Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

10. Original Hold Music (Extraordinary, S02E04)


Stray Observations

  • "You really are a mewling vulva, Mr. Schiff." (The Regime, S01E01)
  • "It speaks of a very unusual perversion. A man attracted to a thimble-sized fairy."
    "Tinkerbell fine as fuck." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "How 'bout Foots?"
    "Foot Zeckelman?"
    "Foots." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "There's nothing in the Torah about defamatory bricks." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "There's nothing in the Old Testament about defamatory bricks?" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "I don't tell you what to do with your semen."
    "Well, what am I gonna do with semen?
    "A normal man knows what to do with semen."
    "I do normal things with semen. I wipe it up and throw it away." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "Oh, anal leak. I can't do it." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E05)
  • "If he's not a warlock, he's most certainly a pimp." (Shogun, S01E03)
  • </The Traitors [USA], S02>
  • "Does he have the mind of a child or an old man?"
    "I want my raisins."
    "I can't tell." (Extraordinary, S02E02)
  • "Look, Carrie, you have been given a gift. You're single on Halloween. It's the perfect time to step out of your comfort zone. There's so many options: Classic slսt, topical slսt, scary slսt, slսt slսt…"
    "Can I be a slut on Halloween? Sluts don't have to pay capital gains tax, do they?"
    "Unfortunately, sluts do have to pay tax." (Extraordinary, S02E03)


(Extraordinary, S02E03)

  • "Why don't you come on in here and help me wipe, big boy?" (Extraordinary, S02E03)
  • "I've seen this before. A man in my village when I was small."
    "How did you drive it out?"
    "Well, we beat him with sticks. And it turned out he wasn't possessed in the end. He was just Portuguese." (Extraordinary, S02E03)
  • "Is it too late to be a slut?" (Extraordinary, S02E03)
  • "Oh, my God. Kiss." (Extraordinary, S02E04)
  • Derek Jacobi reading Jen's lies (Extraordinary, S02E05)
  • "Okay, triage! What's gayest?" (Extraordinary, S02E06)
  • "Stop titting my macarons." (Extraordinary, S02E06)
  • "Does he know his penis is still out?" (Extraordinary, S02E06)
  • ♫: Vundabar – "Alien Blues" (Extraordinary, S02E07)
  • "These are your character sheets. Study them, okay? They have to feel real, like whole, complex humans."
    "Mine just says 'girl.'" (Extraordinary, S02E07)
  • "But what about the city?"
    "It's just Milton Keynes. Who gives a shit?" (Extraordinary, S02E08)
  • </Extraordinary, S02>

Cerveza Cristal

Comcast should demolish CityWalk at Universal Studios Hollywood and better use the land to expand its constrained park. Could Super Nintendo World be split? Standalone Donkey Kong Country?

If you demolish CityWalk, you demolish Los Angeles' only true IMAX screen, but five miles away in downtown Burbank are three AMC Theatres in a two-block radius, anchored by the highest-grossing cineplex in America.

Also in said radius is Burbank's former IKEA. Replace said abandoned building with a fourth AMC, featuring the largest true IMAX screen in America.

Disney and Warner Bros., IMAX's biggest champions, are headquartered in Burbank.


Disney World should integrate FX and Searchlight IP into its World Showcase at EPCOT.

The black ship from Shōgun in the World Showcase lagoon outside the Japan pavilion.

Dr. Godwin Baxter's house from Poor Things in the United Kingdom pavilion.

And Disney World should create a Huluwood area inside Hollywood Studios with The Original Beef of Chicagoland, Paddy's Pub, Bob's Burgers, a Hell's Kitchen restaurant…

A theatre in which Only Murders in the Building's Death Rattle musical and Abbott Elementary's F.A.D.E. (Friends Against Drug Exposure) perform.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week


9. Remembering Dipper (The Daily Show, 26 Feb 2024)


Honourable Mention

  • Art car fight (Furies, S01E08)

Stray Observations

  • "Does your husband have a very low-hanging scrotal sac? A lot of guys do."
    "Oh, my God."
    "How long is it? When he goes to the bathroom in the night, can I just say…"
    "No, you can't just say!"
    "I hear them slapping on his thighs."
    "Get…"
    "It sounds like, you know…"
    "Get the hell outta here."
    "A flip-flop in a Mexican resort." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E04)
  • I came here in '72, clutching my rosary. Visions of the souls I would save. Then I learned the true tenets of the cloth: Silk, gold and guns." (Shogun, S01E02)


(Abbott Elementary, S03E05)

  • "It's just… It's not working. It's like a DC movie over here." (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)
  • "What is a choir if not a sorority for the Lord?" (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)
  • "I am not Christian enough for them."
    "All because you got a few piercings? If anybody can appreciate a few extra holes in their bodies, it's Jesus." (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)
  • "Zach has already started writing a one-man show about me. He's calling it Fleabag, but with an 'F.'"
    "Fleafaf?" (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)
  • "Is the dick that good?"
    "It's worth every goddamn inch." (BMF, S03E01)


(Furies, S01E01)

  • </Furies, S01>

Waves egg sandwich around.

