What an explosive spoiler

I agree. It seemed largely pointless. He was both boring and kind of a dick. By comparison, he makes Bobby Flay, who is also kinda boring and definitely a dick, seem interesting and nurturing in his "Food Network Stars" appearances.

Naomi/the others
I can't quite say who should have been eliminated, but I agree 100% that Naomi was the most interesting competitor. Ultimately, I guess, Naomi lost because her client gave her a list of 4 unrelated ideas, and she wasn't able to create any sense of cohesion. That having been said, um, spam!!!

May as well pile on with strange (and strangely unnecessary) elements of the show: Whenever she insisted that her first duty as a maternity concierge was the health of the baby. Like there's some hippocratic oath for maternity concierges that outlines a hierarchy of priorities.

I'm going to beg to differ about Pope's personal likability. For the first four or five episodes, I found her to be at least as self-involved and mean as her clients.

Watched all season, couldn't look away
I think it's interesting how her business was portrayed throughout the season. I didn't realize that she didn't sell "maternity concierge" services normally. It's pretty obvious that she isn't much more than a high-dollar designer and part-time event manager. But I figured she…

Husbands on this show
…gayer than the Gay Housewives of NY show. Just sayin.

Joe's hair
Not juicy Joe, the other Joe: Anyone else notice that he had that Ron Popeil spray-on hair? Been a while since I saw that stuff.

$1 plates
I think it's a false premise to use a dish with $1 of raw ingredients, cooked by a master craftsperson, to what the average person could do with the same ingredients. Obviously, for one thing, a restaurant that spent $.96 on ingredients and sold the dish for $1 would have $.04 for overhead, wages, etc etc.…

How do I ask this delicately?
Are there Seyfried boobs?

Not unless he's hiding a very kickin' bod under there.

Absence makes the something something
Can't get over in the primary/intro shots how damn hot Casey is. And by hot, I mean, I was to see her boobs. Her food, who gives a shit? Like I care how Mike's food tastes?

I noticed on the Bravo blogs that Ripert was fully in Mike's camp on this one (the taking, not the smugness). He basically said, listen, Richard, if you don't want someone to use your recipes, maybe you shouldn't show that person the recipes…

@Todd VanDerWerff:

The Beach?
Spent a good amount of time in Utah. There's no beach with waves there. Did they drive to LA for a picnic?

It was University of Utah trivia.

No, that's pretty much what it's like in the Utah state government. Most elected officials are to the right of the NRA when it comes to gun rights. State legislators protested not being allowed to carry guns onto the floor of the senate when VP Cheney came to speak.

not a first attempt…
…but my first thought was that he dunked "Sports Night" in favor of West Wing 10 years ago…

I don't know. I found it sitting here in the lab.

Sunglass on backwards
To this day, I carry my sunglasses on the back of my t-shirt. Every once in a while, I see someone else doing it, and I know we both secretly want to be Chris Knight.