Affiliates will kiss your ass, if you can hand them a hit show.
3 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:28:10.673 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- The FCC can't do anything except rap our knuckles.
- The affiliates won't carry it.
- Affiliates will kiss your ass, if you can hand them a hit show.
- We don't know the popular reaction. That's what we have to find out.
- The New York Times doesn't advertise on our network.
- All I know is this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting.
- We're not a respectable network. We're a whorehouse network. We have to take whatever we can get.
- Well, I don't want any part of it. I don't fancy myself the president of a whorehouse.
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