Haven't seen "Thor," yet, but I'm pretty sure that all that "He who controls the stuffing controls the universe" rhetoric was mocking "Dune." And if so, even more props to South Park for continuing to vibe on a pop-culture frequency I can dig.

One small disagreement. Jim was dead-on about Cochran. Nothing can really hurt him at this point, unless the six-strong alliance actually holds up. Otherwise, everybody's really got to want to take him to the end.

There is no planet on which Cochran wins this game. And that's the thing that always drives me nuts about playing Backseat Survivor. Especially for someone who considers themselves a "master" of this game. Brandon saw his uncle make it to the end, masterfully, two times — and still thinks it's just enough to make it…

New team. Same as the old team. And that's not a bad thing.

Except he really has no idea how the other people on Cochrane's tribe have treated him, does he? And it's also not entirely accurate — he treated that chick Mikayla(?) like a piece of shit, and paid no price for it because he had numbers, so . . . yeah, pot, kettle, black.

Ghost Robot ain't entirely wrong though. As I said in my post, I'm not entirely sure that his flipping was the wrong move, but the way in which he did it was detestable and really harmful to his jury votes, should he get there. (Which is win/win for Coach's tribe.) If Ozzy is all about percentages and chance, why not…

Yeah, but he's sure as hell not going to win the game this way, either. When people play kingmaker, I prefer that they help the people I like — such as Candy did back in her season for the Not-So-Nutty Professor.

Coach really got smart, didn't he? Also, Cochrane made one mistake, as far as I'm concerned, and that was to reveal the whole idol thing. If he was worried about the black rock, why not attempt to have his tribe use the idol on the *right* person? If that fails, and the votes *do* split, *then* he can flip. Appearing…

Did you mean Bro-fucking-vo?

If we're just talking new shows, Prime Suspect is better. Aside from that? Sure, you're right.

But then it would all turn out to have just been a dream.

No love for DMZ?

This was the most balanced review of the ones I found that just heaped praise on it as if it were the next Doom or Quake. I get that id is a respected developer, I've enjoyed their games in the past, but this wasn't at all what I was looking for: minimal story, annoying "open" world, long load times, and a lesser…

This is just a flat-out lie about the installation resolving the load times (at least on the PS3). I played through the first five hours of Rage before sending it back out of boredom. I don't like the idea of driving from level to level — I'd rather just do FPS missions, one after the other, without the lame-ass NPC…

As mentioned in previous weeks' recaps: the montages on Sunny are always great, and Frank's coke bender here was terrific, particularly the shots of him attempting to pour giant mounds directly down his nose as the camera shifts to a red negative.

That whole guts/pool filter thing . . . leave that to Pahlaniuk.

To be fair, though, if any show is actually going to jump a shark these days, it would be Sunny: "The Gang Jumps a Shark."

Yeah, this was my favorite exchange of the episode:
"He's 19." "No, he can't be . . . a day over 12."
Reversal of expectations there, considering that he still looks about 40.

Great episode; just about the only thing they didn't go for in this alternate worlds episode was a segment in which all of the actors were different (though I guess they already have, to a degree, when Abed was making his "reality" show about the study group). If they hadn't had such a strong tag, this would've made a…

The challenge may have been disgusting, but I like seeing new things happen on Survivor, shake-ups and what not, and that's why I sank my eye-teeth into this episode. Nice for Cock Ring, too, to be able to finally maneuver himself into this game. He's going to be interesting at the merge.