Sports Night (TV Series)

Dana and the Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Josh Charles: Dan Rydell

Quotes 

• Dan Rydell : I will not be the subject of your mockery.

  Casey McCall : Oh, I think you shall.

• Dan Rydell : Dana, Casey's being mean to me.

  Dana Whitaker : Casey, be nice to Dan.

  Casey McCall : "The Sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first step to her father who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese". Dana, we've got all kinds of sentence construction here. I think he's going to have to explain that it's the park that's covered with cheese and not the father.

  Dan Rydell : This is an unforgiving room.

  Natalie Hurley : Plus, it's a little hard to figure how running through cheese helped the kid with her agility and quick first step.

  Dan Rydell : Thankyou everyone.

• Dan Rydell : I'm not distracted.

  Dave : In three, two...

  Dan Rydell : The Sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first step to her father who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese. We'll be bringing you part two of that story tomorrow night. Casey.

  Casey McCall : The San Diego Padres...

  [back in the Control Room] 

  Jeremy Goodwin : Did he just say cheese?

  Elliot : He did just say cheese.

  Dana Whitaker : What was it supposed to be?

  Jeremy Goodwin : What was it *supposed* to be?

  Natalie Hurley : Let me find it.

  Jeremy Goodwin : "A park all covered with cheese"?

  Dana Whitaker : I had three people talking in my ear.

  Natalie Hurley : I can't find it, what block?

  Kim : We just did it.

  Elliot : The 50's

  Will : 55

  Jeremy Goodwin : How about "a park all covered with trees"?

  Natalie Hurley : He said cheese?

  Jeremy Goodwin : Welcome to the show.

• Dan Rydell : You did remember me later, but then you didn't want to go out with me anyway.

  Rebecca Wells : That's right.

  Dan Rydell : "Because sports casters are self-absorbed, narrow-minded people of limited intelligence and limitless ego."

  Rebecca Wells : That's right.

  Dan Rydell : Let me tell you something - first of all, I'm a sports *anchor*, not a sportscaster. Second of all, you married a jerk. I know about Steve Cisco. Everybody knows about Steve Cisco. Sister, you married a loser. And the fact that you think that that man's low-grade brand of manhood is any way indicative of my profession is beneath your obvious intelligence and class. What guys like that do to women like you makes me absolutely crazy. I knew I recognized you. Will you look at this? You're working late, I have a show to do in ten minutes just twelve stories up. There's no earthly reason why you shouldn't be having dinner with me after the show. It'd be midnight, and we'd go to a great place, and I'd ask you about your day because I genuinely do care about your day. And I'd be funny and you'd have a good time. And when I took you home at like 3am, and I tried to kiss you goodnight, and I think I'd be successful. In fact, I know it. And I can't believe none of that's ever gonna happen 'cause once there was a time you married an idiot. I've gotta get back to my job, which, rest assured, I do considerably better than Steve Cisco.

• Dan Rydell : You know, sometimes it's worth it, takin' all the pies in the face. Sometimes you come through it feelin' good.

  Casey McCall : Yes.

  Dan Rydell : And how was your day?

  Casey McCall : Sometimes you just stand there, hip-deep in pie.