- 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: Have you even seen the flowers Gail has put out for us? They're *fake*, Mike. Just *fake*. Sums up the whole operation!
- 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".
- Christine: [Speaking via her two puppets] Can I be quiet with you? / Yes, See-saw. You can be quiet with me.
- 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.
- 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: [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.
- Steve: [Steve, looking appalled by the idea of exploiting death in the media] Uh, I've got to agree with Christine on this one.
- Michael: [holds up his fingers in a tiny circle] My asshole is like this small right now, THIS SMALL!
- 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: [to a married couple eating dinner at a restaurant] Don't lose sight of what you have here, okay...?
- 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: 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.