Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo

Quotes 

• Lucy Ricardo : How'd you know all that stuff?

  Ricky Ricardo : Who do you think you married, some country pumpkin?

• Ricky Ricardo : [confessing to Lucy he didn't know the answers]  All I know is Colombus discover' Ohio in 1776.

• Ricky Ricardo : They taught American History in Cuba too.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well apparently they taught you better. I do all I can to remember there's 46 states.

  Ethel Mertz : 48.

  Lucy Ricardo : Oh yeah, I must've forgotten Alaska and Hawaii.

• Ricky Ricardo : Look, all I know is that Columbus discovered Ohio in 1776.

• Lucy Ricardo : Ricky, wait a minute, let's not watch television tonight.

  Ricky Ricardo , Ethel Mertz , Fred Mertz : [Ricky, Fred, and Ethel shout in unison]  Not watch television!

  Ricky Ricardo : What else is there to do?

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, whatever happened to that game we used to play before television was invented? It was called "conversation."

  Ethel Mertz : Oh, yeah. How'd that go?

  Lucy Ricardo : You know, the four of us used to just sit around all evening and talk. Nothing so unusual about it. In millions of homes all over the country people were having the same kinds of conversations we were having.

  Fred Mertz : Yeah, that's why television was invented!