Kerri Okie

IIRC, Blake mentioned them first, but I grew up with that song, know it by heart, and didn't need Blake or Adam to point out the mistakes. Not only did he mess up at the beginning, he forgot lyrics all the way through. None of that is a deal-breaker per se, but there were a lot of performances that were head and shoulders above his, so I don't think he needed any help landing on the bottom. When Miley first joined the show I thought I'd hate her, but I actually enjoy her a lot as a coach and will miss her next season. On top of that, she looked absolutely beautiful last night. But that dress tonight was another story...

Agree. It was a clever lie, but Joe should have quit while he was ahead. There's pushing to the point of gameplay, and then there's pushing it beyond just for the sake of pushing it. I don't really get the reaction toward Ben though. He, like everyone else, is tired, hungry, and stressed. His buttons were pushed, he overreacted. He owned it, he apologized for it. It's a lot more than many others have done. Personally, I give him credit for being man enough to do that.

And she should know because of how well Bagel Stuffins worked out for her.

LOL, my first thought at the clip was, "Why is Christian Borle playing the candy store guy, and why is the candy store guy wearing Willy Wonka's hat?"

Me too. The second they announced the category and went to commercial, I said "Lesotho!" I didn't know if I was right until they came back and showed the actual question, but I was. It's one of those random odd things I remember for no reason whatsoever.

I don't think scripted is really the right word. I don't think it was scripted per se, not as in preplanned, and I don't think Ramsay or the girls expected him to come back. But I could absolutely see him pacing around up in the dorm, throwing around the idea that maybe he should go back down there, and the producers jumping on it and telling him to go for it.

100%. When he told chef, "My body told me to come back," I turned to Mr. Okie and said, "More likely, the producer did." But then, I'm cynical over everything on "reality" TV. I also happen to believe Ramsay's judging in the challenges is a set up.

LOL, yes. I don't know where Emma came from, but I meant Kara.

I wasn't alive when that picture was taken, but I knew who it was. Maybe if this were Teen Jeopardy, sure, but I was also shocked that no one got it. Emma's singsong voice was on my last nerve from her very first answer, but her sighing and eyerolling at every DD was the worst. I'm gonna have to skip the rest of her episodes.

I thought he was going for both, cream rising and wheat from the chaff, and just got them mixed up. But it was still amusing.

Don't you mean the cream from the um, er...crop? I loved this episode. On a semi-serious note, I loved Manda saying she wasn't going to let Josh take the team down and then following through on it, and Jennifer wanting to give him a chance (only to have him screw up in the next frame.) But between time lapse footage of Elise doing nothing, Josh's "my body told me to come back," Robyn's confessionals where she kept feeling confident with her new team and then crashing in the next moment, and these: it was also the most I've laughed during an episode of HK in the longest time. I think there was another point during the fish challenge where someone's dish was tagged as "Not Salmon." I hope whoever they got to do the editing for this one is back for the rest of the season.

Not sure if this is about Mike, but the impression I got was that this was his piece of fish and the others had had some. Maybe not. I'll have to rewatch. It wasn't about Mike. During that scene someone (Ben?) said that they appreciated Mike sharing his tiny little fish, and then compared him to Cole, who, more than one time when he got fish, sat and ate the whole thing in front of the tribe and didn't offer them any of it.

It wasn't. It was his father-in-law, or his wife's father. He just got the two phrases mangled together.

I caught it, but I was in the next room and only half listening and just assumed he was saying his favorite candy was peanut butter cups. But it could also be that he was either clueless, or the point was that he was not really listening to what Will was saying to a throwaway question, seeing as how he has his own ulterior motives in their interviews.

And the Reese's Pieces mention. Ah, Erica Kane, how I miss you. As a lifelong AMC fan, I literally squealed when I saw her.

I don't understand it either. I like both. No reason why Howard and Amy can't, too. I often find Bernadette grating, but I enjoyed her in this episode. I loved that she didn't get jealous in the least and just wanted time alone to get her own work done.

The Black Sea and Caspian Sea are in alphabetical order when looking at the map. My mnemonic from freshman geography must have worked, since I still remember it some 25+ years later.

Marty hiding $50 million in the walls at the Blue Cat, and all I can think is, "There's always money in the banana stand."

If I were to try to predict what will happen on this show, which I usually don't because after a decent start, Brad Bell's storylines usually tend to fizzle out into nothing, I'd wager a guess that Nicole and Zende end up in Paris, where Zende and Sasha renew their relationship for some reason that may or may not make a whole lot of sense to the rest of us, sending Nicole crying back to LA sans the newly departed RF within a couple of months. All off screen, of course.

Because in NY, BB doesn't have to write any scenes for them or pay the actors to appear on screen.

Awesome! But it would have been even better if he'd been brought on as co-bartender with Wells.

Although more likely that she saw him on AFTR, called the producers and told them her story, and they invited her to come on the show and confront him on camera. Because why do things quietly when you can publicly humiliate everyone involved? I'm sure Lexi's (?) story was more or less true, and Demario is a rat, but that woman was cray-cray, too. If Demario hadn't been stumbling over his own lies as badly as he was, I would have totally believed this was some random woman who had met him once, built up some "relationship" in her own mind, and now was stalking him to the ends of the earth.

I have never read the book, nor have I read or watched interviews with DEK. That she was there looking for him was the conclusion I drew based on the things mentioned above that I picked up on watching the show.

It was short-lived, but there was grumbling on the episode about Matt and Redmond allegedly jumping the line. I wouldn't have known Becca and Floyd also "jumped" if I hadn't seen their YT video, so yes, clearly the show chooses not to show us everything. But you're right, people did seem to get over the whole thing pretty quickly and now seem to think Redmond is a great guy, when quite a bit of what we've seen of him seems to be the opposite, proving we can't always make sound judgments based on the edit alone. I also agree that viewers tend to make a bigger deal of things than the players themselves. ETA: A/V weren't bullied. They may have been ostracized (there was talk of it on the dinner tram, but I don't think we actually saw whether teams did or not), and they were certainly ganged up on, but those are not the same as bullying. They often go hand in hand with bullying, but not always. Phil didn't bully them either, although I cringed when he said that at the mat. It may have been true, but why the need to point it out and add insult to injury?

She didn't accidentally find her rapist. She came to town looking for her rapist. It's why she learned how to shoot and kept a gun and started sleeping with it under her pillow. It's why, whenever Ziggy asked why they had moved, she wouldn't give him a real reason, just a meaningless fake reason that he got to know so well he could repeat it verbatim, knowing it wasn't the truth. Coming face to face with Perry when and where she did was unexpected, but since it's why she was there in the first place, it's not really so much of a coincidence as people seem to think.