I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Never Do Business with Friends (1953)

William Frawley: Fred Mertz

Quotes 

• Fred Mertz : [the Ricardos have just told the Mertzes they're buying a new washer and dryer]  Hey, wait a minute!

  [Looks at Ethel] 

  Fred Mertz : How'd you like to have a new washing machine?

  Ethel Mertz : Oh, Fred, do you really mean it?

  Fred Mertz : Sure, I'll buy you the Ricardos' old one.

  Ethel Mertz : Old one? You just said a NEW one.

  Fred Mertz : Well, it'd be new to you.

  Ethel Mertz : Oh, fine, all I ever get is hand-me-downs.

  Fred Mertz : Alright, if you don't want it, you don't...

  Ethel Mertz : Oh, no, no, I'll take it. We can give our old one to the Smithsonian Institute.