I Love Lucy (1951–1957): Season 1, Episode 29 - The Freezer - full transcript
Lucy and Ethel decide to make some money by buying a used walk-in freezer. When they unwittingly buy 700 pounds of beef, they try to sell it to customers at the butcher shop.
Here you are, dear.
Oh, thank you, honey.
Hey, what goes here?
Just two eggs?
Where's the bacon?
Bacon happens to
be 75 cents a pound.
Look, Lucy, I can't
eat eggs that way.
They-they-they look
absolutely naked.
Well, look the other
way when you eat them.
Now, Lucy, where's the bacon?
As far as I'm concerned,
it's still on the hog.
I'm economizing.
Well, look, honey, that's
a very good attitude,
but why do you have
to cut down on food?
There's just no other
place to cut down.
Is that so, eh?
What about all the money
that you spend on clothes
and the beauty parlor, hmm?
Why don't you cut them out?
Well, all right, if you think
you'd like your meals served
by an ugly brunette
wearing a flour sack.
You know what I mean.
There's must be some
other way to economize.
Well, as a matter of
fact there is, Ricky.
Look, "Save money
with a home freezer.
Get your meat wholesale."
I knew it! I knew it
had to be something
in back of all this.
But it won't cost
us a cent, Ricky.
Look, it says right here:
"This freezer pays for itself."
Oh, well, let me see.
Hey, maybe we ought to get one.
Really?
Sure.
As soon as it gets
through paying for itself,
tell it to give us a
call and come over.
Now, you know what I meant.
Honey, I can't afford a freezer,
not even one
that pays for itself.
But Ricky, listen, it's only
going to save us money...
I cannot do it, honey, no.
Can't afford it.
See you later.
What about your eggs?
Oh, I got a feeling
that they won't go to waste.
Ethel is coming up, isn't she?
Good-bye.
Good-bye.
Good morning, Lucy.
Oh, yeah?
Good-bye, Lucy.
Come back, Ethel.
If I'd wanted to be
with somebody grumpy
I'd have stayed
downstairs with Fred.
What's the matter with you?
Oh, I asked Ricky
if we couldn't
have this freezer,
and he says he can't afford it.
Can't afford it.
I asked Fred to buy
us a freezer, too.
What did he say?
I'll tell you what I said.
Please, please, there
are ladies present.
I just come up to tell you
not to expect any heat today.
I put all new firebrick
in that furnace
and we can't use it
till the cement dries.
This house might be a
home freezer itself by night.
Charm boy.
Yeah.
Gee, why is it everything
that's wonderful costs money?
I don't know.
Say, why didn't I
think of this before?
Uncle Oscar!
Uncle Oscar?
My Uncle Oscar is a butcher,
and he's got a big cold chest.
Why don't you
knit him a sweater?
Well, of course, if you
don't want to hear my plan...
I do, I do.
Well, he's retiring
from the meat business,
and he's got a great
big old freezer...
You know, the kind you walk
into and hang up the meat.
I'll bet he'd sell us that
for practically nothing.
Really? I'm going
to call him up.
If we could buy it and
put it in the basement,
we'd have a real home freezer.
How much do you
think he'd sell it for?
I don't know, but there's
no harm in asking him,
'cause this would
be a great way...
Hello, Uncle Oscar?
This is little Ethel.
Little?
Uncle Oscar, how
much do you want
for that big old
freezer of yours?
For me.
Well, that sounds
like a fair price.
How much?
He'll sell it to us for nothing.
For nothing!
All we have to do is pay
for the hauling
and installation?
How much is that?
How much is that?
$50.
Sold!
We'll take it!
When can we have it installed?
This afternoon?
Oh, gee, that's fine.
Kiss Aunt Emmy for me, will you?
Good-bye, Unc.
Lucy, we now own a home freezer.
Thank you.
Let's get busy!
Look out!
What are you doing?
Ordering meat.
The sooner we get
the meat in the freezer,
the quicker we'll
be saving money.
I wonder how much
we ought to order?
Oh, 20, 25 pounds, maybe 30.
Gee, that sounds
like a lot of meat.
Honey! It'll last!
Hello?
Hello, this is Mrs.
