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39. Shorties (Only Murders in the Building, S04E07)

Honourable Mention

  • Bill Belichick bumping Bon Jovi (American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, S01E05)
  • 15-minute oner (Grotesquerie, S01E05)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: Bob Moses – "Broken Belief" (The Penguin, S01E03)
  • "Tell me a little more about this, uh, business card. 'Businessman extraordinaire, CEO.' You put 'bitch' on there."
    "Yeah, we keep it weird in Austin. Do you guys ever go to The Moth?" (English Teacher, S01E07)
  • "Mabel, not now! I'm busy with an urgent new mystery. The whereabouts of Johnnie Walker." (Only Murders in the Building, S04E07)
  • "Zach! I adored you in Baskets." (Only Murders in the Building, S04E07)
  • </Bad Monkey, S01>
  • </Slow Horses, S04>
  • "Look. Okay. The last time I made something 'official'…it didn't work out. And I… I really, really, really, really want this to work out. So, I guess I'm a little scared."
    "But we're not your last time. We're this time." (Abbott Elementary, S04E01)
  • "We got a white child now. You want to get his parents involved?" (Abbott Elementary, S04E01)
  • "He said there were three kinds of lawyers. The kind that would do anything for a client, and the kind that would do anything to be a client, and that I should figure out which one she is quickly."
    "What was the third?"
    "He said that only an idiot would accept that there's only two kinds of anything in this world, even if we can't imagine the third yet." (The Old Man, S02E06)

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39. Alternate Endings (The Simpsons, S36E01)

Stray Observations

  • "Jesus, Vic, I said no cilantro! It's fucking everywhere! Girls are on their way. Start picking." (The Penguin, S01E02)
  • "Peter's too old. And even he's lost the cloacal breath and bought a grouse moor." (Industry, S03E08)
  • </Industry, S03>
  • "You should check out Michigan State. They got bomb pad thai. You like skinny noodle or thick noodle? Huh? Michigan State's got both." (English Teacher, S01E06)
  • "Explain the tax fraud thing to me again 'cause I only get about 40% of any conversation about money." (English Teacher, S01E06)
  • "He's a fucking Terminator."
    "What? He's a shape-shifter made of liquid metal?"
    "That's the T-1000. I'm saying he's more like T-800."
    "Fucking hell, Longridge. I can't even look at you right now."
    "I'm not ashamed. It's a great franchise." (Slow Horses, S04E05)
  • "May she be smart and not annoying. And also, not super political." (Agatha All Along, S01E04)
  • "Movie after?"
    "Only if it's not Marvel." (Heartstopper, S03E01)
  • ♫: Thomas Headon – "The Most Beautiful Thing" (Heartstopper, S03E07)
  • </Heartstopper, S03>

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Look, I get it. It's like Cocaine Bear, and a phonetic play on the word "raccoon." But did no one working on this film consider that crack ravaged Black communities?

Oh, they're making a sequel.

Crack Deng [baby hippo].

Galaxy Bass.


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On April Fools' Day, [the] Empire State Building announced on their social platforms that a new Rainforest Cafe would open at the top of the famed building. After massive interest and quick reactions from fans online, we are pleased to announce a limited time pop-up with Rainforest Cafe on the iconic 86th Floor Observatory from 10am to 8pm on Oct. 3-6.

Fans of the nostalgic jungle-themed restaurant will have access to limited edition Rainforest Cafe × Empire State Building merchandise and special food offerings. [source]

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38. Please Clap (Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval)

