I Love These ‘I Love Lucy’ Facts From The Classic Show!

No Room For Improvisation

While it’s not uncommon for TV stars to improvise some of their lines, the folks at I Love Lucy didn’t have that luxury! It turns out that every single spoken word on the show was in the original script – meaning there was no room to experiment.

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Lucille Ball spoke more about this in an interview years after the show ended: “We never ad-libbed. We never ad-libbed on the set when we were putting it together. It was there.”