Quote of the Week - Week of November 15

 

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the SpoilerTV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

B Positive - 

1.  Maddie:  “Could this operation not work?  Could you..”  Drew:  “No.  No, no, no, I’m not gonna die.  Look, I’ll be out of the hospital in 2-3 days.  This new kidney’s gonna give me all this energy.  I won’t be as pale.  Who knows?  I might even get abs.  I’ll get a 2-pack.  That’s one more pack than I currently have.”  Maddie:  “Swear it.”  Drew:  “What?”  Maddie:  “That you’re not gonna die.”  Drew:  “Yeah, Maddie, I swear.”  (Dahne)

2.  Sam, about Drew:  “Eli, this guy can’t throw an apple.  Don’t make sports analogies.”  (Dahne)

3.  Maddie:  “He said this wasn’t a big deal, but I looked it up and it is.  It’s very serious.”  Gina:  “Yeah, it is.”  Maddie:  “He could die.”  Gina:  “He could, and I could die.  And so could you, if you keep letting strangers through your window.”  (Dahne)

Bob Hearts Abishola - 

1.  Bob:  “I wanted to tell you I love you.”  Abishola:  “I love you too.  This is going to be so hard but when have things ever been easy for us?”  Bob:  “Wh..what are you saying?”  Abishola:  “Bob, will you marry me?”  Bob:  “Yes.”  Kemi:  “Have you idiots not seen a single romantic comedy?  Clap!”  (Dahne)

2.  Tunde:  “Don’t worry.  I will get you the best engagement ring at a price that will make the jeweler weep.”  Bob:  “I’m not really too worried about price.”  Tunde:  “If you’re going to say stupid things, go wait in the van.”  (Dahne)

3.  Bob:  “This isn't my first rodeo, Tunde.”  Tunde:  “Then act like it, cowboy, ‘cause you are about to get thrown from the bull.”  (Dahne)

Bull - 

1.  Bull, to his baby daughter, looking off his balcony at NYC:  “You see that.  You like that.  Well, that is the world I thought I was bringing you into.  Unfortunately, shortly after you arrived, it closed for business.  We’re just allowed to stand at a distance and look at it now, not be a part of it, be in it.  Sorry about that, Astrid.  Don’t quite know what we’re doing here anymore.  We’re just sitting around - holding our breath, waiting for a cure, waiting for a miracle.”  (Dahne)

2.  Michael Weatherly:  “It’s great to be back.  We missed you guys.”  (Dahne)

3.  Bull:  “I think I’m having trouble with the idea that nothing is forever.  That things change - the way we do things, the way we live.  This thing I thought I was gonna do for the rest of my life, I think it might be over.  I think maybe I’m extinct.”  IRS Izzy:  “No, that can’t be.  Do you have family?  People you live with?  People you count on? People who count on you?  Then, you endure.  Then you are not extinct.”  Bull:  “I don’t think it’s as simple as that.”  IRS Izzy:  “It’s absolutely that simple.  It has to be…”  (Dahne)

Fargo - 

1.  Rabbi Milligan, after reading “The Future Is Now” on the completed billboard: “Hey! Hey! What the heck does that even mean?”  Worker:  “Got me. Could be a statement as to the underlying unreliability of time. Or a testimony along the lines of "seize the day". They don't pay me to write 'em, just slap 'em up. Which I did. And now it's done. And I find myself once more at a crossroads, unemployed. So I suppose for me the future I once feared has arrived as predicted by this very billboard.”  (DarkUFO)

FBI:  Most Wanted - 

1.  Jess:  “One teacher who believes in you can change your life.”  Sheryll:  “Or save it.”  (Dahne)

2.  Ms. Diaz:  “But I’m just his art teacher.”  Jess:  “Whether you know it or not, you’re important to him.  You’re the closest thing he has to family.”  (Dahne)

3.  Hana, to the stoned suspect:  “Don’t smile.  It’s not a selfie.”  (Dahne)

The Good Lord Bird - 

1.  John Brown: "The voice of our spirit is gentle. Sometimes you have to fly to hear it."  (Elvis)

2.  John Brown: "There is an eternity behind us and there is an eternity ahead. This little speck right here at center... that's our lives."  (Elvis)

