I Love Lucy (TV Series)

Little Ricky's School Pageant (1956)

William Frawley: Fred Mertz

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• Lucy Ricardo : [Little Ricky convinces Big Ricky to swallow his pride and be a hollow tree in the school pageant]  Well, I guess he taught you a lesson. Just because you couldn't be the Big Cheese, you didn't want to play.

  Ricky Ricardo : Don't you talk too much. Wait 'til you find out what they want you to do.

  Lucy Ricardo : What?

  Ricky Ricardo : You are going to be the Old Witch.

  Ethel Mertz : Oh, a hollow tree and an Old Witch. That's funny, huh?

  Ricky Ricardo : And don't you two laugh, either.

  Ethel Mertz : What do you mean?

  Ricky Ricardo : Well, all the parents are busy in the production and direction end of this extravaganza, so I told them that you two would be very happy to take a part.

  Fred Mertz : Oh, no. What'd they pick out for me?

  Ricky Ricardo : Oh, they got a dilly for you. You're gonna be a frog!

  Ethel Mertz : Freddy the Frog. Oh, that's *really* funny!

  Ricky Ricardo : And you, Ethel, are going to be the Fairy Princess.

  Ethel Mertz : [suddenly feeling elegant]  Ohhhh.

  Fred Mertz : Well, if there's anything funnier than me being a frog, its you being a Fairy Princess!