Don't Be Russell Westbrook

If not for Deadpool, Bradley Cooper would be the star of the highest-grossing R-rated comedy film of all time.

Bradley Cooper: Star of one-third of the 15 highest-grossing R-rated films of all time domestically.

Vin Diesel: Star of Universal's highest-grossing film of all time internationally.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

19. Anne Frank (Dave, S03E06)


Honourable Mention

  • Martial arts fight (Blindspotting, S02E05)
  • Diarrhea (Somebody Somewhere, S02E02)
  • Bobby Cannavale singing ♫: Creed – "My Sacrifice" (Bupkis, S01E02)

Stray Observations

  • "I would describe it as a meltdown, human Chernobyl." (Succession, S04E06)
  • "You're scheduling your grief?" (Succession, S04E06)
  • "Mencken's IP, just like anything." (Succession, S04E06)
  • "Joy has a lot of relationships. She has a lot of friends. And you are weak monarch in a dangerous interregnum." (Succession, S04E06)
  • "Wow! Truth bombs from…from the phony man." (Succession, S04E06)
  • "Flight jacket. For the launch." (Succession, S04E06)
  • Kendall entering to ♫: Public Enemy – "Harder Than You Think" (Succession, S04E06)
  • "You know, it's kind of like social media, but it's better. You know, it's, it's, it's physical social media in the real world." (Succession, S04E06)
  • "Heil Kendall!" (Succession, S04E06)
  • "This is what happens when you hire two guys with a podcast." (Barry, S04E04)
  • Sian Heder (Barry, S04E04)
  • "We aren't finding any heats on these fools. Mostly Power Cards." (Barry, S04E04)
  • "What is the opposite of clever?"
    "The Sun." (Ted Lasso, S03E08)
  • ♫: The Kinks – "Strangers" (Ted Lasso, S03E08)


» Anne Frank hitting the whip (Dave, S03E06)

  • "You are so, so fiscally valuable to me, Chasey – especially now that you're 18! My God… I could cover your body in tattoos and then have them removed six months later so your body is always just a little bit blue forever." (The Other Two, S03E01)
  • Running fangs joke (The Other Two, S03E01)
  • "Also in the summer schedule, Drape Disasters with Maria Menounos. She goes into homes where the drapes are just a disaster."
    "Sounds great. Approved!"
    "Great. We're so glad you like it. We love Maria, and we love drapes. Okay, moving on, we also have a show with a woman named Alyssa Schechter. She has eight kids, and she is so, so nice."
    "And what's that one called?"
    "It's called Alyssa Schechter: She Has Eight Kids and She Is So, So Nice."
    "Yes! That way, people know exactly what it is." (The Other Two, S03E02)
  • "I mean, they look like cops. They certainly… [sniffing] Smell like cops. But something tells me
    they're nothing more than a couple of GQ fags."
    "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not use that language."
    "Aha! That was a test. If you were cops, you'd love that word." (The Other Two, S03E02)
  • "Sorry, y'all. Gentrifiers last." (Blindspotting, S02E05)
  • Pete Davidson ejaculating on Edie Falco (Bupkis, S02E01)
  • "Are, are you still wearing the shirt?"
    "I'm gonna do Peloton after dinner. I'm not gonna ruin another shirt." (Bupkis, S02E01)
  • Al Gore: "Oh, Wu-Tang." (Bupkis, S02E03)
  • "Oh, Florida is where you were at your worst. It's everything wrong with you in one state." (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • "Yeah, I got a fucking hand job to The Fast and the Furious once." (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • "How the fuck are we talking to each other?" (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • "You sold me out for a blow job?"
    "It was head." (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • "Do not tell Chris Evans about this."
    "I just told him."
    "Chris!" (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • ♫: Wiz Khalifa – "See You Again [feat. Charlie Puth]" (Bupkis, S02E04)
  • "You can't just go and have a family, okay? That means no more partying, no more drugs, no more drinking, no more friends. You can't have friends. Have you ever seen me with a friend?" (Bupkis, S02E05)
  • "This kid's mom is on this, like, 'spiritual journey' right now, which is just a fancy way of saying she's in Costa Rica doing ayahuasca, shitting her brains out into a bucket."
    "That's so sad."
    "It's actually so tragic."
    "People don't know you can do ayahuasca in Queens." (Bupkis, S02E05)
  • "Who's your favorite comedian?"
    "Addison Rae." (Bupkis, S02E05)
  • "Do you know what could have happened to you? Have you seen SVU?" (Bupkis, S02E05)
  • "You said that you lied about liking Black Panther. He never even saw it!"
    "What?!"
    "You shut your mouth. Guys, she's just a kid. I mean, I s— I saw Black Panther! Multiple times, right? Wakander forever."
    "There's no hard 'R' in 'Wakanda,' you fucking racist."
    "I told you to watch that movie. So now, we out here fucked up." (Bupkis, S02E05)
  • "Cool, but like, wh— What about my arc?"
    "Listen, I, I, I hear you. Everyone wants an arc. Uh, the truth is I asked my kids, you know, who do they want to see die in the movie? They said you." (Bupkis, S02E06)


