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  • 24:
    • "My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life."
    • "Dammit!"
    • "The following takes place between x am/pm and x am/pm."
  • "I love it when a plan comes together" (The A-Team)
  • The Adventures of Superman:
    • "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
    • "Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings In a Single Bound."
  • 'Allo 'Allo!:
    • "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once."
    • "Good moaning."
  • The Amazing Race:
    • "(Name) and (name), you are the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you that you have been Eliminated from the Race."
    • "My ox is broken!"
  • Angel:
    • "Let's go to work."
    • "Is that it? Am I done?"
    • Charisma Carpenter is most often asked to autograph merchandise with the quote "Oh, and you're welcome", which is impressive, considering it's the last line of dialogue she speaks in the series.
  • "You're fired." (The Apprentice (2004))
  • Arrested Development:
    • "I've made a huge mistake..."
    • "There's always...money...IN THE BANANA STAND!!"
    • "I don't know what I expected."
    • "I'm afraid I just blue myself."
    • "...Her?"
    • "But still, where did the lighter fluid come from?"
  • Arrowverse
    • Arrow
      • "You have failed this city!"
      • "My name is Oliver Queen..."
      • "I must/have to become someone else. I must/have to become something else."
      • "They deserve to die, all of them! The way she died!"
      • "Five years ago, I made you a promise. Do you remember? Well, I’m here to fulfill it."
      • "I'm the justice you can't run from."
      • "Everything you touch dies."
      • "I'm ten steps ahead of you and you haven’t figured out what game we're playing yet."
      • "I wanted to! And I liked it!"
      • "Obviously that particular comment didn't age too well."
      • "The hardest thing to do is to be a hero when no one expects you to be. The easier path is to be a criminal."
    • The Flash (2014)
      • "My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive!"
      • "I don't think that bolt of lightning struck you, Barry. I think it chose you."
      • "Run, Barry. Run!"
      • "I'm always one step ahead!"
      • "Oh I'm not like The Flash, at all. Some would say I'm the reverse."
      • "Forgive me but to me you’ve been dead for centuries."
      • "I have to try."
      • "YOU CAN'T LOCK UP THE DARKNESS!"
      • "Now who’s the villain, Flash? Now who’s the villain?”
      • "We are the Flash."
    • Supergirl (2015)
    • Legends of Tomorrow
  • "The avalanche has already started. It's too late for the pebbles to vote." (Babylon 5)
  • "Tune in tomorrow, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!" (Batman (1966))
  • "Bazinga!" (The Big Bang Theory)
  • Better Call Saul:
    • "You are the kind of lawyer guilty people hire."
    • "I broke my boy."
    • "And Slippin' Jimmy I can handle just fine, but Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun!"
    • "He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking?"
    • "Here's what's gonna happen."
    • "Tell me again."
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy:
  • "I have a cunning plan." (Blackadder)
  • "Here's one I made earlier." (Blue Peter)
  • "FEENAY! FEE-HEE-HEE-HEENAY!" (Boy Meets World)
  • The Boys (2019):
    • "Fucking diabolical."
    • "Well well, if it ain't the Invisible Cunt."
    • "I am the Homelander... and I can do whatever the fuck I want."
    • "You are not our most valuable asset. You are simply... a bad product."
    • "People love what I have to say! They believe in it! They just don't like the word "Nazi". That's all."
    • "I'm stronger. I'm smarter. I'm better. I AM BETTER!"
    • "With great power comes the absolute certainty that you'll turn into a right cunt."
    • "You are a fucking disappointment."
    • "You're just a cheap fucking knock-off." "Oh, no-no-no. I'm the upgrade."
    • "You guys are the real heroes."
    • "Babykiller!"
    • "All democracies, they fail because people are fucking stupid."
    • "I sell purpose."
    • "Daddy's home."
    • "Supes Lives Matter!"
    • "Make America Super Again."
    • "It was perfect. Perfect. Everything, down to the last minute details."
    • "It's what Clara would have wanted."
  • Breaking Bad:
    • "Chemistry is... well, technically, chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change. It is growth...then decay...then transformation."
    • "Yeah Mr. White! Yeah science!"
    • "This... is not meth."
    • "Hi. I'm Saul Goodman. Did you know that you have rights? The Constitution says you do. And so do I."
    • "This looks heavy, what's there in the bags?" "Half a million in cash."
    • "Stay out of my territory."
    • "I AM the Danger"/"I am the one who knocks", possibly the most quoted scene in TV history and easily of the entire series.
    • "Bitch!"
    • "Tight. Tight. Tight!"
    • "I fucked Ted."
    • "W.W. Who could it be? Woodrow Wilson? Willy Wonka? Walter White?" "You got me."
    • "Look at me Hector."
