I Love Lucy- Season 2 Episode 11

I Love Lucy

Lucy Changes Her Mind at a Restaurant

Season 2 Episode 14 (0:00-1:45)
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Vocabulary (idioms and phrases included)

Felt like- wanted something in particular

Crazy about- really like something

As you were- go back to waiting again

Diners- people go to dine or eat

Smarty- someone who is being sarcastic

Fortify myself- strengthen myself (in this case by eating something)

Questions

1.     Do they know where they’re going to dinner when Lucy comes out and asks them what they’re waiting for?

2.     What does Ethel say she kind of felt like tonight?

3.     Lucy likes Chinese food but what is she crazy about?

4.     What is ok by Ethel?

5.     Why does Lucy stop and say, “oh darn it”?

6.     What does Lucy remember the second time she stops?

7.     What is Ricky’s suggestion?

8.     What does Lucy ask Ricky if he wants?

9.     What does Ricky want?

10. What kind of place does Lucy want to go to?

11. What are there lots of in the paper?

12. Why does Fred decide to fortify himself by eating something?

Idioms/Phrases- "Desperate times call for desperate measures."

(1:46) "Desperate times-desperate measures."
The phrase "desperate times call for desperate measures" means when you are in a precarious (very bad) situation you'll do anything to remedy (fix) it.

Cosby S2E7- ANSWERS

1.     What is Cliff’s wife not thrilled about?

Rudy trying out for the football team

2.     Clair’s mother never thought she’d see what day?

The day Rudy plays football

3.     What does Rudy’s grandma say to let her take off of her head?

That thing

4.     Rudy’s sister says she was the _______________one on the team.

Fastest

5.     What does her sister say she’s going to be?

A star

6.     Where did the coach put her?

In the starting line up

7.     Clair asks Rudy if she’s sure she wants to what?

Go back out there an play again

8.     What does her sister say she has so much of that she’d never get hurt and is perfectly safe?

Padding

9.     And her sister says, besides she’s so _________ that no one would ever get her.

Quick

10. What does Rudy’s mom tell her to do?

Go upstairs, take off her uniform and take a bath

11. What does Clair tell Cliff to let out?

Telling them how great Rudy was today

12. What does she say will happen to Cliff if he doesn’t let it out?

He’ll explode

13. How often does an athlete come along according to Cliff?

Maybe every 500 years or so

14. What has this athlete come in this time?

A different looking package

15. What is the most important thing this athlete has?

The heart

The Cosby Show S2E7

The Cosby Show

S2E7

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Vocabulary  (idioms and phrases included

No more thrilled about it than you are- not happy either

League- a group of athletic teams

Never thought I’d see the day- never thought I would see her do this

Starting line up- a set of players who will actively participate when a game begins

Padding- mass of material used to protect different parts of the body (worn underneath the uniform)

Go out for the team- go and try out for the team to become a member of the team

Questions

1.     What is Cliff’s wife not thrilled about?

2.     Clair’s mother never thought she’d see what day?

3.     What does Rudy’s grandma say to let her take off of her head?

4.     Rudy’s sister says she was the _______________one on the team.

5.     What does her sister say she’s going to be?

6.     Where did the coach put her?

7.     Clair asks Rudy if she’s sure she wants to what?

8.     What does her sister say she has so much of that she’d never get hurt and is perfectly safe?

9.     And her sister says, besides she’s so _________ that no one would ever get her.

10. What does Rudy’s mom tell her to do?

11. What does Clair tell Cliff to let out?

12. What does she say will happen to Cliff if he doesn’t let it out?

13. How often does an athlete come along according to Cliff?

14. What has this athlete come in this time?

15. What is the most important thing this athlete has?

Idioms- "A whole new frontier has opened up"

(1:24) "A whole new frontier has opened up."  - (in the context of this video clip) A new area of study has been discovered.

Cosby Show ANSWERS- S6 E25

1.     Why can’t Cliff’s daughter go to Amy’s party?

One of her ears is bigger than the other one

2.     What does Cliff ask her?

Which one

3.     She says that compared to the other one it’s what?

Huge

4.     She asks, “can’t you see it?”  Cliff responds, just a _________.

Just a smidgeon bit bigger

5.     What does he explain to her about the body?

That it isn’t perfectly symmetrical

6.     What do some people have longer?

The right leg longer than the left or the right arm longer than the left.

7.     When he looks at her what can’t he tell?

The difference

8.     What is her response to that?

That’s because you see me all the time

9.     What does she say someone else who meets her will say?

Who’s that girl with one big ear?

10. What does she say people will do if she goes to Amy’s party?

Stare at her

11. Cliff begins to explain to her there are certain things she can do if she’s worried about it.  The first thing he suggests she do is what?

Get a beret and pull the beret all the way over one ear

12. She says that this is a serious problem and what does she ask him?

To please act like an adult

13. He tells her that as an adult he doesn’t see what?

The difference

14. What does he tell is her is more important than what her two ears look like?

What you are

15. Does she agree with him when he points out that his face is not perfectly symmetrical?

yes