- 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!
- 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.