One of the things I liked about Tug's flop-sweat was Axl making the same wiping motions from ten feet behind him.

I'm with you. And yet…you really love to hate her, no matter what character she plays.

I saw it as a callback: Andy said it to the potential clients last season in "The Seminar", but Michael reined him in before he went too far.

Never mind; nothing to see here. Had my head up my ass.

Andy Dehnart's article in Playboy a couple of months back did some focusing on Coach, outside the Survivor environment at his home. Dehnart seemed pretty convinced that Coach did take some lessons from his previous appearances and (in Reality Blurred) has suggested that he's tweaking his game to compensate.

Who knows. We're still waiting for Tony Soprano to break out that hand grenade we saw in the first episode of Season 5.

That's an interesting catch, especially given the fact that Angela now knows a lot more about Jimmy's activities than she did previously. She's potentially in a position to do him some damage, even if it's inadvertent.

I think I have to agree with this. Given the fact that they'd paired up briefly in the airport, it didn't make a lot of sense.

Ozzy clearly wrote something obscene when he voted for Cochran (cockring? who knows). I wonder why Production didn't just make him write another one.

You're thinking of Edward McDonald, who played himself in Goodfellas. He has a few screen credits, but BE isn't one of them.

Teams have gotten lost, but so far it hasn't created any real drama. The grandparents were saved by a non-elim a couple of weeks back when they over-thought the "look up" clue in Taipei, and Laurence & Zac lucked out in a timely fashion this week.

I did rather like that the classmate's win was nearly a background throwaway; we might not have known that part if there hadn't been a break in the conversation.

So you admit, then, that you're just massing at the border, waiting for your moment to come pouring southward and take over.

The book was over a hundred years old as of the time of BE, and there were a few dramatic adaptations prior to the 1931 release of the Karloff film (including a 1910 version by Edison), but despite all that I'm inclined to call this one an anachronism.

Sometimes you get a gong, sometimes you get a sound that reminds me of someone pulling a pick across a zither's strings very quickly.

He's AN exec producer, along with Bruckheimer. Also, Evan Weinstein, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri and numerous others. After this many seasons, a bump in title is inevitable. It's one of those behind-the-scenes things that makes the show a little bit more expensive every year.

Reminds me of all those times the Pythons got Carol Cleveland to wail, "But it's my only line!"

I don't know that he had to be imitating anyone specifically; it was just enough for me that they were embracing the whole NPR aesthetic.

Well, there's continuity and then there's character consistency, and these—I think—are at the heart of the conflict here. The cold opens for Cheers usually had nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the episode (Wikipedia says they were often jokes cut from other episodes that ran too long), but the characters…

Yeah, I caught that too and immediately called "Boob Shot!"