The Girls Go Into Business

A few days before the taping of this episode it was revealed that Lucille Ball had been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s after she had moved to Hollywood. Before the taping of the show began Desi Arnaz started to do his usual warm-up of the audience. But instead of telling some jokes he talked about the revelation of Lucille's past and tried to downplay it by quipping, "The only thing red about Lucy is her hair." She was one of the few people in Hollywood who managed to escape a past affiliation with the Communist Party relatively unscathed.

When the two customers walked into Mrs. Hansen's shop and immediately started buying things, Lucy and Ethel were astounded at how much they were spending. The two women came out of the dressing room a few minutes later and one began telling Mrs. Hansen she would buy something else, but Mrs. Hansen told them to never mind, they've gone, and they could each have a scarf for helping her out. There's no mention of how the two customers would know that Lucy and Ethel were interested in buying the shop.

Referenced in I Love Lucy: The Million Dollar Idea (1954)