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.
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?
Christine: [writing] Ask George out for coffee? Coffee never killed anyone.
Michael: This is a team meeting. It's a simple concept: if it bleeds, guys, it leads.
Christine: Okay. I'll do the chicken lady. But there's gonna have to be some changes around here.

Michael: [yelling] Christine! Go home!
Michael: [thinking that Christine did a prank after shooting herself] Very funny, Christine.
Michael: Goddamit Chubbuck!
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...
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".
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.
Christine: Is it paranoia if, indeed, everyone is coming after you?
Peg: Christine, you're not getting into one of your moods again, are you?
Christine: [Screaming] Oh, why won't anyone just *listen* to me?
Christine: [Speaking via her two puppets] Can I be quiet with you? / Yes, See-saw. You can be quiet with me.
Steve: [Steve, looking appalled by the idea of exploiting death in the media] Uh, I've got to agree with Christine on this one.
Bob Andersen: Don't get hung up on every little thing... god knows life is hard enough as it is.
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!
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]
Peg: ...I know that's not really you talking to me.
Christine: You were smoking pot! I HATE it when you smoke pot!
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?
George: Trying to impress people when you just feel dead inside... I know what that's like, I really do.
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!
Christine: Have you even seen the flowers Gail has put out for us? They're *fake*, Mike. Just *fake*. Sums up the whole operation!
Andrea: How can you be too sympathetic?
Michael: look Chubbuck, just make your stories juicy!
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!
Michael: [holds up his fingers in a tiny circle] My asshole is like this small right now, THIS SMALL!
Michael: [to Christine] You are the smartest person here.
Christine: [to a married couple eating dinner at a restaurant] Don't lose sight of what you have here, okay...?
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.
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.
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.
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]
George: We all have these different versions of ourselves competing to be the real us.
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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Kole 2022-04-24 07:01:26

The prototype of the story is a real event, and it is a case worthy of deep investigation and good shooting. . . . But this movie is really indescribable
Deron 2022-04-05 09:01:07

7/10, the competitive pressure in the TV industry is driving people crazy, and of course the protagonist has a lot of problems. Duan Xuan was very happy in "World Soccer" in the days after Huang Jianxiang left, but the ending is hard to say. The starring director is completely online, but it is a bit too heavy.