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  • 4/24/2025
Murphy Brown Season 6 Episode 25 The More Things Stay The Same

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00:00Oh, so keep it up, which hot desire, and I'll be at your side, oh yeah.
00:11I think we'd all have to admit that reaching 500 broadcasts is an amazing achievement.
00:17One thing, it means we must have started when we were eight years old.
00:21Seriously, a show like this is only as good as the people on it, and I feel fortunate to have worked with the best.
00:27Oh, Murph, you're the best.
00:30Okay, if that's all there is, it's all with the celebration, let's cut some cake.
00:38Don't let Murph hold a knife, he'll stick it in your bag.
00:42Fine, you cut it, that way you can give yourself the biggest piece.
00:45Oh, shut up.
00:47Why don't you both shut up?
00:48You can all shut up.
00:50Okay, five more minutes, you'll never have to see each other again.
00:54Five minutes of hell.
00:55I'd rather be in hell.
00:56Yeah, why don't you go to hell?
01:01Oh, God, this is one of the worst days of my life.
01:04How the hell did we get here, here, here, here, here?
01:07There's been another edition of FYI.
01:09Good night.
01:11And we're clear.
01:12All right, that is so long.
01:14Albeda Sane and Aloha Lloyd, episode 499.
01:19One more week to the end of the season in the big 500, and party time!
01:24Followed by vacation time!
01:28Followed by back-to-work time!
01:32As you are sure, laughs.
01:34Make jokes.
01:35Has the network settled your contract yet?
01:37How about yours?
01:38Yeah.
01:38We might not even be back here next year.
01:40Uh-oh, here we go again.
01:43Right on schedule.
01:44Every three years, your anxiety comes bubbling up like some sort of geyser.
01:48There should be a park ranger standing next to you, warning tourists not to get too close.
01:52I'm sorry, but I break my back doing the best job I can, and what's the response?
01:57Well, you're costing us too much money.
01:59We're gonna have to cut back on expenses.
02:01You might not be worth it.
02:03I got enough of that for my parents.
02:04I don't need it at work.
02:06There you go.
02:07Have a little faith.
02:09Everything's gonna work out fine.
02:11Mine tried great.
02:12Have you seen some of the money being tossed around?
02:14I hear Diane Sawyer's deal is so big, she has to use a hefty bag as a purse.
02:18It's so big, Mike Nichols is thinking of changing his name to Mike Dollars.
02:22It's so big.
02:24No, no, no, no, no, no, now, hold on a second.
02:27You can't measure the rewards of this job solely in terms of money.
02:31And, Corky, next year when your contract's up, I want you to remember the same thing.
02:35Oh, I know that, Miles.
02:36I get to work with the most wonderful people in the world and do something I can really be proud of.
02:41That's what's important.
02:42And besides, with you all doing the dirty work now, I'll be able to cash in without even lifting a finger.
02:48I'm like big guys.
02:50I need contract time.
02:53Those pencil-pushing, beam-counting, fair-and-face commercials.
02:58Your offer was bad.
02:59Mine was an insult.
03:01Why not just toss me fish out of a bucket?
03:04You should have seen the offer they made me.
03:05It was humiliating.
03:08Do you think I should take that?
03:10I think I should take that.
03:11I can't even move my hands up when it comes to me.
03:13This is how big...
03:15Guys, guys, it was their opening offer.
03:18It was a bucket of fish.
03:19And engaging, money-grubbing, slime-covering...
03:23Did she do Ferret-Faced Measel yet?
03:28Okay, I think we can move on then.
03:30We do still have one more show to do this season.
03:32First up, Corky has hit a little snag in her story.
03:36Well, here's my problem.
03:39If I do the story, I'm supposed to...
03:40Don't call, Murphy.
03:41It's your agent.
03:42What?
03:43In the middle of a meeting, tell him I'll call him back.
03:46Or, you know, I could just take the call and be done with it.
03:50Maybe that's the best idea.
03:51I think it is.
03:52I'll be back before you know it.
03:53Sorry, guys.
03:56Agents.
03:57Yeah, agents.
04:01What did he say?
04:03Oh, you know, it is typical agent stuff.
04:06I'm God's gift to journalism.
04:08Every network wants me.
04:09But we were talking about Corky's story problems.
04:12Corky, thank you.
04:14Jim, your agent's on the phone.
