Quotes of the Week: The Rookie, The Voice, Elsbeth, Cleaning Lady and More (2025)

Calling all you couch potatoes: It’s time to once again celebrate TV’s best dialogue in our latest edition of Quotes of the Week.

In the list below — which features our picks for TV’s most memorable sound bites of the past seven days — you’ll find more than a dozen shows represented, includingWill Trent, FBI, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Cleaning Lady, NCIS, The Bold and the Beautiful, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Law & Order: Organized Crime, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead: Dead City, Andor and more.

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Also featured in this week’s roundup:John Mulaney pitches a new name for the Kennedy Center, Link’s wedding vows on Grey’s Anatomy get a little dark and Ghosts condemns the demonic deviled egg. Plus, we’ve got a double dose ofThe Voice.

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, Rebecca Luther, Charlie Mason,Matt Webb Mitovich,Kimberly Roots and Ryan Schwartz)

GREY’S ANATOMY

“I’m happy for Wilson and Lincoln, but people need more notice. They think we have closets full of formalwear? We work in pajamas.”

Jo and Link’s sudden nuptials irk Bailey (Chandra Wilson)

GREY’S ANATOMY (Bonus Quote!)

“I can’t promise you a fairy tale or a happy ever after, but ’til the world ends from climate change, we’ll seek out joy and laughter.”

A highlight from the wedding vows Link (Chris Carmack) sang to Jo

ELSBETH

“You were the source of all the contraband that Alex was selling, stuff that you snuck inside your tote bags. Believe me, I know tote bags.”

Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) pins the detention center’s warden for Alex’s murder, with the help of her favorite accessory

THE HANDMAID’S TALE

“S–t if I had a commander at Jezebel’s who was trying to save me, I could fall in love with him, too. I mean it. I’m serious. If he was, like, hot enough.”

“No one’s hot enough.”

“I’m talking Angelina Jolie hot.”

“Nick is not Angelina Jolie hot. Not even close.”

“Halle Berry?”

“Absolutely not.”

“Sigourney Weaver, Alien. Or — ooh — Rihanna.”

“Are you kidding? What are you even talking about right now? No one’s hotter than Rihanna.”

Moira (Samira Wiley) tries to console June (Elisabeth Moss) in the aftermath of Nick’s betrayal and Mayday’s huge loss

WILL TRENT

“So… who were you talking to?”

“My mother. She’s in the sewers. Long story.”

It would probably help Faith (Iantha Richardson) to know that Angie (Erika Christensen) flushed Mom’s ashes down the toilet

THE CLEANING LADY

“You are becoming a real pain in my ass, mon chère.”

We’re pretty sure this is Dr. DuPont’s (Daniel Bonjour) very French way of telling Thony he loves her

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

“I’m not dead yet.”

Turns out terminally ill Liam (Scott Clifton) is a Monty Python fan

CONAN O’BRIEN: THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR

“It’s an honor to be here at the Kennedy Center — or, as it will be known next week, the Roy Cohn Pavilion for Big, Strong Men Who Love Cats.”

CONAN O’BRIEN: THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR(BONUS QUOTE!)

“…and when you leftThe Tonight ShowbecauseThe Jay Leno Showat 10 pm was just too damn popular. [Pause for laughs] It was a cultural moment. Jay Leno at 10 pm… It was in the zeitgeist!”

FBI

“There’s no audio, right?”

“No — you want to hear from your food?”

Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) asks a lot of a murder victim’s oven camera

ANDOR (Episode 9)

“Tear the s—t out of this place.”

Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt) fires up fellow senator Mon Mothma prior to her anti-Empire speech

THE LAST OF US

“Holy s–t, I’m gonna be a dad.”

Ellie (Bella Ramsey) realizes what Dina’s pregnancy means for her

NCIS

“Being how messiah is a Jewish word, from the Hebrew bible, you might want to rethink that name there.”

Knight (Katrina Law) offers an etymology lesson to a member of the Messiahs of Purity aka a white supremacist hate group

THE ROOKIE

“You ready to testify?”

“Yes, sir. And if that ain’t a fact, God’s a possum.”

“I… don’t know what that means.”

“I’ve learned to ignore the country commentary.”

Tim (Eric Winter) helps Del Monte (Michael Trucco) not translate Miles (Deric Augustine)

THE VOICE

“Mine looks like the small part of the aorta.”

Michael Bublé struggles to copy a fan’s sign for a heart

THE VOICE (Bonus Quote!)

“Honestly, this is the best job I ever had — and I worked at Chuck E. Cheese.”

Aw, Michael, ya ol’ softy

CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION

“All right, now can you do more than one search at a time?”

“Ooh, science says that asking a dumb question makes you less cute.”

Luke (Adam Rodriguez) woefully, woefully underestimates Penelope (Kirsten Vangsness)

THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY

“Thank you all for coming. From what I gather, y’all hate each other’s guts. I gotta say I get it. I just walked in the door, and I already hate your guts.”

Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) proves that he’d kill at standup comedy

GHOSTS

“The eggs of the devil! And lo, they’re sprinkled with the blood of the innocent!”

“Pretty sure that’s just paprika.”

Patience (Mary Holland) sees evil in everything, even in Jay’s deviled eggs, which Pete (Richie Moriarty) assures her are safe

HACKS

“Even if I did come back, I don’t know if I can do the job. I don’t even know your voice anymore.”

“You are my voice.”

Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) finally bury the hatchet when the former asks her head writer to come back to work

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME

“Oh Lord, this boy got your ears.”

“I know. Poor kid.”

Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) look at photos of his new grandson (who still doesn’t have a name)

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