He's the only talk show host that has actual, spontaneous conversations with his guests. I love Conan's sketches, but you can always see the seams on his interviews. (Set up pre-arranged story #1, set up pre-arranged story #2, say that guest's project is "Great! Lots of fun!")

Rats, I forgot that. Maybe because she put Mme LaLaurie back together a few weeks ago and it was implied that that took the same skill set?

Not to mention Queenie, who didn't fail anything and didn't even get a chance at divination because everyone just decided it was Cordelia's year. BTW- super classy, Murphy. A season about (well, "about") the struggle of African Americans, where in the end the leader turns out to be the pretty blond white daughter of…

It was just so hilariously irresponsible, and highlighted that Cordelia is and always has been a terrible guardian, 5 min before trying to sell us that she's going to be the greatest leader this coven's ever seen! Also irresponsible: Murphy not showing us Madison in a modest, frothy pink dress singing "Sixteen Going…

AND the hell ritual comes before the often-failed "find a trinket using shiny beads" ritual, and the "teleport across the room" ritual because fuck you.

And all I could think was "If some lady called a press conference to say that she's actually a witch and looking for fellow witches to come to her witch school/coven, that interview would be aired on Inside Edition, not NBC Nightly News." Oh, and also, "There's the obligatory heavy handed gay rights metaphor- you got…

As a Massachusetts resident, fuck that guy. He said he'd stay out of the gay marriage fight, and then at the last minute pulled a bunch of shady shit to try to kill it, including dusting off an outdated law written to limit interracial marriage (!). Maybe he was acting on principle, or maybe he was trying to…

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Amen. I group the remake into the category "crappy films I saw because Liev Schreiber is a great actor who appears in a lot of crap". There's even a subcategory- "crappy remakes I saw because etc". Maybe crappy is harsh- just unnecessary and bland. And as great as Streep is, she seems a bit too wholesome to really…

"EAT the WASABI" is my all time favorite TAR task.

Yeah, she dropped the ball on the last few, but I'd imagine that having a husband in the background fuming and telling you that he has no faith in you can really get inside your head. I'm really glad they didn't win- especially after the Rachel and Dave win. As much as I like TAR, I'm not up for "Amazing Race:…

Yeah, I quit halfway through the music poll when I realized that only 3 of the albums I bought this year came out this year. And I'm not sure whether to feel disappointed or proud that I only saw 1 or 2 of the 30 options for "Worst Movie".

Tone doesn't carry over the internet, so please believe me that I'm saying this with encouragement and not snark: if you can make a cake from a mix, you can make one from scratch.

ARE YOU DOOBIE KEIBLER!?

Exactly. And it's much easier to remember things when you hear the stories behind them. There are a bunch of kitchen mistakes I don't make anymore because of Alton Brown (making cookies with butter that's too warm, leaving the salt out of sweet recipes).

I mostly like how un-self-aware Paltrow must be to sign up for that. You'd think that someone (her manager, her agent, her PR rep) would hint that it was a bad idea. I enjoyed how unsurprisingly terrible it was. Like, "yes, this is exactly what I thought this would be- totally unbearable."

Martha Stewart's pate brisee pie crust is my go-to easy pie crust recipe. If you own a food processor, it's easier than opening the box of store-bought pie crust.

My grandmother told me that cake mix is what you use when you don't really like the people you're making a cake for. Maybe other people's grandmothers were slacking off in the cake advice department.

He used to be nothing, but now he's a koala and he's cute as a button!

I think a D is about right here. The Stan parts (90% of the episode) were unbearable.