Murphy Brown Season 5 Episode 7 A Year To Remember
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00:00The state is the only one with a legitimate plan to help this country.
00:03Look, Al, I understand how you feel, but I have to get off now.
00:06Why won't you tell the people the truth?
00:08You know, with your support, we could turn this election around.
00:11Will you give it a rest?
00:13Jerry Brown is out of the race!
00:15More lies! It's not too late!
00:181-800-4265!
00:20I'm telling you, I've had it with this whole campaign process.
00:24I think we should take all the candidates, put them in a locker room,
00:27throw in a dart, and whoever hits is president.
00:30Wake up, Chief. And best of all, it's sport.
00:33Well, for only 14 more hours, it'll all be over.
00:36No more wild accusations, personal attacks, ugly name-calling.
00:41This wasn't a campaign. It was a date with Deborah from accounting.
00:45Happy lunch today, everyone!
00:48Don't forget to vote! Don't forget to vote!
00:51Good morning, you two!
00:53Aren't you excited? I could hardly sleep at all last night.
00:56I kept waking up every half hour, looking at the clock to see if it was here yet.
01:00I'm the same way on election eve, Corky.
01:03In fact, last night, I snuck down in the middle of the night
01:05to see if Bush or Clinton had eaten the plate of cookies I left Corky.
01:10I left a letter.
01:12Dear presidential candidates, I have been a very good boy.
01:15I would like a balanced budget, better health care, and G.I. Joe with Kung Fu grip.
01:23Frank!
01:25You've got a coffee ring on my voting booklet.
01:28Draw it on the proposed sewer bond issue.
01:31Corky, you don't actually read all that stuff, do you?
01:34Of course I read all that stuff, Frank.
01:37It's important.
01:38Don't you?
01:39Well, I'd look at it, but, you know, I don't have a lot of time
01:43unless it involves the really important stuff.
01:46You know, president, more cable channels.
01:48I can't be bothered.
01:50And you call yourself a responsible citizen.
01:53You're what's wrong with this country, Frank.
01:55You know, I am really tired of hearing that.
01:59Most people don't understand what this stuff is about.
02:01Anyway, look, I'll show you.
02:03Murph, um, tell me what you know about, uh, Initiative 7.
02:11Initiative 7?
02:13Oh, yes.
02:14I believe it starred Newell Brenner.
02:16Nope.
02:16Wait, that was Magnificent 7.
02:18I'm sorry.
02:19Uh, what was the question?
02:22Morning, all.
02:24Jim, do you read all those little initiatives and bond issues on the ballot?
02:29None of your business, Frank.
02:31I'm sorry, but how I vote is my own concern.
02:33No one knows how I vote.
02:35Really, Jim?
02:36Not even Doris?
02:37Absolutely not.
02:38And I have no idea how she votes.
02:40After 30 years of marriage, there are only two things about my wife I feel I'll never know.
02:44The first is how she votes.
02:46The second is why she calls the shower massage Steve.
02:53Good morning, people, and how is the best election coverage team in the business?
02:58Ready to enlighten?
02:59Ready to educate?
03:00Ready to kick Jennings and Brokaw's butts?
03:03Nice clipboard, Miles.
03:05Sign me up for intramural volleyball.
03:07Oh, man.
03:08She's just so very amusing.
03:10You think Andrea Mitchell's making volleyball jokes right now?
03:13Well, I can assure you she is not.
03:16She's lean, she's mean, and she eats news teams like us for breakfast.
03:20You give her half a chance, and she will rip off Jim's head, empty it out, and use it as a purse.
03:25Is that what you want?
03:26Damn it!
03:27Gee, Miles, how much coffee have you had this morning?
03:30Never mind.
03:32Now, Murphy, you're spending the day covering Senator Bricker.
03:36Will you be back in time for your interview with James Baker?
03:38No problem.
03:39Bricker's a politician up for re-election.
03:40What could his day entail?
03:42Breakfast?
03:42Lie, lie.
03:43Lunch?
03:44Lie, lie.
03:44Early supper?
03:45Lie, lie.
03:45And I'm home by Ford.
03:46Well, I know one little citizen who got up on the cynical side of the bed this morning.
03:52Corky, when you've been through as many presidential elections as we have, it's hard to muster the old enthusiasm.
03:58Well, I'm sorry, Jim, but I don't think we should forget how important this day really is.
04:03Which reminds me, Miles, if it's okay, I'll be using my lunch hour to go vote.
