Isaac: Doctor, are your children always this combative?
Dr. Finn: Only when they're awake.

Marcus: Oh Mom, you suck.
Dr. Finn: I'm a mom. It's my job.

Lysella: Everyone deserves a voice. That's what we're taught.
Bortus: A voice should be earned, not given away.

Grayson: We haven't seen evidence of any codified legal framework. It all seems subject to public vote at any given time.
Isaac: Captain, what she is describing is an absolute, unstructured democracy. There is no record of any previously discovered society operating in such a fashion.
Malloy: Government by American Idol.

I will personally order him not to hump things

Mercer

Lysella: What happened to your nose?
Kitan: It's a deviated septum
Grayson: She's a coke addict.

Grayson: Why are you sitting like that?
LaMarr: It's these friggin' jeans. If I lean back right now, I'd give myself a vasectomy

Mercer: My god. You guys look like unemployed back-up dancers
Grayson: You wanna lead this landing party?
Mercer: No, I'm too shy to wear a crop top.

Grayson: I think you look good in skinny jeans
LaMarr: If I wanted to scratch my balls right now, I'd have to reach in my back pocket.

Teleya: Why did you save the children
Mercer: They're kids. With their whole lives ahead of them. They're not my enemies.
Teleya: After what they saw you do today, they will be. They will be.

Sazeron: Perhaps you would like to explain why you are in possession of a Union device.
Malloy: It's a toy.... Yeah, I'm part of this cos-play group and my friends always make me play the human.

You know what would look good on this wall? A black velvet painting of Avis.

Mercer

The Orville Season 1 Quotes

Mercer: I know Gordon has his issues but we all know that there's nobody that can drive a starship like him.
Admiral: Didn't he once draw a penis on the main viewing screen of Outpost T-85?
Mercer: He's drawn a lot of penises on a lot of things.

Mercer: I've had some personal stuff that's been going on... It's not really worth going into... Can I have one of these mints?
Admiral: Those are marbles.