Ew, David Spade? Really? My fondness for Padma just went down a few notches.

Apparently from the promo, they're letting him be around kids too. Self-absorbed, immature, whiny—wait, maybe they are the perfect audience for his antics.

Richard will serve his own sauteed ear, Padma will declare her portion was undercooked, and then the killings will begin on live TV!

(But I'm really rooting for Antonia.)

I want Mike to win if for nothing else than to see the most entertaining ten minutes on television: Richard's total, utter, complete psychological meltdown, possibly including violence and/or suicide.

Also, "Blais' sweaty, claustrophobic corner" FTW!

I was wondering if the prop team dropped off the conch. Even though I haven't been to the Bahamas myself—let alone the Caribbean—I was pretty sure conch aren't lying everywhere together on the sea floor like that.

One of the most unbelieveable things about this whole series is how Barb and Margene, two essentially decent people, have been able to put up with Nicki's manipulative horrible personality. Now here's Cara Lynn just sitting in bed, sobbing while her mother hovers over her in the night. It's been a creepy storyline,…

And me to the list of AV Clubbers who thought the big challenge was going to be cooking against the winner of your season, just like the first challenge was to recreate the dish that got you kicked off your season. Damn. What a waste.

I don't understand why Bravo or the Top Chef producers didn't check out the equipment prior to the challenge. Why saddle the chefs with faulty and/or dangerous equipment?

I mean, I'm glad he addressed the controversy over his win in Season Five but…Hosea? Whatever you say, you totally didn't deserve it.

Fredo, are you one of those HATERS Hosea wanted to prove himself to?

Machine Gun Etiquette definitely, but the Black Album and Strawberries have their holes (Lively Arts? Under the Floor Again?).

Station to Station wins it for me just because of the presence of TVC15. I could listen to that song all day, every day.

While Bollocks is a classic, The Damned were the all-around better band musically. Damned, Damned, Damned definitely belongs in the upper spot on this list.

I got to see The Damned on one of their many farewell tours—this time in '88 after the release of the shit Anything. Awesome, awesome show. All the goth girls swooning over Dave Vanian (who is a very handsome man) was a sight to see.

Back to the BK Stuffed Steakhouse mentioned in the article: I had it for the first time last Wednesday. "Spongy" is putting it mildly; the texture of the "steak" is downright weird, like they tried in the corporate flavor labs to recreate the thick, chewy texture of a real steak with all those soy and corn fillers. …

It's probably his own. Guy's a polygamist living on a compound in the middle of nowhere…there are millions of guns floating around in Juniper Creek.

Exactly my thoughts during Nicki's abduction: she's gone ALL DAY, her two boys are running around, the whole family's at home having A Very Important Meeting, and no one asks "Where's Nicki?"

Yeah, I kept mixing those two up during the episode too.