Murphy Brown Season 6 Episode 3 Black And White And Read All Over
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00:00project it seemed pretty overwhelming but we are cooking now so what's next your water bill
00:04it says final notice jeez how could you let things go this far i told you frank i've fallen a little
00:11behind what color is it blue oh that's okay they don't cut you off until it's pink and then some
00:16woman named sylvia usually calls to make sure you're not dead can i make a suggestion do what
00:23i do i get into the office at 8 15 so i can have a nice cup of coffee sort through my mail
00:29and still have enough time to check all our horoscopes i have a child now there is no more
00:358 15 i go directly from feed the baby to late for work um one small suggestion if you sort at the
00:43same time you eat you could be up to your second or even third piece of mail by now then perhaps
00:47during dessert i could wash your car iron a few blouses for you going as fast as i can
00:52i'm jonas priest look at that a paper cut that's it i've suffered enough for you
00:59catch yourself another whipping boy thanks to jim's selfishness we're all just going to have to work a
01:06little harder i'm leaving too i already know way more about you than i want to i can't understand
01:12how someone so blonde could spend so much money on leg waxing
01:15i'm sorry murphy but i have my own work to do too now i've separated your fan mail into positive
01:25and negative responses i wasn't sure what to do with these two they were requests for pictures
01:30of your feet and that seemed like kind of a gray area
01:34here you go murphy gotta be careful about bringing your mail in here
01:41dan roust and kelsey's been hanging around eyeballing that sheet of stamps
01:45oh phil i'll have a fruit salad to go you know for a big guy you eat like a bird
01:53hello murphy
01:57so mitchell things must really be tight if the network's making its vice presidents pick up their
02:03own lunch no it isn't just for me we're spending so much on our overpaid storm reporters that that
02:09one fruit salad has to feed the entire executive wing you know that is unfair after all all we do
02:17is find the stories research them and present them every week in a way that brings in millions of
02:21viewers you executives on the other hand come up with those great slogans for the new fall season
02:26what is it this year watch us we're cheaper than cable
02:29you're forgetting we're also expected to play tennis and decide who gets the big offices
02:38apparently yours isn't big enough
02:40you see that is the difference between us you see your office is your world whereas the world is my office
02:48i never stop working
02:49a symposium at georgetown next week
02:52a fundraising dinner dance at the smithsonian on sunday
02:55well true it's not a work function specifically but i'll be making contacts there that will aid me
02:59in my work what are you doing on sunday mitchell well i may not wait a minute what are you doing
03:04i don't have a date you want to go you're asking me out you're here you're a man i'm organizing my
03:09life yes or no
03:10that's the smoothest pickup line i've heard since bob hackwood stopped in here on secretary's day
03:17such a gracious invitation how could i possibly refuse
03:27thanks mitchell you're a prince
03:29well i'm not doing it for you i'm doing it for the network
03:32after all i have to make sure that our highly paid talent gets back to work
03:35instead of hanging in a bar all day looking for a date
03:38i swear to you i had no idea it would be that bad
03:48really are you kidding you do you just flat out sucked me into going admit it
03:53no no no i thought it would be fun
03:55i mean a formal dance with lots of politicians at a museum
03:59to raise money for a new fossil wing
04:01go ahead and laugh
04:05because while you were in the ladies room
04:07i signed you up for the fundraising committee on a migratory bird exhibit
04:11that is low
04:14you know mitchell i have to say
04:17i had you pegged as a
04:19stuffed shirt boring uptight
04:21kind of guy and you are
04:23but when you tried to teach janet reno the achy breaky
04:28that showed real good
04:29yeah well that was nothing compared to how you got our car first by telling the valet i was patrick ewing
04:35and had to get to the cap center in time for the tip off
04:38hey you work with what you got
04:41i want to ask you something
04:46did you get the feeling we were attracting a little attention tonight
04:50well maybe people just aren't used to seeing you with someone
04:54tall
04:55that must be it
04:58well
04:59thanks a lot for coming with me and being my
05:02person who came with me
05:04well i'm always here for you
05:08just let me know if you need a date for the next supreme court bowling party
05:11good night
05:14good night mitchell
05:16hi i'm murphy brown you must be my new secretary
05:40robert l watkins ma'am
05:42pleasure to be serving under you ma'am
05:44just a wild guess here robert but were you recently in the military
05:48yes ma'am
05:49gay ma'am
