I Love Lucy (TV Series)
Job Switching (1952)
Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo
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Quotes
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Ricky Ricardo : How much rice do you think we should use for four people?
Fred Mertz : I don't know. People do like that stuff.
Ricky Ricardo : How does one pound per person sound?
Fred Mertz : Sounds about right.
Ricky Ricardo : That's good because that's what I put in: four pounds.
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Ricky Ricardo : Say, what do you know about rice?
Fred Mertz : Well, I had it thrown at me on one of the darkest days of my life.
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Ricky Ricardo : What have you got there?
Fred Mertz : I brought my cake. Seven layers of luscious Devil's Food. Wait til you see it.
[Fred takes off the cake cover to reveal a cake barely one inch thick]
Ricky Ricardo : What happened to the other six layers?
Fred Mertz : They're all there. Some just... didn't rise very much.
Ricky Ricardo : Well you can put on a lot of frosting.
Fred Mertz : What do you mean "put on"? The frosting's already in it.
Ricky Ricardo : In it?
Fred Mertz : Yeah, I mixed it all up before I baked the cake.
Ricky Ricardo : Well, maybe you should wait until breakfast and serve it as a pancake.
Fred Mertz : Oh never mind!
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Ricky Ricardo : [Arrives home angry] Lucy! Come here.
Lucy Ricardo : What's the matter?
Ricky Ricardo : I stopped by the bank on the way home, and they showed me this.
[Holds up piece of paper]
Lucy Ricardo : What's that?
Ricky Ricardo : Your check to the beauty parlor.
Lucy Ricardo : I write a check to the beauty parlor every month.
Ricky Ricardo : Yes, I know that. But they don't always have a little note in the back, like this one.
[Points to and reads note on back of check]
Ricky Ricardo : "Dear teller, be a lamb and don't put this through till next month."
[Lucy looks disgusted]
Ricky Ricardo : Now what have you got to say for yourself?
Lucy Ricardo : That's why they call them "tellers"--they go around blabbing everything they know.