Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

  • Has a Danzig song been used in a television drama before? (The Following, S01E08)

It was music week!


11. "Black Women Hugging" (The Ben Show, S01E03)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • Bora Bora, New Zealand, Bali – this race is like a Price Is Right showcase (The Amazing Race, S22E04)
  • "Oy vey." (The Amazing Race, S22E04)
  • Much ado about nutting (Girls, S02E09)
  • "Do you rely on take-out a lot?"
    "Well, I take out Chinese food, pizza, thigh…"
    "Thigh?"
    "Thigh. You know, thigh? Mon thigh? Thigh? […] Thigh – T-H-A-I?"
    "Oh, Thai!" (Worst Cooks in America, S04E04)
  • "Me-tard, you-tard, re-tard nation!" (Shameless, S03E08)
  • "You son of a snitch! What's your favourite movie? Squeal Magnolias?!"
    "War Horse…" (Bob's Burgers, S03E16)
  • "I see James. Where's the peach?" (Loiter Squad, S02E01)
  • "I wanted to come out here and extend, personally, my heartfelt condolences. I want to extend my heartfelt apologies for your loss…at WrestleMania." (WWE Raw, 03-11-13)
  • "Der ner-ner-ner."
    "Oh, you were not aware of this?"
    "Der ner-ner-ner."
    "Your posterior better contact someone at once!" (WWE Raw, 03-11-13)
  • "First thing we're gonna do is we're gonna acknowledge that this guy's awesome."
    "What?"
    "Well, he shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in a spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an airplane while he's flying it, parachutes into Harlan County with enough coke and cash to jump-start the economy of a small country, and then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once, but two times. He spends a couple of days riding around with you while you're looking for him, and now he's run off with a hooker that's half his age! That's some bad-ass shit."
    "It's pretty bad-ass."
    […]
    "Let's go find a whore." (Justified, S04E10)
  • "That's what you get when you mess with Tony Danza's cousin!"
    "Devin Danza?!" (Workaholics, S03E19)


(Workaholics, S03E19)


(Archer, S04E09)

  • "Power blackout." (Archer, S04E09)
  • "Go online and check your bank account."
    "Now, when I'm suction-cupped on a window 30 stories above the ground."
    "Yeah! You should have five bars!" (Archer, S04E09)
  • RT: Archer's dive to save Lana is a legitimately exciting moment. (Archer, S04E09)
  • "Get in my big ol' vagina! I'm Lana!" (Archer, S04E09)
  • Room 237 (Archer, S04E09)
  • "Lana's destroying the toilet."
    "Join the club." (Archer, S04E09)
  • "Do you want a drink?"
    "Yeah."
    "What do you want? Rum and coke? Red Stripe?"
    "No, just…soft drink."
    "Lilt?" (The Office Revisited, 03-15-13)
  • "We can do this, do a political reggae song. It's perfect, 'cause it's mega-racial, but anti-racist." (The Office Revisited, 03-15-13)


Banshee Season 1: Opening Credits Combination Reveal (contains a sweet but spoiler-y supercut)

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I'm drinking cement like it's going out of style

Previously on Adam Riff™: Fantasy MLB Commissioner

» From the 18th inning on, every half-inning begins with a runner or runners already on base.

19th inning: runner on first base
20th inning: runners on first and second base


Jon: Oh. A text from Ben. "It's like you invented these rules." Whaaa? [enlarges image]


At games this season, the West Michigan Whitecaps (the Detroit Tigers' Class A affiliate) will sell a taco with a shell made out of bacon:

Now this is a loco taco.

Marooned on Piano Island

Previously on Adam Riff™:

'92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card is a 12-minute comedic short about a dysfunctional sibling relationship. It just premiered at Sundance.

I dug it, and lo, the short is a precursor to a feature film, Awful Nice, that expands on the brothers' relationship.


"Awful Nice just premiered at SXSW?"

