Thinking about myCliff and myIlya having a day off tradition of getting high and watching tv shows together for hours on end. It’s not every single day off, because Cliff has a lot of family obligations when he’s in Boston, but it happens whenever they can swing it.
Ilya hosts and Cliff is in charge of snacks. One memorable occasion saw him bring an entire Costco pizza - a revalation, but not to be repeated because Roz burnt the top of his mouth to shit trying to eat it too fast.
They wear unintentionally coordinated outfits - Ilya usually in his Rick Owens and a baggy muscle tank that’s more hole than cloth, and Cliff in Champion sweatpants, funnily enough he’s usually the one who’s shirtless.
Sometimes they’ll try a new show but mostly they rewatch their comfort shows. Their favorites are:
comedies (Parks and Rec, Modern Family, they tried 30Rock but after a while the jokes start to go over their sweet little stoney baloney heads)
procedurals (SVU bc they’re obsessed with Mariska Hargitay and Bones bc the dynamic of the characters is like a big happy family and that is appealing to them for different reasons)
and reality tv (basically any bravo show. They tried Grand Designs once in December of 2016 and Ilya started silently weeping? So Marly quickly put on the christening fight episode of RHONJ)
Nature documentaries (the introduction of 4k tvs to the market really melted their brains. Ilya briefly considered returning the tv after Marly almost broke it the first time. In his defense the snow leopard did look real enough to pet.)
Importantly, they don’t really talk that much, besides grunting at each other to pass the snacks, laughing, or lazily quoting their favorite lines. But sometimes, a couple of hours in, Roz will get so comfortable that he goes into a kind of trance and lets things small things slip, in relation to whatever is going on on the screen. That is how Cliff learns Roz’s brother deserves a swift kick in the nuts, that he should ask his Nonna to pray for Roz’s father to rot in hell, and that Roz is in love with Montreal Jane.



















