I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Lucy Meets the Queen (1956)

Lucille Ball: Lucy Ricardo

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Quotes 

• Fred Mertz : [seing their London hotel rooms for the first time]  I say, old bean, ain't this the nuts?

  Ethel Mertz : [bursting at the seams]  What a city this is!

  Ricky Ricardo : How's your room?

  Fred Mertz : It's great. Just like this, same view and everything.

  Ethel Mertz : Ehhhh, one thing stumped him, though... He didn't know how much to tip the bellhop.

  Fred Mertz : I didn't know whether to give him tuppence or threepence.

  [he uses the common pronunciation 'thruppence'] 

  Ricky Ricardo : Fred, threepence is only about three cents.

  Ethel Mertz : Well, he solved it rather neatly.

  Lucy Ricardo : What'd he give him?

  Ethel Mertz : Nuppence!... Fred is now the darling of the bellhops on two different continents!

• Ricky Ricardo : [Ricky gives Lucy £10, and she wonders how much it's worth]  Well, a pound is $2.80, so that's twenty-eight dollars.

  Lucy Ricardo : Twenty-eight? Well, thank you. Hey, what if I want to buy something less than twenty-eight dollars?

  Ricky Ricardo : You get change, just like you do in America.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, I won't know what kind of change I should be getting.

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, here it is, right in this little book... There are 20 shillings in a pound. Each shilling is worth 14 cents. There are seven shillings in a dollar, and 12 pence in one shilling. See?

  [note that this was before the 1971 decimalisation of UK currency] 

  Lucy Ricardo : No wonder the Pilgrims left here to go to America.

• Lucy Ricardo : [to the bellboy]  Have you ever seen the Queen?

  Bellboy : No, Mum, but I came frightful close during the Coronation. I just missed her.

  Lucy Ricardo : Oh, what a shame.

  Bellboy : But I did get a glimpse of *him*.

  Lucy Ricardo : Philip?

  Bellboy : No, Mum. Danny Kaye.