Second year, second pregnancy
Two years into I Love Lucy, the show was becoming increasingly more popular with every episode. Week after week, audiences were tuning in to see what sort of wacky adventures and hilarious misunderstandings Lucy and Ricky Ricardo would get into. But in 1953, the couple delivered the greatest news of all: Lucy was pregnant with child #2!
This, however, spelled trouble for the studio heads at CBS. Never had a pregnant woman been depicted on TV before, but they couldn’t just call off the show while it was at its peak! In the end, the scriptwriters were tasked with writing the pregnancy into the show. Little did anyone know how much the show would benefit from their second child!