I'd forgotten about "Mind tricks don't work on me, only money!" from Watto, the diminutive hook-nosed slaver.  Delightful.

McGregor's performance is the best thing in all three prequels.   He is, as far as I can tell, the only person in any of those three movies who bothered to act.

I hated Kenzie's guts in episode one, but between her "Bo got lucky" dance last episode and her creative use of obscenity throughout, I've come around.

I thought the flashbacks were painful.  I didn't mind the mustache, it's just that Aidan was so flat.  I totally didn't buy that he was a scary evil guy so scary and evil that all other vampires fear and respect him, or that I should be particularly concerned about his blood drinking.   I get it, he was conflicted…

You know how to tell when an aging crime novelist who is tending towards scattershot plots is at the door?
 
The knock loses tempo, then trails off.

Black Pike question: what happened to the Black Pike deal at the end of Season Two?  
 
1) Is Black Pike taking the top off of the mountain?
 
2) Does some branch of Mags's family have a boatload of money?
 
3) Did Boyd and Arlo get paid?

1) What's up with Harlanites shooting flunkies in the murderer's place of business?  Doesn't anybody watch CSI in Harlan?
 
2) I assumed Devil was a double agent until he tried to recruit Johnny.

Oh, F- me.   If Boyd ever shows up in a goatee, my advice is just start running.

I didn't drink at our last neighborhood poker tournament, came in second, and have never been invited back.  In hindsight, I think the other guys must have felt like I was either taking an unfair advantage or imposing sobriety on the whole group.

Probably my absolute favorite bit of stand-up is Eddie Murphy's routine where he does the comedy bit he supposedly wrote as a ten year old, when the only comedian he had ever seen was Richard Pryor and the only thing he had ever experienced was pooping. 
 
Then he does a great impression-within-an-impression of a ten…

Bits I'll always remember that are arguably profound, but make me sound like a jerk:
 
Sam Kinnison: "See this!  It's sand!  Do you know what grows in sand?"
 
A. Whitney Brown: "I'll never forget the innocent glee on the face of my young daughter as she first learned to lie."   (Misquoted - the Bush-Rather-Thatcher bit…

FWIW, the Q & A started with Leary and ended with Hicks. 

I agree that Pee Wee was 1000% funnier than Theron, which puts him at about the Jerry Lewis level.   (And Theron at the David Cross level - I kid!)
 
That said, this week would have been fine in the first half of the season, but at this point, I want to see the chefs doing their best work for an actual foodie.

This episode was so awful that I have nothing to say, except:
 
1) Ed cooking eggs for the B&B guests was pretty funny; Ed explaining the joke a second time was not.
 
2) Bev and Grayson both cleaned up pretty well for the LCK promo.
 
3) I love Bev and hope she wins the show.   That said, my prediction is that the first…

1) This episode shows how well Quarles took over the Dixie Mafia.  He kept Wynn alive to be the face of the organization, which is working out well for him.   (Also, I assume the guy in the bedroom is some other organized crime figure as part of the takeover.   Torturing the homeowner or realtor is unnecessary.  It's…

I never thought Michelle Trachtenberg was doing a bad job acting — I always assumed she was accurately portraying an annoying character.   I would say the same thing about Elizabeth Rohm too, except for the Shroud of Rahmon, where she showed that "emotionally flat" wasn't an acting choice at all. (and all of Law and…

Wow - IMHO, Redefinition would have been pretty awesome if Angel didn't get any voiceover or lines.   You would spend the whole episode wondering what the h*ll he was up to.   (Attacking the random group of vamps for practice might have been confusing, though).

Actually, now that I think about it:
 
1) Since Aidan is running Boston, down to the point of owning the Chief of Police, and he can't arrange to get some blood?
 
2) Even assuming that Sierra somehow blood-blocks him, if his big fear is of "drinking live," why didn't he just ask the blood prostitute to bleed into a glass?

B+.   I thought all the leads did a "desperation" scene nicely.  I liked Sally's growing and unhinged tension as she tried to reincarnate her way away from the boogedy, Josh's panic when Julia showed up,  and Aidan's growing despair.  It was also a nice twist when Nora turned Julia's reaction on its head and laid into…

I always find it funny that Brian, who was the subject of biblical plagues back when Peter was worshiping false idols, who regularly interacts with the grim reaper,and who watched Jesus Christ miraculously enhance Lois's rack, claims to be an atheist.