Why keep your factory going when all I want is the goddamned box?

Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd)

5 seconds sound clip from the Tommy Boy (1995) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:20:27 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- So, as more details emerge on this attempted bank robbery, Action 8 will be there.

- But the 'Callahan' factory's been in my family for 70 years, you can't just shut it down.

- Son, you gotta look at it from my point of view.

- Callahan's a premium name. That's what I'm buying.

- I can make the parts in one of my factories, put 'em in a Callahan box and sell 'em in my stores. At a premium price.

- Why keep your factory going when all I want is the goddamned box?

- I'll tell you why. Cause there's a town involved here. Callahan factory is the only thing keeping it alive.

- Look, believe it or not, I'm providing a service. I'm thinning the corporate herd.

- You've seen 'Daktari'? The weaker animals always go.

- Sure the kids cry when you tie an old tiger to a tree and shoot him, but that's life!

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