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She has once scene in which she gives the weaselly bad guy senator a nice verbal smackdown. It's pretty awesome. When I watched this I did not recognize her. Saw her name in the end credits and thought "shit, that isn't the same Betty White, is it?". Looked it up and yup, it was. Turns out she wasn't always old.

The original is a great, great movie, one of the best paranoid spy thrillers ever made, with one of the greatest evil matriarchs ever in the person of Angela Lansbury.

Christ, she is so good in this. So evil.

I watch it—or should I say, I watched it, because I dropped Showtime after the "Dexter" finale. It's not groundbreaking television but it's a funny show. The second season did suffer somewhat from an obviously temporary breakup between Sean and Beverly, with two obviously fake love interests, including James Purefoy

Couldn't "not care at all" be an option for "Girls"? Which almost nobody watches?

Oh sweet Jesus, really? That poor man. That poor, poor man. I bet Marie puts him on an allowance.

Jesus Christ, this show is still on the air?

I was kind of rooting for Tim to say on the podium that he was going to stay the hell away from Marie for the rest of his life. Of course, anyone weak-willed enough to agree to the bottom half of a 60/40 split probably wouldn't do that.

That was when that one dummy got eliminated with an Express Pass in his pocket, right? Classic, classic TAR moment. That and the one a couple of years ago when those two girls ran into a courtyard and failed to see Phil and the greeter in plain sight 80 yards to their right. They turn around and leave and Phil says

Oh, they're in. I paused that super-fast montage a few times; they're in.

The spoiler thread at TWoP has all the teams. I was horrified to see the Twinnies. God, they were the worst.

It might have been designed to catch up, but the actual decisive task, flinging the flour out of the plane, seemed pretty random.

Yeah, I was enjoying that telephone booth challenge.

True enough—I forget, did they know when they had to make the call that eggboiling wasn't going to be a physically taxing task?

That seemed like a pretty bad idea, that strategy. Working together only meant that it took them twice as long to make their robots, which was probably the reason Marie blew past them and finished hers first.

"I think the boyfriend commenting on how he should have just done the robot assembly challenge instead of letting 'girls' slow it down, that was pretty annoying."

I had no problem rooting for Amy and her fabulous breasts.

Remember that one team that lost because the girl freaked out over a water slide? I don't remember their names but it was the first Globetrotters season because the Globetrotters passed them to avoid elimination. It was hilarious—that's a trope from this show from the beginning, someone says "oh god I can't

I stand corrected.

My five-year-old daughter has gotten into it this year. Unfortunately she doesn't understand the whole once-a-week thing so she pesters us all week for it.