I Love Lucy (1951–1957): Season 2, Episode 8 - Redecorating - full transcript
Lucy and Ethel are both sick of their furniture, so they enter a contest where the grand prize is five rooms of new furniture.
Hi, Rick.
Oh, hiya, Fred.
Is Ethel up here?
No. She went out with Lucy.
They went to the home show.
Oh... no.
Why do they have to go and
look at those model homes,
stuffed with all
that fancy furniture?
It'll only make them unhappy.
I know.
Last year Lucy went
to the home show.
When she got home,
she said all of our old
furniture gave her the hives.
It was two weeks
before Ethel could
walk into our living room
without bursting into tears.
When I told Lucy that
she couldn't redecorate,
she cried all night.
Well, let's face it,
we're in for another session
with the Sobbsy twins.
I don't know, Fred.
I got a surprise that might,
uh, take their minds off of it.
Yeah?
I managed to get four seats
for the new Rodgers
and Hammerstein show
tomorrow night.
Oh, boy! Four of them!
Hi, honey.
Hi, Ethel.
Ugh!
It's even worse
than I remembered.
Hey, hey, honey, I got a
wonderful surprise for you.
Sit down, will you?
Sit down?
On that?
How could anyone
possibly sit on that?
Well, honey, it's easy.
You stand up here like this,
and you bend your knees,
and there you are, huh?
You know what I meant.
That couch is so... so...
Comfortable?
No, no. It's so dirty,
and the-and the
springs are lumpy,
and it's... oh...
it's repulsive.
And that desk and
that tired, old lamp,
and that chair... oh!
You think this is bad?
I have to go down and
look at our apartment.
Never mind. Never mind.
It all stays as is.
But our furniture looks crummy.
It looks crummy
because it is crummy.
But it's all paid
for, so forget it.
Yeah, and that
goes for our stuff, too.
Ricky, you don't really expect
me to live...
I cannot spend one more penny...
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute!
Ethel, what are we
going through this for?
We're going to
get our furniture.
Oh, yes, I forgot.
What is this?
Look out for a trick.
It's no trick.
The home show is
having a big drawing
and the winners are each getting
five rooms of
beautiful furniture
absolutely free.
Yes.
Oh. And you two put
your names down?
That's right. Yes.
Oh, well, Fred, help me
get this junk out of the way
before the new
furniture arrives.
Excuse me.
Go ahead, make fun.
You're going to feel
pretty silly when we win.
Now, look, honey,
sit down, will you?
Hmm!
Force yourself.
Now, look, listen
to me, will you?
Do you know how many people
put their names down
on a thing like that?
Yes, I do.
Do you know that your
chances are one in a million?
A lot you know.
We each made
out a hundred cards.
Our chances are one in 10,000.
Now, look, let's forget
the whole thing, huh?
We will until they call us
and tell us that we won.
All right, all right.
Now, in the meantime,
I got some real good
news for you. What?
Well, I managed
to get four seats
for the opening of a new
musical tomorrow night.
Not the Rodgers and
Hammerstein show?
Right.
Oh, honey, how wonderful.
Ricky, that's wonderful!
Uh-oh.
What's the matter, Lucy?
We can't go out tomorrow night.
Why not? What do you
mean you can't go out?
They might call us
from the home show.
So what? They'll call you back.
Oh, no, they won't.
You have to be
home when they call.
Now, look, honey, you
know how tough it is
to get seats for
an opening night,
and this is Rodgers
and Hammerstein.
I'm sorry, dear. It's
out of the question.
I'm not leaving this house
until the home show drawing
is over, and that's final.
Hey, Fred. Gee, I'm
glad you stopped by.
I wanted to see you.
Hey, Rick. What are
you doing around here
this early in the morning?
Well, I had a bunch of
business calls to make
and Lucy won't let
me use the phone.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
We may as well forget
about that opening night.
Well, I don't know, Fred.
I got a plan on how
to get Lucy and Ethel
out of the house tonight.
How?
Make them think that
one of them won the prize.
What?
Well, look, we know that they
haven't got a chance anyway.
So all we have to do
is one of us has
to get to the phone,
call Lucy and tell her
that she won the prize.
And then make
sure that you hang up
before she
recognizes your voice.
Wait a minute.
Why should I be the one to call?
Well, Fred, I'd
be glad to do it,
I'd love to do it,
but she'd recognize
my accent in a minute.
You're going to use an accent?
Never mind.
Now, will you call her?
Well, okay, okay.
Well, go ahead;
there's the phone.
