“Lucy Ricardo: Ricky, wait a minute, let's not watch television tonight.
Ricky Ricardo, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz: [Ricky, Fred, and Ethel shout in unison] Not watch television!
Ricky Ricardo: What else is there to do?
Lucy Ricardo: Well, whatever happened to that game we used to play before television was invented? It was called 'conversation.'
Ethel Mertz: Oh, yeah. How'd that go?
Lucy Ricardo: You know, the four of us used to just sit around all evening and talk. Nothing so unusual about it. In millions of homes all over the country people were having the same kinds of conversations we were having.
Fred Mertz: Yeah, that's why television was invented!”
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