One more quick bit of advice… both Fanny and Alexander and Scenes from a Marriage were originally TV mini-series. I highly recommend you watch the full versions, not the heavily edited "movie" versions that were created for release to theaters. The full TV mini-series versions are available on DVD.

The Gilly-themed drinks at the Five Timers Club had me rolling. The conceit that Lorne is still trying to synergize that dog of a character was a great jab.

@avclub-75f023b01584c7f37883f41c2a2b91ca:disqus This seems appropriate.

@avclub-eee6e49e09ab1c283e2d7689d45a7b4b:disqus Most of the blondes on Survivor aren't blondes either.

Also, there's the clip show. Sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. So that can throw off the calculation as well.

I thought "bushmen" referred to people from southern Africa (the correct term is "the San", by the way). Since when do they have "bushmen" in the Philippines?

In the early seasons of Survivor, if someone was med-evacced, didn't they skip the next immunity challenge/tribal council? I don't remember the specific season, but I have a vague recollection of someone being med-evacced and Probst explaining that since a player had left the game, there would be no tribal council…

C.f., NaOnka

Phillip (to Erik): "I've given you the name 'The Silent One'."

So the Goat said to the Smart Player, "You promised me, Smart Player, that if I made an Alliance with you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of the Immunity Challenges there have only been one set of footprints in the sand.

Four words: Saltpeter in the rice.

@avclub-2bf7bb353a1107a5d5c41d1ff4c624cb:disqus "I think we called him out a bit too harshly and unfairly"

Phillip: "I play basketball with guys twice my height."

Malcolm found it, Malcolm kept it. Corrine was just along for the ride. I say the points go to Malcolm.

Any ideas on what happened to Laura's scramble plan to convince Julia to vote for Shamar (i.e., this week's red herring)? I was thinking maybe Julia talked her down from her freakout, but Julia did seem pretty insistent that Shamar had flipped.

Sherri: "My employees are young – all I do is deal with snotty teenage brats all day."

"What movie is this, anyway? What's next? Mr. Gower slaps me deaf?"

Okay, I'll play. My picks:

Good question. Though we all continue to bitch about him, and the suits equate that sort of zazz with increased return viewers (train wreck gawkers?).

@avclub-858b67085072a6f2403cf500871f4068:disqus "who are you referencing specifically from this episode?"