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Crossing the border is never easy with Lucy Ricardo
In "Lucy Goes to Mexico" (Aired: October 6, 1958), the sixth episode of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," The Ricardos and the Mertzes are in San Diego, where Ricky is rehearsing with Maurice Chevalier (you can never have too many foreign accents) for a show they will be doing for the Navy on the aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. "Yorktown." Meanwhile, Lucy and Ethel head for Tijuana, bent on finding bargains and souvenirs galore, with Fred tagging along to try and head off disaster. Surprisingly things go okay, until they try crossing the border back to the U.S. and the Customs officer (Charles Lane) discovers a young Mexican boy (Alan Costello) in the trunk of the car: he wants to see the aircraft carrier Senora Ricardo has told him about. The good news is that Ricky and Chevalier show up to bail everybody out of jail. The bad news is that since Chevalier is a French citizen, he cannot get back into the United States (pretend this makes sense and remember the comic value of people speaking English, Spanish and French at high speed at the same time). Obviously, since the U.S. Customs can spot a grown man in a trunk as easily as a small boy, there is only one solution to this problem, and that is for Lucy to end up fighting a bull in a bull ring as Max the matador.

Given that the bull fighting bit is less than inspired, the best part of "Lucy Goes to Mexico" turns out to be the singing, with Arnaz and Chevalier (together and separately) singing "Something's Gotta Give," "Louise," "La Cucaracha," "Valentine," "Mimi," "Yankee Doodle Dandy." "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" was not so much a television series as a series of full-hour specials. After the 1956-57 season of "I Love Lucy" the cast decided they wanted to experiment with the hour-long format. The idea was that the Ricardos and the Mertzes would travel to different locations and be involved with various guest stars. Actually, the episodes originally ran under the title of "The Lucille Ball-Desir Arnaz Shows," and the abbreviated title was used when these specials were aired on CBS as summer series for five years (1962-67). This particular endeavor is just not that special.

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Worst episode of the LUCY DESI-COMEDY HOUR!
By the time this episode aired in 1958, "Lucy-mania" was at a fever pitch and scripts were being tailored to accompany the slew of celebrity guest stars as opposed to the well crafted character driven stories from earlier seasons. This episode is such an example of how scripts were rushed out with no thought given to any semblance of reality-based storytelling. The episode begins with the Ricardos and the Mertzes in San Diego as part of a U.S.O. tour with celebrity guest star Maurice Chevalier. Lucy and the Mertzes go shopping in Mexico and wind up in trouble with U.S. Customs after a little Mexican boy stows away in the trunk of their car. They are bailed out of trouble by Ricky, only to have the same thing happen again on another shopping venture, but with Maurice Chevalier in the trunk this time. They are soon put in jail, where Lucy makes a daring jail break thanks to the help of the little boy. She then dresses up like a matador to elude the Mexican Police, only to end up in an arena fighting a bull that she falsely assumes is a friendly bull that she's nicknamed "Max".
Suffice it to say, this episode comes off as a precursor to all of those 1980's "Ernest" movies as Lucy is put in one silly situation after another, each one more contrived and forced than the last. Lucy's hijinks, which are usually funny and believable, are increasingly annoying and out of character here. While the "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" lacked the magic of the "I Love Lucy" episodes (probably due to the different writers), most of them were funny in their own right. This particular one just happened to be the bottom of the barrel. If you are a huge Lucy fan and just has to have every episode, then this is fine. If you're more of a casual fan, I highly recommend skipping this one and trying some of the other "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" episodes.

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VERY funny
this show is very funny. Lucy has trouble with the officials in Mexico, when she goes there shopping. They're accused as smugglers!!! See how she tries to get back to the United States.