Quotes Of The Week: The Rookie, 1923, Ghosts, The Pitt, NCIS And More
We're back with another edition of TVLine's 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 NCIS, Family Guy, Paradise, General Hospital, Running Point, Tyler Perry's Sistas and Reacher.
Also featured in this week's roundup: St. Denis Medical delivers a lesson in flirting, Abbott Elementary celebrates the versatility of the muumuu and The Pitt confronts an anti-masker. Plus, we've got quotable moments from The Voice, Prime Target, The White Lotus, and double doses of The Rookie and 1923.
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, Ryan Schwartz and Andy Swift)
18. ST. DENIS MEDICAL
"[Flirting with] an Oregon guy is super-easy. Just bring up REI, coffee beans, IPAs or the Dune movies, and they just go wild. Also applies to lesbians."
Serena (Kahyun Kim) knows it will be a breeze to woo a local newspaper reporter
17. THE ROOKIE
"Flirting is harmless, but physical intimacy is a hard, bright line. If Wesley so much as kisses another woman, I'll be a wealthy, glamorous widow."
Believe Angela (Alyssa Diaz)!
16. THE ROOKIE (Bonus Quote!)
"Listen, I want to tell you something—"
"No, no."
"What, you got somewhere you got to be?"
Lucy (Melissa O'Neil) doesn't want to hear Tim's (Eric Winter) before-we-die confession
15. FAMILY GUY
"Did somebody say 'cool mom with an Activia fanny pack'? They give you a free one if you send in enough lids. I've got two fanny packs and a very healthy colon."
If Lois Griffin (Alex Borstein) ever meets Jamie Lee Curtis, they'll have a lot to talk about
14. THE WHITE LOTUS
"I like beans. I used to hate beans, but now I eat a lot of beans. One day, I just decided to trick my mind into liking beans... and now I do!"
Kate (Leslie Bibb) subscribes to the "mind over taste buds" school of nutrition
13. GENERAL HOSPITAL
"The whole place is gorgeous."
"Well, I can't take all the credit, but later, I will."
Willow's (Katelyn MacMullen) high praise prompts a confession from interior decorator Maxie (Kirsten Storms)
12. PRIME TARGET
"You hit a wall?"
"Why? You got any ideas?"
"Uh... carry the one?"
Ed (Leo Woodall) runs into a roadblock with his very complicated math, and layman Carter (Harry Lloyd) offers a sarcastic suggestion
11. THE VOICE
"The one bad part about shooting this season of The Voice is that I have to sit in this filthy chair."
Adam Levine cracks wise about frenemy Blake Shelton's former throne
10. GHOSTS
"I mean, Angelica is definitely the prettiest. But Eliza, she just seems so gettable."
"Man, a Schuyler sister. I wonder if I could get one."
"I mean, perhaps Peggy. [Both laugh]"
Alexander Hamilton (Nat Faxon) and Sam Adams (Kelsey Flower) discuss the Schuyler sisters
9. PARADISE
"My god, could I sound any more like a Bond villain? I swear I'm not a monster."
Wethinks the lady, aka Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson), doth protest too much
8. THE PITT
"Oh, did you want me to tell the surgeons to go no masks for surgery?"
"What?"
"Well, those of us who save lives for a living believe strongly that masks minimize risk when it comes to spreading disease and infection. But I want to respect your beliefs, so what do you think? With or without for surgery? Without?"
"Um... I want with."
"Good call."
Langdon (Patrick Ball) confronts — and talks some sense into — an anti-masker who earned herself a fight bite in chairs
7. NCIS
"You weren't careful with it!"
Parker (Gary Cole) had just told Jimmy to be careful with his favorite shirt when extracting a potential poison sample
6. REACHER
"Hit me."
"What?"
"Come on."
"No. What if I hurt you?"
"You're kidding, right?"
Reacher (Alan Ritchson) aims to help Richard (Johnny Berchtold) fend off local bullies
5. ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
"It's a dress, a blanket and a napkin all in one. I long for that kind of efficiency in a garment."
Gregory (Tyler James Williams) is a big fan of muumuus
4. TYLER PERRY'S SISTAS
"Please, Ms. Marie, you have to help me!"
"Oh, that's where you're wrong, son. See, I don't have to do anything except be beautiful, Black and die. And if Big Pharma has its say, I probably don't even have to do that."
One does not tell Marie Willis (Tonya Pinkins) what to do — you'd think everyone on this show would know that by now
3. 1923
"I'm just saying, it would be nice to know that you got there safe, instead of hoping you made it safe, and wondering, and worrying."
"If you weren't worrying about me, you'd be worrying about something else."
"Yes, but that would be a worry of my own choosing. Not one that you chose for me."
Cara (Helen Mirren) is adamant that she — and not Jacob (Harrison Ford) — decide what path her anxiety takes
2. 1923 (Bonus Quote!)
"Marshall out of Helena called and said they got an anonymous tip that there's a speakeasy off of Main Street."
"You don't say."
"Yup."
"You have any luck finding it?"
"The investigation's just getting started. These things take a while. [To bartender] Another whiskey, Charlie?"
Sheriff McDowell (Robert Patrick) and Jacob (Harrison Ford) are the very picture of willful ignorance
1. RUNNING POINT
"Don't go on Reddit unless you want to kill yourself."
"What? Really?"
"It's OK, it's just a bunch of stupid, ugly s—t about the fact that you're a nepo baby and you don't know what you're doing. But you're old, so it's like you're kind of... you're like a nepo crone."
Basketball executive Isla (Kate Hudson) is officially too old to be a nepo baby, according to her brother Ness (Scott MacArthur)