Quotes Of The Week: NCIS, Happy's Place, Abbott Elementary And More
TVLine is once again taking the dialogue from TV and really holding space with that in this edition of Quotes of the Week.
In the following list — 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 Neighborhood, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Elsbeth, Superman & Lois, The View and Fire Country.
Also featured in this week's roundup: an instantly iconic line from Lisa Barlow in Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and a delightful Reba Easter egg in Happy's Place. Plus, we've got quotable moments from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, The Sticky, Pop Culture Jeopardy!, Lioness, and double doses of NCIS, Abbott Elementary, Ghosts and Yellowstone.
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 Mandi Bierly, Nick Caruso, Vlada Gelman, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich, Ryan Schwartz and Andy Swift)
23. ELSBETH
"The Christmas guy had an affair with a Holly?"
"It's true. It's all so on-the-blinking-red-nose."
Donnelly (Molly Price) catches Wagner (Wendell Pierce) up on the not-so-jolly murder case
22. POP CULTURE JEOPARDY!
"Must be the money that made me read that clue."
At least Colin Jost is honest about why he took the game show gig
21. HAPPY'S PLACE
"There's something about you guys. It's, like, you cause each other all this trouble but you still have each other's backs.... You remind me of these people I knew in Houston 20 years ago."
Danny (Steve Howey) must have been Van Montgomery in a previous life
20. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY
"That looks like high body count hair."
"Don't let her hurt your feelings, but you know what? You do need Kerastase Thermatique."
After Angie accuses Britani of having slutty hair, Lisa offers an ill-timed grooming suggestion — and she gets the product name wrong!
19. THE NEIGHBORHOOD
"You look pretty."
"I do?"
"Yeah. I mean, for whatever reason, I really want a Wendy's Baconator and a Frosty...."
Dave (Max Greenfield) makes light of Gemma's (Beth Behrs) botched hair dye job
18. THE STICKY (Episode 1)
"He said, 'No matter what happens, Mike. If I ask, if Ruth asks. Promise me you'll never mix me up in your business. I know everyone else does, but we don't smuggle. Our farm is good. Our farm is pure.'"
"He doesn't talk like that, Mike. He's a nice guy. He's not Jesus Christ."
Mike (Chris Diamantopoulos) explains to Ruth (Margo Martindale) why he can't loan her cash after her maple syrup farm is shut down
17. STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW
"Can't you plug his trunk or something?"
"Heh. I don't talk with my trunk!"
Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) hears Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) diss a pirate
16. FIRE COUNTRY
"Hey, what's the code?"
"420."
"I should have guessed that."
Audrey (Leven Rambin) looks for clippers in a marijuana dispensary
15. ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"I was just thinking, I wonder if my exes Nina and Maria were named after those ships."
"Doubt it."
"They were sisters. Maybe they got a third sister, Pinta, out there waiting for me."
Caleb (Tyler Tomás Perez) interrupts his brother Jacob's (Chris Perfetti) history lesson about Columbus
14. ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (Bonus Quote!)
"Christmas Eve is the best time to go clubbing. No one there has kids — that they care about."
Ava (Janelle James) has big holiday plans
13. SUGARPLUMMED
"You have a career?"
"Why is that so surprising?"
"I never dreamed I'd meet a Big City Girl who didn't turn her back on one to be with a Small Town Guy who's taking over his family's generational business."
Sugarplum (Janel Parrish), a literal holiday TV movie heroine come to life, to lawyer Emily (Maggie Lawson)
12. SUPERMAN & LOIS
"You're such a coward. Wearing a war suit to fight my 16-year-old son?"
"Your son with powers."
"Clark didn't have powers when he beat your ass all over the street."
Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) verbally kicks Lex (Michael Cudlitz) when he's down
11. YELLOWSTONE
"You know, when I find myself in position of therapist, this family's pretty f—ked."
And how, Beth (Kelly Reilly)! And how!
10. YELLOWSTONE (Bonus Quote!)
"Morning."
"That it is."
"I mean good morning."
"That's fairly presumptuous considering the string of mornings we've put together lately."
In Beth's estimation, Monica (Kelsey Asbille) had it right the first time
9. THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS
"Bela, I've seen you get horny for a tree. I'm pretty sure you can go on a date with a nice guy."
"I wasn't horny for a tree. I just said it had muscular roots."
Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) and Bela (Amrit Kaur) discuss the latter's sexual preference for bad boys over nice guys
8. LIONESS
"I think it might be nice to feel something other than shame and fear. Just forget for a moment."
"I'm not sure I'm the cure for that."
"Maybe I'm the cure."
Josie (Genesis Rodriguez) and Cruz (Laysla de Oliveira) look to decompress during some downtime
7. NCIS
"I sent Curtis to the motel and he found five butts, all in the area where the photos were taken. Two of the butts were useless, but three of the butts had partial fingerprints. So I took all the partial prints from the butts — oh my gosh, I'm saying 'butts' a lot, aren't I?"
Yes, Kasie (Diona Reasonover), you are!
6. NCIS (Bonus Quote!)
"Man, Harry, you got a whole office back there."
"Office, bedroom. Occasionally a bathroom."
"Yeah, I, uh, found the jars."
Kasie (Diona Reasonover) rummages through a P.I.'s truly multi-purpose van
5. THE VIEW
"I've been asked on several occasions if I was pregnant when I wasn't. And when you say to somebody, 'No, I'm just fat,' they don't know what the hell to do. But at this point, I'm so old, I would pay somebody to ask me if I'm pregnant!"
Ana Navarro gets candid during a discussion about commenting on women's bodies
4. GHOSTS
"The Maytag Chronicles. Writes itself."
Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) pitches an appliance erotica book series
3. GHOSTS (Bonus Quote!)
"What if we all took turns with the snail? Like me and the other groupies did with David Crosby, who wasn't a pet, but he had a lot of back hair."
Flower (Sheila Carrasco) suggests a share situation for the ghosts' new pet ghost animal, Escarghost
2. SEASON’S GREETINGS FROM CHERRY LANE
"As long as it's a future with you, then I can't wait to live it. Especially after meeting your grandfather. He has got such a good head of hair, you are gonna age perfectly."
Mike (Jonathan Bennett) expressing his eternal love to husband Zian (Vincent Rodriguez III)
1. BLUE BLOODS
"Hell, if I was PC, I'd be up on that desk doing my end zone dance."
"Can't unsee that."
Sid (Robert Clohessy), Garrett (Gregory Jbara) and Abigail process the governor's most unexpected bail reform proposal