Well, now, wait a
minute, wait a minute.
I got to get up my nerve.
Oh, Hazel, give me a
double-chocolate malted.
I'll see you later.
Hi.
Ethel, what are you doing
away from your phone?
I'm not.
Is it connected?
Yeah. Fred fixed it
so I could go
anyplace in the building.
Where did you ever
get such a long cord?
Well, don't tell the
phone company,
but every time anybody
moves out of an apartment,
Fred swipes the extension cord.
Oh. Gee, my phone
hasn't rung all morning.
I wonder if there's
anything wrong with it.
Oh, darn these party lines.
There's always
somebody using it.
Well, tell them to get off.
Oh, you know how much
good that would do me.
I've had run-ins with
these characters before.
Well, it's about time
she named the date.
Do you know how long
she's been engaged?
Huh?
14 years.
16 years.
I'll believe the
marriage when I see it.
Pardon me, but would you
please get off the phone?
Wait a minute, Agnes.
Miss Big Ears is listening in.
I'm sorry, but the
phone is in use.
But this is an emergency.
It's a matter of life and death.
Help, fire!
Help, fire! Fire!
Help!
Ah, try something new.
Now, what were we saying, Agnes?
Oh... there's no use.
I'll bet the home show's
calling me right now.
Oh, dear.
Hey, I got an idea.
This worked once before.
What?
Now, be quiet.
Absolutely.
What else is new, Agnes?
Oh, so many things.
Boy, have I got dirt to spill.
Go ahead. I'm listening.
Oops, there goes my doorbell.
I'll have to call you back.
Okay, dear, good-bye.
Okay, good-bye.
There now.
Gee, if it doesn't ring
soon for one of us,
I'm going to be a nervous wreck.
So am I.
All this suspense is
making me hungry.
Well, come on.
Let's go in the kitchen
and make a sandwich.
We can hear the
phone from there.
Okay.
Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
It's the home show.
You got my phone. Hello?
I have not. This is my phone.
No, that's my phone!
Ethel, that's my phone.
Hello?
Hello? Yes, this
is Mrs. Ricardo.
Yes.
I did?
I didn't?
I did?
Oh... oh, thank you so much.
Oh, yes, yes, I'm very thrilled.
Yes. Good-bye.
Ethel, I won!
I won all the furniture!
Gee, that's swell.
And that's for you,
you ugly, old thing.
Oh, Lucy, look what you've done.
You broke off the leg.
I don't care.
I won! I won!
I won all that
wonderful furniture.
And you know what I'm
going to do now? What?
I'm going to get
rid of all this junk.
I'm going to call a
secondhand man
and I'm going to
have him come over
and I'm going to sell him
everything but the lightbulbs.
Now, that glue ought to hold it.
Help me set it up.
Okay.
You ready? Mm-hmm.
Oh... boy, will I be glad
to get rid of this junk.
Oh, there he is.
Hide that glue.
Mrs. Ricardo?
Yes.
I'm Dan Jenkins,
secondhand furniture man.
Oh, come right in.
Is this the junk
you want to sell?
Junk?
Why, this is fine furniture
in excellent condition.
Yeah...
Yeah, sure.
Hmm.
Hmm...
Ah, ah... oh.
Uh...
This is my neighbor, Mrs. Mertz.
Mr. Jenkins.
How do you do? How do
you do? How do you do?
Well...
Y-You can see
that everything's
practically new.
It's hardly been used at all.
Yeah, I see.
She's right.
Many times I've been up
here when nobody sat down.
Uh-huh.
You see, I wouldn't
dream of selling
except that someone's
giving us some new furniture.
Well, uh... bedroom
furniture, too?
Yes, in there.
Ah.
I don't think he
likes it, do you?
He just wants us to think that.
You watch... when he comes out,
he's going to make
me a very low offer
and I'll just get him to
go higher and higher.
You watch.
Mrs. Ricardo...
Yes?
Well, I'll take your furniture.
You will?
Yeah, and I'll give you...
Oh, I shouldn't go this high,
but I took an
immediate liking to you,
so I'll give you $100.
$100?
Well, you'd better
look again, Mr. Jenkins.
All right, make it $90.
Ninety?!
Oh, that's ridiculous.
Why, this coffee table
alone is worth more than that.
Seventy-five.
I'll take it.
Sign the bill of sale, please.
$5... $30, $60...
$70 and $5.
Thank you.
I'll have my truck in the
neighborhood this afternoon.
Can I pick up
the furniture then?
Oh, well, could you check back?
I'd kind of like to have the new
furniture here before you take this.
