IT'S N7 DAY!

Here's my Shepard <3

Jay's Terrible Day

I got to commission the incredible @daggertongue for a little bit of fresh ME2 existential dread, and he fuckin killed it. Thank you, Levi, for bringing this idea to life better then I ever imagined it. Ya left me an incoherent mess for a good day or two 😂

It's taken me a few days to post it, but that's because it inspired the most writing I've done in a couple months. Including a snippet below 👀

It's not until he can breathe through his nose again that he chances loosening his grip, not until he's reasonably sure he can raise his hand to examine the skin without finding himself mirrorless in the end that he touches his cheek. Fingertips join his gaze in tracing the fissures around an eye, disappearing down his sideburn to emerge over the length of his jaw. Each literal crack in his careful facade stings with direct contact, but it's strangely comforting in how uncomfortable it is – confirmation that he can feel it as he'd expected.

A small victory.

He turns his head to examine the other side closely and locks on to a jagged glowing line through a familiar place in his brow. Just like Kasumi had said. Cracks jut out over his cheekbone, down this side of his jaw, and a shaking sigh is released once he's finished the fucked-up little game of connect-the-dots. 

The sigh floats out from between his lips, and fuck, but he knows he's not seeing things.

There's a glow coming from inside, too.

One consistency, even if the nerve damage and scarring aren't quite the same, is the slight shake of his left hand as he opens his mouth wide for a finger to pull his lip up and away. The light is dull but the color distinct, and he lifts his tongue to find another bright rift in the flesh below. Eyes widen and he loses track of blinking while he stares it down. The implications of all the faults he could find if he looked closely enough hitting him then.

One small mercy comes from looking himself in the eye, finding that the little rings of red-orange outlining his usual brown – the last things he'd noticed weeks ago before the mirror splintered through his reflection – were gone.

He'll never doubt Chakwas again.

sharing a winter scarf with the canadian boyfriend!! so happy to have gotten @tiny-banana-time's jay and kaidan in the gu's gift exchange this year <3 <3 may they continue to SMOOCH for years to come <3

Had the pleasure of painting @tiny-banana-time’s Shepard, Jay, from the opening scene in their fic: Of All The Bars ^^

Spend that $10 wisely

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i need you to inspire me!!! tell me your purly hcs hehe

They started dating in their junior year of highschool. Curly flirted with Pony a lot and Pony hair didn't really notice because he thought Curly was being nice

They moved in together during Ponyboy's second year of college

Ponyboy decorated the apartment really aesthetically because everything has to be aesthetic for him

Pony's gay, Curly's bi

They have a cat together

Pony's really into astrology so he memorized Curly's birth chart.

Pony listens to Jeff Buckley, Hole, The Beatles, and The Cranberries. Curly just listens to what's on the radio and whatever Pony likes

Curly can't drive so he's just Ponyboy's little passenger princess

When they were in high school and when Curly would get into fights: Ponyboy would clean him up even though blood gave him the ick (he hates blood ever since he saw Bob's body after Johnny stabbed him)

They smoke weed together

Curly doesn't understand why Pony's stressed about school all the time so he just constantly flirts with Pony while he's studying because he wants to annoy him (he also wants attention)

Curly stole a bracelet during a rumble and he gave it to Ponyboy one time

Sorry these were so short!

Forest Friends. Written by Royal Dixon. Illustrated by Robert Shepard McCoy. 1916.

oh shit i haven’t fed my followers recently

hey guys

mshenko

tim headcanons? 🥺

TIM SHEPARD HEADCANONS ⋆♱✮♱⋆

jay. jay you evil mf. ilysm😈 okay so i only have 17 rn but i’ll def write like fifty more . hope u enjoy pookie !! (also u weren’t expecting this very aesthetic very awesome very high level format were you. yeahf. ive become COOL.)

— he has unnecessarily loud footsteps.

— he appreciates his gang but never shows it. one day he said “hey fellas,, youve been doin’ a good job durin’ rumbles lately. im proud to have yall as my gang🙏”. and everyone stared at him wide eyed cause they honestly thought he hated them💀💀

— when he was a kid he used to pray every night that curly would get kidnapped n shit because he hated his ass☠️☠️curly was one of those really annoying toddlers

— he loses his jacket ALL THE DAMN TIME. (its mostly cause curly always steals it to look cool and dal just takes it for fun whenever)

— tim and darry understand each other. they both have dead parents/a dead parent and both had to take care of their kid siblings

— tim and darry also frequently talk to eachother🔥 sometimes darry finds tim asleep on the curtis couch™️ or its the opposite, & they end up chatting.

