I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Lucy Is a Matchmaker (1953)

Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo

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Quotes 

• Lucy Ricardo : The girls in the club have decided that we should find Sylvia a husband.

  Ricky Ricardo : Now, Lucy, lay off this guy, will you? Why is it that every married woman thinks it's her sacred duty to marry off every single guy?

  Lucy Ricardo : Oh, we do not.

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, see that you don't. After all, if this guy is fortunate enough to still be single, I don't see...

  Lucy Ricardo : What?

  Ricky Ricardo : I, uh, I didn't mean it that way. I mean, if he's *smart* enough to still be single...

  Lucy Ricardo : How's that?

  Ricky Ricardo : There must be some word that describes what I'm trying to say.

  Lucy Ricardo : The word is "stupid".

  Ricky Ricardo : All right, stupid. If the guy is stupid enough to still be single, leave him alone.

• Ricky Ricardo : [Lucy and Ethel arrange a date for traveling negligee salesman Eddie Grant, so he rewards them by leaving them in his hotel room to choose any negligees they want - wholesale. Ricky and Fred stop by, and catch Lucy trying on the garment]  Lucy! You, here, dressed in that. You must be out of your mind!

  Ethel Mertz : [From the next room]  Who is it, Lucy? Did Eddie come back?

  Fred Mertz : [Ethel enters, also negligee-clad]  Ethel! You, here, dressed in that. *He* must be out of his mind!

  Ethel Mertz : [Ethel looks first at Fred, then Lucy, quizzically]  Lucy, did they think that we...?

  [Lucy nods] 

  Ethel Mertz : That *I*...?

  [Lucy nods again] 

  Ethel Mertz : *WELL*!

  [smiles broadly] 

• Lucy Ricardo : [Ricky has just explained that he and Fred know all about the scheme to match Eddie up with Sylvia; he says he and Fred came up to teach Lucy and Ethel a lesson]  Come on, Ethel, let's change.

  [Turns and goes back toward the men] 

  Lucy Ricardo : Say, do you think maybe we've suffered enough so that you fellows might buy us these negligees--wholesale?

  Ricky Ricardo : How much are they?

  Lucy Ricardo : [Lucy and Ethel each look at their price tags]  Hundred and thirty-nine fifty.

  Ethel Mertz : Ninety-eight fifty.

  Ricky Ricardo : [Ricky whispers something to Fred]  Goodbye, Lucy.

  Fred Mertz : Goodbye, Ethel.

  Ethel Mertz : [the men start to leave]  Where are you going?

  Lucy Ricardo : What do you mean, goodbye?

  Ricky Ricardo : Too much money. We decided to let you go to South America.

  [with Eddie, as in Lucy and Ethel's made-up story]