Ricky Ricardo
at 623 East 68th Street.
I'd like to order some
meat for our freezer.
Beef.
Oh, I see.
Just a minute.
It's only 69 cents a pound!
No kidding?
Why, steak's $1.89.
I know, I'd better
order right away
before he realizes what
a bargain he's giving us.
Uh, all right, that'll
be, that'll be fine.
Oh, by the side?
Oh, well, just a minute.
That's the price by the side.
How big is a side of beef?
Well, a side of bacon
is about this big.
Oh, well, that's okay.
All right, I'll take a side.
Better make it two sides.
One for each of us.
Yeah, can you send
it over this afternoon?
East 68th Street.
That's right, thank you.
In the meantime,
we'll go downtown.
What for?
Well, with all that money
we're saving on the freezer,
we can afford to buy
ourselves new dresses.
Hurry up! Get ready! Come on!
Oh, yeah, it was a lot of money,
but after all, it's
a very basic style.
I can wear it for years.
Oh, I can hardly wait
to try these things on!
I'm going right down to my
apartment and put this on.
Oh!
Say, maybe that's the meat.
Yes, sir?
Mrs. Ricardo?
Yes, sir?
Johnson's Meat Company.
Gee, that sure
is a lot, isn't it?
Oh, there's more.
Oh?
Look at the way they wrap it.
Yeah.
My goodness.
Oh, hey, are you sure
that's all for us?
Lady, this is only
the beginning.
Oh, there must be a mistake.
Oh, that isn't a side of beef.
That must be a side of elephant.
Lucy, what have we
got ourselves into?
Well, what's all this
going to cost, Ethel?
We're getting 700
pounds of meat!
At 69 cents a pound, that's...
$483.
Listen, there's been a mistake.
You're going to have to
take most of this meat back.
All but 30 pounds. Yeah.
Sorry, ladies, once a
side of beef has been cut,
we're not allowed
to bring it back.
Come on, Ethel, let's get busy.
What are we going to do?
I'm going to paste this
animal back together again.
Find the piece that fits that.
Look, ladies, even if you
defrosted it, pasted it together
and taught it to walk,
I couldn't take it back!
Well, that's one side.
Now let's go down
and get the other one.
The other one!
Ricky and Fred
are going to kill us!
Yes, but by buying
it all wholesale,
we saved them at least $500.
I hope you can explain all that
before their fingers
tighten around our throats.
Maybe we could sell some of it!
Sell it?
Yeah, you know, we
could go to a butcher shop
and grab some of the customers
before the butcher gets to them.
We could sell this
for 79 cents a pound.
But it only cost 69.
Well, we might as well
make a little something on it.
Oh, no, Lucy,
we couldn't sell it.
It wouldn't be right.
It wouldn't be fair.
Why not?
It's...
Well, don't just stand there!
We got a lot of meat to sell!
Get ready for business.
Psst!
Psst!
Come here.
Are you tired of
paying high prices?
Are you interested in
a little high-class beef?
Do you want a bargain?
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
Step up a little closer
I don't want to
block the traffic.
Now, you look like a smart dame.
What'll it be?
I got sirloin, tenderloin,
T-bone, rump, pot roast,
chuck roast, oxtail stump.
I got a special on
T-bone, 79 cents a pound.
Well, really, I'm...
79 cents!
Shh! Quiet. Get 'em
while they last, lady.
Step right over
and help yourself.
Ethel, help the
little lady, will you?
What'll you have?
Well, I'd like a sirloin.
A sirloin coming up.
Keep it down, keep it down, kid.
How much does this weigh?
Weigh.
Three pounds.
I'll take it.
Psst!
Come here.
Are you interested in
some high-class beef?
Are you tired of
paying high prices?
Do you want a bargain?
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
Is this choice meat?
Absolutely... give the
little lady her choice, Ethel.
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
That's not what I meant.
Get away from me,
kid, you bother me.
Tell you what I'm gonna do:
Any cut you want,
79 cents a pound.
But how can you
afford to sell it so cheap?
I'm glad you asked that, lady.
This is all made possible
because we do
everything ourselves.
We rope, we brand,
we butcher, we market.
