I've watched the show since I was in kindergarten. It never crossed my mind that it's black and white. It is the best show. It's got so much history. Lucy was the reason I got into comedy. She's an inspiration. Desi is an inspiration for me as well. It never gets old. It'll never go away and we're not gonna let it.

To date, I have now seen every single episode from all 6 seasons of the "I Love Lucy" TV show from the 1950s. And, by far, I rate Season 4 as being the absolute best season of them all.In fact, I'd quite confidently say that when it came to the show's superiority in the realm of its hilarious scriptwriting, Season 4 was, without question, the ultimate peak of Sit-Com perfection.It was especially when the Ricardos and the Mertzes arrived in Hollywood, USA that this show's scriptwriters proved themselves to be at the absolute pinnacle of their craft by creating incomparably uproarious situations for Lucille Ball and her fellow cast members to indulge themselves in.This review of mine is my respectful tribute to writers Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and Jess Oppenheimer who, as a team, surely must have worked like fiends behind the scenes as they wrote one memorable episode of priceless, 1950's comedy after another.I would also like to take this moment to salute and pay honour to director William Asher who was the one responsible for knowing exactly how to handle the script-material given to him and then mould the actors perfectly into the characters which they inevitably became. Even today, 60 years later, the "I Love Lucy" show still remains, on all levels, one of the most unique and unforgettable programs in all of television history, bar none.

The supposed goal of a comedy is to make one laugh. Using that basis, I Love Lucy fails. It's simply not that funny. It can be absurdist, it has funny situations, it has "jokes" with punchlines, but in 50 years I've never laughed at anything on the show and only occasionally smiled, nor can I remember anyone watching with me that ever laughed. It's not only Lucy that fails the laugh test. Almost every sitcom of the '50s through '70s was written by writers that came from the Borscht Belt circuit. This was why almost every sitcom is similar with many pratfalls, contrived situations to create embarrassment, and at least one double-take in every episode. This is not to disparage the cast; the acting was uniformly good. However, if laughter was the objective, this show missed.

In "L.A. At Last!," when the Ricardos and Mertzes arrive in California, they are supposed to be pulling right in to the driveway of the fictional Beverly Palms Hotel. But their car is shown driving into the then real Beverly Carlton on West Olympic Boulevard. The "Beverly Carlton" sign and Canon Drive street sign are visible upon careful viewing.This hotel is now the Avalon, and the internal set scenes from the Hollywood episodes are fairly consistent with the Avalon, even today, with balconies overlooking a curved pool. However, the Hollywood back drop, added to the longer view in the internal set scenes as mentioned here under "trivia," would not have been accurate, since the Beverly Carlton was about six miles to the southeast.