Quotes Of The Week: Shifting Gears, Yellowjackets, Traitors, The Voice And More
Valentine's Day has come and gone, but there's still time to show some love to TV's best lines in our latest edition of Quotes of the Week.
Per usual, the list below features more than a dozen of the most memorable sound bites from the past seven days, including moments both scripted and unscripted from broadcast, cable and streaming series.
This time around, we've got bon mots and zingers from FBI: Most Wanted, Abbott Elementary, Going Dutch, The View, The Traitors, Sistas, The Voice and more.
Also featured in this week's roundup: Kim Kardashian critiques her fellow Tom Brady roasters, Shifting Gears delivers a Last Man Standing Easter egg and The Rookie's #Chenford debriefs a sexual encounter. Plus, we've got quotable moments from The Real Housewives of Potomac, FBI: International, Deal or No Deal Island, Severance, The Oval, Late Night With Seth Meyers and a double dose of Yellowjackets.
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, Dave Nemetz, Kimberly Roots, Ryan Schwartz and Andy Swift)
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"Watch it, Stick Stickly. [Turns to Janine] What are you looking at, SpongeBob?"
"Hey, hey, he was Teacher of the Year. Not last year, but a couple years ago."
"Can it, Tommy Pickles!"
"Oh my God. Why does she watch so much Nickelodeon?"
Another educator bumps into Gregory, then takes aim at Jacob (Chris Perfetti) and Janine (Quinta Brunson), too, with some odd name-calling
THE VIEW
"How do you think RFK Jr. is going to handle bird flu? Is he just going to run over the chickens and cook them, or what?"
Joy Behar has her concerns about the United States' newly appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services
THE KARDASHIANS
"Like, I can handle it, but it just wasn't new. All they do is call the girls whores ... Like, am I supposed to sit there and be like, 'How innovative! You called me a whore!'?"
Kim roasts the Tom Brady roast
THE ROOKIE
"I'm not sorry about last night, but it can never happen again, for a million reasons."
"I'm in your chain of command, for one. Plus, I'm hashtag Grumpy Cop."
"Yes, that too."
"Wasn't grumpy last night."
"No. You definitely were not."
Chen (Melissa O'Neil) and Bradford (Eric Winter) post mortem their unexpected night of "ex sex"
FBI: MOST WANTED
"Her brother tried to beat me up."
"What, the boys that live with Brianne?"
"Not those two. It was, like, some older dude."
"Old like my partner Chase here?"
"Oh, OK."
"No, not that old man. Like, college old."
Ray (Edwin Hodge) is guilty of first-degree teasing of Nina (Shantel VanSanten)
THE VOICE
"My batting average when it comes to convincing country artists to come on my team is extremely poor 'cause of that big, smelly guy, Blake Shelton."
"Don't talk about my dad like that!"
Kelsea Ballerini playfully objects to Adam Levine's characterization of his former sparring partner
YELLOWJACKETS
"Could they survive an unthinkable attack by a raging psychopath, a homicidal monster masquerading as a hot-if-you're-into-that-kind-of-thing high school soccer coach?"
Van (Liv Hewson) hams it up as she entertains her fellow survivors with the tale of what happened after the cabin burned down
YELLOWJACKETS (Bonus Quote!)
"Thanks to Tai, they were able to build new shelters."
"Handy lesbians for the win!"
As Van (Liv Hewson) tells the girls' tale of survival, Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown) takes credit where credit is due
FBI: INTERNATIONAL
"Sir, I have two sets of cuffs."
Jaeger (Christiane Paul) puts a rapist and murderer's overprotective, obstinate and handsy dad on notice
SHIFTING GEARS
"And God took my legs?"
Stitch (Daryl "Chill" Mitchell) can't believe his eyes when Gabriel shows Riley his lame signature dance moves
SHIFTING GEARS (Bonus Quote!)
"You're great, but something about you reminds me of the last man I was with."
Charlotte (Nancy Travis) doesn't need another Mike Baxter-type in her life
GOING DUTCH
"I'm not comfortable with any of this."
"You said you were open to new experiences."
"I meant, like, cold plunges and savory pancakes that are huge but thin."
"I wish you had told me you were a prude."
"I'm not a prude, OK? The line can't be this... and then prude. There's gotta be something between vanilla sex and a devil's three-way."
Major Shah (Danny Pudi) finds himself in a majorly kinky situation with an S.O. and her SO
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF POTOMAC
"I don't have to have sex to be fulfilled."
"Oh, now we really — I'm about to jump off a cliff. You've been brainwashed. This is like Get Out or Stepford Wives."
AJ says what we've all been thinking when it comes to Stacey and her "best friend"
TYLER PERRY'S SISTAS
"Danni, what were you thinking? You threw coffee on a co-worker."
"It was iced coffee. With oat milk. He doesn't even have to deal with the lactose intolerance!"
No offense to Tony (Branden Wellington), but we're siding with Danni (Mignon) on this one
DEAL OR NO DEAL ISLAND
"Don't play this game. Don't pretend like if you go low, I'm gonna go higher just based on who I am as a person. Because I promise you, if you go low, I will go underground, so underground Harriet Tubman will have to call you in the middle of the night to tell you to run. So I'm telling you right now, you don't want to start this!"
Phillip unleashes on CK after she calls him out in front of the entire cast at the Temple
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
"Let it go, Seth. She just fell down an elevator shaft."
"Yeah, and you and I were poisoned. Things happen in this town. The psycho per capita rate is one of the highest in the nation. We're accepting risks just by living here."
You'd think Johnny (Carson Boatman), who was literally possessed by the Devil, would understand the risks of living in Salem, as Seth (Ken Colquitt) points out here
TYLER PERRY'S THE OVAL
"You can go to hell."
"Yeah, I have a condo there."
We hope that Lilly (Ciera Payton) and Kyle (Brad Benedict) survive this show for as long as possible, if only so they can keep up this friendly banter
LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS
"A Florida woman recently became the youngest person to travel to every country in the world. When asked why she loved traveling so much, she said, 'I live in Florida.'"
THE TRAITORS
"Generally speaking and historically, girls are better cheaters than guys just because they have better social status."
"Wow, that came out of your mouth?!"
"Sorry, I meant to say 'traitors'! Guys are obviously much more likely to cheat! I fully get that."
"We know you know!"
The cast (including Danielle Reyes and Ciara Miller) erupts after notorious two-timer Tom Sandoval misspeaks at the roundtable
SEVERANCE
"For the least fun guy in the world, he was really fun. He put the 'dick' in 'contradiction.'"
Dylan (Zach Cherry) pays tribute — in his own way — to his fallen colleague Irving
GHOSTS
"What's Ratatouille?"
"It's a movie where a rat controls a cook."
"It's good. It's about a restaurant. It's like that show The Bear, but it's a comedy."
Shots fired as Sas (Román Zaragoza) and Pete (Richie Moriarty) describe Ratatouille to Alberta (Danielle Pinnock)
NCIS: SYDNEY
"Fun fact: most sailors back then didn't know how to swim, so if they fell overboard, it took so long for the ship to turn around they just didn't bother. It's better to drown quickly."
"Said no one ever."
Evie (Tuuli Narkle) finds Blue's (Mavournee Hazel) fact not so fun