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Now, Mrs. Weston, here's a picture of the new house our sponsor is giving you

take the place of your house that burned down.

You didn't expect that, did you?

Now, don't cry, Mrs. Weston.

This is not a roast.

There's nothing to cry about.

I have so much fun every day giving people things that they need.

We're giving you this new house for the one that burned down when it caught fire

from the candles on the birthday cake of your little son, George.

And a whole new set of furniture.

Isn't that wonderful?

And a whole new wardrobe for the entire family.

And you have Mrs. Cleo Morgan to thank for this because she was such a good

sport and a good neighbor.

Well, we'll see you tomorrow, folks, with another Good Neighbor program.

Hi. Oh, hi.

This is such an entertaining program.

Oh, it looks like a million laughs.

No, it really is.

They do so many wonderful things for people.

I'm just mad about that program.

Look how much mail you got today.

Oh, thanks.

Gee, here's one for Ricky Postmark Honolulu.

Honolulu? Yeah, didn't you know?

Why, Lucy, you know I never look at your mail.

Oh. I wonder where it's from.

Mr. Jensen of the Royal Hawaiian.

Uh, it says so on the back flap.

I wonder who he is. Hey, the flap's open a little bit. Maybe I can get it open

some more.

Nope, it's stuck tight.

envelope is so thick.

Boy, they make them thick. Yeah. Hey, wait a minute. It looks exciting,

it? Look at all those things.

Too bad we couldn't get the flap open.

Well, maybe we could. You never can tell. Cut it out, will you?

Good morning, Ricky.

Oh. Good morning.

Oh, hi, Ricky. We were just trying to find out if this letter was really for

you. The name's kind of blurred. Yeah, yeah, it's for you.

Yeah, Ricky Ricardo.

Yeah. That's me.

Thank you.

He wants me to take the band down to Hawaii with some entertainers and play a

dance. He says it wasn't important. My goodness, that's exciting. I've never

been to Hawaii.

Neither have I. Oh, Ricky, we have to figure out some way so that we can take

Fred and Ethel along with us, too.

Two? Yeah, two, as in besides me.

Oh, now, Ricky, you wouldn't go to Hawaii without me.

Honey, we're only going for one night. We're coming right back.

You said you needed some entertainers. We could be the entertainers.

What are you going to call yourself?

The Deadweight Trio?

Well, thanks a lot. Now, wait a minute, Ethel. Don't get mad. This is no time to

antagonize him. Now, listen, give me just one good reason why we can't all go

Hawaii. Because I can't afford it, honey. I'm not making any money in this

I'm losing money.

I'm just taking it for the publicity value.

Now, goodbye.

to take along.

Yeah? But how?

How? Yeah, now let me see.

Pushed it over the...

just great.

Well, then why can't we go?

Well, honey, if there's one thing that they don't need in Hawaii, it's Hawaiian

dancers.

Now, the troupe that I'm taking down there is made up of Latin American

entertainers.

Mr. Jensen already told me who he wants, and I already hired him. Oh, now,

Ricky. Now, Ricky, I don't see why you can't... Save your breath. Save your

breath.

Of course, this is only a hunch on my part, but I don't believe he wants to

us with him.

It's not that, Fred.

It's just that I can't. Why not?

Well, honey, I can't afford it. I'm losing money in the job. I just can't do

There's nothing I can do about it.

to help their needy friends.

You mean that show we were looking at the other day, the Freddie Fillmore

Be a Good Neighbor.

Listen to this.

Dear Freddie Fillmore, I have been watching your show, Be a Good Neighbor,

long time, and I think it is wonderful what you do for all the people who

on your show.

I want to tell you about a neighbor of mine.

She is the sweetest, the dearest, the most understanding person I ever knew,

she is completely unselfish. She's always thinking of other people before

herself.

Now, wait a minute.

You have to say something like that.

