S6.E6

Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account

Name: Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1967-10-16
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Jack Benny

Episode aired Oct 16, 1967
Not Rated
25m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Comedy

Lucy tries to convince Jack Benny to take his money from his underground vault and deposit it in Mr. Mooney's bank. She plans to do so by designing even more elaborate precautions than Benny... Read allLucy tries to convince Jack Benny to take his money from his underground vault and deposit it in Mr. Mooney's bank. She plans to do so by designing even more elaborate precautions than Benny's own booby-trapped passages.Lucy tries to convince Jack Benny to take his money from his underground vault and deposit it in Mr. Mooney's bank. She plans to do so by designing even more elaborate precautions than Benny's own booby-trapped passages.

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7.4/10

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Trivia
In real life, Jack Benny lived next door to Lucy on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills.

Goofs
Lucy claims that Jack Benny's legendary vault was so deep underground that she got the bends before she was halfway down. One develops the bends (decompression sickness) from ascending too quickly from an underwater dive, not during descent.

Quotes
Lucy Carmichael: [Lucy and Mr. Mooney are trying to think of someone to endorse their bank] How about the Maharajah of Beverly Hills?
Theodore J. Mooney: Who?
Lucy Carmichael: Jack Benny!
Theodore J. Mooney: Jack Benny?
Lucy Carmichael: Sure! Everybody knows that Jack Benny doesn't trust banks. He keeps all his money in his house. If we could get his business we could get everyone else's business!
Theodore J. Mooney: If we could get Jack Benny's business, we wouldn't need anyone else's business!

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Featured review

8/10

More Famous for the Sight Gags than Great Script

To persuade Jack Benny to become a depositor, Lucy has the bank construct an elaborate burglar-proof vault just for him.

This is a fan-favorite and probably the most popular appearance of Jack Benny on a Lucille Ball sitcom.

The script is not as humorous as your average LUCY SHOW episode so much of its appeal comes from the myriad of sight gags that occur in the final scene where Lucy demonstrates just how secure the new vault is.

Benny gets a huge audience reaction when he tells Lucy and Mooney his Social Security number.

One of the most famous episodes of the series, and while certainly not my favorite, I have some sentimentality toward it because before we got Nick at Nite, my only exposure to THE LUCY SHOW was to watch a clip of this episode that appeared on a compilation VHS entitled "A Tribute to Lucy" that was released in 1990 by HGV Video Productions.