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Oh, that rad-sounding miniature golf jawn that Adam Robot told me lives. I had resigned myself to never experiencing it. A trip to Seattle is in order.

Oh. It ends this Sunday.

Yes, this will be the last Smash Putt! [source]

[grumbles]

Goon 2?

Oh, it opened in Canadian cinemas last weekend.

Okay, I need to be in Los Angeles on Sunday. Seattle on Friday, Vancouver on Saturday…? [checks rewards miles]

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WHAT.

It seems the "half" in this one is a girl, and the cop is Lou Diamond Phillips.

A proper sequel would be…Two Cops?

Cop and a Has-been.

The baby/little lady in Three Men and a Baby/Little Lady would be in her early 30s now.

Three Men and a Bride, obviously.

She dies in a freak accident and is survived by One Man and Three Babies.

Three Urns and an Octogenarian.


Problem Child 4.

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Pretend that it's a fortnight ago.

// Las Vegas, NV

Each of the 10 pools at The Venetian and The Palazzo provides a distinct experience, perfect for fun or relaxation.

VITA POOL
Work out the kinks and maintain body tone by swimming a few laps in the Vita Pool. Reserved for lap swimming all day, Mondays – Thursdays and from 8 to 11 a.m., Fridays – Sundays. [source]

This pool is never open.

If you don't want to staff every pool during off-peak months, post a sign that reads "no lifeguard on duty" like my gym does, and my gym's pool is deeper than any pool on this deck.

$10 million for a defective chair?!

I want a T-shirt with this slot machine header on it:

Slot machine streetwear.

A Supreme slot machine.

Idea: Casino Decathlon.

In this order:
Sportsbook
Blackjack
Pai Gow
Casino War
Roulette
Keno
Baccarat
Slot Machine
Craps
Texas Hold'em Poker

The contestant with the most money at the end wins.

Sports bets must be on sporting events happening that day.

You have one hour and $1000 to play each of the first nine games, and $1000 plus whatever the $9000 became to play Texas Hold'em. Texas Hold'em is last so you can all-in a comeback.

You can play each game for as long as you want, so long as you play at least $500.

On hold with my hotel's concierge after sending out a shirt to be laundered with $3000 in its pocket:

"Each suite features an Italian marble bathroom…"

—And a plastic bathtub.

Most oppressively odoriferous casinos on the Strip:
5. The Cosmopolitan
4. The Linq
3. Casino Royale
2. Harrah's
1. Flamingo

During an uberX ride, my driver told me that he hung out with Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott at the Pac-12 Tournament. They grew up together.

—How are you an uberX driver? Were you injured in a hotel?

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12. Feeling Good (Legion, S01E06)

Stray Observations

  • "If you thought nougat likes lots of humidity, you'd be wrong, dead wrong." (Bob's Burgers, S07E12)
  • "Well, nowadays, business isn't done in offices. Business is done walking really fast down long hallways and at urinals. Haven't you seen Entourage?"
    "Is it a show about people peeing and getting stuff done?"
    "Yeah, more or less." (Bob's Burgers, S07E12)
  • "After seeing that Peppermint Patricia wrapper…" (Making History, S01E02)
  • "I don't want to have this conversation in front of the guns." (Making History, S01E02)
  • "We got an airplane. If we didn't have tiny bottles, we'd be giant buttholes." (The Last Man on Earth, S03E11)
  • RT: The full list of celebrities Tandy lists in his toast, pump-up speech, and eulogy: Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Alva Edison, Doug Henning, Pelé, Peter Frampton, Jonas Salk, Lena Dunham, Shel Silverstein, Kenny Loggins, George Washington Carver, Nelson Mandela, Jim Henson, Hamilton, the guy who did Hamilton, Neil Armstrong, Johnny Appleseed, SEAL Team Six, Ryan Lochte [before Rio]. (The Last Man on Earth, S03E11)
  • Todd's somber rendition of "Fly" by Sugar Ray (The Last Man on Earth, S03E11)


(The Last Man on Earth, S03E11)