Did you know that Travis Kelce is producing a documentary on Jean-Michel Basquiat?

Or that the company that gutted Sports Illustrated co-owns Shaq?

Salter founded Authentic Brands Group in 2010 after a career in financial services. It is a brand ownership firm that buys the intellectual property of celebrities dead and alive — including Elvis, Shaquille O'Neal and David Beckham — and then collects royalties from their use. Authentic launched a production studio that was involved in Elvis the movie and Beckham's Netflix docuseries. It bought O'Neal's brand rights and owns approximately 50 percent of his future lifetime earnings, from endorsements to his HBO show to his broadcasting deal with TNT.

"He got a lot of money from us [upfront], and [we] grew his brand exponentially," Salter said. [source]

Moments before O'Neal closed the deal to sign away half of his brand proceeds to Authentic, he turned to Salter with an idea.

"[O'Neal] says, 'You know all that money you're going to give me?'" related Salter. "'I'd like to invest it in ABG.' And that's how he became the second-largest shareholder of ABG." [source]

So Shaq co-owns the company that co-owns him.

Furryvore Burps

Red Hot Chili Peppers' album Californication turns 25 in June.

To commemorate its silver anniversary, they should remake their music video for the song "Californication" with modern video game graphics.

Blink-182's album Enema of the State also turns 25 in June, but they already remade their music video for "What's My Age Again?" – a woke version!


Weezer's "blue album" turns 30 in May.

To commemorate its pearl anniversary…

They already remade their music video for "Undone (The Sweater Song)"…

To commemorate the pearl anniversary of the "blue album", Weezer should remake their music video for "Buddy Holly" with the band performing in what used to be Arnold's Drive-In and is now a CVS Pharmacy.


Fatboy Slim released "Praise You" as a single 25 years ago last month.

He should remake its music video outside the shuttered ArcLight Cinemas complex in Hollywood.


Smashing Pumpkins' album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness turns 30 next year.

They should remake their music video for "Tonight, Tonight" using OpenAI's Sora.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

8. All Our Vice (Abbott Elementary, S03E05)


Stray Observations

  • Doomcore ♫: The Beatles – "Twist and Shout" (True Detective, S04E06)
  • </True Detective, S04>
  • "However good a shot you think you are, you could have killed Teresa, and trust me, I don't think you could have lived with that."
    "You don't know what I can live with."
    "No, what I meant, Henri, is that I would've fucking killed you." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • "Aren't there are plenty of your fellow patriots in Argentina that you can write angry manifestos and compare kill lists with? Leave me to enjoy my cognac and foul cheese in peace?" (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • "You sound like a leaflet someone dropped from an airplane." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • "The child was born in Algeria, which makes him a French citizen."
    "Or an Algerian, depending on your point of view."
    "He was technically born in France."
    "One would have to practically break one's spine to get into that particular position." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • "Philippe made the mess. I just tried to clean it up."
    "You pick up vomit with a teaspoon, you make a bigger mess."
    "What a swell metaphor."
    "I read a lot of E.E. Cummings. A small constabulary on the ass end of a giant hole is no match for the big guns elsewhere." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • "One doesn't go to bed one person and wake up another just because one says so."
    "You mean people are simpler than they think? I had no idea."
    "I mean people know what they want. The rest is justification. Take you, for example… You wanna be left alone. You live in a quiet little village where the locals know just enough about you to leave you be."
    "You've read my mail."
    "And yet, sadly, our pasts are portable." (Monsieur Spade, S01E06)
  • </Monsieur Spade, S01>
  • "I think the brain and the balls are related. If you take a magnifying glass and you put it on your balls, it's the same pattern as the brain." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • "My point is lemons are a fungible citrus." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • "You tell him about the Postmates dinner?"
    "I did."
    "What'd you tell him? You just went like this. You didn't do anything."
    "That's the sign for 'Postmates dinner.'" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • "Every Black person you meet, you say 'brother' to? 'Hey, brother'?"
    "You say 'brother' and you give him one of those right there."
    "Uh-huh. Yeah. You too?"
    "Respectful nod."
    "A nod is like our aloha."
    "I don't do a Jew nod."
    "You know, you guys got that song already, 'Hey, Jew.'" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • "All Black balls are like this." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • Larry watching Live By Night (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E03)
  • "Where did you even get a cigarette?"
    "Yeah, what you, a French child?" (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Oh, it's nice to meet you, Jessica."
    "Jessca. There's no 'I.' Jess…ca." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Hi."
    "Hmph. Bet you are." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Now, I admit that it make you look cool. But it make your breath smell like stool. And that's poop." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Pay attention so you don't die." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Okay, alright… It just seems like most drugs aren't that bad."
    "Fine, you can smoke a little! Just don't do opioids!"
    "My grandfather's on opioids."
    "Drugs from a doctor are okay."
    "My mom's on Valtrex."
    "That's fine. Your mom has herpes." (Abbott Elementary, S03E04)
  • "Exile makes sex more felt." (Feud, S02E05)
  • "He ran!" (Avatar: The Last Airbender, S01E02)
  • </Avatar: The Last Airbender, S01>
  • </Expats, S01>

