Murphy Brown Season 6 Episode 18 Fjord Eyes Only
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00:00The charming town of Lillehammer awaits the world.
00:03That's us! We're the world!
00:05Doesn't it just give you chills?
00:08No time for chills, Corky.
00:10Not until I get all my people corralled onto a plane to Norway
00:13and our special edition of FYI at the Olympics is beamed back to the U.S.
00:19Where is everyone? It's almost midnight.
00:22What are you talking about? It's 10 to 6.
00:24But it's midnight in Norway, Frank.
00:27I got up at 3 a.m., which is 10 a.m. Scandinavian time.
00:32That is the only way to combat jet lag.
00:35Adapt to the time zone of your destination.
00:37That and avoiding all caffeine and sugar.
00:39Put down that donut!
00:41Might as well put a gun to your head.
00:44Listen to this.
00:45You'll think you've died and gone to Valhalla
00:48when you visit the village of Trellvar.
00:50With its hourly reindeer races and authentic reenactment of a Viking funeral.
00:55No, no, no. No lap village. No dead Vikings.
00:59Remember, this is a working trip, not a vacation.
01:02Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
01:15Tickets. Passport.
01:17Don't worry, Miles. I am ready.
01:20I even bought an extra bag for all that free Olympic stuff we'll be getting.
01:23Paula Zahn told me she got a year's worth of Christmas gifts out of the 92 game.
01:27Ooh! This year's Olympic mascot will be played by two children
01:32representing legendary Norse figures, HÃ¥kon and Kristina.
01:35Oh, isn't that cute? I want some free stuff with them on it.
01:39I cannot believe I haven't been to Norway.
01:42It looks like such a beautiful country.
01:44So fresh.
01:46So blonde.
01:46So I have my own room, right, Miles?
01:49The network is not sending us over there for sightseeing or women or free stuff.
01:55This is a working trip, not a vacation.
01:59Don't worry, Miles.
02:00I'm all prepared for my interview with that perky little Nordic skater.
02:03Go ahead, quiz me.
02:05Hamel camel, double toe loop, triple axel with a Haagen-Dazs twist.
02:08I could go on.
02:09You know, Murphy, just because you're not interviewing some big political mucky-muck
02:15doesn't mean that you should take this lightly.
02:18Celebrity interviews aren't as easy as you think.
02:21Oh, please.
02:22I think I can handle one little fluff piece.
02:25And if it'll get me to the Olympics, I guarantee you it'll be the best damn piece of fluff you've ever seen.
02:30Yep.
02:30Just one interview and then I am frolicking with my son and a winter wonderland.
02:36Check.
02:36Ticket, passport, got it.
02:39So sorry.
02:43Are you getting sick, Joe?
02:45It'll be absurd.
02:45I never get sick.
02:47In fact, I haven't had a sniffle since that Christmas party of 76
02:50when Walter Cronkite dragged his flu-wrecked body over to my house
02:54and sneezed his way across the living room like type of snow.
02:57Even with a temperature of 104 at my feet and a bucket of ice water,
03:00I still went on the air.
03:06And there's my little Manouk.
03:08Geez, he is in there, right?
03:09If not, this down jacket has a very heavy duck inside.
03:13Tickets, passport.
03:15Oh, what?
03:15You need a passport?
03:16What?
03:18You're right.
03:18He's very easy.
03:19You know, I can make sure you don't get a meal on the flight.
03:23I have that power.
03:25All right, people, let's move it out.
03:29I remember...
03:31Everybody have your passports and your tickets.
03:35There will be no coming back.
03:37It's a lot.
03:48I don't think we're going to get a meal on the flight.
03:55I don't know.
03:56There's no running out.
03:56I don't know.
03:57I don't know.
03:58I don't know.
03:59I don't know.
03:59I don't know.
03:59I don't know.
04:01I don't know.
04:01Wow, this is great.
04:21The snow, the air, the favorable exchange rates.
04:26There you come.
04:27Oh, look, Avery.
04:28A little hokin' and pokin' even took time to say welcome.
04:32Is this a charming town or what?
04:35Charming?
04:36Maybe about 20,000 cars jammed into it.
04:39Guess me, Little Hammer's nothing but a big old parking lot with reindeer dropping.
04:43Where's your Olympic spirit?
04:46I don't know, Murphy.
04:47I guess it's probably stranded on a runway somewhere with my luggage.
04:51Okay, so you lost your suitcase, but don't you feel a little silly worrying about things
04:57when you're surrounded by the pageantry and splendor of the Olympics?
05:01Whoa, look at that visor.
