hat, hisgusting, hummy?

I don't know why Top Chef continues to insult the intelligence of its audience. The entire conceit of the elimination challenge was a bald-faced lie, but didn't have to be. OF COURSE the restaurants knew the chefs were coming, and OF COURSE the chefs were given a list of the participating local joint to choose from.…

Lacey Brown
the landslide chick seemed like she was trying to channel Joanna Newsom. I kind of dig Joanna Newsom. Didn't terribly mind the landslide version, seeing that we've all heard that song 18 kajillion times. Thought the judges were too rough. She needed a harp.

Taylor Shaft

ryan has a future on the bachelorette party circuit
so you think you can male strip - banana hammock edition? home videos through the roof. make your mark, kid.

So who are the handful of jackasses …
… who didn't go to Philip's dad's funeral? I bet it was Ryan and Ashleigh. I bet they're like Meg and Hamilton Swan from Best in Show. They probably thought it would be a good intimidation tactic.

Going home soon: Piercey McTatterson, The Viceroy, and Turnpike Jimmy.

So let me get this straight
When you trust your sous chefs to make decisions and go on their own and they succeed, it's brilliant managment.

Did Simon snub Kris at the end?
All the judges but Simon were standing and clapping. Would he show up his own show's winner like that? Does anyone know the deal with the contract sitch with who wins? Like did he just feel like he lost millions by not having Adam by the balls?

I'd be more inclined to agree with your analysis if they hadn't completely eviscerated all mention of the DW since basically the audition stage. There's only one performance show left, and I doubt that not having DWG in it is going to put much of a dent in their ratings. They smell the real money now, which comes from…

You reall think they want DWG? Obviously they know the voting totals and we don't, and that is a decent early indicator of the kind of commercial success the "artist" is going to have. I just figured if they really wanted DWG, they would have 1) not had him sing first; 2) not forced him to sing a song nobody knows;…

Judge's song choices were pure voter manipulation
The judges want an Adam-Kris final, and it couldn't have been more apparent from their song choices. The fact that Danny was assigned a song that nobody's ever heard was not an accident. That Kris and Adam were assigned two wildly popular songs was no accident, either.…

danny and slash
slash had to be thinking the entire time "this guy may have a decent voice, but he is a giant douche". and he would have been right. of course danny sang a douchey song by a douchey band, while looking douchey and trying to do a very douchey thing at the end by hitting the "scream". ok, i'll stop.

That video is pretty genius, CZ.

I rewound the footage three times and watched it on slo-mo, and I can confirm that the growth was not present during auditions, and I'm pretty sure during Hollywood week. Which only means one of two things: either Fox airbrushed it out (which makes no sense), or Kara gave his forehead a lap dance. Ba-Zing!!!

It takes TALENT to use an autotuner
As proven here:

I don't care if they're Jesus people. Kris is gonna have fish hopping in the boat all summer long, and his wife already has that look of terror on her face. Sure, he'll try for awhile. She'll come on tour with him at first. Then she'll have to get back to whatever it is she does, and the night she leaves he's gonna…

What's the over/under on Kris's divorce?
6 months?

he got totally blindsided.

Some interesting little moments
- the group number appeared to be the first that was not lip-synced or pre-recorded. at one point anoop had to grab scott by the shirt and restrain him from running over kris.