All right.
Now, you ladies sure
made a sharp deal.
Getting 75 bucks out of me
for all this broken-down stuff.
Ooh.
Well...
I'll just have to make it
up on the next customer.
Afternoon, ladies.
Good-bye.
Gee, I'm sorry.
Well, it really doesn't matter,
as long as I'm getting the
new furniture for nothing.
Oh.
Gee, you know it's a shame
to put all that new stuff in here
with this old paint and paper.
You know what I'm going to
do with this money? What?
I'm going to repaint and repaper
this whole dingy apartment.
Oh, Lucy, paper hangers
are awful expensive.
Who needs a paper hanger?
We'll do it ourselves.
We will?
Sure. Come on, let's go downtown
and buy all the paper and stuff.
Okay, I'll get dressed.
Hurry up, now.
♪ ♪
There. Did you get it all?
Is this everything we need?
Yep. Let me see it.
Let me see how it looks here.
Oh, boy! Isn't that pretty?
Isn't it beautiful
for a bedroom?
Uh-huh.
It's so dreamy.
Isn't that nice?
Well, let's get started.
By the time we get
to the living room,
we'll be professionals.
We got to measure it.
Now, I got to find out
how much paper there
is in each roll. Okay.
Got to get... have an idea
of how many we need, you know?
All right.
Okay... there.
That's-that's about it
now, I think. All right.
Put it down here a minute.
Let's see now.
It's about... that high.
Hold it up.
All right.
There.
Now we got to
put the paste on it.
All right.
Turn it over.
Lay it down on the floor.
Oh, Lucy, it'll get dirty.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you hold it
up in front of you
and I'll put paste
on it that way.
All right. Now be careful.
Ready? Yeah.
Hold on now.
All right.
Okay.
Keep it moving. Okay. Okay.
Keep it moving. All right.
Keep it moving.
Oh, Lucy!
Ethel, I'm sorry. Oh...
You're on the paper!
I'm sorry, Lucy, but you
hit me in the face with that.
Oh, look what you did.
Well, let's straighten it out.
Wait... wait...
Ethel, we haven't
got a lot of paper.
You have to be careful.
Could we use
that-that little...?
Oh, Lucy.
This looks like the
biggest chunk here.
Oh... here.
Whoo!
Oh, we can't use this.
We'll have to cut another piece.
All right, put it over here.
Oh, that's a shame.
I got that so pretty, too.
Let's try another one, huh?
All right now.
Be careful now. I will.
There. Now, that's about it.
There.
Now...
turn it over.
Careful.
Okay.
Oh, no, that didn't work.
Put it down on the floor.
Oh, okay.
There we are.
Yep.
It'll look so pretty up there.
Oh.
Oh, Lucy.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, honey.
Now leave me alone.
Move back.
There now.
Okay.
There now.
Now we got to
get it on the wall.
Where?
Right over there in the corner.
Okay, in the corner.
All right. Listen, you'd
better come up here
on this side with me.
All right.
Now be careful.
All right.
Okay? Ready.
Okay, let's go.
What's the matter with you?
You said over
here in the corner.
Well, I meant in this corner!
Oh...!
Now take ahold of it.
Okay.
Now, are you ready?
Now, before we start,
which wall do you want it on?
That wall.
Put it in the middle...
We'll have plenty of
room on either side.
Okay. Ready?
One, two, three.
Go!
How do you get the slack out?
Not very straight, is it?
No.
Well, look, we can put
the rest of it on at this angle
and then it'll be uniform.
You'll have to hang
on the mattress
to keep from falling out of bed.
Mrs. Ricardo, got
my van downstairs
ready to pick up my furniture.
Oh, well, uh, my new
stuff hasn't arrived yet.
Oh. Well, I'll call back
in the morning, huh?
Okay. I'll sure be glad
to get rid of this old junk.
Bye.
Bye.
Hi, honey.
Oh, darn.
I'd hoped that you
wouldn't get home until later.
What's going on?
Well, I kind of wanted
to surprise you, but I won.
The home show called,
and I won all the furniture.
Oh, that's nice, yeah, but,
uh, what are you doing?
Well, did you see
that man that just left?
Yeah.
Well, that's Mr. Jenkins
and I sold him all of
our furniture for $75.
And Ethel and I
are... You what?!
What? You what?!
I said, I sold him
all the furniture.
Mr. Jenkins! Mr. Jenkins!
Mr. Jenkins!
You calling me?
Yeah. Please come
back here, Mr. Jenkins!
Please come back! Hurry up!
