The table of chefs did seem to be more liquored up than usual, thanks to the Terlato family of wines, no doubt.

You're going to have to be more specific. 

Even the editors hate Josie.  Usually they will select their shots to show one person as confident and the other more tentative, then Tom's big reveal shows the latter to have won.  They didn't even try that this time.  It was all Kristen executing and Josie dropping stuff.

Those guys were jerks.  They didn't seem to be in any way different from the usual chef-testants, other than that they have a hit restaurant on their hands.  It's difficult to quantify success, but it doesn't seem like those goobers were any more qualified or eminent than many cheftestants we've seen on this or other…

"That's where Pamuk put it…"

Maybe it's just Matthew's war wound again.  Or, despite their nonchalance, both Matthew and Mary have no idea what they're doing down there.

If only he had been traveling with the original voice of reason. 

Up the River, Charlie Brown!

And the kid actually stayed in the apartment.  Granny did a hell of a lot better than anyone who's ever had to watch Carl on The Walking Dead.

I also thought it was probably the best episode this season so far.  I enjoyed Henry's lampshading of the inclusion of Frankenstein, since he's not in Henry's book.  The show seemed to be at least beginning to confront some of the questions its mythos raises. 

The adding a new plotline every week needs dropping.  Reporter-ex needs dropping.  Criminal brother needs dropping.  Moe gets a cell phone needs dropping.

Because it fit in with the "classic moments from past seasons" theme.  At the start of that episode, when Padma gave the contestants their Kindle Fires so that they could see which moment they had to memorialize, she mentioned that there was a classic moment from this season which would be revealed later.

Actually, his evil quadruplet Bonar. 

Save it for the Joyce DeWitt RIP article, still as yet unscheduled.

I would consider her a core cast member as well, although looking at IMDB, she jumped ship pretty early to star on The Facts of Life. 

Did this girl aspire to be a drug-addicted wreck?

I believe that's Ubu you are talking to, good sir. 

Try a different bicycle repair shop.

It's almost caught up with the I Love Lucy curse. 

What happened in the second episode?