— ^they talk about parents, taking care of their siblings, and dally. (will elaborate further one day.)

— i think like. tims responsible and more mature compared to the others, right? BUT HES STILL 18. PLEAHS. HE ISNT A DAD. HE HASNT ACCEPTED HIS FATE LIKE DARRY (😭im sorry ily dar) HE IS STILL A HOOD WHO HAS FUN N SHIT DAWG!!!!!!!

— ^like ok imagine how curly always thinks tims like boring n old and all but after the rumble everyone in the reformatorys talking ab it and he hears how tim like crushed 5 guys’ skulls so hes just like 😨😨 (he then proceeds to show off the fact that THATS HIS BROTJER🔥🔥🔥)

— ^like guys even in the book pony says hes “constantly reckless” LIKE CMON. ((okay the main reason i wrote thsi was because i read this fic thingy and tim called dal “kid” even though theyre a year apart.wtf!! tim is not that boys old man!!!!))

— he steals angelas hair conditioners n other stuff because they smell good and make his hair soft🗣️

— he knows how to cook a few recipes, since his mom was never really there and he had to feed curly and angela somehow.

— ^curly calls his cooking ass but devours it every time (he would eat anything tbh)

— he lights fireworks n firecrackers n shit with dal

— was a demon as a middle schooler.

— hes really overprotective of his car. will not let anyone get near it or drive it. dal knows this; which is why he makes sure to slash his tires every 2-3 business days😇

— his nose used to be really straight but now its crooked as fuck cause hes broken it three fucking times😭😭

FOLLOW ME FOR MORE BANGERS LIKE THIS🔥🔥🗣️🗣️💯💯🙏🙏

couple image study sheps to help me get back in the swing of things

Was tagged for a WIP Whenever by the lovely @daggertongue and I actually worked on something recently to share 👀

From the next chapter of My Serene (which I think will actually be updated soon??? unless this chapter goes off the rails again...)

< Heading to Skip's if anyone wants to join. He hopes Kaidan shows up, but as long as someone does he'll be able to distract himself, and that's good enough for now. Jay barely makes it down into foot traffic when the first message comes in from Murray. He pulls off to the side to read as one after another comes through.  > Fuck that! Come to Starrs with us!  > Lanky already pre-gamed his head meds and is joining in on the fun  > We’ll be there in like 15 mins  Whoever decided to name the only club on the station “Starrs” certainly fucked that choice.

I'll throw a tag out to @mtreebeardiles and @theoriginalladya as well as anyone else who wants to because it's after midnight and tagging is hard :)

‘Good Times’ Sets Ranada Shepard As Showrunner; JB Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown & Jay Pharoah To Star In Netflix’s Animated Reboot

Conclusion? OBNOXIOUS, ARROGANT, IGNORANT

Black people are increasingly over the Blackface, Anti bullshit, coming out of companies like Netflix and HULU and they are also increasingly OVER the Black actors and actresses, stepping up to do minstrel roles.

BE WARNED... HOLLYWOOD IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS STARTED A WAR AGAINST ACTORS. YOU WANT TO SELL OUT? GO AHEAD. BUT DON'T ACT SHOCKED WHEM THE PUBLIC NO LONGER KISSES YOUR ASS FOR IT.

Proof positive that corporations like Microsoft, under the guise of DEI, filled their ranks with activist employees from Leftist, Misandrist and Queer groups. That most of these spoiled shit stirrers are young white women (with a couple of black girls thrown in for some peppery spice) should tell men exactly what they're about: Authoritarianism. They'll do anything to hurt people in general, and the economy, in particular. Meantime, like clockwork, the GOP are blaming the failures of DEI off of the very people who never actually had control of it. Progressives always did, including black boule style race traitors. They are deliberately causing divisions with their Diversity Cosplay.

The entire Normandy crew:

Holy shit there's three of them.

