I don't get it, Diana. You hung around until 7:30 and then came all the way down here just to pitch a couple of loony showbiz ideas when you knew goddamn well I'd laugh you right out of the office.

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

You can hear this line at 00:37:46.404 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- And I was hoping that you were looking for an emotional involvement with a craggy middle-aged man.

- Oh, I wouldn't rule that out entirely.

- All right, Diana. You bring up all your ideas at the meeting tomorrow because if you don't, I will.

- I think Howard's making a goddamn fool of himself and so does everybody that Howard and I know in this industry.

- It was a fluke. It didn't work.

- So tomorrow, Howard goes back to the old format and all of this gutter depravity comes to an end.

- Okay.

- I don't get it, Diana. You hung around until 7:30 and then came all the way down here just to pitch a couple of loony showbiz ideas when you knew goddamn well I'd laugh you right out of the office.

- I don't get it. What's your scam in this?

- Max, my little visit here tonight was a gesture made out of your stature in the industry and because I personally admired you since I was a kid majoring in speech at the University of Missouri.

- But sooner or later, with or without you I'm going to take over your Network News show and I figured I might as well start tonight.

- I think I once gave a lecture at the University of Missouri.

- I was in the audience. I had a terrible schoolgirl crush on you for a couple of months.

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