" However, at home he is shown little respect - in fact, his ghastly mother-in-law snatches the paper and tosses it away unread." According to Lydecker, "Jacoby was in love with her when he painted it.But he never captured her vibrance, her warmth."McPherson is absorbed with opening up the phonograph console and putting on Laura""s favorite record when Lydecker asks him about his love life.One of the film""s long-running gags occurred between wo jive-talking black passengers, Jive Man 1 Holm (Norman Alexander Gibbs) and Jive Man 2 Arthur (Al White), whose conversations required subtitles, for example:Jive Man 1: "Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus"" be messin"" my old lady got to be runnin"" col"" upsihd down his head!"Subtitles: "GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM."" I""ve been telling you people since I took this job six months ago that I want angry shows.I don""t want conventional programming on this network.I want counter-culture.I want anti-establishment.(She shuts her door) I don""t want to play butch boss with you people.But when I took over this department, it had the worst programming record in television history.This network hasn""t one show in the top 20.This network is an industry joke.And we better start putting together one winner for next September.I want a show developed, based on the activities of a terrorist group.""Joseph Stalin and his Merry Band of Bolsheviks."" I want ideas from you people.That is what you""re paid for.And, by the way, the next time I send an audience research report around, you""d all better read it or I""ll sack the f--king lot of you, is that clear?At the television network""s stockholders meeting in a banquet room within the New York Hilton, Frank Hackett makes an annual report to the seated audience, and submits a plan "for he coordination of the main profit centers, and with the specific intention of making each division more responsive to management.]:Beinstock: Saxophone, Bass.Am I glad to see you girls.You saved our lives.Daphne: Likewise, I""m sure.Sue: Where did you girls play before?Daphne: Here, there, and around.Josephine: We spent three years at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music.As they climb up the train""s steps, Beinstock pats Daphne""s rear end when she stumbles.Acting like a typical woman, Daphne turns and chastises him: "Fresh!"Beinstock: Looks like Poliakoff came through with a couple of real ladies.