I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Lucy Meets the Queen (1956)

William Frawley: Fred Mertz

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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!

• Ethel Mertz : Imagine me meeting a Queen face to face, I'm scared.

  Fred Mertz : You're scared? Think of the Queen!