We do everything
but eat it for you.
79 cents a pound.
Well, I'll try a round steak.
Okay, step right over here.
A round steak.
Keep it down.
Hey, hey...
♪ Rock-a-bye baby ♪
♪ On the treetop ♪
♪ Rock-a-bye baby
on the treetop... ♪
Step right up.
Every...
Ohh!
Amscray, amscray! Utcherbay.
Watch the papers
for our new location!
Good afternoon.
This is the last.
Oh, thank goodness.
Boy, 700 pounds of
meat is a lot to carry.
Oh!
You know...
you know, what worries
me is how we're...
Oh! Honey, I'm sor...
Wait till I get the key.
Gee, I'm sorry!
Oh, boy, it gets cold
in there in a hurry!
Yeah, how about that.
You know, this is dangerous
not being able to open
that from the inside.
We'd better have this
lock taken off tomorrow.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Golly.
Well, Lucy, we did it. Whew!
It's all in there.
Yeah... now we
just got to explain
all this meat to Ricky and Fred.
Yeah.
You don't suppose they'd believe
that a cow wandered
in there and fell apart?
Nope.
No, I guess not.
What's that?
It's Ricky and Fred.
They're coming down here!
Oh, no, they're up
in the apartment.
We can hear them
through the furnace.
Are you sure?
Sure, I'll show you.
Don't touch that,
honey, it's hot!
No, Fred's fixing it, remember?
Oh.
I wonder what Ricky's
doing home already.
I'll see.
Lucy, they're looking for us!
What are we gonna tell them?
Well, come on, we can't
let them find us down here.
Hurry up!
Well, Ethel, look who's here!
Why, it's Ricky and Fred!
Yeah.
Girls, we want to talk to you.
About what?
I ran into Uncle Oscar today.
Start packing, Ethel.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
We're not mad at you.
We think it's a wonderful
idea that you got the freezer.
Yeah, that was a real
smart business deal.
Yeah, how about that?
In fact, we think you did
so well getting the freezer
that we want to
do our share, too.
That's right,
and just to get you started,
here's what we got.
30 pounds of meat.
Gee, swell.
Gee.
You ever saw that much
meat in your whole life?
No.
Boy, that sure is
a lot, isn't it, Ethel?
Well, come on, let's
get it down to the freezer.
Yeah, let's put it in
the freezer, come on.
No, no, wait a minute.
I have a couple of steaks.
I think we ought to
do it all in one trip.
Come here and help me, Ethel.
What's with her?
Listen, you stall them
while I get that meat
out of the freezer.
How can I stall them?
Listen, if I can move
700 pounds of meat
you ought to be able to
keep two husbands occupied
for a couple of minutes.
Well, what can I do?
Dance with them, talk, sing.
That's it, ask Ricky to sing.
Sing? You know he won't.
Oh, won't he? Listen,
you take care of the ham.
I'll take care of the beef.
Hi, fellas.
Hi. What's the delay?
Delay? Yeah.
Where's Lucy? Come on.
Lucy?
Um, uh... uh,
she, uh... she, uh...
The freezer was dirty
and she wanted to go down
and clean it all up
before you saw it.
Oh, honey, what's
the difference?
Come on, we want to see it.
Let's go down there.
Come on, let's go down.
No, wait a minute, Fred.
You know Lucy, if
she... uh... if, uh...
Ricky, I think you sing better
than anybody in the whole world.
Would you sing for me?
Sing? Now?
Yeah, now.
What's the matter with you?
Are you losing your mind?
Come on, we've got
a freezer down there
and a lot of meat to put in it.
Now let's go right now.
Wait, wait a minute, Fred.
Wait a minute.
If Ethel wants to hear
me sing that bad, I...
gee, I wouldn't
want to deprive her
of the pleasure of it.
Oh, no.
Well, you'd like to
hear me sing, eh?
All right.
You really think
I sing good, huh?
Gee, that's very nice of you.
What would you like to hear?
Anything with a lot of choruses.
Oh, boy, a lot of choruses, eh?
All right.
Here's one.
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez... ♪
Aw, Ricky!
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Pero belen, belen, belen ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba y
no te encontre... ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
- ♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
- Oh, Ricky.
