I Love Lucy (TV Series)

The Homecoming (1955)

Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo

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• Mrs. Trumbull : [welcoming the Ricardos and Mertzes back to New York]  Look at the baby. He's almost as big as I am.

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, that's the California climate, you know. Everything grows bigger out there.

  Fred Mertz : Yeah, look at Ethel.

• Ricky Ricardo : [Lucy is told that Ricky is something special now that he's a movie star, and Ricky is annoyed]  What about her? She shines my shoes, she answers my fan mail, she, she, she runs all my errands for me, she follows me around like a... like a little puppy. She thinks I'm a... she's treating me like if I was a big movie star. I want to be treated like a husband.

  Fred Mertz : What an awful thing to say.

  Ricky Ricardo : Now, look, Fred, I gotta snap her out of it. You got any ideas?

  Fred Mertz : Nope. Getting Ethel to stop being nice to me is a problem I've never had to face.

• Ricky Ricardo : Uh, Lucy?

  Lucy Ricardo : Yes, dear?

  Ricky Ricardo : My cigarette ashes are about to fall off.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, honey, there's an ash tray right there.

  Ricky Ricardo : I don't seem to be able to reach it!

  Lucy Ricardo : Well, neither can I!

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, uh, what do you want me to do with them?

  Lucy Ricardo : [finally snapping]  I don't care *what* you do with them! And I don't care whether your shoes are shined or not, and I don't care about your typing, and you can take care of your own music!

  Ricky Ricardo : Is that so?

  Lucy Ricardo : Yes, that's so! What do you think of that? And I'm not going to lift a little finger to help you anymore! You can answer your own phone, shine your own shoes, type your own lyrics, light your own cigarettes, and knock off your own ashes! And if you want another roast pig you can crawl in the oven yourself, you big ham!