Bon Voyage – I Love Lucy episode 140, originally aired January 16, 1956
In Bon Voyage, when the ship leaves port for Europe, Lucy is inadvertently left behind; so she’ll have to get to ship via a helicopter. One of the best fifth-season episodes!
Bon Voyage is available as part of the I Love Lucy season 5 DVD collection.
Funny quotes from Bon Voyage – I Love Lucy
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I want to eat my bon voyage fruit before it spoils!
[Ethel starts eating a piece of fruit from a fruit basket.]
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): I can’t help it. The sea air makes me hungry.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): We haven’t even left the dock.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): [about Ethel] Wait till she finds out the food is free. It will be the biggest bundle Britain has ever seen.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): You don’t know what it’s like to be a mother, Mother.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Bye, Little Ricky! Bye, Lucy! LUCY!!!
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): You hover over where and lower who onto what?
Helicopter Pilot: That’s the Constitution.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Gee the water must have shrunk it.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Where’s the door? The door is gone.
Helicopter Pilot: We took it off so it would be easier for you to get out.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Right now I’m just concerned with staying in.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Oh Fred, what if Lucy misses the helicopter?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Well if I know Lucy, she’ll grease her body and swim after us.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): I don’t like the idea of Lucy taking a helicopter. It’s too risky.
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Yeah, for the helicopter.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): How can Lucy miss that boat too?
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): She’s Lucy, does that answer your question?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Hey, have you a woman on that boat?
Pilot Boat Captain: What are you a private detective or something?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): [to the Dock Agent] Have you got a pilot boat that goes to the pilot boat?