Adam Riff™

38. Karaoke with co-workers (Dreaming Whilst Black, S01E01)

Stray Observations

• "And in interests, you've missed a comma between 'cooking' and 'dogs.'" (Dreaming Whilst Black, S01E01)
• "I'm kind of struggling to choose a film, so I'm just wondering what you might go for."
  "Uh… I don't know. I guess it depends who I'm dating."
  "Oh, anyone. Literally anyone. Like, doesn't matter what she looks like."
  "No, I mean what she's into."
  "She's, um, a Sagittarius. Um, she likes…spicy food. She, you know, loves that, actually. She's very, um…vibrant. Uh, and kind of changes her hairstyle a lot. You know…dem kinda tings."
  "Oh, she's black!"
  "She is, actually. Yes. Yeah."
  "Right! So you want black film suggestions?"
  "This is it, exactly. I'm kind of imagining something quite deep as well, so I've been googling, um, black Oscar films."
  "Uh-huh."
  "At the moment, I'm thinking Color Purple."
  "Okay, um… It's a good film, but I feel like for a first date you might want to choose something without rape?"
  "Okay, no, probably…probably a good shout. Yeah, well, um, okay, what about, ooh, 12 Years a Slave?
  "Bro, that's slavery and rape."
  "What's Precious like?"
  "Still a rape, bro."
  "If you want a feel-good black film…Green Book." (Dreaming Whilst Black, S01E01)
• "Are you guys paying together, or…?"
  "Nah, we're just black." (Dreaming Whilst Black, S01E01)
• "Who is your guy? The ringer from your middle school play? Some less famous offspring of Marc Platt?" (Only Murders in the Building, S03E07)
• "This is not the first time Matthew has swooped in and stolen a role from me."
  "For the millionth time, you would not have been a good Ferris Bueller. You were 41." (Only Murders in the Building, S03E07)
• "So, I-I think I understand the Constable, but I'm gonna need your help to become the Constable."
  "Ah…"
  "It's part of my process. When I did War Games, I taught myself to write code."
  "Incredible."
  "For my role in Election, I started teaching high school and dating some students."
  "Okay…" (Only Murders in the Building, S03E07)
• "Jackie and Elora, y'all are gonna go in there and cut the phone lines, all right?
  "I don't know what a phone line looks like."
  "Do you?"
  "Fuck no."
  "I know what it looks like. I'll take that."
  [pause]
  "Cheese."
  "What?"
  "Buddy, you know how to spot a phone line, right?"
  "Of course. I-I'm a gamer. I-I know cables."
  "He knows cables. He's a gamer. All right, awesome. All right, so, Cheese will go with y'all." (Reservation Dogs, S03E08)
• "You first."
  "Why me?"
  "You're white." (Reservation Dogs, S03E08)
• "Can I help you?"
  "Yes, actually. I am Mr. White. And this is… Mr. Br…"
  "Don't say Brown." (Reservation Dogs, S03E08)
• </Harley Quinn, S04>
• </Heels, S02>

37. Blackout (WWE NXT, 5 Sep 2023)

Stray Observations

• </Telemarketers, S01>
• "Well, why don't I make it up to you with a little solo mish? 'Mish' is short for 'mishegoss.'" (Only Murders in the Building, S03E06)
• "Oliver, how far do you and I go back?"
  "All the way back to our original hairlines." (Only Murders in the Building, S03E06)
• "How inevitable." (Ahsoka, S02E04)
• ♫: Simon Joyner – "You Got Under My Skin" (Reservation Dogs, S03E07)
• "I'm the boss, baby. And don't misquote me on that. I said, 'Boss, comma, baby.'" (Harley Quinn, S04E09)
• "We haven't seen a disaster like this since Blake Lively's British accent." (Harley Quinn, S04E09)
• "You're still dating Dirty Bird?"
  "I'd call what we're doing more intermittent intimacy dictated by her mood and my body odor." (Heels, S02E07)
• "Like, how much time and effort can we put into something just to get noticed and approved by someone we don't know and never met? And yet all your attention and energy has been put into getting that approval in order to feel like you're on the right path."
  "There's a word for that."
  "Tell us."
  "Christianity." (Heels, S02E07)
• "I was pretty down myself about six months ago. Then I found Pastor Jim."
  'Who's that?"
  "Oh, you'd love him, Bambs. He's doing some really important work at the Peoples Temple on Alvarado. He's a, uh, mesmerizing spirit."
  "Would you say there's a familial quality to the congregation?"
  "Absolutely. Some people even call him Father. Write this down. 1365 South Alvarado. Jim Jones." (Minx, S02E08)
• "Uh, thank you so much for rescuing us."
  "I always wanted to see unincorporated Monrovia." (Minx, S02E08)
• </Minx, S02>
• </6ixtynin9: The Series, S01>
• "If we are not monsters, we're food, and I could never be food." (Top Boy, S05E06)
• </Top Boy, S05>

36. Missing Package (How To with John Wilson, S03E06)

Honourable Mention

• Bachelor spreadsheet (How To with John Wilson, S03E06)

Stray Observations

• </Telemarketers, S01>
• "You do like pork chops though, don't you?"
  "Oh, sure. Love solid food." (Only Murders in the Building, S03E05)
• "Mm… It's so solid. So fully formed, you know?" (Only Murders in the Building, S03E05)
• "Anyway, it's a bit hard behind plexiglass. Or, as Jan calls it, sexi-glass." (Only Murders in the Building, S03E05)
• "Yes, this is Carolyn Wilder. I need assistance at 66 Motor Hill Road."
  "You call EMS?"
  "I called the Wayne County Morgue." (Justified: City Primeval, S01E08)
• Boyd Crowder (Justified: City Primeval, S01E08)
• </Justified: City Primeval, S01>
• "Anger and frustration are quick to give power. But they also unbalance you." (Ahsoka, S01E03)
• ♫: Larry Norman – "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" (Reservation Dogs, S03E06)

(Harley Quinn, S04E08)

• "I can't die watching two men bond over tech." (Harley Quinn, S04E08)
• Mama Nacaroni callback (Harley Quinn, S04E08)
• "Not my fingers! I need these to pleasure Nora…with my calligraphy!" (Harley Quinn, S04E08)
• "I cannot rest until Guillermo has taken his last breath and I feel his bones crunch under my boots. So I've been watching the one place I know he will return to eventually: Panera Bread." (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• "Do you know John Slattery?" (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• "It's only a matter of time before he returns to Panera Bread." (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• "You are a good listener, Patton Oswalt." (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• "Just leave them. Garfield will pick 'em up later." (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• "He's doing his scatting shit." (What We Do in the Shadows, S05E10)
• </What We Do in the Shadows, S05>
• "You know, I actually spent the winters with my Grandpa Heinrich in Argentina. So if you decide to conquer the Southern Cone, hablo español también."
  "Was he born there, or did he hide—?"
  "The past should stay in the past." (Minx, S02E07)

(How To with John Wilson, S03E06)

• </How To with John Wilson, S03>
• "Oregano is for savages." (One Piece, S01E06)
• "Ooh, new guy carries the clown head." (One Piece, S01E07)
• "You won't be so lucky against the might of my fishman karate." (One Piece, S01E08)
• </One Piece, S01>