04:16Oh, I should probably take this call.
04:19Pardon me.
04:20Sorry, y'all.
04:24Like Murphy said, you know, typical agent talk.
04:27God's gift to journalism.
04:29Every network wants me.
04:30I don't know why they feel we need this constant reassurance.
04:35Please, Corky, continue.
04:36Excuse me, I have to make a phone call.
04:44Sorry, sorry.
04:46Agent stuff.
04:47God's gift.
04:48I'm wanted.
04:50It's okay if we can get back to work.
04:53Actually, you know, there was one interesting thing.
04:57My agent mentioned that apparently someone has been talking to NBC.
05:05You're talking to NBC?
05:07Oh, well, you know, it's just a negotiating ploy to throw a scare into the network.
05:11I mean, you guys know how that works.
05:13Of course we do.
05:13And why would you say, of course we do so quickly?
05:20Because I do.
05:23What do you mean, because you do?
05:25What do you mean, what do I mean?
05:28And why do you sound so suspicious?
05:31Well, why would you say she sounds so suspicious?
05:34Why would you ask if he thinks I sound so suspicious?
05:38So what's that to you?
05:40What?
05:42Absolutely the last time.
05:43It won't happen again.
05:47I don't remember back that far.
05:51I believe my story was on the National Zoo.
05:54Now, visual centerpiece was going to be me feeding the chimpanzee.
05:59The mating season started a little early this year, and they're afraid a blonde woman standing
06:04in the middle of Monkey Island might be an enticement to the dominant male.
06:09And nobody wants a repeat of the Sarah Priscilla incident.
06:23Excuse me.
06:24So, I've already put two weeks of research into the story, but if it means fighting off
06:32a horny monkey, I'm just not sure if it's worth it.
06:36What do you think?
06:39Sorry.
06:40Sorry, all.
06:41That's the longest time for me.
06:42Okay.
06:43That's it.
06:45No more agents.
06:47No more phone calls.
06:48Anyone wants to negotiate their contract, they can do it tomorrow.
06:51Oh, no.
06:51I wasn't negotiating my contract.
06:53No.
06:53Oh, I was hearing about Frank and the wonderful deal he's about to close with Fox.
06:59You heard that?
07:01Oh, right.
07:02You've got a deal at Fox in one day.
07:05What are you doing?
07:05Playing some thrill-seeking handyman on Melrose Place?
07:14Well, excuse me, but there is some interest.
07:18It's nothing definite.
07:19It's just a news magazine show built around me, one story per week, and I get to help write
07:23the theme song.
07:24I have to make a phone call.
07:28So you're taking it.
07:32I didn't say that.
07:33Are you taking NBC?
07:34Did I say that?
07:36Are you taking something?
07:37Maybe I am.
07:38So you're not taking NBC.
07:40Maybe.
07:40Maybe not.
07:41Then you are taking something.
07:42I didn't say that.
07:43So you're not taking Fox?
07:44I didn't say that.
07:47Or did I?
07:54I just married the monkey.
07:56Just wanted to say, have a good 500th show, Mert.
08:05What are you doing?
08:06Adding my legs way.
08:10Okay, I understand.
08:11If you feel the need to go through with this negotiating ploy.
08:13Ah, you see through him, I'll say this is a ploy.
08:18You know, if I were to switch my opening...
08:20You took it.
08:25You took NBC.
08:26You said it was a negotiating ploy, and you took it.
08:29She didn't take it.
08:30It is a ploy.
08:30Talking's a ploy.
08:31Packing's a ploy.
08:33You're not packing.
08:35You're going to look a great deal in Fox.
08:37That's a great deal.
08:37And you're ready to go to NBC.
08:39She's not so ready.
08:40Maybe I am, Frank.
08:41Maybe after 17 years, it's time for me to strike out on my own.
08:45Maybe I'm ready for a new challenge.
08:46And why do I have to clear this with you anyway?
08:49It's not like we're joined at the hip, you know.
08:55Okay, Frank.
08:56You go ahead and pack if it makes you feel better.
08:59I'll help you as soon as we finish up in here.
09:05Oh, look.
09:07The Emmy you won for the Senate show.
09:09Remember how much fun we had doing that one?
09:12Oh, well.
09:12Might as well put it in this box and close the lid.