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros... ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba y
no te encontre... ♪
♪ Pero belen, belen, belen ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba
y no te encontre ♪
♪ Yo estaba en casa de madrina ♪
♪ Que ayer me mando a buscar ♪
♪ En eso lado de la esquina
el viva en el manglar ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe. ♪
♪ Ba-la-la-bum, ba-bum-bum. ♪
Bravo! Bravo!
Oh, isn't he wonderful, Fred?
Yeah, yeah.
Sing another one, Ricky.
All right, what you
like to hear now?
How about that
dandy little ditty entitled
"Let's Vamooso To El Freezo"?
What would you
like to hear, Ethel?
Anything.
All right, here's
one you should like.
♪ Ese lunar que tienes,
cielito lindo, junto a la boca ♪
♪ No se lo des a nadi, cielito
lindo, que a mi me toca ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Canta y no llores ♪
♪ Porque cantando se alegran,
cielito lindo, los corazones ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Canta y no llores ♪
♪ Porque cantando se alegran,
cielito lindo, los corazones ♪
♪ Ese lunar que tienes,
cielito lindo, junto a la boca... ♪
Here we come, Lucy.
Have you got it all
cleaned up, Lucy?
Lucy?
Hey, this is great, Fred.
This is wonderful.
Yeah, look how big and roomy.
I bet you could hang a
whole side of beef in there.
Are you kidding?
I bet that you...
Oh!
Oh, Lucy!
Oh, Ricky, Ricky,
she's freezing.
Lucy, you come out of there!
Come out of there now!
Oh, she's locked in!
Well, where's the key?
Where's the key, Lucy?
The key, Lucy?
The key for the
door, where's the key?
The key, honey, where is it?
Where did you put it?
Where's the key?
Haven't you got the key?
Oh, honey...
Honey, don't cry,
honey, don't cry!
Don't cry.
I'll go and get a crowbar
and we'll pry it open.
Well, hurry up, will you?
Honey... oh, honey, don't cry!
Honey, don't cry!
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Don't!
Boo-hoo-hoo! Don't, honey, no.
Her tears are frozen!
Yeah. Oh, honey...
Oh, my God, no...
Honey!
Honey!
Don't jump all around!
No, don't! No, honey!
You'll use the oxygen! Don't!
Oxygen?
Yeah, jumping around.
No, honey, no.
No, not good-bye,
no, just stand still.
Lay against the wall... rest.
Lay against the
wall... Stand still!
Stand still against the wall.
Rest, honey.
Oh, here it is.
Here we go.
Are you getting it?
All right. I think we got it.
Here we go. I got it.
Oh, my goodness!
Oh!
She's stiff as a poker!
I know it.
Wait a minute.
Wait, hold it, I'll get it
Don't worry, just,
just hold her a minute.
Hold it.
I'll get her back here.
Let me help.
Get her feet, Fred.
Get her feet!
Get her feet now. Let me help.
Easy! Easy now!
Hey, fellas, easy!
Easy going around corners!
You might snap off an arm!
All right, take it easy!
All right, come on.
Now duck your head.
Watch her arm
there, watch her arm!
Hold it now, hold it!
Have some more hot soup, Lucy.
Oh, thank you.
Honey, you sure you're
going to be all right?
Y-Y-Y-Y-yeah, p-p-p-put
the blanket up another notch.
All right.
We can be sure of one thing.
That freezer really freezes.
Oh, boy, you can
s-s-say that again.
Well, how's our little
quick-frozen redhead?
Okay, Fred.
Good.
Hey!
What smells so good?
It certainly makes me
hungry, whatever it is.
Yeah.
Hey, smells like
somebody's cooking a roast.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Smells delicious.
Yeah.
Fred, where were you just now?
Down lighting the furnace, why?
Unplug me! Unplug me! Unplug me!
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter, Lucy?!
Lucy, where are you going?
Don't ask questions.
Just get a knife and a
fork and a bottle of ketchup
and follow me to the biggest
barbecue in the whole world!
The part of the deliveryman
was played by Frank Sully.
The women shoppers were
Kay Wiley and Barbara Pepper.