04:10Is that pretty much when everyone else was planning it?
04:13Oh, no.
04:13Oh, no.
04:14Corky.
04:15How could you all be so wishy-washy about this?
04:19Voting is a very special privilege.
04:22I'll never forget my very first presidential election.
04:27It was November 6, 1984.
04:31Reagan and Monday.
04:40I'm so sorry I'm late, Bo, honey.
04:43Are you mad?
04:44Oh, please don't tell me that you're mad.
04:46Are you, Bo, man?
04:47Corky, I've got to be back at the dealership by one.
04:50We've got to clear out all the 1984 models to make room for the 85s.
04:54November's cat-life month.
04:55I know, and I apologize, Bo Bear.
04:58But I got held up at the ad agency.
05:00They wanted my opinion on which life-size cutout of me they should use for the display in the First Bank of New Orleans.
05:07And I couldn't decide between the one of me proudly displaying the new personalized checks like this
05:13or the one where I look surprised at the leatherette checkbook cover that comes free with every new account.
05:20I'm sure you'll look for this picture in both of them.
05:26Now let's get this over with and get something to eat.
05:28I've got to get back to work.
05:30November's cat-life month.
05:31I'm just so excited about voting.
05:37Look, I even filled out my sample ballot in advance.
05:42Did you read this whole ballot and try to figure it out all by yourself?
05:45That is so cute.
05:47Honey, this is written in confusing legal gibberish by lawyers from New York.
05:52It's way too complicated for you.
05:54Oh, no, it's not, Bo, honey.
05:56Hey, I understood.
05:57No, see, look here.
05:58Right off the bat, you checked the wrong box for the president.
06:02Well, that's not what I'd vote for.
06:04Oh, Porky, you can't be serious.
06:06The man's running with a woman for vice president.
06:10Oh, sweetheart, we can't have a female a heartbeat away from the presidency.
06:14It's too unpredictable.
06:15And you know how you get every 28 days.
06:17Oh, please.
06:19Look at your voice.
06:19I'm the first bank of New Orleans, lady.
06:24Besides, what does being a woman have to do with anything?
06:28I've thought a lot about this, and I think I've made the right choice.
06:32Porky, honey, you can't even choose between cardboard cutout pictures of yourself.
06:36Now, you want to make your life a lot easier, you put this back in your purse.
06:41Now, here, take my sample ballot.
06:43It's already marked.
06:45You just go on in there and vote.
06:46One, two, three, we'll be sitting down to watch.
06:48Now, here you go, sweetheart.
06:50Take it.
06:51Go on!
06:54I'm so lucky to have you look out for me.
06:58Look, why don't you just go sit over there?
07:00I won't be one minute.
07:04Hello.
07:05I'm Porky Lynn Sherwood, and I'll be voting for the very first time.
07:10Well, good for you.
07:11You sign right here, and you can go into that middle booth.
07:17You forgot your sample ballot.
07:21Oh, thank you, but I won't be needing it.
07:25Election Day, 1960.
07:41John Fitzgerald Kennedy versus Richard Milhouse Nixon.
07:46A day that could quite possibly alter the very fabric of our country.
07:50That's how I'd like to start, Al.
07:52Does that seem all right to you?
07:53Hey, you're right, you're right.
07:55Coming out of the booth is too theatrical.
07:57Maybe I should just stand here, right?
08:00Well, it's too boring.
08:02Maybe I should sit.
08:04Oh, that's brilliant.
08:05I'm gonna take out my comb and do my impression of Ed Cookie Burns.
08:08My first election story, and I'm still looking for an angle.
08:14Jerry, big news.
08:15Just got off the phone with the station.
08:17We're going national.
08:18Al, crank her up.
08:20I'm sorry, Dave.
08:21Who's going national?
08:22We are.
08:23The station just heard that NBC's got Chancellor and Van Oka doing regional coverage,
08:27so they want the same thing, and they want it now.
08:30Dave, are you saying?
08:32Yeah.
08:33You, Chicago, and this VFW hall are our Midwest representatives.
08:37Jimmy Diles, tonight you're going to be introduced to the world by Walter Cronkite.
08:43Cronkite.
08:44Al, we only got time for one shot, so give me your best.
08:47Oh, Dave, are you sure you have the right person for this?
08:53I'm not an anchor.
08:54I'm a local field reporter.
08:56Last night I covered a beef-towel carnival.
08:59I interviewed the compasso queen for outside.
09:01I'm not ready for Cronkite.
