Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

12. Junkies (Swarm, S01E02+03)


Stray Observations

  • "So time heals all wounds, I guess."
    "It wasn't time that did it." (The Last of Us, S01E09)
  • </The Last of Us, S01>
  • "Sorry about that. We got distracted. Little guy was trying to unlock Princess Peach on Super Smash Bros."
    "Totally understand. I once held an entire flight to Sydney hostage until I finished the final level of Breath of the Wild." (Ted Lasso, S03E01)
  • "Fuck pundits."
    "You were a pundit."
    "Yeah. And all we did was talk shit and eat fucking meringues." (Ted Lasso, S03E01)
  • "I understand. I just don't think Ms. Welton will have a whole lot to say about the unfair advantage of being a female owner in sports. Thank you. Fuck you, Joe Rogan." (Ted Lasso, S03E01)
  • "Taungsdays, am I right?" (The Mandalorian, S03E03)
  • "What in the Lee Daniels?"
    "Wait, I don't get it."
    […]
    "Who is Lee Daniels?" (Abbott Elementary, S02E19)
  • "It's like going to see Paramore without Hayley Williams."
    "There are other people in that band?" (Abbott Elementary, S02E19)
  • "Who is Jazmine Sulliv—?" (Abbott Elementary, S02E19)
  • "This is really inspiring. I didn't think I'd be able to have sex when I got old…but I'm gonna fuck forever." (Shrinking, S01E09)
  • "Gaby, academia is the fifth circle of hell. It goes babies, musicals, magic, kale, academia."
    "Don't come for magic. You know I went to magic camp, okay? I can pull shit out of your ears that would astound you." (Shrinking, S01E09)
  • </BMF, S02>
  • "Now, what went wrong?"
    "Well, eventually as we were hooking up, the music switched to a very particular song."
    [♫: Ne-Yo – "So Sick"]
    "Oh, no. That's a breakup anthem."
    "Well, I tried to push through, but eventually the song just got the best of me, and my emotions just came out."
    "Oh, damn. So you cried in front of her."
    "No, no, I cried, but I didn't cry in front of her."
    "I—I don't understand."
    "Okay. Um… Ah. You know how when you go to the bakery, you typically order your pastries at the front counter?"
    "Absolutely."
    "Yeah, you know, but if the baker really likes you, then sometimes, they'll invite you to the kitchen."
    "Mm."
    "To taste some special pastries in the back."
    "Oh. Oh… Oh! Oh!!! So you was eating in the back of the bakery."
    "Yes. I was eating in the back of the bakery."
    "Yeah! Wait a second. Does that mean…"
    "You cried in the back of the bakery?"
    "What did she say and how did this whole situation end?"
    "Well, I didn't technically end it."
    "How?"
    "What?"
    "If I left the kitchen, she would have known something was up."
    "So you stayed in the back of the bakery?"
    "Yes, I stayed in the back of the bakery."
    "I don't want to get too deep into my relationship with Kristen, but I will say I have never cried while eating [bleep]." (Grand Crew, S02E03)
  • "Was that about your callback?"
    "Well, I hoped it might be, but it was just some lady. Apparently, my car warranty's expired." (Party Down, S03E04)
  • "Look, I talked to these guys, okay? We would get a better response if we went more '90s. Blink, Matchbox, okay? There's a new generation of deadbeats that have no connection to Sting at all." (Party Down, S03E04)
  • "Was it a H-yun-dai Sonata?" (Party Down, S03E04)
  • "Oh, my God, I can't stop tingling! This is so fucking crazy. I feel like Halsey." (Swarm, S01E02)
  • "Hey, Siri? Who's Halsey?" (Swarm, S01E02)
  • ♫: Juvenile – "Back That Azz Up [feat. Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne]" (Swarm, S01E02)
  • "I-I didn't say that. I-I didn't."
    "But you did. And I got the receipts."
    "Nigga, Twitter?!" (Swarm, S01E03)
  • "You know who that was? The chick from Love and Basketball." (Swarm, S01E03)
  • "I've never met an old white woman that ate Hot Cheetos." (Swarm, S01E03)
  • </Swarm, S01>

The pacifying succor of pert little morals

It isn't elegant, but the designer made the "VI" work.

