1. The first time he met Benson and Rollins.

2. When he and Benson planned their payback at a grand jury witness who didn't show.

When Barba was stood up by a witness that he called to testify at a grand jury hearing and had to play Sudoku with the grand jury for a few hours, he was pissed. He called Benson, and Benson suggested that, since it's Friday, they wait until the afternoon to pick the witness up, this way he'd be processed over the weekend in the Tombs. Barba, of course, loved her idea.

3. When the squad tried to get him to take a case that didn't have very strong evidence.

Barba doesn't like it when there isn't solid evidence for a crime that the squad wants him to take to court. He won't take a case to court unless it has sufficient evidence, and he makes sure that the squad knows that.

4. When Benson didn't want to listen to Barba.

After a heated session in court, Benson and Barba started talking about her testimony. She states that she's given a few hundred testimonies and that she doesn't need any prep, and he proceeds to tell her that she needs to contain her emotions on the stand, and to do that, she needs to rehearse her testimony with him.

5. When a witness sassed him about his "designer, three-piece suit" and him being a rich attorney.

This was a great moment. Nobody sasses Barba, and he sure wasn't expecting a witness to his prosecution to give him sass. He was pissed about it, too.

6. When he was brutally honest to the victim during his first case with SVU.

In his first case with the squad, he was going after a well-known talk show host who was accused of raping an author. We were introduced to Barba's blunt and sarcastic tone when he said this to the victim, essentially saying that he was going to be asking her about every aspect of her life as it pertained to the case and her story.

7. When Rollins asked Barba if he ever considered going off of caffeine.

Rollins made a nice little chart of graphics about a case that the squad was investigating. Barba asks her tons of questions, and each time she began to give an answer or an explanation, he would cut her off and continue to ask her more questions, all while multitasking and signing off on documents and doing other fancy things that ADAs do. Eventually, Rollins asked him if he had ever thought about going off of caffeine, and he replied with this sassy answer.

I know that there are so many other times when our favorite Law and Order: Special Victims Unit ADA was quite possibly the sassiest human on the planet, but these are some of my favorite moments. Barba is a fantastic character, especially when he gets fired up and his sassy, argumentative side comes out- especially in court.