I Love Lucy

08/29/20 • 9 min

We take the sitcom time machine back to the 1950s to see Lucy in action. We watch the famous chocolate factory episode. Is it still funny to kids born half a century after the episode first aired?

We take the sitcom time machine back to the 1950s to see Lucy in action. We watch the famous chocolate factory episode. Is it still funny to kids born half a century after the episode first aired?

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