It's insane — most movies might build to a scene in which a pre-funeral competitive-chugging contest around the family dinner table ends in a glass-shattering, face-bloodying fistfight, but this starts there — reminding me at points of Step Brothers and Wet Hot American Summer, and in a different (and almost definitely worse) world it would be a huge studio comedy starring Danny McBride and Channing Tatum. Maybe it's the next Foot Fist Way. [source]

"Well, I hope to catch it at IFF Boston."

Related: You can now watch '92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card, which features the aforementioned pre-funeral scene, on demand via YouTube:

I'm bullish on this creative team. I picture a comedy series by them for FX or HBO – a male version of Girls, perhaps.

Elsewhere: The creative team behind Bellflower just successfully crowdfunded a second feature film.

Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins is a "surrealist action/drama influenced heavily by '80s action films and side-scrolling fighting games like Streets of Rage and Double Dragon." [source]


Every Breath Is a Bomb

"This is my fuckin' dream y'all. I got shit! I got fuckin' shorts y'all! I got 'Scarface' on repeat y'all! I got Calvin Klein Escape!"

"LOOK AT MY SHEEEEIT! I GOT MY FUCKIN' NUNCHUCKS."

State Fair of Texas Food Item Idea: Deep Fried Chipotle Burrito Bowl Bites.

Jon: King of the Nerds should cast a magic enthusiast for season two.
Rory: Magic the craft or Magic: The Gathering?
Jon: Why not both? Cast a magician and a Magic player.

NFL = Facebook
MLB = MySpace
NBA = Tumblr
NHL = Google+
Soccer = Reddit

NASCAR = LinkedIn?

In light of the buzz over DeAndre Jordan's dunk on Brandon Knight, the NBA should convert its sinking Sprite Slam Dunk Contest into a series of slam dunk showdowns promoted like a fight card. One dunker, one defender, first to five successful dunks wins.

LeBron vs. Durant
Griffin vs. Westbrook
Iguodala vs. Green
George vs. White

Anti-Spokane Rhetoric

Jon: the editing, both video and audio, is…bravura. imagine soderbergh's the limey plus melodrama. some stupendous scenes. and matthew goode is tremendous
Ty: cool cool cool
Ty: what's your MBTI, btw?
Jon: my, uh…
[pause]
Jon: my myers briggs type indicator?
Ty: yes
Jon: oh gosh
Jon: i tested for mine years ago in high school with speech and debate teammates, but…
Ty: it can change over time
Jon: i have it somewhere at home
Ty: you should retake it
Ty: this one is quite accurate and it's free: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Jon: are you serious?
Ty: is TJ miller a guest on a podcast this week?
[pause]
Jon: hold…

Jon: ISTJ
Ty: look up ISTJ and see how accurate it is
Ty: i'm INTJ and it's dead-on
Ty: MBTI has accurately predicted most of my friendships and relationships. it's fucking crazy
Jon: …
Ty: no, really
Ty: it's not a horoscope
Jon: i don't need a test to inform me who i get on with best
Jon: (they tend to enjoy smoking…or cock)

Jon: "ISTJs are often highly religious" – dead-on

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

Previously on Adam Riff™ (August 12, 2011):
Nathan Fielder deserve[s] better than Comedy Central.


