The Ratings Game

Francine Kester:
What a place you've got here.

Vic De Salvo:
Yeah.

Francine Kester:
You're not an Arab, so you must be a drug dealer.

Vic De Salvo:
I didn't make a move on you for four days. If that isn't love, I don't know what is.

Vic De Salvo:
In trucking, I only had to deal with thugs, hitmen and goons. But these network guys are scary.

Goody DeSalvo:
Since you got money, you only go out with beautiful women who treat you like dirt.

Vic De Salvo:
It's a step up. Before I had money, I went out with ugly women who treated me like dirt.

Goody DeSalvo:
What you need is a nice girl who likes you for yourself.

Vic De Salvo:
That's not my type.

Bruno:
Hey, Boss, you got a good broad here.

Vic De Salvo:
Bruno, didn't you have your consciousness raised by the women's movement? You're not supposed to say 'broad' in front of them.

Parker Braithwaite:
How can "The Senator and Stinky" get a zero share?

Francine Kester:
Not one of the fifteen hundred Computron sets were tuned into it. In short, nobody watched.

Parker Braithwaite:
Nobody watched, huh? It just so happens that we received four hundred letters complaining about the show... so somebody's watching.

Francine Kester:
None of the Computron households.

Parker Braithwaite:
Households. That's the flaw in your system! You don't take into account college dormitories... prisons... Our shows get a lot of fan mail from mental institutions. That never shows up in your ratings!

Tony:
Let me get this straight, Vic. You want me and my truckers to break and enter the homes of innocent people... and help you perpetuate this fraud?

Vic De Salvo:
Yeah.

Tony:
I got no problem with that.

Sid:
[looks around at Vic's decor] Am I nuts or have I been here before?

Goody DeSalvo:
The lobby of the Golden Nugget.

Sid:
Class!

Vic De Salvo:
Boys, I'm offering all of you a piece of the biggest money-making racket in America today.

Tony:
Drugs?

Sid:
Hookers?

Tony:
Car insurance?

Vic De Salvo:
No, television! Where a minute of advertising costs a hundred thousand dollars... and a ratings point is worth forty million to a network.

Skip:
[at Vic's party] All right, waiters, on your toes - push the shrimp balls!

Vic De Salvo:
I don't remember any Francine Kester on the invite list, do you, Skip?

Skip:
Please, I have no knowledge of this woman.

Francine Kester:
You don't look like you've had knowledge of any woman.

Francine Kester:
I guess that girl tonight hurt you pretty bad.

Vic De Salvo:
Nah, that was one of my healthier relationships. At least she didn't torch my warehouse. Some of them get vicious.