Cannonball! (1976)

David Arkin: TV Producer, Anchorman

Quotes 

• TV Producer : We're trying to get a word here with Brad Phillips, organizer of the race. Brad, tell me, your race has been called an outlaw sporting event. Do you have any comment on that?

  Brad Phillips : Well, the police and safety officals around the country get upset because our drivers tend to exceed the speed limits.

  TV Producer : Are you saying you're promoting illegality?

  Brad Phillips : Well, no, no, I didn't say that.

• TV Producer : Hi, Dennis Caldwell here at the Santa Monica Pier in sunny Southern California. For the last three years, the appearance of this cryptic ad in Motorist Magazine has signaled the running of the Trans-America Grand Prix auto race. This underground sporting event is open to anyone holding a valid license, driving any kind of four-wheel, land-based vehicle. Contestants choose any cross-country route they wish, and there is $100,000 waiting for the sweat-drenched, hi-test hot rodder who gets his ticket stamped first at a certain garage of New York City's Lower West Side.

• TV Producer : [approaching a silver Corvette]  Now here is an interesting entry. You kids look more like, uh, surfers, than you do racing drivers.

  Jim Crandell : Well, surfing is bad this year.

  TV Producer : Well, tell me, have you raced this, uh, uh...

  Jim Crandell : Corvette.

  TV Producer : ...corvette in any other race?

  Jim Crandell : Uh, no.

  Maryann : You see, it isn't exactly our car. Daddy, if you've been watching this, uh, everything's okay, we'll be bringing the car back in about a week.

  TV Producer : Tell me something. Uh, uh, uh, anyway, I sure wish you luck, and I'll bet that hundred thousand will buy you a lot of surfboards.

  Jim Crandell : If we win, we're gonna buy ourselves a house on the beach.

  Maryann : In Hawaii.

  TV Producer : [to the camera]  Aren't they darling?

• TV Producer : [aggravated that he has run out of material for his news broadcast]  Boy, what a lot of shit this is.

  [to his cameraman] 

  TV Producer : Don't we have something else? What about that car race?

  Cameraman : We promised those guys we wouldn't broadcast that story until after the race was finished.

  TV Producer : I bought them and I can sell them! The public has a right to know!