The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles.

2 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:28:01.021 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll get back to you, Diana.

- I don't believe this.

- I don't believe the top brass of a national television network are sitting around their Caesar salads...

- The top brass of a bankrupt national television network with projected losses of close to $150 million this year.

- I don't care how bankrupt!

- You can't be seriously proposing, and the rest of us seriously considering putting on a pornographic Network News show. The FCC'd kill us.

- Sit down, Nelson.

- The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles.

- I don't even wanna think about the litigious possibilities, Frank. Could be up to our ears in lawsuits.

- The affiliates won't carry it.

- Affiliates will kiss your ass, if you can hand them a hit show.

- The popular reaction...

- We don't know the popular reaction. That's what we have to find out.

[...]

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