Trump flags are gonna persist like the Confederate flag, aren't they? Anyone born after 2015 will never know a world without them.
Flags: The pronouns of the right.
Line of Blue
Gadsden
Bars and Stars
Trump
Q
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
2. Wes Andersimpsons (The Simpsons, S32E11)
Stray Observations
- "Fox Kidz" (Mr. Mayor, S01E01)
-
"Aren't you a little old for the name Jayden?"
"Thank you for noticing. I'm actually one of the oldest Jaydens you'll ever meet. Born in 1981, I like to think I might be the original Jayden." (Mr. Mayor, S01E01) -
"Orly, your phone's out here, so I know you're gonna cave eventually."
"Stop controlling my narrative!" (Mr. Mayor, S01E01) -
"Being mayor if 90% photo ops and animal funerals."
"Not just any animal – Dog with a Blog." (Mr. Mayor, S01E01) - Justin Bieber promoting a chair (Shark Tank, S12E09)
- Lupin Season Grade: C
Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: How To with John Wilson
jukebox twenty
Previously on Adam Riff™:
Adam Riff™'s 2020 retrospective festivities conclude with a triptych of playlists.
First, Mad MMXX, my 17th year-end audio pastiche.
Next, Four Seasons Total Soundscaping, a very different mix curated by our mates Adam [Rozett] Robot and Jon Bell.
Finally, Good & Twenty, curated — and DJ mixed — by our mate DJ Benny C:
cover art by our mate Jon Wilcox
Alternate title idea: The Masked Dance.
- Good & Twenty DJ Benny C 1:09:03
Aaaand the unmixed version:
Previously on Adam Riff™:
Our favourite songs. One per year.
Update:
JON
1. Radiohead – "The National Anthem" [2000]
2. Finch – "What It Is to Burn (Demo)" [2001]
3. Spoon – "Stay Don't Go" [2002]
4. The Mars Volta – "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt"
5. Ratatat – "Seventeen Years"
6. The Mountain Goats – "This Year"
7. DragonForce – "Through the Fire and Flames"
8. Frank Turner – "The Real Damage"
9. The Wonder Years – "You're Not Salinger. Get Over It."
10. So Many Dynamos – "New Bones"
11. Jamie Lidell – "Your Sweet Boom"
12. M83 – "Midnight City"
13. Jai Paul – "Jasmine (Demo)"
14. CHVRCHES – "The Mother We Share"
15. CFO$ – "Worlds Apart"
16. Oneohtrix Point Never – "No Good"
17. Kanye West – "Ultralight Beam"
18. GoldLink – "Crew (feat. Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy)"
19. Panic! at the Disco – "High Hopes" [2018]
20. Labrinth – "Still Don't Know My Name" [2019]
21. Bartees Strange – "Boomer" [2020]
Jon: "Boomer" sounds like all of my musical interests in three minutes. It's exciting, energetic, soulful, catchy. I can't wait to sing and dance along to it live.
ADAM ROBOT
1. Snapcase – "Typecast Modulator" [2000]
2. Rival Schools – "Travel by Telephone" [2001]
3. City of Caterpillar – "And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven" [2002]
4. Every Time I Die – "Ebolarama"
5. Codeseven – "All the Best Dreams"
6. Comeback Kid – "Wake the Dead"
7. Jesu – "Silver"
8. Rob Crow – "Up"
9. Russian Circles – "Campaign"
10. Coalesce – "Wild Ox Moan"
11. Deftones – "Rocket Skates"
12. Touché Amoré – "Home Away From Here"
13. Torche – "Kicking"
14. Coliseum – "Fuzzbang"
15. Violent Soho – "Covered in Chrome"
16. Baroness – "Chlorine and Wine"
17. Joyce Manor – "Last You Heard of Me"
18. Charly Bliss – "Westermarck"
19. Daughters – "The Reason They Hate Me" [2018]
20. Angel Du$t – "Want It All" [2019]
21. Higher Power – "Seamless" [2020]
Adam Robot: Something about this song from really connected me to my teenage self. There's touches of alt-rock, shoegaze, post-hardcore, nu-metal, and divisive vocals – basically everything I was into at 17. It really transported me out of 2020.
