I do not foresee this going smoothly for NBC.  This is now the third time in twenty years they're trying to replace Leno with the funnier guy who has the show after his.

Hawaii has Teck, shit-stirrer Justin, and the fourth-wall-breaking stuff around Ruthie. Highly recommended.

San Francisco and Hawaii are my two favorite seasons; everything else pales. SF's really a treat, especially playing the Where's Muhammad? game.  The Pedro stuff is as moving as reality tv has ever been.

There's plenty of domestic funding for the "good" sides of organizations which otherwise fund terrorist activities; the US government doesn't distinguish between the two, since money is fungible.

Usually when the show is being that cynical, they'll underline it more.

She doesn't quite say she wouldn't take the job, more so that the job shouldn't exist after Lorne leaves.  Leaves some wiggle-room, esp. if Lorne encourages her to take it.

Dat Phan is available.

If not Tina Fey, it should be Conan O'Brien's.

What a pisser.

Ken Jennings is the Charlie Bucket to Trebek's Wonka. Give him the keys to the factory.

He's in my top three list, with Stringer and Cool Lester Smooth.

When I saw them on in Phila in 2010, the encore was Cast Iron/SlackMF/Fireflies and then Precision Auto, and you can't really beat that …

@avclub-00989c20ff1386dc386d8124ebcba1a5:disqus , well he's certainly not an Act Of God.

@avclub-fd618c6be7327c1e01499f3f758fc26c:disqus , sometimes you have to accept what forces of nature do to your camp and learn to survive.

@avclub-da54dd5a0398011cdfa50d559c2c0ef8:disqus Johnny Fairplay's grandmother.

The best way to handle that would have been for the producers to pull Brandon out of the game as soon as he started dumping the rice. Once you make your fellow contestants that afraid of what happens next, you don't belong in the game.

No, he wasn't.  I don't even know who's close to Brandon in terms of mental unfitness for the show — everyone else I can think of (Tarzan, Shambo) was kooky, not imbalanced.

He was 40 when it filmed.  For a Survivor challenge warrior, that's old.

No. This is what happens when you put a mentally ill person on television and train cameras on him every waking moment. It's not entertaining.

He did win for the Very Special Survivor Seminar On The Sensitive Subject Of Race, if I recall.