"She's Just People like you and me!"

"She May Be People but she's not like you and me!"

"Well, I sit at the TV in the same old flannel bathrobe trying to stay warm!"

"What's so hot about being born in Alboqurqe sp? all the sudden?!"

I have lots of favorites and can't think of a lot at the moment but here is the one that is sticking out in my head.

Lucy (thinking Ethel is Madame X): If it's money you need I'll pay you what I owe you!

Oh, and of course the one in my sig. :)

..."Who am I, where am I?" From the eppy where Lucy got amnesia 'cause she couldn't be 'in the show'.

pontoon :cool:

From "The Publicity Agent":

Lucy: I'm not a Maharincess. I'm a henna-rinsess!


And I love this line from Ethel in "The Bull Fight Dance", when she finds out that Lucy will be dressing up as a bull in Ricky's show:

Ethel: For once, the bull will be full of Lucy!

Originally posted by Ricardos4ever
Ethel: For once, the bull will be full of Lucy!

Hey, you took mine!

From the "Vitameatavegamin" epp:
Lucy: "Tastes just like candy...HONEST!!!"

approx: "Honestly Ethel, with this loving cup stuck on my head I hardly think anyone is going to notice your blue jeans!"

"You got a lot of splaining to do"

"that's english?"

"Since we said 'I do' there's so much we don't" (or something like that).

Ricky: Ethel, where's Lucy?
Ethel: Oh, she's hanging around.

Ricky: Ethel where's Lucy?
Ethel: Lucy who?

From "The Star Upstairs":

Bobby the bellboy: "Gosh! How can anyone be so pretty on the outside and be so sneaky on the inside?!"

Ethel: "Isn't it awful? Its like smelling a rose and getting stung by a bee!"

From "The Quiz Show":

Ricky: "What do you think I'm a dope or something, you couldn't possibly be 65!"
Lucy: "I couldn't?"
Ricky: "Of course not, look at you! 55 yes, but not 65!"
Bum: "Don't you care what he says Dollface, you still look good to me!"
Then Ricky blurts out a string of spanish with the word "Dollface" thrown in, while going after the bum! I don't know why but that part just always cracks me up. then the part with the children, thats too funny! "You've misplaced them again!" :rotflmao:

"Dont ask questions, just get a knike, a fork, and a bottle of catsup and follow me to the biggest barbecque in the whole world"- Lucy in "the Freezer."

"Pssssst! Come 'ere. Are you tired of paying high prices? Are you interested in a little high-class beef? also from "the Freezer."

"Do you pop out at parties?Are you unpoopular?"

oh, and:

Lucy: "Tell ya what I'm gonna do..."

my favorites are..

"Dont get your stinger out of joint"

"Look at the food"-Lucy
"Look at the pasteries"-Ethel
"Look at the prices"-Fred
"Its my treat today fred..(Lucy) ok good now I can look at the other side!"-Fred
"Ever since we said I do.. there are so many things we dont!"-Lucy
"This is an electrical popsical"-Lucy
"There is a Rotten Cuban in denmark"-Lucy

I am going to stop now or ill probably write a novel on here!! hehe :lol: :lol:

Tom Watsom, her old publicist has got a new book out called The Quotable ILL and it features almost all the quotes you guys have mentionned, i didn't think it was worth it at first but after i read it i realized that every quote makes you laugh as you think of the entire episode associated with the quote!

my quotes weren't in the quote book! :lol:

They're probably in the next edition! Where have you been? So nice to see a familiar name, lots of different people on this one!

Originally posted by jlpmghrs1
"Pssssst! Come 'ere. Are you tired of paying high prices? Are you interested in a little high-class beef? also from "the Freezer."

LMAO!! Yess!!!!!:lol:

And tha whole, who am I? Where am I? LOL, then she sees the picture of herself is like "Oh!!...No!"

Also, when those 2 teenagers both get crushes on them, and Ricky's like, "You gotta keep jiggling!!" LOL.

There are so many more.

Oh, also, I like your whole signature BeavesBiggestFan:D

Forgot, the one that sums up the whole series, since we said i do, there are so many things we don't!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
They're probably in the next edition! Where have you been? So nice to see a familiar name, lots of different people on this one!

I've been around, just busy with classes! :wave:

The most important lesson you have to learn in life is NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LUCY! Got that?

hey don't worry, i'm mixing business with pleasure, i'm giving a speech on I Love Lucy tomorrow. :)

another line i like that i thought of tonight, from Lucy Tells the Truth, when Lucy tells Ricky what she thinks of him...

Ethel: She's really telling him, eh Tightwad?
Fred: You said it Tacky!