05:51they ask i told ma'am
05:53i see
05:58well nice to have you with us robert
05:59at ease
06:00good morning all
06:06richel this is a nice surprise
06:09so what brings our favorite vp down to the nerve center of fyi
06:13business or just come to chat
06:15i really don't chat miles i don't have the time
06:17of course not
06:19not that we wouldn't make time if you wanted to chat that is but you're too busy as are we
06:25yes
06:29small schedule change
06:30you'll be airing an hour later next week we're getting you out of the way of some james seymour miniseries on another network i think in this one she plays a beautiful heroine with long hair
06:39well i don't foresee any problems mitchell
06:44mitchell sounds like a good programming move i chat about more but no time for that no time no
06:50mitchell hi
06:50morning murphy
06:51can i talk to you for a moment
06:53certainly
06:53i know you're trying to organize your life and i thought that it might be helpful if in order to organize your life next saturday night for example you know where when and with whom you were spinning the evening
07:07well you know you're right mitchell that would be very helpful
07:10well that's excellent because i happen to have two tickets to the kennedy center and it would ease my mind considerably to know that i'll have a familiar face next to me i hate sitting next to strangers
07:18i know what you mean and then there's that whole armrest thing other people always think it's for them
07:23what are you writing work stuff what are you writing thoughts and ideas
07:38i think i heard him say something about seven seven what seven what i don't know i can't hear what the two of you talking
07:45sorry for the interruption people bye
07:50hi
07:54what you guys writing
07:56well just in case your hearing isn't what it used to be mitchell and i went out last night
08:04we had a very nice time we're going out again
08:10broccoli has only one l miles
08:13oh hey
08:17how about that
08:20so you and mitchell have something going
08:23that's great
08:24isn't that great
08:27oh murphy
08:28just great
08:32i am all for this murph
08:36that's it i think we can move on
08:39no jim i don't want to move on
08:43i mean it's pretty obvious how uncomfortable we all are about this but maybe i'm the only one brave enough to say it
08:48no no i think it's wrong for her to be dating baldwin
08:51he's your boss for god's sakes
08:54well technically miles baldwin isn't my boss he's yours so you shouldn't date him but i can't
08:59this isn't funny murphy bad things happen when people date at the office or have you forgotten about the time vicky and accounting broke up with earl in the mailroom
09:09oh right like mitchell would even know how to drive a forklift
09:15is that what's bothering all of you the fact that mitchell is a network vp
09:19i am not bothered
09:21i think this is great i mean it's just great
09:26i keep saying great because i don't want it to seem like i have a problem with this
09:30you mean because baldwin is black and murphy is white whenever you picture them together you can't help but think
09:37hi there's a very black man david and you're a very blonde woman
09:40my problem is that baldwin is just so straight you were put on this earth to get people like that greek not to date them
09:48but i know everybody's gonna think that my problem is the race thing and no matter how much i say it's not the racing
09:53it's gonna seem like it's the racing that's what you're all thinking right that it's the racing
09:56no frank actually i'm chalking it up to the fact that you're jealous of anybody who has a second date
10:02well there's always that
10:10murphy i just want you to be happy i don't not if she's dating the boss
10:18well i think what murphy's doing is wonderful after all she hasn't had much lactating white men
10:26expanding her horizons is probably a really good idea
10:33gee thanks corky and who knows if things don't work out with mitchell i could always look into hispanics and asians too
10:41why in china alone they have billions
10:44for the love of mike i don't care if a man is purple just because people work together doesn't mean they have to share every single detail of their personal lives
10:55it starts like that the next thing you know you're standing at the water cooler
10:58images dancing in your head of that raven haired receptionist on the third floor wearing
11:03lace garters and frilly under things
11:05gm has a point
11:15i'm sure we have much more
11:18pressing problems uh to discuss
11:20um frank i took a little
11:21oh it's no use now you're all in your underwear
11:23i'm going to my office and watch
11:25see you
11:25i'm telling you frank it was appalling the second mitchell and i walked into the restaurant
11:39everyone at the senator's table started whispering
11:42and then it wasn't long before they began
11:43twisting around doing that looking thing where you pretend like you're looking at something else
11:47but your eyes really keep darting back to what you're really looking at
11:49so guess what we did drink is
