I kept getting flashes of New Girl when he did that. Except of course that that doesn't apply at all.

For some reason I missed this last week, but yay!! Scandal!! I am so excited for these weekly recaps!

Liked for the edit.

I kind of feel like the actors deserve awards just for keeping straight faces through that scene. Of course, I could still hear Gabriel Mann's pain underneath his delivery of those lines. Poor guy.

Eli actually bothers me less than other stock evil black characters on TV — I think it's because he's in a show where nearly everyone is evil, and his character actually fits pretty well into that mix. Plus, he seems to be smart and have actual motivations that aren't that different from anyone else's. But yeah, it…

I was too young to hear anything about this in 1998, but I sort of assumed the mutilation parts were Dan running with the story. Like, reducto ad absurdum, "If anyone were going to stick a gerbil up their asses, this is the kind of shit they'd have to do first. Nobody is going to do that, moron."

I remember that — she didn't even have a shirt, she just looped some blue fabric around the model's neck, and the judges were like, the fuck? And there was the one woman — I want to say Sweet Pea? — who had a terrible collar and tie and saved herself by saying "Well, I did this thing, which I've never done before!"…

This is also exactly how I feel about the show, as a 25-year-old. To some extent, I realize it's because I'm just in a completely different bubble (mainly that my friends are all software engineers rather than starving artists) but the characters are so much more immature than anyone I know, emotionally, sexually,…

I don't understand. How do the Project Runway producers not realize that menswear = garbage? It's true every single time they do it. At the very least, they could try getting some actual menswear designers if they want to do it. But they don't, and it's consistently terrible, and not in a watchable way.

Seriously this. Ugh, I spent this entire episode so upset that so few people understood that the point of prom is wearing a long and elegant dress. Hell, I'm still upset about it.

It was so predictable, and not in a good way. How many times have we seen the story of "A jerk thinks someone else is faking goodness, tries to prove them wrong, which backfires, but it turns out the jerk was secretly right?" And how many times has Jeff pretended to agree with people just to prove them wrong?…

Just came here with that same question, was wondering if there was some kind of ongoing comment thread. Lacking that, maybe it's because it keeps showing up in the "More from the AV Club" links at the bottom of every article?

Just came here with that same question, was wondering if there was some kind of ongoing comment thread. Lacking that, maybe it's because it keeps showing up in the "More from the AV Club" links at the bottom of every article?

I also just read it, and agree wholeheartedly with Carlos.

…Woof?

That's the script that turned out to be the old workshop script. The assistant never said that Peter sent it to her, and they hadn't come up with a title in the workshop, so it wasn't titled "Bombshell".

People have subbed in in the past before, but only for a couple of days at a time when Jon's kids were born, and they were before John Oliver was on the show.

This, a thousand times this. I'd love to see Wyatt Cenac circa 2009 come back.

Wow, that is a creepy fucking song.

That right there is the difference between the previous seasons and this one that so many of us are feeling. A+ to you, random Internet individual.