BEN
1. Outkast – "B.O.B." [2000]
2. Gob – "I Hear You Calling" [2001]
3. Justin Timberlake – "Cry Me a River" [2002]
4. The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
5. Franz Ferdinand – "Take Me Out"
6. "Trapped in the Closet" Bloc Party – "This Modern Love"
7. TV on the Radio – "Wolf Like Me"
8. UGK – "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) [feat. Outkast]"
9. MGMT – "Time to Pretend"
10. Passion Pit – "The Reeling"
11. LCD Soundsystem – "Dance Yrself Clean"
12. M83 – "Midnight City"
13. Bruno Mars – "Locked Out of Heaven"
14. Daft Punk – "Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)"
15. Duke Dumont – "I Got You (feat. Jax Jones)"
16. Major Lazer × DJ Snake – "Lean On (feat. MØ)"
17. G.L.O.S.S. – "Give Violence a Chance"
18. Kendrick Lamar – "DNA."
19. Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin – "I Like It" [2018]
20. Lil Nas X – "Old Town Road – Remix (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)" [2019]
21. Dua Lipa – "Physical" [2020]
Ben: Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia was my album of the year. I listened to it, and this song on it, more than anything else in 2020. It's incredibly unfair that I never got to drop "Physical" for a packed dance floor.
Bell and 'Zett Face the Music
Previously on Adam Riff™:
Adam Riff™'s 2020 retrospective festivities conclude with a triptych of playlists.
First, Mad MMXX, my 17th year-end audio pastiche.
Next, Four Seasons Total Soundscaping, a very different mix curated by our mates Adam [Rozett] Robot and Jon Bell:
Rejected cover/title ideas:
—Replace the dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind with a $1200 stimulus check.
—Scrooge McDuck diving into a $1200 stimulus check.
—Lloyd Dobler holding up a black square.
—MuAnon.
—Something something Social Distortion, but Social Distancing.
—The cover of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. with a mask instead of a hat in his back right jeans pocket.
—The cover of Madvillain's Madvillainy with a face shield covering MF DOOM's mask.
—OnlyBands or OnlyJams.
—MTV's logo, but WAP. Upside down M. "AP" instead of "TV." Wrap-up Audio Playlist.
—The Looney Tunes color rings. Zoomey Tunes. The black circle in the center just reads "Porky Pig" in white text as if his camera is off.
—The cover of NOFX's White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean, but White Masks, Six Feet and a 'Tine. "20XX" instead of "NOFX."
—XX XX Hard Quarantine Age Phonography (XXX Hardcore Teenage Pornography).
A MAD Listen at 2020
Previously on Adam Riff™:
Adam Riff™'s 2020 retrospective festivities conclude with a triptych of playlists.
First, Mad MMXX, my 17th year-end audio pastiche:
cover art by our mate Jon Wilcox
Alternate cover idea: The cover of Outkast's Stankonia with Black Spy and White Spy as Big Boi and Andre 3000.
