Quotes Of The Week: The White Lotus, SNL50, Elsbeth, Reacher And More

You didn't think we'd forget our Quotes of the Week, did you?

Per usual, the list below features more than a dozen of TV'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 bon mots and zingers from Paradise, Ghosts, Harley Quinn, The Rookie, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, The White Lotus, The Voice, Chicago Fire and Elsbeth.

Also featured in this week's roundup: Happy's Place drops another Reba Easter egg, Meryl Streep makes a Devil Wears Prada joke on SNL50: The Anniversary Special and Yellowjackets channels Right Said Fred. Plus, we've got double doses of St. Denis Medical and Cobra Kai, and a triple dose (!) of Reacher.

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 Vlada Gelman, Rebecca Luther, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich, Dave Nemetz, Kimberly Roots and Ryan Schwartz)

SNL50: THE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

"You gotta have a lot of money if you live how I live. I eat four-cheese lasagna! If it only got three cheeses, I ain't eatin' it!"

Eddie Murphy does a mean Tracy Morgan impression

SNL50: THE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (Bonus Quote!)

"Underwear-wise, this devil wears nada."

Mrs. Rafferty (Meryl Streep) leaves very little to the imagination

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER

"I think the only thing more quintessentially Canadian than booing the U.S. national anthem at a hockey game is the fact that they waited politely for the right time to do it."

PARADISE

"What the f—k is he doing? I mean, besides dramatically eating."

Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson) has no time for Xavier's diner-set theatrics

COBRA KAI (Episode 14)

"That's it?"

"Yeah... and no f–king mercy."

Robby (Tanner Buchanan) hypes up his girlfriend Tory (Peyton List) ahead of her final tournament fight

COBRA KAI (Episode 14 Bonus Quote!)

"Welcome to the Valley... bitch!"

Tory (Peyton List) gives Zara (Rayna Vallandingham) a taste of her own medicine after knocking her out

THE ROOKIE

"Parenting is hard. But at some point you have to let the kids spread their wings and make their own mistakes."

"Wait — Smitty, do you have kids...?!"

"Do I!"

Chen (Melissa O'Neil) learns that Smitty (Brent Huff) contains multitudes (though we're still not buying the Olympics thing)

THE WHITE LOTUS

"You'll notice a lot of bald white guys in Thailand. The locals call them LBHs: Losers Back Home."

Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) gives her withering assessment of the resort's clientele — including her own boyfriend

HAPPY'S PLACE

"Do you have a wife I can steal you away from?"

Gabby (Melissa Peterman) channels her inner Barbara Jean while making a move on Brock — err, Maverick (Christopher Rich)

YELLOWJACKETS

"I'm too sexy for this cave, too sexy for this cave, too sexy for this cave. I'm too sexy for this rope, too sexy for these rocks, too sexy to be mur-dered."

Mari (Alexa Barajas) channels Right Said Fred while killing time as Ben's hostage

THE VOICE

"I learned from Snoop last year that when they go low, you get high."

Apparently, Michael Bublé was among those coached by Snoop Dogg

HARLEY QUINN

"Even the Daily Planet agrees. It says here that you're a murderer!"

[Harley, reading headline] "Forty-eight?!?!"

Harley (Kaley Cuoco) is enr-age-d to read Lois Lane's headline

REACHER (Episode 1)

[Duffy, sarcastically] "Nice place."

"The Motel 6 was booked."

"This is more like a Motel 2."

Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) tracks down Reacher (Alan Ritchson) at his spartan digs

REACHER (Episode 2)

"My grandma used to call me her 'angel doll' after I won the Most Beautiful Baby contest at the county fair."

[Reacher, taking another look at his cohort] "You won?"

Angel Doll (Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz) explains his nickname to Reacher (Alan Ritchson)

REACHER (Episode 3)

"What flavor is this?"

"Today's special, Lavender Infusion."

"This is why people beat you up on the sidewalk."

Richard (Johnny Berchtold) and Reacher (Alan Ritchson) take a moment to cool down

CHICAGO FIRE

"Did you know that they call us Stellaride?"

"Who's...they?"

"I don't know actually."

Stella (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Severide (Taylor Kinney) learn about their couple name after Violet mentions it

SEVERANCE

"Well, I still have a hall pass, so I can go to the break room now and then we can start after lunch."

"Maybe."

"'Maybe'? Did everyone sever their balls in the elevator this morning?"

Neither Dylan nor Mark (Adam Scott) are racing to help Helly (Britt Lower) retrieve the message Irving left behind a break room poster. Also: Ouch!

ST. DENIS MEDICAL

"Pretty pumped about Serena's birthday drinks... I downloaded a Spotify playlist called Top Hits, since I'm not familiar with the latest music. I hope they play 'We Don't Talk About Bruno.' That's kind of my new jam."

Yep, looks like Matt (Mekki Leeper) is about four years behind the pop culture times

ST. DENIS MEDICAL (Bonus Quote!)

"What's the problem?!"

"She's old and sleeping! It feels weird to just reach in her lap without consent."

"Ronan Farrow is not at the hospital today. Just grab the damn thing!"

Matt (Mekki Leeper) is nervous about wrangling a cat from the lap of a sleeping patient, while Joyce (Wendi McLendon-Covey) has no such concerns

GHOSTS

"Look, guys, I just came up with the same sauce, OK. People come up with the same great idea all the time: Armageddon and Deep Impact, A Bug's Life and Ants. It happens."

"Actually, Ants was a rip-off of A Bug's Life."

"DreamWorks rushed it into production after they caught wind of what Pixar was doing."

"That actually makes a lot of sense. Ants felt rushed."

Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) tries to reason with Pete's mafia in-laws, who clarify some (movie) things for Pete (Richie Moriarty)

ELSBETH

"You don't want to start too late, panic senior year, end up sharing a prison cell with a Desperate Housewife."

Educational consultant Lawrence (Matthew Broderick) urges a couple to begin planning for their son's college future ASAP

FIRE COUNTRY

"I... was just ordering a chicken fried steak."

Audrey James (Leven Rambin), everyone — good at singing, bad at lying when caught about to kiss Bode

NCIS: SYDNEY

"How do I look?"

"Like you're late for pilates with the other mums."

"It looked a little less yellow in the brochure."

"A little less yellow than what, a solar flare?"

"Done?"

"Oh-ho, not even a little bit, Spongebob."

J.D.'s (Todd Lasance) "hi-vis performance vest" is a bright yellow target for Evie (Tuuli Narkle)

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