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Took the words right out of my mouth. Not only am I sick and tired of cameos, my grouchy arse is sick and tired of the audience having kittens at the sight of said cameo. Ugggggggggh. How about we just line up all the cameos on stage, then have a two-minute fever dream-hysteria fit for the audience, and be done with it? That said, when Kristen Wiig just gets back to being funny in a sketch, she's really freaking good and elevates the entire thing. But, rarely can she just be a funny comedy actress. Most of the time she's KRISTEN F*CKING WIIG, B*TCH! Pilates was really funny. And, wow, pigs are flying somewhere because the musical guest could SING and I didn't mind listening to her.

ROTFL at this description - hey, rich morons! For a mere 80K, you, too, can experience meal time like a dog. Just dump and eat. The bowls even look like doggie bowls! Also thought Kevin was spot on with his persistent question about who in heck was going to fix the stupid thing if and when something broke? Fixing things is not the American way anymore. Ever tried to find someone to just fix a kitchen appliance? Ha! Easier to just buy new and maybe upgrade this time! He still made the deal though, so I guess he's one of those who would just buy a new Chefee if his broke. P.S. I detest cutesy names and this kept making me think of "Trippy" or "Tripee" or whatever that dumb app was that would show you where food was in an airport in case you couldn't read a directory or walk a little ways to see if you could find your oh so important burrito. "Chefee" just sounds so dumb and not like a cool tech toy at all. I just irrationally hated this so much. It's going to take exactly one Donnatella Arpaia- like child to eat the wick on the chocolate candle for a lawsuit to happen. They should prepare now by including pages of instructions for parents to remove the wick before serving the candle. One does have to think about such things today...

Same. I remember him doing another competition show where he was selling his concept of ".....And Jelly." The concept was that he created a special jelly/sauce for each of his dishes. And it was clear then that he could go either the obnoxious route or the quirky, geeky route and I'm glad he went quirky/funny. He made me laugh when he talked about fast-twitch/slow-twitch muscles, even as I was howling, "gross! I don't want to think about that when I eat!" But he's a funny geek, so I can go with it. I would have screwed up the "tart" portion of the randomizer. I thought they were supposed to bake a tart, not add a sour ingredient. I would have been trying to come up with a steel oat crust and figure out how to make a pork loin pot pie. This is why I am not on anyone's teevee. Geez, had no idea about Darnell until reading this thread. Yikes, yikes. Still have a lot of people I like/will root for and several of the ones I can't stand were eliminated early. Not necessarily a great situation, because of two of my faves compete in the final, I'll be a mixed up mess of yay/boo.

American Gothic = JK Simmons and Cynthia Nixon. Bwahhhh!! Otherwise, the flop sweat and lack of funny was painful. Could the writers maybe at least make the political cold opens not depressing?

As someone who studiously avoids nasty artificial sweeteners, I won't always know by reading the ingredients whether a product has the vile sorbitol or xylitol or aspartame or stevia because gum, at least, is allowed to lump those together under "natural and artificial flavors" or something like that. Believe me, I tried and tried to find chewing gum that had plain old sugar and the only option was Fruit Stripe. Sorry, Yipes, but I needed something that was going to last me out in right field...anyway.... So I see the market for wanting to feed a dog precisely curated ingredients that aren't hidden, but meathead dude, I'm going to hope you've reviewed your list of supplements with a veterinary nutritionist because I'm thinking that human supplements may not necessarily be a carefree addition to a pet food. And the amounts may be different, too. And the poor dog kept licking its lips. That peanut butter must be some kind of (Anne Burrell voice) dry -y-y-y-y. Blech. Don't think Daymond really had a hard time not crying and his daughter looked irritated AF at having to sit there while the entire cheesy song played. #notaparent, but I make up songs for our cats all the time (there's a dinner song, a time for bed song, a it's really OK to go to the vet song....) and the fact that I make them up makes them special. I'm not going to farm that out to some schmooopy lady and double that sentiment for a kid.