09:04Jimmy, I don't have time for this.
09:06Opportunity's knocking.
09:07Answer it.
09:08You got a shot at moving up the broadcast ladder until, well, who knows?
09:13Maybe you'll hit the bullseye.
09:15National anchor.
09:17Or you can kiss it off and spend the rest of your career at Channel 9 as Poop Deck Pete
09:22in their cartoons Ahoy.
09:25So what's it gonna be?
09:26Okay.
09:30I'll do it.
09:32Let's go, Al.
09:33Um, election day.
09:35Ahem, ahem, ahem.
09:36Presidential election day.
09:38Ahem, ahem.
09:39Election day.
09:40Rolling.
09:41Rolling.
09:44Election day, 1960.
09:47New decade.
09:48New decade.
09:49New president.
09:50A new opportunity.
09:56Standing here in this VFW hall, this reporter can't help but notice a feeling among these voters.
10:04A feeling that is somehow bigger than this presidential election.
10:10That feeling is hope.
10:14Hope for the future.
10:17Hope for the opportunity that lies ahead.
10:20Hey, Phil, it's crazy in here.
10:31Yeah.
10:32It's that rare day in Washington where Democrats and Republicans are forced to get along with each other.
10:38Nobody knows who's out, who's in.
10:41I'm telling you, there's so much sucking up going on in here.
10:44It sounds like an Electrolux showroom.
10:47You can't hide, Uncle Frank.
10:49And thanks again, Phil, for the free apple pie.
10:52She got free apple pie?
10:54Well, how come?
10:55It's free to anyone with a stamp voting card.
10:58Do you have one, Frank?
10:59Well, not yet, but I didn't know there was pie involved.
11:03Oh, sure.
11:04Now you'll do your patriotic duty.
11:06Well, I doubt very seriously if General George Washington crossed the icy waters of the Delaware because there was free pie on the other side.
11:15Well, you don't know.
11:16You weren't there.
11:17Well, you just go vote.
11:18Jim, Miles, over here.
11:25I just seemed to pick up my lunch.
11:27I got held up at the polls.
11:28I can't stay.
11:30You know, sometimes one forgets that it's quite a thrilling feeling to cast your vote and realize you've done your part, and then you get free pie.
11:39Phil, I better vote soon.
11:41They're gonna run out of pie.
11:42Don't forget to vote.
11:43Don't forget to vote.
11:47Hey, Miles.
11:49Look at this girl.
11:50You can't wear that McGovern button in here.
12:04Tell you, Miles, I can't remember the last time I cared that much about something.
12:10Don't forget to vote.
12:12You can't wear that McGovern button in here.
12:18It's against the law.
12:19Excuse me.
12:22What?
12:22I'm sorry.
12:24Are you talking to me?
12:25Yeah.
12:26No campaign paraphernalia is allowed within the perimeter of the polling place.
12:30It might influence other voters.
12:32Oh, please.
12:33I've been wearing around for months.
12:34It hasn't influenced anyone.
12:36Have you seen the latest polls?
12:37It's gonna be a Nixon-Agnew landslide.
12:41It's my first chance to vote.
12:42There's no point in even going in there and pulling the lever.
12:44Yeah, as long as you feel that way, this country will always be run by corrupt, middle-aged establishment demagogues.
12:53Political science major, right?
12:56NYU?
12:58I'm a reporter.
13:00I notice things about people.
13:02Reporter?
13:03Hey, far out.
13:05Every channel.
13:06Please.
13:07Do I look like someone who would ever sell out and go on television?
13:10I'm a suitor's film.
13:11I'm Amy.
13:15Amy Madrid Marszynski.
13:17Huh.
13:19It's a wild name.
13:21What's the significance of Madrid?
13:23I added it.
13:25It's a city that means a great deal for me.
13:27It's where I lost my virginity.
13:30Really?
13:33I'm Frank Fort Pinto Fontana.
13:38You're funny.
13:39Only when I'm depressed.
13:40You should see me when I bit at my parents.
13:42I'm a riot.
13:43Here.
13:44Here's your button.
13:49He promised to stop the war.
13:52How could people not vote for him?
13:55All those months of working for something I believe in, and look at how it comes out.
14:01It just doesn't seem right.
14:03I feel like...
14:04Oh, I'm sorry.
14:07I'm not usually this emotional.
14:09No, no.
14:09Don't apologize.
14:11It's rare to see a man in touch with his feelings.
14:15I find it very beautiful.
14:17I gave.
