Was Lisa the one about whom Blais said "Congratulations, you just one third place"?

As I've said, I think Marcel is a tool, but I also thought the "they were still tasting my dish" was a joke, and kind of funny.

Personally think Marcel's still kind of a tool, but not as much as Season 2. He has a habit of putting people down, and he's not as good as he thinks he is. But he's toned it down, plus he's on a season where he basically respects most of the other chefs.

Random Observations
1) The bit where Dale says Angelo was the consulting chef at his restaurant and is the guy to beat seems like producer foreshadowing. Are we going to see scrappy underdog Dale and wierd Zen master Angelo in an asian showdown sometime soon? (You would think Marcel and Blais would have the same…

Fauxlivia pushes all Olivia's buttons. She's living the life that Olivia would have led if Walter and Bell hadn't experimented on her brain; she's happy and popular; she gets the guy; and she's evil.

"More everything!" might be the Seinfeld line I use most, and that's saying something.

Late comment
I finally saw this, and let me say: meh. Robot Chicken used up their best jokes in the first special, and by this one, there isn't really a memorable bit in the whole series. There was nothing in this that could hold a candle to "That's improbable!" "What the hell's an aluminum falcon" or "Yah, Ani!"

I thought Blais was mild enough. One thing they usually don't show you on these shows is the contestants trying to figure out the "story lines," but it's supposedly pretty common, particularly on a show like this where they've all been through it at least once.

Spike's strategy
My read on Spike's strategy was that he was playing an individual game: In case team yellow lost, he wanted to make sure that someone with a dish worse than his had gone out and lost.

For what it's worth . . .
. . . I've always had a soft spot for The Man with One Red Shoe, which is the same movie but better.

Best joke from the SW Specials:
"Martini!"

But he's an addict. Give him long enough without anyone to kill . . .

Marcel's story
I don't have a problem with Marcel, but his wd-50 story was kind of goofy.

That's not Brian's voice, it's someone saying "I, Brian Griffin." (Yes, it's written, but it's not the words he would write or the way he would write them, which is what "voice" means in writing.)

Jamie's absence definitely hurt Jen, but not in a way she could raise for her defense. If Jamie had been there:

Michiko Kakutani and the Voice of Brian
Kakutani didn't write a review in "the voice of Brian." She wrote a review in her own voice, but which claimed to be Brian once or twice.

What significance does this have?
1) I was confused by the final voiceover. Until then, I thought the point was that Dexter is destined to lie to the people he loves - that people who can hang with him long term (like Prado, Lila, and Biney) aren't stable enough to live within his code, and that people who are…

You know what would be awesome?
They should do a series of "All Stars" where they bring back people who they cast to fit a particular stereotype.

My Gripes, and a Thought
1) The writers take way too many liberties with the characters. It's like Star Trek: Janeway, where the characters would just reveal one week that they had a past as a gambler or were a deeply devoted Native American religious believer or whatever, as necessary to the plot. When Quinn was…

My choices
1) One of the student balls in Harry Potter.