How about the one where she says, I'LL GIVE YOU SUCH A PUNCH, YOU'LL TALK FUNNIER THAN YOU DO NOW!

oh i forgot that one SPLAIN! thats another one of my favorites! :lol:

Bill, who NEVER read the whole script, but rather just his part, went to Desi to complain that his line Hello Ethel wasn't funny. So Desi explained that Ethel was wearing the back end of a horse, and wasn't visible to him except for the horses' you know what, she just finished saying nobody had better recognize her and Bill comes in and says Hello Ethel, so Bill just said, oh yeah, you're right, that is funny!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Bill, who NEVER read the whole script, but rather just his part, went to Desi to complain that his line Hello Ethel wasn't funny. So Desi explained that Ethel was wearing the back end of a horse, and wasn't visible to him except for the horses' you know what, she just finished saying nobody had better recognize her and Bill comes in and says Hello Ethel, so Bill just said, oh yeah, you're right, that is funny!

I think that particular scene is one of the funniest scenes ever! :lol:

The episode "Ethel's Birthday" is full of some great quotes:

Ethel: What are they?
Lucy: They're hostess pants. You wear them when you give smart dinner parties.
Ethel (sarcastically): Oh, I was wondering what to wear to all those smart dinner parties I'm always giving!

Lucy: Look, Ethel. You just get yourself a cute little off-the-shoulder blouse, a big crushy belt, and some ballet slippers, and you're all set!
Ethel: For what, Halloween?

Ethel: I refuse to go to the theater with anyone who thinks I'm a hippopotamus.
Ricky: Did you call her that?
Lucy: All I did was intimate that she was a little hippy. But on second glance, she has got the biggest potamus I've ever seen.

Lucy: Happy Birthday, and I hope you live another 75 years!

I've never seen "Ethel's Birthday", TVLand never airs it. :(

Actually, TV Land just aired it last Sunday at 8 pm. They were honoring actresses who won best supporting actress Emmys by showing some of their best work, and that's the episode they chose for Vivian Vance.
It's too bad you've never seen it. It's a really funny episode. It's one of my very favorites!

Originally posted by lucyfan1983
I've never seen "Ethel's Birthday", TVLand never airs it. :(

Aww, that sucks that you've never seen it. It's a great episode. But who knows, maybe TV Land will smarten up and air it some more.

Originally posted by QueenOfTheGypsies
Actually, TV Land just aired it last Sunday at 8 pm. They were honoring actresses who won best supporting actress Emmys by showing some of their best work, and that's the episode they chose for Vivian Vance.
It's too bad you've never seen it. It's a really funny episode. It's one of my very favorites!

i can't believe i missed it! i also missed "Ricky Minds the Baby" last weekend, which is another one i hadn't seen. :( how aggravating!

Thank you, that's one of my all time faves, "but come to think of it, you do have one of the biggest potomosas i've ever seen!"

I think I like this one the best:


"Ethel, You Here, Dressed in that! He must be out of his mind!"

For some reason some of the ones that make me laugh the most are the ones that never get mentioned as favourites! I like the whole of the special 'Thanks For The Memory' in the Bob Hope episode, especially when Ricky sings his verse in Spanish and makes Bob Hope laugh. Then in the one when they all go to Cuba to meet Great Uncle Alberto there's a running gag about how he wanted Ricky to marry a Cuban girl. Just after Lucy has insulted him (accidentally) in Spanish, thrown whisky all over his suit and destroyed his hand-made cigars he yells at Ricky in Spanish, and Ricky just sighs and says "But I didn't want to marry a Cuban girl..." And that always makes me laugh. I also like it in "The Girls Want To Go To A Nightclub" when the girls are in their disguises and ask if the boys are Fred and Ricky, and Ricky says "Uh, no... we're Sam and Elmer". Then there's the telephone call in "Men Are Messy", when Lucy makes Ricky dictate what he wants to say, because the telephone mouthpiece is on her side of the room. She quotes him literally, which for some reason is always funny when she does it - "Since last Februaruary, 'splain that." Visual gags are just as good though. When Lucy shoots toast at Ricky in "Be A Pal", and he catches it even though he doesn't seem to see it coming. The studio audience loved that one!

I wish I could quote episodes like the rest of you guys though. It's just been too long since the damn show was screen in the UK!

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Can't you buy the videos or DVD's there? When nobody shows them, that's what we usually wind up having to do!

Some of the DVDs are available. Season one volumes 1-4 are, but no others yet. I can't play NTSC videos, so there's no point trying to get them from the States. I'm just waiting (impatiently!) for the DVD releases to continue! Last time the show was screened in the UK was the last two seasons, in about 1992, at 6.15 in the morning, so it's not got a big following over here. Consequently there's no real market for the videos and DVDs. We got a good documentary about Lucy and Desi a while back though, which showed a lot of clips that I hadn't seen in a long time.


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Still, i'm happy to hear the same DVD's that are available here are also available to you there, that's something anyway. There is talk that as of season two, the whole season will be put on one boxed set of DVD's which will make them more expensive to buy, but easier to collect, because once we can get them season by season, after we have all six, we can tell them where to go. No more having to get up at 4 in the morning to make copies! Or in your case 6:15! I can't believe it's so hard to get Lucy in the UK, she's as big as Chaplin, all her stuff should be available everywhere!

