They keep the country clean.Besides, there's a law against killin' buzzards.Hud (uncaring): Man, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.And that's what I try to do.Sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.Homer: I don't like to break the law in my place, Hud.Hud: Well, she ain't gonna sit up and tell us herself.Hud wants to sell them before they can be condemned by government inspectors: "You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?" Homer rejects selling them: "That would run the risk of starting an epidemic."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $125 million, and box-office gross receipts of $215.4 million (domestic) and $546.4 million (worldwide).This was the highest grossing film of the series, though not the most profitable (the first brought in $457 million worldwide with an $80 million budget).When Lois attempted to comfort him, "I want the man I fell in love with," Clark noted that he wished Superman was there to help: "I wish he were here.A bottom-feeding lowlife who's about to go down in flames." Lounds pleaded for his life and suggested he could be ransomed by his publisher for as much as a million.