I'm still waiting for Cradle 1 the Grave.

Beavis and Butt-head are about as intelligent as your average teenager now. Not sure if it's because they're written as smarter or because Mike Judge's Idiocracy prediction is actually happening.

My one complaint about this episode is that I don't know too many grandmas who would know how to work a smartphone.

"One of these days, Eunice! [Imitates loading shotgun] Ka-pow! Ka-splat! See that grave?"

Joan also once made fun of her weight. Good to know those two could still work together. (Though I'm sensing they may not have recorded their parts in the same room.)

The actress playing Naomi the HR lawyer is Naomi Foner, a screenwriter ("Running on Empty") and the mother of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

And the one thing you DON'T want to do, apparently, is figure out some glitch in the game and use it to your advantage to win. (Haymitch discovered that there's a force field at the edge that bounces back anything thrown into it; he used it to ricochet an axe thrown by the other survivor. The Capitol considered this…

How about the Hunger Games? All you have to do is kill (or at least outlive) 23 other contestants (47 in Haymitch's case) in an elaborate booby-trapped arena. If you survive, the Capitol whores you out in various ways for the rest of your life.

Actually, that was Christensen's one good performance. Maybe because compulsive liars are naturally bad actors.

He was also given a Brooklyn accent in the movie, where he was played by Bob Hoskins.

Watchmen Babies: V for Vacation!

Jay: I'll find a cure for your disease! Just like in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil"!
Duke: Didn't you call that movie a mixture of fantasy and crap?
Jay: Yes! I called it fantacrap!

That makes no sense. Your birthday can't be in both November and July.

Daria.

Why the hell is Gregg Henry still in the credits? He only appeared in one scene this season and had no lines.

Though the contestants didn't actually have to swallow anything, the challenge from the current season where the contestants have to pull apart a slab of pork with their teeth and spit it out (whichever team spits out the most by weight wins) was pretty gross. (Particularly nasty was the "spit cam".)

The Claire/Haley storyline ruined the episode for me. I mean, really, who leaves their hot teenage daughter in the middle of nowhere like that?

The amusing thing about watching Cam act straight is that it's basically Eric Stonestreet not acting gay.

I think maybe Cochran said Al Pacino but then launched into a bad Marlon Brando Godfather impersonation.

He didn't say it would be gone post-merge; he just said the duels would only be one-on-one from here on out. But yeah, they really should get rid of it after the merge, or do away with it entirely.