#144- "Lucy Goes to Scotland"
EPISODE NAME: "Lucy Goes to Scotland"
EPISODE NUMBER: 144
DATE AIRED: February 20, 1956
DATE FILMED: January 6, 1956
RATING/SHARE: N/A
EXTRA CAST: Mayor Ferguson- Larry Orenstein, Townspeople- John Gustafson, John Hynd, Robert E. Hamlin, Ann Ellen Walker, Norma Zimmer, Betty Noyes, Dick Byron, Chuck Schrouder, Betty Allen
SONGS: "Tis Nay a Bra Bricht Nicht," "A McGillicuddy is Here," "I'm in Love With the Dragon's Dinner," "Two Heads Are Nay Better Than One," "Dragon Waltz"
SUMMARY: The Ricardos and Mertzes are in Scotland. Lucy is angry with Ricky because he won't let her track down her ancestors in the village of Kildoonan between the cities of Golspey and Ullapool. While she is asleep, Lucy dreams about the McGillicuddy village. In her dream, she finds the little town, which at first seems like a friendly place to be. The townspeople welcome her with a song which welcomes her arrival and Lucy is overjoyed. However, the townspeople inform her that as the last surviving McGillicuddy she must be fed to the terrible two-headed dragon in order to save the village and satisfy the dragon's appetite. Lucy tries to escape but she is captured. Then Scotty MacTavish MacDougal MacCardo(Ricky Ricardo sporting a very fashionable kilt), son of Enchilada MacCardo who came to the country with the Spanish Armada, enters and tells the town people that he is in a terrible dither. The Mayor of Kildoonan puts Scotty in charge of keeping Lucy from escaping. However, Scotty and Lucy soon fall in love and sing a very nice song called "I'm In Love With the Dragon's Dinner." Scotty promises to slay the two headed dragon and protect his love from becoming a blue-plate special. When they enter the dragon's lair, they see the dragon (Fred and Ethel), and they dragon becomes very hungry and excited that their meal has arrived then the dragon's heads fight with each other about how to prepare the McGillicuddy and they sing a song called "Two Heads Are Nay Better Than One." Scotty and Lucy try to talk the dragon out of eating a McGillicuddy, then when time comes for Scotty to save Lucy he loses his courage and gives Lucy to the dragon. Lucy wakes up from her dream and proceeds to beat Ricky with her pillow, while yelling "You coward!"
QUOTES:
(After Lucy performs the sword dance terribly)
MAYOR: There never was a McGillicuddy that could dance worth a hoot
(The dragon heads are fighting about how to cook Lucy)
FRED HEAD: How about McGillicuddy Foo Yung?
ETHEL HEAD: No, you know about that Chinese Food, you eat it and a year later your hungry
SCOTTY: Why don't you eat me?
ETHEL HEAD: No, Spanish food gives us heartburn