Oh, my goodness.
What's the matter, Ricky?
He gave me $75
for all the stuff.
$75 for all...?
Oh, no.
Me and my great ideas.
That wasn't the
home show calling,
that was Fred.
Fred?
Yeah, Fred.
Ricky, what are you saying?
Well, I thought
it was a nice way
to get you out of the
house to go to the opening...
Somebody call me?
Yeah, Mr. Jenkins, come
here, would you please?
I want to talk to you a minute.
Here, sit down, won't you?
This is a nice chair here.
Sit down, Mr. Jenkins.
Sit down here a minute.
Listen, Mr. Jenkins...
Listen... there's been
a terrible mistake.
It's all my stupidity.
You see, my wife
didn't win the prize at all,
and, you see, I thought...
Uh, I want to get
the furniture back.
Oh, fine, that's okay by me.
Thank you. Give me
the $75, will you, honey?
What's the matter, honey?
I spent the money
for the wallpaper.
Oh. Well, I'll give you the $75.
Hey, just a minute, Mr. Ricardo.
I'll be glad to
sell you this stuff,
but certainly you don't
expect to get three rooms
full of beautiful furniture
like this for a measly $75?
But that's what you paid for it!
That's true,
but I'm in the business.
It isn't just the
purchase price.
I got to add my
overhead, electricity, rent,
insurance, storage
charges, advertising.
You haven't moved a stick of
furniture out of this apartment.
Yeah... Wait a
minute. Wait a minute.
Lucy, did you sign anything?
No... only a bill of sale.
Only a bill of sale.
All right, Mr. Jenkins,
you paid $75 for the furniture?
Now, how much all this
other stuff that you mentioned?
What... what does it add up to?
What? What was...?
Now remember, you
haven't moved anything
out of the apartment.
Oh, I'm allowing for that.
Better take another
look at the furniture.
We've had it an awful long time,
and the paint's all off,
and it's real ugly,
and it's old, and...
I realize how much
these valuable antiques
mean to you, madam.
Antiques?
Lucy, please, you said enough.
Wha...
All right, how much?
How much? Well...
I shouldn't really do this.
I'm taking off
every penny I can.
I'll let you have it all for...
only $500.
$500!
That's ridiculous.
I won't buy it back.
I'll get the fellas
in the van...
Now, wait a minute.
Don't hurry up so fast.
Come back here
a minute, will you?
Now, let's compromise, maybe.
How about two, uh...?
$300 and, uh...
uh, $95?
Well, I'm a lousy businessman
but, uh, I like the
way you sing "Babalu,"
so I'll take it.
Thank you.
Mira, lo que me pasa a mi,
no le pasa a nadie en este pais.
Vende el furniture for $75.
Y lo tengo que
comprar ahora por $395.
Ese va ser. Aqui esta.
Ah, you two are certainly
making a sharp deal. Well...
I guess I'll just
have to make it up...
Yeah, you'll just make it up
on your next customer. I know.
Well... evening.
Good-bye.
Adios.
Now, Ricky,
it wasn't my fault.
I know. I know.
It's all my fault.
It is?
Yeah. Come on, I'll help you
carry the stuff into
the bedroom. Come on.
In the bedroom?
Yeah.
Uh, well, we-we really haven't
finished papering in
there yet, and I, uh...
What? What? What?
What did you say?
I said, we haven't finished
papering in there yet, and...
Who is "we"?
"We" is Ethel and
Lucy paper hanger.
Oh, this... this I got to see.
No, Ricky.
I won't get mad.
You promise?
I promise you I won't get mad.
Promise? Yeah.
Just let me see it.
Now, come on.
You and Ethel papered
the room. Uh-huh.
Just the two of
you, huh? Uh-huh.
Ricky, what's the matter?
It makes me dizzy.
Open the window, will
you? I need some air.
Window? Window.
Lucy, what have you
done with the windows?
Now, don't worry.
It's here someplace.
There.
How can you possibly
paper over a window?!
Now, Ricky, don't bawl me out.
That's only a minor thing.
Wait till I tell
Ethel I didn't win.
What's the matter?
Where is Ethel?
Where is Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel!
What?
Ethel, the most terrible
thing has happened.
Oh, Ricky!
I'm in here, Fred! What? What?
I was waiting for
you to get home.
What happened?
Lucy sold all the furniture
and papered the room,
thanks to a very
funny phone call.
What phone call?
Look, don't try to cover it up.
She knows all about it.
No, no, no. That's what
I was going to tell you.
