Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

15. Kayfabe (Shogun, S01E08)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • </The Regime, S01>
  • "I watched a few, uh, Seinfeld episodes on the plane and shit. You never told me it was a show about weekly ass."
    "It's not a show about weekly ass." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E10)
  • "Have you ever tapped some ass on crutches? You ever crutch fuck?" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E10)
  • "That's my auntie right there. She carries candy in her bra. If we're all lucky, we're gonna get some of that titty-taffy." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E10)
  • "I don't understand, why does the judge have to peek at it?"
    "Yeah. They can't make two copies?" (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E10)
  • </Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12>
  • "Forgive Gambit's passive adolescence." (X-Men '97, S01E05)
  • "There is no love without sin. For love is best measured in what we forgive." (X-Men '97, S01E05)
  • "Go to Genosha. Be with my clone." (X-Men '97, S01E05)
  • "Most other nations don't allow a terrorist to be their leader."
    "Yet so many allow their leaders to be terrorists." (X-Men '97, S01E05)
  • "Congratulations on making it to the final round. You are only one question away from landing this job. Do you own a jelly bean belt? Seriously?! Dismissed!" (Abbott Elementary, S03E09)
  • "Fuck you, Ma-three-gan." (Chucky, S03E05)
  • "Now come on, Vaultie. Ass jerky don't make itself." (Fallout, S01E04)
  • </Fallout, S01>
  • </Ripley, S01>

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week


14. Jumanji (Saturday Night Live, S49E16)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • "No, you didn't have no fucking hunch. Know why? 'Cause your fucking shoulders didn't go up."
    "Your shoulders didn't move."
    "And that mannerism's only good for hunches and shit. See? I had a hunch. You can't use that shit for, 'Fuck you.' Or, you know, 'You cheated on me. You ain't shit. Don't come back here no more.'"
    "It's exclusive to the hunch?"
    "Fuck yeah, it is. You don't use that shit nowhere else." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "You're saying that cannibals prefer Black people to White people?"
    "Fuck yeah, they do."
    "I think he's got a point, 'cause Dahmer mostly ate Black people, did he not?"
    "He did. If the motherfucker did, he'd have to add condiments on you motherfuckers."
    "Yeah, you need condiments for white people." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "And if Chunhua's gon' be there, then maybe Bruce Springsteen would like a hand job." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "He should've said B. If he said B, it's not that far from A."
    "You'd eat in a B?"
    "A B? Yeah, I'd eat at a B."
    "Springsteen eats at a B. I'm shocked." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "This became increasingly evident when I was directing Herman's Head." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "Did Patricia Heaton get a little handsy? Well, that is a tale for my next book." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E09)
  • "Oh, this appears to be occurring." (Shogun, S01E07)
  • "Where is the beauty in this?" (Shogun, S01E07)


(X-Men '97, S01E04)

  • "Dazzler had a gig, don't ask." (X-Men '97, S01E04)
  • Prof. Ock (Invincible, S02E08)
  • Fortnite Dragon's Breath Sniper (Invincible, S02E08)
  • </Invincible, S02>
  • </Tokyo Vice, S02>


Licking a flamethrower (BMF, S03E06)

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

13. Unrequited Love (Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, S01E01)


Honourable Mention


Stray Observations

  • "A man may go to war for many reasons – conquest, pride, power. But a woman is simply at war." (Shogun, S01E06)
  • "Rogue's really training her stamina with the new boss." (X-Men '97, S01E03)
  • "Gambit can never unsee that." (X-Men '97, S01E03)

Looking forward:

burger is food where you can enjoy taste

It's indicative of how dying internet journalism is that I've only come across two pop culture brackets this March, and both are being run by podcasts.

Shame, because a bracket of basketball player podcasts is begging to be realized.

Play the basketball player podcast bracket out in a 3×3 tournament with producers filling out teams as needed.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

12. Nanofibers (3 Body Problem, S01E05)


Honourable Mention

  • Dinner (Shogun, S01E05)

Stray Observations

  • "Can't get rid of her ass 'cause you got no basis. Getting caught eating pussy is not a basis." (Curb Your Enthusiasm, S12E07)
  • "The seat would stink of Christian." (Shogun, S01E05)
  • "Heroism is for the dead, and stories are for children." (Shogun, S01E05)
  • "There will be no dismembering, Wolverine."
    "Dismembering? Nah. Weight loss." (X-Men '97, S01E01)
  • "Give 'em the forecast." (X-Men '97, S01E01)
  • "He's here."
    "Who? Apocalypse?"
    "The baby!" (X-Men '97, S01E02)
  • "I am trying to be better. Please… Do not make me let you down." (X-Men '97, S01E02)
  • "You know what would happen if you made a microchip mop?"
    "Uh, well, I have my theories. I saw Smart House, now." (Abbott Elementary, S03E08)
  • ♫: End credits song (BMF, S03E04)
  • Cigar Aficionado poster (3 Body Problem, S01E03)
  • "It better not have gone through my search history."
    "Well, if we see a girl farting on a birthday cake, we'll know." (3 Body Problem, S01E03)
  • "Jet Set Willy" (3 Body Problem, S01E03)
  • </3 Body Problem, S01>

Actor/Disruptor

Outstanding Character Voice Performance – Motion Picture
• Issa Rae – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [winner]
• Ariana DeBose – Wish
• Brian Tyree Henry – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Lol at the NAACP giving it to her over the milkman.


Drama Series
1. The Crown
2. The Morning Show
3. The Gilded Age
4. Slow Horses
5. Loki
6. The Curse
7. 3 Body Problem
8. Sugar

Comedy Series
1. The Bear
2. Hacks
3. Abbott Elementary
4. Only Murders in the Building
5. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. What We Do in the Shadows
7. Reservation Dogs
8. Palm Royale

Limited or Anthology Series
1. Fargo
2. Lessons in Chemistry
3. True Detective: Night Country
4. Shōgun
5. The Regime

Plotting a Disney Emmy triple crown:

With Fargo and Shōgun seriously contending in Limited or Anthology Series against divisive True Detective: Night Country, run season two of The Bear in Drama Series against the middling final season of The Crown, somehow the only serious contender in the category.

Then campaign Abbott Elementary hard against Hacks to split votes, leading to an Only Murders in the Building win.