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How’re you gonna keep Lucy out of jail after she’s seen Paree? It won’t be easy, especially since she spending counterfeit francs. First, she buys a painting from a street artist (Shepard Menken) and heads for a restaurant. Her order: escargot. “This food has snails in it,” she wails to the imperious waiter (Maurice Marsac). Then she asks for ketchup, and while that doesn’t exactly land her in jail, the francs she uses to pay the check do., How’re you gonna keep Lucy out of jail after she’s seen Paree? It won’t be easy, especially since she spending counterfeit francs. First, she buys a painting from a street artist and heads for a restaurant. Her order: escargot. “This food has snails in it,” she wails to the imperious waiter. Then she asks for ketchup, and while that doesn’t exactly land her in jail, the francs she uses to pay the check do., No sooner has Lucy (Lucille Ball) arrived in Paris than she is greeted by a friendly citizen (Larry Dobkin) — who is willing to exchange her dollars for French francs, at bargain prices. She is then introduced to a “starving” artist (Shepard Menken), who at great personal loss to himself sells her his masterpiece for a mere 1,000 francs. As the day progresses, Lucy gets into a brouhaha at a French restaurant — and then ends up in “the bastille” when her money turns out to be counterfeit. Episode highlights include a hilarious round-robin “translation” sequence involving Lucy, Ricky (Desi Arnaz), a gendarme, and a German drunk, and the closing gag, wherein the true value of that “artistic masterpiece” is finally revealed.
