Harold opened a reasonably successful restaurant off the success of the first season. Blais has had a pretty good career for himself, but then again he was successful enough that he was on Iron Chef America before (I think) he ever appeared on Top Chef.

To be fair, Tom's been complaining for years that he's wanted the finale to be one-on-one, and he finally got his way at the end of last year.

LCK was actually a problem - it seems like half the good quickfires were used up over there.  Then again, they've been pretty awful with challenges ever since LeAnne stopped being in charge of them.

Getting chefs to not say in the weeds is like asking them to avoid using salt.  Just not going to happen.

So, the last great season was… the previous season?

It'll  be a while - we've only just gotten through the first season of TCC.

Nope. Bravo listens to the idiots who comment on their website, and as the commercial showed, that's a mistake.

What the fuck does "only cooking Asian" MEAN? There's a billion people in China alone. Double of, you know, all of Europe.  There's a LOT of variation in Asian foods that you pretty obviously don't get.

K-Rod's 6'0, 195, and has the most saves in a season.

Eh, it's not like all closers are monsters - Papelbon is only like 6'3", and TV casts shorter than people's actual heights. A 6'2" actor is probably supposed to be about 6'4" in the show's universe.

Although, two points against that:

My fiance always wonders why Phil LeMarr always gets such a cheer from me when he shows up.

"Is there middle ground here? I don’t think so."

Yup.  They did the same for the last episode of Cheers as well.  Tens of thousands for each.  CityTV's intro is still up on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watc…

"and even worse, they’re estranged because Troi is dead."

He was a douche, but he was trumped by the immortal Betty, who was not only a female douche, but categorically insane.

Speaking of… how the !@#%!@ has former bikini model / TC contestant Candace somehow made enough of a career for herself that she's an Iron Chef judge? She couldn't even cook a quiche properly!

This was the worst of the TNG movies because they didn't even TRY to make it about anything.  Generations was about moving on from loss (both personal and professional).  First Contact was about trying to deal with past actions (although it was more an excuse to just throw down with the Borg with a feature budget,…

" “Fly” is for singing at 1:30 AM at the karaoke when you've given up
trying to sing good songs and just want to make the other drunks laugh."

I was pulling for Chiarello the entire way after Hughes went home early (just seems like the type of guy you'd be happy to have beers with after work), but now I'd rather see Faulkner. She's the more diverse of the two, and it'd be interesting to have a pastry chef on the roster.  This season has generally tuned me…