- DaBaby "Jeopardy!" 0:13
- Rockstar Mario Judah 3:17
- Boomer Bartees Strange 3:18
- SONGS ABOUT YOU CHIKA 4:02
- Michael Jackson "High Fidelity" 1:54
- Long Porridge Radio 4:51
- In Your Eyes The Weeknd 3:58
- I'm a Virgin The Weeknd / "American Dad" 3:02
- All Along the Uxbridge Road Chubby and the Gang 1:45
- Man in The Box William Maranci (feat. DJ Benny C) 5:26
- Feel Like I Do Vin Diesel 3:06
- Kerosene! Yves Tumor 5:06
- peace Taylor Swift 3:54
- Grow It Back Again Ron Low 3:31
- God Is Perfect Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist 3:59
- RASCAL RMR 3:00
- Don't Start Now Hayley Williams 3:10
- Lost but Never Alone Oneohtrix Point Never 4:19
- Sting "Maxxx" 0:13
- Just Us Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 2:43
- Cardi Mii Leonz 2:46
- The Sky Is Falling Oceanator 5:47
- Ladies Fiona Apple 5:25
- Over the Limit (feat. DOM KENNEDY) Benny the Butcher 4:15
- Jaja Ding Dong Will Ferrell and My Marianne 1:38
- Fox Dogleg 2:50
- Take Care in Your Dreaming (feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky, and Sampa the Great) The Avalanches 5:00
- David Bowie "Breeders" 0:06
- Where Did You Go? sinai vessel 5:36
- Throat Baby (Go Baby) BRS Kash 3:38
- Plastic Doll Lady Gaga 3:42
- Ween "Close Enough" 0:13
- Routine Pain Spanish Love Songs 4:23
- Fallin' J. Alphonse Nicholson 2:48
- before you go Moses Sumney 2:06
- The Most Muscular Nobuo Uematsu 1:40
- Caution The Killers 4:30
- The Bigger Picture Lil Baby 4:13
- Come on Eileen "What We Do in the Shadows" 1:23
- Dammit Antarctigo Vespucci 5:33
- Salut NNAMDÏ 5:21
- Jail Lil Dicky 10:08
2:27:24 – almost as long as Wonder Woman 1984, but a better use of that time, imo.
Aaaand the free tier stream that's a third unplayable:
-
FuManTunes
Every Adam Riff™ audio mix ever
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
1. American Football (Cobra Kai, S03E04)
Stray Observations
- A Teacher Season Grade: C
Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: How To with John Wilson
The 2020 Draft
Previously on Adam Riff™:
There was an idea… To bring together a group of disparate people… To see if we could create something more…than a year-end list.
12 people select 10 things they loved from 2020 without any overlap, creating a "best of 2020" list unlike any other.
THE LEAGUE
—
In randomly-generated snake draft order:
Drew
Travis Scott
"K.K. Gumbo"
Rihanna vs. Madonna
Russell
Quavo
"K.K. Cruisin'"
Metallica vs. Guns N' Roses
Jeff
Quavo
"Hypno K.K."
Taylor Swift vs. Tom Petty
Stan
Quavo
"K.K. Reggae"
Phil Collins vs. Adele
Noelle
Quavo
"K.K. Cruisin'"
Janet Jackson vs. Mariah Carey
Ben
Quavo
"Comrade K.K."
Fleetwood Mac vs. Paul Simon
Jon Y [me]
Diplo
"Soulful K.K."
Blur vs. Oasis
Molly
Quavo
"K.K. Bossa"
Mariah Carey vs. Whitney Houston
Jon B
Diplo
"K.K. Metal"
Robert Smith vs. Morrissey
EJ
Travis Scott
"K.K. Cruisin'"
Aphex Twin vs. Boards of Canada
Aaron
Quavo
"Café K.K."
Mariah Carey vs. Jennifer Lopez
Adam
Travis Scott
"K.K. Metal"
Rick Rubin vs. Ross Robinson
Poor J Balvin.
Alright.
With the first pick in the 2020 Draft, Drew selected…
R1 • Drew
1. Donald Trump, one-term president
R1 • Russell
2. David Guetta shouting out George Floyd's family with a remix of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
R1 • Jeff
3. Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it releasing one week into COVID-19 lockdowns
R1 • Stan
4. The entrancing, 10-minute "Silly Games" dance scene in the middle of Small Axe: Lovers Rock
R1 • Noelle
5. Harry Styles hinting at his sexual fluidity in the music video for "Watermelon Sugar"
R1 • Ben
6. The Last Dance saving our sanity in April and May
R1 • Jon Y
7. How To With John Wilson
Adam: I knew you'd get my number one. I knew it would be your first pick. Amber can attest because I was yelling about it when I found out I picked last.
