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Oh, good morning, Mrs. Trumbull. Good morning.

Well... Happy birthday to you. Happy

birthday to you.

Happy birthday, Mrs.

Ricardo. Happy birthday to you.

Well, thank you very much, Mrs. Trumbull. But today isn't my birthday.

No.

Well, I wrote the date down when the merchants gave you that birthday party

year. Can't understand how I could have made such a mistake.

When is your birthday?

Never.

What?

I had my last birthday a year ago today.

Oh.

So you've reached that point. Mm -hmm. I know how you feel. I stopped having

birthdays when I was your age.

At least I think.

I was your age?

How old are you?

How old were you when you stopped?

Well, my last birthday, it was my 29th. You were just my age.

That's what I figured.

I was 34 at the time.

Well,

if it isn't your birthday, I'll take back my song.

Well, thank you very much. It was a very nice song, but I just... don't want

anything to remind me it's my birthday.

Gee, I wonder how I can keep Ricky from remembering.

Just don't tell him, Mrs.

Trumbull. I'll have you know that Ricky never forgets my birthday. Why, this is

the most important day of the year to him.

Well, that's nice.

Lucy!

Yes, dear?

Have I got any clean handkerchiefs? Uh, in the top drawer.

You just watch what a big fussy makes.

Oh, hello, Mrs. Trumbull.

Honey, I'm in a hurry, so I'll eat breakfast on the way down to the club.

Goodbye. Bye.

Bye.

What are you looking for, dear?

I got something for you.

You have?

Oh, here it is.

I broke the crystal to my watch. Would you take it to the jeweler's for me,

please?

Sure, sure.

Thanks.

Well... He's probably going to buy my present downtown today, and he'll bring

home with him when he comes home to dinner tonight.

Yes. Honey. Oh, yes, dear?

I almost forgot what day this is.

You did?

I got an extra rehearsal at the club, so I won't be able to be home for dinner.

Now, don't feel too bad, Mrs. Ricardo.

Remember, you wanted him to forget your birthday.

Sure, I wanted him to forget my birthday.

But he forgot my birthday.

Hi, Rick. Come on in. No, Fred, I'm in a hurry. Look, I just wanted to check.

Did you order the cake?

We certainly did.

It's got pink roses and a great big heart with happy birthday Lucy written

on top of it. Oh, gee, that's just wonderful.

Oh, you should have seen it just now.

She was just about to cry because she thinks that I've forgotten her birthday.

Well, we'll make up for it tonight. And everybody said they could come.

Let me see. There's the Orsatis, the Sedgwicks, the Morgans, and the Van

Wonderful, wonderful. I got a big ringside table at the club. I'm getting

fixed up real pretty. And I wrote a special song just for Lucy. A song?

kidding? Yeah. Oh, great. Now, look. Look, will you tell Ethel to keep it

You mean old blabbermouth?

Yeah.

Don't worry, she won't say a word.

I'll see you later, Frank. Thanks a lot. So long, Rick.

Oh,

my dear, you mustn't brood because your husband acted that way.

I'm not brooding.

I'm really glad that Ricky forgot my birthday.

It's just that it makes him look so bad in comparison to all my other friends

who think enough of me to remember.

Like you and Ethel Murth and all the rest.

Mrs. Trumbull, would you stay here with little Ricky while I go downstairs for a

while? Why, certainly. You know, I guess I am feeling a little low about Ricky,

and all the fuss that Ethel will make over my birthday will kind of cheer me

a little.

To say nothing of the nice present she has undoubtedly bought me.

Right.

I'll stay with the baby just as long as you want, thank you. Now, don't rush.

No, I won't, thanks.

Hi, Lucy.

Hi.

I was just coming down to see you.

You were?

Uh -huh.

Why?

Oh, I just wanted to say hello.

Oh.

Hello.

Hello.

What did you want to see me about?

I brought up your mail. Oh.

Is that all?

Yeah, there wasn't much for anybody today.

I mean, uh...

There wasn't anything else on your mind?

Nope. No?

Well, let's see what's in the mail.

Oh!

Oh, this looks like a card of some kind.

You know, a happy something or other card.

Isn't this exciting?

What's the matter? Wasn't it exciting?

Not unless you want to go to the opening of Joe's Delicatessen.

Oh.

Well, I guess you better be running along. Oh, no.

No, sit down.

Let's chat.

Okay.

What's new?

Oh, nothing.

Nothing?

What's new with you?

Nothing. Not a thing.

You know, I have a strange feeling that today is some special day or something.

You know, like I'd forgotten something.

Oh, I've had that feeling. Isn't it annoying?

What could it be?

Well, it must be something important.

it could be, Lucy.

Oh! What?

I got a date at the beauty parlor in 20 minutes.

I got to get my hair fixed up for tonight.

Tonight?

Um, yes, Fred and I are going to go out with the head of his lodge to dinner.

Oh, that's nice.

Well...

Oh,

didn't Mrs. Mertz remember your birthday either?

She sure didn't. In fact, she made Ricky's didn't look like a did.

Now you just have a good, good cry. Well, crying won't do any good.

It won't change things any.

I got the hiccups.

Try holding your breath. That'll stop them. No, that never does any good. I

always get the hiccups when I cry, ever since I was a little girl.

But hold your breath for 20 seconds. That'll stop them. It never does any

Oh, yes, it will. Come on, I'll prove it to you. Now, let's try.

All right. Now, when I say go, you take a deep, long breath.

All right.

Go.

Anyway, it made you forget your troubles.

It did not.

You know what I'm going to do? What?

I'm going to give myself a birthday party. Now, that's a good idea.