Paramount should retroactively carve a red "V" out of the "M" in the logo for 2022's Scream, and replace the "E" in Scream 3's logo with the red "3."

Scream 7 logo: Bisect the "I" in "VI."

Scream 8 logo: SCRE8M. An "8" with a wider bottom.

SCRIXM?


What can you build out of film titles ending in "X" minus the "X"s?

Jason Saw Marci Fast.

American History Project.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

11. Curb Your Judaism (History of the World: Part II, S01E02)


Honourable Mention

  • The Yalta Conference (History of the World: Part II, S01E05)
  • Benjamin Bratt reciting the bridge to "Hook" by Blues Traveler (Poker Face, S01E10)
  • Waffle House (Saturday Night Live, S48E16)

Stray Observations

  • "Don't give Jesus my credit." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "Please be in because I just bought a new SodaStream."
    "Oh, sick. I have a surplus of CO2 cartridges. …Not what you think." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "Nothing good has ever come from nerds whispering." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "Tyrese Maxey is my hall pass." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "Nobody plays Drought? It's the most award-winning independent board game out." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "I know keeping those kids off the pipe is only a small piece of what we do." (Abbott Elementary, S02E18)
  • "Frankie a ho, and hos make money. I like money, Todd." (Snowfall, S06E04)
  • "Todd, nigga?" (Snowfall, S06E04)
  • Hook (Poker Face, S01E10)
  • </Poker Face, S01>
  • "Stephen Douglas' dick hole!" (History of the World: Part II, S01E01)
  • "No, we're the harmonizin' R&B group, Bolsheviks II Mensheviks. ♪ I'll make borscht for you ♪" (History of the World: Part II, S01E03)
  • "I'll start a Kugel invite, okay?" (History of the World: Part II, S01E03)
  • "Don't worry, I know CCCPR!" (History of the World: Part II, S01E04)
  • "I think the only move here is to get back on Harriet's train and go to Canada, learn manners, get healthcare, pretend we like poutine."
    "Oh, I can't! I can't pretend I like lukewarm cheese curds." (History of the World: Part II, S01E05)
  • "Have you been watching anything good recently?"
    "Oh, I've been, uh, binging campfires."
    "Mm."
    "You?"
    "I tried watching rivers, but I just couldn't get into 'em." (History of the World: Part II, S01E06)
  • "♪ Give cash, give cash / Or you can go to Hell and burn the fսck up ♪" (History of the World: Part II, S01E06)
  • "I think, respectfully, you need to, uh, pick up your accent, mate. You're from Nazareth."
    "Mm, no. I'm from North Carolina. Nobody told me that when I signed up for this, I had to have a Liverpoolian accent!" (History of the World: Part II, S01E07)
  • Mini The State reunion (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • "Hey, is that mole on your face moving around?"
    "What mole?" (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • Blake Griffin as Muhammad Ali (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • "Wow. Jesus is bussin'!" (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • "Can I have a piece of cake before I go?"
    Marla Gibbs: "Fսck you." (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • "I am Joot." (History of the World: Part II, S01E08)
  • </History of the World: Part II, S01>
  • "From now on, you go to school, you go to soccer practice, and then you come home. Nothing else."
    "I'm going to Japanese Breakfast next week."
    "Well, it looks like you're gonna have to eat it at home."
    "It's a band, asshole."
    "Well, with an ironic name like that, they must be fantastic."
    "They fucking are. " (Shrinking, S01E08)
  • "Leave this right here for you."
    "Thank you, brother. You can take that thing back and split it right down the middle." (BMF, S02E09)
  • "You so hell-bent on revenge that you gonna go kill the only bitch that loved your Black ass?"
    "Don't call her no bitch!"
    "Well, she's a dead bitch now." (BMF, S02E09)
  • "I thought that Charles was building a shed for you. But instead he was patching up your damn dry-ass walls." (BMF, S02E09)


