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Forget about the dresses for a second here.  I want to know what prompted the designers to start dressing like crazy people themselves for the runway show and surrounding camera confessionals.  Did memories of proms past make half the designers pathetically attempt to reclaim an edge they never really had?  Or were

I want a new duck
One with big webbed feet
One that knows how to wash my car
And keep his room real neat

Evil, sick and perverted are just the warm-up exercises when I start to think on writing about this show.  Thanks, Double-D!  I will not do you the dishonor of referring to you as Double Diva.

If Mr. Dooshbaghe were a carpenter, @avclub-5905114b2a37b2b7b0a719d55ac35cd9:disqus , he would undoubtedly hammer on his piglet.

Awwww, dangit.  Someone saw the comment and came barging in here.  And look what your brother did to the door!

I'm willing to admit I could be giving her a bit of a raw deal here; my initial impressions of Kate were overwhelmingly negative.  My notes from the very first episode read:  "Kate 'I'd like to buy the world a' Pankoke is NOT a team player!"  We probably have any number of designers in this very season who would

MICHELLE:  I can't believe the bad luck I've had here.  I must have kicked a bunny when I was a kid!
ME:  Or last night.
MRS. MATTMAN BEGINS:  Maybe it's the hair.  Maybe it's the gruesome, useless tatts.
ME:  Maybe it's Maybelline.

Hah.  Considering I wrote them, I wonder what age that makes me?  Don't answer that.

Hey, a partner challenge!  So, if you thought the team concept this season was a shit sandwich, this is a finger shit sandwich.

@avclub-98470000dfdbcbccf2c7cd42d80955ae:disqus is right.  The real question is:  Is Mario good enough for you?

On this Valentine's Day episode, where the only Valentine on-screen in PR ends up in the bottom two—oh irony of ironies—I vow to love, rather than hate, many aspects of this (quite entertaining) episode.

Not nearly QUICK enough ANSWER:  Many Sailor Moons ago, I opted to plunge into the world of social networking a second time, following a lovely LiveJournal sojourn that lasted from 2002 until ending in fiery heartbreaking angst in 2004.  For my second go-around, I wanted an avatar that looked like me, but wasn't me

Thousand?!  My brain must have edited out that extra zero in disbelief.

Ah, I see.  Mrs. Mattman Begins watched Road To The Runway; I made it home too late to see it.  She's the one who made the Freddy crack—I didn't realize she was repeating something he'd said.  I like someone with a good sense of self-deprecation, but we'll see if he can actually bring it when it comes to an

Also, I liked that Zac Posen was sporting a red-toned complementary outfit to the one Django picks out for himself when he first decides to be a bounty hunter in Django Unchained.  The "d" is silent, the "va-voom" is not.

Surprise!  Cindy sucks.  I made fun of the way she cried, and felt really bad about it ("She has that 'women-of-a-certain-age-must-maintain-their-dignity' sniffle going on") until my wife saw and raised me on the meanness:  "Well, ladies of a certain age are often lacking moisture, so she needs to be careful."  I love

Zaeed was one of the best voices in a game series full of outstanding voiceover work.  Growly, dipped in cynicism—his voice sounded like a scar, to match the giant one on half the character's face.  I had just started to appreciate this fellow's work, and now this news.  Rest in peace, Mr. Sachs; you enlivened an

I'll head off what's sure to be an endless round of testicular wordplay by saying that I, personally, was disappointed that this week's episode didn't have some repeat of this lovely moment from last week:

Sad, indeed.  John got so many fans in his stable with his write-ups.  It does seem like there's an endless supply of PR seasons these days; I skipped this last round of All Stars simply because it was too much, too soon.  And I'm not sure this all-team-challenge, all-the-time wrinkle is going to add too much to the

People, people!  All your suggestions, and ALL of these bands, other than A Nice Vibe, are destined to fail.  You know why?  Because Al Walser needs to nourish a relationship with them first.  There's got to be a nourishing going on.