    • "I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter."
    • "I won."
    • "Say my name." "Heisenberg." "You're goddamn right."
    • "If that's true... If you don't know who I am... then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly."
    • "He can't keep getting away with it!"
    • "My name is ASAC Schrader, and you can go f- yourself."
    • "You're the smartest guy I ever met. But you're too stupid to see, he made up his mind ten minutes ago."
    • "I watched Jane die. I was there, as I watched her die. I watched her overdose and choke to death. I could have saved her... but I didn't."
    • "What the hell is WRONG with you? We are a family! We...are a family..."
    • "Mama. Mama."
    • "I did it for me. I liked it... I was good at it... and I was alive."
  • Bridgerton: The male romantic leads of the first three seasons have Anguished Declarations of Love that made audiences' heart melt so much they became bigger than the show.
    • For Simon it's either "when one burn for someone who does not feel the same" (which was actually originally in the second book, and became popularly misquoted as "I burn for you") or "to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart."
    • For Anthony, it's "You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires." Other contenders include "it is maddening, how much you consume my very being... all I find myself being able to think of, all I find myself being able to breathe for, is you" and "I know I am imperfect, but I will humble myself before you because I cannot imagine my life without you."
    • For Colin, it's "I have not been able to sleep, not been able to eat. I can barely speak these days. My entire thoughts consumed by...By our kiss. By you." The other being this confession of his from Season 3 Episode 4:
    "I have spent so long trying to feel less, trying to be the kind of man society expects me to be. And, for a moment, I thought I had succeeded. But these past few weeks have been full of confounding feelings. Feelings like a total inability to stop thinking about you, about that kiss. Feelings like dreaming about you when I'm asleep. And, in fact, preferring sleep because that is where I might find you. A feeling that is like torture but one in which I cannot, will not, do not want to give up."
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
    • "Title of your sex tape."
    • "BOOOOOONE?!"
    • "VINDICATIOOOOON!!"
    • "Terry loves yogurt."
    • "Cool motive, still murder."
    • "I've only had Arlo for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."
  • "I'm Rick James, bitch!" (Chappelle's Show)
  • Charlie's Angels:
    • "Once upon a time there were three little girls who went to the police academy. And they were each assigned very hazardous duties. But I took them away from all that, and now they work for me. My name is Charlie. "
    • "Good morning, Angels." "Good morning, Charlie!"
  • Cheers:
    • "Norm!"
    • "Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?" note 
    • "You disgust me. I despise you." "Are you as turned on as I am?" "More."
    • "Now, all we really know is that Robin is using my secret password to break into my corporation's confidential files, and from the date on these, well, it looks like he's been doing it since, well, since the day after we first slept together. So all I think we can conclude by this is...I am too stupid to live!"
  • "3.6 [Roentgen]. Not great, not terrible." (Chernobyl)
  • Chuck:
    • "Don't freak out."
    • "Stay in the car!"
    • "Guys, I know kung-fu!"
    • "Chuck, I fell for you a long, long time ago, after you fixed my phone and before you started defusing bombs with computer viruses, so yes. Yes."
    • "Chuck, tell me our story."
    • "One magical kiss."
    • "Chuck?" "Yeah?" "Kiss me."
  • Cobra Kai:
    • "QUIET!"
    • "So you're gonna be my karate teacher?" "No. I'm gonna be your sensei."
    • "The best defense is more offense."
  • Community:
    • "Six seasons and a movie!"
    • "Annie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize her."
    • "Troy and Abed in the morning!"
    • "Streets ahead/behind."
    • "She's a no good B."
    • "Cool. Cool, cool, cool."
    • "Oh, Britta's in this?"
    • "You Britta'd it."
    • "Britta's the worst."
    • "Ha, GAY!"
    • "Shut up, Leonard! [Insert insult]"
    • "Leonard likes this post."
    • "This better not awaken anything in me..."
    • "It's TV; it's comfort. It's a friend you've known so well, and for so long you just let it be with you, and it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day or phone in a day, and it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with LeVar Burton and never come back."
  • "A wank, I think!" (Coogan's Runnote ).
  • Cosmos:
    • "Come with me."
    • "The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be..."
    • "A still more glorious dawn awaits."
    • "We are all made of star stuff."
    • "The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will, one day, venture to the stars."
    • "These are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution."
    • "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
  • "You're nothing but a prostitute." "HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A PROSTITUTE!" "But you are!" "...You better say sorry." "Why should I? Go to hell!" (Crimewatch)
  • "Horatio * ...* one liner. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" (CSI: Miami)

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  • The Office (Australia):
    • "Hi, I'm Hanna Howard. And I'm a woman!"
    • "Hannah is a riddle, swallowed by an idiot and shat out by a moron."