(BMF, S02E09)

  • "So what are you gonna do, just pick this old broccoli head-ass boy over me? How could you not see that I've always loved you? I mean, I married you, and it wasn't to help this old string bean head-ass boy over here. He's not worthy of you. Yeah, he's tall, but he is goofy. Look at this bok choy body."
    "Bok choy— Hey, man, stop comparing me to vegetables. Look, I'm not about to just stand here and let you continue to disrespect me with your Potato Head-looking ass."
    "No, not a good got man. I taught you better than that." (Grand Crew, S02E02)
  • "Could be a bigger turnout, but…it's a start. 'Big things have small beginnings.' – David, played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus." (Party Down, S03E03)


(Party Down, S03E03)

if ur leffen then im chillindude

Fandom, the world's largest fan platform, analyzed billions of first-party data points across its 40 million pages of content to uncover each U.S. State's pick to win.

Avatar: The Way of Water is the only cardinal direction film. Hits north (North Dakota), south (Alabama), east (Virginia), and west (Washington).

No Top Gun: Maverick in SEC country is surprising.

Everything Everywhere All at Once won five less states than Top Gun: Maverick, but more electoral votes.

Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven less states than Avatar: The Way of Water, but only trails it by three electoral votes.

How did Andrea Riseborough win any, let alone FIVE, states?

Michelle Williams won more electoral votes than Michelle Yeoh.

Paul Mescal got shut out by THE INTERNET?!

Out of all three maps, Brendan Fraser won the most electoral votes – 225. He just needs to flip Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

