
Top 50 Favorite Television Characters of all time (in alphabetical order)
20| Jimmy Palmer, NCIS
“I didn’t lose him. No! He was - stolen, and that’s not even the weirdest part. We showed up at the crime scene and there he was. I think Gibbs had something to do with it. And - and Dr. Mallard looks like he wants to kill someone. I don’t want it to be me.”
![Tony: You want something to read?Ziva: What do you have?Tony: GSM. It’s a men’s magazine. Most women find it objectifies them.Ziva: [takes out her own copy] I read it on the plane. I especially like the article on page fifty-seven. In my experience, it works every time.Tony: I… I always thought that was urban legend. -NCIS 3x04 “Silver War”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf06xt6Fpe1qask1go1_500.png)
Tony: You want something to read?
Ziva: What do you have?
Tony: GSM. It’s a men’s magazine. Most women find it objectifies them.
Ziva: [takes out her own copy] I read it on the plane. I especially like the article on page fifty-seven. In my experience, it works every time.
Tony: I… I always thought that was urban legend.
-NCIS 3x04 “Silver War”

Jenny: Leroy Jethro Gibbs, you are a strange man.
Gibbs: ME?! Ha! You were a good agent, Jen.
Jenny: Were?
Gibbs: The director’s job is pure politics.
Jenny: I’m good at politics. NCIS needs someone that can work the money tree on the hill and work with sister agencies.
Gibbs: Wait. You won’t call a boat a ‘she’, but it’s ‘sister agencies’?
Jenny: I’m a schizoid libber. Comes from working with chauvinists like you.
-NCIS 3x01 “Kill Ari I”

Jenny: Is this the same boat you were building six years ago?
Gibbs: Nope.
Jenny: What happened to it?
Gibbs: Burned her.
Jenny: Why would you… you named it after an ex wife.
Gibbs: Let’s go.
Jenny: Which one?
Gibbs: You know damn well which one!
Jenny: Why didn’t you just change the name?
Gibbs: Because, it wouldn’t matter, every time I went out on her I’d think of Diane!
Jenny: You could have sold it.
Gibbs: And watch some other guy sail off on her?
Jenny: You didn’t care who sailed off on Diane. Leroy Jethro Gibbs… you are a strange man.
-NCIS 3x01 “Kill Ari I”

Jenny: Should we skip the, “you haven’t changed a bit” bull?
Gibbs: Why start lyin’ to each other now, Jen?
Jenny: Any problem taking orders from me?
Gibbs: As director, or as a woman?
Jenny: Either.
Gibbs: It was six years ago. The past won’t be a problem. You were a damn good agent, specially undercover.
Jenny: Jethro.
Gibbs: Madame Director.
-NCIS 3x01 “Kill Ari I”
![Jenny: Something I can help you with this morning, Special Agent Gibbs?Gibbs: Yeah, I got a personnel issue, you know anything about that?Jenny: I take it Ziva arrived a few days early? Right. Before we get into this, I’m going to need a refill. [Gibbs opens Jenny’s coffee cup, pours some of his coffee into it, and returns the cup] Jenny: Well, that was sweet. Not necessarily sanitary… -NCIS 3x04 “Silver War”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lexepuaU7Q1qask1go1_500.png)
Jenny: Something I can help you with this morning, Special Agent Gibbs?
Gibbs: Yeah, I got a personnel issue, you know anything about that?
Jenny: I take it Ziva arrived a few days early? Right. Before we get into this, I’m going to need a refill.
[Gibbs opens Jenny’s coffee cup, pours some of his coffee into it, and returns the cup]
Jenny: Well, that was sweet. Not necessarily sanitary…
-NCIS 3x04 “Silver War”

Tony: I just realized I have three weeks of comp time coming to me. I can’t take that much time off!
McGee: Why not?
Tony: Because – someone else would be temporarily assigned to my desk!
Ziva: Afraid your replacement will outshine you?
Tony: No. but you know, Bledsoe goes down, and all of a sudden, there’s Tom Brady and now he’s got Giselle Bundchen.
Gibbs: DiNozzo, the game’s never over.NCIS 8x11 - Ships in the Night

Six randomly chosen Gibbs & Abby moments that make me smile (requested by lucyyspencerr)
6| 4x11 “Driven”
Abby: Permission to hug?
Gibbs: Oh, you never have to ask, Abby.