14:21I gave.
14:22I gave.
14:24Just got nothing back.
14:28Like I've been...
14:31let down by the whole world.
14:32Would you, uh...
14:40Would you like to go for a walk out in Washington Square Park?
14:45I got a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine in my nap, sir.
14:50I would love to.
14:52Frank Ford Pinto.
14:54I mean, just sign off duty.
14:56That's great.
14:59I'll, uh...
15:01I'll wait outside.
15:03Wait.
15:04Wait, aren't you gonna vote?
15:05Vote?
15:06Oh, yeah.
15:08Right.
15:10You wait right here.
15:12You'll still be here when I get out, won't you?
15:21Excuse me.
15:22I'm gonna need more time.
15:23Do you know if it's all right if I cancel what I did so far and come back in a little while?
15:29Excuse me.
15:30Excuse me.
15:32Um, do you know if I were to leave the booth, would my hope be canceled?
15:37I'm sorry to hold up the line.
15:38I'm having a little difficulty choosing between Reagan and Carter.
15:41Good for you.
15:43Um, this is the first big decision I made without my parents.
15:47Well, I mean, I didn't pick out these glasses.
15:49You're probably thinking, freshman at Harvard, I should be able to make up my mind, right?
15:55You're right.
15:56Be out in a minute.
16:02Is there an actual time limit on this?
16:04Give me a...
16:05Okay, um, see, the thing is, I was raised by Democrats, so I am trained to vote for Carter.
16:12But the thing is, I just have this really good feeling about Reagan.
16:17He says this country's in a malaise.
16:20I agree.
16:21I feel it, too.
16:22At first, I thought I had mono, but now I know it's a malaise.
16:26And I think Reagan is just what this country needs.
16:29He really knows what he's talking about.
16:32It'll trickle down economics, Star Wars.
16:34These are good programs.
16:36And, you know, he chops his own wood.
16:41I kind of love that.
16:43Okay.
16:45That's it.
16:45I've made up my mind.
16:48Ladies and gentlemen, the polls are now closed.
16:56Where have you been two hours behind schedule?
16:58Don't start with me, Miles.
17:00I spent election day with a politician.
17:01I've inhaled so much hot air, I can float over the Redskins game this Sunday with Goodyear on my butt.
17:06Okay, okay, forget it.
17:09Baker's already in the studio, and they're waiting for you and makeup.
17:11You're going to have to stall him, Miles.
17:13I have to get home and vote before the polls close.
17:14Are you crazy?
17:16I can't stall him.
17:17He's going straight from here to ABC.
17:19How do I fill up the time this late?
17:20I'll be lucky to get Chelsea Clinton's orthodontist.
17:24He's right.
17:24You don't have time to do both.
17:27So you don't vote this time.
17:28You can only do so much.
17:34I guess you're right.
17:36I was going to vote this morning, but then the baby was cranky, and the rest of the day got so crazy.
17:40Well, you guys know how it is.
17:42You didn't get a chance to vote either, right?
17:44Well, actually, we did.
17:48Oh.
17:49Well, it's just one vote in the lifetime of voting, all the way back to 1968, the first time I went to vote for president.
17:59Wait a minute.
17:59I wasn't old enough to vote in 68, and we're the same age.
18:03Frank, I said I went to vote.
18:04I didn't say I was old enough.
18:05Hey, we're the first.
18:07Hey, we're the first.
18:09Oh, hello, dear.
18:10Welcome to the Lexington Avenue retirement home.
18:14All I need is your name.
18:16Right.
18:17My name is...
18:19Sophie Abrams.
18:21Sophie Abrams.
18:23of 625 East 96th Street?
18:26Yep, right here on the Upper East Side.
18:29So, what booth should I use?
18:30Well, Sophie, I must say,
18:32you look better than you did at your 85th birthday party.
18:37Uh, did I say, Sophie?
18:39I meant...
18:41Zoya. Zoya.
18:42I'm Zoya Schoenholtz
18:44of 650 East 79th Street, apartment 6E.
18:50That's how I know it.
18:50Zoya's older than Sophie.
18:55What's going on, dear?
18:57Okay.
18:58I'm not Zoya or Sophie.
19:01My name isn't even in this registration book.
19:04My government doesn't think I'm old enough to vote.
19:07Well, if I'm old enough to pay taxes,
19:09I'm old enough to vote on who's deciding my future.
19:12Hold your voice down there.
19:14People are looking.
19:15Fine. I want them to look.