The Simpsons - 

1.  "You're under arrest... for spoiling the ending! I was only on episode 2!"  (Abir)

Star Trek:  Discovery - 

1.  Georgiou:  “You had me at ‘unsanctioned mission’.”  (Kath M)

2.  Burnham, about Georgiou: “Your emotional spectrum runs from cranky to homicidal.”  (Kath M)

3.  Tolor: “You are cleared to land, but I’ve got my eye on you.”  Georgiou: “I wouldn’t care about your eyes unless they were hanging from my belt.”  (Kath M)

Superstore - 

1.  Jonah: "So Cloud 9 just thinks that the pandemic is over? Because I'm pretty sure nobody told the pandemic that." Garrett: "Well, you gotta look at it from corporate's perspective: they love money and they don't care if we die."  (Lindsey)

2.  Dina: "Okay, this event is pretty straightforward. With every purchase, they spin the wheel and win a prize. You'll notice there's a slot listed as 'fun.' I think you're supposed to provide the customer with fun at your own discretion. Just, you know, keep it above the belt."  (Lindsey)

3.  Garrett: "You're just gonna let him ditch?" Cheyenne: "I mean, I feel kind of bad for him. Like, this year's been tough enough, and then he had the big breakup on top of it. I caught him listening to this music in this car... It didn't even have a beat, it was just, like, a guitar and a man."  (Lindsey)

This Is Us - 

1.  Madison, admitting to Kevin: “I’m obsessed with the show ‘Outlander’. I’ve been to conventions.”  (Kath M)

The Unicorn - 

1.  Michelle:  “Don’t tell me, ‘I’m killing it.’  You keep telling me, ‘I’m killing it,’ but I’m not.  I’m drowning, and I know how proud of me you are, but i don’t know why I thought I could do this.  I feel like I’m failing you.”  Ben: “Failing me?  Baby, you think I’m proud of you because you’re great at math?  I’m proud of you because you’re doing something incredibly brave.”  Michelle:  “What?”  Ben:  “Going back to school...after all this time.  Of course, it’s gonna be hard, but don’t let that freeze you up because you are my superstar.”  Michelle:  “Stop saying that.”  Ben:  “But you are.”  (Dahne and Folie-lex)

2.  Delia: "What's with the buts? There's no but... It's just... my alarm bells are going off, okay? She sounds so complicated. I mean you got the kid, you got the ex-husband, you got the pre-airbags Volvo. I mean... alarm bells!"  Wade: "I thought you said there were no buts."  Forest: "No, no, no. Technically that was an 'it's just'."  Delia: "Thank you."  (Folie-lex)

Young Sheldon - 

1.  Sheldon:  “You defaced my body with a grammatical error.”  Missy:  “I guess that’s your problem.  Y-O-U-R.”  (Dahne)

2.  Sheldon:  “I was hoping you could help me build up leg muscles to increase my speed.”  Georgie:  “If you don’t want people chasing you, be less annoying.”  (Dahne)

3.  Sheldon:  “I need mom to sing Soft Kitty.”  Missy:  “Don’t do it.”  Sheldon:  “Why?”  Missy:  “You're being a baby again.”  Sheldon:  “But I’m injured.”  Missy:  “Big deal.  You broke your arm.  Look at Stephen Hawking over there.  He’s in a wheelchair.  You don’t hear him whining about it with his robot voice.”  Sheldon:  “So you’re saying he and I are brilliant minds who have both suffered great physical adversity.”  Missy:  “That’s not even close to what I’m saying.”  (Dahne)

What Else We’re Watching:

Star Trek:  Discovery - Episode 1.07

1.  Announcer:  “Science Specialist Burnham and Lieutenant Tyler, please report to the bridge.”  Tyler:  “Look at that.  Saved from the horrors of small talk by duty.”  (Dahne)

2.  Michael:  “I fear my personal history interferes with my ability to forge relationships.  I am among the others but also apart.  I wish sorely to step out of my comfort zone, yet don’t know how.  But tonight, I will face one of my greatest challenges so far.  Tonight, we are having a party.”  ~~As a fellow introvert, I deeply understand the challenge of a party.  This made me laugh and nod my head.  (Dahne)