I've heard and read this so many times, but can't muster up the whatever it takes to watch anything else he does.  Hell's Kitchen (US) is unbearable, but somehow I can take Master Chef if I DVR it and watch in ten-minute increments throughout the week.  Makes me wonder about the perception of US reality-show audiences…

Agreed.  She managed to lose her syrupy faux-Southern accent completely in however long the time period was between her asking Joe if "you've never eaten a *whateveritwasshecooked* be-FO-uh?"  and her subsequent elimination.

Too bad it wasn't Natasha!

Couldn't agree more.  Jessie's already got Natasha under the table in the looks department, and she (Jessie) seemed remarkably down-to-earth and humble, and she can clearly cook.  I do have to wonder how much of all this should just be attributed to the editing process (lots!?), but…if Natasha is in real life a sweet,…

LOL!!  "Beaver Boy" is almost as funny as "Fetus Boy" (from In the Loop).

Jeez, your comment made me spew!!!  "Holding a fork like a douchebag" and "wearing shower shoes"…!!!!!

I think he also gets a lot of props for having lost a few hundred pounds.  Whatever - just thinking about him makes me furious.

I was really impressed that he managed to serve a runny poached egg given those conditions (though the actual time that elapsed between his plating and the judges' breaking into the yolk will remain a mystery).  Eggs Benedict (or Sardou or Florentine) are a lifelong obsession of mine, and I've ordered them in NYC,…

Jesus, this is the understatement of the year.  I (sadly) have a list of reality TV people who make my blood boil, and he's rocketed to the top (ahead of Teresa whatshername and Tamra Barney).  What was going on when he asked that guy, "Is this a real dish or are you trying to trick us?"  I mean - what does that even…

Clueless…egg…cunt

Just saw this last night and my god!!  I cannot wait to call someone "fetus boy".

Agreed!!  The community here at AV Club is always a barrel of laughs, and it makes the barren summertime TV wasteland a bit easier to endure.

Although I absolutely hate this show, for some reason I do find myself listening to it while I putter around…and I've always reeeeeeeeally detested Bastianich with an unreasonable passion.  Then I read somewhere (here, I think?) that I should really cut him some slack since he used to weigh 800 pounds.  For some…

Agreed; I felt pretty sorry for sherri as well.  I'm not nearly as seasoned as  you guys here (I think this is my 7th or 7th Survivor) and am not as well versed re: the whole goat strategy, but think I get it.  There have been a few goats in seasons past (primarily the little brunette carbuncle in the season that…

Thanks!!  Always nice to know I've not hallucinated something.

I'm with you—-I have seen a WHOLE lot of all sorts of scary things in all sorts of mediums, and whereas I occasionally have to watch the egregriously gory things through my fingers, I still do get the gist of what's going on.  Last night I began the torture scene peeking through the fingers but quickly abandoned that…

Egad.  I cannot for the life of me understand how the reviewer "could not see how Richard was bringing Patricia down". (sic).  I mean for shit's sake, the guy cannot SEW (on anything other than the jersey/whatever it is her uses to the exclusion of everything else)!!!  Doesn't matter that the reviewer doesn't like her…

Get in line!!! 

She really didn't.  Plus she looks exactly like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

@avclub-a14343d7aea171bddd5aa6b80e500fd3:disqus - Oh My God the silent treatment AT WORK!!!  Isn't that the effing WORST???!!!  I've suffered through it at work as well, major problem being (well, the silent treatment from an adult) but secondarily she was my boss.  And I was 25.  And it was one of those jobs that…