Will you come? I certainly will.

It's going to be a gay party, too. Everybody all dressed up, formal.

Fine. I'm going to ask all my good friends, the Orsatis, the Sedgwicks, and

Morgans, and the Van Blacks.

I'll get my dress out of the trunk.

It's been there so long, it's back in style again.

Oh, good.

Okay,

boys, that's all right.

Be sure you watch the last brass figures there. Bite them off real good, eh?

Now, let's have everything just right tonight, fellas. It's Lucy's birthday,

I got a surprise party for her. I want everything to be perfect.

Hey, Rick.

Hi, Fred.

Everything's all set. Did you get the cake? Yeah.

All right, bring it in.

Bring it in.

Oh.

You ever see a cake like that in your life? Oh, isn't that the most beautiful

thing you've ever seen? Look at the candles. Oh, and the frosting.

Oh, she's going to get a big cake. Yeah.

She's going to get a big cake out of that.

Oh,

dear, I forgot to call you.

I couldn't get anyone to come to my party, Mrs. Trumbull. What do you mean

couldn't get anyone to come? I'm here.

Well, Little Rick is here.

Well, we can have a wonderful party, just the three of us.

You can't have a real party without paper hats.

One for you, and one for me.

One for little Ricky.

Oh, he looks so cute.

Well, um, now let's, um, throw some of this around. Give it a gay atmosphere.

I sure appreciate everything you've done, Mrs. Trumbull. The cake and all,

very nice.

It's just that I guess I'm not much in a party mood.

Mrs. Trumbull, would you stay with little Ricky again?

I'd like to take a walk.

All right, dear, you go right ahead. Thank you.

Don't you worry, I'll take care of little Ricky, all right.

Okay, thank you.

And hurry back so we can cut the cake.

Yeah.

Topicana.

I'd like to speak to Mr. Ricardo, please.

Mr. Ricardo? Yes, he's around somewhere. Just a moment.

Oh, Ricky!

It's Mrs. Trumbull.

Mrs. Trumbull.

Thanks to you, your poor little wife is crying her eyes out. And even now, she's

walking the streets broken hearted.

What are you talking about?

Today happened to be your wife's birthday.

Oh, I know that. I know it. I got a wonderful surprise party all fixed up

her.

I was just about to call the apartment and ask her to bring me down some music

that I left on top of the piano.

Now, what are you talking about her walking the streets?

Well, I guess I exaggerated, but, oh, she was so upset.

She went out for a walk.

Oh, gee, I didn't want that to happen.

But, look, Mrs. Trumbull, as soon as she comes back, tell her that I called.

and that I want her to bring me some music that I left on top of the piano

down to the club. All right, Mr. Ricardo.

And don't you worry.

I'll stay with the baby.

Ah, thank you, Mrs. Trumbull.

You're a real doll.

Friends, I think we have found here a poor, lonely soul who needs our help.

Oh, you mean me?

Indeed we do, my dear.

We who know what it is to be lonely, cast off, and forgotten bring you

friendship.

Oh, well, thanks just the same, but I'm all right.

Oh, open up your heart, let our friends... Friendship Inn.

We know what it is to have to spend the night on a park bench.

Oh, you've got me all wrong.

I'm all right. I got plenty of money.

We're sure of that.

Oh, no, really.

I'm loaded.

We're sure of that, too.

Oh, oh, no.

You don't understand. You see, I always get the hiccups when I cry.

Well, I've been crying.

I don't know why I should tell you, but... Well, today was my birthday and

nobody even... Oh, it's her birthday!

still don't trust us, do you? Well, it isn't that I don't trust you. Is there

anyone here among us who would like to tell of his experience with the friends

of the friendless?

I would like to do that, sir.

I would like to tell you of something that happened to me and

the lesson I learned and the meaning of true friendship.

I didn't have a friend in the world.

I was just a bit of flotsam in the sea of life, a pitiful outcast shunned

by my fellow man.

I was a mess.

And then one day they came along, these good people, unasked, the

friends of the friendless.

And they put their arm around my waist and they said, we will be your friend.

Because you are friendless.

And we are the friends of the friendless.

And if you accept our friendship, you will never again be friendless. For we

the friends of the friendless. And you will have friends.

To this day, I have never been friendless.

I have friends.

Friends in the time of joy.

Friends... In the time of sorrow.

Real friends.

True friends.

Friends.

Friends.

Friends.

My friends.

You will come with us?

No.

There's someone I want to give a lesson to in the true meaning of friendship.

Of course.

Pew and Carroll, the two greatest contortionists in America today.

And now we'd like to introduce...

I want to tell you all something that happened to me.

The lesson I learned tonight and the true meaning of friendship.

These people are my friends.

The friends of the friendless.

And I was friendless.

I was just a bit of flotsam in the sea.

A pitiful outcast shunned by my fellow man.

I was a mess.

The people I thought were my friends forsook me.

Even my own husband proved he was just a husband and not a friend.

Today was my birthday.

And do you think anybody remembered?

Nobody remembered.

Nobody did a thing about it. Nobody even as much, not a...

wonderful present for you. You want to hear it? Hear it?

I love Lucy and

she loves me.

We're as happy as two can be.

Sometimes we quarrel, but then I will love

making up again.

To see kisses like no one can.

She's my missus and I'm her man.

Mrs. Trumbull was played by Elizabeth Patterson. The man in the park was

Sherman. The leader of the band was Byron Folger. And the head waiter was

William Hamill.

I Love Lucy is a Bessie Lou production.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be back next week at this same time.

This is the CBS Television Network.