I love Lucy is a
Desilu production.
Oh, thank you, honey.
Hey, what goes here?
Just two eggs?
Where's the bacon?
Bacon happens to
be 75 cents a pound.
Look, Lucy, I can't
eat eggs that way.
They-they-they look
absolutely naked.
Well, look the other
way when you eat them.
Now, Lucy, where's the bacon?
As far as I'm concerned,
it's still on the hog.
I'm economizing.
Well, look, honey, that's
a very good attitude,
but why do you have
to cut down on food?
There's just no other
place to cut down.
Is that so, eh?
What about all the money
that you spend on clothes
and the beauty parlor, hmm?
Why don't you cut them out?
Well, all right, if you think
you'd like your meals served
by an ugly brunette
wearing a flour sack.
You know what I mean.
There's must be some
other way to economize.
Well, as a matter of
fact there is, Ricky.
Look, "Save money
with a home freezer.
Get your meat wholesale."
I knew it! I knew it
had to be something
in back of all this.
But it won't cost
us a cent, Ricky.
Look, it says right here:
"This freezer pays for itself."
Oh, well, let me see.
Hey, maybe we ought to get one.
Really?
Sure.
As soon as it gets
through paying for itself,
tell it to give us a
call and come over.
Now, you know what I meant.
Honey, I can't afford a freezer,
not even one
that pays for itself.
But Ricky, listen, it's only
going to save us money...
I cannot do it, honey, no.
Can't afford it.
See you later.
What about your eggs?
Oh, I got a feeling
that they won't go to waste.
Ethel is coming up, isn't she?
Good-bye.
Good-bye.
Good morning, Lucy.
Oh, yeah?
Good-bye, Lucy.
Come back, Ethel.
If I'd wanted to be
with somebody grumpy
I'd have stayed
downstairs with Fred.
What's the matter with you?
Oh, I asked Ricky
if we couldn't
have this freezer,
and he says he can't afford it.
Can't afford it.
I asked Fred to buy
us a freezer, too.
What did he say?
I'll tell you what I said.
Please, please, there
are ladies present.
I just come up to tell you
not to expect any heat today.
I put all new firebrick
in that furnace
and we can't use it
till the cement dries.
This house might be a
home freezer itself by night.
Charm boy.
Yeah.
Gee, why is it everything
that's wonderful costs money?
I don't know.
Say, why didn't I
think of this before?
Uncle Oscar!
Uncle Oscar?
My Uncle Oscar is a butcher,
and he's got a big cold chest.
Why don't you
knit him a sweater?
Well, of course, if you
don't want to hear my plan...
I do, I do.
Well, he's retiring
from the meat business,
and he's got a great
big old freezer...
You know, the kind you walk
into and hang up the meat.
I'll bet he'd sell us that
for practically nothing.
Really? I'm going
to call him up.
If we could buy it and
put it in the basement,
we'd have a real home freezer.
How much do you
think he'd sell it for?
I don't know, but there's
no harm in asking him,
'cause this would
be a great way...
Hello, Uncle Oscar?
This is little Ethel.
Little?
Uncle Oscar, how
much do you want
for that big old
freezer of yours?
For me.
Well, that sounds
like a fair price.
How much?
He'll sell it to us for nothing.
For nothing!
All we have to do is pay
for the hauling
and installation?
How much is that?
How much is that?
$50.
Sold!
We'll take it!
When can we have it installed?
This afternoon?
Oh, gee, that's fine.
Kiss Aunt Emmy for me, will you?
Good-bye, Unc.
Lucy, we now own a home freezer.
Thank you.
Let's get busy!
Look out!
What are you doing?
Ordering meat.
The sooner we get
the meat in the freezer,
the quicker we'll
be saving money.
I wonder how much
we ought to order?
Oh, 20, 25 pounds, maybe 30.
Gee, that sounds
like a lot of meat.
Honey! It'll last!
Hello?
Hello, this is Mrs.
Ricky Ricardo
at 623 East 68th Street.
I'd like to order some
meat for our freezer.
Beef.
Oh, I see.
Just a minute.
It's only 69 cents a pound!
No kidding?
Why, steak's $1.89.