05:03Who do I talk to to get me one of them?
05:06Well, it's 10.30 a.m., and does my body know it?
05:11No.
05:12My body didn't make the crucial jump to Norway time because it was kept awake the entire flight
05:17of endless screaming and crying.
05:18We just had to bring him, didn't you, Murphy?
05:20Well, I'm sorry, but I've never flown before.
05:23I think we pretty much figured that out when the flight attendant was demonstrating the oxygen mask
05:28and he started shouting,
05:29We're going down!
05:30We're going down!
05:31We're going down!
05:32The Bernickees are a land-faring people.
05:34Family legend has it when the first immigrants were crossing the ocean to America,
05:38my ancestors said,
05:39Nah, we'll go around.
05:41Oh, if you'll excuse me,
05:44I feel the need to freshen up.
05:47Should I take the little guy?
05:49Oh, gosh, for this many layers, who can tell?
05:52What the hell?
05:53Yeah, well, it's going to be safe, right?
06:00Uh, hi, I'm Frank Fontana, American TV journalist.
06:03I'll be here all week.
06:06Skull!
06:09I swear to God, Jim, I'm going to have to pace myself.
06:12What?
06:13These women, they are gorgeous.
06:15It's a gift from Doris.
06:18Jim, are you sure you're not getting sick?
06:20I told you I don't get sick.
06:21My ears haven't cleared from the flight, that's all.
06:24Hi, Murphy Brown, FYI.
06:26I just want to tell you how delighted we are to be here in your beautiful country
06:30and how honored we are to be part of this year's Olympics.
06:33Now, are you the guy we see about the freestyle?
06:35The freestyle?
06:37Yeah, you know, visors, parkas, perks.
06:41Oh, yeah, there's a special gift from your network.
06:43Oh, you hear that?
06:44Special gift from the network.
06:46The key chains?
06:50With these Heckle and Jekyll kids on it?
06:53That's it?
06:54Are you sure there's nothing more down there?
06:56You know, parkas, ski vests, commemorative mugs?
06:59CBS, right?
07:01Dead seat.
07:02No wonder we lost football.
07:14Worst trip of my entire life.
07:16You want to know how it's been my day?
07:18I'll tell you.
07:19Pushing and clawing through shock after shock, trying to find something to wear that didn't
07:24have the Olympic rings or the stupid torch or these two little breaths on it.
07:31But you can't find anything like that in this godforsaken town.
07:34But, hey!
07:35That's okay!
07:36Because I just look smashing in this lovely Olympic ensemble that only cost 423 bucks.
07:43What does Lillehammer stand for anyway?
07:46Soak the tourists!
07:50Jim?
07:51Jim!
07:52Did you even hear a word I said?
07:54I'm sorry.
07:55I'm going over my commentary.
07:57Quite an outfit.
07:58Two minutes, Mrs. Hillerstein.
07:59Look, look.
08:00It's got both Hocken and Lugan on it.
08:01Now, I haven't had it a print yet, but it looks like real gold to me.
08:02You know, I might be willing to part with it in exchange for, oh, say, that ski parka.
08:18Murphy, see those cameras over there?
08:21People milling about with headsets on?
08:23Why'd you be a big partner?
08:24Okay.
08:25Think about it for a little bit, but I'm warning you, I've got some Canadians who are pretty
08:30interested and I can't stall for much longer.
08:33You, you, focus.
08:35You have an interview to do.
08:37Don't worry, Miles.
08:38I'm going to skate right through it.
08:40You'll find Lincoln Harmon, two hours to the face-off, and then it's the U.S. by two goals,
08:46or I'll do a snow angel in my skin.
08:48I just love these people.
08:52There you go.
08:53Hi.
08:54Murphy Brown.
08:55Hello.
08:56Thanks so much for taking the time to be with us tonight.
08:59Uh, tell me something.
09:00That warm-up suit, do you have to actually be competing to get one of those?
09:04Good evening.
09:05Good evening.
09:06Good evening.
09:07Good evening.
09:08Good evening.
09:09Good evening.
09:10Good evening.
09:11Good evening.
09:12Good evening.
09:13Jenna, are you sure you're okay?
09:15You sound really sick.
09:16Good evening.
09:17Good evening.
09:18Good evening.
09:19Good evening.
09:20Five, four, three, two, and four.
09:25Good evening, and welcome to FYI.
09:27For your information tonight, we come to you from the Athlete's Lodge in picturesque Lillehammer,
09:31Norway, site of these 1994 Winter Olympics.
09:35Frank Fontana gives us a behind-the-scenes look at security for the games, while Corky Sherwood profiles the charming shopkeepers of Lillehammer.
