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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)


(South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)


(South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)


(South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)


(South Park: Pandemic Special, 30 Sep 20)

  • "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)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows

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Prank wants to use his beer muscles to set up a sudsy nirvana to host 6,000 guests — 20 times the size of the town's previous/traditional Oktoberfest beer hut gatherings.

But when Prank's daughter Clara falls for the heir of a rival beer maker, a nasty/turbulent/violent turn of events follows. [source]

"You don't even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your tents down. Dreihundert gäste isn't cool. You know what's cool?"

Calgary Stampede: Beer and Bloud.

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39. Virtual Kelly Clarkson Show audience members awkwardly dance to Vin Diesel's new song (The Kelly Clarkson Show, 24 Sep 20)

Honourable Mention

  • Kumiho feeds (Lovecraft Country, S01E06)

Stray Observations


(Celebrity Family Feud, S07E06)

  • Jamie Chung naked (Lovecraft Country, S01E06)
  • "I've spent years and years and years trying to please through singing or acting. There's nothing wrong with that. And yet, I've constantly been written or talked about by certain individuals as an unfit person. Well, what kind of people are they? They're dead people." (Lovecraft Country, S01E06)
  • "Pain doesn't work that way. You can't share it. Agony's bespoke. Yours is yours, theirs is theirs. Mostly, grief's just…lonely." (The Third Day, S01E02)
  • "Rage will out, Sam. Grief wants its pound of flesh. It wants mayhem and chaos and havoc. It wants to destroy." (The Third Day, S01E02)
  • Kid Cudi as the father of teenagers? (We Are Who We Are, S01E02)
  • Kid Cudi in a MAGA hat (We Are Who We Are, S01E02)


(The Great British Bake Off, S11E01)

  • "Brave Maeve Pride Bars. Because you can't be proud on an empty
    stomach." (The Boys, S02E06)
  • "Isn't it lit? Your very own anthem." (The Boys, S02E06)
  • "Weaponized Xanax. You got a Supe activated by rage, so you simply take away his rage, turn him into a cupcake." (The Boys, S02E06)
  • "Thanks for a great day! XO, Homelander" (The Boys, S02E06)
  • Lamplighter is Iceman (The Boys, S02E06)
  • Vomiting acid (The Boys, S02E06)
  • ♫: Enya – "Orinoco Flow" (The Boys, S02E06)
  • "That's his fucking dick." (The Boys, S02E06)
  • "I'm gonna Postmate Sugarfish." (The Boys, S02E06)
  • ♫: The Golden Girls theme (The Boys, S02E06)


(Utopia, S01E03)

  • ♫: Daughters – "Less Sex" (Utopia, S01E03)
  • "Motherfucking Bundt cake!" (Utopia, S01E04)
  • "Oligarchs are never home." (Utopia, S01E05)
  • "Just keep your head down and look entitled." (Utopia, S01E05)
  • "We grow useful children." (Utopia, S01E05)
  • "Keep the ball rolling. Take the Adderall if you need it." (Utopia, S01E06)
  • Glass shards in an oven mitten (Utopia, S01E07)
  • ♫: Cameo – "Word Up!" (Utopia, S01E07)
  • John Cusack wrapped in duct tape (Utopia, S01E07)
  • "At 1.7 billion, we can be as decadent, self-indulgent, and shitty as we want. At 10 billion, we have to live strategically. We have to live modestly. We have to live selflessly. And as you know, we're not that good at it."
    "And you're beta-testing it on Americans since we're the worst." (Utopia, S01E08)
  • "Uh, come on, this could be bigger than Hamilton."
    "Nobody knows who Millard Fillmore is."
    "Nobody knew who Hamilton was…'til he started rapping." (Utopia, S01E08)
  • "Takes effort and resolve to lead a meaningful life. That's why we thought Americans might actually like our plan. It requires no resolve. We're actually helping them not do something." (Utopia, S01E08)
  • ♫: The Stranglers – "No More Heroes" (Utopia, S01E08)


(Utopia, S01E08)

  • ♫: Pussy Riot and Dave Sitek – "Bad Apples" (Utopia, S01E08)
  • Utopia Season Grade: C

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows

Stupid sexy babies

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Qanoon means "grill" in Arabic. The proper spelling would ideally be Kanoon but my siblings and I love the musical string instrument Qanun. I love it so much that I felt I should replace the "K" in Kanoon with a "Q"; and this is how the name Qanoon was born. [source]

This restaurant opened last September.

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Previously on Adam Riff™ [July 23]:

AMC is giving us another helping of Bottomless Brunch at Colman's hosted by Fear the Walking Dead actor Colman Domingo.

AMC has ordered four additional episodes of Friday Night in With the Morgans, the weekly video-chat-based series hosted by The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Ride With Norman Reedus Renewed For Season 5 By AMC

August 27:

The Walking Dead Universe Experience on IMDb TV is a dedicated channel [that] includes select full episodes of The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Ride with Norman Reedus, Friday Night in with the Morgans and more, along with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, plus bonus content, original digital series, cast interviews and fan-favorite episodes.

September 3:

AMC Networks has upped Scott Stein to a new role as executive business director for the Walking Dead franchise. [source]

September 9:

AMC said that the 11th season of The Walking Dead will be its last — and will be supersized to 24 episodes.

There are 30 remaining episodes that will air through late 2022.

Additionally, AMC has handed out a straight-to-series order for a drama following Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Melissa McBride (Carol).

Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M. Gimple is also developing a scripted anthology series, Tales of the Walking Dead.