I laughed so hard watching Daymond swagger around with the dingle dong toy on his head. The Riz!!! Er...fishwife? Saying "tinned" doesn't make you sound all fancy and sophisticated (or British or Australian if that's what you were going for), nor does it elevate CANNED FISH. Sit down. You serve sustainably sourced CANNED tuna in oil on "nice" bread with "awesome" butter and maybe it would also be tasty and about a third of the price of your product. I needed Barbara on this ep to tell Heather to stop crying about how bad her business had gotten. It turns a potential investment into a rescue mission. I've seen a ton of those boil in a bag meals at REI - you pretty much add enough hot sauce and anything will taste OK. Especially after a day hiking. Oh, and Sprinkles? Sure, your kids have nothing to snack on except mac and cheese. You don't have a catered fridge full of healthy food at the ready? Shut up. And you owe me a new head because I rolled my eyes too hard at you and it broke. Payment in cash and cupcakes with buttercream frosting only, please.

If I were meeting any friend of mine at the movies and she came up to me with her tube of deodorant, whipped the cap off and thrust it in my face? Oh, eff no, I'm not going to take a giant whiff and say, "oh, yeaaaaaaahhhhhh...." I'm going to grab that Secret and stick it in her ear. That commercial is vomit-inducing AND I don't get it. You're proving your deodorant works by having your friend get a good sniff? Wouldn't you prove it was working if she sniffed your pits and verified that you indeed smelled fresh as a meadow dew? Also, if it works....why do you have to bring it with you? Are you telling me you need to re-apply or were you saving the application until your friend could watch? It's enough to make me switch to a rock and baking soda. Almost. While I'm here...attention, Allstate. Mayhem used to be funny. Mayhem used to be clever. Now you are wasting Dean Winters and Mayhem is boring. And not funny. Stop being lazy and fix this. Somehow, I found myself silently cursing Liberty for even suggesting the idea that Doug gets replaced. Sure. The one insurance character I don't mind and apparently have gotten a little attached to (please don't judge....well, OK, you can judge...I do).

Billie Eilish works better for me as an actress rather than a singer. I think she has good timing and natural acting chops. The singing, though....my kingdom for one musical guest who just sings without a single affectation (no destroying perfectly good cake, no sounding like an asthmatic in need of an inhaler because it's supposed to be more ethereal and emo that way, no more lyrics that sound the same no matter the song or singer, "mumble, mumble, mumble....yeah....mumble, mumble, mumble....ah....") I gasped at some of those WU traded jokes. Not in a "wow, that's edgy" good way, either. I've had pet guinea pigs and they all learned to squeak when I opened the fridge to feed them parsley. Hope all those sweet cats got adopted, if they were up for adoption.

Like others, I kept wondering about how safe that fake snow was should, say, a precious tot or a pet ingest it. Poorly thought out home product; movies, sure, though there's still the environmental impact that nobody seemed to want to address. Is it recyclable? Since they didn't crow about anything like non-toxic and environmentally friendly, I'm guessing not. Lori can barely walk in her shoes. I worry when she rises from her chair. I thought the gingerbread house and her homemade story were dumb. Why not buy a cake mold and make your own cake? I think it's kind of ridic to try to sell someone on a product as a "holiday" tradition of your own making. You want to create a tradition on your own product, you go right ahead, but I don't need someone else to sell me a tradition. /grinch

"I don't know anyone in China....now I have to try to make friends as an adult...ugh.." Hee! I like Momoa's energy, but screaming how much you love life and that you have a company dedicated to preventing plastic water bottles is....well, I kept waiting for the funny. I did appreciate "F*ck you, Dasani." And I root for anyone who uses fame/fortune to make a real difference in global warming. Just not when I want to laugh and turn my brain off. He was fabulous in all the sketches, though. The PDD video reminded me of the Amy Schumer skit when she really wanted to eat her matzoh ball soup while her friend just got news of a breakup. Recycling is good for the planet, not so much for SNL material. It's a real thing, though, to feel like a horrible person because you are hungry or tired and your loved one/friend gets bad news and you just don't want to deal. So, I did chuckle. Uggggggggh with the musical guest. Again. A rap-like Brit-Brit wannabe with no vocals, no lyrics, nothing but exposed midriff. No thank you. Go away.

