Has anyone ever done a real analysis of what works before a Tribal jury? How much does prior tribal allegiance matter? Can you get a vote from someone whose ouster you masterminded? Etc.

Is it clear how much of the censorship of 200/201 was mandated by Viacom/Comedy Central, as opposed to Parker/Stone parodying the censorship which had been forced on them previously?

How Rob Gets To Final Tribal
Assuming he can't just use the HII, he makes it to the finals (a) because others are more loyal than smart (Natalie, Phillip), or (b) they assume, as you suggest, that Rob has alienated too many people to win the game.

The Race has had fewer, and less strenuous physical challenges than it used to.

At the same time, when they got to the airport they could have asked each driver, "Do you have GPS?"

Yeah, but people cut them slack because it was a town car driver that Colin had phoned ahead for and reserved for the day. The planning was admirable as hell.

I disagree with the suggestion that teams should be allowed to drive the final leg; with $1M on the line, there's too much incentive to violate every speed limit in existence.

As we all discussed last week, agreed that the absence of rewards and immunity challenges in which the tribe members strategize against each other has been a real gap this season.

Because Matthew was CRAZY.

Judge, I think that falls under "things the producers aren't showing us, in an effort to manipulate the narrative." No one's looking for an HII. No one's wondering about the HII. (And no one, as discussed before, is shown giving a moment's thought as to how to beat Rob.)

I get paid to be suspicious when I've got nothing to be suspicious about.

Moonlighting
Moonlighting was the show that introduced me to the edges of the fourth wall. It demonstrated that silliness and drama could co-exist, that if a show wanted to just do "Taming of the Shrew" one week it just had to decide to do it, and trusted its audience to follow along.

Yeah, but being 13, 14 years old when that show started … it really did make the law look cool enough that it put me on the path to law school and practice — where, sadly, you're not in court every single week, and no one dresses up like a gorilla.

There's a lurking question, though, which I can't answer: if Rob doesn't win final immunity, how's he getting before the jury? Is he just counting on loyalty to take him there? Because in terms of self-interest, the other three would be damn fools to take him forward.

What Chuck said, especially the first paragraph. One of my favorite Survivor eps ever was when Jonny Fairplay and Burton took the reward and left the three women back at camp, fully confident that they wouldn't dare consider uniting against the boys. Linda Holmes's recap remains here: http://www.televisionwithou…

One more thing: I'm assuming the other Zapateras are doing interviews where they explain to the producers how they plan to beat Rob. We're just not seeing them.

the problem with this season
There's a traditional challenge we haven't had yet — "break the plates" is the basic format — in which the tribe members have to aim some thing at artifacts representing their fellow tribe members in order to eliminate each other and determine a winner. Time after time, this challenge has…

Mr. Cookie Monster is correct. http://snltranscripts.jt.or…

shockingly
It's only Timberlake's fourth hosting gig, so he doesn't get to hang out with Elliot Gould and Paul Simon quite yet.

The answer to "how would Sorkin have answered his S4 cliffhanger" is that he never would have written it that way if he were staying; he deliberately put everyone into an ugly puzzle on his way out the door.