I know, I'd better
order right away
before he realizes what
a bargain he's giving us.
Uh, all right, that'll
be, that'll be fine.
Oh, by the side?
Oh, well, just a minute.
That's the price by the side.
How big is a side of beef?
Well, a side of bacon
is about this big.
Oh, well, that's okay.
All right, I'll take a side.
Better make it two sides.
One for each of us.
Yeah, can you send
it over this afternoon?
East 68th Street.
That's right, thank you.
In the meantime,
we'll go downtown.
What for?
Well, with all that money
we're saving on the freezer,
we can afford to buy
ourselves new dresses.
Hurry up! Get ready! Come on!
Oh, yeah, it was a lot of money,
but after all, it's
a very basic style.
I can wear it for years.
Oh, I can hardly wait
to try these things on!
I'm going right down to my
apartment and put this on.
Oh!
Say, maybe that's the meat.
Yes, sir?
Mrs. Ricardo?
Yes, sir?
Johnson's Meat Company.
Gee, that sure
is a lot, isn't it?
Oh, there's more.
Oh?
Look at the way they wrap it.
Yeah.
My goodness.
Oh, hey, are you sure
that's all for us?
Lady, this is only
the beginning.
Oh, there must be a mistake.
Oh, that isn't a side of beef.
That must be a side of elephant.
Lucy, what have we
got ourselves into?
Well, what's all this
going to cost, Ethel?
We're getting 700
pounds of meat!
At 69 cents a pound, that's...
$483.
Listen, there's been a mistake.
You're going to have to
take most of this meat back.
All but 30 pounds. Yeah.
Sorry, ladies, once a
side of beef has been cut,
we're not allowed
to bring it back.
Come on, Ethel, let's get busy.
What are we going to do?
I'm going to paste this
animal back together again.
Find the piece that fits that.
Look, ladies, even if you
defrosted it, pasted it together
and taught it to walk,
I couldn't take it back!
Well, that's one side.
Now let's go down
and get the other one.
The other one!
Ricky and Fred
are going to kill us!
Yes, but by buying
it all wholesale,
we saved them at least $500.
I hope you can explain all that
before their fingers
tighten around our throats.
Maybe we could sell some of it!
Sell it?
Yeah, you know, we
could go to a butcher shop
and grab some of the customers
before the butcher gets to them.
We could sell this
for 79 cents a pound.
But it only cost 69.
Well, we might as well
make a little something on it.
Oh, no, Lucy,
we couldn't sell it.
It wouldn't be right.
It wouldn't be fair.
Why not?
It's...
Well, don't just stand there!
We got a lot of meat to sell!
Get ready for business.
Psst!
Psst!
Come here.
Are you tired of
paying high prices?
Are you interested in
a little high-class beef?
Do you want a bargain?
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
Step up a little closer
I don't want to
block the traffic.
Now, you look like a smart dame.
What'll it be?
I got sirloin, tenderloin,
T-bone, rump, pot roast,
chuck roast, oxtail stump.
I got a special on
T-bone, 79 cents a pound.
Well, really, I'm...
79 cents!
Shh! Quiet. Get 'em
while they last, lady.
Step right over
and help yourself.
Ethel, help the
little lady, will you?
What'll you have?
Well, I'd like a sirloin.
A sirloin coming up.
Keep it down, keep it down, kid.
How much does this weigh?
Weigh.
Three pounds.
I'll take it.
Psst!
Come here.
Are you interested in
some high-class beef?
Are you tired of
paying high prices?
Do you want a bargain?
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
Is this choice meat?
Absolutely... give the
little lady her choice, Ethel.
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
That's not what I meant.
Get away from me,
kid, you bother me.
Tell you what I'm gonna do:
Any cut you want,
79 cents a pound.
But how can you
afford to sell it so cheap?
I'm glad you asked that, lady.
This is all made possible
because we do
everything ourselves.
We rope, we brand,
we butcher, we market.
We do everything
but eat it for you.
79 cents a pound.
Well, I'll try a round steak.
Okay, step right over here.
A round steak.
Keep it down.
Hey, hey...
♪ Rock-a-bye baby ♪
♪ On the treetop ♪
♪ Rock-a-bye baby
on the treetop... ♪
Step right up.