  • "There's no good way to tell people you haven't seen The Wire." (Crashing, S01E04)
  • "How, specifically, would you handle your business?"
    "I'd get mine. Set it off. Be a man. Man up. You know, represent, man. You gotta flip the switch, man. You gotta light it up."
    "Sorry, a lot of these sound like lyrics from the album Willennium." (Crashing, S01E04)
  • "How dare you mention Pepsi. Unlike you, it's good and pure." (Feud, S01E02)
  • "Women will do what they always do when they're cornered – eat their own and pick their teeth with the bones." (Feud, S01E02)
  • TONY ALMEIDA BYKE (24: Legacy, S01E07)
  • ♫: Alana Yorke – "Anthem" (Bates Motel, S05E04)
  • "And I read that authors should all have a strong look, so I found four authors with strong looks and I combined them. Tom Wolfe? White suit. Hunter S. Thompson? Yellow sunglasses. David Foster Wallace? Bandana. Toni Morrison? The Presidential Medal of Freedom." (New Girl, S06E19)
  • "Guess who has two dressers."
    "Rip Torn."
    "No, me."
    "I mean, you and Rip Torn."
    "Stop talking about Rip Torn." (New Girl, S06E19)
  • "I almost hit you with this brushed steel modern lamp." (New Girl, S06E19)
  • "She's your girlfriend. I'm your good friend. She should get to make you sheet cake."
    "That makes sense. I just need to make something clear between us if that's okay. You're saying 'sheet' like 'ghost clothes,' not like 'in a toilet,' right?" (New Girl, S06E19)
  • "The Asian Flush." (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E17)
  • Jeremy Lin, Ming-Na Wen, Ali Wong (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E17)
  • Bennigan's (The Americans, S05E02)
  • "Campbell's Soup: 'It's just wet ass food.'" (Detroiters, S01E06)

"We've never been on the cover of a magazine…"
"Well, Chubby Buddies…"

(Detroiters, S01E06)

  • "Spirit Airlines: 'Dying while flying.'" (Detroiters, S01E06)
  • "Bologna: 'Because it's all the meats.'" (Detroiters, S01E06)
  • "Paella only has…22 ingredients?! What does it do? Summon a genie?" (Speechless, S01E18)
  • "Stop singing Imagine Dragons to get me off the track." (The Magicians, S02E08)
  • "You think that I stole something?"
    "Can you believe that, Vivian? Doesn't it just make [pulls out phone] you want to pout?" (Black-ish, S03E18)
  • "Okay, look, black nanny is not a thief."
    "It's Vivian."
    "Please, black nanny, I'm defending you." (Black-ish, S03E18)
  • "Such a sweet little baby, and me, your very own walking, talking fungus." (Legion, S01E06)
  • Craig Kilborn (Workaholics, S07E10)
  • ♫: Asher Roth – "I Love College" (Workaholics, S07E10)
  • "This right here I don't understand. Why am I not the guy in the chair?"
    "Adam, that's not how a bar mitzvah works."
    "I thought I was DJ-ing at a sports bar called 'Bar Mitt Fuzz.' It's a bar mitt and there's fuzz in it." (Workaholics, S07E10)
  • Workaholics Season Grade: D-
  • "Two Boones for one dollar?" (Baskets, S02E09)
  • "We'll have one cup of liquid cheese and an application, please." (Baskets, S02E09)
  • "If somebody gave you a Quiznos franchise, you'd run it into the ground." (Baskets, S02E09)
  • "Suze Orman is not a bitch." (Baskets, S02E09)
  • My Dinner with Andre (Nirvanna the Band the Show, S01E07)
  • "I don't need any more noodles."
    "But I do, so fuck him and fuck you too. [pause] Eminem." (Nirvanna the Band the Show, S01E07)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Legion
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Baskets

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Genius quietly laid off a bunch of its engineers — now can it survive as a media company?

Co-founder Tom Lehman told employees that Genius planned to shift its emphasis away from the annotation platform in favor of becoming a more video-focused media company.

"Video makes it a little bit more accessible," he said. "I love the Genius website. But it can be a little frustrating to use. You have to be really, really dedicated to learn everything about a song on Genius. You've got to be down to click and read a lot."

Last week, Genius posted a video about rapper Lil Yachty learning how to make pizza.

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Previously on Adam Riff™ (March 2007):

Snow and the Seven (2008)

An English princess finds herself in need of protection while traveling in late 19th century China. Seven Shaolin monks come to her aid, each with a trait of a dwarf in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Michael Chabon? wrote the screenplay. Yuen Woo-Ping will direct.

Woo-Ping is looking to make Snow and the Seven the Ocean's Eleven of martial arts movies.

