Quotes Of The Week: Good Sam, Bel-Air, Bridgerton, 9-1-1: Lone Star And More
With no disrespect to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, they're not the only ones handing out awards this Sunday.
On the contrary, Team TVLine is also unveiling its (equally prestigious, no doubt) picks for TV's Quotes of the Week, featuring nearly 20 of television's most memorable sound bites from the past seven days.
This time around, we've got Bob Hearts Abishola's dig at a fellow CBS series, a Grey's Anatomy newbie's helpful clarification about his family, and sobering moments of honesty from The Walking Dead and The Equalizer.
Also featured in this week's roundup: double doses of The Good Doctor and Abbott Elementary, plus highly meta moments from Bel-Air, 9-1-1: Lone Star and Good Sam.
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!
BEL-AIR
"Mrs. Banks! You weren't expecting to see the likes of us, were you?"
Daphne Maxwell Reid, who played Aunt Viv in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with a spot-on introduction
BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA
"Our commercial aired before Blue Bloods. Every old person in the country has ordered the socks!"
Bob (Billy Gardell) fears that MaxDot supply won't be able to keep up with newfound demand
BRIDGERTON (Episode 3)
"Are you the superstitious sort? I know some men cannot perform without their familiar tools. Like a child with a blanket."
Kate (Simone Ashley) mocks Anthony with friendly trash talk during a rousing and familial game of pall mall
THE GOOD DOCTOR
"Lea Dilallo, will you make a bond of shared experience and oxytocin and love with me for the rest of our lives?"
Influenced by his connection with precocious patient Isla, Shaun (Freddie Highmore) gets down on one knee and re-proposes marriage to Lea
THE GOOD DOCTOR (Bonus Quote!)
"I left a bottle of scotch around here somewhere after the first time you stole my job."
Former hospital president Glassman (Richard Schiff) acknowledges the game of musical chairs that he and former/current prez Andrews have been playing for the better part of five years
CALL THE MIDWIFE
"I'm a nurse. I've seen dawn from the wrong end many a time."
A groggy Phyllis Crane (Linda Bassett) informs Marigold about her occupational sleep deprivation
PACHINKO (Episode 2)
"[In Korean] My husband passed a few years ago. He didn't want [our children] to learn that tongue. And now my own children don't even know the language in which their mother dreams."
Solomon hears of the holdout landowner's own struggles with her Korean roots
9-1-1: LONE STAR
"At least you didn't go on cable news afterwards to sell the public."
"I don't have the cheekbones for primetime."
"Oh, I think you do."
Pretty much all of Catherine (Amy Acker) and Owen's dates have involved little wink-winks about Rob Lowe's extensive TV career, and we're not mad about it
NCIS
"I've worked a lot of strange cases, but a raining body? That takes the cake."
"Well, technically, it's only body fragments. And there's a lot more out there."
"It can't get grosser than this."
"All of these flesh chunks are covered in organic secretion..."
"Yep, it got grosser."
Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) watches Jimmy (Brian Dietzen) "piece" together a grotesque mystery
SANDITON
"I will swallow any pill, subject myself to any treatment. See? I want to give my husband a child."
Lady Esther Babington (Charlotte Spencer) breathlessly explains her fertility issues to the doctor
THE EQUALIZER
"The day my sons were born, instead of experiencing pure joy, I cried. Because we live in a world where my babies grow up and some misinformed, hate-mongering coward will only see them as a threat."
Vanessa (Tawny Cypress) explains her and Dante's dilemma as the parents of Black boys to Robyn
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"That man is in my pocket like Jay-Z after the elevator."
Ava (Janelle James) explains how she blackmailed the superintendent into giving her the principal job
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (Bonus Quote!)
"Have a cookie. They're homemade from the grocery store."
Janina (Quinta Brunson) offers a parent a treat during Open House night
LIFE & BETH (Episode 10)
"No, no, no, no, no... that's for Black people. Let us have that. Keep doing your white s—t."
Kiana (Yamaneika Saunders) interrupts Beth mid-eulogy to beg her not to explain to the largely white crowd what a home-going service is
NCIS: HAWAI'I
"When the student is ready, the master appears.... Teach me your ways."
Ernie (Jason Antoon) sits in awe of a legendary and elusive coder
THE WALKING DEAD
"I just want things to be the same every day."
Lydia (Cassady McClincy), sick to death of 2022 Hilltop's never-ending struggle to get by
GREY'S ANATOMY
"Just for the record, we're not weird Game of Thrones siblings."
Todd (Skylar Astin), clarifying his relationship with his sister for flirtmate Jo
GOOD SAM
"I know you.... We've met before. It was a long time ago, but I remember."
Something about Sophia Bush's good doctor is familiar to guest star/fellow One Tree Hill alum Bethany Joy Lenz
SEVERANCE
"...and though today is my last day with you, I'm certain you will remain with me in spirit, in some deep but completely inaccessible corner of my mind. The impression you have left on me is indelible, though I'm unaware of it on a conscious level. And I never will forget any of you, though sitting here right now I have no recollection of ever meeting you, no idea of your names or any of your physical characteristics... Anyway, I just want to say, 'Thank you all!'"
Burt's (Christopher Walken) recorded message to his retiring "innie" and the O&D team is on par with the non-committal eulogy that Succession's Connor gave "Lester"