The Shepard siblings (minus Jays twin brother) aren't allowed in the same space unless its am emergency because they're so prone to exploding or destroying something if they even think about fighting

13, 24, 26 from the second round of questions 👀 ???

13. What kind of roommate would Shepard be?

LOL 💀 To be fair I don’t think Audrey would be that hard to live with... she can’t cook to save her life, but she isn’t especially messy. She might be kind of disruptive, stays out too late and comes home with some insane stories, but happy to pick up the slack otherwise because if she doesn’t get a good grade in roommate she will die.

24. How does Shepard handle house arrest? How do they fill their time?

Audrey finds it stressful and frustrating... and yet it’s the first real downtime she’d had in the last 3 years (not including the 2 years she spent dead lol). I imagine there’s a lot of pacing, researching, expending as much energy as possible in order to try and offload some of the anxiety...the other half of her time is spent just staring up at the ceiling in abject defeat, letting the numbness take over because at this point all she can do is laugh. She thinks, “Why the fuck not?”. There was probably also at least one awkward visit from her mother, a few card games with James, meetings with various Alliance officials as they try to not just ascertain what happened in the Bahak System but also verify the reaper threat. ...Not to mention making the most of her new-found free time by re-reading her trashy 1970s romance novels.

26. What is Shepard’s relationship with Joker?

answered here!

