I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Staten Island Ferry (1956)

William Frawley: Fred Mertz

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Quotes 

• Lucy Ricardo : We're depending on you to be our guide in Germany. Have you been studying your German?

  Fred Mertz : Jawohl, Fräulein.

  Lucy Ricardo : Hey, that's wonderful.

  Fred Mertz : Geben, uh, sie mie, uh, ein Stein Würzburger.

  Lucy Ricardo : Oh, great! What does that mean?

  Ethel Mertz : What do you think it means? Gimme a glass of beer.

  Lucy Ricardo : Is that all he's learned?

  Ethel Mertz : Nope. He's learned how to order nine different kinds of beer. Oh, we're gonna have an interesting time in Germany.

• Fred Mertz : [last line in the episode, Fred is talking to the Clerk]  Hey, you can go now.

  [puts the plug of the clock into the socket] 

• Fred Mertz : [seeing their passport pictures for the first time]  Let me see yours, Hon. Hey, that's pretty good of you.

  Ethel Mertz : That's you!

  Fred Mertz : [Ethel and Lucy get their pictures, and scream together]  Let me see that one of you. Hey, that looks more like me than the one of me does!

  Ethel Mertz : You wanna trade?

• Ricky Ricardo : [Fred is seasick so Ricky suggests seasickness pills]  What have you got to lose.

  Fred Mertz : Don't ask me that right now.