Switching Channels (1988)
Burt Reynolds: John L. Sullivan IV
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Quotes
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Blaine Bingham : Did you really sign a reporter's contract "Peter Rabbit?"
John L. Sullivan IV : Yes.
Blaine Bingham : What did the reporter do?
John L. Sullivan IV : Christy? She laughed her ass off.
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John L. Sullivan IV : Tickets. You already got the tickets?
Blaine Bingham : Yes.
John L. Sullivan IV : Why did you tell me?
Blaine Bingham : Well, I didn't think you'd be that interested.
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John L. Sullivan IV : How could he be afraid of heights. He's so tall!
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John L. Sullivan IV : Siegenthaler! Kick satellite 11 for Christ's sakes!
[kicks satellite]
John L. Sullivan IV : Again!
[kicks again]
John L. Sullivan IV : Perfect!
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Christy Colleran : This just in: At 12 noon today 15,000 students from all 50 states, will be joined electronically to play "Darktown Strutters Ball" on the kazoo
[starts to chuckle]
Christy Colleran : for the President of the United States.
[starts to laugh harder]
Christy Colleran : The Prestident as you know is a former kazoo player and may wish to join in.
[laughing louder]
Christy Colleran : Wait a minute, wait a minute here, we're doing a story about 15,000 kazoo players and
[mockingly]
Christy Colleran : the President of the United States!
[laughing hysterically]
John L. Sullivan IV : [talking on the phone] I think my ex-wife is cracking up. What do you mean "give her a vacation"!
[sees Christy cracking up on the monitor]
John L. Sullivan IV : Give her a vacation.
[Christy keeps on laughing uncontrolably]
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Blaine Bingham : So, you're what a network news man looks like.
John L. Sullivan IV : And you sell jock straps!
Blaine Bingham : 25 million last year alone. You know if I'd invented that little baby, I'd be a rich man today.
John L. Sullivan IV : I thought you were a rich man. Aren't you a multi-millionaire?
Blaine Bingham : Depends on what you mean by multi.
John L. Sullivan IV : Multi usually means more than one!
Christy Colleran : Blaine, sweetheart, we don't have to dicuss our finances with him.
John L. Sullivan IV : Our?
Christy Colleran : Our.
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John L. Sullivan IV : How come there's a fire on channel four and we don't have it?
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Blaine Bingham : Did you know that Chicago means, "the smell of wild onions?"
John L. Sullivan IV : Did you New York just means, "New York?"
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Christy Colleran : Blaine knows everything about food.
John L. Sullivan IV : Now that's important. to know EVERYTHING about food.