Adam Riff™

42. Furious and Fast (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)

Honourable Mention

• Sexual choking (Fargo, S04E04)
• Anderson Cooper's face when he hears they are playing "Macho Man" at Trump's rally (Anderson Cooper 360, 12 Oct 20)

Stray Observations

• "Whizzes is extra." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• "Coloreds turn the tables on one another all the time, just like white folks. The only difference is the white man put his treachery on paper. Coloreds put theirs in their mouth." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• "No, I'll be back for you, Onion. You got to trust me. And you find us when the fight is done."
  "How? Where will you be?"
  "We'll be the only ones left drawing breath." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• "Had you succeeded, the streets would run red with blood."
  "You have no problem with blood unless it's the blood of white folks." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• ♫: Nina Simone – "I Shall Be Released" (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• "Onion, have you kept your nakedness covered?" (The Good Lord Bird, S01E02)
• "The computer needs a motherboard to give it instructions."
  "What's a motherboard?"
  "Me. I'm-a jack into the machine." (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• "Look at the nigger faggots." (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• "I took your bullshit, your beatings, your berating, forgave Mama and Uncle George for not protecting me from your ass, now—'cause I thought you was my father." (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• "Thomas won't mean much. He's just the first in a long list of sacrifices I made to be your father." (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• "When my great-great grandson is born, he will be my faith turned to flesh." (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• ♫: Sonia Sanchez – "Catch the Fire" (Lovecraft Country, S01E09)
• "On the street I hear this phrase. You know this phrase: 'American values.' And I think, 'What does it mean?' Financial values I understand. Money. What a thing is worth. Human values, this also makes sense. The Things we love. Family, i bambini… But this American values: land of the free, home of the brave, this I don't know. And then I learn the history of this country. Your slavery, the smallpox in the blankets, how you stole the land from the natives. And I realize…to be an American is to pretend. You pretend to be one thing when really you are something else." (Fargo, S04E04)
• ♫: Jeff Russo – "Little Drummer Boy" (Fargo, S04E04)
• "Sell 200 to Mort Kellerman." (Fargo, S04E04)
• "I'll be a minute." [grunts rhythmically]
  "Is this the minute?" (Fargo, S04E04)
• "'I don't believe in God…' Do you know why you don't? Because you're a little…sheep. A little sheep who goes along with all her little friends, wearing the same clothes, swapping Pokémons, and…looking at stupid little screens." (The Third Day, S01E05)
• "You're a believer then."
  "Nah. Not like these people, but I do know when a place is special."
  [chuckles] "You're a believer. Places aren't special. They're just places." (The Third Day, S01E05)
• ♫: Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over" (The Third Day, S01E05)
• They're descendants of Jack the Ripper? (The Third Day, S01E05)
• "Michiko Kakutani." (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• "Dev Hynes isn't just a musical genius." (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• "All the most creative people were bullied in school." (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• "This is not what I had in mind for you."
  "Surprise, I exist outside of your mind." (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• Ouija: Origin of Evil (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• "These days, fathers only matter to those who don't have one." (We Are Who We Are, S01E05)
• "Be grateful for your pain. Means you're still alive." (Warrior, S02E03)

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Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows

41. Wild and Crazy Kids (We Are Who We Are, S01E04)

Honourable Mention

• Metamorphosex (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• Battle Hymn of the Retuglic (Fargo, S04E03)
• Here's Trebek asking "Who is DaBaby?" in case you need it (Jeopardy!, 09 Oct 20)

Stray Observations

• "He was a real white man." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "Pottawatomie Rifles ride for redemption, not crackers." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "Gird your loins, Onion." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "If I was your nigger, I wouldn't be your nigger for long." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "Owen? Isaiah 5:22."
  "'Though by dawn's early light, the heathen souls were eaten by ravenous goats.'" (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "John Brown always said: 'Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, rough to the ruffian. With a liar? Be a thunderbolt.' What that meant was, you can lie your ass off to anyone who doesn't believe all people's equal." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "Slavery was a poisonous snake. Everybody knew that. But freedom, the kind that was being offered, with no home, no food, and not a friend in the world? That snake was just as poisonous. One snake pointed north. One snake pointed south. And they both bit the nigger." (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• ♫: The Zion Travelers – "The Blood" (The Good Lord Bird, S01E01)
• "You don't have enough whiteness in you to sell that entitlement." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• ♫: Alice Smith – "I Put a Spell on You" (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "I want you to feel what I feel right now – heartbroken, scared, furious, tired, so fucking tired of feeling this way over and over. And I want you to feel alone and shameful, 'cause I'm here, feeling this, and you will never understand it. I want you to feel guilty 'cause—for feeling safe next to you and your privilege." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "You wanna know why I took that potion? Because today, of all days, I didn't wanna be a black woman fucking a white man." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "Familial love is the strongest kind." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "Fuck you, pig." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "Why would anyone wanna die like that?" (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "I'm just sick of forgiving every space that I enter 'cause it's not for me. I wanna create my own space." (Lovecraft Country, S01E08)
• "U.S. Marshal Dick Wickware." (Fargo, S04E03)
• "You blaspheme more than any man I've ever met, and I've been to Cleveland." (Fargo, S04E03)
• "We had some spaghetti eaters in Salt Lake before the war." (Fargo, S04E03)
• "Girl, you got a panty on your head." (Fargo, S04E03)
• Ricki Lake (Black-ish, S07E01)
• "Okay, how am I supposed to enjoy secret cake with you here watching me?" (Black-ish, S07E01)
• "You think I got booted because we have the same name? You know, like, maybe they thought it was a duplicate?"
  "You really think it's that simple, son?"
  "Nah, it was definitely something sinister."
  "Yeah, that's my boy." (Black-ish, S07E01)
• "White men don't know how to be bored. That's why they're always opening up vineyards." (Black-ish, S07E02)
• "You're probably right, Jack."
  "I'm Junior."
  "Uh, sorry. Kinda been on my own show." (Black-ish, S07E02)
• Desus and Mero (Black-ish, S07E02)
• Kenya Barris (Black-ish, S07E02)
• "Take your fucking twink and get the fuck out of here!" (The Boys, S02E08)
• "I can't lash out like some raging, entitled maniac. That's a white man's luxury." (The Boys, S02E08)
• "It's called 'white genocide.'" (The Boys, S02E08)
• ♫: Nazi Stormfront / Hitler's star / Run her over with a car (The Boys, S02E08)
• "As long as no one ever loves you again." (The Boys, S02E08)
• "I'm back too, right? I'm anti-Nazi." (The Boys, S02E08)
• "Fuck Fresca." (The Boys, S02E08)
• "Now remember what I told you."
  "Don't be a cunt." (The Boys, S02E08)

