Best Lines of the Week (June 30-July 6): ‘I’m on TV!’
This past holiday weekend, TV and streaming gave us all the shows to help distract us from the heat. We received fresh episodes from shows like grown-ish along with new premieres and live events. As always, these shows gave exciting lines that almost made it impossible to leave the house and watch the fireworks.
We were able to see glimpses of the past and present this week. Live on the Fourth of July, we watched Alfonso Ribeiro host the celebration at the capitol. On Netflix, we learned about WHAM! in a new documentary that shares the highs and lows of the iconic band’s journey.
Whether it was scripted like the thrilling new drama about a kidnapping in The Clearing or unscripted like the classic The Price is Right (which never fails to provide heartwarming moments), we collected out favorite lines from this week that is bound to make you feel all the emotions of the holiday weekend. Read below to see our top picks!
Shaun White: The Last Run (Max)
“This is who I am. It’s not really walking away from the sport. It’s walking away from a piece of identity, and I just don’t really know who I am without it.”
— Shaun White talking to the documentarian about whether Beijing would be his last Olympics
grown-ish (Freeform)
“Can I help you with those bags, freshman?”
— Aaron (Trevor Jackson) t Zoe (Yara Shahidi) as she leaves for her flight out of California
The Price is Right (CBS)
Dave: “I’m on TV!!”
Drew: “Feels good, right?”
— Drew Carey asks a contestant, Dave from the space force, in a special Fourth of July tribute episode, to say hello to whoever he wants, and after addressing his family, he acknowledges how crazy it is to be on television.
WHAM! (Netflix)
“We were to shoot the video in this paradise of a boutique hotel. The legendary Pikes, a known secret. An escape for the rich and famous and the celebrities of the era. It was like pop stars, is how they live. It was effervescent, everything George and I imagined when we wrote the song in my parents’ living room but had never seen for real. For us, it was beginning to really shape what Wham! was gonna become.”
— Andrew Ridgeley explains their plans for the Club Tropicana music video and how they are finally starting to define themselves as a band.
Tom Segura: Sledgehammer (Netflix)
“Look… I do not know what year he was born or how many infants he consumes in a week but that man… is stunning, all right? He came into my dressing room. I couldn’t make eye contact.”
— Tom Segura jokingly talking about Brad Pitt and his good looks.
A Capitol Fourth (PBS)
“Growing up in New York, this day was always so important to my family, but wherever you’re from — north, south, east, west — what we all have in common is a respect and love for this great country of ours, immense gratitude for the opportunities it has given our families, and a shared dream of a better tomorrow for everyone in our nation.”
— Host Alfonso Ribeiro highlights what July 4th means to himself and everyone around him.
Endeavour (PBS)
Morse: “Yeah, if you had somewhere that you could bury all your secrets and mistakes, you would, wouldn’t you?
Fred: “Someone always finds ‘em in the end. Nothing stays buried forever.”
— Fred (Roger Allam) and Morse (Shaun Evans) find more intriguing information in the last season, and one of them is wanted at the scene of the crime.
The Clearing (Hulu)
“Solitude is essential for refining the soul’s journey. Not that I’d know, I’ve had my every move monitored for years.”
— Adrienne (Miranda Otto) tells Tamsyn (Kate Mulvaney) what she needs to do to find more peace, despite their difficult situation.
Tough as Nails (CBS)
“I definitely have what it takes to be able to win this competition. To do that, you need to not be like Lucky Charms, sometimes you gotta be Cap’n Crunch. Haha, that’s a bad analogy.”
— Carly, a contestant, shares her strengths and why she thinks she can win it all.
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid (Netflix)
“Over the last four decades, I have trained an army of Egyptian archaeologists. They will go on even after I am long gone. More than anything I have discovered, that will be my legacy. I taught all my assistants how to be a good archaeologist, but I’ll never be able to teach them the passion. But I hope that one of them can find it.”
— Dr. Zahi Hawass gives a heartfelt explanation of the profession he has dedicated his life to and how much it has affected him and all of his students.
