- Ethel Mertz: [Ricky wanders away in a daze after he and Lucy return from her first driving lesson] What's the matter with him?
- Lucy Ricardo: Oh, he got mad at me while I was driving through the Holland Tunnel.
- Ethel Mertz: Ricky let you drive through the Holland Tunnel?
- Lucy Ricardo: Well, he didn't mean to. I got caught in stream of traffic and I couldn't stop.
- Ethel Mertz: But you drove all the way through the Holland Tunnel!
- Lucy Ricardo: Halfway through.
- Ethel Mertz: What do you mean, halfway?
- Lucy Ricardo: Well, Ricky was late for rehearsal, and I saw an opportunity t'... How was I supposed to know there wasn't room to make a U-turn?
- Ethel Mertz: [astonished] You made a U-turn in the Holland Tunnel? Oh, brother, that must-a been somethin'.
- Lucy Ricardo: Yeah. The policeman said the cars were backed up all the way to East Orange, New Jersey.
- Lucy Ricardo: [after the cars get stuck together, Lucy gets into the driver's seat of the Cadillac] Do you think if I drove this car to the garage, that one would follow?
- Ethel Mertz: Do you know how to drive this?
- Lucy Ricardo: Oh, sure. I learned to drive in a car like this. Nothin' to it, see: this is the gear shift, and this is the brake, and this is the clutch. Or is this the brake, and this the clutch?
- Ethel Mertz: Don't you know?
- Lucy Ricardo: Well, I'll find out soon as I get goin', you know.
- Ethel Mertz: How?
- Lucy Ricardo: Well, if I step on the brake and it doesn't stop, it was the clutch.
- Ethel Mertz: [Lucy wrecks the new Pontiac they're about to take to Hollywood, and explains the ordeal to Ethel] What are you gonna say to Ricky?
- Lucy Ricardo: How 'bout, 'Goodbye'? No, Ethel, our only chance is to pretend complete innocence.
- Ethel Mertz: Oh, we'll never get away with it.
- Lucy Ricardo: Well, we better get away with it, or Ricky and Fred will be planting their footprints somewhere, and it won't be Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
- Lucy Ricardo: [practising what she'll say when Ricky sees the cars] Ethel, I wonder how those two cars got that way?
- Ethel Mertz: What cars?
- [Lucy gives Ethel a congratulatory wink, and they go inside]