Stray Observations

  • "She's a Democrat. She only pretends to have a heart." (Industry, S03E07)
  • "So, what, we're just at the mercy of someone else's ambition?"
    "Aren't we always?" (Industry, S03E07)
  • ♫: 38 Special – "Caught Up in You" (English Teacher, S01E05)
  • "Seriously, every time I watch Zero Dark Thirty, I just pop these bad boys on. It's like I'm right there."
    "You watched Zero Dark Thirty more than once?" (English Teacher, S01E05)
  • "In 1981, I participated in a 24-hour kickline fundraiser. It was called 'Let's Kick Rickets to the Curb and If We Have Extra Send It to AIDS.'" (Only Murders in the Building, S04E05)
  • "I failed as an athlete, as a…movie character, as a fashion icon…as a guardian of the city's wildlife. I'd rather not elaborate on that."
    "Did you punch a bird?"
    "I said I'm not elaborating!" (Only Murders in the Building, S04E05)
  • "Uh, apologies, uh, for my erection." (Bad Monkey, S01E08)
  • "I'm, uh, writing up a report as we speak. How many Fs are there in 'paraphernalia'?"
    "No Fs."
    "Thank you. I'll probably just use the word 'stuff' because I know where all the Fs on that go." (Bad Monkey, S01E08)
  • "No, this came from Talbots. You can't have it." (Agatha All Along, S01E03)
  • "On the upholstery?" (Agatha All Along, S01E03)
  • ♫: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Heads Will Roll" (Agatha All Along, S01E03)

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A "Bridgerton Ball" experience held in Michigan turned out to be a royal mess.

Organizers billed [it] as a chance for fans to "step into the enchanting world of the Regency-era … for an evening of sophistication, grace and historical charm."

The reality, say some attendees, was a disorganized and bare-bones event that left costumed attendees sitting on the floor amid vendors selling Kit Kats and watching a stripper who was hired as the evening's entertainment. [source]

I knew CBS was making a Matlock reboot starring Kathy Bates.

The pilot reveals what seems like its "twist": it isn't a reboot of Matlock at all, but rather a series which uses the cultural legacy of Matlock as a frame of reference for a show about a different kind of senior lawyer. Bates' Madeline Matlock—or Matty—just happens to share a name with someone people recognize, which she uses to her advantage in charming a prestigious law firm to give her a chance to return to the workforce after her dirtbag, dead husband left her with nothing.

The actual twist is that Madeline's last name isn't a coincidence: it is an alias, chosen for its folksy charm. As we learn when she gets off her bus to a chauffeured car, Madeline Matlock is actually Madeline Kingston, a wealthy woman whose husband is very much alive and helping her infiltrate the law firm she believes is responsible for burying evidence of the opioid crisis that claimed her daughter's life. Working alongside her tech savvy grandson, Matty is living a double life in the hopes that she gets close enough to three attorneys to learn which one hid the files. [source]

Prime Video will drop fresh episodes of its new game shows at the same time every week, dubbing the virtual programming block "Winning Wednesdays."

In Buy It Now, a Shark Tank-esque hybrid reality/game show, various entrepreneurs pitch their products, first to a studio audience and then to a rotating panel made up of Amazon execs and celebrity business owners such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Anderson, and Christian Siriano. Winning entrepreneurs get added to a "Buy It Now" storefront on Amazon.

In Wish List Games, contestants compete against each other in a series of over-the-top games and challenges. The prize: Everything on the contestant's Amazon Wish List (up to $25,000). [source]

Prime Video Game Show Idea: Is It Fake?. Contestants are shown five similar items and must identify which one is not dropshipped Chinese junk. Winners go on a minute-long shopping spree through an Amazon warehouse.

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Previously on Adam Riff™ [21 Feb 2021]:

In November 2020, Fox announced a new primetime version of Name That Tune hosted by actress Jane Krakowski, which premiered on January 6, 2021.

It was filmed in Australia with American expats as contestants. [source]

[Fox's] Mental Samurai to shoot Season 2 in Portugal

American contestants will be flown to Portugal.

I was wondering why season two of the American version Gordon Ramsay's Food Stars on Fox filmed in England, and then I saw this:

Fox is moving the Gordon Ramsay reality show MasterChef out of Los Angeles, as casting for its 15th season is requiring potential contestants for a valid U.S. passport and to be prepared to travel abroad.

Meanwhile, game shows on the network such as The Floor and Beat Shazam are now shot in Ireland.

Competition/game shows are already cheap to make, so how amazing must European tax incentives be?

Importing American contestants to save money.

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