That's what should have been done. Someone should have taken 10 seconds to press a finger into the steaks until they found four or six that were perfect. Screw the rest of the guests, this was for elimination.

According to his blog, Tom did realize that.

That's what Hugh suggested that they should have done. Nothing in the rules said the steaks needed to be fired individually.

It's funny, because I ask myself the same thing when a review of American Idol or some other singing show goes up, and people talk about this version or that version of a song. They mention albums from like 1950 or know the names of the various lead singers of bands that I've never even heard of. Why do people know…

Colicchio said on his blog that roux is out of fashion for sauces because chefs nowadays just reduce everything to thicken it. He says that's because adding a roux changes the flavor (depending on the color of the roux), while reductions intensify the flavor.

When I graduated college I was the only male teacher at a suburban elementary school. The teachers there were all former sorority girls who were looking to meet a husband. Seriously, average turnover was like two years. Those ladies could party their asses off. On my first Friday they took me out drinking at 3:30 and…

Stan Smith sure thinks so!

It is weird that the quotes in the Stray Observations are in a different font. Also, I think it would be interesting to see a clown drown in a poll.

We got two seasons of it because they shoot two seasons at a time. So, 1) they didn't know how RI would be received when they started filming the second, 2) they were set up logistically to have a RI, and 3) they had planned out the structure of the season (challenges, eliminations).

Bell peppers are the only common food that I actively hate. I like most other peppers, but not bell peppers — raw, roasted, on a pizza, stuffed, they are all awful.

Yeah, all the serfs were naked unless they needed a uniform or protective clothes or something.

Another Piers Anthony series with a game featured prominently is the Apprentice Adept books, starting with Split Infinity. On a world inhabited mostly by indentured servants employed by a very few super-wealthy, the favorite past-time is "The Game". Players choose from a subset of traditional and recognizable…

Let me get this straight: we're behind the rest of our class and we're
going to catch up to them by going slower than they are? Cuckoo!

I was really hoping that they'd show his lower half to reveal that his pants or socks were red, and that's where the scarlet spray came from.

Otis was in charge of corralling the walkers, and he died before learning that the group was looking for a girl. He might never have told Herschel — he probably caught her the same day he went out deer hunting.

Weeks? You mean days.

If she had hidden in the barn (how did she get in?) she would have been devoured. The logical problem with zombies in this world is that in order to become a zombie you have to be bitten and then get away to avoid being eaten. Anyone who is actually caught by a group of zombies would be devoured before they could be…

I agree, and that's what Kirkman said on a panel discussion on the Nerdist podcast. He said in this world there was never a George Romero to make Dawn of the Dead, and that there is no "zombie mythos" around to teach people about what to expect.

They mentioned on the Talking Dead aftershow that they shot the scene two different ways, once with her in zombie makeup and once normal. They planned initially to start with her as alive, to sort of see her through the eyes of characters who don't want to believe she is a zombie. Her actions as a zombie may have been…

And according to Robert Kirkman, they aren't even allowed to show ZOMBIE kids being shot, so they had to shoot it in such a way that there was a cut between the shot and the death. Same with the girl in the pilot.