I so agree…but.  BUT!!!!  I cannot STAND the footage of one creature munching on another creature that's still alive…winner chomping on top half of loser while loser's legs protrude from winner's mouth, pumping and waving and flailing and JESUS that is horrible and I'm just not capable of cleansing those images from…

I have no prior experience with these people, either, but the clip they chose to use for Corinne certainly didn't show her at her best.  I'm pretty sure she's the woman who snapped at some blonde girl something like "You're an uneducated, unemployed canker on society!!" before flouncing out of the frame.  I think…

Moi aussi!!!!!  I get that it's really hot, and if I were there I'd be horribly burned as well (unless I figured out how to get some 50 SPF sunscreen, which…why don't they have any???!!!), BUT…although I'm a relative newbie to this show I can say with conviction that watching people with blue lips and visible…

Oh my god in heaven I detest that man with a very unreasonable passion.  I hate him so much that it fascinates me.

I've not seen either of the episodes mentioned above in the "stray observations" either, but I'm curious as to whether it's Corinne who's shown in footage from her first season saying something like, "You're uneducated, unemployed and a drag/leech/whatever on society" to another girl before turning on her heel and…

YES!!!  I'm going to call my little brother a big girl's blouse the next time he pisses me off. Let him TRY to come up with a snappy comeback to that!!

Agreed.  I've been trying to think of a time in my life when being roused from a deep sleep by the discovery of a pair of lips on mine was NOT a startling thing.  I've come up with one or two, and I'm glad I lived through them, but I do wish I'd been MORE startled.

As were his hilarious little "heh-heh's" punctuating literally everything that came out of his mouth.  In anyone else, the "heh-heh" would have been an uncomfortable one, but he's not quite there enough to even realize he SHOULD be uncomfortable.

@avclub-3045414eed5eac1cb27ecd67099ba0ff:disqus - And Mrs. Crawley drawled, "Oh, I don't think he works harder than a SLAVE…" 

@avclub-e57dbebc740250d2c4a370cf6ccb35f0:disqus - Yowza.  Particularly if the Scottish burr is coming from Craig Ferguson's mouth and you're both lying down while it happens.

Plus Carson's Max Factor base looks like it's been applied with a spackling knife.  He looks embalmed.

Thanks for a laugh out loud at 2:23 in the A of M.  "ha ha!" preceded by a comma cracked me UP.

So agree about these hilarious team names!!!  Only other show that does an (infinitely) worse job in coming up with clever team names would have to be The Apprentice, I guess.  Not that I've ever watched that piece of shit…

I so heartily agree with you re: the teamwork thing.  Jesus christ.  The competition has now devolved into something that's based on the luck of the draw, period.  If ANY of the individual winning designers so far this season had been unfortunate enough to have landed on The Dream Team, they'd be…uhh…losing.  Who the…

hmmmm.  I'm not going to reveal just how far away I am from being "a lady of a certain age" but I'll bet I'm closer to it than you and the wife are (and you've so much to look forward to!!!).  And let me tell you, I am PLENTY moist. 

Oh, yeah!!  I didn't manage to get that.  Thanks for clarifying!

@avclub-21a8615938a206d4311a58a53ad8890e:disqus and @avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus - I dunno about extent of backlash.  I can say that I would be mildly irritated primarily because I can't muster the interest to log on to watch Top Chef online.  Not sure why, but I'm thinking I can't be the ONLY top…

Your post makes me want to head over there!!  Somehow I'd gotten the impression that you needed to sit through 25 or 30 unavoidable online ads before you got to watch anything, which I have a huge problem with, but…a 12 minute head to head challenge with no drama and no commercials sounds pretty nice.

I feel like I might be having a drug-related flashback after having read this review.  Could have sworn Sheldon won the Quickfire.  Eh?  Though it seemed pretty clear that that mean old nasty negative-nellie guest judge was crushing pretty hard on Brooke, and probably really wanted to hand her the win.  Eh?  I also…

That little exchange between colicchio and the ship chef produced my favorite bit of the night.  It also seemed pretty clear that the ship chef was caught completely unawares when Tom posed his scintillating question:  "SO!!  You've been a chef on land, and now here you are a chef on the sea!!  How is it…different for…