09:46Murphy Brown brings us an exclusive interview with the darling of this year's Olympics, Norway's Inge Sorensen.
09:53Murphy?
09:54Thank you, Jim.
09:55You can't be in Norway for long without seeing my guests' likeness in shop windows, on t-shirts, and most recently, as a 20-foot ice sculpture in the Lillehammer town square.
10:07Hailed as Norway's greatest chance at figure skating gold since Sonja Henney took the prize in 1936, she has become a shining symbol of her country's pride, dreams, and hopes for the future.
10:18Inge, welcome.
10:19Inge, welcome.
10:20Welcome to you.
10:21Inge, tomorrow night you're going to be skating for the gold medal, a dream that thousands of young women aspire to, but only a handful realize.
10:31What is it about you that puts you in those select few?
10:35My skating.
10:36Oh, of course.
10:38But we in America know about Inge the skater.
10:41We'd like to know a little bit more about Inge the person.
10:43Well, I am a person who skates.
10:47And we know the incredible sacrifices you make for your skating, getting up early every morning, practicing hour after hour.
10:57But what is it you do when you're not skating?
11:00When I'm not skating, I'm getting ready to skate, or I am just finished skating.
11:10I see.
11:11You know, I remember when I was your age, and I don't think I would have had your commitment.
11:17Don't you ever just miss doing things that other teenagers do?
11:21What do they do?
11:23Well, you know, like going shopping, dating, hanging out, watching MTV, or renting videos.
11:31Oh, videos.
11:32I watch videos.
11:33Oh, you do?
11:34Yeah.
11:35I see this coach about videos of me skating.
11:38Okay.
11:39Obviously, skating is very important to you, but I'm sure it's opened up a world of new experiences.
11:45Travel.
11:46I'll bet you've done a lot of that.
11:48Oh, yeah.
11:49What have you seen?
11:50Where have you been?
11:51Any thoughts on your favorite place?
11:53Paris.
11:54I loved Paris.
11:55Oh, the City of Light, Notre Dame, the cafes.
11:56What made it your favorite spot?
11:57The locker room at the skating rink had part of the team.
11:58Telling you the girl wasn't stiff.
11:59Maybe it's a cultural thing.
12:00They're just not a chatty people.
12:01I can understand why there aren't more Norwegian talk shows.
12:02Oh, my God.
12:03Oh, my God.
12:04Oh, my God.
12:05Oh, my God.
12:06Oh, my God.
12:07Oh, my God.
12:08Oh, my God.
12:09Oh, my God.
12:10Oh, my God.
12:11Oh, my God.
12:12Oh, my God.
12:13Oh, my God.
12:14Oh, my God.
12:15Oh, my God.
12:16Oh, my God.
12:17Oh, my God.
12:18Oh, my God.
12:19Oh, my God.
12:20I can understand why there aren't more Norwegian talk shows.
12:23Oh, my God.
12:24What am I doing?
12:25Let's go soak up some snow.
12:27We'll just zip up this parka, and then we're off to downhill skiing.
12:32Yeah, all right.
12:36You know, Elvin, I am not detecting the appropriate amount of enthusiasm.
12:39Yeah, I'm sorry, but I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not a Scandinavian kind of guy.
12:45Yeah, I don't like their furniture.
12:48I've never understood the appeal of smorgasbords.
12:51And yesterday at a local museum, I discovered that I bear a terrifying resemblance to an evil troll from Norse mythology.
13:01Come on, Elvin.
13:03I'm sure you're exaggerating.
13:04Well, you wouldn't say that if you saw those schoolchildren run screaming for the exits.
13:08Just hang on.
13:10We've only got one more day.
13:12Now, why don't you run across the street and see if you can scare us up a table for breakfast?
13:17I'll meet you there.
13:18All right.
13:30Mommy, look at how much a cron is. I don't think I tipped him enough.
13:33I'd say that's a safe assumption.
13:36Oh, hi, guys. Nice outfit, Corky. Where is everybody?
13:41Miles is trying to sleep so he can get back on Washington time, and Jim's hopped up on Iquil.
13:46Frank gave it to him.
13:47Hey, how was I supposed to know he'd never taken it before? He took half the bottle, and when I left, he was talking to Eric Severide in the mirror.
13:54Did you guys catch any of that?
14:09Sorry, the only Norwegian I know is from watching I Am Curious Yellow 12 times when I was a freshman in college.
14:19Frank, that film was in Swedish.
14:21Oh, like I was listening to the words.
