All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you, because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family.

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

You can hear this line at 01:19:06.016 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Does she love you, Max?

- I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings.

- She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.

- She's very carefully devised a number of scenarios for all of us to play, like the Movie of the Week.

- My God, look at us, Louise. Here we are going through the obligatory middle of Act 2 scorned-wife-throws peccant-husband-out scene.

- But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end.

- All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you, because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family.

- She does have one script in which I kill myself. An adapted for television version of Anna Karenina where she's Count Vronsky and I'm Anna.

- You're in for some dreadful grief, Max.

- I know.

- The Mao Tse-Tung Hour went on the air March 14. It received a 47 share. The network promptly committed to 15 shows with an option for 10 more.

- There were the usual contractual difficulties.

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