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The Strangest Affair of All Time

‘The Strangest Affair of All Time’

Season 9, Episode 17 -  Aired March 23, 2022

Beverly has a Dynasty-style showdown after Jane Bales starts using her relationship with Formica Mike (Richard Kind) to change things at the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, Adam is excited to learn that Dave Kim will be joining him at NYU.

Quote from Barry

Dave Kim: What the actual [bleep]?!
Erica: Whoa!
Barry: Eddie Murphy words!
Dave Kim: You guys convinced your brother not to live with me next year.
Barry: We have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, Dave Kim.
Erica: I think that you should examine the possibility that Adam despises you.
Adam: [scoffs] No, no, no, no. It's just a personal whim.
Dave Kim: A "personal whim," you say? So this carelessly-placed chalkboard wouldn't happen to include a detailed list that led Adam to his ill-fated decision?
Barry: Merely a simple chalkboard for playing Hangman and other games I can't think of right now. [Dave Kim flips the chalkboard over] Whoa! That thing flips? I've been turning it longwise.

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Quote from Dave Kim

Dave Kim: "Reasons Not To Live With DK." Unbelievable!
Adam: Well, you don't know. [chuckles] "DK" could stand for Donna Karan. Or Donkey Kong.
Dave Kim: Turtlenecks! Bowl cut! My profound sleep apnea?! Only you and Dave Kim's mom know about that!
Erica: So we're trying to help our little brother not be a social disaster before he even starts college. It's not personal. Sorta.
Dave Kim: [scoffs, chuckles] You're gonna go there? Because you're just a married lady who can't sing. Drop out of another school, why don't you?! Because your best years are behind you!
Erica: Whoa!
Barry: Ha! He got you bad.
Dave Kim: And you. With your stupid fingers and gross shirts and fake bravado masking colossal insecurity. You're a buffoon who can't rap, runs weird, and no one likes you!
Barry: What are these words?!
Adam: Let's just take a beat.
Dave Kim: You're the worst of all. 'Cause you listened to them. Unum-dip-shnee-[whistles]-vici-ate-you-hay.
Erica: What'd he say?
Adam: Horrible, horrible things.
Barry: [after writing "Mean!" on the chalkboard] Mean.

Quote from Adam

Beverly: Boys, catch Vic up on Dynasty in the next seconds.
Barry: Buckle up! Low-born nobody Krystle marries silver fox oil baron Blake Carrington.
Adam: Nick blames Blake for his brother's su1c1de in an Iraqi prison, but, really, he just wants to seduce his daughter.
Barry: Turns out, Fallon is alive, but she has amnesia!
Adam: She goes by Randall Adams now.
Barry: Blake and Nick fight on a mountain, Blake falls off a pony, and totally dies.
Adam: Cecil and Alexis are all... [smooching]
Vic: Oh!
Adam: But then he has a heart attack, and he's all, "Ohh!"
Barry: Turns out, Liam is alive, but he has amnesia!
Both: Krystle and Alexis fight before the Black and White Ball.
Barry: ... on a mountain. Krystle and Alexis fight in a mudslide.
Adam: Krystle and Alexis fight in a parlor. And then they find out they're all cousins.
Vic: Cousins?

Quote from Barry

Beverly: It's starting! A window into my palatial life is starting!
Vic: Ooh! [music plays on television] Ohh! Lack of preamble! They start the show with a slap?! Oh, the appeal is evident.
Adam: Classic TV slap. See how she uses her downstage hand? Totally fakes the untrained eye.
Barry: We'll show ya. How dare you steal my yacht?! [play slaps Adam]
Vic: He's delightfully added context to the violence!
Adam: You're sleeping with my chauffeur?! [play slaps Barry]
Erica: Nice! We're playing slapsies? I want in on this.
Barry: No, no, no, no! [Erica slaps Barry] Wrong hand!
Beverly: Oh!

Quote from Barry

Adult Adam: [v.o.] It was March 23rd, 1980-something, and with college on the horizon, it was time to fill out my roommate questionnaire for NYU.
Adam: "Do you consider yourself shy, fairly shy, neutral, fairly outgoing, or outgoing?" Good ol' neutral.
Erica: Okay, I'm just here to do laundry. Can you do whatever this is on the driveway?
Adam: I'm trying to match with my perfect roommate, and it's impossible. I mean, look at this question... "How comfortable are you with nudity?"
Barry: You'll write in "very."
Adam: Are you holding a kielbasa in your bare hand?
Barry: Lucky for you, I was peckish for this Polish delight. An improperly filled out roommate questionnaire can ruin the rest of your life.
Erica: The sausage dummy's right for once.

Quote from Barry

Erica: You fill that out wrong, and you might wind up living with someone like you.
Adam: Isn't that the goal?
Erica: If you want to bunk up with a social reject.
Barry: We love you, but you suck, bro.
Adam: Then what am I supposed to do?
Barry: Make yourself look cool. For example, smoking... You check yes and no.
Adam: That's just confusing.
Barry: Confusion equals uncertainty, which equals mystery, which equals cool.

Quote from Dave Kim

Adam: Yeah! Beep-dop-ming-bzzrt-unum-oomray.
Dave Kim: Nep-sha-orkyay-victus-erghbot. [both laugh]
Barry: What the hell am I looking at?
Adam: We developed our own private language based on the sounds of R2-D2 and Latin.
Dave Kim: Both classical and pig.
Adam: We call it Artootin.
Erica: Good God, man.
Dave Kim: Ah! To celebrate, I'm gonna treat myself to a new turtleneck in NYU violet. To the Sears boys' section!

Quote from Adam

Adam: This is a good thing. I mean, after Brea couldn't join me at NYU, I thought I was gonna be alone. But now I have my rock!
Barry: Dave Kim is a rock... a rock that will weigh you down socially.
Erica: We're in college. We know how this works. Live with Dave Kim, and you two will dweeb yourselves into a dorky black hole from which you will never escape.
Adam: We do get a little lost in each other sometimes.
Erica: I'm so glad you said that. Now repeat it back to yourself and hear how strange it sounds.
Adam: [quietly] We do get a little lost in each other sometimes. Oh, balls!

Quote from Adam

Adult Adam: [v.o.] Meanwhile, I was hoping the roommate NYU assigned me was a perfect match.
Adam: You must be Jed. Are you a freshman?
Jed: I'm what they call an "encore student"... paying for school with the G.I. Bill.
Adam: G.I.? Like my favorite action figures. But you're real. [laughs] And super intense.
Jed: Had a platoon buddy named Adam once. He's in heaven now. At least, I hope there's a heaven, because I know there's a hell.
Adam: Well, I'm bringing a hamburger phone, so we got that covered.

Quote from Adam

Adult Adam: [v.o.] Meeting Jed convinced me that the only weird, intense roommate I wanted was my lifelong best pal.
Adam: There's my wildly handsome friend who's known for his forgiving and forgetting nature.
Dave Kim: Save it.
Adam: No, no, no, no, no! Please be my roommate!
Dave Kim: Too late. I already have one.
Adam: Balls! Did yours also have his marriage dissolve when he came back stateside?
Dave Kim: He's the nephew of Hollywood character actor Ernie Hudson.
Adam: Winston from the "Ghostbusters?!" He's my fourth favorite!
Dave Kim: Excuse me, I have to make a phone call.
Adam: Who ya gonna call, Dave Kim?
Dave Kim: I think you know.

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