I Love Lucy (TV Series)
Lucy Meets the Queen (1956)
Lucille Ball: Lucy Ricardo
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Quotes
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Fred Mertz : [seing their London hotel rooms for the first time] I say, old bean, ain't this the nuts?
Ethel Mertz : [bursting at the seams] What a city this is!
Ricky Ricardo : How's your room?
Fred Mertz : It's great. Just like this, same view and everything.
Ethel Mertz : Ehhhh, one thing stumped him, though... He didn't know how much to tip the bellhop.
Fred Mertz : I didn't know whether to give him tuppence or threepence.
[he uses the common pronunciation 'thruppence']
Ricky Ricardo : Fred, threepence is only about three cents.
Ethel Mertz : Well, he solved it rather neatly.
Lucy Ricardo : What'd he give him?
Ethel Mertz : Nuppence!... Fred is now the darling of the bellhops on two different continents!
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Ricky Ricardo : [Ricky gives Lucy £10, and she wonders how much it's worth] Well, a pound is $2.80, so that's twenty-eight dollars.
Lucy Ricardo : Twenty-eight? Well, thank you. Hey, what if I want to buy something less than twenty-eight dollars?
Ricky Ricardo : You get change, just like you do in America.
Lucy Ricardo : Well, I won't know what kind of change I should be getting.
Ricky Ricardo : Well, here it is, right in this little book... There are 20 shillings in a pound. Each shilling is worth 14 cents. There are seven shillings in a dollar, and 12 pence in one shilling. See?
[note that this was before the 1971 decimalisation of UK currency]
Lucy Ricardo : No wonder the Pilgrims left here to go to America.
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Lucy Ricardo : [to the bellboy] Have you ever seen the Queen?
Bellboy : No, Mum, but I came frightful close during the Coronation. I just missed her.
Lucy Ricardo : Oh, what a shame.
Bellboy : But I did get a glimpse of *him*.
Lucy Ricardo : Philip?
Bellboy : No, Mum. Danny Kaye.