Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

19. The Vampiric Council (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E07)


Stray Observations

  • "Heard you were broken in." (Game of Thrones, S08E04)
  • "We can live together."
    "We can. I've just told you how." (Game of Thrones, S08E04)
  • "Cocks are important, I'm afraid." (Game of Thrones, S08E04)
  • "Take care of yourself, Barry."
    "Stay off the 405, man." (Barry, S02E06)
  • "I don't know if you remember this or not, but you killed somebody and got away with it." (Barry, S02E06)
  • "I am so late for my escape room." (Barry, S02E06)
  • "I recently bought an English football club."
    "Oh, wonderful."
    "Leeds United. No English players, so pretty good team." (Veep, S07E06)
  • "And as a sign of respect, we have decided to bury you betwixt my two favourite vaginas: that of my wife, and my mother." (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E07)
  • Batista (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E07)
  • "What are you doing?"
    "I'm warming my face. It's so cold in here."
    "Well, it's an LED light."
    "Oh."
    "There's no way we could have fffire. The fire marshals would have a ffffit." (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E07)
  • "Cheddar, you duplicitous bitch." (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S06E16)
  • ♫: Bomb the Bass – "Megablast [Hip Hop on Precinct 13]" (Dead Pixels, S01E06)
  • Dead Pixels Season Grade: D

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Homecoming
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: The Other Two

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

18. Barry vs. Lily (Barry, S02E05)


Stray Observations

  • ♫: Ramin Djawadi – "The Night King" (Game of Thrones, S08E03)
  • Nunchucks (Barry, S02E05)
  • "Yowie wowie!" (WWE Raw, 04-29-19)
  • "He was off doing photo shoots, commercials, speaking at long snapping conventions…"
    "Is that a thing?"
    "In Canada, it's like the Oscars." (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S06E15)
  • "It's such a classic Boyle trait not to recognize talent. My cousin Susan didn't know she could sing until her late 40s." (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S06E15)
  • ♫: Du Blonde – "Isn't It Wild" (Better Things, S03E10)
  • Peanut butter, jelly, and ashes sandwich (Better Things, S03E10)
  • "That's America, little brother. Plenty of opportunity, just never where you think." (Warrior, S01E05)
  • "May the devil cut the fuckin' toes off our fuckin' foes so that we may know them by their limping." (Warrior, S01E05)
  • "wikiHow says to kick the door down." (Ramy, S01E08)
  • "I'm lost, man. Everybody's lost. I'm like…fuckin' Ashton Kutcher, but I'm like, 'Dude, where's my country?'" (Ramy, S01E09)
  • Ramy Season Grade: C
  • "First they came for the remake of Ghost in the Shell, and I said nothing. Then they came for the Fantastic Four, again, and I said nothing." (Dead Pixels, S01E02)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Homecoming
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: The Other Two

Blandness Can Sizzle

NBA draft selections should be announced à la gender reveals.

Adam Silver opens a Phoenix Suns-decorated box and out floats Z, I, O, and N balloons.

Or the reverse: Zion slices a cake and its layers are purple and orange.

Five players bash piñatas of the team on the clock's mascot. One contains a hat.

Mike: I want a What Would You Do? (Nickelodeon version) where they endure an insane food contraption filled with the regional delicacy of the drafting team. Drafted by the Knicks? Sit in a chair and get pizza and bagels catapulted at you? Miami Heat? Roller coaster through a giant Cuban sandwich. Pistons drafted you? A giant bucket of chili and that arabic garlic sauce. Orlando? Mice.
Jon: [pause]


I still don't understand ESPN's design for its NBA scorebar this season. Why the stitched borders around team scores and textured background? It looks like it belongs in a Yoshi game.

Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week

17. Focus group (I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson, S01E03)


Honourable Mention

  • Firefly Fun House (WWE Raw, 04-22-19)
  • Fully loaded nachos (I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson, S01E04)
  • Honk if you're horny (I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson, S01E04)
  • Garfield house (I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson, S01E06)

Stray Observations

  • "The things we do for love." (Game of Thrones, S08E02)
  • "He's only the second man in my life I can say that about."
    "Who was the first?"
    "Someone taller." (Game of Thrones, S08E02)
  • "The big woman still here?" (Game of Thrones, S07E02)
  • "Then how about college-educated whites?"
    "In South Carolina, that is not a significant slice of the pie." (Veep, S07E04)
  • "Listen, we have to find a way to say those things without actually saying them."
    "Like a dog whistle."
    "Yes, exactly."
    "Okay. You know what? You could talk about charter schools. Mention something…"
    "Come on, that's like a dog whisper."
    "You could 'reject' an endorsement from a pro-Confederacy group."
    "That's like a dog exploding space shuttle, you know? I need something loud, not too loud, like…"
    "Dog chainsaw?"
    "No, that's too drone-y."
    "A dog snowmobile."
    "Why would I know what that even sounds like? I mean, seriously."
    "I'm sorry, ma'am."
    "A dog leaf-blower."
    "Yeah. I like that."
    "…exactly like a dog chainsaw."
    "Even higher registers…" (Veep, S07E04)
  • "I told you not to nurse him for that long."
    "Dre, you told me we needed to save money on food." (Black-ish, S05E20)
  • "I need to do a two." (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E05)
  • "I want you to bring me the strange bat with the erection." (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E05)
  • "How are you supposed to be a strong, thrilling, powerful warrior and lover with a name like Jeff? It is like a weak ejaculation. [whiny grunting]…Jeff." (What We Do in the Shadows, S01E05)
  • Mark Feuerstein's self-deprecating joke about how his recent CBS sitcom 9JKL had a terrible title (Better Things, S03E09)
  • "♫ Fenton's Stables and Horse Ranch / Where the horses are hung like you! ♫" (I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson, S01E04)
  • I Think You Should Leave Now with Tim Robinson Season Grade: C
  • Television episode of the year nominee (Ramy, S01E04)
  • "Don't break my balls. Do the Ramadan." (Ramy, S01E05)
  • "I'm not taking him there. Nicky, I want this guy to stomp me. I want him to demolish my entire downtown area. I want him to gentrify me." (Dead Pixels, S01E01)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Homecoming
Still the AR™TV World Comedy Champion: The Other Two

If you try to kill the King, you better not miss

How does a Clue-themed version of Monopoly not exist?

Video Game Idea: Super Mario Kingdom. Mario returns to the Mushroom Kingdom to find Cinderella's castle instead of Peach's. An anthropomorphic desk lamp informs him that he has stumbled into a magic world and asks for his help in defeating the villainous Mickey Mouser. Each area Mario visits in the game is inspired by a Disney property. And the ending:

Video Game Idea: Star Fox: Rogue Ones. A group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal Andross' plans for a galactic superweapon. Blend classic Arwing-based gameplay with Adventures' Zelda-style gameplay.

Within the F-Zero series, Captain Falcon is a mysterious racer who is among the best on the circuit, as well as a renowned bounty hunter.

Video Game Idea: Grand TheF-Zero. While hunting someone in Mute City, Captain Falcon gets dragged into a criminal underworld.