Now, this person is terribly poor, and she can't afford any luxuries for

herself. But it's always been the dream of her life to go to the Hawaiian

Islands. So, I'm wondering if I couldn't appear and be a good neighbor in order

that this unselfish, generous, sweet neighbor may realize her dream, a trip

Honolulu.

out to be. Now, Ethel, the minute I won that trip, I was going to ask them to

let me take Fred and Ethel Mertz with me. Oh, sure.

I was, and if I couldn't take you with me, I was going to send you a postcard.

Oh, never mind.

Oh, now, Ethel, come on. What do you say?

This is what I say.

and that's what's going on here.

What? All I did was write that show, Be a Good Neighbor, and have Ethel ask them

if I could go to Honolulu.

Well, now, that doesn't seem so bad, Ethel. Oh, no. Did you ever see that

Do you know what kind of stunts you have to do?

I'd get a pie in my face.

She'd get an all -expense cruise.

She'd be over there sitting on the beach, and I'd be home combing meringue

of my hair.

So you'd be a little uncomfortable for a while. I'd do it for her.

Yeah, she'd do it for you.

That's why I'm surprised at you.

Now, look, I'll write a letter to Freddy Fillmore, and I'll tell him that

there's a lovely couple who live across the hall from me who are very poor, but

they're so good and kind to everyone that I think he should give them a trip

Honolulu. Uh, with their teenage daughter.

What?

What's wrong with that? I told you to watch out for a trick.

I'm not going to Honolulu as Lucy's mother. That's what's wrong with that.

Oh, listen, if it'll get us to Honolulu,

as your mother.

Well, that's more like it.

All right.

I'll tell Freddie Fillmore that I know a lovely couple who are very poor, but

they've taken care of their dear old gray -haired mother all their life.

interview the poverty -stricken couple and their gray -haired mother.

Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

I knew it was too good to be true.

Oh, wait a minute now. We've been in worse jams than this. Yes, thanks to

Well, just give me time to think, will you? I'll get...

Be a good neighbor, bro.

You do? Yeah, that is, unless there are too many people standing in front of the

appliance store.

Well, we have a big surprise for you.

Your good neighbor, Lucy Ricardo, has written us a letter all about you.

Oh, Mrs.

Ricardo, now that woman is a darling woman. She wants us to send you to

Honolulu. Honolulu?

Oh, Nancy, we'd want to go there all our lives.

And do you know who's going with you?

Yes, shall I go get her?

Well, it's your mother, but how did you know?

Oh, uh, well, anybody that knows Pa and me knows that we've unselfishly taken

care of our dear old mother all of her life. And wherever we go, she goes. Oh,

that's what Mrs.

Ricardo said.

And may I meet your mother?

Oh, sure.

Ma?

You do?

Yeah, yeah. I go down early, lie on the pavement, and save three places.

Well, that's wonderful.

Yeah, one for me and two for my unselfish children that have been taking

me for nine years.

Well,

honey, I appreciate it. Well, we wouldn't have had it any other way. Now,

tell you something.

Mr. Fillmore wants us to go on his show.

No. Yes. He, uh, that Mrs.

Ricardo...

Mrs. Ricardo?

Oh, it certainly was. Well, I swan. If she was home, I'd hustle right over

and thank her.

Oh, she isn't home?

No, no. She's out of town.

She'll be home tomorrow.

Although I might be out of town.

Oh, that's a shame.

Yeah, well, I go a lot.

You see, I wanted to have you on the show this week. However, if she isn't

so I can talk to you, I'm afraid I'll have to postpone it till some later

I didn't hear anything. Oh, I did.

Oh, so did I.

I thought she was mine.

She's been with us so long, I'd forgotten.

Oh, there she is. Oh, Mrs. Ricardo.

I want you to know this here's Freddie Fillmore.

How do you do, Mr. Fillmore? So nice to know you. Oh, Mrs.

Ricardo, he told us all about that letter you wrote about us, and I want to

thank you, good neighbor.

