I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Lucy Raises Chickens (1957)

William Frawley: Fred Mertz

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• Ethel Mertz : [when Fred and Ethel stop by for a weekend visit, the conversation suddenly pauses while everyone notices that Ethel is shoveling in the food]  What's the matter, haven't you ever seen me eat before?

  Fred Mertz : I've never seen you do anything else.

• Ricky Ricardo : [when Ricky comes home, he finds the living room floor covered with baby chicks, and the heat up to 90 degrees]  Well, I'd like to think I got into the wrong house, but I know I din't.

  Lucy Ricardo : No, you din't.

  Ethel Mertz : Well, Rick, y'see, Lucy and I bought five hundred baby chicks.

  Lucy Ricardo : Yeah, aren't they cute, Honey?

  Ricky Ricardo : [impatiently]  Adorable! But what are they doin' here?

  Fred Mertz : Well, we had to bring 'em into the house because these two Dumb Doras didn't know that you have to keep baby chicks in brooders.

  Ricky Ricardo : Why, anybody knows that you have to keep baby chicks in a brooder. What's a brooder?