William Frawley credited as playing...
Fred Mertz
- Fred Mertz: What do you mean, you want forty dollars for a lamp?
- Ethel Mertz: Just what I said. We don't have a decent lamp to read by.
- Fred Mertz: Listen, Ethel, if you want to read, you can read by firelight. If it was good enough for Abraham Lincoln, it's good enough for you.
- Ethel Mertz: Oh, don't drag in your boyhood pals, Fred.
- Lucy Ricardo: Hey, listen, you two, stop your arguing. I'm on the intercom.
- Fred Mertz: Who's arguing? This is the way we always talk.
- Ethel Mertz: It's like a telephone, only we can talk to each other whenever we want to and all we...
- [Fred shuts off the intercom]
- Fred Mertz: That's the way to turn it off. That's the best part of it.
- Little Ricky Ricardo: Can I talk to outer space through this?
- Fred Mertz: Outer space? Well, I guess you can, but they may not answer.
- Little Ricky Ricardo: Oh boy! I'm going to say hello to the moon!