11:50we had drinks sent over to their table guess what kind
11:54i don't know
11:55kalua and cream
11:56no no no i don't think you get it
12:00kalua and cream it was great they were so embarrassed they left without even ordering dessert
12:05you know you and mitchell have gone out what four times and every time your picture ends up on the society page or people magazine
12:13well that's exactly my point i've dated men who were much more famous and our pictures never appeared in the paper this much
12:19but suddenly i date one black man and boom i'm news
12:22and i'd never get this kind of attention i could date the entire cast of the whiz no one would even look for it
12:29trust me frank this is not the kind of attention one seeks out so tonight we're gonna go to the south african embassy
12:35murph i said i wanted you to be happy i didn't say i want to hear about it
12:40porky did i tell you what mitchell and i did last night we went to the north
12:45it's just i can't believe the kind of reaction mitchell and i've been getting these past few weeks
12:53i know it's a real shame it just goes to show some people haven't come as far as others
12:58which reminds me murphy i want to invite you and mitchell over for dinner
13:02oh thanks not this weekend of course because my parents are in town
13:07they're still kind of getting used to me working with a jewish person
13:11jim did i tell you what mitchell and i did
13:17this was just delivered for you ma'am
13:24and if i may i know what you're going through i dated a black man once
13:29society can be very cruel ma'am
13:35murphy just the woman i was looking for so how's everything going fine
13:45oh muffins they're from ted danson
13:49you know murphy sometimes i tend to get immersed in all the business aspects of fyi and i forget
14:06about the people so occasionally i just like to take time out check in catch up so what's up
14:15you happy yes miles good good because if you ever had any problems any problems at all no matter
14:22how teeny tiny i would hope that you bring them to me the executive producer of fyi
14:27you know instead of going over my head and perhaps screaming out in the heat of passion
14:31miles gave my health care story to frank
14:33oh come on miles you know i'm not the type of person to talk about someone behind their back
14:42although it has been four months since i asked you for that new laser printer
14:46i told you we got held up at the factory well then you have nothing to worry about do you
14:50mitchell and i mitchell and i let's just forget this annoying new show we're working on and talk
15:03about what's really important what color paisley does mitchell prefer on his bikini briefs
15:08mitchell favors those with the little cartoon characters on the crotch or maybe uh donald duck
15:14or perhaps a steamboat willy's board is like and then carrie grant says uh
15:20young women make up the major
15:29wow that was really good i didn't know chinese food came without the little white boxes
15:36well i enjoy cooking sometimes i spend all winking in the kitchen i can see why all that chopping and
15:43chopping and chopping making sure every piece is exactly the same size when let's be honest would
15:49it really taste any different if one piece of red pepper were just a teeny bit bigger than the rest
15:55well i may be somewhat of a perfectionist which isn't easy when you're stirring with a pizza cutter
16:02i could have sworn i had some utensils in there somewhere did you look in the toy chest
16:06well this is nice isn't it just the two of us spending an evening in yeah if i'd have known you
16:15had such a way with kung pao chicken we would have done this sooner oh thank you so i guess whoever
16:20didn't cook has to clean up whoa where'd that rule come from that's the way we did it in my family how'd
16:27you do it whoever didn't call in the order had to throw away the paper plates you have to understand i
16:33grew up in the family where the smoke alarm was used as an oven timer so what do you want to do
16:42tonight i brought a surprise oh i love surprises a video he makes the dinner and rents the movie i
16:51could get used to this what did you rent persona how about that you don't like it no no no it's just
17:01that i slept through it twice but really it's fine roll murphy i'm not gonna watch a movie that you
17:09don't want to watch how could you sleep through persona it was boring and i hate subtitles don't
17:15you ever wonder why the actors say some really long sentence like and then the subtitle says one
17:22little word like no swedish translating person isn't having a great big nordic yuck at our expense
17:29honestly anything's fine no it's okay since you've cleaned up why don't we just watch something that
17:35you want to watch well maybe i do have something whatever i'm flexible
17:45okay i'm gonna take a chance here but i think we've been going out long enough that i can reveal
17:50something personal about myself there's something i like to watch that a lot of people think is
17:57well unusual but many adults really get pleasure from if you agree this could take our relationship
