Quotes Of The Week: Hacks, 9-1-1, FBI, 1923, Handmaid's Tale, Grey's And More
March Madness is over, but we're still keeping score of the best TV dialogue in this edition of 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 Amazing Race, FBI, Fire Country, The Rookie, Summer House, Grey's Anatomy, Daredevil: Born Again and NCIS: Sydney.
Also featured in this week's roundup: Abbott Elementary celebrates the style of Jake from State Farm, Ghosts gets geography lessons from Selling Sunset and 9-1-1 gives us a new favorite villain. Plus, we've got double doses of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 1923 and Hacks.
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, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich, Kimberly Roots and Andy Swift)
22. HACKS (Episode 1)
"OK, well they're hiring at Family Guy."
"Kayla, I'm not going to work at Family Guy."
"I didn't say it was an offer. It's a good show! That guy Brian is hot."
"The dog?"
"Is he a dog?"
"Yeah. Brian is the dog."
Kayla (Megan Stalter) may have gotten a fancy new promotion from Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) but she's still the same old Kayla
21. HACKS (Episode 1 Bonus Quote!)
"There are no phone calls allowed on the lot tour!"
"I'm not on the lot tour! I'm using it as a mode of transportation. I don't give a f—k about the Bates Motel!"
"How dare you!"
Ava (Hannah Einbinder) offends a tour guide after jumping on a lot tour tram
20. FBI
"The rapper's manager seems to think the murders were the fallout of some very public rap beef. I'm more of a yacht rock guy myself, so someone might have to help me out what that."
Even Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) knows his limits
19. LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
"Trump leads every conversation with a psychosexual energy that makes The White Lotus look like the Teletubbies. Oh, I'm sorry, did the incest storyline bother you? Donald Trump joked about dating his own daughter on The View! He said that on a f—king morning show! At least White Lotus has the decency to air in the evenings, right here on The Incest Network."
18. ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"And by the way, your shirt, it really —"
"Persuaded you?"
"Made me want to switch to State Farm. Consider burning that."
Miles (Matt Oberg) is not swayed by Gregory's (Tyler James Williams) choice of shirt color
17. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS
"I like the part where I walk in slow motion. That's one of my special skills."
Jennifer Tilly, as always, has the perfect reaction to her sizzle reel at the reunion
16. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS (Bonus Quote!)
"You don't exactly live like the Queen of Sheba. You live on a f—king main road."
Dorit comes for Sutton's self-proclaimed big wallet
15. THE HANDMAID'S TALE (Episode 3)
"Isn't God working through you?"
"Sure. You can't prove it. I can't disprove it. And, as they wrote in The Book of Mormon, that's kind of what God was going for, right?"
"The Book of Mormon."
"The musical."
"Who are you?"
Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) has her holy texts, and Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) has his
14. THE ROOKIE
"It's a sweet life. Sleeping in mansions, flying on private jets.... I mean, it beats watching Smitty do tai chi in his undies every morning."
Miles (Deric Augustine) makes a strong case for being an NFL star's gofer
13. GHOSTS
"Doesn't she live in L.A.? Can't Pete go look for her?"
"Yes, but L.A. is massive from what I've seen on Selling Sunset."
Trevor (Asher Grodman) and Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) brainstorm how to help Sasappis find his ghost crush
12. DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN
"[Poindexter] was moved from protective custody two days ago, and released into gen pop."
"Great! Any chance we can get a front row seat?"
Kirsten (Nikki M. James) updates Matt (Charlie Cox) on Foggy's killer
11. GREY'S ANATOMY
"They say every pot has its lid."
"Some pots have many lids."
"Says the kettle."
"You're mixing metaphors."
"No, I'm not."
As Ben (Jason George) and Jules (Adelaide Kane) discuss a besotted patient, Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) discreetly bicker about their briefly open marriage
10. FIRE COUNTRY
"You used to date my dad."
"I also used to drink wine out of a box. Neither are true anymore."
Renée Hoffman (Constance Zimmer) returns to Edgewater with some baggage (and properly corked wine)
9. SUMMER HOUSE
"Now that I'm getting deeper into my 30s, I'm like, 'I don't owe you sh-t.' Even if I know I'm wrong, I'm not apologizing to you, and I got that from Lindsay. I was raised by Lindsay Hubbard."
Weren't we all, Paige?
8. 9-1-1
"You know why I never name any of my test subjects?"
[Moira knocks out Allen, then kneels down to whisper the rest of her bit.]
"Because I've always hated rats."
Bridget Regan really made a meal out of this campy queen, instantly making Moira our new favorite 9-1-1 villain
7. 1923
"Couldn't take the chance. If you found someone else, how could I kill her from England?"
Alex (Julia Schlaepfer) explains the very pragmatic reason why she risked her life to get to Spencer
6. 1923 (Bonus Quote!)
"Of all the things I've had to do for this ranch, this takes the cake. Takes the bloody cake."
Cara (Helen Mirren) grumbles under her breath as she shoots from an attic window to defend her home
5. THE AMAZING RACE
"We had dinner and now we're having desert."
Josiah's dad joke gets a rise from the teams as they camp out in the deserts of Dubai
4. DOCTOR WHO
"Do you mean it's literally the same diploma, in a time travel way?"
"Timey-wimey."
"Timey-wimey? Am I six?"
Belinda (Varada Sethu) gets schooled on the Doctor's language
3. NCIS: SYDNEY
"Who the hell needs 25 coffins?!"
"Let's find out. You can be Xander, I'll be Buffy."
DeShawn (Sean Sagar) and Evie (Tuuli Narkle) sink their teeth into a new mystery
2. MATLOCK
"This is insane, we need Matty's help."
"She's sleeping."
"She's 76. She probably gets up every half hour to pee."
A late-night case buries Sarah (Leah Lewis) and Billy (David Del Rio) in paperwork
1. MATLOCK (Bonus Quote!)
"I don't want to work up here after all. It's too isolated. And somehow the door got locked. I felt like a prisoner in a horror movie!"
Matty (Kathy Bates) shares her... misery... with Olympia