Jon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I work at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in PA pic.twitter.com/cX6bIMkag8
— Christine Nangle (@nanglish) November 8, 2020
R1 • Molly
8. Four Seasons Total Landscaping
R1 • Jon B
9. Possessor
R1 • EJ
10. PlayStation 5
R1 • Aaron
11. The Last of Us: Part II
R1 • Adam
12. Quibi's absolute and total failure
R2 • Adam
13. Reply All #168: "The Case of the Missing Hit"
R2 • Aaron
14. Dua Lipa
Ben: AAARRROOONN!!!
R2 • EJ
15. All Gas No Brakes
R2 • Jon B
16. Ted Lasso
R2 • Molly
17. The Old Guard, and Gina Prince-Bythewood finally getting her snaps
R2 • Jon Y
18. The Great
R2 • Ben
19. Verzuz
R2 • Noelle
20. Lovecraft Country
R2 • Stan
21. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
R2 • Jeff
22. ZeroZeroZero
R2 • Russell
23. Normal People
R2 • Drew
24. Rudy Gobert as America's COVID coal mine canary
R3 • Drew
25. Folklore by Taylor Swift
R3 • Russell
26. Nyles and Sarah's bar dance in Palm Springs
R3 • Jeff
27. Phoebe Bridgers
Stan: Fuck. Jeff took Phoebe Bridgers one spot ahead of where I was going to do it.
Jeff: Okay, well, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Palm Springs, and Folklore were pretty much my entire list otherwise. She was all I had left!
R3 • Stan
28. I May Destroy You
R3 • Noelle
39. Dave
Jon: Goddammit!
Noelle: You snagged The Great from me, so now we're even.
Adam: Just Dave? Not Dave pooping? Booooo!
Noelle: The whole show, every detail about it is so incredible. I couldn't pick!
R3 • Ben
30. Literally everything Marc Rebillet did, "Essential Workers Anthem" in particular
R3 • Jon Y
32. Nomadland
R3 • Molly
32. High Fidelity: "Uptown"
R3 • Jon B
33. Betty
R3 • EJ
34. Yves Tumor
R3 • Aaron
35. The Saved by the Bell revival
R3 • Adam
36. Dick Johnson Is Dead
R4 • Adam
37. Ahsoka Tano's live-action debut in The Mandalorian: "Chapter 13 – The Jedi"
R4 • Aaron
38. The Ellen DeGeneres Show's toxic work environment
R4 • EJ
39. QAnon
R4 • Jon B
40. VFW
R4 • Molly
41. John McEnroe's narration for Never Have I Ever
R4 • Jon Y
42. Nate: A One Man Show
R4 • Ben
43. Despite its ending (ugh), the NBA bubble
R4 • Noelle
44. Jolene saying "Good job, cracker" at the end of The Queen's Gambit
R4 • Stan
45. PEN15
R4 • Jeff
46. The mindless comfort of binging network sitcoms
47. Fleetwood Mac regaining cultural relevance with the Cranberry Juice Skateboard Guy
R4 • Drew
48. Megan Thee Stallion's New York Times op-ed
R5 • Drew
49. The Flight Attendant
R5 • Russell
50. P-Valley
R5 • Jeff
51. Hamilton Leithauser's quarantine concerts from his rural family farm
R5 • Stan
52. Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
R5 • Noelle
53. The "Brown Skin Girl" section of Black Is King
R5 • Ben
54. After Hours by The Weeknd
R5 • Jon Y
55. What We Do in the Shadows
R5 • Molly
56. Americans figuring out how much Prince Charles sucks while watching The Crown
R5 • Jon B
57. Hawkeye: Freefall
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) November 11, 2020
R5 • EJ
58. People being repeatedly dunked on for making Parasite memes that show they don't understand the film's themes
R5 • Aaron
59. Marvel's Avengers, the worst game I've ever put 100+ hours into
R5 • Adam
60. Dorktown: The History of the Seattle Mariners
R6 • Adam
61. RMR – "Rascal"
R6 • Aaron
62. Harley Quinn
R6 • EJ
63. Travis Scott's copious brand collaborations
R6 • Jon B
64. Beef House
R6 • Molly
65. You Must Remember This' Polly Platt series
R6 • Jon Y
66. Mario Judah, enfant terrible
R6 • Ben
67. Hasan Piker's Twitch channel
R6 • Noelle
68. Little Fires Everywhere
R6 • Stan
69. The fertility dance in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Stan: I may have been inclined to take this slightly earlier to ensure the most dance-heavy draft ever.
