Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV Series)

The Option Period (2006)

Timothy Busfield: Cal Shanley

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Quotes 

• Cal Shanley : I'm gonna show you something and I don't think it's stupid. It comes from a creative place but it also doesn't bother me and it might help solve a problem since most of those 15 people would come from my department.

  Danny Tripp : I followed some of that.

  Cal Shanley : In the 20 years of the show, what's been your favorite home base?

  Danny Tripp : What do you mean?

  Cal Shanley : Your favorite permanent set. You favorite home base since the show went on the air.

  Danny Tripp : None of 'em.

  Cal Shanley : That's right. We never found it.

  Danny Tripp : We're working on it.

  Cal Shanley : The Hollywood sign?

  Danny Tripp : It's the most viewed landmark in the world. Beats the Eiffel Tower. And don't say the Santa Monica Pier.

  Cal Shanley : Downtown?

  Danny Tripp : Downtown isn't where L.A. is!

  Cal Shanley : It's not. L.A. is on Sunset between Doheny and Highland. It's the Sunset Strip. And Wes knew that because he put it right in the title.

  Danny Tripp : Hey, I would love to do the Strip, but if you think about it it's made up almost entirely...

  [pauses] 

  Danny Tripp : of billboard ads.

  Cal Shanley : [shows a sketch of a set that would allow for product placement] 

  Danny Tripp : This is... both good and profitable.

  Cal Shanley : Yeah.

  Danny Tripp : You know how that confuses me.

  Cal Shanley : I do.