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Christine: So. Now. In keeping with the WZRB policy, presenting the most immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts, TV-30 presents what is believed to be a television first. In living color, an exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide.
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Christine: Hey, you know what, Mike, just cause your wife has a drinking problem doesn't mean that you get to treat me like this. That's on you! Don't put it on me. That's on you.
Michael: Are you...?
Christine: I'm just trying to do my best for this station and it isn't easy.
Michael: Are you fucking kidding me? Are *you* fucking kidding me? You fucked up... again! And now you insult me, you insult my family? You know, I've got half my savings invested in this station and I believe in it. What do you believe in? What are you doing to make a mark?
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Christine: [writing] Ask George out for coffee? Coffee never killed anyone.
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Michael: This is a team meeting. It's a simple concept: if it bleeds, guys, it leads.
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Christine: Okay. I'll do the chicken lady. But there's gonna have to be some changes around here.
Michael: [yelling] Christine! Go home!
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Michael: [thinking that Christine did a prank after shooting herself] Very funny, Christine.
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Michael: Goddamit Chubbuck!
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George: I'm okay, you're okay. I'm okay, you're okay. I'm okay, you're okay...
[to Andrea]
George: Repeat it, say it, say it, say it: I'm okay, you're okay...
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Jean: [Jean approaches Christine who is obviously crying backstage] Chris? Hey Chris, you okay?
Christine: Yeah... Yeah, it's just Summer allergies
Jean: Oh. But are you, you know, okay?
Christine: What do you mean?
Jean: You just seem a little more... wound up than usual.
Christine: [Christine begins to panic] What do you mean?
Jean: You just seem a little tense or something.
Christine: No... You said "more than usual".
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George: [George and Steve are both on live television arguing about the station's new weather computer] Boy, you really mucked things up with that rain storm last week didn't you?
Steve: Yes, well like any new technology it does have its kinks.
George: Just kind of makes you look like a liar, Steve.
Steve: Well I think you know that I'm not George. You know, I'd like to see you jump over here into the hot seat one night and see how it feels.
George: That sounds like fun, actually.
Steve: I'm sure it does.
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Christine: Is it paranoia if, indeed, everyone is coming after you?
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Peg: Christine, you're not getting into one of your moods again, are you?
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Christine: [Screaming] Oh, why won't anyone just *listen* to me?
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Christine: [Speaking via her two puppets] Can I be quiet with you? / Yes, See-saw. You can be quiet with me.
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Steve: [Steve, looking appalled by the idea of exploiting death in the media] Uh, I've got to agree with Christine on this one.
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Bob Andersen: Don't get hung up on every little thing... god knows life is hard enough as it is.
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Christine: Maybe you should film the chickens having SEX so we can see how the eggs are REALLY made!
[laughs nervously]
Christine: uh, I'm just joking, just joking...
Chicken Lady: [giggling] Ooh, I've seen it, and it ain't pretty!
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Steve: Hey, Chris, do you want to go to lunch?
Christine: Maybe tomorrow.
Steve: Okay. Rain check.
[Christine watches him leave, and resumes typing her suicide note]
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Peg: ...I know that's not really you talking to me.
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Christine: You were smoking pot! I HATE it when you smoke pot!
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Christine: [to her mother] Here I am just drowning underwater and you decide to take a romantic getaway without telling anyone? What are you, fifteen?
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George: Trying to impress people when you just feel dead inside... I know what that's like, I really do.
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Jean: Mrs Chubbuck? I'm Jean. Jean Reed.
Peg: You're Jean? From the station?
[Hugs Jean, crying]
Peg: How's she doing? What's going on? We were just watching the news...
[Sees blood on Jean's clothes]
Peg: Oh, my God!
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Christine: Have you even seen the flowers Gail has put out for us? They're *fake*, Mike. Just *fake*. Sums up the whole operation!
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Andrea: How can you be too sympathetic?
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Michael: look Chubbuck, just make your stories juicy!
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Steve: [referring to Bob Andersen possibly choosing one reporter to work in Baltimore] Who's he going to pick?
Michael: I have no idea in hell Steve, but it's sure going to be a kick in the ass for the rest of us!
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Michael: [holds up his fingers in a tiny circle] My asshole is like this small right now, THIS SMALL!
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Michael: [to Christine] You are the smartest person here.
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Christine: [to a married couple eating dinner at a restaurant] Don't lose sight of what you have here, okay...?
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Christine: [appalled] So what, just get some footage of some fat people burning in a car crash and I'm on a plane to Baltimore...?
Michael: Now you're just being a smartass.
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Christine: [referring to the news footage of a fat woman being given electroshock therapy] This is totally at odds with the work that I've been doing, it's exploitative!
Michael: Then why are so many people watching it? The same people you are so concerned about representing are the ones who are gobbling this stuff up!
Christine: We're supposed to know better.
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Capt. Frank Basil: Ms. Chubbuck, for what it's worth, I think your show is great. You do these "think pieces", and I love it.
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George: You and I have been working together for over a year now and we've never gone out and had a drink together.
Christine: Well, I don't really drink.
George: Well, you know what I mean.
Christine: Well, you've never asked me.
George: You're not always the most approachable person, Chubbuck.
Christine: Oh, I am approachable. Maybe you just don't know how to approach me.
George: Oh? And who does know how to approach you?
Christine: A lot of people. Jean. Steve...
[George scoffs]
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George: We all have these different versions of ourselves competing to be the real us.
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George: You wanna maybe get some dinner tonight?
Christine: Maybe.
George: You know, fork, knife, plate, food, *dinner*.
Christine: I don't... I don't get it.
George: Chubbuck, I'm not gonna bite you. I feel like we're always about to make some breakthrough to some new level of connectivity, but something gets in the way.
Christine: Dinner?
George: Yeah.
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