R6 • Jeff
70. 18.xx games
R6 • Russell
71. Black Squares
R6 • Drew
72. The simultaneous ascensions of DaBaby and Lil Baby
R7 • Drew
73. The 12-minute, one-shot action sequence in Extraction
R7 • Russell
74. WarnerMedia destroying theatrical windows after the pandemic release of Tenet and the launch of HBO Max both flopped
R7 • Jeff
75. Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen, and its perfect timing
R7 • Stan
76. Ziwe Fumudoh's interview show
R7 • Noelle
77. Amber and Barnett from Love Is Blind
R7 • Ben
78. YHLQMDLG and El Último Tour del Mundo by Bad Bunny
R7 • Jon Y
79. The Safdie brothers' music video for Oneohtrix Point Never's "Lost But Never Alone"
R7 • Molly
80. Sohla's triumphant rise from the ashes of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen dumpster fire
R7 • Jon B
81. Bandcamp Fridays
R7 • EJ
82. Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) by Jay Electronica leaking online, to him releasing it still unfinished as a Tidal exclusive, to it being removed from Tidal
R7 • Aaron
83. Schitt's Creek, and it winning all the Emmys
R7 • Adam
84. The Follow-Up
R8 • Adam
85. Jonathan Mann's remix of Jolee Dunn's "I Wonder What's Inside Your Butthole"
R8 • Aaron
86. The actual release of The New Mutants ushering out crappy Fox X-Men films
R8 • EJ
87. Mitch McConnell looking like Tarman from Return of the Living Dead
R8 • Jon B
88. The Microphones – "Microphones in 2020"
R8 • Molly
89. Brad and Jen's Zoom flirting during Dane Cook's Fast Times at Ridgemont High virtual table read
R8 • Jon Y
90. John Cena and Bray Wyatt's Firefly Fun House "match"
R8 • Ben
91. Cori Bush, Marie Newman, and Jamaal Bowman successfully primarying shitty centrist libs
R8 • Noelle
92. Addison Rae's weird and not-so-borderline-inappropriate friendship with Kourtney Kardashian
R8 • Stan
93. Time
Jon: Three of your picks are Amazon Originals.
Stan: It's not sponcon.
R8 • Jeff
94. Tracy Chapman's election eve performance on Late Night with Seth Meyers
R8 • Russell
95. MJF and Chris Jericho dueting aggressively in "Le Dinner Debonair"
R8 • Drew
96. The OnlyFans economy going mainstream
R9 • Drew
97. America's simultaneous disgust and fascination with Emily in Paris
R9 • Russell
98. The Bill Simmons Podcast: "A Truly Sad Week in America, Plus the 2005 NBA Redraftables With Ryen Russillo"
R9 • Jeff
99. The Strokes' improbable comeback with The New Abnormal
R9 • Stan
100. Gunda
R9 • Noelle
101. Saweetie and Quavo's DM origin story igniting the "How it started vs. How it's going" meme
R9 • Ben
102. Among Us
R9 • Jon Y
103. Boys State
R9 • Molly
104. Dolly Parton donating $1 million to vaccine research and basically saving the world
R9 • Jon B
105. Chris Fairbanks: Rescue Cactus
R9 • EJ
106. Ho, Why Is You Here? by Flo Milli
R9 • Aaron
107. The Sonic the Hedgehog mulligan becoming the highest-grossing video game film of all time
R9 • Adam
108. Eric Andre surprise tucking at the end of Legalize Everything
Final Round Wild Card Pick
Along with your final pick, please select something from 2020 that you have yet to experience as of 15 December 2020 but are keen on.