It would join spinoffs Fear the Walking Dead and limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond as well as the Reedus-McBride entry [and Talking Dead].

A trilogy of films built around Andrew Lincoln (Rick) are also in the works. [source]

September 17:

TWDUniverse will start with around 12 hours of original content a week created exclusively for Twitch [including] a live show, a 'Watchalong' during episode premieres and an ongoing conversation through midnight.

Re-Watching Dead: Thursday, September 24
A weekly deep dive discussion show focusing on spoiler-filled exploration into past episodes of The Walking Dead — exploring both on-screen and behind-the-scenes stories.

Fans will get to re-live the first time they saw the show through interactive discussion of the story and dig deeper behind the scenes via interviews, behind-the-scenes moments, and interactive segments and games where they are part of the show.

But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

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38. Big Smelly Bushes (PEN15, S02E02)

Honourable Mention

  • Heel Turn (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)

Stray Observations

  • "Scared the shit outta me to wake up white." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "When I was stumbling down the street, crazed and disheveled and screaming at everybody around me, they weren't scared of me – they were scared for me." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • ♫: Black Atlass – "Return to Love" (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "I enjoyed my entire day using the only currency that I needed: whiteness." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • Cabrini Green (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • RT: of course they got Michael K Williams makin love to homeboy while listening to Frank Ocean "Bad Religion" (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "Your hands are a bit ashy." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • Hillary dancing (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • Gifting Ruby a maid outfit (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "You wanna be a credit to your race, you have to be better than mediocre, and do you wanna know why? Because white folks are even more fucked up than you think they are. They have got shit you can't even imagine. That's why you gotta be exponentially better than them, so you don't end up in some closet, half-dead, with your tongue cut out." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "Just let me smell it. I heard you girls smell sweet down there." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "I've spent enough time on your side of the color line to know that the only thing that you white women are disillusioned with is yourselves."
    "You're right. We want to be you and you wanna be us." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "That's the currency of magic: unmitigated freedom." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • ♫: Cardi B again? (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • "I wanted you to know that a nigger bitch did this to you." (Lovecraft Country, S01E05)
  • ♫: Anna Oxa – "A Lei" (We Are Who We Are, S01E01)
  • ♫: Kip Hanrahan – "Aziz and Azizah" (We Are Who We Are, S01E01)
  • "Americans can only be happy in America." (We Are Who We Are, S01E01)
  • ♫: Chance the Rapper – "Same Drugs" (We Are Who We Are, S01E01)
  • ♫: Klaus Nomi – "Just One Look" (We Are Who We Are, S01E01)
  • "I'm a lot like you; I'm gay." (The Boys, S02E05)
  • "This new Joss rewrite really sings, huh?" (The Boys, S02E05)
  • "Look at these strong female lesbians. Hmm? I'm inspired. Girls get it on."
    "Done. Girls get it done." (The Boys, S02E05)
  • Vought Fresh Farms (The Boys, S02E05)
  • Greg Grunberg (The Boys, S02E05)
  • "Alexander Hamilton wasn't no Puerto Rican."
    "That's the point. It's a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America."
    "But he was a white guy."
    "You know what's really good? Dear Evan Hansen." (The Boys, S02E05)
  • "Storefront" written on juice cup (The Boys, S02E05)
  • "Don't be a pussy. Laser my fucking tits." (The Boys, S02E05)


(The Boys, S02E05)

  • Boogie Nights (PEN15, S02E01)
  • "Me and her have a really good rhythm with our kissing." (PEN15, S02E01)
  • "Just thought you should know that everyone is saying that you're desperate sluts." (PEN15, S02E01)
  • "So you're saying I had two three‐ways that night? Did I have two threesomes that night?"
    "You had two, but I had one." (PEN15, S02E01)


(PEN15, S02E02)

  • Trish Stratus (PEN15, S02E02)
  • "Your dad eats soggy potatoes." (PEN15, S02E02)
  • "Um, do we have channel 151? 'Cause I want my Monday Nights Raw." (PEN15, S02E02)
  • ♫: White Zombie – "More Human Than Human" (PEN15, S02E02)
  • Peanut butter on a hard-boiled egg (PEN15, S02E02)
  • "Why'd you join wrestling?"
    "'Cause I love WW." (PEN15, S02E02)
  • "I'm, like, sorry people know about our three‐way." (PEN15, S02E02)
  • Maya wearing a jockstrap (PEN15, S02E02)
  • "I sent too many powers to your ass." (PEN15, S02E03)
  • "Anna, no, I don't wanna fart in class!" (PEN15, S02E03)
  • ♫: Sophie B. Hawkins – "As I Lay Me Down" (PEN15, S02E03)
  • "Did you wash your Miss Vagina?" (PEN15, S02E04)
  • "I don't want a fucking quesadilla, you cunt." (PEN15, S02E04)
  • "You guys are not ready for tonight."
    "No, I'm packed already." (PEN15, S02E05)
  • "'When the people you love are gone, you are alone.' – Keanu Reeves." (PEN15, S02E05)
  • Ace Ventura coming out of the rhino's butt (PEN15, S02E05)
  • Surge (PEN15, S02E05)
  • Gabe "I'll bring a beer"'s single beer (PEN15, S02E05)
  • "You two watch Final Destination yet? Is it James Wong's sonata? Obliviously not, but you should watch it if you think films are worth watching." (PEN15, S02E06)
  • Goodfellas (PEN15, S02E07)
  • PEN15 Season Grade: C

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: P-Valley
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: What We Do in the Shadows