I lost my nerve and I
didn't make that phone call.
Then who did?
It must have been the home show!
I won! I really won! I won!
I really won!
Oh, hiya, Fred.
Is Ethel up here?
No. She went out with Lucy.
They went to the home show.
Oh... no.
Why do they have to go and
look at those model homes,
stuffed with all
that fancy furniture?
It'll only make them unhappy.
I know.
Last year Lucy went
to the home show.
When she got home,
she said all of our old
furniture gave her the hives.
It was two weeks
before Ethel could
walk into our living room
without bursting into tears.
When I told Lucy that
she couldn't redecorate,
she cried all night.
Well, let's face it,
we're in for another session
with the Sobbsy twins.
I don't know, Fred.
I got a surprise that might,
uh, take their minds off of it.
Yeah?
I managed to get four seats
for the new Rodgers
and Hammerstein show
tomorrow night.
Oh, boy! Four of them!
Hi, honey.
Hi, Ethel.
Ugh!
It's even worse
than I remembered.
Hey, hey, honey, I got a
wonderful surprise for you.
Sit down, will you?
Sit down?
On that?
How could anyone
possibly sit on that?
Well, honey, it's easy.
You stand up here like this,
and you bend your knees,
and there you are, huh?
You know what I meant.
That couch is so... so...
Comfortable?
No, no. It's so dirty,
and the-and the
springs are lumpy,
and it's... oh...
it's repulsive.
And that desk and
that tired, old lamp,
and that chair... oh!
You think this is bad?
I have to go down and
look at our apartment.
Never mind. Never mind.
It all stays as is.
But our furniture looks crummy.
It looks crummy
because it is crummy.
But it's all paid
for, so forget it.
Yeah, and that
goes for our stuff, too.
Ricky, you don't really expect
me to live...
I cannot spend one more penny...
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute!
Ethel, what are we
going through this for?
We're going to
get our furniture.
Oh, yes, I forgot.
What is this?
Look out for a trick.
It's no trick.
The home show is
having a big drawing
and the winners are each getting
five rooms of
beautiful furniture
absolutely free.
Yes.
Oh. And you two put
your names down?
That's right. Yes.
Oh, well, Fred, help me
get this junk out of the way
before the new
furniture arrives.
Excuse me.
Go ahead, make fun.
You're going to feel
pretty silly when we win.
Now, look, honey,
sit down, will you?
Hmm!
Force yourself.
Now, look, listen
to me, will you?
Do you know how many people
put their names down
on a thing like that?
Yes, I do.
Do you know that your
chances are one in a million?
A lot you know.
We each made
out a hundred cards.
Our chances are one in 10,000.
Now, look, let's forget
the whole thing, huh?
We will until they call us
and tell us that we won.
All right, all right.
Now, in the meantime,
I got some real good
news for you. What?
Well, I managed
to get four seats
for the opening of a new
musical tomorrow night.
Not the Rodgers and
Hammerstein show?
Right.
Oh, honey, how wonderful.
Ricky, that's wonderful!
Uh-oh.
What's the matter, Lucy?
We can't go out tomorrow night.
Why not? What do you
mean you can't go out?
They might call us
from the home show.
So what? They'll call you back.
Oh, no, they won't.
You have to be
home when they call.
Now, look, honey, you
know how tough it is
to get seats for
an opening night,
and this is Rodgers
and Hammerstein.
I'm sorry, dear. It's
out of the question.
I'm not leaving this house
until the home show drawing
is over, and that's final.
Hey, Fred. Gee, I'm
glad you stopped by.
I wanted to see you.
Hey, Rick. What are
you doing around here
this early in the morning?
Well, I had a bunch of
business calls to make
and Lucy won't let
me use the phone.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
We may as well forget
about that opening night.
Well, I don't know, Fred.
I got a plan on how
to get Lucy and Ethel
out of the house tonight.
How?
Make them think that
one of them won the prize.
What?
Well, look, we know that they
haven't got a chance anyway.
So all we have to do
is one of us has
to get to the phone,
call Lucy and tell her
that she won the prize.
And then make
sure that you hang up
before she
recognizes your voice.
Wait a minute.
Why should I be the one to call?
Well, Fred, I'd
be glad to do it,
I'd love to do it,
but she'd recognize
my accent in a minute.
You're going to use an accent?
Never mind.
Now, will you call her?
Well, okay, okay.
Well, go ahead;
there's the phone.
Well, now, wait a
minute, wait a minute.
I got to get up my nerve.
Oh, Hazel, give me a
double-chocolate malted.
I'll see you later.
Hi.
Ethel, what are you doing
away from your phone?
I'm not.
Is it connected?
Yeah. Fred fixed it
so I could go
anyplace in the building.
Where did you ever
get such a long cord?
Well, don't tell the
phone company,
but every time anybody
moves out of an apartment,
Fred swipes the extension cord.
Oh. Gee, my phone
hasn't rung all morning.
I wonder if there's
anything wrong with it.
Oh, darn these party lines.
There's always
somebody using it.
Well, tell them to get off.
Oh, you know how much
good that would do me.
I've had run-ins with
these characters before.
Well, it's about time
she named the date.
Do you know how long
she's been engaged?
Huh?
14 years.
16 years.
I'll believe the
marriage when I see it.
Pardon me, but would you
please get off the phone?
Wait a minute, Agnes.
Miss Big Ears is listening in.
I'm sorry, but the
phone is in use.
But this is an emergency.
It's a matter of life and death.
Help, fire!
Help, fire! Fire!
Help!
Ah, try something new.
Now, what were we saying, Agnes?
Oh... there's no use.
I'll bet the home show's
calling me right now.
Oh, dear.
Hey, I got an idea.
This worked once before.
What?
Now, be quiet.
Absolutely.
What else is new, Agnes?
Oh, so many things.
Boy, have I got dirt to spill.
Go ahead. I'm listening.
Oops, there goes my doorbell.
I'll have to call you back.
Okay, dear, good-bye.
Okay, good-bye.
There now.
Gee, if it doesn't ring
soon for one of us,
I'm going to be a nervous wreck.
So am I.
All this suspense is
making me hungry.
Well, come on.
Let's go in the kitchen
and make a sandwich.
We can hear the
phone from there.
Okay.
Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
It's the home show.
You got my phone. Hello?
I have not. This is my phone.
No, that's my phone!
Ethel, that's my phone.
Hello?
Hello? Yes, this
is Mrs. Ricardo.
Yes.
I did?
I didn't?
I did?
Oh... oh, thank you so much.
Oh, yes, yes, I'm very thrilled.
Yes. Good-bye.
Ethel, I won!
I won all the furniture!
Gee, that's swell.
And that's for you,
you ugly, old thing.
Oh, Lucy, look what you've done.
You broke off the leg.
I don't care.
I won! I won!
I won all that
wonderful furniture.
And you know what I'm
going to do now? What?
I'm going to get
rid of all this junk.
I'm going to call a
secondhand man
and I'm going to
have him come over
and I'm going to sell him
everything but the lightbulbs.
Now, that glue ought to hold it.
Help me set it up.
Okay.
You ready? Mm-hmm.
Oh... boy, will I be glad
to get rid of this junk.
Oh, there he is.
Hide that glue.
Mrs. Ricardo?
Yes.
I'm Dan Jenkins,
secondhand furniture man.
Oh, come right in.
Is this the junk
you want to sell?
Junk?
Why, this is fine furniture
in excellent condition.
Yeah...
Yeah, sure.
Hmm.
Hmm...
Ah, ah... oh.
Uh...
This is my neighbor, Mrs. Mertz.
Mr. Jenkins.
How do you do? How do
you do? How do you do?
Well...
Y-You can see
that everything's
practically new.
It's hardly been used at all.
Yeah, I see.
She's right.
Many times I've been up
here when nobody sat down.
Uh-huh.
You see, I wouldn't
dream of selling
except that someone's
giving us some new furniture.
Well, uh... bedroom
furniture, too?
Yes, in there.
Ah.
I don't think he
likes it, do you?
He just wants us to think that.
You watch... when he comes out,
he's going to make
me a very low offer
and I'll just get him to
go higher and higher.
You watch.
Mrs. Ricardo...
Yes?
Well, I'll take your furniture.
You will?
Yeah, and I'll give you...
Oh, I shouldn't go this high,
but I took an
immediate liking to you,
so I'll give you $100.
$100?
Well, you'd better
look again, Mr. Jenkins.
All right, make it $90.
Ninety?!
Oh, that's ridiculous.
Why, this coffee table
alone is worth more than that.
Seventy-five.
I'll take it.
Sign the bill of sale, please.
$5... $30, $60...
$70 and $5.
Thank you.
I'll have my truck in the
neighborhood this afternoon.
Can I pick up
the furniture then?
Oh, well, could you check back?
I'd kind of like to have the new
furniture here before you take this.
All right.
Now, you ladies sure
made a sharp deal.
Getting 75 bucks out of me
for all this broken-down stuff.
