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Not in the magic act, but he does speak in real life - I've heard him on the radio several times. His extracurricular activities tend towards a bit more class than Penn's. http://artery.wbur.org/2014/05/14/tell-the-tempest-cambridge-art

Bumping up because it took me a month after the season was over to get around to binging it out. So: a) I called The Mountain not being dead and b) I'm calling The Hound not being dead either because c) I'm calling an epic battle between the two in Season 7, after Hound is nursed back to health by d) The Lady Brienne, because I'm shipping them heavy. Just like Nada and Frank got together after their epic battle in "They Live", they'll join forces to fight for the good.

I'm decent in music both classical and popular (although on pop stuff I collapse around the year 2000), books/authors/literature, pop culture, movies/theatre, technology, and the sort of general history one picks up from reading widely. I suck at sports, military history (ain't gonna study war no more), and everything having to do with religion of all flavors, most especially including bible studies.

Cheetos don't taste like anything without the orange powder. The processing required to prepare chicken breasts for frozen meals like TV dinners or Hot pockets renders it essentially flavorless, it is only the sauce provided that makes them palatable. An inoffensive carrier which can be presented as any number of things depending on the flavored coating applied at the last moment due to its ability to mask any characteristics of its own is useful in efficient large scale production. Cf Melissa D'Arabian.

"Stunning" - existing "Delicious" - edible Walmart - Stunning

When it finally comes to the, ahem, "audience vote" section of this contest I'll be thinking of a passage in Ben Elton's novel "Chart Throb". It's based on a UK singing talent/reality program which is clearly not "UK Idol" or "X Factor", and its Svengali who is of course not Simon Cowell. I'm paraphrasing this, and the emphasis is mine - Svengali is asked about the post-show careers of his stars : "Do you know what it takes at this point to have a #1 record? Nobody buys records, a single will be at the top of the charts with 50,000 sales. 50,000 sales doesn't even warrant buying advertising. I will make more money from one night of telephone voting than from the entire recording career of any of these losers." Is one night of Food Network voting enough to pay the production costs on six weeks of minimal cheap-ass Sunday morning stand and stir shows, I wonder?

Cards on the table, I got it because I watched Drunk History last week.

So long ago I forgot, have to go back and watch again.

How about Watergate/Nixon impeachment. Young people don't know the story.

That's the good news. The bad news is that they're all tuned to the Food Network.

It looks like the rest of July into August is a Chopped-free zone for me, unless they pull some old episodes they haven't blown out by now by overplaying them to rerun during the day. Because I have two 12-inch spikes under glass marked "Break here in case of emergency", ready to plunge into my eyes in case I should ever get the notion that watching teenagers on TV might be a good idea.

Me, too. I also root for all the librarians, although my wife is pissed that I refer to them all as "Marion".

I've been deleting the clip shows unwatched, but for those who have dived in, what do you think? Are they an admission that this show is over, and they're just trying to use up whatever they can scrape from the floor of the barn?

I get that it's likely never going to be actually revealed, but I really hope it's never even hinted at as being supernatural. (Aliens, BTW, I would not consider to be supernatural). The only interesting theme to me in the show so far is humans making up supernatural shit for anything they can't explain, just like they did 2 or 3 thousand years ago. Shallow aside: I am a guy, but I'm not entirely blind to these things - I can watch "Hell on Wheels" and see the hotness Bohannon and Common bring drip from the screen. But the "hot cop" (as proclaimed by both characters in the show and folks here)? Shrug. He just looks like another guy to me.

I suspect that left alone Aarti might have been just fine, but they tried to dumb it down and make Americanized Indian dishes and it fell flat. "No, we're not telling the housewives of America a recipe needs fenugreek leaves which they can't find at the Kroger's or Stop and Shop. Can't you make Indian pizza?"

Well, there's the producers, who cashed the product placement check for the named-out-loud-several-times production company, owners of the "only one in the world" 360 degree green screen studio. I didn't remember the name, but I'm not in the market to rent such a place. If you often are, I bet you did.

So I guess they're not outright stealing the first season of Last Chance Kitchen (that is, eventual winner kicked off and is redeemed due to Star S). 'Cause the odds that either of these guys who don't speak the English that good have been hired to host an English language cooking program, even by Kermit, are not great.

Were Jason and Rochelle not giving good shots during eliminations last night? It looked like they both had blue jackets on, like the editors were dubbing in old footage.

Interesting to read on the about page comments that some other website wanted to feature her posts, and she said that all requests had to go through the FN publicity office....

I hope star-catering chick and divorced (no kidding, really, who in her right mind would ever let a gem like him go?) Dad who aces everything he touches and refuses to lose found each other backstage and ran off together to some far Tahitian-area island, never to return - at least not to my screen.

Then maybe they should try to produce a better show.

Wait, did they announce that somewhere? I assumed they'd have the eventual winner get unfairly eliminated and then take a dip through the SS pool and come back to win like that woman did the first year of Last Chance Kitchen, but if next week is the last one they don't really have time for that whole script.

What does it cost FN to whip up six episodes of a cheapo daytime show for the winner, maybe $500,000? If I was Kermit sitting at the 1/2 mil poker table, I'd be calling for a fresh deck by now. Except the daytime show is not the point, so the least they could do is come up with something to make this show, which is the point, halfway engaging. Good luck with that.

Ugh. Not that the FN site is all that easy to navigate, but it looks like the endless teen tournament will be followed by an "Ultimate tournament" pitting amateurs and heroes and celebrities and other people who can't cook for another tourney round after the kiddie shows. So, looks like summer off for Chopped, if new episodes featuring at least marginally skilled people who are judged strictly by what's on the plate rather than by their station in life is what you'd like to tune in to see.

I don't like children and am not interested in watching teenagers cook. Are all the new episodes for the rest of the summer part of this teen tournament?