09:15Never to gaze upon it with our mutual eyes in this office again.
09:18I'm trying to make you leave.
09:21Good God, not you two.
09:23They're not leaving.
09:23It's just boys.
09:25See, I'm supposed to stand here waving goodbye like the village idiot
09:29while Charlie Corral's Winnebago, which could have been mine for the asking,
09:33flies off down the road with someone else in the driver's seat.
09:37Why is Frank taking Xerox paper from them?
09:41What's going on?
09:42I'll tell you what's going on.
09:43The ship is going down.
09:44Apparently, it's every man for himself.
09:47You guys are leaving?
09:48Cloyes, Cloyes.
09:49Friendly.
09:56Chairman, I'll be just fine.
09:58I'm ready to move up anyway.
10:00I can handle your interviews.
10:02Garth Brooks.
10:03Moe Mark Adabi.
10:04What's the difference?
10:06You're all these people.
10:07They all want the same thing.
10:08They just want to be loved.
10:10Give me a damn box.
10:12Leave your guns.
10:13We're in my office.
10:14I believe they're yours.
10:15Squirt gun.
10:17Shattering teeth.
10:19X-ray glasses.
10:21Where's the key to the teeth?
10:22I don't have it.
10:23You can't wind them up without the key.
10:25They don't shatter without the key.
10:26I said I don't have it.
10:28Well, I think that stinks.
10:30What kind of person would lose the key?
10:32They're just worthless now.
10:33They're just garbage.
10:34Might as well throw them away.
10:36Okay.
10:37Okay.
10:38I think all of our nerves are just a little bit on edge.
10:43Contract time will do that to you.
10:45The important thing to remember is how much we care about each other.
10:49Your family.
10:49Oh, this again.
10:52Family.
10:53Just five people who happen to work together.
10:55The truth is, outside of this job, we don't have anything in common.
10:59So what are you saying?
11:00That we all wouldn't have been friends?
11:01Well, I'll say it first.
11:02We all wouldn't have been friends?
11:04Huh.
11:10Yeah, Jim.
11:12Like, I am going to really miss those dinner parties at your house with the Brinkley's
11:16while we have to stand around the piano while you play your favorite show tunes.
11:19Hey, no.
11:20My parties are on work.
11:21He's a music man.
11:22He's a music man with a big, big drum.
11:24Yeah.
11:25Fine.
11:26Here's nothing in common.
11:28You're too self-absorbed.
11:30You're too self-obsessed.
11:31And you're too peppy.
11:33Good.
11:34I wouldn't want to have anything in common with any of you.
11:36Oh, not right here.
11:37Stop it.
11:40I am so tired of this.
11:42You're like the Beatles.
11:45And I'm Brian Epstein trying to hold it all together.
11:49The man wore scars all through his life and growth when he was 32.
11:52Well, that's not going to happen to me.
11:54I am a group trying.
11:58One more thing.
12:00Someday, when you're old, you're going to look back on this and say,
12:04I was part of one of the great shows in television history.
12:06Only I was too stupid to realize it.
12:12Well, nobody said this would last forever.
12:16Oh, God, this is the worst day of my life.
12:24How the hell did we get here?
12:25Who cares how we got here?
12:26I just want to get out of here.
12:27Let's just cut the stupid cake and get on with our lives.
12:30Talk about making up for lost time.
12:33I've wasted 17 years of my life on this show.
12:36Tell me about it.
12:37My life would have been much better if I hadn't gotten stuck here.
12:39Yeah, you said it.
12:40For once, we agreed.
12:54Excuse me, bartender.
12:56Hey, welcome to Phil's.
12:59Wait a minute.
13:01I know you do that morning show.
13:04That's right.
13:06Regis and Murphy Lee.
13:07Would you like an autographed photo?
13:12No.
13:12Oh, you're a shy one.
13:16Here you are.
13:18Gee, thanks.
13:20I know exactly where to put it.
13:24So, what would it take for me to get a table in here?
13:27A grease fire in the kitchen.
13:30Oh.
13:32Oh.
13:34Cut it out.
13:35Look, maybe that guy on that table would be willing to share.
13:39You're both in the same business.
13:40You might enjoy each other's company.
13:42Oh.
13:43What the heck.
13:46Excuse me.
13:47Hi.
13:48I was told this seat might be free.
13:51Why, certainly.
