# The Mertzes in Hollywood (I love lucy)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 23, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mertzes-in-hollywood-i-love-lucy/51361 "2001-01-23T04:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mertzes-in-hollywood-i-love-lucy/51361/1 "2001-01-23T04:27:27Z")

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While watching I Love Lucy on TV Land I thought about something.

When Ricky and Lucy went to Hollywood they brough Ethel and Fred with them. It seems, as cheap as Fred was he wouldn’t pay to stay in a nice hotel that long.

If so why at the end would he be so upset when Ricky forgot to buy the Train Tickets. And why at the end when Ricky says we are leaving tomorrow the studio isn’t paying for this anymore, would the Mertzes get upset. They could stay on right?

So who paid for the trip.

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**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mertzes-in-hollywood-i-love-lucy/51361/2 "2001-01-23T04:58:50Z")

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Ricky paid for the trip to California (Fred refused to pay for half the gas). The studio paid for the hotel rooms in Hollywood. Fred got upset when Ricky sold the car, but didn’t provide Fred and Ethel any way to get home.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mertzes-in-hollywood-i-love-lucy/51361/3 "2001-01-23T16:00:25Z")

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They finally got home by Fred pimping Ethel up and down Route 66 all the way back East.

“A quarter at a time.”

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mertzes-in-hollywood-i-love-lucy/51361/4 "2001-01-23T16:16:39Z")

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Yes, Eve, but that only gets them as far as Chicago. The rest of the way she was shoveling coal on the 20th Century Limited.