Yahoo News Quotes of the Week: Fire Country, Loot, Young Sheldon, Station 19 and More
You didn’t think we’d skip a Quotes of the Week compilation, did you? Perish the thought!
On the contrary, the list below features nearly two 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.
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This time around, we’ve got bon mots and zingers from The Good Doctor, Resident Alien, Survivor and The Daily Show, plus a whopping three appearances from the extended NCIS-verse.
Also featured in this week’s roundup: double doses of Loot, Grey’s Anatomy and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live‘s emotional finale (read our post mortem Q&A and grade the episode).
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, Charlie Mason, Matt Webb Mitovich and Ryan Schwartz)
THE GOOD DOCTOR
“How about you try a compliment sandwich? When you need to give negative feedback, stick it between layers of praise.”
“Charlie doesn’t have two pieces of bread to work with.”
“Then make it a compliment open-faced sandwich.”
Lim (Christina Chang) offers stubborn Shaun (Freddie Highmore) a recipe for teaching success
FIRE COUNTRY
“You’re telling me that Genevieve is Cara’s daughter?”
“Vince, you need to catch up.”
The only thing hotter than the fire-nado outside is the gossip flying inside the rig carrying Jake, Gaby, Sharon (Diane Farr) and Vince (Billy Burke)
LOOT (Episode 1)
“I took a CBD gummy last night! I’m trying to be more interesting!”
Arthur (Nat Faxon) makes a shocking confession after the FBI busts into Molly’s mansion
LOOT (Episode 2)
“Here is your folic acid kale smoothie to rejuvenate you.”
“Oh, thank you! Mmm, this is more delicious than usual. What flavor is this?”
“Gin.”
“That’s it. That’s what I’m tasting.”
Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster) and Molly’s (Maya Rudolph) health routine is something we can definitely get behind
RESIDENT ALIEN
“It was D’Arcy!”
“She would not steal a bomb. There is not even any vodka in it!”
Harry’s (Alan Tudyk) wrong about a lot of things, but D’Arcy’s love for booze is not one of them
LOPEZ VS. LOPEZ
“I’m trying to be supportive of my dad, but he’s not making it easy. I thought sober he’d be loving, considerate, patient… I was expecting Mexican Tom Hanks.”
“Instead, you got Mexican Tom Arnold.”
Mayan (Mayan Lopez) and Quintin (Matt Shively) compare sober George to famous Toms
GREY’S ANATOMY
“You are going to wait outside, and don’t talk to anyone, don’t move… I’d say don’t think, but you’ve already got that covered.”
Jules (Adelaide Kane) takes pains to ensure that her brother “the doctor” doesn’t embarrass her in front of boss Owen
GREY’S ANATOMY (Bonus Quote!)
“You’re no BokHee.”
Link’s attempt at being a scrub nurse fails to impress Richard (James Pickens Jr.)
SURVIVOR
“Tribal immunity, no more!”
“Really?! What? Sorry.”
“Are you new?”
We’re glad to see that Jeff Probst’s sass has returned to the island this season
ALICE & JACK
“I sense you don’t approve.”
“Only because you have no idea what you’re doing and your investment advisor is a complete psychotic. Other than that, a huge fan.”
“Alice is top of her field.”
“If that field is being a complete psychotic.”
“It’s a different part of the brain.”
“Yes, no doubt this part is pristine.”
Paul (Sunil Patel) questions Jack’s (Domhnall Gleeson) decision to risk his life savings
YOUNG SHELDON
“Whose soul needs saving? Is it Sheldon? I’ve been waiting for this.”
Pastor Jeff (Matt Hobby) gets ahead of himself when Mary invites him over to perform a secret baptism on CeeCee
THE DAILY SHOW
“The Bible doesn’t say anything about trans people. It does, however, say to ‘love thy neighbor,’ and to ‘not judge other people,’ and perhaps the most famous of Bible verses: Please do not sell me for $59.99 to pay off your rape fines.”
NCIS
“Smart move. Happy wife, happy life.”
“Well, that phrase is considered kind of sexist these days.”
“Happy spouse, happy house?”
Parker (Gary Cole) stands corrected
NCIS (Bonus Quote!)
“It would be cool if it was aliens, though, right?”
“Beyond cool! Just the thought of autopsying an alien corpse. All those new organs, those new smells—”
“Uh, it’s getting weird now.”
“You try to spend all your time down here by yourself. You take what you can get!”
Tim (Sean Murray) and Jimmy (Brian Dietzen) discuss the week’s seemingly out-of-this-world case
STATION 19
“You were supposed to tell me everything. My whole life is predicated upon judging people unfairly on your behalf.”
Travis (Jay Hayden) can’t abide Vic’s withholding of details about her split from Theo
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
“Personally, I find it a little hard to get mad at the idea of millennials getting some sort of subsidy in life. After all, this is a group who will never be able to afford a house, is drowning in student debt, and can’t even enjoy Harry Potter anymore. You can’t spell millennial without three massive Ls.”
NCIS: HAWAI’I
“I prefer the classic approach to dating: putting myself in physical environments in which I may meet a prospective date over a period of weeks or months… and then Googling her.”
“How’s that been working out for you?”
Ernie (Jason Antoon) defends his stance against dating apps
THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE
“In a dead world, love is dead.”
“Love doesn’t die.”
Thorne (Lesley-Ann Brandt) invites Michonne (Danai Gurira) to remind her of the series’ theme
THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (Bonus Quote!)
“You’re the brave man?”
“I am. But maybe you could call me Dad.”
At long (long!) last, R.J. (Antony Azor) meets Rick (Andrew Lincoln)
NCAA Men’s Final Four
“Tracy, we just ordered you a ladder.”
TBS announcer Ian Eagle after Tracy Wolfson interviews 7-foot-4 Purdue center Zach Edey
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