I Love Lucy (TV Series)

The Freezer (1952)

Lucille Ball: Lucy Ricardo

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• Lucy Ricardo : [speaking in the style of a carnival barker]  Tell ya what I'm gonna do. Any cut you want, seventy-nine cents a pound.

  Woman in Butcher Shop : But how can you afford to sell it so cheap?

  Lucy Ricardo : I'm glad you asked that, lady. This is all made possible because we do everything ourselves. We rope, we brand, we butcher, we market. We do everything but eat it for you. Seventy-nine cents a pound.

• Lucy Ricardo : [Lucy wants a home freezer; Ricky says he can't afford it]  Look: Save money with a home freezer. Get your meat wholesale.

  Ricky Ricardo : I knew it. I knew it had to be somethin' in back of all this.

  Lucy Ricardo : But, but it won't cost us a cent, Ricky. Look, it says right here, This freezer pays for itself.

  [she shows Ricky the newspaper ad] 

  Ricky Ricardo : Oh, well, let me see. Hey, maybe we ought to get one.

  Lucy Ricardo : Really?

  Ricky Ricardo : Sure. As soon as it gets through payin' for itself, tell it to give us a call and come over.

• 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...

• Lucy Ricardo : Don't ask questions, just get a knife and a fork and a bottle of ketchup and follow me to the biggest barbecue in the whole world.

• Ricky Ricardo : Where's the bacon?

  Lucy Ricardo : Bacon happens to be 75 cents per pound.

  Ricky Ricardo : Look Lucy, I can't eat eggs that way. They look absolutely naked.

  Lucy Ricardo : Well look the other way when you eat 'em.

  Ricky Ricardo : Now Lucy, where's the bacon?

  Lucy Ricardo : As far as I'm concerned, it's still on the hog.

• Ricky Ricardo : What about all the money you spend on clothes and the beauty parlor, hmm? Why don't you cut them out?

  Lucy Ricardo : Well alright, if you think you'd like your meals served by an ugly brunette wearing a flour sack.