Quotes Of The Week: Law & Order: OC, Will Trent, Matlock, NCIS And More
Instead of spiraling into the Sunday Scaries, get scrolling through TVLine's latest 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, Abbott Elementary, Yellowjackets, Ghosts, Daredevil: Born Again, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Will Trent and The Handmaid's Tale.
Also featured in this week's roundup: Wilmer Valderrama gets poetic on NCIS, The Neighborhood plagiarizes Tyler Perry and a Grey's Anatomy patient takes an amusing stab at diagnosing herself. Plus, we've got double doses of The Rookie and Matlock.
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 Ryan Schwartz)
20. LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME
"Liv, I'm going home. And you can either help me out and start your car, or stand there and watch me get naked."
Stabler (Chris Meloni) offers his former partner an intriguing ultimatum as he tries to exit the hospital
19. NCIS
"I should have known you were playing me. You're obviously not The Poet."
"Well, roses are red, violets are blue. Criminals go to prison, and that includes you."
Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) drops some rhymes on a POI
18. ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"Get me those good earrings and return those to Ariel's grotto under the sea."
Ava (Janelle James) instructs O'Shon to exchange the gaudy jewelry he got her
17. DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN
"You know you're a wall-to-wall asshole? The power goes out and you've got nothing to make a goddamn pot of coffee in this house."
"Not everyone lives in a fallout shelter, Frank."
"You got a new costume? What do they call you now, Nightgown Man?"
"What about you? Is that shave and a haircut all for me?"
Hospital escapee Matt (Charlie Cox) and Frank (Jon Bernthal) exchange the usual pleasantries
16. THE AMAZING RACE
"Sofia, Bulgaria. I'm pretty sure that's a famous person's last name, or like, full name. Sofia Bulgaria. But if it's not, it should be. [Beat] Oh, Sofía Vergara, never mind."
We're guessing Josiah won't be auditioning for Pop Culture Jeopardy! any time soon
15. GREY'S ANATOMY
"Sorry I'm late. I had to yell at the president."
"Of the hospital?"
"I think of the United States."
Bailey (Chandra Wilson) suggests to Lucas (Niko Terho) that sometimes Catherine (Debbie Allen) uses her powers for good
14. GREY'S ANATOMY (Bonus Quote!)
"Is it menopause?"
Fretful young Navy (Avery Tiiu Essex) takes a stab at self-diagnosis
13. THE HANDMAID'S TALE
"I know. I was there."
June (Elisabeth Moss) reminds the Mayday leader, who's talking about infiltrating Jezebel's, exactly how much on-the-ground experience she has in Gilead
12. MATLOCK
"... and then [Kira] said, 'Is there anything I can do to change your mind?' And I said no."
"Good for you."
"Right? But then... she put on Billie Eilish, pulled up a chair, and put up her hair...."
"OK, now."
"... and I still said no! After."
Sarah (Leah Lewis) gives a poor lesson in how to break up with someone
11. MATLOCK (Bonus Quote!)
"Please do not smile. You look insane."
Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) gets a gander at court-bound Sarah's broken tooth
10. LAW & ORDER/LAW & ORDER: SVU CROSSOVER
"Seminal fluid? How'd they get it?"
"That's for you to find out, and me to cleanse from my mind."
When Curry (Aimé Donna Kelly) asks about some evidence, Carisi (Peter Scanavino) doesn't know — or care to know — the particulars
9. THE ROOKIE
"You understand saying no to me is a bad idea, right?"
"I thought you said there was 'no jeopardy' here."
"I lied."
Miles (Deric Augustine) tries to pass on Tim's (Eric Winter) attempt to field a ringer at the football game against the LAFD
8. THE ROOKIE (Bonus Quote!)
"Can't we just hang out like the guys?"
"I hate to break it to you, but I'm not 'one of the guys.' You're one of the girls, and girls want gossip. So spill it."
Angela (Alyssa Diaz) presses Tim (Eric Winter) for the latest on him and Lucy
7. YELLOWJACKETS
"It's all coming back to me now. The danger. The thrill. The person I was back then. Not a wife or a mother, I was a warrior. I was a f—king queen. I let all of it slip away from me. It's time to start taking it back."
Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) reminisces about her younger self (Sophie Nélisse) — and scares us a lot in the process
6. GHOSTS
"Where did she go to school? Who was her first crush? Has she seen The Cutting Edge?"
Trevor (Asher Grodman) asks the important questions when it comes to his newly discovered daughter
5. WILL TRENT
"Don't do crime in front of me."
"It was time-sensitive!"
Rafael (Antwayn Hopper) knows just how to push Will's (Ramón Rodríguez) buttons
4. THE NEIGHBORHOOD
"Oh, father and son! I should've known. You got your daddy's good looks."
"You should see my other son!"
Proud dad Calvin (Cedric The Entertainer) inadvertently insults Marty
3. THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Bonus Quote!)
"Oh, my God! Malcolm totally ripped off Tyler Perry's Gone Girl!"
In Tina's (Tichina Arnold) defense, most movies featuring Tyler Perry have his name in front of the title
2. NCIS: SYDNEY
"You up early or in late?"
"Why? You keeping tabs?"
"[Scoffs] Wouldn't dream of it"
"Correct answer."
"[Breaking an awkward silence] Well... you wanna go look at the crime scene again?"
"Sure beats whatever this is."
JD (Todd Lasance) catches Mackey (Olivia Swann) coming home from her mysterious dinner plans
1. DOCTOR WHO
"Go on, then! What's your favorite adventure?"
"'Blink.'"
"Definitely 'Blink.'"
"'Blink,' every time."
"Uh, not the one with the Goblins?"
"'Blink.'"
"I met the Beatles."
"'Blink.'"
"Not the one where I'm standing on a land mine?? That was brilliant."
"'Blink.'"
"What happens in 'Blink'?"
"It's a story where you're not allowed to blink."
"[Belinda, sarcastically] Well that sounds like an absolute epic."
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) polls three fans whose living room he just landed in