10. Petting Zoo Hero (Nathan For You, S01E02)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • Aadip decides to make a cheeseburger with no burger. It's a grilled cheese. So he puts slices of cheese, without bread, directly on the grill top and watches them immediately melt to the cast iron. "Man, they melted so fast. I was trying to grill it to get a nice sear on it." (Worst Cooks in America, S04E03)
  • "He's just trying to grill cheese. He's grilling cheese! Oh my God!" (Worst Cooks in America, S04E03)
  • What's behind curtain "not shitting you"? Zonk! (Let's Make a Dead, S03E12)
  • "You sure about this?"
    "It's the only way we can keep you from resisting your urges."
    "It's really hard."
    "I'll be with you the whole time."
    "No, I mean, it's really hard. Handcuffs turn me on."
    [gasp] (Shameless, S03E07)
  • It's White Castle night on television (Shameless, S03E06 / Girls, S02E08)
  • "Your name's Max Flush and you're looking for a toilet? That's funny."
    "And his name is Bob Burger!"
    "What?"
    "His name is Bob Burger."
    "Um, it's not."
    "It is."
    "It isn't, no."
    "It's not?"
    "No! Are you serious?"
    "Bob Burgers."
    "How…?"
    "Bob Burgers. Then who am I thinking of?"
    "I don't know."
    "But the sign…" (Bob's Burgers, S03E15)
  • Season three would be about lawsuits? No thanks (Enlightened, S03E08)
  • Jerry Lawler chuckling at Road Dogg quoting "Thrift Shop." @______@ (WWE Raw, 03-04-13)
  • "You go play asshole in the mirror." (Justified, S04E09)


(Justified, S04E09)

  • "When I take him down, his eyes will be clear." (Justified, S04E09)
  • "Tell whoever approved this that your face is a present from me to them." (The Americans, S01E06)
  • "If we call them city lizards, they'd be Mondo Gecko." (Workaholics, S03E18)
  • "This is like that Ashram Kitchen show Prank'd."
    "Or Wilma Valmarammi's Blow Momma." (Kroll Show, S01E08)
  • "I may have started at Binghamton, but I finished at Syracuse." (Kroll Show, S01E08)
  • "You've just been Nnamdi'd!" (Kroll Show, S01E08)
  • "You really you'd this one, huh?" (Community, S04E05)
  • Adam DeVine is ubiquitous (Community, S04E05)
  • "He's the Schwarzenegger, I'm the DeVito." (Community, S04E05)
  • "Gingers smell like pennies." (Glee, S04E15)
  • "Sorry I don't know the guy who created Pong. Ask me what the release date of Halo 4 is – November 6, 2012." (King of the Nerds, S01E08)
  • "Let's, you know, de-escalate the situation."
    "Oh for… De-escalate your dick!"
    "De-… Wait, I mean… Escalate shutting up!" (Archer, S04E08)
  • "Was there not, like, a cock-hungry vibe?" (Archer, S04E08)
  • "Can you escort us to a hospital? I bet about three of these women are about to give birth." (Archer, S04E08)
  • "We all know who the terrorists are."
    "Los Musulmanes."
    "Lupe! Come on! You're in America now. You just imply it." (Archer, S04E08)
  • "Que the hell pasa?" (Archer, S04E08)
  • "You don't even have a vet license?"
    "Thanks to one petty local politician…and one petty barn full of dead horses." (Archer, S04E08)
  • "Lupe, ya tengo una madre!" (Archer, S04E08)
  • "Turns out he's some kind of spook."
    "Dude, phrasing!" (Archer, S04E08)
  • "I never got to be mayor of titty city." (The Ben Show, S01E02)
  • "What the fuck is the point of being fat and black if you can't fuckin' tackle? Jefferson, what did I say is the only career path for you if you're fat and black?"
    "Rapping and tackling, sir." (The Ben Show, S01E02)
  • "We also have to figure out a band name. You guys ready? All right. The Roving Stoves. Sugar Ray Romano. Leave Me the Beaver. The Fartin' Scorseses. Satan's Wang. Ass Piss. 21 Cum Street. Fuck Fuck Goose. Queef Latina. Vagi-Na-Na." (The Ben Show, S01E02)
  • "But there was one person no one would ever suspect – Santa Claus." (Nathan For You, S01E02)
  • Unexpectedly dark series finale. Scorched earth (Delocated, S04E01)
  • "Because the best gift that you can give a loved one is"
    "Oral." (Saturday Night Live, S38E16)
  • "Is that a PS Vita?" (House of Cards, S01E04)

#clipoftheweek



Game of Thrones pedicab at SXSW