Switching Channels (1988)

Burt Reynolds: John L. Sullivan IV

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• John L. Sullivan IV : How could he be afraid of heights. He's so tall!

• John L. Sullivan IV : Siegenthaler! Kick satellite 11 for Christ's sakes!

  [kicks satellite] 

  John L. Sullivan IV : Again!

  [kicks again] 

  John L. Sullivan IV : Perfect!

• Christy Colleran : This just in: At 12 noon today 15,000 students from all 50 states, will be joined electronically to play "Darktown Strutters Ball" on the kazoo

  [starts to chuckle] 

  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 story 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] 

• 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.

• John L. Sullivan IV : How come there's a fire on channel four and we don't have it?

• 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?"

• Christy Colleran : Blaine knows everything about food.

  John L. Sullivan IV : Now that's important. to know EVERYTHING about food.