Your Turn: The Best TV Lines of '09

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | December 9, 2009 | +

This is what punchy TV critics and fans do on Twitter on a December afternoon: start a tweet meme of Best TV Lines of 2009. (Update: H/t to Mo Ryan, who near as I can tell launched the whole thing.) You can read (and join) the fun at that link, but show us your best contributions in the comments. Some leading categories:

* Unsurprisingly, a lot of 30 Rock

* Anything that comes out of Ron Swanson’s mouth

* Glee, which may be inconsistent but thanks to Sue Sylvester alone (see above) kills it in this category.

My personal fave so far: “I’m Peggy Olson. And I want to smoke some marijuana.” But have at it!

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shara says

The Peggy Olsen and I wanna smoke some marijuana was definitely a high point ;)

I also loved where the brit dude was talking about how Guy’s career is over because “he’ll never golf again”.

I loved Gemma’s line “God wants me to be a fierce mother” from SOA.

Anything by Sue Sylvester. Literally anything she’s said.

From Supernatural, Castiel telling Dean “This is serious, Dean. The voice on the phone says I’m almost out of minutes.”

From Top Chef, the whole chunk of dialogue with Natalie Portman as guest host about “its little but it gets big in my mouth” and so forth – it was all ripe for a “that’s what she said” joke, and I am still giggling about that.

Great post topic – this will take some more thought…
shara says

“Why are you letting Sam Kinnison and an Indian lesbian ruin your wedding?” (from Chuck)
http://twitter.com/poniewozik James Poniewozik

“I’ve actually had bull testicles” –Padma Lakshmi “I’ll bet!” –Penn Jillette
beerbaron

“Guys…I know kung fu.”
shara says

“The pancake lady sounds like a whore” (Party Down)
thatclumsygirl

“They’re teacup humans” -True Blood

“He’s evil Tracy!”-Jenna
“He’s Evil Tracy? Oh, he’s evil (comma) Tracy.”- 30 Rock
gnatalby

“Everybody’s taking turns blowing Bubbles!”
“How nice for…. the babies.” — Modern Family

“Okay. Fine. I got that tunnel-vision that girls get. That’s what happened. End of story… Ummm.. I let my emotions get the best of me. I just I guess… cared too much I guess. I was thinking with my lady parts. I was walking and I felt something icky. I thought there was going to be chocolate… (valley girl voice) I don’t even remember! I’m wearing a new um. bra, and it closes in the front so it popped open and it threw me off. All I want to do is have babies! Are you single? I’m just like, going through a thing right now. I guess my life isn’t complete and I just want to shoot someone! This would not happen if I had a penis! What? Bitches be crazy… I’m good at tolerating pain, I’m bad at math… and.. I’m stupid…” -Parks and Recreation

(I actually feel like that bull testicle quote is innuendo with nowhere to go. What is it supposed to mean? Padma’s such a slut she had sex with a bull?)
Rorschach

That last bit is a good point. Innoendo?