I wish we had that version of the show. I feel earlier seasons were closer to that and it's shifted more and more to crazy twists a la Hell's Kitchen.

I hope he sticks around a little longer because his journey from loveable, naïve foreigner to bitter, sarcastic foreigner has been incredible.

The main lesson of this season is that if you're going to try out for MasterChef, spend the 6 months before the show practicing every dessert you can.

I really wish that instead of Creed's grandson they were trying to come up with some sort of convoluted explanation for a previously unmentioned Clubber Lang-Adrian love child.

My plan is to bop around to different authors, but I'll keep that in mind if I end up coming back to Austen.

You'd think he would have learned his lesson after training Tommy Gunn.

I need to go back and actually read Great Expectations some time.  My AP English class covered that book at the exact wrong point in the school year for me to actually spend some time and absorb it. 

That was pretty much my exact reaction to it.  Once I picked up the rhythm (pretty quickly) I was surprised by how often it was actually pretty funny.

I'm randomly working my way through Amazon's public domain selection.  I finished Pride & Prejudice on vacation last weekend (enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would).  Just starting This Side of Paradise today.  My only experience with Fitzgerald was rushing through The Great Gatsby in high school, so I'm…

Wasn't Daphne the only one in the dark that long?  I thought it was played as a joke from almost day one that everybody else knew.

I think my favorite 5-on-1 is Rachel's refusal to take her eye drops.

I would love to watch Joe try and choke down Spam.

Are they even trying with the different choices the mystery box winner gets to make anymore?  In previous seasons it seemed like there was some sort of connective theme between the elimination challenge options.  Now it's just: "choose between ham, mushrooms, or shrimp for some reason".

Well at least they get to hang out with Tina and Amy in hell, which should be fun.

It was one of those things where I said, "wouldn't it be funny/awesome if…" and it just got out of control.

In a testament to my wife's willingness to go with the flow, my tendency to take a dumb joke too far, or both, we entered our wedding reception to the X-men cartoon theme song.

I'm surprised that Fox is turning more of their animated content over to Turner, instead of hoarding it and waiting for those re-run agreements to end so they can use it to prop up one of their new FX channels.

I never liked the cartoon, but I think it's because I was so fond of the game show.

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus Oh man, it would be a lot of fun to watch those kids have to play on some pre-WWI maps and just the panicked confusion.

Was that the homeless comic book artist?