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I wondered that too when the show returned. In Anne's day they all visibly hung out before the taping and you could tell there were alliances like "we three together will vote off the player farthest to the left, regardless of performance, and end up as the final three." It was another layer of evil that couldn't be overcome.

Why the Faruq do they show us stupid behind the scenes "fun" about how teams look like their robots and cut out actual tournament matches? Why is Witch Doctor "feared" and "legendary" because they came in second in 2019? Why are the commentators so visibly disturbed that "not our year once again" Hypershock got whipped once again as they so often do? Why the thumb on the scale that ensures at least one Udder Gun (as well as WD) gets into the tournament? I just felt bad for Glitch who got screwed. ED chick said they were just sitting around all day. Why not change up the match order and give them more time to fix their glitch?

Think of him as Chekhov's dick.

We never watched this show before, and finally finished season 3 last night. I've read the episode threads, but one thing has been bugging me which I haven't seen mentioned. You don't just harvest opium poppies and end up with heroin. Refining it is a dangerous, labor intensive process and from what simple googling tells me Darlene's fields would yield maybe $60K street value at the end of it all (and as a wholesaler she'd be lucky to get half). How is this a viable business plan?

Wow, Faruq got down after introducing Ribbot!

I didn't know that if you can't get off the new elevated part of the floor in ten seconds you got counted out, as this article claims. Maybe because no working bot has been seen up there yet,

When they were killing time / padding it out showing bits from earlier in the season, they included the results of the first week's competition, where the top three were Suu, Autumn and Kelsey. Thanks for showing up to catch cannonballs, other seven. Stunning legendary show can't afford to pay help to plug in the ovens.

We were thinking the same thing. Didn't they call her "The Queen of Italian cuisine" or something close to that? I don't know how retired Lidia might be, though.

Perhaps I was forming my refined Top Chef level palate back in the 1970s when I first had one of those and thought "That cheese doesn't belong there. Yuck!" But I never picked up the taste for runny eggs or undercooked meat, so maybe not. When Dawn was recruiting Jamie to help her plate we were both asking why didn't she ask one of the guys who had already presented.

Can someone tell me who is playing Lily's book agent Veruca? Not listed with the cast on IMDB and it's driving me nuts. We are thoroughly enjoying this series and want the Kings to take over Troma Studios ASAP,

Of course. It costs a lot to make a hat that looks like it was just pulled out of the trash.

And she was smart enough to just call it risotto and not try to make up a name/twist. Tom at Kiki's prep table is in the dictionary under "Sniff 'n' Sneer".

Having seen three so far I tend to agree. I'm glad I didn't spring for Pay TV to see them, though, which I was near to doing at a couple of points.

Mammoth always looks to me like it's having a slappy fight.

I'm for Ben Bailey of "Cash Cab", myself.

My DVR picked up an episode on non-pay cable I hadn't seen a few days ago, had different opening credits. Would this have been from the Bravo run? Are those on a package like Discovery+? I'm proposing Ben Bailey for new Jeopardy host.

We were rooting heavy for Gruff after the guy from Hypershock came off as such a whiny little bitch in the backstage chatter after Beta won the judging against Rotator earlier.

What a pleasant surprise when this showed up last night! I forget the bot name, but I loved the guy who said they'd added fire to their arsenal, and then his bot burst into flame after an early hit. Hah!

Am I not remembering right, or wasn't setting up a pre-game alliance among three players a bigger part of this game the first time around? If your squad made it through the first round (likely, since your three votes would go for your first chosen victim and you'd be unlikely to have four of the other five peel off one of yours) you pretty much had the top three locked up after it and didn't have to fight until you were down to three, regardless of who answered how many questions right. I remember lots of chatter over alliances and lots of skilled players knocked out by them, with Anne accusing the players of chicanery as one after another strongest link got cut. Maybe they let them all hang in the Green room before, and now they are isolating them until gametime.

This plus if that was supposed to be her audition tape she has a pretty nice kitchen at home.

Alex did one of their competitions where they had to mentor contestants who were really trying to cook (unlike these) - I forget the name but the mentors prowled around on a catwalk and got to go down for 1 minute or something once per round when a button was pushed. Anyway, ahe seemed comfortable in the teaching/mentoring role. I'm just waiting around until Scott Conant pulls the short straw and is forced to do this. He'll be even less gracious about it than Alton Brown was.

I had to go back and rerun that myself. She was anonymously returning the rock she and Steve swiped from the Petrified Forest with a note saying something like "I knew somebody who stole a rock from your park".

I'm sad now that I've learned I've been chopping my vegetables heartlessly.

I hope these various singers are paying Sam to be on the show, because I have yet to enjoy one of their performances and find the whole exercise a waste of time. More snark, less singing.