(Bupkis, S02E06)

  • "Come on. You got that big dick, right? You're like pussy Thanos." (Bupkis, S02E06)
  • "You bought 112 individual episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. That's stupid! Why don't you just bundle it? Why don't you fucking stream it, for fuck's sake? It's streaming on Peacock. It's streaming on the Cock!" (Bupkis, S02E06)
  • "Take care of yourself, Pussy Thanos." (Bupkis, S02E07)
  • Art the Clown (Bupkis, S02E08)
  • "You know what's funny about Ace Ventura? That movie can't really be made now because it's, like, offensive to trans people."
    "Oh! Sean Young at the end with the—"
    "Yeah, dude! But he literally goes, 'He saw Mr. Winky!' And then she, like, shows the fucking cock, and they're all like, 'Ugh, ugh, ugh!' Like, Dan Marino is like, 'Ugh, ugh!'"
    "Yeah, and, and you know what else aged poorly?"
    "What?"
    "Vietnam." (Bupkis, S02E08)
  • "What's peeling your dick?" (Bupkis, S02E08)
  • "You stay the fuck away from me, Ray Romano." (Bupkis, S02E08)
  • </Bupkis, S01>

We are 55 boys and we love you

No FOMO in China.

Prior to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the highest-grossing video game film of all time was…Warcraft, and more than half of its total gross was China, compared to just 2% of Mario's.

18.5% of the world's population. $21.4 million.

At a time when Asian film and television is thriving internationally, I'm fascinated by China's cultural solipsism.

Chinese film and television has little to no profile outside of China. China is seemingly content just making entertainment for itself.

And its own films outperform many worldwide releases!

Dueling monocultures.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

18. Grandma watching television (Dave, S03E05)


Honourable Mention

  • Grandma grieving (Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, S03E01)

