Vote for the Most Memorable Line!

Some great lines come and go; others stay with you. Today’s category in the Yahooies!, Yahoo TV’s awards celebrating the best of the 2014-15 TV season including summer shows, celebrates those that linger.

The nominees for Most Memorable Line are…

Better Call Saul: “I broke my boy!”

On Breaking Bad, Mike Ehrmantraut was the stoic tough guy who never let emotions deter him from the task at hand. But on Better Call Saul, we learned the tragic backstory of Mike’s policeman son Matty, who was killed by dirty cops. Mike blames himself for convincing Matty to get dirty along with them, and this sobbing confession to Matty’s widow is our first real glimpse of the wounded soul beneath Mike’s hardened exterior. — Dave Nemetz

Empire: "Game time, bitches.”

It’s Empire’s version of The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes, trapped in a train car by cannibals, ending Season 4 with “They’re screwing with the wrong people.” The final line of Empire’s first season, spoken by Lucious behind bars after he’s arrested for murder, signals that he’s ready for a fight. That’s how you leave fans wanting more. — Mandi Bierly

Game of Thrones: “The dwarf lives until we find a c–k merchant.”

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Tyrion Lannister has talked himself out of some tight spots, but few were tighter than the time a band of slavers wanted to separate him from his member. Why? Because, as they helpfully explain, “a dwarf’s c–k has magic powers,” which means a hefty payday. But Tyrion manages to convince them that a merchant would need to see the dwarf said merchandise is attached to, an argument that results in this immortal line. Talk about your specialty stores. — Ethan Alter

The Jinx: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.”

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With this mumbling confession (caught by a forgotten mic during a bathroom break), filthy rich real estate heir Robert Durst essentially copped to killing his friend Susan Berman, among others — a charge he’s vociferously denied in public. And, even better, he gave HBO’s documentary series about his life and crimes an intensely satisfying conclusion. — DN

Justified: “We dug coal together.”

This line is one of the main reasons Justified is also nominated for Most Satisfying Series Finale. In the series finale, Raylan goes to see Boyd in prison to convince him that Ava is dead so he won’t ever look for her and find his son. Boyd wants to know why Raylan has come to deliver the “news” in person, and Raylan says if he allows himself to be sentimental, there is one thing he comes back to: “We dug coal together,” Boyd guesses. “That’s right,” Raylan says. Poetic on its own, it also brings the series full circle. At the end of the pilot, Raylan shot Boyd in Ava’s kitchen and told him, “I’m sorry, but you called it.” He flashed back to running out of a mine with Boyd. Ava asked Raylan why he said he was sorry: “Boyd and I dug coal together,” he answered. — MB

Veep:“You have achieved nothing, apart from one thing: The fact that you are a woman means we will have no more women presidents because we tried one and she f–king sucked.”

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Few scenes in Veep history are as memorable as Amy’s blowup at Selina before quitting her job as campaign manager. The rant, which no doubt earned Anna Chlumsky her third straight Emmy nomination, had some choice lines — “You are the worst thing that has happened to this country since food in buckets, and maybe slavery,” for example — but Amy’s last words are the ones that really stung. As Chlumsky told Yahoo TV, “Yes, we have many insults — and some of the insults you would think, maybe on paper, are even worse than what Amy says in this scene — but she just means it with all of her heart.” — MB

Winners will be announced the week of Sept. 14.

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