Ringing out 2008 with "I Love Lucy"

I think it's so fantastic that TVLand is kicking off the new year with a show that made its debut 57 years ago! That show, "I Love Lucy" is one of the great joys in so many of our lives. It makes us laugh and comforts us in such a unique way and somehow, it is timeless.

TVLand is letting viewers vote for their favorite episodes for the "Lucy's New Year's Eve Countdown" which runs Wednesday, December 31 from 8AM to 9PM ET/PT. Tune in on New Year's Eve day to see which episodes made the cut, from Lucy's "Vitameatavegamin" commercial to Lucy and Ethel's candy factory debacle to the legendary episode of Lucy crushing grapes. As an added bonus, visitors to the Web site can also watch classic episode clips, view a photo gallery of iconic pictures from the series and play an "I Love Lucy" trivia game.

So what are your favorite episodes??? I love the one in Hollywood with Van Johnson (remember when Lucy was down by the pool pretending to talk to him when he was sleeping?) and the hitching a ride one with Elsa Lancaster ("Hatchet!!"), and the salad dressing episode, the freezer episode and Ethel's birthday episode and those fancy cocktail pants and on and on and on.

You can log onto TVLand.com to vote.

Here is a collection of scenes:

And this video is one of my favorite scenes EVER. It's Lucy trying to sell beef on ther sly inside a butcher shop:

One last one: a musical number when Lucy does Cuban Pete...