Thank you, good neighbor. You're welcome, kindly couple.

And she'd like to thank you, too. Oh, well, I'll go out and see Mother right

now. Oh, no, no, you wait right here. I'll go get her.

Well,

that's funny. She isn't out there.

Hey, are you sure?

Well, I looked all around.

Well, now, where's Mrs. Ricardo?

show of yours. Yes, we do. You know the one I especially like? What? You know

where that little feller came and said he wanted to get a puppy dog for his

little friend? Oh, yeah. Now, put her in the... And throw him in the

incinerator. Burn to a crisp.

Oh, that's a shame.

Now, look, I'd like to have you all on the show tomorrow. However, I must have

you all in here at the same time so I can tell you what I want you to do.

Oh, well, I'll go get...

Well, look, in the meantime, I have some papers here that I want you to sign.

Oh, signing papers, huh? Yeah, just a little legal formality that we have to

through. Well, we don't mind doing that.

You want to see me, Mr. Fillmore?

Yes.

Oh, yes, yes. Now, where's Mother?

Where's Mother? Well, she wasn't feeling well, so she's lying down in my

apartment.

Well, that's too bad. Well, when she gets up, will you please have her sign

this? Yes. And I want to see the rest of you down at the station the first thing

tomorrow morning.

Because they are so good and kind, I think Mr. and Mrs. Mertz and

their dear old mother should have a trip to Honolulu.

Signed, hopefully yours, Lucy Ricardo.

There, isn't that a nice letter?

He's so sorry that Mother Mertz was too ill to come to the studio tonight.

Oh, well, she had a real bad spell, but she'll feel better. She'll feel better

soon. Oh, well, I'm glad to hear that. Now, Mr. and Mrs. Mertz, I want you to

right over there and sit down in those two chairs on the opposite side of the

stage, if you will. Oh, thanks.

Okay.

Right over there.

Sit right down, Em.

Right there. Now, lean back. Relax. Those are reclining chairs.

Now we're going to see if Mrs. Ricardo can win this trip to Honolulu for you.

And Mrs. Ricardo, we have a real surprise for you. Oh?

We have a friend of yours here today.

A friend of mine? Yes.

You see, when we told him about Mr.

and Mrs. Mertz and their dear old mother, he insisted on coming down here

helping you out.

Was that nice? Send him out of here, boys.

Of course, dear.

Oh, as a matter of fact, he's going to do most of the work.

Now, here's what I want you to do. Mrs. Ricardo, I want you to get right up

there in that circle where you can get your hand on that cord.

And, Mr. Ricardo, right up here, if you will.

Yes, sir. There we are.

Now, what I want you to do is think of a song with something physical in it,

like, well, Rain.

I get the blues when it rains. The blues, I can't lose.

I know the song. You don't have to sing it.

That's such a beautiful suit. We wouldn't want anything to happen to

I think we'd better give him a slicker, huh?

Now, wait just a minute. Oh, now, you're willing to do this for your neighbors,

aren't you? For the neighbors?

Oh, sure you are. Now, wait just a minute. I don't know. Oh, of course you

There we are. Now, I think we're all set. Mrs. Ricardo, every time he says

word rain... Yeah?

You pull that cord.

thing I forgot to tell you, Mrs. Ricardo.

If you step outside of that circle at any time during the stunt, your friends

don't get the trip to Honolulu.

Well, isn't it over?

Over? We haven't even started yet.

What was all that rain stuff?

Oh, that's just a little test.

Now, Ricky, here's what I want you to do. I have a list of words here, things

like leaves, feathers, stuff like that.

Now, I want you to see how many songs you can think of that contain those

And every time you sing one of those songs, you push your friends just a

closer to Honolulu.

And if within the two -minute time limit, you can think of enough songs,

Mrs. Ricardo doesn't step outside of that circle, then the Mertzes get the

to Honolulu. You understand?

Yeah, I got it.

I Love Lucy is a Desilu production.

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