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Have they ever given even an approximate number of people trapped in the dome? Sometimes it feels like a few dozen, sometimes like there have to be at least a few hundred.

The contestant was a little slow on Shatner, but if Cho had given better clues all along they'd have had time to spare. I was amazed he pulled out some of those answers as quickly as he did based on her awful clues. "Scientologist" for Tom Cruise? Like there aren't too many actor/scientologists. "Young blonde singer" for Taylor Swift? "Star Wars" for Liam Neeson??? Wasn't a bad episode except for the somewhat frustrating final round. I expected Cho and Martha Stewart to be much more annoying than they were, so that beat expectations. The candy game did seem a lot more difficult to me than the previous times they've played such games. I think I only recognized three of them, usually I'm pretty confident on about 6 or 7.

Hey, I was just re-watching this episode in the background, and was wondering about the Smash the Buzzer rules. When Poppy Montgomery buzzed in on SOPRANOS characters on "Carmela" with a gag last name, I noticed that they passed by the correct answer "Bobby Bacala" earlier. If Poppy had realized it in time, since she knew right after buzzing that she was wrong, could she have gotten the point by answering "Bobby Bacala", or is it that once a right answer goes by you can't go back to it, and buzzing in only applies to the last answer Jane read? Also, Leslie Bibb gets more adorable the more times you watch, and Probst gets worse.

It was "Napoleon", and Thiessen just made the same mistake the civilian did. I thought Leslie Bibb was going to be annoying early on, with her over-the-top gloating at getting the first Fusion, but she grew on me after a while. She was pretty much the only one doing anything on her team's round of Show Me the Music, and some of her impressions in the final round were hilarious. David Alan Grier was amazingly useless, although I guess I can't complain since it did give us an extra few seconds of Leslie doing her flapper dance. Fun episode, I wouldn't mind seeing any of the celebrities but Probst on again. Even Grier, though a lousy player, was funny occasionally.

There is a 10-second time limit on Letter Have It, but I don't think anyone has come up against it yet. If no one else on your team has picked up a letter by 8 seconds, it might be worth it to grab one blind and hope inspiration strikes, there's nothing to lose and you remove a potential answer from the other team in the bonus round. Jason Biggs grabbed one way too fast when he didn't have an answer (and actually grabbed a letter for which there was no right answer, letting the other team get all four bonus points). He should have given the rest of his team a few more seconds to think, but sometimes in these situations it's hard to judge time.

I was pretty sure they were doomed when Lopez passed on Nicholas Cage. Wow. And then he took too long to pass on other things. The Charades was really mis-matched in degree of difficulty. They need to have similar categories to be fair. Both the Timeline selections were too easy. I think I would have gotten both first try, which is pretty rare. Not my favourite episode. There seemed to be a lot more banter between games, i wonder if they normally film a bunch of stuff and only use it if they need to fill time.