Sooner or later, we always seem to wind up back in the candy factory. You remember the scene: Lucy and Ethel go to work on a candy-wrapping assembly line. A conveyor belt feeds them chocolates at a ridiculously fast clip. They try desperately to keep up, frantically stuffing the candy into their blouses, hats and mouths before the supervisor returns. A comedy classic.
And now a comedy cliche. Nearly 40 years after the scene was first aired -- on Sept. 15, 1952, as the opening episode of I Love Lucy's second season -- it may be the most frequently repeated bit...
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