Adam Riff™

25. Pony Play (Desus and Mero, 06-20-18)

Honourable Mention

• Charles Barkley's CRAZY answer… ain't so crazy? (Celebrity Family Feud, S04E02)
• Really Big Baller (Desus and Mero, 06-19-18)

Stray Observations

(Claws, S02E02)

• ♫: Awkwafina – "My Vag" (Claws, S02E02)
• "Humans will always choose what they understand over what they do not. But the only animals left in this world are the ones who they subjugated, who curl at their feet, or those who learn to flee at the very sound of their approach. There's nothing in between." (Westworld, S02E09)
• Joe Pera Talks With You Season Grade: B
• Brockmire Season Grade: D

» "Well, you should get some desk candies that don't taste like medicine."
"That is my medicine."
"Oh, my god, I am so sorry! I am so sorry I ate all your medicine."
[…]
"Oh, my god…"

"Oh. Uhh, I ate her medicine, and you should probably call a doctor for her." (Detroiters, S02E01)

(Luke Cage, S02E01)

(Luke Cage, S02E02)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: The Deuce
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Joe Pera Talks With You

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Looking forward:

Sharp Objects = from the writer of Gone Girl
Mostly 4 Millennials = from Eric Andre
Dark Tourist = from the journo behind Tickled
Disenchantment = from Matt Groening
Castle Rock = Stephen King-dom Hearts

24. Haller vs. Farouk (Legion, S02E11)

♫: "Behind Blue Eyes" in Farsi

Stray Observations

• Joe Pera's musical about the Rat Wars of Alberta, Canada (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E08)
• Dan Le Batard Show crew attempts American Ninja Warrior course (06-13-18)

Stray Observations

• "What about monsoons?"
  » [WHAT ABOUT MONSOONS?] (Ghosted, S01E10)
• ♫: HAIM – "The Wire" (Ghosted, S01E10)
• "Tonight is important night. We are trying to book Milo Yiannopoulos to DJ a baby shower." (Claws, S02E01)
• ♫: Bryan Ferry – "Slave to Love" (Pose, S01E02)
• "You talking about dreams? Aspirations? Those are only words that only last in the suburbs." (Pose, S01E02)
• "What are you?"
  "I'm no one. I want what I'm supposed to want, I wear what I'm supposed to wear, and I work where I'm supposed to work. I stand for nothing. I've never fought in a war, and I probably won't ever have to, 'cause the next one's gonna kill us all. I can buy things I can't afford, which means they're never really mine. I don't live. I don't believe. I accumulate. I'm a brand – a middle-class white guy. But you're who you are even though the price you pay for it is being disinvited from the rest of the world. I'm the one playing dress-up. Is it wrong to want to be with one of the few people in the world who isn't, to have one person in my life who I know is real?" (Pose, S01E02)
• "Is your driver going uptown?"
  "Yes. Subway's two blocks away." (Pose, S01E02)
• ♫: Piano "Heart-Shaped Box" (Westworld, S02E08)
• "My pain was selfish, because it was never only mine. For every body in this place, there was someone who mourned their loss, even if they didn't know why. We were all bound together, the living and the damned." (Westworld, S02E08)
• "Everybody's probably doing a cool new dance move."
  » [raising the roof] (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E07)
• "I just wonder what colour underwear I need to wear to get my New Year's wish: a commercial deli slicer." (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E07)
• "Pera's Four Stages of Watching Fireworks" (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E07)
• "Maybe I'm wrong, but I bet that even Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma imagines what life would be like if he were Indian tech billionaire Shiv Nadar." (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E07)
• David, Divad, and DVD (Legion, S02E11)
• ♫: Jeff Russo and Noah Hawley – "Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl" (Legion, S02E11)
• Rape? (Legion, S02E11)
• Legion Season Grade: C
• Pictorial schedule (The Handmaid's Tale, S02E09)
• "Milk, lavender, anise, White Yarrow. What, are we gonna forage into the woods or something?"
  "Hm. There's a place you can go to get all these things."
  "Where is that?"
  » [Whole Foods] (Cloak and Dagger, S01E03)
• ♫: Alex Da Kid and Joseph Angel – "American Funeral" (Cloak and Dagger, S01E03)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: The Deuce
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Joe Pera Talks With You

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23. Beastie Boys – "An Open Letter to NYC" (Succession, S01E01)

Clip of the year?

Honourable Mention

• Joe Pera discovers "Baby O'Riley" (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E06)

Stray Observations

• "Please don't do this. It's embarrassing."
  "We do not have the luxury of shame." (Pose S01E01)
• "Whitney!" (Pose S01E01)
• "I don't think God rested on the seventh day, Bernard. I think he reveled in his creation knowing that someday it would all be destroyed." (Westworld S02E07)
• ♫: Beethoven's "Allegretto" (Westworld S02E07)
• "When the Great Library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories were reduced to ash, but those stories never really perished. They became a new story, the story of the fire itself, of man's urge to take a thing of beauty and strike the match." (Westworld S02E07)
• ♫: Nicholas Britell's score (Succession S01E01)
• "[…] Or perhaps your debut album is coming out tomorrow, and you're worried that people will say you're ripping off Bruce Springsteen, but you're nothing like Bruce Springsteen. You're not from New Jersey; you're from Delaware. You make dubstep. You hair's been thinning for years. You're five foot one inch tall. You have no teeth; you're all gums. Your microphone is just an old vacuum cleaner. Your perform on your hands and knees, and you sing about Fashion Week." (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E05)
• "Sorry to get down on dominoes, but it's one of my core beliefs that you shouldn't waste kinetic energy." (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E05)
• "You don't have to be a music teacher to have your breath taken way. There's a lot of nice stuff that can do that, like a really good lightning; great water pressure; when you almost die, but then you survive; the flavour of a pineapple; […] when you open a box and your grief counselor is inside." (Joe Pera Talks With You, S01E05)
• Comic Legion (Legion, S02E10)
• ♫: Radiohead – "True Love Waits" (Legion, S02E10)
• "Legion, the world killer." (Legion, S02E10)
• ♫: Lowpass Lushes – "Bout to Do It [feat. First Class]" (The Last O.G., S01E10)
• The Last O.G. Season Grade: D
• ♫: Jai Wolf – "Starlight [feat. Mr Gabriel]" (Cloak and Dagger, S01E01)
• ♫: Blur – "Tender" (Patrick Melrose, S01E05)
• Patrick Melrose Season Grade: C
• "What are you doing in there, Barry?"
  "Legally, it's the only place they can't record you when you talk to inmates."
  "I don't think that's true."
  "Really? I got the worst fucking clients." (Arrested Development, S05E05)
• The Howards (Arrested Development, S05E06)
• "I will not let that woman steal everything I've taken from her." (Arrested Development, S05E07)
• "We are the Mexican Romneys!"
  "♫ Mexican Romney Family…" (Arrested Development, S05E07)
• "I mean, the problem was, like you said, that we couldn't be together without branding each other's taint." (Arrested Development, S05E08)
• "Should I tell her that my son and my niece were playing Ron and Brian?" (Arrested Development, S05E08)
• Arrested Development Season Grade: F

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: The Deuce
The New AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Joe Pera Talks With You

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