Quotes Of The Week: New Amsterdam, WandaVision, Golden Globes And More
You don't need to wait until tonight for the Critics' Choice Awards to begin: We're getting a head start with our critics' choices for the best TV dialogue.
With another week of television behind us, it's time to revisit the bon mots, one-liners and monologues across broadcast, cable and streaming series that stuck with us.
This time around, our Quotes of the Week compilation includes a Walking Dead pep talk that we all needed to hear, Hetty's secret love of buying in bulk on NCIS: Los Angeles, an American Idol contestant whose successful audition caused her to overshare, and an inaccurate — but highly entertaining! — history lesson from Drag Race's Kandy Muse.
Also featured in this week's roundup: double doses of WandaVision (finale spoilers ahead!), NBC's bicoastal Golden Globes ceremony, Wynonna Earp, Prodigal Son and The Voice, plus sound bites from Blue Bloods, Family Guy, Last Week Tonight and more series.
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!
THE WALKING DEAD
"Yeah. It's a lot. But you're not alone. You and me... OK?"
Kelly (Angel Theory), reassuring a freaked-out Elijah with words we've needed to hear over and over again in the last year
78TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
"French Exit is what I did after watching the first episode of Emily in Paris."
78TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (Bonus Quote!)
"It is great to be Black at the Golden Globes — back at the Golden Globes."
Presenter Sterling K. Brown "accidentally" addresses the elephant in the room
BLUE BLOODS
"She committed two crimes: obstruction of governmental administration, and criminal trespassing."
"In this climate? Are you serious?"
"Oh, please, don't give me 'climate.' My job is not weather-dependent."
The forecast calls for Frank (Tom Selleck) butting heads with AG Lewis (Michael Imperioli) over the arrest of a self-appointed "reporter"
FAST FOODIES
"I do like that you went the distance with the meat to make it taste and feel like the texture of Taco Bell. So, in terms of the copycat of it all? Yeah, I feel like the cat has been copied."
Comedian and actress Amanda Seales on chef Jeremy Ford's ability to replicate Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch
WYNONNA EARP
"Also, be prepared to keep explaining why you're not a fat baby. You know — stereotyyyypes!"
Demetri (Christopher Jacot) schools Waverly on being a fellow Cupid
WYNONNA EARP (Bonus Quote!)
"Should we get naked anyway? Just for... science."
Rendered extremely in-the-mood by Cupid dust, Nicole (Kat Barrell) gets highly inappropriate with future sis-in-law Wynonna
FAMILY GUY
"Chris, you've hardly touched your food."
"Mom, are you a scientist?"
"...No."
"Then stop putting me under a f—king microscope!!!"
Just another casual dinner exchange between Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein) and Chris (Seth Green)
BLACK-ISH
"Before I met you, I thought restorative justice was a clothing line!"
Josh (Jeff Meacham) credits Dre with broadening his worldview
NEW AMSTERDAM
"Check this out. It's a play on an egg-white Croque Madame with farm-fresh ingredients and 20-seed ancient grain bread."
"So it's a sandwich?"
"No, ma'am, because this has Granny Smith agave compote spread all over it."
"Applesauce?"
Lauren (Janet Montgomery) is not impressed with Iggy's (Tyler Labine) "fancy" food
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
"Think of it as if Pitch Perfect crashed into The Wire, and there were no survivors."
Oliver catches the uninitiated up to speed on the short-lived Steven Bochco musical drama Cop Rock
NCIS: LOS ANGELES
"Either you're right and that's a code, or we better hope NCIS has a Costco card."
Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) helps Nell unpack Hetty's rather delicious secret message
WANDAVISION
"Flourish!"
After breaking free from the cuffs that S.W.O.R.D. put on him, Jimmy (Randall Park) calls back to Vision's magic show from Episode 2
WANDAVISION (Bonus Quote!)
"Wanda, I know we can't stay like this. But before I go, I feel I must know: What am I?"
"You, Vision, are the piece of the Mind Stone that lives in me. You are a body of wires and blood and bone that I created. You are my sadness, and my hope. But mostly, you're my love."
As Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) brings the Hex down, she and Vision (Paul Bettany) share the most bittersweet of goodbyes
AMERICAN IDOL
"Literally, I know this is so TMI, but I'm having, like... the anxiety poops!"
Hopefully, Erika Perry's bathroom breaks are in the past now that she's earned a ticket to Hollywood
KENAN
"You know I hit that gym pretty hard."
"Really? Because when you walk up the stairs, you wheeze out on step three."
"I told you it was not a wheeze. I was howling from excitement of getting to the top."
Kenan (Kenan Thompson), eloquently deflecting Pam's (Fortune Feimster) accusation that he's out of shape. (BRB, using this excuse anytime we're climbing the stairs out of breath.)
MACGYVER
"The comms hack and earthquake ball was all a distraction to keep us from breaking up an evil Zoom meeting?"
Bozer (Justin Hires) and Russ uncover an online video chat for Codex cell leaders
PRODIGAL SON
"It's actually Dr. Whitly."
"I find it hard to believe the board didn't revoke your license."
"Well, they did. But they can never revoke my joie de vivre!"
Martin (Michael Sheen) still prefers to be called "doctor" by Vivian Capshaw (Catherine Zeta-Jones), even though that title isn't accurate these days
PRODIGAL SON (Bonus Quote!)
"OK, now, next step: We're going to fast-track this right into his heart!"
"This is the worst cooking show ever!"
Dani (Aurora Perrineau) sees Bright's (Tom Payne) efforts to save a victim as a recipe for disaster
THE CHALLENGE
"Yeah, I could've taken out someone with a skull and left another one on the table, but I am a spiteful a—hole."
Devin never fails to stir the pot... even as he's about to face elimination
SEAL TEAM
"Lisa, you gotta stop lookin' for the clouds, because there ain't nothing but Sonny skies ahead."
If only Sonny (AJ Buckley) were this buttery smooth when hit with Hannah's baby mama news!
THE VOICE
"I'm giving [my team members] a bobblehead of Jonah Hill that I'm telling them is me."
"The bobblehead that he's giving away... it looks like Nick Lachey meets Ben Affleck. I don't know who he paid to make himself look so good, but... it looks nothing like him."
Blake Shelton's present for his recruits inspires Nick Jonas to pay Jonah Hill an inadvertent compliment
THE VOICE (Bonus Quote!)
"It's gonna be on his next album."
"John, I think your performance was longer than hers."
After John Legend sings a "Welcome to Team Legend" song to contestant Christine Cain, Kelly Clarkson and Nick Jonas can't resist razzing him
RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE
"Baby, I don't know who the f—k Mary Queen of Scots is, but Rosé has this funny-ass Ireland accent. ... Ireland accent? That's not a thing. ... Irish accent!"
"Scottish."
"Oh."
We appreciate the producer stepping in there, but we also would have loved to hear more of Kandy Muse's thoughts on the Irish historical figure Mary Queen of Scots