Quotes Of The Week: Lord Of The Rings, The Good Fight, Cobra Kai And More
The real awards for superb television writing will be handed out at tomorrow night's Primetime Emmys. In the meantime, though? We're happy to dole out our usual Quotes of the Week kudos.
In the list below, we've gathered a dozen 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 some streaming service confusion on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Johnny's not-so-warm welcome to the world of Uber driving on Cobra Kai, a Bachelorette confessional that we think is supposed to be romantic, and Roswell, New Mexico's series finale shout-out to its WB predecessor.
Also featured in this week's roundup: double doses of Harley Quinn and She-Hulk, plus quotable moments from The Good Fight, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Rick and Morty 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!
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE MUSICAL: THE SERIES
"So wait, I'm confused. EJ's directing a movie for the Disney Channel?"
"Honey, no. EJ is directing Frozen, the stage version, and Corbin Bleu is directing the documentary. And it's not for Disney Channel, it's for Disney Plus."
"OK, which one was Quibi?"
Seb (Joe Serafini) is just as confused about Quibi's existence as we all were
HARLEY QUINN
"I hate saying this, but the Bludhaven boner is right."
Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell) sees some merit to Nightwing's plan
HARLEY QUINN (Bonus Quote!)
"Teens, right? Oh, right — you died when I was 8."
Bruce (voiced by Diedrich Bader) apologizes to his zombie parents for Robin's behavior
THE GOOD FIGHT
"Do you ever worry that we're going to lose everything?"
"What, the firm?"
"No. Well... yes. And the country?"
"Ugh. Let me have a drink or two before we face that."
Diane's (Christine Baranski) apocalyptic happy hour icebreaker deflates Liz (Audra McDonald)
THE BACHELORETTE
"Gabby is the dopest girl I think I've ever hung with."
This is certified dudebro Johnny's idea of gushing romantically, we guess
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER
"Who is this mortal who speaks to me as if he has the slightest idea who I am?"
A sassy Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), verbally checking Elendil in Númenor
RICK AND MORTY
"Guess that was all part of Evil Morty's plan."
"Evil Morty. Can we stop flattering this guy? His 'plan' was to monologue and f—k off. He basically threw a tantrum to announce he was quitting Twitter."
"Nobody quits Twitter."
Rick and Morty (both voiced by Justin Roiland) lay down the hard truth about the eternal grip of social media
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW
"God, everybody loves Wong. It's like giving the show Twitter armor for a week."
Jen (Tatiana Maslany) breaks the fourth wall after Wong's return in Episode 4's cold open
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW (Bonus Quote!)
"Wongers, can we get fro-yo? We could talk about The Sopranos."
"Fine. But no more spoilers."
"[Madisynn huffs] Whatever. I was over it when Tony killed Christopher, anyway."
Madisynn (Patty Guggenheim) makes post-hearing plans with her new bestie (Benedict Wong)
BLOOD & TREASURE
"Shaolin monks have trained in kung fu for over 1,500 years. We, as you Americans say, kicked their butts to death."
"Yeahhh, I say that one all the time."
Shaw (Michael James Shaw) mocks a monk
COBRA KAI (Episode 4)
"One star, because the car smelled like beer? It's 'cause there is beer, a—hole."
Johnny's (William Zabka) new venture into the world of Uber driving gets off to a bumpy start
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
"I think I might just take these as a reminder of my time in Roswell. ... Fits like a glove!"
Seeing Allie (played by Shiri Appleby, aka the Liz of the original Roswell series) put on that alien headband was a full-circle moment we won't soon forget