I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo
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Quotes
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Lucy Ricardo : How much do you want to bet?
Fred Mertz : Ten dollars.
Ethel Mertz : Well what's the matter with twenty dollars?
Ricky Ricardo : What's the matter with thirty dollars?
Lucy Ricardo : What's the matter with fifty dollars?
Fred Mertz : What was the matter with ten dollars?
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Lucy Ricardo : This whole thing is Ricky's fault.
Ricky Ricardo : MY FAULT?
Lucy Ricardo : Yeah, if you hadn't have left Cuba to come to America, we wouldn't have gotten married and we never would've come to Switzerland in the first place.
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Ricky Ricardo : This whole thing is my fault. Something I said that started this whole mess.
Lucy Ricardo : What's that?
Ricky Ricardo : "I do."
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Lucy's Doctor from Jamestown : Hello, Mr. Ricardo. I'm the man who brought your wife into the world!
Ricky Ricardo : I don't know whether to thank you or punch you in the nose!
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Ricky Ricardo : I don't like that tone. You are thinking again.
Lucy Ricardo : There's no law about me going to Romanov's. Perhaps maybe stopping by your table and...
Ricky Ricardo : Lucy, if I so much as see your face at Romanov's, I'm gonna wrap you up in brown paper and mail you back to New York. And that's an ultimatum.
Ethel Mertz : An ultimatum? I'm not surprised.
Lucy Ricardo : I am. I didn't think he knew how to pronounce it.
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Ricky Ricardo : [sees pancakes on his plate] Hey! Tortillas!
Lucy Ricardo : [sarcastically] Yeah. I made them out of Aunt Jemima Tortilla Mix.
Ricky Ricardo : Oh, I keep forgetting here in America you call them Flap Cakes.
Lucy Ricardo : Come again?
Ricky Ricardo : Hot Jacks?
Lucy Ricardo : You were closer with tortillas. They are Hot Cakes!
Ricky Ricardo : Oh!
[tastes some]
Ricky Ricardo : No, these are Cold Cakes.
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Ricky Ricardo : [with heavy accent] I won't switch apartments. Understand?
Lucy Ricardo : Yes.
Ricky Ricardo : What did I say?
Lucy Ricardo : "I wun't swish aparments".
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Lucy Ricardo : [Lucy gets caught spying on the neighbors] I was, uh... bird-watching!
Ricky Ricardo : Bird-watching?
Lucy Ricardo : Uh, yeah! Do you know that there's a yellow-bellied woodpecker on our lawn?
Ricky Ricardo : No, but I know that there's a red-headed cuckoo in the living room.
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Ricky Ricardo : Fred, I've got an awful problem on my hands.
Fred Mertz : You should have thought about that before you married her.
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Ethel Mertz : I refuse to go anywhere with someone who thinks I am a hippopotamus.
Ricky Ricardo : Lucy, is this true?
Lucy Ricardo : No, I just implied that she was a little hippy... though she has got the biggest potamus I've ever seen.
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Ricky Ricardo : I can't afford it.
Lucy Ricardo : Those must have been the first English words you learned.
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Ricky Ricardo : (losing his temper after Lucy screwed up his chance to be in a Broadway Play) You did what?
Lucy Ricardo : I was only trying to help.
Ricky Ricardo : (shouting) Help?
Lucy Ricardo : HELP.
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Fred Mertz : We'll sue you.
Ricky Ricardo : Yeah? We'll see who's gonna sue who.
Lucy Ricardo : Yeah, we'll sue who's gonna see...
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Ricky Ricardo : We've got to use our brains.
Lucy Ricardo : Well, let's see...
Ricky Ricardo : You stay out of this.
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Lucy Ricardo : What are you? The Cuban television network?
Ricky Ricardo : Yes. CBS. The Cuban Broadcasting System.
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Ricky Ricardo : Did Ricky give you a tough day?
Lucy Ricardo : No, just the same as any other day: after breakfast, I put on his snow suit. I pull on his galoshes. I slip on his mittens. I walk him to the park. He chases the pigeons. I chase after him. He runs after the squirrels. I run after him. He get's on the swing. I push the swing. We go on the teeter-totter. He teeters, I totter. Then we leave the park and we walk home. I pull off his galoshes. I pull off his mittens. I pull off his snow suit. I tell him to go into his room and play with his teddy bear. And that is why you find me sitting here with my coat and my boots on.
Ricky Ricardo : Whew! I'm worn out from just listening.
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Lucy Ricardo : Ricky, we're revolting.
Ricky Ricardo : No more than usual.
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Ricky Ricardo : Something's wrong with the electricity. My shaver isn't working.
Lucy Ricardo : Something's wrong with the gas. My chicken isn't working.
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Ricky Ricardo : What's the matter with you? Are you crazy or something?
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Ricky Ricardo : Fred, how often is Ethel's checking account overdrawn?
Fred Mertz : Never.
Ricky Ricardo : Never? How do you manage that?
Ethel Mertz : It's easy. I never had enough money at one time to open a checking account.
Fred Mertz : She spends money like I'm printing it in the basement!
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Ricky Ricardo : [in a heavy Spanish accent] You two are too nosy!
Lucy Ricardo : We are not nuzzy!
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Lucy Ricardo : Did I get any suntan?
Ricky Ricardo : No.
Lucy Ricardo : Oh, darn it.
Ricky Ricardo : [with his thick accent] Honey, why don't you forget about getting a suntan. You always get burned with your fair skin.
Lucy Ricardo : My fur skin?
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[repeated line]
Ricky Ricardo : Lucy! I'm Home!
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Ricky Ricardo : Who's that?
Fred Mertz : Who's that? WHAT'S that?
