Ed seems to put a lot of stock in working through pain, etc. Wasn't he the guy who got a pretty spectacular-looking cut in the very early stages, and stood there cooking with one hand while they bandaged the other? So he might have persisted despite the risks if it had been him.

+1 - Young's piece could, if handled differently, have engaged with death as this totally universal experience (which I thought Kymia's work did much more successfully), but he refused to broaden his treatment of the subject beyond his very specific personal experience, and how can you engage with that as a spectator?

Also, I just want to say that that was a LOT of hard candy to have in your pockets at the moment of your death. May we all someday be so blessed.

Yes, bravo to Teti for making the recaps of a show of the blandest and most derivative art ever to be thrown together in 12 hours into a weekly highlight!

Thants!

And for Lisa…. a plain donut.

Yeowch. I guess next time I'll think twice before voicing an experience-based opinion on a pop culture website's discussion section which will almost certainly never be seen by the "shamed" subject of my comment.

No kidding - we've fallen a long way from Nigella Lawson's memorable note that a panna cotta should have the consistency of an 18th century courtesan's thigh (or whatever) to this Spackle-coated Barbie doll's claim that "THIS IS TOO JIGGLY-LOOKING!!!"

It was downright edible!

Well, speaking as someone with both of those things, neither one is really something to go around crying about once you make it to adulthood.

Well, next week looks to be New York Times product placement ("make art out of newspaper!"), which is yet another recycled Project Runway challenge ("make clothes out of newspaper!").

Well, it wasn't quite the same, but there was the Top Chef Masters challenge where they had to cook with live bugs, and that one guy said he was ethically unable to kill his worms, so he just served a jar of live worms alongside the rest of his dish.

I dunno, that soup guy was a vegan chef… that never works out too well in the long run on these shows.

octopodes!