Every...
Ohh!
Amscray, amscray! Utcherbay.
Watch the papers
for our new location!
Good afternoon.
This is the last.
Oh, thank goodness.
Boy, 700 pounds of
meat is a lot to carry.
Oh!
You know...
you know, what worries
me is how we're...
Oh! Honey, I'm sor...
Wait till I get the key.
Gee, I'm sorry!
Oh, boy, it gets cold
in there in a hurry!
Yeah, how about that.
You know, this is dangerous
not being able to open
that from the inside.
We'd better have this
lock taken off tomorrow.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Golly.
Well, Lucy, we did it. Whew!
It's all in there.
Yeah... now we
just got to explain
all this meat to Ricky and Fred.
Yeah.
You don't suppose they'd believe
that a cow wandered
in there and fell apart?
Nope.
No, I guess not.
What's that?
It's Ricky and Fred.
They're coming down here!
Oh, no, they're up
in the apartment.
We can hear them
through the furnace.
Are you sure?
Sure, I'll show you.
Don't touch that,
honey, it's hot!
No, Fred's fixing it, remember?
Oh.
I wonder what Ricky's
doing home already.
I'll see.
Lucy, they're looking for us!
What are we gonna tell them?
Well, come on, we can't
let them find us down here.
Hurry up!
Well, Ethel, look who's here!
Why, it's Ricky and Fred!
Yeah.
Girls, we want to talk to you.
About what?
I ran into Uncle Oscar today.
Start packing, Ethel.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
We're not mad at you.
We think it's a wonderful
idea that you got the freezer.
Yeah, that was a real
smart business deal.
Yeah, how about that?
In fact, we think you did
so well getting the freezer
that we want to
do our share, too.
That's right,
and just to get you started,
here's what we got.
30 pounds of meat.
Gee, swell.
Gee.
You ever saw that much
meat in your whole life?
No.
Boy, that sure is
a lot, isn't it, Ethel?
Well, come on, let's
get it down to the freezer.
Yeah, let's put it in
the freezer, come on.
No, no, wait a minute.
I have a couple of steaks.
I think we ought to
do it all in one trip.
Come here and help me, Ethel.
What's with her?
Listen, you stall them
while I get that meat
out of the freezer.
How can I stall them?
Listen, if I can move
700 pounds of meat
you ought to be able to
keep two husbands occupied
for a couple of minutes.
Well, what can I do?
Dance with them, talk, sing.
That's it, ask Ricky to sing.
Sing? You know he won't.
Oh, won't he? Listen,
you take care of the ham.
I'll take care of the beef.
Hi, fellas.
Hi. What's the delay?
Delay? Yeah.
Where's Lucy? Come on.
Lucy?
Um, uh... uh,
she, uh... she, uh...
The freezer was dirty
and she wanted to go down
and clean it all up
before you saw it.
Oh, honey, what's
the difference?
Come on, we want to see it.
Let's go down there.
Come on, let's go down.
No, wait a minute, Fred.
You know Lucy, if
she... uh... if, uh...
Ricky, I think you sing better
than anybody in the whole world.
Would you sing for me?
Sing? Now?
Yeah, now.
What's the matter with you?
Are you losing your mind?
Come on, we've got
a freezer down there
and a lot of meat to put in it.
Now let's go right now.
Wait, wait a minute, Fred.
Wait a minute.
If Ethel wants to hear
me sing that bad, I...
gee, I wouldn't
want to deprive her
of the pleasure of it.
Oh, no.
Well, you'd like to
hear me sing, eh?
All right.
You really think
I sing good, huh?
Gee, that's very nice of you.
What would you like to hear?
Anything with a lot of choruses.
Oh, boy, a lot of choruses, eh?
All right.
Here's one.
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez... ♪
Aw, Ricky!
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Pero belen, belen, belen ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba y
no te encontre... ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
- ♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
- Oh, Ricky.
