I didn't see tonight's episode, but I can make a J!6 Objection!
Do they really think "tough as nails" is the only simile with the phrase "tough as"? Among the myriad of perfectly acceptable responses, there's 'any bough', 'leather' (and variants shoe- and whit-leather), 'old hickory', 'an India rubber ball', and…

An entire cliff face of obsidian sounds like something out of a bad fantasy/sci-fi novel.

I was wondering if it was a stealth reference to the BB character Krazy-8 (who we just saw paying Nacho last episode), but maybe it was just a coincidence.

So the mayoral also-ran is named Bill Corbett, which is nowhere near as good as D.A. Baracus but I guess it still counts as a reference. Also, one of the alt-weekly reporters said he pitied the fool who thought Baracus could lose, proving that the people in this world notice the pop-culture and pun-based names and…

Serial kidnapper.

[T]here are too many lawyers.
Tell that to your local Public Defenders' Office.

Anyone else notice the Crazy-8 storefront in the mall?

I mean, some of them were kinda dicks.

The janky controls are intentional though. It's like complaining about the original Resident Evil's tank controls - yeah it's not the easiest control scheme to work with, but you're not supposed to feel in complete control and the game is built around it. It's not like the Colossi require split-second timing.

Wasn't there some of that in Liberation?

There it is.

There's that Xbox exclusive Buffy game, I guess!

Yeah, but they weren't on 24 hour duty. They were basically crowd control.

One was a psycho who smuggled in a gun and the other was a rogue who snuck in against orders and whose brutality has gone viral. The fire is contained with minimal damage (aside from the files), and there were no inmate fatalities (probably). With the right spin he comes out looking pretty great.

The inmates were literally in rows. There's incompetent and then there's not being able to count.

Well, the riot ended. The governor probably had a decent day.

Frankly after four more-or-less-real-time seasons it was already straining credibility. The real Piper got 15 months.

What's up with Pennsatucky's Romeo? Why isn't he working?
…because the prison he works at was rioting? The SWAT team were from the state, not MCC guards.

It's a major theme of the show that "the system" is capricious. Sometimes crime is punished, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes it's punished in a way that makes other, worse crimes inevitable. And once you're on the wrong side of it, it stops being a resource. This show often puts it's prisoner characters in…

They were specifically referring to the "test drive" of the stripper-guard's finger. It wasn't presented as darkly as some of the other rapes/sexual assaults on this show, so they probably needed to address it. Plus since it seemed all season Leanne and Angie didn't really have a solid understanding of the stakes of…