I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Breaking the Lease (1952)

Lucille Ball: Lucy Ricardo

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Quotes 

• Ricky Ricardo : How do you like that guy?

  [imitating Fred] 

  Ricky Ricardo : 'Let's keep it down up there!' Well, nertz to the Mertz.

  Lucy Ricardo : Yeah.

• Lucy Ricardo : [on the phone to Ethel]  Hello, this is the Ajax salvage company, we buy old glass, I understand you have some rings you're interested in selling?

• Ricky Ricardo : Honey I won't be home until late tonight. I have to rehearse down at the club.

  Lucy Ricardo : Ricky, why don't you hold the rehearsal here?

  Ricky Ricardo : Honey are you crazy? I got a 16 piece band, I'll blow the roof off the joint!

  Lucy Ricardo : Well? It doesn't look like rain.

  Ricky Ricardo : [thinks about it]  I'll do it!

• Lucy Ricardo : Time to make another call to Ethel.

  [Dials] 

  Lucy Ricardo : Hey, get this.

  [In disguised voice] 

  Lucy Ricardo : Hello, this is the Ajax Salvage Company. We buy old glass, I understand you have some rings that you're interested in selling.

  Ricky Ricardo : Ha ha ha ha!

  [Fires air hammer into the phone] 

• Lucy Ricardo : [to Ricky]  Think harder, we can be nastier than that.

• Lucy Ricardo : [Ricky wants the window closed]  A little air's not going to hurt you you hot house plant.

• Lucy Ricardo : Ethel was just up here and she made me so darn mad.

  Ricky Ricardo : What now?

  Lucy Ricardo : She said they're going to hold us to our lease. We have to pay them five month's rent before we can leave. I guess we're stuck here.

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, now, that all depends.

  Lucy Ricardo : On what?

  Ricky Ricardo : On whether we can break the lease or not. We are going to become the two most unpleasant, disagreeable nasty people in the whole world.

  Lucy Ricardo : How?

  Ricky Ricardo : We'll force ourselves.

• Ricky Ricardo : I won't be home tonight. I've got to rehearse a couple of hours after the club closes.

  Lucy Ricardo : Why don't you have the rehearsal here?

  Ricky Ricardo : Are you crazy? I've got a 16 piece band. I'll blow the roof off the joint.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well... It doesn't look like rain.

  Ricky Ricardo : I'll do it.

• Lucy Ricardo : We'll dedicate the next number to Fred and Ethyl Mertz. An old Cuban folk dance called "El Breako de Leaso."