19:17That's the point.
19:18Look. Look, everyone.
19:21Look at injustice.
19:23I, Murphy Brown, am being denied the right to vote
19:26by this fascist agent of an imperial United States government.
19:30I'm just a volunteer, dear.
19:32Just one of the millions of volunteers across this country
19:38denying my brothers and sisters the right to decide their own future.
19:42We cannot vote, but we can fight and die in an unjust and corrupt war.
19:47I turn a deaf ear and a blind eye.
19:55And if that applies to anyone here, I didn't mean it literally.
19:59But this injustice cannot be ignored.
20:02I, Murphy Brown, United States citizen,
20:05demand the right to vote in this election.
20:08And I am not leaving until I do.
20:12Okay.
20:14Call the police.
20:15Let them bring their hoses and their mace.
20:19Arrest me.
20:21Come on. Send me to jail.
20:23Oh, don't talk like that, sweetheart.
20:25You're too pretty to go to jail.
20:27I am not pretty.
20:29I'm a radical.
20:30I just don't understand these young girls today.
20:35How do they ever expect to get a nice boy to marry them?
20:41Why are you all just staring at me?
20:44I have handcuffed myself to government property.
20:46That's against the law.
20:48Now, will you go and get the pigs?
20:51Oh, I can't do that, darling.
20:53I keep kosher.
20:54I met the police.
20:58Jeez, will you get it together in here?
21:00Darling, if you keep yelling like that,
21:02you're going to get unflattering lines around your mouth.
21:07Wait, I...
21:07It's 1968.
21:10I am talking to you about changing the country,
21:12and you're talking to me about wrinkles.
21:14Darling, when you're my age,
21:16those little wrinkles will be a lot more important to you
21:19than voting in any election.
21:21I'll never get like you.
21:22I'll never be a Sophie or a Zoya.
21:26I'll never be a no-show in some registration book somewhere.
21:30Now, for the last time,
21:32will you call the cops?
21:34Dear, we don't want to bother them.
21:36We're not that busy.
21:37We don't want to bother them.
21:44Happen to know of an overflow voting crowd
21:47at P.S. 132.
21:50But I'm warning you,
21:52the world has not heard the last
21:53of Murphy Brown.
21:55Make time.
22:11Oh, thank you.
22:12Thank you very much.
22:14You are much too kind.
22:16For my next selection,
22:19Mozart's Symphony
22:20in G minor.
22:29Ellen!
22:30Ellen!
22:31What are you doing, home?
22:33Is the election over?
22:34Who won?
22:35Was it the old guy,
22:36the chubby guy?
22:38Don't tell me it was a little guy with the ears.
22:41It's not over yet.
22:43Frank's doing my interview with James Baker,
22:45so I'd have time to go vote.
22:46I wanted to take the baby with me.
22:48It's his first presidential election,
22:50and I wouldn't want him to miss it.
22:51Uh-huh.
22:55Well, hello there,
22:57little Woodward Bernstein Brown.
23:00Let's see if you're practicing
23:01that drool thing again.
23:02Yeah.
23:02Very good.
23:04Jeez, did he have this much hair
23:06when I left this morning?
23:08Oh, look.
23:11He's putting his legs in the arm holes.
23:13Oh, thanks.
23:14Come on.
23:15Um, Ellen,
23:17I need a favor.
23:18Huh?
23:19I'm cutting this really close,
23:21and it would be a big, big help
23:23if you could come with us while I vote
23:25and then drop me off at work.
23:28Oh.
23:29You know,
23:30I don't usually drive and drop.
23:33However,
23:34if it is that important to you
23:35that you would actually allow me
23:36to navigate your precious metal and chrome guard,
23:41I can't say no.
23:42Thanks.
23:43Okay, here we go.
23:46I know this is a little unexpected,
23:48but just roll with it.
23:49Ready to go make history?
23:51Okay, let's go.
23:56Okay, now pay attention.
23:58This is democracy in action.
24:01First, you take the low marker.
24:02Okay, you do it with me.
24:04And you move it to the name.
24:06That's right.
24:07Good, good.
24:07No, wait, wait, no.
24:09Oh, God, not him.
24:12Oh, Jesus.
24:21We're here live with the Bindle Beeps.
24:23Guinness,
24:24what's this we hear about a scandal this season?
24:27Good stuff.
24:32He let the cat out of the bag.
24:33Fatherhood Teenage starting this Tuesday night at 9.30,
24:37only on Nick at Night.