18:04to a whole new level roadrunner cartoons
18:10it's the one where the coyote chases the roadrunner off the edge of the cliff and they're both running
18:15in midair and then the coyote falls but the roadrunner doesn't so the coyote holds up a sign
18:19that says that defies the law of gravity and the roadrunner holds up a sign that says i never studied
18:28nope i don't think so well mr flexible sure has changed his tune hey i'm flexible just because i don't
18:35want to watch some cartoon it is not just a cartoon the coyote never gives up it's an allegory for
18:42persistence and the triumph of the spirit and it's funny although it's not the laugh riot bergman is
18:53look murphy this is our first evening in together i think we can enjoy it without staring at a
18:57television for two hours why don't we just sit and talk why not conversation's always good
19:03so what should we talk about judging from our past experience not foreign trade not health care not
19:14space program not the gold standard not andrew lloyd weber
19:23so the roadrunner just hangs there in midair
19:25mitchell am i alone in this or do you sense that there's something missing here like people
19:38looking at us oh come on we hate that i know i know but right now i'm very aware of the sound of
19:44my brain spinning trying to come up with something to say or at least something that won't get us into
19:49an argument and when we were out in public we never had that problem well murphy you said yourself how much
19:54it bothered you when people gave us those weird looks i know and the whispering that was very
19:58annoying and the photographers they drove us nuts yep i hated all those things i don't even know why i
20:03said anything just a few awkward moments and i panicked sorry so you want to go out for ice cream great idea
20:12oh god yeah i know okay so we're the kind of people who like to stir things up maybe we get
20:25a kick out of the way people react to us is that so terrible no it isn't if you think about it what
20:30we're actually doing is making people face their own preconceptions right it's like we're performing a
20:34public service exactly we are saying to the world this happens get used to it right and there's nothing
20:39wrong with that unless unless this is more about stirring things up and less about dating
20:48it is possible that we were so wrapped up in the stares and whispers that we overlooked a few things
20:55like the fact that you are a tad bit on the compulsive side well maybe you have a point all those raised
21:02eyebrows with such a rush i think i might have convinced myself that your perpetual need to be
21:06right was kind of cute this from the man who had a cab pull over so he could run into a music store and
21:13buy sheet music to prove that the whole world smiles with you when you're smiling not while you're
21:18smiling even after i showed it to you you insisted it was a misprint so don't talk to me about being
21:23right you know what mitchell you're right see i don't have to be right all the time or else i'd insist
21:30you were wrong and i was right but i'm agreeing with you so guess what you're wrong oh man who are we
21:42kidding yeah all things being equal this probably would have ended on the third date second you're
21:50forgetting about the let's go backstage barishnikov knows me incident um just for the record it wasn't
22:00only a matter of convenience when i asked you out in the first place well to that same record if you
22:07hadn't i would have gotten around asking you out you know we're still friends you don't have to leave
22:12right away i do if i want to watch persona tonight goodbye you know what well i'm just thinking it's
22:22too bad that we're not going to be together for the image and media awards next month lots of heads to
22:27turn there well we could still go great spike lee's gonna be there good night
22:44and so goes another so many men have gone before him and they all leave with that same look on their
22:54face well what are you doing here he's asleep and i'm about to be i had an inspiration for that blank
23:00spot above the fridge hillary clinton in a waiting room with the thermometer in her mouth
23:11let me ask you something do you think i purposely pick men who are wrong for me
23:18damn the muse that brought me here tonight
23:20no really i want to know well i don't know that you do it on purpose but i do know that they're all
23:29wrong although i must admit i would be hard-pressed to figure out who would be right beginning to regret
23:36i brought this up no no let's let's think about this for a moment the right man for the woman that is
23:43you well he would have to have the brains of aristotle the warmth and sensitivity of that
23:51mr rogers fellow uh the ears of a deaf man the patience of maybe you should just get a cat
24:01mr rogers mr rogers now i'm gonna have nightmares although it would cause quite a controversy
24:12mrs rogers would be very upset we'd be the top of the neighborhood
24:25the new season's here
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