Well, that didn't happen, but this might:

Ong Bak star Tony Jaa, The Raid breakout Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen (Man of Tai Chi) will square off against Scott Adkins (Zero Dark Thirty), UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping and action movie vet Michael Jai White in Triple Threat.

The trio were to have starred in a different film, also titled Triple Threat, but that fell apart last year.

Asian actors Jaa, Uwais and Chen are the protagonists, while American thespians Adkins, Bisping and White are the villains. [source]

Two out of three on both sides.

I like Tiger Chen, but did Donnie Yen pass?

And Bisping's spot should've gone to Mark Dacascos. Still time to replace him.

Triple Threat 2: Fatal 4-Way.
Triple Threat 3: Survivor Series.

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11. CGI Deer (The Walking Dead, S07E12)

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • "She loves revenge – revenge and shrimp." (Bob's Burgers, S07E11)
  • "Try something from a movie."
    "It's Friday, you ain't got no job, and you ain't got nothing to do."
    "A white movie."
    "Show me the money." (Making History, S01E01)
  • "Thank you for what? All that's happened is I've puked, I had an axe thrown at my head, I was treated like a slave, and I drank John Hancock's urine! He is my idol, Dan! My number one! And I drank the pee of the man who is my number one!"
    "Well, I don't think it was just John Hancock's, FYI. I think everyone had a squeeze." (Making History, S01E01)
  • "I'm making you that soup…in my heart." (The Last Man on Earth, S03E10)
  • "You're a cat person that eats dog food, and I'm a dog person that eats cat food. I guess we're more alike than I thought." (The Last Man on Earth, S03E10)
  • "What are you selling the couch for?"
    "I don't know. Like, $150?"
    "$150? Are you shitting me? Jess, that's not CB2. That's Crate and Barrel. That's CB1, okay? It came assembled." (Crashing, S01E03)
  • Plastic-covered furniture (Feud, S01E01)
  • "Everything written for women seem to fall into just three categories: Ingénues, mothers, or Gorgons." (Feud, S01E01)
  • "I need a lunch thing." (Feud, S01E01)
  • "Fish Jell-O. Goodie." (Feud, S01E01)
  • "That poor masseuse. Touching Arthur's feet is what they call a 'sad ending.'" (Superior Donuts, S01E06)
  • Dan and Melissa's fight on The Real World: Miami (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E16)
  • Biggie storyline timing (Fresh Off the Boat, S03E16)
  • Lotta digging (The Americans, S05E01)
  • "You're cooler than either of my moms. I'd tell them, but they're at Coachella."
    "Did you hear that, Dylan? I'm cooler than Coachella lesbians." (Speechless, S01E17)
  • "Why are the DeBarges the new face of Boxable?"
    "Oh, I'll tell you why – 'cause our boy Dre here's colorstruck. He's got that beige rage." (Black-ish, S03E17)
  • "All right, so we got, uh, four black coffees and one iced caramel macchiato with extra cream."
    "Extra cream."
    "It's the Michael Jackson of coffees." (Black-ish, S03E17)
  • "Is that the guy that is the captain now?" (Black-ish, S03E17)
  • "Dre, this was supposed to be your Do the Right Thing, but it is your Chi-Raq." (Black-ish, S03E17)
  • Silence (Legion, S01E05)
  • When Cary falls prey to the muting spell that's hit the rest of the group (Legion, S01E05)
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season Grade: C+
  • Man Seeking Woman Season Grade: C
  • "You know, I built you up too much in my head. I did the same thing with the Hobbit movies."
    "I am not the Hobbit movies."
    "That sounds like something a Hobbit movie would say." (Powerless, S01E05)
  • "Hey, loser, you want to go out with me?"
    "No. Why would you think that?"
    "Uhh, because I've been negging you hard. All of Reddit said this would work." (Powerless, S01E05)
  • Monogrammed Quiznos jacket (Baskets, S02E08)
  • "I'm sorry I put the Chemical brothers in a headlock, made them kiss each other, say 'I love you,' and then I buhshed their heads together."
    "I can't believe we almost let the Chemical Brothers come between us." (Baskets, S02E08)
  • Whiskey salad: Apples, oranges, marshmallows, whiskey, one raisin. (Baskets, S02E08)
  • Portlandia Season Grade: C-
  • Lost ending (Nirvanna the Band the Show, S01E06)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Legion
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Baskets

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