I just want to go home and watch Idol

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent will showcase original Canadian stories written and produced by, and starring, Canadians.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One-ass punctuation…

Shouldn't it be Law & Order: Criminal Intent – Toronto?

Unless it's a spin-off of Law & Order: Toronto.

Which it isn't.

Why would you name the first Law & Order set in Toronto after the third mainline programme?


Did you know that two Canadian versions of The Traitors exist? A nationwide English-language version and a Quebec-only French-language one.

Also: Separate but equal Big Brothers.

Big Brother Célébrités is the Quebec celebrity version of Big Brother.

Big Brother Célébrités is the third French-language adaptation of the Big Brother format in Canada.

A French-Canadian version of Loft Story, the France-produced version of the series, premiered in 2003.

Loft Story was succeeded by an official Quebec-produced edition of Big Brother in 2010.

Loi & Ordre Quebec: Crime Organisé when?

Tag your name on the side of a burning bridge

Kingsley Ben-Adir
Malcolm X (One Night in Miami…)
Barack Obama (The Comey Rule)
Bob Marley (Bob Marley: One Love)

Kingsley Ben-Adir is the new Chadwick Boseman.

Chadwick Boseman
Jackie Robinson (42)
James Brown (Get On Up)
Thurgood Marshall (Marshall)

Is Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and Bob Marley the most iconic trio of Black real person roles ever?

Angela Bassett
Tina Turner (What's Love Got to Do with It)
Rosa Parks (The Rosa Parks Story)
Coretta Scott King (Betty and Coretta)

Strong challenger, but still not as iconic as the Ben-Adir 3.


Honourable mention iconic trios of Black real person roles:

Billy Dee Williams
Gale Sayers (Brian's Song)
Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin)
Berry Gordy (The Jacksons: An American Dream)

Don Cheadle
Sammy Davis Jr. (The Rat Pack)
Frederick Douglass (Drunk History)
Miles Davis (Miles Ahead)

Jeffrey Wright
Jean-Michel Basquiat (Basquiat)
Martin Luther King Jr. (Boycott)
Muddy Waters (Cadillac Records)


Duos in search of one more iconic Black real person role:

Anthony Mackie
Tupac Shakur (Notorious)
Martin Luther King Jr. (All the Way)

Courtney B. Vance
Bobby Seale (Panther)
Johnnie Cochran (American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson)

Cynthia Erivo
Harriet Tubman (Harriet)
Aretha Franklin (Genius)

Morgan Freeman
Malcolm X (Death of a Prophet)
Nelson Mandela (Invictus)

Stephan James
John Lewis (Selma)
Jesse Owens (Race)

Terrence Howard
Cassius Clay (King of the World)
Nelson Mandela (Winnie Mandela)


Other:

Ashton Sanders
The RZA (Wu-Tang: An American Saga)
Bobby Brown (Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody)

Cuba Gooding Jr.
Radio (Radio)?
Ben Carson (Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story)
O.J. Simpson (American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson)

Laurence Fishburne
Ike Turner (What's Love Got to Do with It)
Nelson Mandela (Madiba)
Doc Rivers (Clipped)