This is the AV Club. We're all on that team.

It seemed like they were going for a similar idea to the blindfolded team quickfire, where each team member would cook and the others couldn't see what they were making until it was their turn. Those quickfires have worked in the past, but all the teams were on more or less equal ground: the same utensils, same choice…

The Tim Gunn as Poirot review is maybe the greatest thing the TV Club ever produced: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I miss the Big Butt Book. It's been too long. I think the last one involved Justin Beiber reading it and it was amazing.

Last Chance Kitchen Spoiler Thread:

I hate all reminders that Patrick Swayze has left this mortal plane. (But I didn't downvote you.)

The children do seem to love it. And my mother. She loooooves it.

This is the greatest and I think the rest of my day is now lost.

Never!

Ginny in the books is okay - she's mischievous and seems fun and Harry is officially part of the Weasleys when they marry.

Because (in that adaptation), "someone else" is Gabriel Byrne.

Right?

Changes your diapers?

That book was later made into a tv movie starring Devon Sawa that I watch a million and a half times.

I will watch the hell out of this show and I will not feel bad at all. I might even watch Center Stage afterward.

You sentimental fool, you.

Last Chance Kitchen Spoiler Thread:

Yes. She dated Professor Laskey. The actor later became Professor Landry on Veronica Mars. I kind of wanted them to just call him Laskey again.

I find it really weird that an author would respond to a review. Very off-putting.

I loooved Home Improvement as a kid. How did I get from there to here?