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Previously on Adam Riff™:

Multi-million-dollar bread and mayonnaise dispensary.

Big Buck Hunter Arcade, NASCAR Heat, and Madden for Country Night – sounds about white.

Volleyball Fever and FIFA for Caribbean Night – sure.

Clustertruck for Pride Night?

[pause]

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[browsing Comic-Con 2021 schedule]

NBA Players Are Anime Fans Too
Jul 24, 2021 1:00 pm

Austin Osueke (publisher of eigoMANGA) moderates a panel with NBA star De'Aaron Fox, his agent Chris Gaston, and writer Natashia McGough Clarke (Swipa The Fox).

Pro basketball manager turned comic writer Andy Ikeakor (Swipa The Fox) also discusses the fundamentals of writing comic books centered around sports.

De'Aaron Fox made a comic book about himself.

The story starts off with De'Aaron partnering with a video game company to develop his first basketball video game.

De'Om Ball.

He wears an experimental motion capture suit and a VR headset to play-test the game. While playing, an accident causes him to transport into the game. He has to harness all of his world class basketball skills to play his way out of the digital game and return to the real world.

De'Ace Jam.

Conversely, the video game's version of De'Aaron has switched bodies with the real De'Aaron Fox; he is living lavishly in the real world unbeknownst to De'Aaron's family, friends, and teammates.

De'Ace/Off.

Swipa The Fox aims to delve into a fascinating story that combines basketball and artificial intelligence.

Through many twists and turns, the reader goes on a journey with De'Aaron and follows his efforts to return back to the real world and in turn, send his video game counterpart back into the digital game. This is a story of strength, warring wits, self-discovery, and the battle between artificial intelligence and the human spirit. [source]

The De'Parted.

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29. Racial Chat Room (Dave, S02E06)

Stray Observations

  • Steve Zahn's penis (The White Lotus, S01E01)
  • "It's just…so disturbing that it's in my balls, and that they get big like this. It's very Gogol." (The White Lotus, S01E01)
  • "Like she actually cared about the working poor. She was a neoliberal war hawk."
    "She was a neolib and a neocon."
    "I'm sorry, did you say Hillary Clinton?" (The White Lotus, S01E01)
  • "Just sneak out the back with your art guy. You can finish the meeting at, like, a Golden Krust? I don't know, there's, like, three in walking distance." (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "Yo, but didn't he get expelled? How he get inside? So they just letting anybody in the school?"
    "He's white." (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "(kevin's been listening to t.i. interviews)" (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "It was also the perfect medium to capture the subject's, uh, chura-scaro, so…"
    "Chiaroscuro."
    "I've heard it both ways." (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "She told me if she catch me hanging out with you again, she's sending my ass to Nigeria, and I'm not trying to end up like Donovan." [pan to Donovan's shirt] (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • Clip-on tie (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "Dan, the kid didn't sneak through a crack door. He walked through the entrance. He's white." (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • Callback to "Bro, I bet nothing is even about to happen to White Marcus. Like most cops probably just going to take his ass to Burger King or some shit." (Flatbush Misdemeanors, S01E07)
  • "Okay, let's go see this latest piece of Marvel shit you kids are jizzing over." (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "You're not being very scientific, Morty. Measure twice, cut once. Especially with semen." (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "Now, how do we deal with these…orgasogoblins? No takers? Okay. These…cumplestiltskins? No? Dumb? These, uh, skeet boogins?"
    "Oh, yeah, yeah, skeet boogins."
    "Really? Skeet boogins? We'll use it as a placeholder and beat it later." (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "Are you out of your mind bringing an armed sperm in here?" (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "The sperm made a catapult? Are they getting smarter?"
    "No, you're getting dumber because that's a trebuchet."
    "Nobody knows the difference!"
    "They're reloading that textbook trebuchet!" (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "Fools! You can't beat me! You didn't bring a woman that can kickbox!" (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "Take three steps back, Amazing Johnathan." (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • Easy button (Rick and Morty, S05E04)
  • "Oh, I've been dubbed many names by many people. A ruler, a conqueror, He Who Remains, a jerk." (Loki, S01E06)
  • "Why aren't we seeing this the same way?"
    "Because you can't trust…and I can't be trusted." (Loki, S01E06)
  • "I'll see you soon." (Loki, S01E06)
  • Loki Season Grade: B
  • "But I'm telling you, I will not be eating there."
    "You think the IKEA recipe says 'onions, carrots, celery, and horse'?"
    "I'm not saying that it's part of their recipe, but I think there's clearly
    a lack of oversight."
    "Hey, Siri, are IKEA meatballs made of horse?" (Dave, S02E06)
  • "Honey, if you think it's gonna make you happy dating women in the industry, let me tell you, you've got another thing coming."
    "Another think coming."
    "What?"
    "Another think."
    "What are you talking about?"
    "You said 'another thing.' It's another— The expression, 'another think coming.'"
    "Think?" (Dave, S02E06)
  • "This bitch…" (Dave, S02E06)
  • "Is my body acne on camera?" (Dave, S02E06)
  • "This the third fucking revelation of Sremm! We used to work at fucking Olive Garden, eating breadsticks and drinking fucking…water!"
    "We came all the way up." (Dave, S02E06)
  • "@ChampagnePapi is following you" (Dave, S02E06)
  • "Dude, Maya's a professional actress."
    "No, she's not. She's a model. Also, she's barely even a model. She just did one ad for Sprouts." (American Horror Stories, S01E01)
  • "Whose blood is this?"
    "I don't know. Hers, maybe? Time of the month?"
    "Oh, right. It would also explain how bitchy she's been."
    "You want to get blitzed on Xanax and edibles and watch The Crown?" (American Horror Stories, S01E01)
  • A Netflix show in a Hulu show (American Horror Stories, S01E01)
  • "I really think we should have a session about this. I got some time between 4:00 and 6:00. There's another therapist here, so I'm just fighting for office hours." (American Horror Stories, S01E01)
  • "Unless it's free, we don't have the money to pay him. We have almost no extra cash. And while you may be great at sucking dick, with all the work we have left to do, a couple BJs aren't gonna make up the difference." (American Horror Stories, S01E02)
  • "I want in on that too."
    "What?"
    "Your marriage. I don't want to sleep in the same bed as you guys, or put my toothbrush on the counter next to yours, but I want mouth and ass privileges." (American Horror Stories, S01E02)
  • ♫: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Heads Will Roll" (American Horror Stories, S01E02)
  • "I'm sorry. I'm possessive." (American Horror Stories, S01E02)
  • "I've been whoring all morning and the whistle's dry." (The North Water, S01E01)
  • "The money does what it wants to. Doesn't care what we prefer. Block off one passageway and it carves a new one." (The North Water, S01E01)
  • "It is a grave mistake to think too much. Why board the Volunteer? Why sealing?
    Why whaling? There is no reason and that is its great genius, the illogic of it, the near idiocy. Perhaps life cannot be puzzled or blathered into submission, but should be lived through and survived in whatever fashion a man can manage. Maybe cleverness will get you nowhere. Maybe it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth." (The North Water, S01E01)
  • "I am not on no Mother Teresa type shit, all right? I'm actually the most selfish person you'll ever meet. For real, for real. Check it out, check it out, check it out. A. I love cooking. B. I adore Black folks. C. I get to do what I like to do, all day every day. Now tell me what's not more selfish than that right there." (Betty, S02E06)
  • Betty Season Grade: C