Robert looked like he had some plastics done. His face looked...kind of taut? I would really like to think that if my stomach was in such a condition that I might need a krap strap to haul along with me that I would refrain from going on a hike. I can see it being useful, maybe, for hardcore campers who go to remote areas for days or weeks and will need to attend to their business, but then, I don't think those types of hikers would have any problem squatting. Mini Materials really missed out by not understanding their demographic, so good on Daymond for spotting that business blind spot, though I wondered why it was deal breaking. Couldn't you make a deal with the understanding that there was work to be done on the marketing to a freshly defined demographic? SuperMix already reads dated to me. Can't you do the same thing on Zazzle? There's a reason I don't watch this show for consistent business decisions....

His role was to work two jobs in order to cough up more and more money to wash down the failing restaurant sink. *small voice*: if i saw "balls in a bowl" on a menu and discovered it was meatballs served in a breadbowl, I would order that in a hot minute. I love breadbowls and love meatballs even more (have ordered a "bucket of balls" without a lick of shame or irony). But that did look....disappointing. When and how, when it features one of the most dynamic and dramatic celebrity chefs on the planet, did this show get to be freaking boring? I miss seeing the idiots have to scrub the overflowing grease traps and the discussion of how to update a menu. now it's just "it's slimy!" [puke]. Then, "my crew worked all night and cleaned up the place and here's your new menu." Plot, people. Even reality shows need plots.

For those who mute or run screaming from the room at the Kars song...you probably missed that now you can donate real estate, too. Private real estate, business real estate....ANY real estate! Anything at all! Whether desperate or greedy, I don't know, but if you happen to have real estate, any at all, ANYTHING....donate to kars! Sorry, but those kids are kreepy AF. Chuck E Cheese animatronics have more life force.

Did the pie wine people actually say that wine with pizza was pretty unheard of or novel or did I make that up (because this was kind of a snoozer for a premiere)? If they actually said that? My dudes....wine and pizza is not exactly the mind-blowing pairing you think it is. Not that far a stretch from wine and pasta, ya know? Now, if you were talking WHITE wine and pizza...that might have sent Mr. Wonderful into convulsions of wine snobbery, but psssst, it's pretty decent. Or was their point that instead of buying a whole bottle, you could get single serve wine to go with a pizza? Anyway, the packaging looked really busy to me so for once I agreed with Lori's "I don't understand what this is" critique. If I see a busy, busy package in a store, I walk by. And shut up, Gatsby people. If I were worried about sugar and calories in chocolate, I wouldn't eat it. But I'm not and I do. Also, super thrilled to hear of yet another artificial sweetener being introduced. Loved the dodge on the question "Are there artificial sweeteners in here?" "We use alluose." So.....answer is yes. Go away. Soap woman seemed awesome and I think Candace is a good partner for her who can blow up her brand, but I would not want to try to stand out in the handmade, natural, hypoallergenic, blah blah blah soap market that is more crowded than a pre-pandemic New York rush hour subway.

