I Love Lucy Vs. Gilmore Girls

The 1951 sitcom, I Love Lucy, is about Lucy, who is a devoted housewife, and later in the series, a mother who values her child and her husband. Lucy a loony wife who always kept the crowd laughing Ricky, her husband, who was actually her husband in reality, and their son Little Ricky, who in reality was not her real son. Even though Lucy was not the first pregnant woman on tv, they still never mentioned her first pregnancy even when she showed and when she ahd her second pregnancy they were not allowed to use the word "pregnant" they used the word "expecting" instead.  

This clip shows how they do indeed not say pregnant but they do say that they are having a baby.  Even though Lucy is a married housewife she still wants to live her dream of being a star. She is always working toward stardom but gets lost on her way becasue she is so scatter brained and always thinking up some crazy idea. This television show lets us see how they were starting to break away from old traditions of not sleeping in different beds, and how some things that came up were thought to be unheard of.

They first started off not sleeping in the same bed as shown in this clip, 

And in this next episode it shows how they have broken away from that seperated partner ship and became the first television show to view two people sleeping in the same bed. 

it shows how scandelous the fact that the woman was going to run away with the milk man and her husband didnt know was to Lucy. 
 Another way this television show lets us see differences in time would be the fact that Ricky does portray a man who is against his wife doing much and thinks that she should stay home and not work.  they compare americans and spaniards to husbands and wives.


In the 2000 television sitcom Gilmore Girls Lorelai is a loving mother but is always working and putting up with her teenage daughter who is just like her. They both fall in and out of relationships and troubles. Both the mother and daughter have various relationships that are changing all the time and there is no discretion about hopping around although the mother does have multiple boyfriends throught the series, she always has something with one man in town. Her daughter tends to have longer relationships but they are all tangled together and never concrete.

Lorelai got pregnant with Rory, her daughter when she was 16 and chose not to marry the father, which shows you teen pregnancy which was unheard of in the times of Lucille Ball, she works full time as a manager at an inn and is a single mother.
       
The differences between these two television shows lets us see that over time women strived for independence and just wanted to do their own thing, in Lucy's case she wanted to keep Ricky, but in Lorelai she wanted to do it all on her own. it shows how women have transformed themselves to depend on a man to doing things independently and being successful at it.