Lucy Goes to the Hospital Lucy Goes to the Hospital "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" is an episode of the 1950s American television show "I Love Lucy" in which the title character, Lucy Ricardo, gives birth to her son, "Little Ricky," after a "predictably chaotic" sequence of events. Twelve hours before the broadcast, the actress who played Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, had given birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. by cesarean section. The episode had actually been filmed on November 14, 1952. The episode was the culmination of an unprecedented pairing of the fictional pregnancy of Lucy with the real-life pregnancy of Lucille Ball; "real-time pregnancy
Let's All Go to the Lobby that by choosing not to simply photograph the offered items, the creators of the film managed to avoid using brand names for the products for sale. Filmack has continued selling copies in the decades since its production. The company estimates that 80% of independent theaters have screened the film at various points. In 2000, "Let's All Go to the Lobby" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2013, the film was re-used in a pre-movie GEICO commercial in which the characters go off the set