The show begins with the point of attack of Lucy and Ricky sitting in their living room; the neighbors and best friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz, were also there. The next part would fall into the category of exposition, basically setting the viewer up with information for the upcoming action. Lucy was reading an article in the newspaper about who was going to play the character of Don Juan in an upcoming Broadway play. Lucy …showed first 75 words of 1067 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1067 total…be that Lucy sets up the viewer for telling her side of a story. Then the story unravels with the normal scenes from I Love Lucy and the great comedy actions that occur throughout the show. This continues throughout the show with much rising action. The dramatic structure of the I Love Lucy Show is usually Lucy getting into a predicament and then getting caught and in the end everything coming to a happy ending.