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: The Underground Railroad
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Girls5eva

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Missed opportunity not casting Steven Seagal to complete a Half Past Dead / Today You Die / Out of Death triptych.

The poster lists 30! executive producers.

Directed by Mike Burns, who composed the theme music for ESPN's Rome Is Burning?

Since 2011, Burns has supervised the music for 25 films, 16 of which feature Bruce Willis.

Is he associated with that producer I read about?

In October 2020, not long after wrapping his directorial debut, Emmett sent his longtime music supervisor, Mike Burns, to Puerto Rico to start shooting his own first movie, Out of Death, also starring Willis.

When the stars at last aligned and filming commenced, Burns was left with just nine days to shoot. Equally challenging: Willis, who was originally slated for two days of filming, had a "hard out," which meant that all his scenes would need to be shot in a single day. "We already had such limited time with Bruce, and our time with him was cut in half," Burns told me. "And that meant that we had to actually start cutting themes and rejiggering things."

Yes, yes, he is.

There's a crude, blunt brilliance to Emmett's filmmaking formula: Accept money from just about anyone willing to hand it over, offer vast sums of it to an aging star for a day or two of work, then leverage that actor's name to pre-sell the movie in foreign markets. Along the way, forgo union writers and directors whenever possible, keep shooting days to a minimum, and film on location in places like Puerto Rico, where the local government offers filmmakers tax credits that can be sold on the open market for 90 cents on the dollar.

Ugliness, after all, is excusable in Hollywood. It remains the kind of town where even auteurs like Martin Scorsese will rub elbows with Emmett, as long as it helps them get a movie made.

"He begged Marty for a script that he couldn't get financed so that he could finance it for him," a producer who has worked with Emmett told me. That film turned out to be Silence, which had languished in development for decades before Emmett helped Scorsese find some of the money that finally got it made.

Emmett leveraged his deal with Scorsese to earn a non-PGA producer credit for The Irishman, but it did not earn him the respect of his peers. For those old enough to remember his early days in Hollywood, Emmett is still Mark Wahlberg's former personal assistant, the hard-partying hanger-on who helped inspire the character Turtle on HBO's Entourage.

From the inspiration for Turtle on Entourage: Out of Death.

Prank Show Idea: Payday or mayday? Can Bruce Willis survive a day on our sham film productions?