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros... ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba y
no te encontre... ♪
♪ Pero belen, belen, belen ♪
♪ Adonde estabas metia ♪
♪ Yo fui hasta jesus maria ♪
♪ Yo te buscaba
y no te encontre ♪
♪ Yo estaba en casa de madrina ♪
♪ Que ayer me mando a buscar ♪
♪ En eso lado de la esquina
el viva en el manglar ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Ay, Mama Inez ♪
♪ Todos los negros
tomamos cafe. ♪
♪ Ba-la-la-bum, ba-bum-bum. ♪
Bravo! Bravo!
Oh, isn't he wonderful, Fred?
Yeah, yeah.
Sing another one, Ricky.
All right, what you
like to hear now?
How about that
dandy little ditty entitled
"Let's Vamooso To El Freezo"?
What would you
like to hear, Ethel?
Anything.
All right, here's
one you should like.
♪ Ese lunar que tienes,
cielito lindo, junto a la boca ♪
♪ No se lo des a nadi, cielito
lindo, que a mi me toca ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Canta y no llores ♪
♪ Porque cantando se alegran,
cielito lindo, los corazones ♪
♪ Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪
♪ Canta y no llores ♪
♪ Porque cantando se alegran,
cielito lindo, los corazones ♪
♪ Ese lunar que tienes,
cielito lindo, junto a la boca... ♪
Here we come, Lucy.
Have you got it all
cleaned up, Lucy?
Lucy?
Hey, this is great, Fred.
This is wonderful.
Yeah, look how big and roomy.
I bet you could hang a
whole side of beef in there.
Are you kidding?
I bet that you...
Oh!
Oh, Lucy!
Oh, Ricky, Ricky,
she's freezing.
Lucy, you come out of there!
Come out of there now!
Oh, she's locked in!
Well, where's the key?
Where's the key, Lucy?
The key, Lucy?
The key for the
door, where's the key?
The key, honey, where is it?
Where did you put it?
Where's the key?
Haven't you got the key?
Oh, honey...
Honey, don't cry,
honey, don't cry!
Don't cry.
I'll go and get a crowbar
and we'll pry it open.
Well, hurry up, will you?
Honey... oh, honey, don't cry!
Honey, don't cry!
Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Don't!
Boo-hoo-hoo! Don't, honey, no.
Her tears are frozen!
Yeah. Oh, honey...
Oh, my God, no...
Honey!
Honey!
Don't jump all around!
No, don't! No, honey!
You'll use the oxygen! Don't!
Oxygen?
Yeah, jumping around.
No, honey, no.
No, not good-bye,
no, just stand still.
Lay against the wall... rest.
Lay against the
wall... Stand still!
Stand still against the wall.
Rest, honey.
Oh, here it is.
Here we go.
Are you getting it?
All right. I think we got it.
Here we go. I got it.
Oh, my goodness!
Oh!
She's stiff as a poker!
I know it.
Wait a minute.
Wait, hold it, I'll get it
Don't worry, just,
just hold her a minute.
Hold it.
I'll get her back here.
Let me help.
Get her feet, Fred.
Get her feet!
Get her feet now. Let me help.
Easy! Easy now!
Hey, fellas, easy!
Easy going around corners!
You might snap off an arm!
All right, take it easy!
All right, come on.
Now duck your head.
Watch her arm
there, watch her arm!
Hold it now, hold it!
Have some more hot soup, Lucy.
Oh, thank you.
Honey, you sure you're
going to be all right?
Y-Y-Y-Y-yeah, p-p-p-put
the blanket up another notch.
All right.
We can be sure of one thing.
That freezer really freezes.
Oh, boy, you can
s-s-say that again.
Well, how's our little
quick-frozen redhead?
Okay, Fred.
Good.
Hey!
What smells so good?
It certainly makes me
hungry, whatever it is.
Yeah.
Hey, smells like
somebody's cooking a roast.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Smells delicious.
Yeah.
Fred, where were you just now?
Down lighting the furnace, why?
Unplug me! Unplug me! Unplug me!
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter, Lucy?!
Lucy, where are you going?
Don't ask questions.
Just get a knife and a
fork and a bottle of ketchup
and follow me to the biggest
barbecue in the whole world!
The part of the deliveryman
was played by Frank Sully.
The women shoppers were
Kay Wiley and Barbara Pepper.
I love Lucy is a
Desilu production.