fifty (more) questions for commander shepard

13, 17, 24, 40 for cycii and keren please... 👀❤

two VERY different flavours of men here.. 13. How does your Shep react to teasing/ribbing? Cycii is only ok with it if it’s from someone he’s close with. And this is only during ME3. He was extremely sensitive to any form of teasing. He saw it as criticisms someone was trying to hide. Trying to make it into something to laugh at. It made him uncomfortable, like everyone was watching him to make him into a joke. Already so sensitive to making anyone upset with him, he also wanted to be taken seriously. It’s only after the events of ME2 does he open up a bit to being able to handle it. After accepting that he will always be Cycii Durand, it was nice having close friends poke fun at him. They weren't doing it out of some want to be mean and make others point and laugh, it was just a form of play. Gentle pushing. He knows it’s not malicious when it comes from the right people. Spending house arrest around James also warmed him up to it. Being able to make comebacks and bounce off the jabs made it more welcome in conversation. Keren has mixed opinions. A lot of mixed opinions. On one hand, he loves doing it. He likes poking fun and making light jest out of something small. He likes making something that might be a small nuance into something funny. It lightens the mood. On the other hand, he’s worried he comes off as rude or inconsiderate given his tone of voice. His tone is flat, a lot of the time. He thinks he’s putting a lot of emotion in his voice, but to others he sounds the same as before. This used to help him, when he wanted to keep people away from him. When he tried to avoid forming any connections with people. But, he knows that if he dishes it out, he has to be able to take it. He rolls with it, but he does worry that some people don’t take him seriously. There’s always that worry that people don’t take him and who he is seriously and that people only get those feelings out by teasing him. Hoping he takes it as just a joke.  17. How does Shepard react to attention? Do they enjoy it? Cycii has a weird relationship to it. He loves it, but he hates it. He needs it, but he also hopes no one looks at him. It both drives him but makes him freeze. He needs people to see him. Proof that he is working, that he is pushing forward. That all his efforts are reaching the people and he does have and effect on others. But what if it’s the wrong effect? What if the people see his work and hate it? What if he’s wrong and he doesn’t know? The idea of his effort being put into the wrong thing and suddenly finding out via backlash is something that sends him to tears if he thinks about it for a moment. But he doesn’t want to be nothing. He doesn’t want to be a secret. His actions are his, and if they are good ones he wants the credit. He doesn’t like paparazzi, trying to twist his words into something sensationalised. He likes journalists who let him talk and explain and talk some more. Just so he can be completely clear. Gossip papers make him upset, most of the time. At least they’re sometimes funny. Keren is pretty neutral about it. Yes, getting tailed by morally corrupt paparazzi is one hell of a way to ruin a dinner, but using his fame to get a discount on said dinner? Pretty nice trade. For every bad thing that happens, like being slandered or having to deal with messages from news outlets who are hoping for his death so they can be the first to report it, there’s one good thing that happened. Like he gets a bill paid off or he’s able to inspire some kind of hope in people. He laughs at gossip papers in the morning, shares around magazine articles about him and his friends to laugh at. Making fun about how incorrect they are. Sometimes he has to get involved and contact news publications since yes, sometimes they do go a bit too far. It balances itself out, so he just lets it happen.  24. Who does Shepard turn to for advice? For comfort? Who do they like to gossip with  (i’m not using LI for this answer btw! but ofc they're on the list) Cycii turns to Samara the most often. She has a very rigid moral code that she doesn’t bend for anyone or anything. Something Cycii needed to see, something he needed to be around. He comes to her for advice. How does she do it? What does she do to handle regret? What does she push towards? She’s someone he looks up to, someone he has a familiar connection with. She likes being able to talk to him,to help him work towards being his best self. Shes told him that she hopes he succeeds,that she wants to see him live. Legion is someone he finds comfort in. They see things in such a different light, explain things in a different way. Listening to how Legion explains and talks about things is very calming for Cycii. Sometimes he asks Legion to just talk to him for a bit, and Legion always obliges. Miranda is another rock. She listens to him talk, letting him explain his issues and lets him figure out what he needs. Of course, she’s also good to gossip with. He gossips with people like Miranda, but also Jack, Joker and Kasumi. They have a lot to say and are up to date on a lot of dramas, both on and off the ship. They let him have that bit of fun he needs. To sit back and joke for a minute. Liara is someone he used to find a lot of comfort in, they both did, but as they grew they found each other better to jest with. They didn’t need to be sad and open with each other all the time anymore. They try to give each other joy more. Keren finds comfort in talking to Thane. Having someone who is a father admitting to making mistakes is comforting to hear, in a way. Keren hopes his own parents will one day apologise for some of the mistakes they made, so hearing Thane trying to correct his mistakes and acknowledging that he cannot fix everything but he can still try to heal what he can is soothing. He sees Thane as an almost father figure. He can still offer guidance and help Keren stay connected to spiritual aspects of himself in ways others just can’t, no fault to them. Him and Samantha bounce advice off of each other a lot, like a little self-help group that’s just them seeing what does and doesn’t work. Him and Jacob did a similar thing as well. They would joke, yes, but underneath it all they would be giving each other genuine compliments and advice. For gossip, he’d go to people like Garrus and Tali. They loved to talk about anything. People the other person would never know, things happening on the Normandy, something a gossip column said. Anything and everything was on the table for them. EDI was also a nice person to talk to. He helped her grow, and she helped him too.  40. Does your Shepard actually like to collect model ships? If not, what do they display? Cycii only likes certain models, so he has those on display. Rare, expensive Krogan frigate models, a Geth dreadnought, the original Normandy and an Asari fighter ship. He prefers collecting glasswork. He has some vases, two pieces of stained glass artwork on the walls of his quarters- he moves one to his new apartment, just so he can always have one around- and glass sculptures. There’s a set of cats, one black, one white and one orange. There a garden snail he uses as a paperweight, on the rare occasion he has paper. He likes to look at it while he works. There’s a lot of ocean themed ones, as well as a lot of ghost ones. Half are sheet ghosts, the other half are more serious interpretations of a spectre. Some are abstract, shapes and colours placed in his quarters so he has something to look at when he needs something nice to try and figure out. He never has. Keren is the proud owner of the Sovereign model ship and the Shadow Broker model ship and those are the only two he wants. He’s also collected a few pottery pieces, but he would rather make his own. The thing he’s most passionate about collecting is bugs. If he was a bit better in the sciences, he would have loved to be an entomologist. He loves hunting for it, for taxidermied insects. Having them framed in wooden frames behind clean glass with a little label. He adores them. His favourites are butterflies and praying mantis. He has a few scorpions and some beetles. There’s a set of bumble bees he feels really lucky to have gotten before anyone else did. He only has the bumble bees and the butterflies on display most of the time, knowing the other bugs get under peoples skin more. Still, it’s something he enjoys and he still shares it with people who aren’t uncomfortable having to look at his scorpion collection. Though, it did make Kasumi stop snooping through his drawers.

THE FACE IS FAMILIAR... BUT I CAN'T PLACE THE NAME!