14:24Look at these four suckers hard at work while we go off to France.
14:31Murphy, look! Your picture's on TV.
14:33It is?
14:34Murphy Brown!
14:35I'm sorry, what?
14:43Do you have some comment in response to Inga Sorensen's announcement?
14:47What announcement?
14:48Well, that she's retiring from skating.
14:50What?
14:51She's withdrawn from tonight's competition and credits you with helping her reach her decision.
14:55What?
14:56Oh, my God.
14:58What if I didn't tell her to quit?
15:00Is this part of a bigger plan to guarantee a U.S. win?
15:03Oh, my God, it was just an interview.
15:06It was just a harmless routine interview.
15:08It was a fluff piece, for God's sake.
15:10Fluff piece.
15:11What?
15:12Come on, guys, you were there.
15:13Tell them.
15:14Uh, Lizzie, excuse us.
15:15Ms. Brown has no further comment than this.
15:17I don't know.
15:18I don't know.
15:19I don't know.
15:20Do you believe those people?
15:22Poor Inga.
15:23All those years of training wasted.
15:26Well, that's what happens when an amateur tries to do a fluff piece.
15:30There's an art to it, you know.
15:33Murphy, I don't think you should talk to any more reporters until you've organized a statement.
15:37Well, Frank, I'm not gonna organize a statement.
15:39It's not my fault.
15:40Look, I'm sorry she decided to quit this far into it, but I can only assume she knows what she wants.
15:46Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go watch downhill skiing with my kid.
15:50And just where do you think you're going?
15:53I take of the joy and harmony that is the Olympics.
15:57Really?
15:58Which event, Murphy?
15:59The one where they string up an American reporter and hurl obscenities at her lifeless courts?
16:04You heard.
16:05You heard.
16:06Yes, I heard.
16:07I just got a little wake-up call from the network.
16:09Thank God we have technology that allows you to hear a pin drop because the screaming comes in even clearer.
16:15They're buying into the story, too.
16:17This is nuts.
16:18The girl was fine last night.
16:19Well, you were there.
16:20Did the word quit ever pass my lips?
16:22I don't think so.
16:23All I know is, this is big, Murphy.
16:25Very big.
16:26Norway is mad.
16:28There's talk they may cut off salmon exports to the U.S.
16:31And I don't think you want to be held responsible when America wakes up on Sunday to bagels with no logs.
16:36Believe this.
16:37A country that's covered in ice 12 months to the year doesn't get a gold medal in skating since 1936, and that's supposed to be my fault?
16:44Very nice, Porky and Bess.
16:55Where the hell are your parents?
16:57Great, Murphy.
16:58Maybe get them to quit, too.
17:00All right.
17:01Here's the plan.
17:02We'll arrange a meeting with this skater.
17:04With what the network paid for these Olympics, you had better hope that girl gets back on the ice.
17:08Not to mention an apology to King Harold might get the salmon moving again.
17:11What?
17:12Wait a minute.
17:13When I interviewed Brezhnev and he invaded Afghanistan the next day, was that my fault?
17:18After I talked to Donna, Karen, and Bell Bottoms came back into style?
17:22Did I beg for the nation's forgiveness?
17:24No.
17:25And I'm not gonna make an apology this time.
17:35Well, maybe it wouldn't hurt to talk to the girl.
17:41Very nice Olympic spirit.
17:46Don't think I will report you to your respective countries.
17:48Murphy, wouldn't you be more comfortable with your collar up like that?
17:52You cry over for Linge and we're good picture to...
17:54I'll just bet your English parents.
17:59Look, I can understand that you're upset, but it wasn't my fault. It was his fault.
18:04What?
18:05He should never have assigned me that fluff piece. I don't do those.
18:10Corky does the fluff piece.
18:12Corky do the floofing.
18:14Do the floofing?
18:15Do the floofing?
18:16Do the floofing?
18:17Do the floofing?
18:18Do the floofing?
18:19Do the floofing!
18:20Do the floofing!
18:21Do the floofing!
18:22Do the floofing!
18:23Do the floofing!
18:24Do the floofing!
18:25Do the floofing!
18:26Do the floofing!
18:27Do the floofing!
18:28Do the floofing!
18:29Well, I guess I should leave you two gals alone to chat.
18:34Inga, big fan of yours.
18:37Big, big fan.
18:38I bought a beer stein with your face on it.
18:40You're even more lovely without that large foamy head.
18:43I'm so glad you came to see me.
18:48You are the only one who understands me, Murphy Brown.
18:52No, no, no, I don't.
18:53I don't understand you at all.
18:55I don't even know you.
18:56But you asked me questions.
18:58You wanted me to see my life was empty.
19:01No, I didn't.
19:02I wanted to get to a hockey game.
19:04So now that that's straightened out,
19:06don't you feel like strapping on a pair of violeskates
19:08and hitting the ice right now?
19:10No.
19:11I'm free.
19:13I never want to put those things on my feet again.
19:16Oh, no, no.
19:17Inga, you don't mean that.
19:18Think about your country.
19:19Take it from me.
19:20Your skating means a lot to them.
19:23I don't care about the country.
19:25I want to watch MTV.
19:28Okay, okay.
19:29Let's forget about your country.
19:30Let's talk about your future.
19:32Um, what you do tonight
19:34could decide whether you get to play Princess Jasmine
19:37or the carpet in the lantern on ice.
19:39Nice.
19:40But I am confused.
19:44When you asked me questions last night,
19:47I thought about the answers for the first time.
19:50And I was angry for all that I have given up.
19:55My whole life has been to make my parents happy,
19:59my coach happy, my country happy.
20:03When do I get the chance to be happy?
20:06Look, Inga, I came here today to try to get you to skate again.
20:13But if you really hate it that much, then maybe you're right to quit.
20:20And you shouldn't change your mind, not for your country or your parents or even for me.
20:29But let me ask you just one more question.
20:33You said that skating's not fun anymore.
20:36But there must have been a time when it was, when you still enjoyed it.
20:40When you put your skates on for the first time or when you felt the ice for the first time underneath your feet or the wind in your hair.
20:49Before you throw it all away, don't you think you owe yourself one more chance to feel that joy again?
20:55In what has been a thrilling performance by the young American.
21:00A gentleman that's now crazy.
21:06This is so much fun.
21:09We had these seats and everything.
21:11You're enjoying this?
21:12The woman who called the Olympics an overcrowded, cash-sucking snowbank?
21:16Oh, it's a fucking standing man at something this wonderful.
21:19U-S-A!
21:21U-S-A!
21:22What? Did I miss something?
21:26Oh, give it up, Miles. Go back to the hotel and sleep.
21:29I can't. It's 3 in the afternoon in Washington.
21:32Besides, you're the one who should go back to the hotel. You Otero-ing.
21:35Of course I do! I'm sick, you bleary-eyed boom-sick!
21:39I'm going to see one event before we go home if it kills me.
21:43Uh-oh, so my mother will soon get...
21:46Look! Look at Letterman with those two blondes!
21:52You know, he thinks just because he's on TV he can have whoever he wants.
21:56This should have been my own reason.
21:59Now, originally scheduled to skate, next was Norway's darling Inga Sorensen, who, as you recall, shocked the world yesterday by withdrawing from competition after an interview with Murphy Brown of FYI.
22:12We know that Ms. Brown talked with her earlier today, but the question on everybody's mind is, will Inga show up?
22:20Wait, damn it, Skate.
22:22Wait, it's Bill and Shirley, but...
22:24Uh, wait, uh, she's here! Inga Sorensen is on the ice!
22:32I'm telling you, I could talk about birds on the free!
22:36She's off to a wonderful start.
22:39It is practically glowing, assuming that she's skating with a joy in a band that I've never seen before.
22:44Look at how fast she's...
22:46Ooh!
22:48What a nasty fall.
22:50But, she's getting up, she's back on track, and it looks like she's going for her double lutz!
22:55Ooh!
22:57Well, you gotta hand it to Inga, uh, she isn't letting this get her down.
23:02She's back up again, and she's smiling! Amazing!
23:06All right, there's the double axel.
23:08And now a triple! It's a quadruple!
23:10Inga!
23:12She's going to feel that one tomorrow.
23:14Just stay down! Inga, just stay down!
23:17But she's laughing!
23:19What an incredible spirit in the face of what is no doubt going to be the lowest score of this or any Olympics.
23:27Little Inga, whose drains of gold have certainly been shattered this evening, seems to be having the time of her life!
23:35Although it doesn't look like her...
23:36It's true enough!
23:37It's true, look!
23:38I can't.
23:39No, really! Really, she's having fun!
23:42She's a Norwegian, which I don't speak, but he's waving...
23:45Oh!
23:46He's blank!
23:47And you know why?
23:49Because she's fading for herself, that's why.
23:52Isn't that so much more important than me?
23:54Isn't that, after all, what the Olympics are really all about?
23:58What?
23:59Don't, don't leave me!
24:00Don't wait!
24:01Wait a minute!
24:02Oh, the big seat cushions, do you know how much these are worth?
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