Did the judges watch a Game Show network marathon or something before the finale? Because why else was every other word "jeopardy?" The "jeopardy" in that dish....the "jeopardy" with that protein.....you can really tell so and so overcame the "jeopardy" with that spice....GAH! There was no jeopardy involved here, folks, except the poor lobster not killed humanely and maybe we should be a titch concerned about Kennedy talking excitedly about how her plate would like you just splatted a freshly killed bunny on it! (And it did...which....no....artfully constructed recreated slaughter will still gross me out and make me too guilty to eat). What WAS the blue smear on her app plate? At least, it looked blue on my teevee. Also, can we have an option to watch the show with an "active voice, word-salad condensed" subtitle crawl? "The idea of the texture of Jennifer's venison is a real jeopardy." "The spice by way of the braised fennel really exacerbates that memory lots of people have when eating cactus on Tuesdays." Aaron...come ON...did you agree to babbling idiot being your persona in your contract? Oh, and Joe? I looked up "acidulous" because I just never know with you guys whether you're inventing words or using them correctly. It means "somewhat acidic or harsh." So....were you saying the acidity of ingredient X balanced the jeopardy of ingredient Y or were you saying that the dish needed more acid or were you saying that the dish had too much acid or....I'll never know. This finale of MasterChef brought to you by the words acidulous, jeopardy and the phrase "spice by the way of...." Oh, right...I didn't really have a horse in this finale, so fine, yay Grant. Though I will never willingly eat medium or medium rare pork, beer braised fennel sounds interesting. Pssssst.....beer and food have been a thing for a while now? I was hoping I wouldn't have to see the giant picture of Whitney of "sshhhhhhank you" skank whisper, non-deserving winner. Whew. Did not.

I will gladly have a seat at your table. Cheers! :) And thanks - the YipYips were my favorite Sesame Street characters -- never got the limelight that Grover or Cookie Monster did, but the skits they had are forever in my head. Brrrrrrrrrrrrring!

Hey, Burger King? Eating when you're hungry is not a hunger "hack." It's eating. You know, a normal thing people do? Sit down and shut up. The freaking Safelite commercial with the oh-so-precious couple who cannot drive around at all hours of the night to get their bay-bee to stop crying is back. Well, WE need our windshield fixed CORRECTLY because we have a BAY-BEE. And the most cringe part is the way the tagline is whispered at the end to avoid waking the bay-bee. I make it a point to yell, "SAFELITE REPAIRS! SAFELITE REPLACE, BITCH! NOT ALL OF US AUTOMATICALLY THINK YOUR BAY-BEE IS THE BE ALL END ALL OF LIFE!!"

I was curious, so I poked around a bit on the interwebs and what I see is: oily fish doesn't work for stock and is very strong. Which, OK, I don't want to sip an oil slick either, but I also saw that mackerel broth is not necessarily the dish from hell - if made with enough aromatics and maybe other fish to curb the extreme fishiness just a tad. And not to simmer the broth for more than 30-45 minutes. Somebody with a lot of mackerel experience might have known this, but Grant, not knowing his mackerel from his sea bass, being, of course, from the Midwest where our jaws drop at the very idea of this protein called seafood or fish....didn't have much of a chance to make it work, but he went for it, I guess.

And then, Sav cooks scallops under or over and it's NOT Grant's fault for sending them out anyway. I figured the contestant I started to like for being level-headed and not OTT was going to go. Boo. She didn't deserve that and looked so miserable. I will give Jennifer the pasta challenge because wow, that was a gorgeous plate. But she bugs me to no end because she's clearly a producer pick/favorite and advanced, like Reagan, way farther than she should have. Grant (or, as Gordon says, GRAHHHHHNT) is meh, but tolerable. Kennedy is irksome and who thought those uber thick eyelashes were a good idea? She ain't glam, wardrobe. It's OK that some women aren't. Want to try saffron pasta. No words for the idiocy on display with regards to landlocked states being totally bereft of seafood. Grant can break out a walleye or bluegill dish in the finale.

...over broken glass. And we didn't complain once. We LIKED it.

Exactly what my wife says every time this commercial airs - with fist around the remote shaking it in the air for good measure! 10 surface layers....wow, so science-y and fancy! I'm sure there's a woman somewhere worrying whether her Pond's goes only to layer six while leaving the seventh-tenth layers of h*ll to dry up and sprout cacti on her face because she's too cheap to spend $30 on a tiny jar of the industrial strength stuff. I wish they'd make Mayhem funny again. I so hate seeing Dean Winters wasted in unfunny, lame commercials. Though I did look up whether his brother is in the basketball commercial with him and it is! It's like Ryan and Cyril have finally been released from Oz and are now general suburban bros. Unless someone tells me that the actual emu is not treated well in the filming of the Liberty Liberty Liiiiiiiiiiberty commercials, I will sit at my table of one, embarrassed at liking these spots. I freaking love Limu and little Limu. Doug's just a bland doofus and not too obnoxious. Little Doug isn't horrid for a kid on teevee. Wish I had something specific to point out as to why I want to punch the dancing Jardiance woman. One of those irrational, instant dislikes.