13:53I, uh...
13:54Aren't you...
13:55That's right.
13:57Murphy Lee of Regis and Murphy Lee.
13:59And you're Jim Dial.
14:01I never miss your show.
14:03Oh, you watch The Naked Truth?
14:05Every night.
14:09And, you know, I don't care what TV guide says.
14:12I don't think you're the carnival freak show of journalism.
14:16And as a viewer, I'm curious about Jeffrey Dahmer and The Last Hours of Marilyn Monroe,
14:21and whether a jar containing Hitler's brain was actually found at the garage sale in Topeka, Kansas.
14:27Yeah, that's right.
14:28That was a good show for us.
14:30Uh, excuse me, the...
14:33Guy over at the bar said I might be able to find a seat here.
14:39Hey.
14:40Hey, you're, um...
14:41Um, that's right.
14:43Murphy Lee Brown of Regis and Murphy Lee.
14:45And Jim Dial host of The Naked Truth.
14:47Would you like an autographed photo?
14:49Oh, no, no.
14:50That's okay, Ruth.
14:51Thanks.
14:54I'm, uh...
14:55Frank Fontana, managing editor of the Asbury Park Daily Record.
15:00You ever heard that?
15:01Can't say that I have.
15:02Uh...
15:03Do you, uh, mind if I smoke?
15:08Oh, thank God.
15:09Hallelujah.
15:17Golly, I've got to quit.
15:19Oh, me too.
15:20Here you are.
15:29Oh, my God.
15:31That's Courtney Sherwood.
15:35What a tragic career.
15:37One day, you're Miss America.
15:39The next, you're being fired from Baywatch
15:41because of artistic differences with David Hasselhoff.
15:48Wow.
15:50Are those real?
15:51No.
15:52We did a story on them.
15:54After Baywatch,
16:00he said she never wanted to lose another role.
16:02Sadly, they didn't seem to help him.
16:04Now he travels the country,
16:06judging beauty pageants
16:07and opening bowling alleys.
16:09Dear Lord, they're coming our way.
16:13Hey.
16:14Now, I'm on the smoke.
16:15Hey.
16:15Hey, Matt.
16:19I know you.
16:20You're, um,
16:21Bailey Brown of Regis and Murphy Lee.
16:24And Jim Dial
16:24of The Naked Truth.
16:28You anybody?
16:29Frank Fontana.
16:31Asbury Park, Daily Record.
16:33Could have just said no.
16:34What did you do to our nation's capital?
16:46I'm judging other damn beauty pageants.
16:49I swear to God,
16:50if I had to listen to one more 19-year-old idiot
16:52talk about how our finest wish is for world peace,
16:55I'm gonna blow my brains out.
16:57Oh, no.
16:58Sure you don't mean that.
17:00But if you do,
17:01please call me first.
17:04You know,
17:05I would love to have you on the show.
17:08Why?
17:08Do another one of those
17:09whatever happened to that loser segment?
17:11Oh, gosh.
17:12No, I just,
17:13you know, I meant, uh...
17:14Oh, it's okay.
17:16I'm used to it.
17:18Start off with big dreams.
17:20Wind up with big knockers.
17:23What are you staring at?
17:26Well, you don't always get what you want.
17:28I mean, look at you.
17:29Spending your life on that morning show
17:31doing tummy-toning exercises
17:32with John Ratzenberger.
17:34I'm trying to convince the world
17:37that a jar full of cow innards
17:39is the brains of Adolf Hitler.
17:42I don't even know you,
17:43but you look miserable.
17:44All right, now.
17:52Remember,
17:53gray skies are gonna clear up
17:56foot on a happy face.
17:58Let's put a sock in it, will ya?
18:01Excuse me, I'm not miserable.
18:04What?
18:05Frank Fontana is not miserable.
18:06My life has value and meaning.
18:07Okay, so my four marriages didn't work out.
18:11I'm not some hot-shot investigative reporter.
18:15So what?
18:16People need to know about those new parking meters
18:18over on Main Street.
18:20The pew renovation at the First Methodist.
18:23The new frozen yogurt flavor at Frosty Fries.
18:25Oh, I am miserable.
18:29At least you don't publicly humiliate yourself every week.
18:32I was going to be the next Walter Cronkite.
18:35The voice, the height, the hair.
18:38I never landed that show
18:40that can push you to the top.