Ooh.
Well...
I'll just have to make it
up on the next customer.
Afternoon, ladies.
Good-bye.
Gee, I'm sorry.
Well, it really doesn't matter,
as long as I'm getting the
new furniture for nothing.
Oh.
Gee, you know it's a shame
to put all that new stuff in here
with this old paint and paper.
You know what I'm going to
do with this money? What?
I'm going to repaint and repaper
this whole dingy apartment.
Oh, Lucy, paper hangers
are awful expensive.
Who needs a paper hanger?
We'll do it ourselves.
We will?
Sure. Come on, let's go downtown
and buy all the paper and stuff.
Okay, I'll get dressed.
Hurry up, now.
♪ ♪
There. Did you get it all?
Is this everything we need?
Yep. Let me see it.
Let me see how it looks here.
Oh, boy! Isn't that pretty?
Isn't it beautiful
for a bedroom?
Uh-huh.
It's so dreamy.
Isn't that nice?
Well, let's get started.
By the time we get
to the living room,
we'll be professionals.
We got to measure it.
Now, I got to find out
how much paper there
is in each roll. Okay.
Got to get... have an idea
of how many we need, you know?
All right.
Okay... there.
That's-that's about it
now, I think. All right.
Put it down here a minute.
Let's see now.
It's about... that high.
Hold it up.
All right.
There.
Now we got to
put the paste on it.
All right.
Turn it over.
Lay it down on the floor.
Oh, Lucy, it'll get dirty.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you hold it
up in front of you
and I'll put paste
on it that way.
All right. Now be careful.
Ready? Yeah.
Hold on now.
All right.
Okay.
Keep it moving. Okay. Okay.
Keep it moving. All right.
Keep it moving.
Oh, Lucy!
Ethel, I'm sorry. Oh...
You're on the paper!
I'm sorry, Lucy, but you
hit me in the face with that.
Oh, look what you did.
Well, let's straighten it out.
Wait... wait...
Ethel, we haven't
got a lot of paper.
You have to be careful.
Could we use
that-that little...?
Oh, Lucy.
This looks like the
biggest chunk here.
Oh... here.
Whoo!
Oh, we can't use this.
We'll have to cut another piece.
All right, put it over here.
Oh, that's a shame.
I got that so pretty, too.
Let's try another one, huh?
All right now.
Be careful now. I will.
There. Now, that's about it.
There.
Now...
turn it over.
Careful.
Okay.
Oh, no, that didn't work.
Put it down on the floor.
Oh, okay.
There we are.
Yep.
It'll look so pretty up there.
Oh.
Oh, Lucy.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, honey.
Now leave me alone.
Move back.
There now.
Okay.
There now.
Now we got to
get it on the wall.
Where?
Right over there in the corner.
Okay, in the corner.
All right. Listen, you'd
better come up here
on this side with me.
All right.
Now be careful.
All right.
Okay? Ready.
Okay, let's go.
What's the matter with you?
You said over
here in the corner.
Well, I meant in this corner!
Oh...!
Now take ahold of it.
Okay.
Now, are you ready?
Now, before we start,
which wall do you want it on?
That wall.
Put it in the middle...
We'll have plenty of
room on either side.
Okay. Ready?
One, two, three.
Go!
How do you get the slack out?
Not very straight, is it?
No.
Well, look, we can put
the rest of it on at this angle
and then it'll be uniform.
You'll have to hang
on the mattress
to keep from falling out of bed.
Mrs. Ricardo, got
my van downstairs
ready to pick up my furniture.
Oh, well, uh, my new
stuff hasn't arrived yet.
Oh. Well, I'll call back
in the morning, huh?
Okay. I'll sure be glad
to get rid of this old junk.
Bye.
Bye.
Hi, honey.
Oh, darn.
I'd hoped that you
wouldn't get home until later.
What's going on?
Well, I kind of wanted
to surprise you, but I won.
The home show called,
and I won all the furniture.
Oh, that's nice, yeah, but,
uh, what are you doing?
Well, did you see
that man that just left?
Yeah.
Well, that's Mr. Jenkins
and I sold him all of
our furniture for $75.
And Ethel and I
are... You what?!
What? You what?!
I said, I sold him
all the furniture.
Mr. Jenkins! Mr. Jenkins!
Mr. Jenkins!
You calling me?
Yeah. Please come
back here, Mr. Jenkins!
Please come back! Hurry up!
Oh, my goodness.
What's the matter, Ricky?
He gave me $75
for all the stuff.
$75 for all...?