Same Actor / Different Character ~ Part 1: "I Love Lucy"

It used to be quite common for actors to be cast in multiple roles on the same series. Not in principal parts, certainly, but in supporting and minor characters. Lucycoms were no exception. Although the world created by these shows was representative of reality, the characters who populated them often gave viewers Deja vu.

For the purposes of this discussion, we won't include background performers (aka extras) as they were nearly always drawn from the same pool of actors. Also, those who played multiple characters need to have at least two of them identified by name. We will, however, include "the "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hours" in our discussion of "I Love Lucy".

FRANK NELSON

A busy character actor, Frank Nelson has the distinction of being the only performer to play more than one recurring character (a character seen in more than one episode) on "I Love Lucy": Quizmaster Freddie Fillmore and Westport neighbor Ralph Ramsey. In addition, he played a nearsighted waiter, a TV host, a policeman, a a talent scout, a customs officer, a cruise director, and (perhaps most famously) a train conductor. His turn as the conductor was so memorable, he reprised it on "The Lucy Show" in 1963. Lucy has worked with Nelson on her radio show and new that audiences loved him - so she had no problem engaging him time and time again.

CHARLES LANE

Another familiar face was veteran character actor Charles Lane. Instead of radio, Lane came from the world of film, having done several pictures with William Frawley. He played a total of six characters, including Mr. Stanley, father of nine girls when "Lucy Goes to the Hospital." He followed up with Mr. Hickox "The Business Manager", a casting director, a passport office clerk, a uranium claims officer, and (like Nelson) a customs official, this time at the Mexican border. Lucille Ball created a role for him on "The Lucy Show", only to let him go to make way for a similar character when Gale Gordon finally became available. But that didn't stop Lane, who kept acting until he died at the age of 102!

MARY JANE CROFT

Before settling into the role of Betty Ramsey (with Frank Nelson as her husband Ralph), Croft played the role of Lucy Ricardo's old chum Cynthia Harcourt, who's request for a charitable donation forces Lucy to take a job as a woman from Mars. She returned to new mother Evelyn Bigsby, who sits next to Lucy on the plane home from Europe. Interestingly, Frank Nelson is also in this episode. Just a few months later the pair are back as the Ramseys. Viewers didn't need to have long memories to think the Ricardos' Westport neighbors looked familiar.

ELIZABETH PATTERSON

Viewers fondly remember Patterson as Mrs. Trumbull, the lovable spinster who babysat Little Ricky. On her first episode in 1953, the character was irascible, but grew more likeable over the seven more appearances that followed. Many forget that when Lucy and Ricky renewed their vows in Greenwich Connecticut, Patterson played Mrs. Willoughby the mayor! Mr. Willoughby was played by....

IRVING BACON

Bacon wore many hats (literally) as the man who greeted the Ricardos in Greenwich. But he must've done something right because he was asked back to play Will Potter when the gang drove through "Ethel's Hometown" on their way to Hollywood.

KATHRYN CARD

Best remembered as the scatterbrained Mrs. McGillicuddy, Card was nearly unrecognizable when she was first seen on the series, as Minnie Finch's brusque neighbor in "Fan Magazine Interview" (1954). Mother (she never had a first name) was seen in seven episodes in 1955 and 1956.

HERB VIGRAN

Busy character man Herb Vigran started on "I Love Lucy" playing Jule, Ricky's music agent in two 1952 episodes. But when Lucy's washing machine goes on the fritz, Vigran shows up as Joe, a repairman who also happens to be Mrs. Trumbull's nephew. He also was seen as Hal Sparks, the publicity man who convinces Lucy and Ethel to dress as women from Mars at the top of the Empire State Building.

PARLEY BAER

Baer’s first collaboration with Lucille Ball was playing MGM’s Mr. Reilly in "Ricky Needs an Agent” (1955). He returned to the series as Connecticut furniture salesman Mr. Perry in "Lucy Gets Chummy with the Neighbors” (1957).

SHEPARD MENKEN

Menken did four different characters from season one to season six. He adopted a French accent to teach Lucy to Apache dance as Jean Valjean Raymond, sold Lucy clay as art store salesman William Abbott, examined Lucy's vision as an eye doctor, and reverted to his French accent to sell Lucy mass-produced art as Parisian con-man Charpontier.

