I mean, the food poisoning is clearly his own fault for going to Pizza Express in Paris. You can get perfectly nice non-chain pizza in Paris. Otherwise, honestly I also found Paris pretty underwhelming.

My favourite part of the show this week was Matt calling Noel’s song “needlessly surreal”, which I think is a fair assessment (in the most delightful way possible) of Noel's entire career.

I feel bad for Dave, because he is a good baker, and as an extremely shy/socially anxious person, I’m very aware I would be the boring one if I ever made it on to a show of this type. That said, he is extraordinarily boring. I feel like if he was going to win next episode, they would have spent more time trying to…

The highlight of this week for me was when Hermine described jelly cake as “an Anglo-Saxon thing”, and the utter contempt she put into the word “Anglo-Saxon” was perfect. She may be on The Great British Bake Off, but that does not mean she has to like anything British.

Doolittle did come together in the end, just as a legendary disaster. Plummer might be the only person involved who has any good memories of the project.

I’m not sure it’s just Depp’s star power that let’s him keep his salary. I mean, Christopher Plummer got paid $300,000 to play the lead character in Rex Harrison's Doctor Doolittle, and he never filmed anything.

So, they can just turn Depp back into Farrell, and everything will be fine.

Exactly. Honestly, even if you leave out the dead husband, the show had a pretty nasty streak of “ha ha, look at the crazy old bat”.

I was trying to explain Tiger King to a friend, and I said “Well, it’s crazy enough that the guy running a sex cult isn’t the main story” “Well, maybe if the guy running a sex cult had had tigers” “He did have tigers! Still not the main story.”

A different leg of the Trousers of Time.

Cherry wouldn't sass authority, but she might carefully imply that authority was wrong, and might want to rethink things.

Marc’s a single father, isn’t he? Where else would his daughters go for 7 weeks? It would be a lot to ask of grandparents, I think.

All this sexy produce, just out there, flaunting themselves.

Maybe we could start a campaign for Rowan to start a YouTube channel where he talks about his vest collection and antiques. I loved the moment when he’s explaining his 19th century French vest to Pru, and Matts leans over to Paul and says “This is what posh people talk about”.

Johnson is only in his mid-fifties, surprisingly enough.

If you’re going to have a mustache, you must wear it with the unearned confidence of a WWI British Officer

Gaudy Night is the longest mystery novel I know (and one of my favourite books), and it comes in at just under 500 pages. But it has a lot on its mind, and Sayers is a much better writer.

I don’t know, I remember going through something similar with the Narnia books. I put off reading The Last Battle for years, because I wanted to have something to look forward to, and then I read it, and it completely ruined Narnia for me. And I managed that well before I learned anything about C. S. Lewis as a…

At least the movie clearly hates Ted Cruz.

I remember one of Patrick Swayze’s last interviews, he was filming an action TV show while he had terminal cancer, and he talked about how challenging it was, but he was apparently able to do a full day’s work for a surprisingly long time