Quotes of the Week: Fear TWD, Monarch, For All Mankind, Raid the Cage and More
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In the list below, we’ve gathered nearly 20 of TV’s most memorable sound bites from the past seven days, including moments both scripted and unscripted from broadcast, cable and streaming series.
We’ve got plenty of bon mots and zingers, even during this light week of holiday TV, with shows like For All Mankind, Last Week Tonight, Lessons in Chemistry and Raid the Cage all represented in our roundup. Plus, we’ve got double doses of NCIS: Sydney, Fear the Walking Dead’s series finale (grade it!) and Hannah Waddingham’s Apple TV+ Christmas special, along with a rare triple dose hailing from Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge debut.
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!
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER
“An armed robbery is a traumatic event people need time to recover from. It’s not something you can just ignore — like a spam call, or a broken light bulb, or any show on Apple TV. Did you know Octavia Spencer starred as a true crime podcaster on a show called Truth Be Told for three seasons? Of course you didn’t! It’s Apple TV, where celebrities go to hide.”
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE (Episode 1)
“Oh, s—t. Really?”
071 is quick to learn how unflinching Red Light, Green Light can be
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE (Episode 3)
“T.J. is a good guy… but… he keeps giving us these positive affirmations. And I’m like, ‘Bro, we’re in Squid Games, let’s get real.’”
Lorenzo wishes his team captain were more about war than “love”
SQUID GAME: THE CHALLENGE (Episode 5)
“Attention, players…. Five players are needed for a chore…”
“Sus!”
“Sus!”
“Hell no!”
After the whole “telephone” test, the dorm is wise to be wary of their game master
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
“Why are you really here, Dollar Bill? Did you miss me?”
“Like food poisoning.”
Bill (Don Diamont) makes his feelings for his “ex” Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) abundantly clear
FOR ALL MANKIND
“The lesson of Icarus is not don’t fly too close to the sun. It’s make better f—king wings. The best way to seize the future is to invent it.”
Dev (Edi Gathegi) takes back control of Helios
LOVE ISLAND GAMES
“One thing I hate in this world are actors. And Cely and Eyal, you guys are actors. Congrats! You guys smashed it.”
Toby makes his feelings about Cely and Eyal crystal clear while casting his vote for the couple that should move on to the finals
NCIS: SYDNEY
“I got the first tox screen back….”
“And?”
“Oxyuranus microlepidotus.”
“Hey, oxy your own anus.”
Blue (Mavournee Hazel) reports on the killer snake to Evie (Tuuli Narkle) et al.
NCIS: SYDNEY (Bonus Quote!)
“When I was 16, I worked a summer at Redman’s Granary just outside of Muscatine….”
“Sounds like the start of a country song.”
Mackey (Olivia Swann) launches into an anecdote
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
“For the men watching who haven’t bothered to ask about menstruation, I’ll explain it to you. It is the process where blood discharges from the lining of the uterus in intervals of one lunar month, from puberty to menopause except during pregnancy. I had a call with the head of our network this afternoon and relayed that to him.”
“She said the word uterus to Kenneth?!”
Yes, Phil (Rainn Wilson). Yes, she did!
HANNAH WADDINGHAM: HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
“We’ve just been giving such killer vocals all night. I’m worried that we’re gonna melt the audience’s faces off, and you know I’m scared of skulls!”
“Yeah. It’s the first thing you ever told me.”
We learned so much about Waddingham, and her friendship with Brett Goldstein, in just two sentences
HANNAH WADDINGHAM: HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (Bonus Quote!)
“If you put in another song, it’s gonna run too long.”
“[chuckles] This is Apple TV. They don’t stop you if you run long.”
In his attempts to persuade Waddingham to do a Christmas duet with him, Brendan Hunt gives a wink to the much-criticized long runtimes of Ted Lasso‘s Season 3 episodes
RAID THE CAGE
“Serious question: Was it your choice to wear the pink?”
Get out of our heads, Damon Wayans Jr.!
MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS
“When was Monarch founded?”
“Late ’40s, thereabouts.”
“Wouldn’t that make you, like, 90 years old?”
“What can I say — good genes, huh?”
May (Kiersey Clemons) runs some very legitimate math by Lee (Kurt Russell)
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
“Tracy… Tracy… You don’t have to be afraid.”
Um, really? ‘Cause Madison (Kim Dickens), ya just murdered the child’s father in cold blood before her eyes
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD (Bonus Quote!)
“Let’s go home.”
With that, Madison (Kim Dickens) heads back to L.A. with daughter Alicia and a newly orphaned Tracy
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