DAYTON LUMMIS

Also in "Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined" (1953) we see Dayton Lummis for the first time as producer Bill Parker ("Parker Preps Prod for Pittsburgh Preem"). He returned the following year as publisher Mel Eaton when "Lucy Writes a Novel" (1954) and yet a third time as MGM producer Mr. Sherman in "LA at Last!" (1955).

LOU KRUGMAN

Viewers didn't meet Lou Krugman until season four, when he played the film director coping with Lucy and her unwieldy headdress. Ball was so impressed by him that she immediately cast him as the FBI agent on the train back to New York. When Lucy reprised her heavy headgear routine on a TV special, Krugman was again at her side. In season six, he was cast as the manager of the Club Babalu, formerly the Tropicana. The job lasted just two episodes before the action of the show shifted to Connecticut.

JAY NOVELLO

Novello was one of Lucille Ball's favorite performers from her radio show, playing Mr. Negley the postman and other quirky characters. On "I Love Lucy" he was first (perhaps best) remembered as theatrical producer Mr. Merriweather, who longs to talk to his beloved Tilly in "The Seance" (1951). He returned to play Mr. Beecher, the skittish tenant in "The Sublease" (1954), and "The Visitor From Italy" (1956), who arrives looking for his brother Sam Franchesca. Or maybe San Francisco.

JOHN HART

Another actor to score a trifecta was John Hart.  Producer Jess Oppenheimer didn’t want to pay too much for the actor who would play Tom Henderson in "Lucy Changes Her Mind" (1953), a character who only says two words at the very end of the show. He wrote in the script that he wanted “the most handsome hunk of man anyone ever saw for $15.56.”  Hart was cast. He returned (hopefully with a pay raise) to play the lifeguard who saves Lucy (despite her best efforts) in "The Hedda Hopper Story," and to play Jim Stevens, a studio executive meeting with Dore Schary poolside (the same pool he guarded in the previous episode) in "Don Juan is Shelved" (1955).

ELVIA ALLMAN

Another of Lucy's favorites from her radio sitcom was Elvia Allman. Even the most casual fan of "I Love Lucy" will recognize her as the barking foreperson at the chocolate factory ("Speed it up a little!") but she also returned to play one of Minnie Finch's neighbors ("Do you wanna see Minnie or don't ya?"). In a change of pace, she played Nancy Graham, the prim columnist who thinks Lucy should "cherish" Ricky. She also encountered Lucy Ricardo as Ida Thompson of the Westport PTA, and as Milton Berle's officious secretary.

HANS CONRIED

Perhaps no other performer was as beloved by Lucy and Desi as Hans Conried. He was seen on all of Lucy's TV and radio shows as well as in a film with her. On "I Love Lucy" he had time to do just two roles: the foppish English tutor Percy Livermore and the unscrupulous used furniture dealer Dan Jenkins. These two diverse characters showed Conried's range as an actor, so viewers can be forgiven for not noticing that they were the same actor - even though their airdates were just a month apart!

BOB JELLISON

Most viewers remember Jellison as the bell hop at the Beverly Palms Hotel. He played the portly luggage jockey for six episodes in 1955. Jellison was so convincing in the role that in "Lucy Hunts Uranium" (1958), he was once again cast as the bellboy, this time named Henry. But few remember him in his first series appearance, as the milkman (or “cow juice peddler”, as Bill Foster called him) in "The Gossip" (1952).

JOSEPH KEARNS

Kearns was another veteran of Lucille Ball's radio series. He found fame as Mr. Wilson on "Dennis the Menace". He played Dr. Tom Robinson, a psychiatrist, in "The Kleptomaniac" (1953). He returned to the show in its final season as the Theatre Manager in "Lucy's Night in Town" (1956). "If four people are seeing the show, then four have got to pay!" He died while still playing Henry Wilson so instead of recasting, George's brother arrived in town, played by...

GALE GORDON

Gordon's relationship with Ball goes back to 1938 on radio. She spent the rest of her career casting him on her various shows. She had intended for him to play Fred Mertz, but he was too busy - and too expensive - so Desi cast William Frawley. Lucy, however, wanted Gordon on the show, so the role of Mr. Littlefield, manager of the Tropicana, was created. The character appeared in two episodes. He wasn't seen with Lucy again until 1958, when he played a Judge that is tasked with deciding a case between the Ricardos, the Mertzes, and the Williams', in "Lucy Makes Room for Danny".

