Ricky’s Movie Offer – funny quotes from I Love Lucy
Ricky’s Movie Offer – Funny quotes from the classic ‘I Love Lucy’ TV series, where Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) has a chance at a movie audition, and his wife Lucy (Lucille Ball) and their friends all want to horn in on it …
Funny quotes from Ricky’s Movie Offer – I Love Lucy season 4
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): [opens the door, breaking Fred’s newly-installed burglar-proof door chain]: What happened?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): You just broke through Fred’s burglar-proof chain.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Fred, can’t you ever do anything right?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): [mimicking] Fred, can’t you ever do anything right?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): You’re not supposed to come charging in there like a bull out of a chute!
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): If you’d have fixed it right, it wouldn’t have pulled out.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): With your weight, you could have come through that wall without a door!
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Oh, keep quiet or I’ll sit on you.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Mr. Benjamin, that sounds very, very exciting. Is it gonna be Cinemascopy and Stereonophic?
Mr. Benjamin (Frank Nelson): I beg your pardon?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Is it gonna be Cinemascopy and Stereonophic?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Mr. Benjamin, I think he means Cinemascope and Stereophonic.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): That’s what I said!
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): That’s what he said.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Would you leave me alone? I’ve been in show business a long time.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): It doesn’t make you an actor just because you’ve been shouting ‘Babalu’ and beating on a cowhide.
[Lucy is giving Ricky some acting tips.]
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): What do you want him to do?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): For one thing, I would like him to develop a distinctive way of speaking.
Fred & Ethel[in unison]: Ricky?
Pete, the grocery boy: But, Mrs. Ricardo, when I play the trumpet, I’m real gone.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): [shooing Pete out of the apartment] Then go, man, go!
Ethel Mertz [Vivian Vance]: Fred, I think I look more like Marilyn Monroe than Lucy does.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): And I think I look more like Marilyn Monroe than Ethel does. What do you think?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): I think I look more like her than either one of you.
[Lucy enters the living room dressed as Marilyn Monroe]
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Hey, who are you supposed to be?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Guess.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Humphrey Bogart in a wig.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I thought we all agreed that you weren’t going to do anything to ruin Ricky’s chance.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Well, you’re ruining it.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): That’s different. I’m his wife. I have a right to ruin it!
Pete [to Lucy, dressed as Marilyn Monroe]: Who are you supposed to be?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Gorgeous George.