That's correct. Because they moved to Wednesdays, they weren't bumped by the NCAA Tournament this year.

They're ending on May 15. There are three Thursdays between now and then, assuming no re-runs or bumps. So:

Ever since the Stacey Stillman lawsuit, such interference is inconceivable.

According to Probst in EW …
Final episode will have eight people still in the game — so:
Redemption challenge with three, leads to
Five Zaps + 1 RI in immunity/tribal with 6 left
Immunity/tribal with 5 left
March of the Dead Homies
Immunity/tribal with 4 left
Burn down the village
Final Tribal

Some have speculated that there was a clue in last week's hamburgers which was ignored.

Globetrotter and Cowboy in funny costumes. I think that's enough to make it work.

Yeah, generational markers, blah blah blah
But among the hosts of The Chew? Top Chef's Carla Hall. HOOTIE HOO, mofos!

There's a bonus video on the CBS site where Phillip explains in an interview that he's happy to play crazy and have Rob drag him into a second place finish. Also, the Phillip Sheppard LinkedIn page states that he was a federal agent for three years in the late 1980s. http://www.linkedin.com/in/…

For a predictable hour, elimination wise, that was about as fun as you can get. Survivor has no better narrator than Rob Mariano, and between "please count as 4 votes" and "Stealth R Us" it was funny as hell.

ON THE LOT was so bad that Chelsea Handler quit as host early on. She didn't want to be associated with the trainwreck.

Is there a law firm on earth with worse security than Lockhart Gardner?

Small Time Crooks is memorable because Elaine May is great in it.

Everyone Says I Love You is a huge ball of sweetness and awesome marred only by (a) the fact that Barrymore refused to sing and (b) the hokeyness of the Tim Roth stuff. But the musical numbers are just wonderful.

MyNameIs correct; Petty is two behind Grohl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Puzz, we're at http://throwingthings.blogs… . The problem with that theory is that Naima was sent home too, and she was doing weirder (and I thought more entertaining) stuff than any guy in the competition. She was the most natural successor to the Blake-Cook-Lambert-Allen line of competitors in the field.

Agreed as to Taylor.

Power voting by teenage girls for cute, non-threatening boys remains the dominant hypothesis, but I find it unsatisfying.

Five eliminations, five women gone.
Great job, America!

Well, not quite: the main reason for the three-finalist format is to prevent the strategy of "I'm going to lug some unlikable asshole or schmuck who won no challenges into the final two with me," making the final tribal an affair without suspense.

Agreed. First take out Steve so you've got a 7-4 advantage, *then* you can start a little self-cannabilization.