Quotes of the Week: Ghosts, Grey’s, Lower Decks, Tracker, Voice and More
Another day, another dollar and another Quotes of the Week compilation.
In the list below, we’ve gathered more than a dozen of television’s most memorable sound bites from the past seven days, including scripted and unscripted moments from cable, broadcast and streaming series.
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This time around, we’ve got bon mots and zingers from Poppa’s House, NCIS, What We Do in the Shadows, Doctor Odyssey, Tracker, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Grey’s Anatomy and more.
Also featured in this week’s roundup: Abbott Elementary gets flirty, NCIS: Origins goes inside the mind of a stoner and The Voice declares Reba McEntire’s worth. Plus, we’ve got double doses of Agatha All Along and Ghosts.
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 Nick Caruso, Vlada Gelman, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich, Dave Nemetz and Ryan Schwartz)
POPPA’S HOUSE
“Look, Junior, I know it may not seem like it, but… I don’t… like you. I mean, you’re a very creative people-person and a great communicator and… aw, man, my daughter’s making me say all this stuff!”
J.J. (Geoffrey Owens) finds it difficult to say something nice to his son-in-law Junior (Damon Wayans Jr.)
THE VOICE
“Reba is the most expensive roadie you’ll ever have.”
Contestant Kendall Eugene cracks wise as Reba McEntire moves Alison Elena’s mic stand during rehearsal
TRACKER
“This baby doesn’t drive on gravel.”
Russell (Jensen Ackles) cares just as deeply about his 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS Convertible as Dean Winchester cared about his 1967 Chevrolet Impala
GHOSTS
“The bread hath returned from the underworld singed by hellfire.”
Puritan ghost Patience (Mary Holland) reacts to seeing a toaster in action for the first time
GHOSTS (Bonus Quote!)
“Mmm, prime, indeed.”
Alberta (Danielle Pinnock) checks out the Amazon Prime delivery guy
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
“That man put the ‘form’ in information technology.”
“Yeah, he’s a real Firefox.”
Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and Jacob (Chris Perfetti) check out the district’s handsome IT rep
ELSBETH
“Firemen always have a thing for me. I think it’s the hair.”
Redhead Elsbeth (Carrie Preston), after a hot fire marshal flirts with her
DOCTOR ODYSSEY
“Bow before me, for I am Neptune, Lord of the Seven Seas. And the best thing about it is it incorporates the one thing I have that Dr. Odyssey could never buy.”
“Abs?”
“Dignity. Obliques, too!”
Tristan (Sean Teale) shows Avery (Phillipa Soo) his Halloween costume — and his muscles
STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS
“You’re welcooooome!”
“Don’t give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!”
Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is bested and replaced by her captain-rank doppelganger
NCIS: ORIGINS
“If you were blitzed out of your gourd on grass, where would you be loitering?”
“Food court or arcade.”
“You answered that a little too quick.”
Randy (Caleb Foote) raises Franks’ (Kyle Schmid) eyebrows
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
“There are other ways of ending a relationship than killing the other person!”
“Name one.”
Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) has a more definitive method of cutting off a friendship than Guillermo (Harvey Guillén)
SURVIVOR
“They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but your game sure was destroyed in one.”
Sam gets savage when he votes the chaotic Rome out of the game
AGATHA ALL ALONG
“The Road is a fickle mistress.”
“More vague insight. Thank you.”
Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) surveys the next ominous stop on her and Billy’s (Joe Locke) journey
AGATHA ALL ALONG (Bonus Quote!)
“What are you wearing? What am I wearing?! This is so demeaning.”
“Focus up, Calderu. We can be culturally offended later.”
Lilia (Patti Lupone) takes stock of her and Jen’s (Sasheer Zamata) iconically witchy wardrobe
FIRE COUNTRY
“Oh, no, no — why are you empty handed? Where are my onion rings??”
“Smokey’s is still closed.”
“Oh, come on, it’s been a week since the crash. They can’t turn on a grill?”
Sharon (Diane Farr) can’t believe that pesky helicopter calamity has cut off her greasy snack supply
GREY’S ANATOMY
“We are never going to fit four car seats in either of our cars. Do we have to get a minivan?”
“You know what’s transporting those babies right now? Me! Every horrible pregnancy symptom… double it! Twice the reflux, the weight gain, the exhaustion, and then after all that, I’m gonna return to work delivering other people’s babies taking care of not one but two newborns. But sure, by all means, you go test-drive minivans.”
Expecting twins, Link (Chris Carmack) and Jo (Camilla Luddington) think ahead in very different ways
NCIS
“The sacrifices I make.”
“I think it’s the two open buttons.”
Knight (Katrina Law) has a theory on why Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) idea of “blending in” with a security detail didn’t pass muster with Parker
MATLOCK
“But I haven’t tried a case in 30 years!”
“Oh, I know. But it’s like riding a bike. Down a cliff. With no brakes.”
Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) has the utmost confidence — or, OK, maybe very little — in Matty (Kathy Bates)
BLUE BLOODS
“We can snatch the shooter and get Hughes banged up in the nick. Tickety-boo.”
“So now you don’t come with subtitles?”
“Oh, fine. Grab the guns and collar Yooz.”
“‘Yooz’?”
“Hughes.”
“Yeah. Better.”
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and British investigator Granger (Jake Weber) have a My Cousin Vinny moment
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