Vivian Vance: Ethel Mertz

Quotes 

• Lucy Ricardo : If Ricky had been on that show he would've won $300, $100 for every question.

  Ethel Mertz : Gosh, three brand new clean, crisp, green, one hundred dollar bills.

  Lucy Ricardo : Is that how you're seeing it? I'm picturing it as pennies and I'm running through them in my bare feet.

• 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.

• 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!