I Love Lucy (TV Series)

First Stop (1955)

Vivian Vance: Ethel Mertz

Quotes 

• Ethel Mertz : [while everyone else is asleep, Lucy drives in a circle back to the run-down motel they earlier had decided to leave]  Oh, we're not back in the same place!

  Lucy Ricardo : We are, unless there's a chain of these across the country.

  Fred Mertz : Oh, no.

  Ethel Mertz : Lucy!

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, I was only trying to help. I saw a sign that said, 'Good accomodations, good food', and an arrow saying 'Take this road', and somehow I wound up back here.

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, as long as we're here, we're in no condition to continue. We'll stay right here.

  Ethel Mertz : Here?

  Fred Mertz : In Lower Slobovia?

• George Skinner : What'll it be?

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, I think I'll have the steak sandwich, rare, with a french fries.

  Ethel Mertz : Uh, steak sandwich, I'll have that too.

  Fred Mertz : I'll have the same.

  Ricky Ricardo : Me too.

  George Skinner : We're all out of steak sandwiches.

  Lucy Ricardo : Oh, you are?

  Ethel Mertz : Gee, I had a mouth all set for one.

  Lucy Ricardo : Yeah. Well, I think I'll have the... roast beef, rare, with a baked potato, then.

  Ethel Mertz : Roast beef, that's for me.

  Fred Mertz : I'll vote for that.

  Ricky Ricardo : Make it four.

  George Skinner : We're out of roast beef too.

  Ricky Ricardo : [looking at the menu]  Well let me see here... hey! That fried chicken with biscuit sounds good.

  Lucy Ricardo : [to George]  Any point in running that chicken around the table?

  George Skinner : All out.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well look, we're going at this thing all wrong. Why don't you just tell us what you have, and then we'll order.

  George Skinner : All-righty. How about the specialty of the house?

  Lucy Ricardo : What's that?

  George Skinner : A cheese sandwich.

  Ethel Mertz : A cheese sandwich? Is that all you've got?

  Fred Mertz : I don't feel like a cheese sandwich!

  George Skinner : Well now, come on folks, I can't wait around all night. What would you like?

  Lucy Ricardo : The name of the nearest good restaurant.

• Lucy Ricardo : [after the Mertzes offer to trade beds with the Ricardos, Ethel goes through an elaborate, exhaustive preparation process to make the mattress usable; this includes stuffing pillows and other objects behind Fred in the trench the mattress makes, and tying Fred's nightshirt to the bed-frame to keep him in place]  You do that EVERY NIGHT?

  Ethel Mertz : [Disgusted]  Yeah... but it took years of practice.