R10 • Adam
109. Tim Robinson parodying a Michigan stay-at-home protest
+ Promising Young Woman
R10 • Aaron
110. Xbox Series X/S
+ Wonder Woman 1984
R10 • EJ
111. Ghost of Tsushima
+ Kendrick Lamar's fifth album
R10 • Jon B
112. The dialogue between Blair and Sterling Wesley on Teenage Bounty Hunters
+ Synchronic
R10 • Molly
113. Dionne Warwick's niece teaching her what Twitter is
+ Bridgerton
R10 • Jon Y
114. BPM: Bullets Per Minute
+ Hades
R10 • Ben
115. Matt Cutshall's emo joke videos culminating in "A Letter to Ashley," the best song parody in years
+ Better Call Saul
R10 • Noelle
116. "It's the for me"
+ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
R10 • Stan
117. Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee
+ One Night in Miami
Jon: Heh. Another Amazon Original.
Stan: I had no choices! Fuck Bezos.
R10 • Jeff
118. [My uncle] Dan Baum's New York Times obituary
+ Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
R10 • Russell
119. Class Action Park
+ The Midnight Sky
R10 • Drew
120. Paddy Considine's flawless Southern accent in The Outsider
+ Sound of Metal
UNDRAFTED!
90 Day Fiancé / Big Ed
The Boys
Carson Shearer's dance
Clubhouse / Parler
Cyberpunk 2077
Dancing Ghanian pallbearers
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Final Fantasy VII Remake
First Cow
Gal Gadot's "Imagine" video
"Glizzy"
Griselda Records
Hamilton
The McCloskeys photo
Patrick Mahomes
"private island all tested negative multiple times wear a mask"
Roddy Ricch – "The Box"
This you?
Thom Brennaman's apology
Tiger King
The XFL
Adam Riff™ Clips of the Year
1. WWE Raw
2. Black-ish
3. Sex Education
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. The Bachelor
6. The New Pope
7. WWE Raw
8. McMillion$
9. The New Pope
10. Dave
11. Dave
12. WWE Raw
13. Curb Your Enthusiasm
14. Beastars
15. WWE WrestleMania 36: Night Two
16. Better Call Saul
17. Dave
18. Harley Quinn
19. American Dad
20. WWE Money in the Bank
21. Mythic Quest: Quarantine
22. Rick and Morty
23. Ramy
24. What We Do in the Shadows
25. Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular
26. Celebrity Show-Off
27. Search Party
28. Close Enough
29. The Jump
30. P-Valley
31. Maxxx
32. WWE Raw
33. Corporate
34. Lovecraft Country
35. Escouade 99
36. The Boys
37. WWE Raw
38. PEN15
39. The Kelly Clarkson Show
40. Let's Be Real
41. We Are Who We Are
42. The Good Lord Bird
43. 50 States of Fright
44. The Eric Andre Show
45. The Eric Andre Show
46. How To with John Wilson
47. The Mandalorian
48. The Eric Andre Show
49. The Mandalorian
50. Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always
51. The Mandalorian
52. What does the fox say? (Small Axe, S01E05)
Honourable Mention
- Interminable "House of the Rising Sun" (Small Axe, S01E05)
Stray Observations
-
"This book mentioned that I now have to write to the Secretary of State for Education or something?"
"That's correct, yes. A woman named Margaret Thatcher. She's only just been appointed, so maybe we will have a chance." (Small Axe, S01E05) - Small Axe Season Grade: C
(WWE TLC, 20 Dec 20)
- "Does my face look like it's in the mood for shape-based jokes?" (Ted Lasso, S01E08)
- "I never know how to react when a grown man does the Carlton in front of me." (Ted Lasso, S01E09)
-
"Now, hold on one second. So if you come in last place in the Premier League, you get to play in the Championship?"
"They also invented irony."
