You might be right about the role reversal thing wrt Danny's joke. If he was getting dumber in the prison setting that would make sense. Although, to be honest, I thought the joke was that it was true. That that's what happened. Not that he was making a dumb leap because he doesn't understand what glass ceiling means…

@avclub-a5fdfa672284da6bf4f4326e2b3698bd:disqus It took me a second to realize that this was a reference to his excellent throwing things skill because just the idea of Reynold having a den filled with stuffed animals seemed like a fairly logical assumption.

Malcolm has the brains to win this game but I don't think Eddie and Reynold do so I'm hoping that Malcolm also has a backup plan. Reynold is a liability but he's a liability that could take the heat off of Malcolm so maybe there's something to that. I don't see Malcolm going into this brolliance without a solid plan…

I really enjoyed seeing Dawn take care of something quickly and efficiently. She's always seems to be on the island just so that they can cut to someone crying if necessary so seeing her play was nice.

He keeps spouting off "BR would do this" nonsense while seeming to forget the fact that the main thing Rob would do would be to immediately find a Phillip. Phillip has no Phillip. Thank God.

Yeah, I don't see Malcolm pulling out a win here but I can't imagine that he doesn't beat Reynold. At the merge feast I'm sure Reynold will tell three more people about his Idol before wandering off, telling various producers and convening a family of monkeys to give them the scoop in case the various birds and snakes…

You don't marry Malcolms.

Maybe Julia is the Carter of this season. Great in pre-interviews, a total void on camera. Real life Carter seems pretty delightful. I guess it's possible Julia's a load of laughs in her everyday life too.

Given how much i despised Corinne her first time out it's really bothering me to take the time to defend her when she's being kind of a dick, but I kind of got the vibe that there had been some bonding between Michael and Corinne at least to the point where Corinne was sending him the clear signal with the "my gay"…

Mindy's friends are friends because none of them ever bothered to get new friends after they graduated college. Gwen got married, Alex "travels" (I'm sure her job has been mentioned but I don't know or care about it) and Maggie just showed up because Mindy needed another friend awhile back. Maggie is Mindy's friend,…

I thought that too but it doesn't really make that much sense. If Mindy met her in a chain and brought her back in then why was there a whole thing in the earlier episode about how she'd sued to get her job back? Unless that was weirdly edited too and I just didn't notice at the time.

That's kind of where I've been all season with this show. It's a show that's very loosely held together with a plot but does a lot of rambling to get from credits to credits. In between there are some funny, enjoyable moments. I always laugh. I always come away feeling warmth for at least a couple of the characters…

Have you ever read anything his wife has written online? They are both very, very messed up kids. As for their actual children, I don't think they stand a chance just based on their last name. We saw how his Dad and Russell treated Brandon. It's just going to keep trickling down through future generations. And CBS…

All I could think about was the "Steve Perry" psych out in Baseketball.

I'm still mostly on the side of thinking Reynold is kind of an idiot but aside from the awkward "could you declare us winners" moment (which I dismiss as nervous weirdness trying to lighten the situation) I didn't think he was acting like a douche. The other tribe didn't know how to react to it. Slack jawed awe and…

The only thing that Probst did that pissed me off was not dismissing the Fans immediately. I thought he handled Brandon in the absolute best way he could while also sticking with the format of the show and the whole "we're making tv, here!!!" attitude he has about everything. He did great and aside from them being…

The entertaining part: watching the Fans looking back and forth and back and forth between the Favorites and Brandon like they were watching some tennis match of crazy.

Did Brandon even entertain the possibility that Phillip was lying to him? That was the part that I found funny.

@JudgeReinhold:disqus Brothers. For about a half second Willie Hantz gave me hope that he wasn't an intolerable douchebag. He ripped on his brother. He ripped on his brother's game. Then he immediately revealed himself as being Russel 2.0 and was ultimately evicted for a really stupid temper tantrum that I would have…

My shitty short term memory means that I've already forgotten most of that Probst/Klosterman conversation but I don't *think* they touched on this and it's something I wonder about: does Survivor have the same "come to the diary room" policy that Big Brother does? I mean, I assume that if someone is physically…