Best Lines on TV This Week: Insincere vs. Sincere Thanks

Ruby Bentall as Verity Poldark
PBS/Masterpiece
Ruby Bentall as Verity Poldark

Poldark

Verity: “I don’t regard marriage as misery.”
Francis: “That’s because you have yet to experience it.”
Verity: (under her breath) “…For which I have you to thank.”

– Verity (Ruby Bentall) “thanking” her brother, Francis (Kyle Soller), for ruining her love life

Stitchers

“Thank you…for not being a nobody.”

– Kirsten (Emma Ishta) finally telling Cameron (Kyle Harris) that he’s important to her

Clipped

“How do people live without internet access? This is like one of those caveman stories Buzzy tells about being alive in the eighties.”

– Danni (Ashley Tisdale) expressing the importance of WiFi

Baby Daddy

Ben: “So what does this mean?”
Tucker: “I won’t know for 24 hours. “
Ben: “24 hours? Dude, that’s almost a whole day.”

– Tucker (Tahj Mowry) getting antsy about waiting to find out if Ben (Jean-Luc Bilodeau) is healthy

Mr. Robot

Anwar: “You’re a strange creature.”
Tyrell: “I’m just a businessman.”

– Anwar (Rami Malek) discovering Tyrell’s (Martin Wallstrom) ruthless business tactics after they sleep together

Key & Peele

“We say ‘yo ho,’ but we don’t say ‘ho’ / ‘Cause ho is disrespectful, yo.”

– Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele playing with words to avoid being offensive in their pirate-themed song lyrics