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Switching Channels (1988) More at IMDbPro »

Blaine Bingham: Oh, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!
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Christy Colleran: [after John tells her not to use profanity in the news broadcasts] When have I EVER used foul language, you rotten son-of-a-BITCH?
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Blaine Bingham: Did you really sign a reporter's contract "Peter Rabbit?"
John L. Sullivan IV: Yes.
Blaine Bingham: What did the reporter do?
John L. Sullivan IV: Christy? She laughed her ass off.
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John L. Sullivan IV: Tickets. You already got the tickets?
Blaine Bingham: Yes.
John L. Sullivan IV: Why did you tell me?
Blaine Bingham: Well, I didn't think you'd be that interested.
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Carvalho: Dichotamy, Egrigious, SHIT!
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John L. Sullivan IV: How could he be afriad of hieghts. He so tall!
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John L. Sullivan IV: Siegenthaler! Kick satalite 11 for Christ sakes!
[kicks satalite]
John L. Sullivan IV: Again!
[kick again]
John L. Sullivan IV: Perfect!
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Christy Colleran: [running in a marathon] It may look like rain to the rest of you, but on Lake Shore Drive it's sunshine all the way.
[motercycle drives by and wets her]
Christy Colleran: Ah! Thats right Chicago hit me, beat me I love it! This is Christy Colleran, Satellite Network News.
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Christy Colleran: This just in: At 12 noon today 15,000 students from all 50 states, will be joined electronically to play "Darktown Strudders Ball" on the kazoo
[starts to chuckel]
Christy Colleran: for the President of the United States.
[starts to laugh harder]
Christy Colleran: The Prestident as you know is a former kazoo player and may wish to join in.
[laughing louder]
Christy Colleran: Wait a minute, wait a minute here, we're doing a stroy about 15,000 kazoo players and
[mockingly]
Christy Colleran: the President of the United States!
[laughing hysterically]
John L. Sullivan IV: [talking on the phone] I think my ex-wife is cracking up. What do you mean "give her a vacation"!
[sees Christy cracking up on the monitor]
John L. Sullivan IV: Give her a vacation.
[Christy keeps on laughing uncontrolably]
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Roy Ridnitz: [standing, thinking about his next move in repsonse to Ike Roscoe's possible pardon] We're gonna kill him anyways.
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Blaine Bingham: So, you're what a network news man looks like.
John L. Sullivan IV: And you sell jock straps!
Blaine Bingham: 25 million last year alone. You know if I'd invented that little baby, I'd be a rich man today.
John L. Sullivan IV: I thought you were a rich man. Aren't you a multi-millionaire?
Blaine Bingham: Depends on what you mean by multi.
John L. Sullivan IV: Multi usually means more than one!
Christy Colleran: Blaine, sweetheart, we don't have to dicuss our finances with him.
John L. Sullivan IV: Our?
Christy Colleran: Our.
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John L. Sullivan IV: How come there's a fire on channel four and we don't have it?
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The Governor: What fool shot the locks off all the doors?
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The Governor: He's pardoned.
Roy Ridnitz: You can't do that!
The Governor: Yes I can. He's pardoned, and he's pardoned, and she's pardoned and you're not!
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The Governor: Yikes! If I'm going to be on tv tonight, I'd better take a nap!
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Blaine Bingham: Did you know that Chicago means, "the smell of wild onions?"
John L. Sullivan IV: Did you New York just means, "New York?"
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Christy Colleran: Blaine knows everything about food.
Christy Colleran: Now that's important. To know EVERYTHING about food.
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Christy Colleran: Blaine knows everything about food.
John L. Sullivan IV: Now that's important. to know EVERYTHING about food.
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