Quotes of the Week: Hacks, Will Trent, NCIS: Hawai’i, Station 19 and More
What better way to celebrate May than with a fresh batch of Quotes of the Week?
In the list below, we’ve gathered two dozen of TV’s most memorable sound bites from the past seven days, including moments from both scripted and unscripted series.
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This time around, we’ve got bon mots and zingers from The Voice, The Conners, The Veil, Abbott Elementary and double doses from Grey’s Anatomy, Hacks, Station 19, Ghosts and Part 1 of the NCIS: Hawai’i series finale.
Also featured in this week’s roundup: Bob Hearts Abishola, Chicago Fire, American Idol, The Rookie, X-Men ’97 and more.
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, Kim Roots, Ryan Schwartz and Andy Swift)
THE VOICE
“We’ve got RLETTO coming up next. He’s singing ‘Holy’ by Justin Bieber featuring Me the Rapper.”
Chance the Rapper explains to guest mentor Meghan Trainor which song their incoming contestant will be performing
THE CONNERS
“Wow, sis! Look at us! Burger slinger and janitor. Who would’ve thought we’d both be living our dreams?”
“I’ll tell you who: Your mother, the lunch lady!”
Mark (Ames McNamara) clearly inherited Darlene’s (Sara Gilbert) sarcastic bite
X-MEN ’97
“Surrender, mutants!”
“I’ve got to talk to Hank about his taste in women.”
Wolverine (voiced by Cathal J Dodd) says what we’re all thinking, as Trish Sentinels out
WILL TRENT
“The name’s Trent. Will Trent.”
“Stupid. Real stupid.”
Faith (Iantha Richardson) has no patience for Will’s (Ramón Rodríguez) James Bond routine
FIRE COUNTRY
“Perez, the tremor’s probably just a temporary side effect from getting electrified. It’s probably psychosomatic.”
“OK, WebMD.”
Vince (Billy Burke) waves off Gabriella’s (Stephanie Arcila) concern about his secret impairment
THE VEIL
“Well, maybe someone would have contacted you guys. But we are told by command not to try to reach French Intelligence between midday and 3, because they’ll be at lunch.”
Max (Josh Charles) can’t help but be “the most American American” and mock the European pace of life while dealing with the DGSE
THE ROOKIE
“It’s pretty simple, he’s just emotionally unavailable. The most upset I saw him was when the Diamondbacks swept the Dodgers during the division playoffs.”
Chen (Melissa O’Neil) opens up to Grey about her and Tim’s breakup
NCIS: HAWAI’I
“The hood’s a little overkill.”
“Agreed. But she requested it.”
“I find sensory deprivation invigorating, don’t you?”
Meet Dr. Carla Chase (Seana Kofoed), the only person to not mind having a hood thrown over her head
NCIS: HAWAI’I (Bonus Quote!)
“This is what NCIS ELITE was created for.”
“Power napping…?”
Jesse (Noah Mills) can’t help but notice that Sam’s (LL Cool J) team is only busy catching Zs
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY
“What is the difference between a BCC and a CC, and if someone BCCs me, who can CC that?”
Tariq (Zack Fox) asks the important questions
BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA
“Chukwuemeka, I never thought I’d find love again. I was resigned to a never-ending hot girl summer.”
Young-at-heart Kemi (Gina Yashere) launches into her wedding vows
CHICAGO FIRE
“How do you know which one you are?”
“I think it mainly comes down to who you think of when you hear the name Harry.”
“Prince Harry.”
“Harry Potter.”
“See, there you go. I think of Harry Styles, which makes me Gen Z.”
Novak (Jocelyn Hudon) gives Ritter (Daniel Kyri) and Violet (Hanako Greensmith) a lesson in generational Harrys
GHOSTS
“We were on a respite!”
Nigel (John Hartman), when Isaac brings up that he slept with Jenkins
GHOSTS (Bonus Quote!)
“He’s very peripheral. It doesn’t matter.”
Sam (Rose McIver), after Jay asks about who Baxter is
HACKS (Episode 1)
“Uh, ‘I look well’? You got nothing on my new haircut? You’re not going to say I look like a little pageboy or something?”
“No, I just thought maybe you’d put a child’s wig on backwards.”
“There we go! Thank you.”
Deborah (Jean Smart) can’t help herself when it comes to poking fun at Ava’s (Hannah Einbinder) looks, even when they haven’t seen each other for nine months
HACKS (Episode 2)
“I did a benefit with Shaquille O’Neal yesterday. I swear to God, your hands are bigger than his.”
The newly reunited Deborah (Smart) and Ava (Einbinder) pick up right where they left off
SURVIVOR
“I don’t even think I screamed that hard during my divorce.”
Liz has an absolute meltdown after not being chosen to eat an Applebee’s reward
AMERICAN IDOL
“Find those mice and just gently let them jiggle around up there.”
We swear that Shania Twain’s advice to McKenna Faith Breinholt actually made sense in the moment… but it’s so much more fun out of context
GREY’S ANATOMY
“In this hospital, that family flies first-class. You just offered them coach.”
Rich donors spark an outburst of the Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen) Effect
GREY’S ANATOMY (Bonus Quote!)
“If you need my validation or anyone’s validation to feel like you did a good job, then peds is not the right specialty for you.”
“Everybody likes validation. It’s human.”
“No, it’s needy.”
Monica (Natalie Morales) refuses to give Schmitt (Jake Borelli) a gold star for doing his job
THE VIEW
“For Donald Trump, as superficial as it may sound, appearances are important. He’s not going to want to be with a [tall] guy who makes him look like Mr. Roarke and Tattoo from Fantasy Island.”
Ana Navarro draws an A+ comparison while discussing Trump’s potential running mates
ELSBETH
“With you, it seems there is no try. Only do. [Beat] Is that Yoda?”
Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) has an epiphany while talking to a murder suspect
STATION 19
“It’s like grape jelly just sloshing around inside of me.”
“Why grape?”
Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) asks entirely the wrong question while “egg factory” Maya (Danielle Savre) is having an IVF meltdown
STATION 19 (Bonus Quote!)
“You know like in the movies when the baby’s born and it’s not crying and everyone’s panicking because this means something’s very wrong, but they’re also trying not to seem panicked because they don’t wanna worry the mother, and it’s like ‘nervous silent eye contact, nervous silent eye contact.’ But then the baby starts wailing, and everyone’s like ‘relieved silent eye contact, relieved silent eye contact. Thank the Lord.’”
“Yeah, I do know that moment… in real life because we are actual first-responders, you know?”
“OK, I don’t appreciate that tone. But it was like that when you started crying. It was like, ‘Whew. The baby’s fine. The baby made it.’”
“I’m the baby.”
“Yeah. Sometimes you get to be the baby, and other people take care of you.”
Travis (Jay Hayden) reassures Vic (Barrett Doss) that her peers were actually relieved to see her break down
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