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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System. After the series ended

(50 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (49)Season 2 (1)Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6

Characters

Jess Oppenheimer (50)Lucille Ball (27)Lucy Ricardo (27)Madelyn Pugh (17)Ricky Ricardo (14)Desi Arnaz (14)William Frawley (7)Fred Mertz (7)Vivian Vance (2)Bob Carroll (2)

“Ricky Ricardo: Now look, Lucy, we're not going to go over all this again. You cannot be in the show. Lucy Ricardo: Give me one good reason. Ricky Ricardo: You have no talent. Lucy Ricardo: Give me another good reason.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: talent show, no talent

“Think harder, we can be nastier than that.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: nasty woman, think harder

“Ricky Ricardo: Excuse me, Mrs. Shakespeare, but would you mind telling me what this is all about? Lucy Ricardo: Well, you see, all the women's clubs in town are having a big play-writing contest. Ricky Ricardo: I knew it, I knew it. This had to do with the Wednesday Afternoon Fang and Claw Society.…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: play-writing, shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Ernie Ford

“Ricky Ricardo: [Ricky tries a solution for Lucy's habitual tardiness] I'm making out a schedule so you can budget your time. Lucy Ricardo: Budget my time? You mean like I budget my money? Ricky Ricardo: Heaven forbid. Lucy Ricardo: Now Ricky, listen...”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: budgeting, budgeting time, budgeting money

“Ricky Ricardo: Say, what do you know about rice? Fred Mertz: Well, I had it thrown at me on one of the darkest days of my life.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Fred Mertz, William Frawley, imdb.com

Tagged: throwing rice, anti-marriage

“Lucy Ricardo: Fred, you've given me an idea. I'm going to give Ricky scalp treatments. And they'll be so drastic he'll be glad to forget the whole thing. Fred Mertz: It won't work... Lucy Ricardo: Why not? Fred Mertz: Nothing has ever been invented that a man won't try if he thinks he can get his ha…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: hair restoration, scalp treatments, Balding

“Ricky Ricardo: [Ethel enters in a flowing black outfit bedecked with veils and gaudy jewelry] Who are you supposed to be? Lucy Ricardo: Well, what do you think? Ricky Ricardo: The Bride of Frankenstein? Ethel Mertz: Well! Lucy Ricardo: She's a Spanish senora. Ricky Ricardo: She suffers in the transl…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: Bride of Frankenstein, Senora, lost in translation

“Ricky Ricardo: Well, how does it feel to be married to an also been? Ethel Mertz: An 'also been'? Lucy Ricardo: He means a has ran.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: also ran, has been

“[Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together] Ricky Ricardo: Hey, Lucy, a funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater. Lucy Ricardo: What? Ricky Ricardo: Some tramp comes up to me on the street and says he hadn't had a bite in three days. Lucy Ricardo: What did you do, bite him? [Audience laug…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: Standup Comedy

“Jean Valijean Raymand: Oh, but you don't understand, madame! The Apache dance is a dance of amour. One must warm up to it. Lucy Ricardo: Yeah, well I think you started warming up on the way over here! Jean Valijean Raymand: I can't help it. I can't help that there's a pounding in my heart. Lucy Rica…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, apache, dance, Threats

“Ricky Ricardo: Lucy's been acting strange lately! Fred Mertz: Strange? How can you tell?”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: strange, normal, insults

“[Ricky and Lucy are doing a show together] Ricky Ricardo: I've got a joke you never heard in your life. I know a girl who's so dumb she thinks a football coach has four wheels. Ha ha ha. [Audience is silent] Lucy Ricardo: How many wheels does it have? [Audience laughs]”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: dumb, Misunderstanding, Standup Comedy

“Lucy Ricardo: There's just two things keeping me from dancing in that show. Fred Mertz: Your feet?”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Fred Mertz, William Frawley, imdb.com

Tagged: bad dancing, insults

“Ricky Ricardo: Have you ever heard Lucy sing? Fred Mertz: No. Ricky Ricardo: Our fighting men have been through enough.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: bad singer

“Some people build model airplanes. Ethel reads postcards.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Fred Mertz, William Frawley, imdb.com

Tagged: Hobbies, postcards, insults

“Ricky Ricardo: Aw, honey, I don't care anything about that new dancer. Lucy Ricardo: Hah! Ricky Ricardo: Aw, honey, you can trust me. Lucy Ricardo: I can, huh? Ricky Ricardo: Why sure. I'm as faithful as an old dog. Lucy Ricardo: Yeah, old Rover!”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ricky Ricardo, Desi Arnaz, imdb.com

Tagged: Cheating, Trust

“Fred Mertz: [Fred and Ethel think Ricky has bought Lucy a mink coat] What are you trying to do, make a bum out of me? Ethel Mertz: Don't blame him. You were a bum before he was born. Fred Mertz: Oh, yeah? Ethel Mertz: Yeah!”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Ethel Mertz, Vivian Vance, imdb.com

Tagged: mink coat, Bum, insults

“This is Madam Ethel Mertzola. She'll be our medium tonight. She's psychopathic.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: seance, Psychic, psychopathic, Malapropisms

“Lucy Ricardo: You might be going through life with the wrong name. Hey, I better figure out the right one for you! Maybe if you're something besides Five, it'll help our vibration. Ricky Ricardo: Lucy! Lucy Ricardo: What? Ricky Ricardo: Don't you like the way I vibrate?”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: Wrong Name, vibration

“Mr. Merriweather: My horoscope says no more business after noon today. Lucy Ricardo: Oh, you follow horoscopes? Mr. Merriweather: Yes! I'm Scorpio. Lucy Ricardo: I'm Taurus. Ricky Ricardo: I'm cooked.”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: Horoscopes, Scorpio, Taurus