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Clips from Being the Ricardos

"♪ ♪"
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"(audience laughter)"
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"JESS: It was a scary week."
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"'Cause here's what you got to understand."
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"A hit television show today..."
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"a big hit television show... what does it get?"
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"Ten million viewers."
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"Let's go crazy and say 15."
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"15 million viewers, 'cause this is a big, giant hit."
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"Here's what you got to understand."
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"I Love Lucy: 60 million."
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"Oh, yeah. (chuckles)"
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"It's been a long time, but I remember that week."
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"That was a scary week."
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"It was a very scary week."
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"Those guys scare too easy."
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"I'm from the Midwest."
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"I've lived through the Depression, the Dust Bowl."
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"I don't scare that easy."
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"But, yeah, it was a scary goddamn week."
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"Department stores used to be open late on Monday nights."
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"Then they switched to Thursday night."
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"You know why?"
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"'Cause nobody was leaving home during I Love Lucy on Mondays."
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"There was a significant drop-off in the number of people using water"
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"between 9:00 and 9:30 on Monday nights."
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"Out of the blue..."
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"Everyone almost lost their jobs."
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"Lucy and Desi almost lost their lives."
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"Out of thin air."
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"You're asking when did they find out?"
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"Same time as everyone else, listening to Walter Winchell."
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"I'm minding my own business, listening to Walter Winchell, and bam."
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"At the end of the broadcast."
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"This is what you got to understand."
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"It wasn't small potatoes when Winchell ended his broadcast by saying..."
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""Lucille Ball is a Communist.""
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"Just like that."
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"Lucille Ball is a member of the Communist Party."
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"- Yeah. - And she'd already seen the magazine story"
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"about Desi when Winchell came on."
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"The magazine came out on Mondays,"
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"but her publicist brought her a copy on Sunday night."
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"What were they doing when they first heard the news?"
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"What were they doing?"
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"I don't know what Lucy and Desi were doing,"
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"but it was Lucy and Desi, so they were either tearing each other's heads off"
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"or tearing each other's clothes off."
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"ANNOUNCER (over radio): It's time, America, time for Walter Winchell."
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"Presented to you by Gruen, the Precision watch."
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"Gruen, the finest watch you can wear."
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"- Gruen, the finest watch you can give, brings you the man... - (door opens)"
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"- DESI: Lucy, I'm home. - (door closes)"
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"LUCILLE: Where the hell have you been, you Cuban dimwit?!"
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"DESI: Oye, easy does it."
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"LUCILLE: You philandering bongo player!"
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"- DESI: I was playing cards with... - (slap)"
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"- Hey! I was playing cards with... coño. - (slap)"
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"- Oh, damn it. - You tell me when it starts to hurt."
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"- LUCILLE: The boat? The... - DESI: Yes, we were playing cards on the boat."
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"LUCILLE: Since last night? Since 27 hours ago?"
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"- DESI: Yes. - And you couldn't get to a phone?"
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"- DESI: No. - Why?"
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"DESI: I was passed out a lot of that time."
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"(Lucille groans angrily)"
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"LUCILLE: That's tomorrow's Confidential."
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"DESI: Why do you even read that magazine?"
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"- LUCILLE: Why do I even... Well, in this case... - (Desi groans)"
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"...it's 'cause my husband's on the cover with another woman."
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"So it caught my eye."
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"The story chronicles a night on the town with you and the..."
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"DESI: That's somebody's niece."
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"- LUCILLE: What the hell do I care if it's somebody's niece? - From Westinghouse."
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"That's the Westinghouse corporate... You were there."
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"That's the guy's niece."
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"That picture was taken last summer."
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"LUCILLE: You're right."
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"This was taken at the Westinghouse corporate retreat."
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"- DESI: Yes. - I apologize."
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"- DESI: Hmm. Say, "Desi, I apologize for doubting you..." - No."
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"DESI: "...for I see now that this picture was taken not last Wednesday night"
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""but six months ago at the Westinghouse corporate retreat,"
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"and I will never doubt your love for me again.""
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"- Say that. - No, and you're doing it again."
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"You're pronouncing it "Westing-gouse.""
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"DESI: It is "Westing-gouse.""
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"LUCILLE: "Westinghouse.""
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"DESI: Say, "G-H-O-S-T.""
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"LUCILLE: "Ghost.""
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"DESI: You don't pronounce an "H" after a "G.""
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""Westing-gouse.""
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"LUCILLE (breathlessly): Everything in the magazine was made up?"
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"DESI: I haven't read the story in the magazine,"
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"but unless the story's about me playing cards on the boat..."
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"- LUCILLE (panting): It's not. - Then, yes, it's made up."
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"Amor, get it through your head."
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"- You are the only thing I want. - (kissing)"
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"LUCILLE: Well, then you're an idiot."
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"- DESI: Ah, come here. - (both moaning)"
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"WINCHELL: The House Committee on Un-American Activities is holding"
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"a secret session in California."
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"The most popular of all television stars"
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"was confronted with her membership in the Communist Party."
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"- Wait! (panting) - Wait."
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"Wait."
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"(panting)"
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"What did he say?"
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"He said, "The most popular of all television stars was...""
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""Was confronted with her membership in the Communist Party.""
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"Yes."
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"He could have been talking about Imogene Coca."
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"Fuck you."
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"He was not talking about Imogene Coca."
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"(quiet chatter)"
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"VIVIAN: This is nonsense."
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"It's nonsense, and it will get worse before it gets better."
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"Little Rusty Hamer, when he signed his contract..."
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"or the guardian, whoever signs the contract for him..."
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"he had to sign a loyalty pledge."
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