The Wickets are the gang from The Warriors that really wanted to be like the gang from A Clockwork Orange but also really like lawn sports.

Everything about Alyssa made me want to be able to side with Coco from the beginning but at this point I can't escape the mentality that Coco is just picking on a doofus.  It was so bad that Alyssa couldn't even recognize it when Coco was actually giving some legitimate advice and (I think?) trying to help.

I well um but… er. *cutaway*

Jackie is easily my favorite character.  I enjoyed her screentime even when I wasn't really enjoying the show.

As someone who really likes this show but still gets quite grated by a number of issues I think I figured out the primary problem of The Neighbors: they don't seem to trust their own story's universe.  While the show's regular jokes don't always land for me, it is the constant lampshading of jokes both good and bad…

This is a good way of putting it.  I chuckle every time it becomes apparent they haven't forgotten about him and even more when he still does nothing.

I'm pretty sure I could watch a .gif of that for a solid 5 minutes.

The power glove is as close to mythos as the early 90s were ever gonna get.

This week on the Cleveland Show Cleveland takes a tour of the Pawtucket Brewery!

It's not too terribly uncommon (an episode of Bob's Burgers from last season comes to mind) but I've always liked the method of a poorly executed plan somehow 'working' and making the viewer wonder just when this is all going to fall apart until it turns out the person was just going along with it for their own.  For…

I have to think it will be Jade who turns out to be the villain.  As sweet as her act is she likes to stir shit up.  She's like a super graceful O'Reilly from Oz.

Agreed, it's possible a risk will get her picked off early but I much prefer someone who tries something different and fails to the blank slates who will inevitably be eliminated somewhere between 9th and 5th place depending on looks.

I would pay for a DVD with nothing changed but Lil Poundcake's face shopped onto Phi Phis.

Coco's outfit was Oakland Raiders: Fabulous Edition.

That would be pretty unusual for HBO.

It felt like it needed a half hour to really breathe but I don't think I could have handled a 22 minute Lemongrab party.  Just about every part of the last half of the episode felt really abrupt.  That said I have a soft spot for the way they use candy to depict horrors they'd never get away with otherwise (a couple…

I wish Jade could have done it but the bottom two's mistakes were too obvious even for the classic RDPR artifice to step in.

Next episode we'll see whatever strength she has that'll keep her in the contest several weeks too long.

Don't hate on the eye color, it's the only way we can tell that she's a cyborg.

Coutorture. That is all.