10. The Anzellans (The Mandalorian, S03E01)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • "That is such horseshit."
    "Flawless horseshit." (The Last of Us, S01E07)
  • "What are you talking about, Riley? It's over."
    "It will be, but not yet. It ends this way for everyone sooner or later, right? Some of us just get there faster than others. But we don't quit. Whether it's two minutes or two days, we don't give that up. I don't wanna give that up. We can just be all poetic and shit and lose our minds together." (The Last of Us, S01E07)
  • Droids holding up Greef's cape (The Mandalorian, S03E01)
  • "Now that's using your head." (The Mandalorian, S03E01)
  • How Bo is sitting on the throne (The Mandalorian, S03E01)
  • "I've survived every trend – Spongebob, Adventure Time, gangsta Looney Tunes…" (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • Barbara's Mrs. Doubtfire and Jamaican accent (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "I'm going to go to Bone Town with Mo, and then I'm going to break up with him."
    "Wow. Okay, well, that feels like too much information and also kind of cruel."
    "I know, but I figured if I got to do this, I might as well be full of meat and covered in sauce." (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "Look, I loved Ed, Edd n Eddy, but that was elevated. You know, there are entire subreddits dedicated to the subtext of that show."
    "They're friends with a plank of wood with a face drawn on it." (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "You're pretty dang defeatist for someone who votes third-party." (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "Look, man, you can have my baby, but not my baby backs." (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "And I did enjoy our time—"
    "Can I get some more ranch?" (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • "Well, I guess this Silly Sock brigade is this generation's Rug Vermin." (Abbott Elementary, S02E17)
  • ♫: Sons of Maria – "Days of Blues" (South Park, S26E03)
  • "I just needed to prove that my vagine worked."
    "Well, it works, Gaby. It's like a-a well-oiled machine."
    "Really?"
    "Yeah, it's humid and hospitable like Florida."
    "Hey, you can call my vagina any state, but you do not fucking call it Florida, you hear me?" (Shrinking, S01E07)
  • "You and I will never have feelings for each other, so you got what's called a safe dick."
    "I don't know about 'safe.' I like to think of him as kind of a bad boy, you know? Like Neil Diamond or something."
    "You think your penis is a bad boy like Neil Diamond?"
    "I picked the wrong guy." (Shrinking, S01E07)
  • "Did you get a new dog? What happened to Shit Rat?"
    "He was adopted by a family in Encino. They named him 'Cooper.'"
    "So, they're white?" (Shrinking, S01E07)
  • "I have something to make you feel better."
    "What? Some pussy?" (BMF, S02E08)
  • "You're gonna love where my lips go." (BMF, S02E08)
  • "I can't find my rhythm with this vibrating bed. Maybe we should put in another quarter?" (BMF, S02E08)
  • ♫: Run the Jewels – "Close Your Eyes [and Count to Fuck]" (Grand Crew, S02E01)
  • "What's in these?"
    "Basic sheet cake done in an on-sale, store-bought style with a center of ripened Camembert." (Party Down, S03E02)
  • "I took any gig. Secret weddings, illegal poker tournaments, goth raves, unpermitted underground brises, anything to keep Party Down afloat." (Party Down, S03E02)
  • "I mean, the whole reason Haley Joel Osment grew a beard is 'cause he shot himself in the face with a pellet gun, high on K, trying to rob a Chipotle."
    "Wait, I saw Haley last month up close. His face was normal."
    "Okay, well, a different former child actor." (Party Down, S03E02)
  • "What's with the card?"
    "Like, why is it weirdly big?"
    "No, this. What's 'Party Dowm'? With an M?"
    "Shit!" (Party Down, S03E02)
  • ♫: Keir – "Boys Will Be Girls" (Wreck, S01E01)
  • "She said I must've eaten something dodgy."
    "Did she now? Nurse is a fella. Nauseating, I know."
    "I didn't mean 'she.'"
    "He calls everyone 'she,' don't you? Because he's a homosexual."
    "Yep. Hey, girl! It's just our culture." (Wreck, S01E02)
  • ♫: Orchestral "Thong Song" (Wreck, S01E02)
  • "You don't say no to the mafia. You don't get a choice."
    "There's always a choice."
    "Trust me, Cormac, there isn't. You're white. That's the lowest difficulty setting." (Wreck, S01E03)
  • </Wreck, S01>

Let's Get Burger Today

No Strings Attached
Celebrity guests read aloud for the first time erotic fan fiction penned by real fans in which they are the lead protagonist.

Puppets act out key scenes.

[browses Banijay Rights' programmes]

Sexy Hands
The world's first dating show in sign language.

One love-seeking single and three potential suitors cannot see each other. But…by placing their arms through a heart-shaped divider, they can still flirt, talk, and impress each other.


The Big Celebrity Redemption – Save My Reputation
11 bad mannered reality stars with scandalous histories battle it out to win £50,000.

Competing in gruelling challenges that threaten to tip them over the edge, they'll have to prove to the moral majesty that they regret their behaviour and are desperately seeking redemption.

Cognitive dissonance.


Deepfake Neighbour Wars
The world's first long-form narrative show that uses deepfake technology.

See celebrities as ordinary people embroiled in petty neighbour disputes. From dentist Billie Eilish and Taekwondo teacher Beyoncé, to wannabe strongman Chris Rock and farmer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Why neighbours?

Deepfake Celebrity Deathmatch.

They threw beans on him

The Pope's Wife's Exorcist doesn't work as a joke. The Pope's Ex-Wife's Exorcist?

The Hitman Pope's Bodyguard's Exorcist Wife. A pope who moonlights as a hitman is hired (by mother) to kill a possessed girl, whom his bodyguard's exorcist wife is hired (by father) to save.

Idea: Ferris Bueller's Bake Off. Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara judge.

Idea: MST Deepfake. "Biden," "Trump," and "Obama" watch B movies.