I hate myself
This is too perfect to pass up:

The couple
I picked up on the same line as evidence that the groom suddenly realized he was in his mid-30s, a little chubby, very boring, and not going to do any better.

Love his early work
Last summer, when I discovered My Aim is True and This Year's Model, it pretty much changed my life as much as music can.

Haha

Uhhh
When I say "won," I mean "placed highly in either the Quickfire or Elimination challenge."

Predictions
I won't back off my original prediction of Andrew to win it all, but you know who I think is coming on strong? Ryan. He's "surprisingly" won for, what, three weeks in a row now? Could he be this season's Dale? I mean last season's Dale? I mean, this season's analogue for last season's Dale?

She wasn't really
She wasn't really a prostitute, was she? She was a school teacher (patron saint of children) who was fucking with House. Right? Anybody?

Passable
That doesn't really look too bad, to me. I'm not going to hunt it down, but I won't make fun of my girlfriend for seeing it. They cast Eva Longoria as an unlikeable bitch, and for this we're mad at them? They cast a nobody in one of the female leads instead of a boring star, and for this we lump it in with…

Sports Update: Longtime NFL coach Bill Parcells is known as "The Big Tuna." That's part of the humor of Jim's nickname from Andy—it's not even original.

Wait a second…
Was that a fireplace in their kitchen?

I could actually see Omar being the only one left standing in the end. The cops are all miserable/ruined, the dealers are all dead, and Omar stands alone in the ruins of Baltimore. Just like the oft suggested meaning of the ending of The Sopranos.

Where else can you go for a one-eyed, super-strong woman who has regressed to high school? Nowhere. And this is considered a weakness?

Am I crazy, or is "The Countdown" an Oliver episode on The OC? Didn't everyone hate that? It never particularly bothered me, but I wouldn't call it "magical" either.

Fantastic
Fantastic episode. I still think it would have been more interesting to see Jenny ally with Blair, but this episode re-earned the benefit of the doubt.

Dark Is Rising
Loved Dark is Rising in 6th grade. It was Harry Potter before there was Harry Potter, for me. I tried to reread it in high school, but it really is a children's book. But that series was badass.

Hope
I just hope that somehow Doakes doesn't take the fall. I have no idea how that would work out, but I like this show better with him in it, and I'm always for twists no one saw coming.

Anyone notice
Anyone notice that when Laguerta and Lundy are talking, he doesn't actually say he thinks Doakes is the killer? I can't remember exactly, but Lundy passed up calling Doakes the killer, or mentioning that evidence pointed at him, and just said he was "my prime suspect" or something.

I like 13 fine, but it was pissing me off how she was supposed to be mysterious because she was white and didn't go around randomly yelling facts about herself. She's not a mystery; she's just a little quiet.

Please don't correct it; it's awesome the way it is.

Great ep, but
Great ep, but who the hell was writing the couple-dialogue in this one? The scene in Lundy's apartment was horribly awkward, and it had nothing to do with his age.