Maybe they cut footage of Pee Wee's televised jokes with the judges laughing at the really dirty shit he was saying and they couldn't use.

I like the chefs, hate the challenges.  It doesn't feel like we got to know them, and judging from LCK, a lot of the eliminated chefs were more talented than "cook BBQ, fuckers" would be able to show us.

I still don't think that the ingredient swap really hurt Nyesha as much as people seem to think.  Bev was put in the same situation, and all Nyesha had to do was season her fish to win.  Bev even won with a non-Asian dish.

Yeah, the really filthy BBQ places are where it's at.  The fewer days a week it's even open, the better it winds up being.  The challenge with the chilies would have made a better elimination challenge than a quickfire, same with the mother sauce one.  Would have dug a "Tim Love Love Shack" challenge, where they take…

Yep…you could:
Shoot outside of the summer months
Keep them indoors
Not be so blatant about forcing them outside for so many challenges (including BIKES IN TRIPLE DIGITS)
Texas summers have been this hot for the last few years, 100+ degrees for a dozen or more days in a row is not a surprise.  It's like shooting in Maine…

Being from Texas, I'm more than a little pissed at how lame the producers decided to make this season's challenges.  It's not all goddamn beef, fuckers.  Heatstroke does not = ratings.  There's fine dining going on in major cities, Austin is a hotbed of vegan/vegetarian cooking, they could have done something with…

The whole Foreman subplot, I kept thinking "Doesn't anyone on this show read Savage Love"?

ALL THE ASSHOLES.  Especially the ones who keep watching out of habit/duty/nostalgia, and then can use hindsight to pinpoint the tipping point.

Ever since that travesty, I've always been a little extra happy to see Dave Holmes doing something on TV…even "DVD on TV" on FX. 

The endless line of action movie cliche Peters had me laughing, and I got a hoot out of "That's why we have the lab".  Decent enough episode, although it's odd how this one religious issue gets the light touch at the end.  Makes me wonder if a writer had a similar situation happen to them recently.

When they had Homer walking on the ceiling, with nary a joke about Moe's bar being so filthy that the ceiling was sticky, that's when they lost me.
 
 
 
 
 
Nah, just kidding, they lost me 6 years ago. 

So it's a surprise that Stan switches positions when it becomes advantageous or convenient?  Because that's most plots of AD. 

Unless Bev's original bus tray contained a bottle of "not enough seasoning", Nyesha might still have been tossed for underseasoned fish.  Bev had a dish planned out too, cooked outside of her comfort zone, and managed a good dish under the same handicap as Nyesha. 

I like the Tom on LCK.  LCK could easily be it's own half hour spinoff, not just an internet boondoggle

They covered the episode on Grantland back in November: http://www.grantland.com/bl…

Sad about Beverly, I really would have gone with "okay, everyone stays, double elimination next week" to reward the overall quality of the dishes.  I kept waiting for someone's plate to turn out to be a garbage pile, but the hits just kept on coming.  Even Chris knocked one out of the park, and I figured this would…

There's a whole casting area for getting ex-gang members to play bikers/gang members/crooks/etc on tv shows/movies, the guy probably has a lot of actual experience with that knife.

Wil Wheaton made me laugh audibly many times.  I kinda wish they'd been able to have the crossover/teamup episode without it being attached to the Dark Nate stuff at the end.  Although, other than the clumsy way the two villains tumbled off the dam, I was okay with all of that.

Wow, that is awesome. 

Tom's blog isn't up yet, but Hugh didn't address the girls' advantage in his recap.  Maybe it didn't actually factor in (aka, maybe the guys were significantly worse, despite the girls leg up), but editing didn't make it apparent and no one explicitly brought it up.