Murthi's referring to the Southern accent as "random" does suggest a lack of familiarity both with current commercial campaigns and what Cross has gotten done did.

I'm not aware of any other examples of him doing skits making fun of Larry the Cable Guy. If he's been wanting to make fun of Larry, it took him a while to do her get done.

Anyone else find the name "Maurice Antonov" to be somewhat similar to "Michael Anissimov"?

And I don't hear much of a British accent, either. Is his character supposed to be American?

Let me see if I can get some of my informants to give me passive aggressively oblique clues.

"Watson's (always amazing) costuming"

They should have had a skit called "The Making of the Story of the Story of Everest" about someone who goes to a taping of a skit show and sits through an hour of people putting shelves back together.

I'd like to talk about my Grandmother?

I found it somewhat amusing. Then he shows the previous episodes showing the previous episodes, and I lost it.

I find it interesting that several people are asserting that cups never had "Merry Christmas" on them. It's notable on several levels:

Haven't most people had sex with a teenager?

I take it he was Angel from Dexter? Even if I hadn't recognized the actor, he was the obvious choice. If you're familiar with the rhythms of procedurals, those sort of characters are usually who turn out to be the bad guy.

Apparently, "There's more than one of everything" applies to episodes with JN in them.

Sherlock's finances are a bit unclear. On the one hand, he's claimed to be financially independent enough to be able to not need the police to pay him, and there have been a few episodes where he's been hired for an undisclosed-to-the-audience-but-implied-to-be-very-large sum, but on the other hand his father pays for…

Yeah, but the question is: do you have any reason for thinking that you getting the boot because of the idol is any more likely than you getting the boot because there are only three people in the Final Three, and your alliance has more than three people in it? If not, then your fear is irrational. People get caught…

I wonder how things would have gone if Burnett had filmed the first four seasons or so before the first one had aired. Would the different seasons have converged independently on the same strategies, or would they have been different?

Big Brother doesn't have tribes, and they still form alliances. It does vary from season to season, though, and a lot of seasons the alliances are constantly in flux.

Spencer voted for Ciera.

One of the basic Survivor rules: if you pick a fight with someone, you have a 50% chance of winning. So you've reduced your odds from 1 in n to 1 in 2.

I'm not so sure players should be so concerned about idols. About the only thing they can do about it is splitting the vote, which has the disadvantage of lowering the number of flippers needed for a blindside, and revealing who's second-from-bottom in the pecking order. But if you stand fast and an idol gets played,…