Talk:Lucy and Ricky Ricardo

message: I am surprise to see no link to Lucille Ball. Is that an oversight, or some protocol? Alan Davidson (talk) 06:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucille Ball 

message: ===After I Love Lucy===
Lucy was on other shows like The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy named Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter but really its all the same Lucy.
It seems this should be removed or somehow fixed.El Gonz (talk) 16:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH also concludes that Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter are in essence the character Lucy Ricardo. I believe secondary sources can be found to reference an encyclopedic discussion of that, but currently the matter is poorly discussed in this article. --→gab 24dot grab← 19:10, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  After I Love Lucy 

message: Lucy was on other shows like The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy named Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter but really its all the same Lucy.
It seems this should be removed or somehow fixed.El Gonz (talk) 16:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH also concludes that Lucy Carmichael and Lucy Carter are in essence the character Lucy Ricardo. I believe secondary sources can be found to reference an encyclopedic discussion of that, but currently the matter is poorly discussed in this article. --→gab 24dot grab← 19:10, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: After I Love Lucy

message: As discussed previously, both characters, Lucy and Ricky, may be notable individual. However, right now, matter is the potential encyclopedic content on both of their articles, not their individual "notability". The Casting section of Lucy Ricardo won't be that stellar because Lucille Ball herself wanted to cast herself as the housewife and wanted her then-husband Desi play the "straight man" part. How can notability be consistent with quality of an article? Under guidelines of WP:notability, a notable topic does not guarantee a valuable article about one topic. Even an article about a "notable" topic, like Ashton Kutcher on Twitter, is never easy to write and to balance. As for the "Lucy is a gay icon" and "Ricky is a stereotype" thing, that could be better said in Characters section of I Love Lucy article. I mean, look at the condition of Lucy Ricardo: not only a bad quality but only fiction stuff. Speaking of fiction stuff, even her background isn't stellar for general needs.
With "Ricky and Lucy" article, it is a good balance. Even writing a section about their friendship with the Mertzes is beter than writing about Lucy's friendship with Ethel, right? --George Ho (talk) 15:03, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I'm not sure how one would go about verifying this, and I don't know where the full name in the article came from, but I recall at least two different full names being used on the show. In one case that name included Enrique.— Vchimpanzee ·  talk · contributions · 18:41, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ricky's full name 

message: With the recent WP:RM resolving by renaming  to , I have now edited  to redirect to 'Lucy and Ricky Ricardo'. The old material is still in the history if anyone feel the need to bring any more over here. --→gab 24dot grab← 21:33, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Ricky Ricardo]] 

message: Lucy Ricardo's significant other is Ricky Ricardo
Ricky Ricardo's significant other is Lucy Ricardo  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.178.238 (talk) 01:57, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  so 

message: The article only refers to "Ricky's band," but bands generally have names.  Does anybody know what the band's name was, or if it was ever mentioned?  JDZeff (talk) 19:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band name 

message: Ricky Ricardo (and Desi Arnaz) was Cuban-American of almost exclusively Spanish descent. Desi Arnaz was descended from mayors of Santiago de Cuba on both sides. Under the Census definitions and mores of the time of their marriage, he would be considered white. Under current terminology, he would be considered a white Hispanic. Their marriage could be considered an intra-racial interethnic marriage, but that was not taboo either by law or custom.
I was the one who added the part about interracial marriage. In my college, I'm a journalism major, and we did a major (no pun intended) unit on how depictions of marriages have evolved in the media. It was our professor who described Lucy and Ricky's marriage as the first interracial marriage on an American TV show.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.187.178.189 (talk) 13:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interracial marriage 

message: The "Early Life" secion is entirely about Lucy, nothing on Ricky.
You got some 'splaining to do!
BMJ-pdx (talk) 15:56, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  No "Early Life" of Ricky Ricardo 

message: This is a widely circulating myth. In the 40s/50s/60s, Desi Arnaz and most Latin-Americans were considered white. They were not minorities. The reason they could get legally married in the 40s was because they were not an interracial couple. Desi was white. 
Their marriage was never controversial, and the show was not race-related.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wrventura (talk • contribs) 17:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucy and Desi were NOT an interracial couple