Stray Observations

  • "Anyway, Norway, Sweden, what's the difference? It's all descended from the same rapists." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Sure, they're young and they're fit, but they're European, they're soft. Hammocked in their social security safety nets. Sick on vacation mania and free health care. They may think they're Vikings, but we've been raised by wolves. Exposed to a pathogen that goes by the name Logan Roy. And they have no idea what's coming to them. Okay?"
    "We're snakes on a plane." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "I, uh, I metabolize fast because I'm dynamic." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Matsson, pretty cold."
    "Right."
    "When he's fucking randos, he does noise-cancelling headphones."
    "Right."
    "Podcasts. He just lies back, cans on, watches 'em slide the beanpole." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Well, what I, I think what you need to know about, from a, well, from a US news perspective, is that we really…don't give a fuck. Ha ha. US is, US is late imperial, and we don't know. Because we don't really wanna know. You know, we have our own Paris, and when it burns, we'll build another." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Old Lady France? Fucking don't fucking bet against the old fucking, uh…the, the baguette, uh, you know…the, the baguette might be mightier than the bagel." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Sure, but long-term, I don't think news for angry, old people works. I don't. I would fold it in. Fat pipe that shit. Make it more Bloomberg grey. You know? Simple, cheap, huge. IKEA'd to fuck." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Gotta say, I just think fundamentally you're wrong."
    "Yeah, well, I don't care what you think. You're a tribute band." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "The majestic stags sparring with their memory foam hard-ons?" (Succession, S04E05)
  • "I sent her some of my blood."
    "Oh, okay."
    "Uh…a half-a-liter frozen blood brick. As a joke, obviously."
    "Uh, half a liter?"
    "Yeah."
    "Wow."
    "And then…"
    "Well, I mean, obviously, first of all, good one!" (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Your earlobes are thick and chewy."
    "What the fuck?"
    "Yeah, like barnacle meat." (Succession, S04E05)
  • "Are you Scooby-Dooing me here? Is that where you went? Hanna-Barbera fucking business school?" (Succession, S04E05)
  • "That slalom motherfucker!" (Succession, S04E05)
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse (Yellowjackets, S02E05)
  • ♫: Danzig – "Mother" (Yellowjackets, S02E05)
  • El Toro is Guillermo del Toro (Barry, S04E03)
  • Fuches watching Rain Man: "That's us." (Barry, S04E03)
  • "Can anyone tell me who this is?"
    "That's Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave."
    "No. It is Dutch football legend, Johan Cruyff." (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "Now a central cog of that team was an industrious but brilliant midfielder named Josep Guardiola. AKA Pep."
    "Look at that head of hair. God had to take it away just to balance things out, you know?" (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "How can you tell if a girl likes you or is just being nice to you?"
    "You can't."
    "So now I'm starting to get all these subtle, little hints from Jane. Like, certain magazines left on the coffee table and always hearing about her friends who are doing it."
    "Well, marriage is a big commitment, you know?"
    "No, I'm talking about pegging."
    "Well, still. Wait, what magazines?" (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "I guess marriage and pegging aren't really that different."
    "Yeah, it's all about compromise." (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "And I'm get-away-with-murder rich, so…"
    "Really?"
    "Yeah."
    "Like who else? Name names."
    "Everyone connected to Epstein." (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "'Dicks' on three. One, two, three."
    "Dicks." (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "Don't fight back. Fight forward." (Ted Lasso, S03E07)
  • "And to the republic, for which it stands…"
    "A nation."
    "One nation, under God…"
    "Invisible."
    "Yeah."
    "The liberty of justice because."
    "Yeah. Kind of close, but, yeah."
    "Baby, I want you to fuck me to these words." (Dave, S03E05)
  • "You're, like, my favorite rapper of all time."
    "Oh, shit. I'm like your Drake." (Dave, S03E05)
  • "Uh, this is my friend Gata, short for alligator, and Vatka, which is not short for anything. She's just Trans-Siberian. Not to be confused with transsexual."
    "Uh…"
    "Transgender."
    "Eh…"
    "And there is another guy in another room as well."
    "He's tan…" (Dave, S03E05)
  • "Is she too fat?"
    "No! I love fat…" (Dave, S03E05)
  • "I'm in the city this summer, just working at the UN."
    "Oh, 'un.' Great, love that." (Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, S03E01)
  • "And to do so, I have identified a brand with mass appeal, the coolest athletic shoe in the world, one destined to reach iconic status and only gain in popularity: British Knights." (Mrs. Davis, S01E05)
  • Fast X-sponsored elimination challenge (Top Chef, S20E08)
  • ♫: Pharrell Williams – "Cash In Cash Out [feat. 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator]" (Grand Crew, S02E10)
  • "Look, we are not racist. I was raised by a strong Black woman. My nanny." (Grand Crew, S02E10)
  • </Grand Crew, S02>
  • "Stop! For real? Jacque, is your daddy…"
    "No, no, don't say it!"
    "Ru-fi-o—!" (Blindspotting, S02E04)
  • "How could you not tell me your daddy is Rufio?"
    "How has it not come up that you're this obsessed with Hook?" (Blindspotting, S02E04)
  • "'Cheese Palace's Cheese Chalice. Complete the Goblet of Cheese Challenge.'"
    "What the fuck is a goblet of cheese?"
    "Fuck around and find out." (Blindspotting, S02E04)
  • "Girl, you're pretending to be a blind nun?"
    "Ah, nigga, you got me. Okay, I'm just trying to get to the front of the line. Who does it hurt?"
    "You, 'cause you don't even need to be blind to do that."
    "Why?"
    "Neither of y'all got ADD?"
    "I've just been informed of some interesting news. The boardwalk's website says, 'Our disability program grants guests with qualified impairments special access to our parks.'"
    "What are the impairments?"
    "'ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and PTSD are all accommodated.' Bitch, we only need one person with disabilities, and we have three. Yes, yes, because I do…I do have ADHD. Earl has PTSD. And Ashley…Ashley's depressed." (Blindspotting, S02E04)
  • "Plus you're a banker, and, uh, if you two eventually have children, you'll raise the average height of this family by at least two feet. I'd say that's upward mobility in two ways." (Blindspotting, S02E04)

We're not Jedi

Dead Lasso
Zombie special.

Fed Lasso
Ted moves back to Kansas to be closer to his son and is inexplicably hired to be an FBI agent.

Med Lasso
Ted moves back to Kansas to be closer to his son and is inexplicably hired to be a doctor.

Ped Lasso
Ted moves back to Kansas to be closer to his son.

Red Lasso
Ted is hired to coach a football club in China.

Sled Lasso
Ted is inexplicably hired to coach the Jamaican bobsled team.

Head Lasso
Ted's cryogenically-frozen head is thawed to coach AFC Richmond in the year 3099.

Wed Lasso
30 women vie for Jason Sudeikis' heart.