A very popular example of a TV series friendship of two women that dealt mainly with humor in the ups and downs of friendship would be Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy. These two women were best friends on air and in real life that dealt with living in the middle class, caring more than they should have about their reputation and wanting wealthy materialistic things. In the episode, ____________, Lucy and Ethel dress up to go to the movies, however their husbands seem fine with wearing comfy, cozy homewear. They both separately attempt to make their husbands change, but fail to do so. When together, Lucy and Ethel both make it an issue and make their husbands change clothing and go to the movies wearing fancy clothing. This episode highlighted how alone, Lucy could not make her husband change clothing, but with another woman there and another man, he feels the slightest bit embarrassed and changed. Because of their strong and deep bond, they are both able to free themselves a bit from the men's oppression, or in this case stubbornness, and wins against the men. Another reason Lucy cares so much is because her husband is a musician, so to be seen in scrubby clothing at the time in public would be embarrassing to not only him but her as well. The girls care about their reputation to the people around them. They both are known throughout the series to be best friends and always be together. Later in the episode, when Lucy’s husband, Ricky, invites the two girls to a “surprise dinner”, Lucy comes up with a scheme with Ethel to get back at the boys for not wanting to dress up. Because of this scheme, they created a subculture of resistance in the background and women all over watching the show feel satisfies at their act of resistance and yearn to be more like them. However, in the end, the girls end up making fools of themselves, and Ethel
A very popular example of a TV series friendship of two women that dealt mainly with humor in the ups and downs of friendship would be Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy. These two women were best friends on air and in real life that dealt with living in the middle class, caring more than they should have about their reputation and wanting wealthy materialistic things. In the episode, ____________, Lucy and Ethel dress up to go to the movies, however their husbands seem fine with wearing comfy, cozy homewear. They both separately attempt to make their husbands change, but fail to do so. When together, Lucy and Ethel both make it an issue and make their husbands change clothing and go to the movies wearing fancy clothing. This episode highlighted how alone, Lucy could not make her husband change clothing, but with another woman there and another man, he feels the slightest bit embarrassed and changed. Because of their strong and deep bond, they are both able to free themselves a bit from the men's oppression, or in this case stubbornness, and wins against the men. Another reason Lucy cares so much is because her husband is a musician, so to be seen in scrubby clothing at the time in public would be embarrassing to not only him but her as well. The girls care about their reputation to the people around them. They both are known throughout the series to be best friends and always be together. Later in the episode, when Lucy’s husband, Ricky, invites the two girls to a “surprise dinner”, Lucy comes up with a scheme with Ethel to get back at the boys for not wanting to dress up. Because of this scheme, they created a subculture of resistance in the background and women all over watching the show feel satisfies at their act of resistance and yearn to be more like them. However, in the end, the girls end up making fools of themselves, and Ethel