again) just last week and didn’t notice it! If it were I filming this, I probably would’ve left the counter in place and done a high angle shot, basically over the top of the counter. But maybe the camera equipment being used didn’t allow for this. In any event, great catch! Please keep ‘em coming!

Thank you for pointing this out. Never really noticed it without your observation of the set changes. Thank You.😁

Good observation Rick! Now I’ve got one you might like! In the episodes ‘Lucy!s Club Dance’ and ‘Ricky’s Old Girlfriend’, each shows a newspaper; both papers have the same headline - ‘Bond Issue Defeated’! Thought you’d like that one! Always fun to watch your channel!

Excellent video Rick ✌

I can Honestly say I have Never noticed this! I guess Their job was well done because the audience was so focused on the bread most of us did not see the blooper.

Great observation, that is what makes these shows classics. Today, everyone is separating real from imaginary. Even the new Lion King is not made to meet the joy of cartoon version because they are making it look as real as possible and that spoils it.

I have Never noticed this before! However even as a kid I DID notice and understand that the bread was both PERFECTLY SHAPED and HUGE and would not fit in the oven.

Didn't they also have a table and chairs in the brick apartment or was that only in the window apartment? As you came into the kitchen there was a door to the left. What was that for? Was it used ?

The only thing I ever thought about this bread scene was that of all the zany things Lucy ever did, this was the only thing that was completely impossible. Every one of her other antics were improbable, but quite possible. Oh, I also thought it was quite hilarious.

I've seen this episode so many times & never even thought about where the counter went. Good catch.

I loved the illusion. I never noticed the mistakes. Looks like they did what they had to do to make the scene work. Just like a magician. Sometimes we don't want to know how the trick was done.

Forget about the counter. I am still hung up on R9G saying it was a "windowless" apartment as I stare at the window above the stove.

I remember seeing this episode on television and laughing my ass off when that loaf of bread came out of the oven. Yes I realized at the time that long loaf of bread would not have fit in the oven, and I also realized it had no bread pan around it as it came out of the oven obviously either being pushed out by a person or it was spring loaded..... but like you say........ I gave them that "artistic" freedom and enjoyed the show. As a side note here. That episode was indeed filmed before a live studio audience and the bread was really bread, not a prop. It was less expensive to have a real loaf of bread made than it would have been to have a prop made. The Desilu studio commissioned a local bakery to make that real loaf of bread and after the show it was cut up and given to any audience member that wanted a piece of it to either eat there or take home. As for the "forth wall", even as a child I always thought it odd that when the people would go through a doorway to get into the adjoining room. Why didn't they just walk around the wall I wondered? But that's just me.

It's called ''Hollywood Magic'' and I love it. Thanks for the video.

Yes it was done correctly. Because it was accepted until now. I watch these show because there fun not because there perfect cinematically. Love your channel, great job. Thanks

Hey thanks for bringing that counter part to our attention spot on !! 👊😂

Rick, I believe they did it the right way and I'd never considered this before.

It was a perfect scene. I never noticed the counter non-counter!

Very interesting video Rick, never notice that before. Love the videos and bloopers

I’ve NEVER noticed the absence of the counter and I’ve been watching since late 50’s. I think it’s a sort of comedic “license”. I like that we’re just expected to accept the clearly presented “wrongs” in the name of comedy!!! It’s all about the funny ideas, and not so much about the reality or lack there of. 😂

The counter is still there. The Fourth Wall position just changed. We (the viewer) are now seeing the events in the kitchen with the counter behind us. We're on the other side of it. Yeah, they're fudging the spacial relationship between the counter and the oven, to make more space for us to "fit", but it's the only way the gag would have worked with the established set. Honestly, in all my years of watching that episode, I never gave it a second thought. Thanks to your observations, I'm seeing things that never registered before. Keep 'em coming!

Just when I thought I've seen it all. You manage to, yet again, surprise me with new and exciting stuff about my favorite show! Thank you!

HA! I noticed this one ages ago but I never considered it a blooper. As you stated they really had no choice but to remove that counter if we were to see the bread emerging from the side. Considering when this was filmed they probably couldn't maneuver the huge camera at another angle and show the bread AND the counter. I considered it a necessary liberty that they had to take.

Great job Rick. I, also, never noticed it until you just pointed it out - and I must have seen this episode a few dozen times since the 1950s!

The next best thing to the real show is Rick’s outtakes. And now that the Hallmark channel put “I love Lucy” On hiatus, I will be living here for a bit. Hope you don’t charge rent. Lol

It is funny because I had noticed that counter was gone on different shows but never noticed it disappeared in the middle of this episode. For that reason I think they made the correct choice because the counter missing did not distract from the gag. I always wondered how the counter fit with the rest of the 4th wall. There is a design which implies it is free standing but they never went on the near side of the counter. Was is supposed to be connected to a wall that would have hidden the design? The counter top is also not flush with the visible side. I know ... I am over analyzing but I wondered this even when I was young. Just curious what their vision was. Thank you for another fun video.

I have seen this episode so many times and bout to see it again soon here in Vegas never noticed that I'll be watching the next time thank you

I totally missed this blooper. yes, they absolutely did it right by removing the counter,you can tell because it is a smooth transition that our brain accepted.

Never noticed this before and it's one of my favorites! Thank you for sharing!

I will never be able to unsee that now! It’s not really a blooper, as it was planned. Never noticed it before, I was too busy laughing. Of course, that’s what they counted on, that we would be laughing so hard we wouldn’t notice! LOL Potentially I guess they could have shot over the counter, but remember that the show was filmed in front of a live studio audience, so for the purposes of that, they had no choice but to remove the counter. Thank you, your videos are so much fun and give me so much insight into one of my top favorite shows for my entire life!

Never realized this- thanks for sharing

I thought I was the only one who seen it. Thank you

Hi Rick, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this episode and laughed every single time. You really have a keen eye on catching bloopers. As many times as I’ve seen this episode the missing counter never came to my mind. However, I was always interested with what was going on with the “oven rack”. Suddenly it’s three times longer than the interior of the oven never mind the bread! 😳🙄🤦🏻‍♀️😂🤣😂

This was the best way to do this particular gag

How could I notice the counter was missing when I was laughing so hard at that huge loaf of bread 🍞 🤣 😂 I did know the bread 🍞 couldn't have all come out of that oven though. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹

It's even more unbelievable that the HUGE loaf of bread came out of a much smaller oven shaped like a loaf of bread and obviously not in a bread pan.

I remember this episode and while watching it the only thing I focused on was the huge amount of bread coming out of the oven. I realized the oven would have had a hole in the back where it was being pushed through. That’s another trick - draw the attention away from the obvious missing counter by creating chaos with the bread. It’s also hard to judge depth in 2-D. It could be the camera is now on the other side of the counter but yeah the markings on the floor indicate it was moved.

What I heard about the bread is they had to find a company that was willing make enough bread to push through the stove to this episode.

For the time period was terrific

I dont care about as long as i can ser lucy my fav