18:41Now I spend my life
18:43standing on a cherry picker
18:44outside Neverland
18:45shouting questions
18:46to Michael Jackson's llama keeper.
18:57I have a perkiness clause.
18:59What?
19:01A perkiness clause.
19:02I have a perkiness clause
19:04in my contract.
19:05I have to be bouncy and perky all the time
19:07or they could boot my ass off the show.
19:11I've blown every opportunity I've had
19:13in this business.
19:14This is it for me.
19:16So I just sit there
19:18smiling at old Reage
19:20and whenever he's not looking
19:22I just pour another shot of scotch
19:23into my coffee mug.
19:26My whole life is a lie.
19:28You're not going to sing again, are you?
19:33Bill, my man,
19:35a bottle of champagne
19:36and five glasses
19:38to celebrate the 500th episode
19:40of FYI.
19:45And we couldn't do it without you, Miles.
19:47Hey, buddy.
19:48You're the man.
19:49The best producer ever.
19:52You've taught me so much.
19:55For you kids, knock it off.
19:57Oh, my God.
20:02Uh, excuse me.
20:04This is our regular table.
20:08Oh, sure, of course.
20:09All right, thank you.
20:10Come on.
20:19Okay.
20:21I was going to save this,
20:22but what the heck?
20:24Guess what I have lined up
20:26for next season's opening episode?
20:28What?
20:28An entire hour
20:30with President Quayle.
20:32Oh.
20:32Oh, my God.
20:37I don't mind waiting.
20:40I have a table opening up in fact.
20:43Oh, no.
20:44I should be kidding.
20:45And it laid
20:45to FYI
20:48and another 500.
20:50Five hundred.
20:51That's dangerous team.
20:53Oh.
20:56Cut it already.
20:58They're running out of film.
21:01You can't leave
21:02until you cut it.
21:04I don't want to leave.
21:07What?
21:09I don't want to leave.
21:11If Frank and Jim cut it,
21:12they want to leave.
21:13I don't want to leave.
21:17I was only leaving
21:18because you were going to leave.
21:19I don't want to leave either.
21:21I don't want any of you to leave.
21:25I don't want anybody to say something.
21:26What were we going to say?
21:28Give up that great deal
21:29and stay here?
21:30Yes.
21:32I'm sorry.
21:34I'm sorry.
21:36No, I'm sorry.
21:37Oh, you're all the best.
21:39You're all the best.
21:40No, you're all the best.
21:42You're the best.
21:44You know something?
21:45We are a family.
21:47Only a family could be this messed up.
21:51I knew it.
21:53I knew you wouldn't leave.
21:55I wasn't really worried.
21:56That was my ploy.
21:59I play you like a violin.
22:01Yeah, right.
22:02You're Yasha Heifetz.
22:04Miles, you're right.
22:05We do belong together.
22:07All of us.
22:08As a matter of fact,
22:09you belong on this gig, too.
22:10Right, guys?
22:11Yes, you do.
22:12Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
22:13I know what's coming.
22:14Miles belongs on that cake, too.
22:16Well, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction.
22:17Ah!
22:18Oh, God, it's an ice cream cake.
22:32Hello, Mother.
22:40Ah, you are home.
22:43Oh, there's some, uh, lasagna in the fridge.
22:45Don't try to close the kitchen drawers,
22:47because they still might be wet.
22:48And, by the way,
22:51I don't know what kind of bedtime stories
22:52you've been telling A.V.,
22:53because he woke up crying
22:55because he thought Oliver North
22:56was going to be elected to the Senate.
23:06I guess I better go back to Goodnight Moon.
23:10See you tomorrow.
23:11What the heck was that?
23:25A hug.
23:27Sometimes you have people in your life,
23:29and they're important to you,
23:30and you don't get around to telling them,
23:32so that's what that was.
23:34Oh, you're not dying, are you?
23:37No.
23:39You're moving away?
23:41No.
23:42I knew it.
23:42You're going to ask me to take a cut in salary.
23:44It's a thank you hug.
23:46Now, when you get out of here...
23:48All right, I'm going.
24:02Hey, you're okay, too.
24:04I'll see you tomorrow.
24:07I'll see you tomorrow.
24:34All right, I'll see you tomorrow.
24:38All right, guys.
24:38All right, guys.

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