Fukui San

Upon reflection, I would have loved it if a Cheftestant had taken Matty's opening rant completely literally. Plate an intricately elegant dessert, and then instruct the waiters to overturn the the plates onto the tables in front each diner. Not quite brave enough to instruct them to smush the dessert in Tom's face.

I believe I'm on record earlier in this thread of saying Boston has had an almost 20 year run of having good looking regular season teams then suddenly struggling in the playoffs. Something like "Watch them go down 3-2 against the Hawks in the first round". 3 coaches, 2 GMs, multiple cores, many times where they were betting favorites in the East and yet... underwhelming while avoiding total embarrassment. I mean last year's Conference Championships were somewhat embarrassing, but they at least fought back to force a game 7.

After watching Dish with Kish, I see that Kristin is still confused as to what the challenge was about. I think, after all of this, the challenge boils down to "make a weird dish that still tastes good". Weird fusions? Fine. Looks like one thing but tastes like another? OK. Breaks some cardinal rule of cooking? Go for it. I think after all of this, my dish I would make for this would be to make a set of dumplings, like four on a plate for each judge. I would split my filling before stuffing and add something to each to make them as different as possible. One would be normal, one would be as spicy as possible without changing the appearance, one would be as sweet as can be without being revolting, and one would have the flavors of a different cuisine. So maybe Sui Mei but inside the fusion one there is mozzarella and basil. The judges would bite into it and each would get a totally different experience than the others. Would that be chaos? Who knows. Anyway, this cast may not be the most inspiring culinarily amongst Top Chef casts, but I think they're probably the most fit and athletic cast I can think of.

Lakers shoot 507 more free throws over the course of the season than their opponents. The two times calls go agaInst them in the clutch they stage a media blitz hissy fit. (This and vs. Boston). Hilarious.

It just occurred to me how funny it would have been if only Kalina had won LCK and came back into the contest alone. "Guys, there was this whole other guy named Soo and he was really awesome and he was a pro golfer, he wore red pants and he had beaten everyone and he almost got into the competition but I won in the end and stopped him." "Uh huh. Sure, Kalina." "No, really! I did! Ask Tom! He was there! Tom, tell everybody about Soo!" "Who?"

That is good!

For some reason the events of the episode bring to mind an Onion style headline: "Food Scientists Announce the Successful Addition of a Fourth Leche to Cake"

Utah Utahns? Utah Elders? Utah Missionaries?

I'm mostly just feeling that having Soo in the main competition from the start could have made the episodes more interesting given what he's shown in LCK and the meh-ness of the contestant pool at times this season. Like maybe he wouldn’t have made a croquette. Or maybe he would have made an awesome croquette. We’ll never know!

For the first time ever in show history, I turned off an episode midway through when the beef stations were monopolized and won't be watching the rest of the season. I survived the Family Edition but not this. There's no point to the show anymore. Angie might as well be in an Iron Lung and her alliancemates would just drag her through the show. I don't dislike her but I was rooting for the soccer players to give her a concussion. The show enforces "You can't help your teammate during a Roadblock". There's no reason it can't enforce "You can't help other teams during tasks".

Sunny and Bizzy can’t keep getting away with this! lol.

Even if it might seem otherwise, I think that David’s absence is separate and unrelated to the Soo twist. There is no logistical reason I can see that LCK couldn’t have started week 1 with David vs. Soo. Or on week 3 with the 2nd and 3rd eliminated chefs kicking things off if they had David fall through and no Soo at the ready. I think they planned the Soo thing before the season AND David got himself uninvited or whatever. Just my guess.

Have you Met fans seen Jomboy’s deep dive on the Mets base running where he realized that they’ve seemingly made an organizational choice to not try to contest double play balls? It’s baffling.

The firefighters would see the Omega symbol and take it for the Lulu Lemon logo. I'm so glad the firefighters tried the Rebus puzzle. It was hilarious, and if they hadn't I'd have been so angry at the lopsidedness of the Detour. I was dumbfounded that so many teams thought the dance would be better. If you have some background in dance, sure, but I'd have thought anyone else should have puzzled. But that was before I'd met the firefighters.

Not what you want to see if you're the Chiefs. Chiefs' Rashee Rice sought by police as a suspect in a major car crash in Dallas, per report