p show" is a nightclub show in which women take off their clothes. "Bucks" is very common slang for dollars. Frank, it’s being handed to us on a plate. Let’s not blow it. "To blow it" is a great expression meaning to waste an opportunity, or more generally, to do something poorly. We don’t want to lose momentum. An important word that means the force or general direction that something is headed in. I’m going to be eyeball to eyeball with Mr. Ruddy on this. Hackett’s way of saying that he will be fighting Ruddy with all the power he has from his influence in the corporation. I’m the one whose ass is going on the line. A crude and slang way of saying that he is the one risking his job. Top brass of a bankrupt television network. The "top brass" of a company are its highest executive officers. If a company is "bankrupt," it doesn’t have enough money to pay its debts. A pornographic network news show? The FCC would kill us. "Pornographic" is an adjective that means lewd or obscene, though it usually refers to sex. The FCC is the Federal Communications Commission, the governmental agency that looks after TV networks. The FCC can’t do anything except rap our knuckles. Hackett’s way of saying that the FCC doesn’t have the power to actually stop the show. Literally, to hit their fingers, but never used. I don’t want to think about the litigious possibilities. An adjective that refers to law suits. The affiliates will kiss your ass if you hand them a hit show. Hackett’s crude way of saying the affiliates will be grateful, as long as the show is popular and makes money. This violates every canon of respectable broadcasting. "To violate" a law is to break it, and a "canon" is an old word for an established law or behavior that has been accepted for a very long time. We’re a whorehouse network. A "whorehouse" is a house of prostitution, or brothel. That’s very commendable, Nelson. A rarely used but nice word for honorable or deserving or praise. Your indignation has been duly recorded. "Indignation" is angry disapproval, and if something has been "duly recorded." it has been officially noticed or recognized. I think we ought to give it a shot. "To give it a shot" is to try and do something difficult or dangerous. I might teach…whatever the hell one does when one approaches the autumn of one’s years. Max’s poetic way of saying when one gets old. They want Howard to go on, spontaneously letting out his anger. To do something "spontaneously" is to do it without planning ahead of time, or without thinking or reflection. Are you kidding?:: I’m not kidding! "To kid" is to joke around, or not be serious. I said if you think I’ll go along with this bastardization of the news, you can have my resignation along with M
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