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28. Insider Trading (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E03)

Honourable Mention

  • Blues Brother (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E04)

Stray Observations

  • Blake Anderson (Blindspotting, S01E04)
  • "I would say we could hit up that diner by the Fox, but they turned it into an arcade now. They got these wack-ass bowling alleys with these, like, weird, tiny balls."
    "Bocce."
    "Bocce? Where's that at?" (Blindspotting, S01E04)
  • "Let's find you a gig, my nig." (Blindspotting, S01E04)
  • "Those Zen Diagram meditation checks seem to be coming slow in the mail. How were your dates?"
    "Also slow males." (Blindspotting, S01E04)
  • "You let him watch Reservoir Dogs?"
    "Isn't it a nature doc?"
    "The nature of man."
    "You know, he just kept crying and saying, 'Don't take my ear!'" (Blindspotting, S01E04)
  • "Nobody cares how I'm driving. We're in Vermont."
    "Live free or die, right?"
    "That's New Hampshire."
    "Same thing." (Kevin Can Fuck Himself, S01E04)
  • "Mother Nature has enlisted the help of four young adults from each major ethnicity." (Rick and Morty, S05E03)
  • "Great. My little brother's dating a phase four superhero." (Rick and Morty, S05E03)
  • "Do you have any good memories?"
    "Just one, really." (Loki, S01E05)
  • Thanos-copter (Loki, S01E05)
  • Throg (Loki, S01E05)
  • Polybius (Loki, S01E05)
  • Ecto Cooler (Loki, S01E05)
  • "All that time, I really believed we were the good guys."
    "Annihilating entire realities, orphaning little girls, classic hero stuff." (Loki, S01E05)
  • ♫: Gata – "Check Up" (Dave, S02E05)
  • "'I am Queens Boulevard!' Do you get that?"
    "Nah. It sounds like a corny Broadway, though."
    "A corny Broadway? It's a… Do Black people watch Entourage?"
    (Dave, S02E05)


(Dave, S02E05)

  • Justice Smith's penis (Genera+ion, S01E16)
  • ♫: San Holo – "bb u ok?" (Genera+ion, S01E16)
  • Genera+ion Season Grade: C
  • ♫: Aska Matsumiya – "Dream Together" (Betty, S02E05)
  • Coffin Flop (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E01)


(I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E01)

  • "What are sloppy steaks?"
    "It's a steak with water dumped on it. It's really, really good." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E02)
  • ♫: Ezra Koenig – "Dangerous Knife [The Night Is a Knife]" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E02)
  • calicocutpants.com (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E04)
  • "So what happens if you try to buy the pants on that website?"
    "They all say they're out of stock. That also makes it seem like it's a hot item. It's the same thing Supreme does, wouldn't you agree?" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E04)
  • "Don't send me videos of loud wrestlers!" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E04)
  • "Oh, my God. Johnny Carson just fucking hit me." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E05)
  • "She drank diarrhea!" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E05)
  • "Do you understand the tables are my corn?" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "What does she do?"
    "Tables!"
    "But how is tables a job?" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "That's right, girls. Start packing on those pounds. The only doll that poops, then lies about it doesn't have farts in her head anymore." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "We were joking around again, sir. And it went too far. Just like it always does. Someone always gets hurt. Just like when I almost killed myself when Julie gave me chode jeans."
    "What?"
    "Like when I turned 45, and I said, 'No gag gifts,' and Julie gave me chode jeans and I almost killed myself."
    "What are cho jeans?"
    "Chode jeans. They're jeans for a chode. A size 54 waist, 10-inch legs, fucking junk." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "I had Chloe. She was really cool. She stood outside the bathroom and assured me no one could hear the splashes." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "A couple of years ago, I ordered my wife a Sybian." (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • "Sometimes I put my dad in JibJab videos so he's alive again. I showed it to my mom. She said, 'Where is he? This is so boring.' I go, 'Mom, it's not real. It's a JibJab.'" (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, S02E06)
  • I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Season Grade: B

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: The Underground Railroad
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Girls5eva

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Previously on Adam Riff™:

Cablp (pronounced Ca-blip) — short for Criss Angel's breakfast, lunch, and pizza — opens in July with fast-casual fare and more.

Where's the "C"?

Oh, that's Criss Angel's logo.

Criss Angel's Ablp.

Late to the party on the Foodie Magician, a professional magician who likes to eat out and entertain fellow diners while doing so.

"I've got a table from Prada over there," the chef said.

After a few more bites Mr. Beckerman jumped to his feet and stood next to Kevyn Jennings, a smartly dressed personal shopper for Prada; Eric Chelman, an art dealer from the Franklin Bowles Gallery in SoHo; and two friends of theirs from Switzerland.

"Happy Fashion Week, people!" Mr. Beckerman exclaimed. "I'm the foodie magician!" [source]

[snorts]

His signature trick is the one in which he seems to pluck the name of a favorite New York restaurant from a person's brain.

"Is it Ray's Pizza?"