I actually had to look up "unctuous," so many thanks to this board for the pro tip. One of those words I *thought* I knew the definition of, but clearly not. I'll just be glad that nobody has started saying things like, "well, it is a pleasing bolus on the back of the tongue and the swallow is satisfactory." I'm starting to kind of like Sav. Usually the producers like their Southern cooks to be waaaaaaay over the yee-haw top and she seems level headed and down to earth. Would have been a more interesting contest if someone had taken two minutes to give MD an overview of the grill. I do like to see contestants learn to adapt rather than see them somewhat obviously get set up to fail.

I actually kind of liked Laurence's purple "thing" and I would have given her the win based on the cohesiveness of her collection and how artistic her vision is. But when they started talking about what a great tailor she was...nope. You can win based on having a fabulous eye for fabric and style (*cough*Anya*cough*), but tailoring? For peons, I tell you! I was so hoping Laurence would Bring. It., but I wasn't wowed by anything, so was disappointed. I did like the classic, romantic nature of her looks, but she'd really benefit from a mentor who could help her push the envelope from "good" to "holy smokes, where do I get that?" Oh, right. Fashion is for the young and the skinny. And old people definitely can't be mentored. I loved Britney's last two looks and, to quote Billy Porter, I want to go shopping and find her pants. She makes awesome pants. The first part of her collection I didn't like (I'm not a fan of straps, straps, dangly this and that everywhere because FUN!). But the pants she's made? Want. She and Dom Streeter should open a strictly fun pants shop. Bishme's collection had some stand outs, but was kind of a mess. I'm not mad that he won, but I am mad that it was a win that really seemed....Elaine-inspired? She does realize she's not doing him any favors by overlooking his design problems, right? Right? Oh, nevermind. She's a "journalist" and more into the "stories." Oh, Brandon wasn't there? Didn't notice. Didn't care. He and Elaine can go ANY day.

I had forgotten about these charming histrionics, but it does make me suspicious that the magical elves will give the win to she who blubbers the most about how, wow, you remember, she was ELIMINATED on her last season and THIS season she WON [insert challenge here]. OMG, you guys, squeeeeeee! They like me! They really, really like me! Blech. Wouldn't be the first time the win had more to do with a favored story arc than fashion, but won't make it any less irritating if it does happen. Please, whichever automobile company has signed Elaine to be in your commercials (Audi?), pay her enough so she leaves PR.

This makes so much sense I wonder if you're a producer talking shop with us lowly masses. Thanks for dropping in! ;) *small voice* I love crab. I love hush puppies. I hate the idea of trying to wrangle king crab legs in a stadium seat and I didn't necessarily hate the idea of king crab hushpuppies. Stadium food is such a nightmare - by the time you actually get your food, assemble condiments, napkins, etc. and make it back to your seat, it's cold (or lukewarm if you're trying to enjoy a cold sandwich) and then trying to eat while boxed in by drunken fans or kicking children? Yeah, beer and hotdog, please. I'm surprised that Little Miss Perfect Kelsey actually serves her precious food on the regular concourse and not up in the lux suites. She needs a better prosthodontist or makeup artist though. Either her veneers or her lipstick were bugging her because she kept trying to lick her teeth. Hard to maintain the ultra perky chipper persona when you're constantly shoving your tongue over your front two teeth to make sure they're still there or something. Madam? The early aughts called. They want their cereal coated doughnuts back. If only Christina Tosi were there to complain about the actual icing on the entire top of the doughnut - I mean, they looked finished. That. Is. Not. How. It. Is. Done. Mackerel broth? My cats would have been all over that.