Yep, but she's black and white, and that doesn't get shown on TV anymore. No Chaplin (except occasionally at Christmas), no Harold Lloyd, no Buster Keaton, and no Lucy. Or Desi - why does nobody ever mention him in the same breath? Just as good in my opinion. We only have five TV channels, so there isn't the space for stuff that you have in the States. Most TV time is taken up with Pop Idol and its off-shoots, and other dismal shows, and we're not allowed anything in primetime viewing on the main channels that isn't British, so there's no space for anything like I Love Lucy getting a popular following. (Or Angel, or Buffy, or The West Wing, or CSI... etc, etc).

And the DVDs aren't technically available over here. Not as Region 2 anyway. We have some DVD companies (online ones mostly) who sell R1 DVDs as well, because they're usually much better than R2 ones. I get the Lucy discs through one of them.

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Well, as you may know the same rules fostering Canadian content apply here for our TV shows, so people who want the best American shows get a satellite dish or digital cable. We Canadians produce the world's best documentaries and our movies though sometimes boring are more thought provoking than the American shoot them ups, but nobody can touch the Americans when it comes to popular entertainment. My grandparents got cable in 1955, three years after TV started here, so they could get I Love Lucy because they were so popular back then. I hear the show was VERY BIG in Britain at the time, it's a shame they don't realize that people long for great entertainment and there isn't much of that around these days!

Yes, ILL was big in the UK then, possibly because we weren't making sitcoms in those days. Very few people had TV sets in the fifties though, so it came into its own a little later, with reruns in the late fifties and early sixties. Cable is still only available in a few places in Britain, and I live out in the middle of nowhere at the moment, so I can't get it! Digital TV has possibilities though. The Paramount Comedy Channel for one!

I've never known of the later Lucy shows being broadcast in Britain though. They may have been at the time, but I don't believe that they've ever been repeated. Can't say that I'm bothered, because I prefer having Desi around, but it seems odd that they never took off over here.

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I would bet my life that both The Lucy show and Here's Lucy have played in Britain, but for how long is another story. It's a shame because i just got one third of the Lucy shows copied for me here and they are GREAT, some of them close to I Love Lucy in quality as Desi produced the first ones, even after their divorce. There are as many classic episodes in the series as in the other one although the series itself was always considered a poor imitation, then they said the same thing about Here's Lucy, that it wasn't as good as the Lucy show, but 40 years later, we are so nostalgic for any product starring the lady that i assume we would all take back those statements and say, any show with Lucy was great and certainly better than most of the garbage that passes for TV entertainment these days. I must say that being Canadian though, i get many shows from Britain and i've always loved the shows from there, love your sense of humor and many shows are considered classics here, like Keeping up appearances, Fawlty towers(Gary's favorite), and Monty Python and so many others. The proof is so many shows from your country wind up redone with American actors!

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Still, i'm happy to hear the same DVD's that are available here are also available to you there, that's something anyway. There is talk that as of season two, the whole season will be put on one boxed set of DVD's which will make them more expensive to buy, but easier to collect, because once we can get them season by season, after we have all six, we can tell them where to go. No more having to get up at 4 in the morning to make copies! Or in your case 6:15! I can't believe it's so hard to get Lucy in the UK, she's as big as Chaplin, all her stuff should be available everywhere! I know! I cant believe that Lucy wouldn't be shown in places like UK.

It's black and white = no screening except maybe at 6 in the morning.
It's American = no screening on the main channels, except well away from peak viewing.

Ergo, not many fans. So they don't show it. You can try arguing that they have to show it in order to get the fans, but they don't work that way. Take Angel. They show it at midnight, never advertise the fact, wonder why nobody watches, and then say that there's no point showing it anymore, because there aren't enough viewers. Oh the logic of the TV channel bosses.

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These are the same geniuses who said nobody would believe Lucy was married to a Cuban back in the 50's!

The same ones?! Boy, they must be knocking on a bit now. :)

Seriously though, yes, fair point. Basically the people who run TV don't know, and never have known, the first thing about it. I think they should let me do it instead. :)

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Yeah, i knew you'd get me with that one, i just meant the same type of idiots!

hmm some of my friends are in the UK.. and they say they watch Lucy sometimes.. so who knows :)


-Ash

Satellite, cable or digital, probably.

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So, as Laura would say There ya are, you gotta get hooked up Mickey!

Can't get cable where I live, and local digital reception is so bad it's not worth the cost until things improve. In order to get the kind of channels on satellite that Lucy is shown on it also costs a lot, for something that is almost out of date and will soon be superceded by digital... so I'm not bothering! I don't mind, I can wait. I've waited ten years, after all!

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