(The Boys, S02E08)

• The Boys Season Grade: C

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Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows

40. Biden Debate Prep (Let's Be Real, 01 Oct 20)

Honourable Mention

• Stan tries to build a bear (South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)
• Lego The Blind Side (The Boys, S02E07)
• Future Ghost (Saturday Night Live, S46E01)

Stray Observations

• "So it is true. You are a faggot." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• "All those years, I thought I had everything I ever wanted, only to come here and discover that all I ever was was the exact kind of negro woman white folks wanted me to be. I feel like they just found a smart way to lynch me without me noticing the noose." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• "Sometimes, I just… I want to kill white folks." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• "Your whole life, they told you you were free, and when they said that, they meant you were free to cook their food, free to raise children, their children, free to work for them. They even lied to you and told you you were free to run the world. But it is still their world." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• ♫: Mother's Finest – "Fire" (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• "I am Hippolyta: discoverer." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• Sun Ra: "I'm not real. I'm just like you. You don't exist in this society. If you did, your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real. If you were, you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality. I come to you as the myth. Because that's what black people are: myths." (Lovecraft Country, S01E07)
• Banjo Rightway (Fargo, S04E01)
• Mike Milligan? (Fargo, S04E01)
• "I know you think part of being an American is standing on my neck." (Fargo, S04E01)
• "These people inside, they're your blood. But do they love you? Do they respect you? You know how you know? They get down on your level, they look you in the eye. That's when you know you're not just along for the ride." (Fargo, S04E02)
• "That fucking guy put my family on the street like we were shit on his spats. He lost his breathing license." (Fargo, S04E02)
• "We won't touch him."
  "Says you."
  "This year, we don't touch." (Fargo, S04E02)
• "But remember: we'll be back. Because y'all just got here yesterday. But we're part of this land, like the wind and the dirt." (Fargo, S04E02)
• "What's in it?"
  "What do you mean what's in it? It's cookies."
  "I don't eat shellfish."
  "It-it's cookies."
  "Read the list of ingredients."
  "Come on, it's cookies. It's got milk, sugar, butter… It's cookies. Why are you so complicated?"
  "Please read it."
  "[sigh] 'Powdered milk, flour, chopped up hazelnuts, walnut, butter, lard… May contain shellfish.'" (We Are Who We Are, S01E03)
• "Where should I put this? It's Ocean Vuong."
  "How is it? Don't tell me."
  "He's writing his first novel now."
  "Yeah. On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous." (We Are Who We Are, S01E03)
• "He is my type, but not my kind." (We Are Who We Are, S01E03)
• Bad acting at 34:20 (We Are Who We Are, S01E03)
• "Have you done any more thinking about the golden showers thing?" (The Comey Rule, S01E02)
• "He's got people thinking I like golden showers!" (The Comey Rule, S01E02)
• "Something at the town square! Everyone's gathering!"
  "Well, are we protesting or are we rioting?" (South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)

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• "This is all your fault, Mickey Mouse!" (South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)
• "Just give me a couple more days before you have me killed." (South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)
• Mickey Rourke (The Masked Singer, S04E02)
• ♫: Jon Batiste – "What a Wonderful World" (The Boys, S02E07)
• "Come on, I mean, do you-you want to be the cuck or do you want to be the…guy who fucks the wife? Let's go fuck the wife – consensually." (The Boys, S02E07)
• "Oh, me and Mr. Marathon used to sneak college girls in this way."
  "College girls? Really?"
  "They were applying." (The Boys, S02E07)
• So, are you into any things that, you know, kids are into? Like, uh, NBA 2K? PewDiePie?" (The Boys, S02E07)
• Butcher driving over the grass (The Boys, S02E07)
• "Was that an Almond Joy?"
  "He has a tree nut allergy." (The Boys, S02E07)
• Deep checking his head (The Boys, S02E07)

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Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows