Quotes Of The Week: Hacks, Grey's, NCIS: Origins, All American And More
Let's spring into some verbal rays of sunshine in TVLine's latest Quotes of the Week.
In the list below — which features our picks for TV's most memorable sound bites of the past seven days — you'll find more than a dozen shows represented, including The Handmaid's Tale, NCIS, Dark Winds, All American, Ghosts, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS: Origins, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elsbeth, Will Trent, The Neighborhood and The Four Seasons.
Also featured in this week's roundup: Jimmy Kimmel makes the most of an appearance on Hacks, The Rookie illustrates the perils of life as a middle-aged bachelor and The Voice pokes fun at Adam Levine. Plus, we've got a double dose of Andor.
Scroll through the list below to see all of our picks for the week, then hit the comments and tell us if we missed any of your faves! (With contributions from Nick Caruso, Vlada Gelman, Rebecca Luther, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich, Dave Nemetz, Kimberly Roots and Ryan Schwartz)
18. HACKS
"My parking spot's closer to the door than yours is, you f—king loser!"
Jimmy Kimmel taunts Deborah (Jean Smart) after she tries to book Kimmel fave Kristen Bell on her late-night show
17. THE ROOKIE
"Hey, where are the salad forks?"
"I'm a 45-year-old guy who lives alone. There's one kind of fork."
If you make Tim (Eric Winter) host a dinner party, you get what you get!
16. THE ROOKIE (Bonus Quote!)
"What are the chances he took these off a grave?"
Celina (Lisseth Chavez) has suspicions about sus Seth's flowers
15. DARK WINDS
"I'm going back to Washington, D.C. tonight."
"Well, we'll miss you."
"That was almost funny."
"Thank you."
Joe (Zahn McClarnon) sheds no tears over Washington's (Jenna Elfman) return to D.C.
14. THE FOUR SEASONS (Episode 1)
"We're like co-workers at a nuclear facility. We sit in the same room all night monitoring different screens."
Nick (Steve Carell) offers a grim metaphor for the state of his failing marriage
13. NCIS
"For 25%, I could try chewing glass."
Jessica (Katrina Law) and Nick consider the pay bump benefits of staying fake-married
12. GREY'S ANATOMY
"What if we have a small ceremony here at the chapel and then host dinner in the back room at Nicoletti's?"
"Mm, I don't know."
"If we bring our own flowers—"
"When someone hesitates and says 'I don't know,' it means they don't want it."
During wedding planning, Jo (Camilla Luddington) encourages Link (Chris Carmack) to start picking up on marital cues
11. ANDOR (Episode 5)
"If I say this is the greatest day of my life, does it spoil everything?"
Syril (Kyle Soller) can barely contain himself after earning an "attaboy" from Partagaz
10. ANDOR (Episode 6)
"I'm counting on you to keep watch on these idiots."
"It's an honor, sir."
"Really....? It's an assignment. Calibrate your enthusiasm."
Major Partagaz (Anton Lesser) doesn't like a major suck-up
9. ALL AMERICAN
"Jordan, not so fast! You're still recovering."
"OK, come on, the doctor just said to take it easy. He didn't say you had to treat me like a baby. [Beat] Where's my juice?"
Actually, maybe Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) does want to be babied a bit while healing from his stabbing
8. LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME
"Vargas says just make sure to put it in a place nobody will find it."
"Is he suggesting I shove this up..."
"He said you'd figure it out."
Stabler (Chris Meloni) briefs Reyes (Rick Gonzalez) on how to wear the tiny microphone he's just handed him
7. ELSBETH
"You're under arrest for criminal harassment."
"But I have tickets to Oh, Mary!"
Elsbeth's (Carrie Preston) theater plans just got majorly thwarted
6. THE HANDMAID'S TALE
"I know I was awful once."
"'Once'? You were awful once?"
Serena's (Yvonne Strahovski) attempt to make peace with June (Elisabeth Moss) fails yet again... and with good reason
5. THE VOICE
"It's like Dick Van Dyke and David Beckham had a baby."
Michael Bublé shares his take on fellow coach Adam Levine's new look
4. GHOSTS
"We also have an idea for an aroma we would like for you to maintain."
"What do you mean maintain? Like a candle?"
"A perpetually 'just out of the microwave' Hot Pocket."
"Some are calling it the Eterna-Pocket."
Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) and Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) have a special request for Kyle (Ben Feldman)
3. NCIS: ORIGINS
"I would only find out later what she did for me. But that's not what made me love her. I loved her all along. I still do.... This is a story I don't tell; I can't find the words. But it never stops running through my head. The story... of her."
Narrator Gibbs (Mark Harmon) revisits how Special Agent Cecilia "Lala" Dominguez "saved" him
2. THE NEIGHBORHOOD
"Do I know you from somewhere?"
"I don't know. You do look familiar."
"It's coming to me! Didn't you used to be a waitress here?"
"Ha! Yeah, maybe in another life."
Earl Jasper (Garrett Morris) mistakes Gemma (Beth Behrs) for 2 Broke Girls' Caroline Channing
1. WILL TRENT
"What's in the box?"
"My mother."
"Your mom's still alive?"
"Pretty sure she didn't survive the cremation."
Let's give Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) a minute... he'll figure it out soon enough