- Jim Dial: Frankly, Murphy, I've rarely seen anyone so ill-suited for a situation as you are for the morning show. You're acerbic, humorless, inflexible and unprepared. In a nutshell, you make Sam Donaldson look like Pinky Lee.
- Murphy Brown: Jim, I thought you went to a hotel with Doris last night.
- Jim Dial: I did; it was great. Thanks for the advice, Murphy... but you still suck.
- Jim Dial: It's nothing but an exploitative, pandering piece of trash that fouls the airwaves, eating away at our intelligence until the cerebral level of this country's about the size of a gnat's butt!
- Miles Silverberg: Why did you say that?
- Murphy Brown: I don't know. Sometimes Donna Reed comes in, and just takes over my body. Let's not question it.