Quotes Of The Week: The Mandalorian, This Is Us, The Amazing Race And More
This Is Us, The Mandalorian and Superstore all returned for their new seasons this week — and each one of 'em earned a spot in our latest Quotes of the Week compilation.
As we always do on Sundays, Team TVLine is looking back at the past seven days of television, singling out the best dialogue from broadcast, cable and streaming series.
This time around, we've got a worrying archaeological discovery on The Mandalorian's sophomore premiere, extremely high praise for a Queen's Gambit chess player, an utterly tone-deaf speech from an Undoing character and The Bachelorette's refusal to be ashamed of her age. (Don't let the La Quinta suite door hit you on the way out, Yosef!)
Also featured in this week's roundup: double doses of Superstore (read premiere post mortem), The Voice and Desus & Mero.
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!
DESUS & MERO
"You know why it looks real? 'Cause there's nothing fun about the poster. Which is the problem with all the Quibi shows. They kind of seem like shows you watch under duress. You just watch them until people free you from your kidnappers."
Desus jabs the Most Dangerous Game poster as the hosts try to decipher real Quibi shows from fake ones
DESUS & MERO (Bonus Quote!)
"To the alien inside Mitch McConnell, it's time to find a new host. This body is decaying!"
"You've depleted its resources. Jump into somebody else!"
The hosts riff on photos of the Senate Majority Leader's bruised hands
THE MANDALORIAN
"What are the bones?"
"That's the krayt dragon."
"And those little rocks?"
"That's us."
"That's not to scale."
"I think it is."
"I've only seen its head and neck; that's a whole lot bigger than I guessed. Might be time to rethink our arrangement."
Mando (Pedro Pascal) prepares Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant) for a bigger fight than expected
THE UNDOING
"It is our responsibility to make sure that the name Reardon is always synonymous with... diversity!"
Private school mom Sally (Janel Moloney) stresses the importance of having an inclusive student body while speaking to a crowd made up almost entirely of rich, white parents
SUPERSTORE
"Maybe I'm not following because my whole face has gone numb and I'm just hearing my own blood."
Glenn (Mark McKinney) struggles with the news that Amy has accepted a job in California
SUPERSTORE (Bonus Quote!)
"Zephra is adamant that we follow the CDC regulation of washing your hands for a full 20 seconds... It's about the length of two 'Happy Birthdays,' so just sing that and you'll be fine."
"Yeah, but whose name do we insert? I have a friend named Ty, and I have a friend named Alexandrina Geneviva. Those are two wildly different time frames."
Dina (Lauren Ash) complicates hand-washing guidelines for store manager Amy (America Ferrera)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
"You just married Scarlett Johansson, and I just bought an electric bike. We're both doing equally great."
Suffice it to say, Colin Jost and Michael Che have just had a very different couple of days
THE AMAZING RACE
"It's serious when I got my hair in a bun. No matter how sweaty I get, it's still gonna look good. I'm not gonna once ask today, 'How's my hair?' Maybe once or twice."
Buns mean business for sisters Michelle and Victoria
THIS IS US
"It's a great show."
"The reboot is better."
"I know. I'm the one who started the hashtag to get it revived after it got cancelled."
"Is that right?"
"You don't cancel Rita Moreno."
Miguel (Jon Huertas) and Toby (Chris Sullivan) bond over their love for One Day at a Time
THIS IS US (Bonus Quote!)
"I free you from your kind of sweet, kind of bizarre, Jerry-Maguire-at-the-U-Haul, what-if marriage proposal that you made after we thought I killed one of our babies by falling over a suitcase."
Madison (Caitlin Thompson) invokes a Cameron Crowe classic when she lets Kevin know he's not responsible for any promises he made while they were at the urgent care clinic
THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT (Episode 7)
"Excellent.... A brilliant recovery.... I resign with relief.... I went over your games at this tournament. You are a marvel, my dear. I may have just played the best chess player of my life."
Beth receives the highest of praise from veteran player Luchenko (Marcus Loges)
THE VOICE
"I think I had a birthday since she started talking."
Blake Shelton, after "dozing off" during Kelly Clarkson's pitch to a contestant
THE VOICE (Bonus Quote!)
"My job as a country singer is to make people believe it. Ya know, I have songs about going to prison, and believe it or not, I haven't been to prison — yet."
Blake Shelton, explaining why he's the perfect coach for a storytelling kinda singer
THE BACHELORETTE
"To sit there and say [I'm] the oldest Bachelorette — guess what? I'm the oldest Bachelorette — 39, standing here, single — because I didn't settle for men like that."
If Yosef thought he was insulting Clare by calling her the oldest Bachelorette in series history, he's got a lot to learn