Oh, no.
Me and my great ideas.
That wasn't the
home show calling,
that was Fred.
Fred?
Yeah, Fred.
Ricky, what are you saying?
Well, I thought
it was a nice way
to get you out of the
house to go to the opening...
Somebody call me?
Yeah, Mr. Jenkins, come
here, would you please?
I want to talk to you a minute.
Here, sit down, won't you?
This is a nice chair here.
Sit down, Mr. Jenkins.
Sit down here a minute.
Listen, Mr. Jenkins...
Listen... there's been
a terrible mistake.
It's all my stupidity.
You see, my wife
didn't win the prize at all,
and, you see, I thought...
Uh, I want to get
the furniture back.
Oh, fine, that's okay by me.
Thank you. Give me
the $75, will you, honey?
What's the matter, honey?
I spent the money
for the wallpaper.
Oh. Well, I'll give you the $75.
Hey, just a minute, Mr. Ricardo.
I'll be glad to
sell you this stuff,
but certainly you don't
expect to get three rooms
full of beautiful furniture
like this for a measly $75?
But that's what you paid for it!
That's true,
but I'm in the business.
It isn't just the
purchase price.
I got to add my
overhead, electricity, rent,
insurance, storage
charges, advertising.
You haven't moved a stick of
furniture out of this apartment.
Yeah... Wait a
minute. Wait a minute.
Lucy, did you sign anything?
No... only a bill of sale.
Only a bill of sale.
All right, Mr. Jenkins,
you paid $75 for the furniture?
Now, how much all this
other stuff that you mentioned?
What... what does it add up to?
What? What was...?
Now remember, you
haven't moved anything
out of the apartment.
Oh, I'm allowing for that.
Better take another
look at the furniture.
We've had it an awful long time,
and the paint's all off,
and it's real ugly,
and it's old, and...
I realize how much
these valuable antiques
mean to you, madam.
Antiques?
Lucy, please, you said enough.
Wha...
All right, how much?
How much? Well...
I shouldn't really do this.
I'm taking off
every penny I can.
I'll let you have it all for...
only $500.
$500!
That's ridiculous.
I won't buy it back.
I'll get the fellas
in the van...
Now, wait a minute.
Don't hurry up so fast.
Come back here
a minute, will you?
Now, let's compromise, maybe.
How about two, uh...?
$300 and, uh...
uh, $95?
Well, I'm a lousy businessman
but, uh, I like the
way you sing "Babalu,"
so I'll take it.
Thank you.
Mira, lo que me pasa a mi,
no le pasa a nadie en este pais.
Vende el furniture for $75.
Y lo tengo que
comprar ahora por $395.
Ese va ser. Aqui esta.
Ah, you two are certainly
making a sharp deal. Well...
I guess I'll just
have to make it up...
Yeah, you'll just make it up
on your next customer. I know.
Well... evening.
Good-bye.
Adios.
Now, Ricky,
it wasn't my fault.
I know. I know.
It's all my fault.
It is?
Yeah. Come on, I'll help you
carry the stuff into
the bedroom. Come on.
In the bedroom?
Yeah.
Uh, well, we-we really haven't
finished papering in
there yet, and I, uh...
What? What? What?
What did you say?
I said, we haven't finished
papering in there yet, and...
Who is "we"?
"We" is Ethel and
Lucy paper hanger.
Oh, this... this I got to see.
No, Ricky.
I won't get mad.
You promise?
I promise you I won't get mad.
Promise? Yeah.
Just let me see it.
Now, come on.
You and Ethel papered
the room. Uh-huh.
Just the two of
you, huh? Uh-huh.
Ricky, what's the matter?
It makes me dizzy.
Open the window, will
you? I need some air.
Window? Window.
Lucy, what have you
done with the windows?
Now, don't worry.
It's here someplace.
There.
How can you possibly
paper over a window?!
Now, Ricky, don't bawl me out.
That's only a minor thing.
Wait till I tell
Ethel I didn't win.
What's the matter?
Where is Ethel?
Where is Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel?
Ethel!
What?
Ethel, the most terrible
thing has happened.
Oh, Ricky!
I'm in here, Fred! What? What?
I was waiting for
you to get home.
What happened?
Lucy sold all the furniture
and papered the room,
thanks to a very
funny phone call.
What phone call?
Look, don't try to cover it up.
She knows all about it.
No, no, no. That's what
I was going to tell you.
I lost my nerve and I
didn't make that phone call.
Then who did?
It must have been the home show!
I won! I really won! I won!
I really won!