  • The Office (UK):
    • "So what's an elf?"
    • "Under 'strengths', you've written 'Accounting'... and under 'weaknesses' you've put 'eczema'."
    • "Word of warning then, out there they call them fanny packs...Cause fanny means your arse over there...not your minge."
    • "God, you're not that awful boss, are you?"
    • "You think we care as much about your baby as you do? Just cos you let some useless tosser blow his beans up your muff?"
    • "Chris, why don't you fuck off?"
  • The Office (US):
    • "That's What She Said!"
    • "I declare BANKRUPTCY!"
    • "NNNOOOOOOO, GOD! NO, GOD, PLEASE, NO! NO! NO! NNNOOOOOOOOOOO-"
    • "OH MY GOD! Okay, it's happening! Everybody stay calm! STAY F***ING CALM! EVERYBODY F***ING CALM DOWN!"
    • "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."[...]"They're the same picture."
    • "You don't even know my real name. I'm the (beep) Lizard King."
  • Orphan Black:
    • "Just one, I'm a few, no family too. Who am I?"
    • "Welcome to the trip, man."
    • "Fetch me something gay."
    • "Are you my Sestra?"
    • "It is not Beth who I loved..."
  • "Five hundred cigarettes." (The Orville)
  • "Of course (something), don't be ridiculous." (Perfect Strangers)
  • "I don’t know who Al Gore is, and at this point, I’m too afraid to ask." (Parks and Recreation)
  • Person of Interest:
    • "The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day."
    • "We have a new number."
  • Power Rangers:
    • "It's Morphin' Time!"
    • "AH, AFTER 10,000 Years, I'M FREE! IT'S TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!"
    • Alpha, Rita's escaped! Recruit a team of teenagers with attitude!
    • Andros, listen to me. It is your duty as a Power Ranger to save the universe. Now is the time.
    • I...was...VENJIX!!!!
  • "I'm still here, bitches, and I know everything. -A" (Pretty Little Liars)
  • The Price Is Right:
    • "The actual retail price is..."
    • "Come on down!"
  • The Prisoner (1967):
    • "I am not a number. I am a free man!"
    • "You Are Number Six."
    • "Why did you resign?"
    • "I've resigned. I will not be pushed, stamped, filed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own."
  • "That means you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football." (Riverdale)
  • Roots (1977)
    • "What's your name!?"
    • "Kunta! Kunta Kinte!"
    • "My name is Toby."
  • "'Sanctuary For All' is not an empty motto." (Sanctuary)
  • Saturday Night Live:
    • "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
    • "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
    • "Now, wasn't that special?"
    • "When you're livin' in a van DOWN BY THE RIVER!"
    • "I got a fever! And the only prescription...is more cowbell!"
    • "I can see Russia from my house!"
    • "Could it be... SATAN?!"
    • "You like-a da juice?"
  • Saved by the Bell:
    • "I'M SO EXCITED! I'M SO EXCITED! I'M SO...SCARED!"
    • "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?"
    • "The pipes have ears."
  • "I had sex and Dad is dead! He died a horrible death because I had incredible sex!" (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
  • Seinfeld:
    • "No soup for you!"
    • "Hello... Newman."
    • "These pretzels are making me thirsty!"
    • "George is getting upset!"
    • "Are you still... master of your domain?"
      • "I'm out!"
    • "Yadda yadda yadda."
    • "I'm not gay...not that there's anything wrong with that."
  • Sesame Street:
    • "Big Bird... don't you remember we told you? Mr. Hooper died."
    • "Cucumber is cool. You zucchini." "Hurtful!"
  • "Sex Education":
    • "Wash your hands you dirty pig!"
  • "The game is on." (Sherlock)
  • "We can rebuild him. We have the technology." (The Six Million Dollar Man)
  • The Sopranos:
    • "Oh, poor you!"
    • "Forget about it."
    • "Those who want respect, give respect."
    • "You know, Quasimodo predicted all of this."
    • "You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator!" "His house looked like shit."
    • "Oh! Speaking of 98 pounds... I hear Ginny Sack's getting a 95 pound mole taken off her ass!"
    • "Your father never had the makings of a varsity athlete."
    • "How much more betrayal can I take?"
    • "Your brother Billy... whatever happened there..." "Whatever happened there?!"
    • "So what, no fuckin' ziti now?"
    • "Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation." 
    • "You want compromise, how's this? Twenty years in the can, I wanted manicotti, but I compromised. I ate grilled cheese off the radiator instead. I wanted to fuck a woman, but I compromised. I jacked off into a tissue. You see where I'm goin'?"
  • Spartacus: Blood and Sand:
    • "Forge your own path, or join with us. And together, we shall see Rome tremble!"