"Man, this town has got a weird way with words, don't it? I mean, come on, y'all. It's 2020. Let's just call 'em cigarettes." (Ted Lasso, S01E10) - Ted Lasso Season Grade: C
Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: How To with John Wilson
2020 AR™TV World Drama Championship Reigns
Watchmen – 22 weeks [carried over from 2019]
The Great – 13 weeks
P-Valley – 20 weeks and counting
2020 AR™TV World Comedy Championship Reigns
Rick and Morty – 13 weeks [carried over from 2019]
Dave – 9 weeks
What We Do in the Shadows – 25 weeks
How To with John Wilson – 8 weeks and counting
Looking forward:
The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2020
10. This Is Me Trying • What We Do in the Shadows
9. Mad Woman • The Boys
8. The Last Great American Dynasty • You Cannot Kill David Arquette
7. Seven • Extraction
6. Exile • Lost Bullet
5. Mirrorball • Tenet
4. Illicit Affairs • Gangs of London
3. The 1 • Gangs of London
2. Betty • The Hunt
1. Invisible String • Enter the Fat Dragon
see also:
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2019
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2018
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2017
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2016
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2015
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2014
- The Top 11 Fight Scenes of 2013
- 7 Deadly Scenes: Fight Scenes of the Year (2012)
- The Year in Fighting (2011)
- The Year in Fighting (2010)
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2009
- The Top 5 Fight Scenes of 2008
- The Top 10 Staged Fights of 2007
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
51. Return of the Jedi (The Mandalorian, S02E08)
Honourable Mention
- Music (Moonbase 8, S01E06)
Stray Observations
-
"I mean, should we tell NASA about the ranchers?"
"No! We just sent them a nasty letter about a status update! Now we're gonna tell them we have cow troubles?" (Moonbase 8, S01E06) - "But you can't always get what you want. Just like the Beatles said." (Moonbase 8, S01E06)
- "Well, if you end up casting somebody for me, maybe we could think of somebody a little better-looking than me. Brad Pitt or something. Dax Shepard." (Moonbase 8, S01E06)
-
"What might they be afraid of? A bull?"
"Leather manufacturers."
"All right, so do you think… How would a bull recognize, uh, a leather plant or a leather factory?"
"You remember the cartoon where you have the tailor come out to the-the farm with… and-and put out the measuring tape?"
"I never in my life have seen a cartoon where they were measuring for a leather jacket."
"I don't know. Uh, it was in the comics."
"I'm not gonna write down 'a leather manufacturer.'" (Moonbase 8, S01E06) - Moonbase 8 Season Grade: C
-
"I was on the Death Star."
"Which one?" (The Mandalorian, S02E08) - Sasha Banks hitting Boba Fett with a jetpack-assisted tornado DDT (The Mandalorian, S02E08)
- "One X-wing? Great. We're saved." (The Mandalorian, S02E08)
- "Maclunkey." (The Mandalorian, S02E08)
(The Mandalorian, S02E08)
- The Mandalorian Season Grade: C
-
"Guess what the headline will be."
"Gesundheit?"
"'Jamie's Tart Breaks Tartt's Heart.'"
"Did you just come up with that?"
"Yeah."
"Everyone would read that."
"Of course they would. You have no idea the power of rhyming in this goddamn country." (Ted Lasso, S01E03) -
"So, I spoke to the owner of The Sun."
"You spoke to God?!" (Ted Lasso, S01E03) -
"I'm looking for your prick boyfriend. You know how to pick 'em, don't ya?"
"Didn't your last girlfriend steal your Rolex and sell it for drug money?"
"So? I don't need a phone and a watch." (Ted Lasso, S01E03) - "And when it comes to locker rooms, I like 'em just like my mother's bathing suits – I only wanna see 'em in one piece, you hear?" (Ted Lasso, S01E04)
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"One more person says something that me and Beard don't understand, I'm gonna have one of my son's classic temper tantrums. It's basically just him calling me a bunch of silly names, you know, like, I don't know, 'dummy head' or 'poo poo face' or 'poo poo dummy' or– I don't know. What am I missing?"
"'Pee pee fingers.'"
"'Pee pee fingers.'" (Ted Lasso, S01E06) -
"Heck, even Mr. Martin Scorsese finally won his Oscar. But I think we can all agree that The Departed is not necessarily his best work. That belongs to The Color of Money."
"No, it's Goodfellas."
"Mmm, agree to disagree."
"Nah, nah. It's Age of Innocence, bruv."
"Cape Fear."
"Silence!" (Ted Lasso, S01E06)
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