I Love Lucy (TV Series)

The Freezer (1952)

Vivian Vance: Ethel Mertz

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• Lucy Ricardo : [panic sets in as Johnson's Meat Company delivers an unexpected 700 pounds of beef]  Listen, there's been a mistake. You're gonna have to take most of this meat back.

  Ethel Mertz : All but thirty pounds.

  Lucy Ricardo : Yeah.

  Delivery Man : Sorry, ladies. Once a side of beef has been cut we're not allowed to bring it back.

  Lucy Ricardo : Come on, Ethel, let's get busy.

  Ethel Mertz : What are we gonna do?

  Lucy Ricardo : We're gonna paste this animal back together again...

  Delivery Man : Look, ladies, even if you defrosted it, pasted it together and taught it to walk, I couldn't take it back.

• Ethel Mertz : [after mistakenly ordering 700 pounds of beef, Lucy and Ethel stash it all in their basement freezer]  Well, Lucy, we did it. It's all in there.

  Lucy Ricardo : Yeah. Now we've just gotta explain all this meat to Ricky and Fred.

  Ethel Mertz : Yeah.

  Lucy Ricardo : You don't suppose they'd believe that a cow wandered in there and fell apart...