    • "Jupiter's cock!"
    • "Fuck the Gods!"
    • "(Capua,) Shall we/I begin?!"
    • "I. AM. SPARTACUS!"
    • "Blood rains down from an angry sky. My cock rages on, my cock rages on!"
  • "I am an/the emissary from Hell, Spider-Man!"(Spider-Man (Japan))
  • Squid Game:
    • "Can I borrow 10,000 won?"
    • "Red light, green light!"
    • "I HAVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE!"
    • "We are not horses. We are human. Humans are..."
  • Star Trek:
  • Star Wars:
    • The Acolyte:
      • "The power of ONE! The power of TWO! The power of MANY!"
    • Andor:
      • "ONE WAY OUT!"
      • "I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see."
      • "Remember this. Try."
      • "FIGHT THE EMPIRE!"
      • "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil."
    • Ahsoka:
      • "I gave you a choice. Live... or die." "No!" "Incorrect!"
    • The Mandalorian:
      • "This is the way."
      • "I have spoken."
      • "We have you four to one." "I like those odds."
      • "He is strong with the Force, but talent without training is nothing."
      • "One does not speak unless one knows."
    • Obi-Wan Kenobi:
      • "I am not your failure, Obi-Wan. You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker. I did. The same way I will destroy you!" "Then my friend is truly dead. Goodbye, Darth."
  • Stranger Things:
    • "Friends don't lie."
    • "How was the pull-out?"
    • "Mouth-breather."
    • "THIS IS MUSIC!"
    • "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation."
    • "I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer."
    • "You let us in, and now you are going to have to let us stay."
  • "Saving people, hunting things, the family business." (Supernatural)
  • "The tribe has spoken." (Survivor)
  • "What does a yellow light mean?" "Slow down." "Okay. What...does...a...yellow...light...mean?" (Taxi)
  • "Hans...are we the baddies?" (That Mitchell and Webb Look)
  • Titans (2018):
  • "Will the real [mystery guest] please stand up?" (To Tell the Truth)
  • Top Gear (UK):
    • "And on that bombshell..."
    • "...in the world."
    • "We met up, for a series of challenges."
      • "I was the first to arrive."
    • "Ambitious... but rubbish."
    • "Now it's time to see how it does on our track and that means handing it over to our tame racing driver. Some say (outlandish comment) and that (other outlandish comment). All we know is he's called 'The Stig'!"
  • "The rest of that book, To Serve Man? It's a cookbook!" (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • Twin Peaks:
    • "Who killed Laura Palmer?"
    • "She's dead. Wrapped in plastic."
    • "The owls are not what they seem."
    • "thaT guM yoU likE iS goinG tO comE bacK iN stylE."
    • "I wilL seE yoU agaiN in 25 yearS. meanwhilE..."
    • "You know, this is - excuse me - a damn fine cup of coffee. I've had I don't know how many cups of coffee in my life, and this? This is one of the best."
      • "Damn fine coffee! And hot!"
    • "How's Annie? HOW'S ANNIE?!"
    • "Fix your hearts or die!"
    • "Fuck you, Tammy!"
    • "Fuck Gene Kelly! You motherfucker!"
    • "This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within."
  • The Walking Dead (2010)
    • "DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE."
    • "Hey, Dumbass. Yeah, you in the tank. Cozy in there?"
    • "CARL!"
    • "This isn't a democracy anymore!"
    • "Liar!"
    • "They're screwing with the wrong people!"
    • "Just look at the flowers."
  • "What's next?" (The West Wing)
  • What Would You Do?:
    • "Hi, I'm John Quiñones, and this has all been a part of a TV show called What Would You Do?..."
    • "Hidden cameras on!"
    • "We're at [insert location]..."
    • "We roll again."
    • "We roll one last time."
    • "Why—" (or "Why not") "—get involved?"
    • "Nothing prepared us for the (last) man/woman we're about to meet."
  • "Hello and welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter."
  • "Is that your final answer?" (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)
  • "The thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat." (Wide World Of Sports)
  • The Wire:
    • "The game is the game."
    • "It's all in the game."
    • "A man's got to have a code."
    • "Sheeeeeeeeeeit."
    • "This is Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you."
    • "We used to make shit in this country, build shit, now we just put our hand in the next guys pocket."
    • "You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."
  • WKRP in Cincinnati:
    • "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
    • "...while the senator, who insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity."
    • "Oh, I almost forgot. Booger!"
  • The X-Files:
    • "The Truth is out there."
    • "Trust no one."
    • "Deny everything."
    • "I want to believe."
  • "There's no book club?!" (Yellowjackets)
  • Yes, Prime Minister:
    • "Tragic."
    • Oh, very droll, minister."

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