PHIL OBER

Ober was Vivian Vance's husband, so it makes sense that he would make at least one appearance - and he did - as the fake husband sent to the Ricardo apartment by "The Quiz Show" (1951). Ober's marriage eventually ended when Vance accused him of cruelty, but before that could happen, he was a last minute replacement for Dore Schary when "Don Juan is Shelved" (1955). Schary was a real-life MGM movie producer who was scheduled to appear as himself. He either got sick or (more likely) got cold feet. So Ober played Schary instead, leaving many unsavvy viewers thinking that Ober WAS Schary! Speaking of bad marriages and "The Quiz Show"...

JOHN EMERY

...played Harold the Tramp that was confused for Ober's character. Emery had been married to tempestuous Tallulah Bankhead from 1937 to 1941. Their four short years together were compared by Emery to "the decline of the Roman Empire". He played a Doctor in Lucy and Desi's 1956 film Forever Darling. It wasn't long before he was back at "I Love Lucy" to play the pet-hating Mr. Stewart when "Little Ricky Gets a Dog" (1957).

MADGE BLAKE

Blake is best remembered as Batman's Aunt Harriet, but after her notable role of the gossip columnist in Singin' in the Rain (1952), she was cast on "I Love Lucy" as Mrs. Mulford, the owner of the hat shop when "Ricky Loses His Temper" (1954). Lucy and Desi were introduced to her talent when she played  Aunt Anastacia in The Long, Long Trailer.  She was asked back in late 1956 to play Martha, the acrophobic prospective tenant for apartment 3B in "Lucy and Superman" (1957).

VERNA FELTON

Felton is probably best remembered as Lucy's demonstrative maid Mrs. Porter, but she first appeared as Mrs. Simpson, a housewife living without electricity but with lots of "Sale Resistance" (1953). The two roles aired just three months apart. A few months later Lucy and Desi cast her as series regular Hilda Crocker on their new sitcom "December Bride" (1954-57).

HAZEL BOYNE

A former dancer, Boyne was born on Independence Day 1883 and was 68 years old when "Men Are Messy" (1953) was filmed. She charmed audiences as Maggie, the Tropicana's Irish cleaning woman, dancing with Ricky during his rehearsal. She would go on to play one of Minnie Finch's neighbors in "Fan Magazine Interview" (1954) and a (don't blink) passenger on "The Great Train Robbery" (1955).

HAL MARCH

March had been an original cast member of "My Favorite Husband." In the first season of "I Love Lucy" he played an actor named Hal March who Ricky asks to masquerade as a doctor when "Lucy Fakes Illness" (1951). At the end of the show, announcer Johnny Jacobs says “The part of Hal March was played by Hal March.”  March returned to the show to play womanizing lingerie salesman Eddie Grant in “Lucy Is Matchmaker” (1953).

WILL WRIGHT

Wright did two films and a radio show with Lucille Ball before being seen on "I Love Lucy." First, he played Mr. Walters, the locksmith from Yonkers, in “The Handcuffs” (1952). He returned to the series to play Bent Fork Sheriff (and father of Teensy and Weensy) in “Tennessee Bound” (1955). 

ALBERTO MORIN

Morin was Carlos, one of Ricky's "Cuban Pals" (1952). He had appeared in some of Hollywood's most cherished films: Gone with the Wind (1939), Casablanca (1943), and Key Largo (1948). He was invited back to play Robert Dubois, waiter turned tutor in "The French Revue" (1953).

HY AVERBACK

Averback played two different Charlies on "I Love Lucy": Appleby and Pomerantz. Charlie Appleby was seen twice on the series, but was only played by Averback on his first appearance in 1953. Charlie Pomerantz was Ricky's press agent in Hollywood in 1955, coming up with the brilliant idea for Ricky to save Lucy from drowning in the hotel pool.

Naturally, there were many other actors whose did double (or triple) duty on "I Love Lucy", chief among them Bennett Green and Hazel Pierce, Lucy and Desi's camera and lighting stand-ins and were omnipresent throughout the series, although not always with specific character names.