Quotes Of The Week: Atlanta, This Is Us, Moon Knight, Chicago Fire And More
Another Sunday, another chance for us to highlight TV's standout Quotes of the Week.
In the list below, we've gathered more than 15 of television's 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 a delightfully tipsy Rebecca on This Is Us, some funny-sounding names for Station 19's past 'ships, a very important question for The Dropout's disgraced Elizabeth Holmes and Principal Ava's memorable conversation with the school board on Abbott Elementary.
Also featured in this week's roundup: double doses of Moon Knight (read Episode 2 recap) and Chicago Fire, plus quotable moments from Atlanta, Pachinko, American Song Contest and more shows.
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!
STATION 19
"To the end of... 'Emmis.'"
"'Emmis'?"
"It's what Vic and I used to call you and Emmett."
"Emmett and I used to call you and Vic... 'Thic.'"
A toast leads Theo (Carlos Miranda) and Travis (Jay Hayden) to reveal their 'ship names for each other's relationships
THIS IS US
"What's wrong with Mommy?"
"Two Fluffy Ducks and a Dirty Banana."
We're betting Jack's (Milo Ventimiglia) answer to 6-year-old Kate (Isabella Rose Landau) doesn't make much sense to the kiddo, but we're here for a Rebecca who got a little too excited about a restaurant's novelty cocktails
THE DROPOUT
"Is there something wrong with you?"
A stupefied Linda (Michaela Watkins) finally asks her now-former, denial-ridden boss Elizabeth the $1 million rhetorical question
ATLANTA
"Have you checked your background? This could've easily happened to you."
"I'm Peruvian. This would never happen to me."
"You were white yesterday!"
Marshall (Justin Bartha) has questions for his ex-wife Natalie (Dahlia Legault), now that white people are being sued for reparations
CALL THE MIDWIFE
"Could've been a respectable bloke once. Just because he isn't now, doesn't entitle us to laugh at him."
A compassionate Fred (Cliff Parisi) to Violet and Nancy, before mercifully giving a homeless man a free soda and a pack of smokes
MOON KNIGHT
"Steven, what the hell are we wearing?"
"I don't know, she said I needed a suit!"
"Yeah, the ceremonial armor from Khonshu's temple — not Psycho Colonel Sanders."
Marc (Oscar Isaac) isn't wrong about Steven's (Isaac) 'Mr. Knight' look, but we still dig it
MOON KNIGHT (Bonus Quote!)
"I don't care how bloody handsome you are, tell me what it is you are!"
Hey, if Steven (Oscar Isaac) is going to keep talking to himself, at least he's being complimentary
MR. MAYOR
"I have some friends in the Teamsters Union and they know how to make things disappear. Remember that guy who was going to host Jeopardy?"
Arpi (Holly Hunter) has a solution for getting rid of some mayor-shaped garbage cans
SNOWFALL
"I've gotta follow my own path now, Franklin. I'm sorry."
Louie (Angela Lewis) succinctly breaks Franklin's heart with a kiss goodbye to let him know she's gone rogue
GREY'S ANATOMY
"Richard, I just wanted to wish you luck."
"How'd you know?"
"I said nothing."
"I grew up with an extremely withholding mother. I can squeeze information out of 'Good morning.'"
Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) pretends Kai (E.R. Fightmaster) didn't blab about Richard (James Pickens Jr.) undergoing an assessment
AMERICAN SONG CONTEST
"I have a song called 'Miss Independent,' I'm just saying. We should get together. Like, song-wise. Because you could be my son."
Co-host Kelly Clarkson wants to clarify that she wasn't hitting on "Mr. Independent" singer Grant Knoche
SANDITON
"You don't know what it's like, Arthur, to spend your whole life being gazed at. As a child, I was seen as a curiosity. Never allowed to forget I was neither one thing or the other. Then I come to England, my father's country, only to see my difference reflected in the eyes of every person I have since met. So, it is simply the stare I am used to, rendered palpable."
Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) passionately explains why she doesn't want to be the subject of Charles Lockhart's portraiture
CHICAGO FIRE
"You just gotta be ready. Like for example, the teacher says, 'Uh, your daughter glued another girl's head to the desk.' So you get a shocked look on your face and you say, 'What kind of school would use glue that strong around children?' See, you flip it."
"Glue?"
"Yeah. I use the same approach with scissors, too. 'How could you have real scissors around teenagers?! You had to have seen it coming!'"
Herrmann (David Eigenberg) doles out some advice after Cruz (Joe Minoso) gets summoned to school by Javi's teacher
CHICAGO FIRE (Bonus Quote!)
"Violet, why do I miss you so much when I'm not with you?"
"Maybe because we're not supposed to be apart."
Make us swoon, why don't you, Hawkins (Jimmy Nicholas) and Violet (Hanako Greensmith)
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"It's not like y'all have been making it rain up in here. We've been taking appetizer money and giving these kids a charcuterie experience."
Principal Ava (Janelle James) puts the school board in its place in her special way
PACHINKO
"So much has changed here. It's impossible to find the living, let alone the dead."
Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung) is distraught by the relocation of her father's grave in Korea