Right!  Same with Breaking Bad.  Why watch the dumb thing when I can just go to imdb or wiki and read the plotline?

Yeah!!  His voice was strange as hell; sounded as though he was constantly choking back sobs (which maybe he was).  And…are we supposed to know this guy?  He was so incredulous and aghast that nobody seemed to remember him—-and I can't recall if we met him last season.  Or something.

OK, well, that does it.  I kept falling asleep during this episode…over and over and OVER…so had to keep hitting rewind to start over.  Then I gave up, which means I missed much…including the above-mentioned ejaculation.  JEEZ, must watch it again, as this is ground-breaking stuff.  Somehow I'd thought from the recap…

My favorite line: "Well done, him!!!"   (lord grantham as he eats his kippers and chats up the MILFy maid)

I've managed to forget that one but hey. At least they were wet. Which brings to mind the prospect of heather and sarah in bikinis, which has me feeling sorry for them. Sort of.

I think I saw that!  Was that the episode in which she did something weird with a banana?  As in…it was in her mouth or something?  Just looked it up; she made a salad of inserting a banana into a pineapple ring hole and topping it with mayonnaise and a maraschino cherry.  Colicchio was on with her and they took turns…

Agreed.  I never watched the show and can't even remember why, but have of course seen clips, etc. over the years. What I saw tonight was pretty sad, IMO, and attempting to bring him back as the *same* fictional character is a recipe for disaster (is this something that's actually going to happen??).  I think reubens…

As soon as I heard the bike part of the challenge I immediately thought, "Yippee!!  Sarah's going to overheat and fall off her bike and have to go home!!"  (sort of joking - but I do thoroughly despise her.)  Agreed about the dumbness of so much physicality this season, particuarly given the number of reports that the…

Wow.  "Poor, aging PeeWee" pretty much sums it up.  His people should have advised him to wear a turtleneck tonight; his neck was saddest of all.  And his makeup looked like bela lugosi's.

Agreed; heigl is the worst and grayson's a sweetie-pie.  The resemblance in some shots is pretty uncanny, though.

OK, before I say anything else I just have to relate that I've FINALLY  figured out who it is that grayson looks like - since this type of thing is, after all, much more important than the cooking.  It's Katherine Heigl!!!!  I mean, really!!  A Heigl with cascading brunette waves is her doppelganger for sure…

Not to mention Tom sells chicken salad at Witchcraft.  Wonder what else he's got on his menu that's boring and plebeian?  Wonder how many MEATBALLS he serves over there??

I disagree.  I think the funniest contestant they've had, EVER, was Lisa.  Season 4.  Runner-up.  Truly a delightful girl.

Was this the guy who was something like 6'6" and looked sort of like a cowboy in a 40s Western?  And he had cancer, maybe? 

Grrrrr…I don't recall the particulars of this challenge but do remember that it was very specific in re: calories and fat contents.  I DO remember, though, Betty's unbeLIEVably bitchy treatment of marcel and that really pissed me off.  Betty to me was such a blowsy broad.

Couldn't agree more!!  So…in tom's and emeril's worlds I should conceal the fact that I LOVE LOVE LOVE chicken salad???  In all its wondrous variations?  My fave being chicken breast cooked on the grill (over charcoal, outside) with toasted pecans, green grapes, scallions and celery in summer…substitute toasted…

I understand the irritation with Beverly and she'd be an odd choice to represent as a *TOP CHEF WINNER!!!!!* primarily because she just doesn't—-well, exude "winner".  Of pretty much anything, poor thing.  I do disagree with those who maintain that every fiber of her being is shrewd and devious and calculating and…

Wow, you guys.  Get a room, virtually.

Yeah, agreed.  And the cameraman/editor/whoever was not her friend in that plaid getup, either…she was consistently chopped midcalf which made her legs look like Gumby's. 

Me, too!!  I'd be fine with Bev OR Paul…totally.