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I wondered if maybe they kept her out of the way in the challenge because, unlike what Jeff thought, hearing did matter. People in that kind of challenge yell suggestions at each all the time. Ultimately. though, what they ended up doing was accidentally throwing a challenge. I get why they booted her. The passve-aggressiveness really grates, and from there you get social issues that just feed newer social issues. Someone doesn't want to eat a lizard? That's fine. More lizard for me. But when that person is constantly whining about being an outsider... yeah, I understand why it ended up feeling like a "rejection's a two way street" thing, even though maybe that particular example shouldn't have. I think they should have kept her, though. Will is useless in challenges, plays the social/strategic part of the game well, and has a history as a bit of a wild card. Nina, with a little more effort by the tribe to coddle her feelings, could have been a useful beta player. Drag her along for numbers, and don't worry about her social game or spying ability... hell, she wouldn't even be a big threat in the individual challenges, since she'd be the only person who couldn't cheat by listening to Jeff give away everyone else's strategies. Might be one hell of an angry juror, but nowadays who isn't?

I hate Rodney, and don't give a crap about his mom's honor. You want your mom to look good on TV? Then quit using her dead daughter to manipulate women. Want to eat before moving firewood? Fine. State that's your plan, and then finish eating. Don't keep arguing it over and over again just to hear yourself speak. When he finally did start carrying it, I immediately guessed he was going to throw it down like an angry little kid. Wish I'd been wrong, but I've known too many people just like him. And next week he's going to start critiquing people's tats? Really?

They succeeded. And had a long, thriving civilization.

I, for one, would rather watch monkeys than lie around all day moping.

People building pyramids in the desert still prioritized beer.

Thing 1 and Thing 2: Nickname for Ron and Mikey, the Alexandrians thus far known only for being teenaged boys who are not Carl.

Buttons keeps running Sadly, there is no escape Astride him, Beth sings

Buffy Summers no longer holds the record for Television's Most Infamous Cookie Speech. Whichever writer came up with that thing should run the whole show! About the speech itself, or, more accurately, about its effects on its recipient: There have been some very valid arguments defending it. If that's his biggest problem, he's lucky. He needs to toughen up a bit anyway. If he's going to survive, he needs to learn that there are mean, scary people out there. And I'm not even sure that I disagree with any of these. But here's the thing that sort of bugs me: these are the same exact justifications used in real life, constantly, by abusive parents and by schoolyard bullies alike. So why doesn't it really bug me? I think, ultimately, it's because they cranked it up to 11. You can't half-ass a scene like that. You have to go so far into it that the response of viewers isn't "Hey, that wasn't cool," but rather "Holy shit! That was amazing!" To use a similarly disturbing subject as a comparison: the death of Buttons was disturbing. So was that of the horse that Rick Grimes rode into Atlanta on. But remember that scene on "Family Guy," where Peter was teaching Meg to drive? They ended up drag-racing an Amish guy, and the horse and wagon ended up going over a cliff. Not only did the coach explode just like an action movie car, but, a second later, so did the horse. If the horse hadn't blown up, people would have felt that the scene was somewhat tainted by (completely fictional) animal death. But once it did, the scene was so far over the line that it was just too zanily entertaining to be bothered by. I think there is a similar dynamic behind my lack of discomfort with Carol. Plus, screw that kid! What's his deal, anyway, running around stamping A's everywhere? When the Unfairwolves come, what's that kid gonna do anyway? Stamp a bunch of A's next to the W's and try to make root beer? Tie the little shit to a tree, save on materials and baking time, and, afterwards, nobody will ever notice that he's gone. And you can have cookies. Lots and lots of of cookies. I know what I think you should do.

Olivia wishes that someday her phone would ring. Is Shane single now?

Tiny Plastic Sword Pick lacks the words to explain to other bar accessories how it feels about the woman it just met.

The town might, very plausibly, have a scarcity of unmarried women. We just haven't seen enough to know. Hell, do we even know what the population is?

"Coral, you're grounded! No hat-wearing for a month." BANG!

I'm proud of him. He got through an entire party without slapping one person's drink out of their hand. Or maybe beer and wine are okay with him. It's just water that makes him angry.

Yosemite Sideboob, or YSB: Is a nickname for the the big-breasted, red-haired, and dramatically mustachioed Abraham. Lately we've been using his actual name, because he's been making some effort to cover up, but whenever he tries to squeeze back into his old tank top from seventh grade gym class the nickname always re-emerges. He is also referred to, for the same reason, as Sergeant Moobs. (Originated by JBody.)

About arming the populace: I have mixed feelings. On the one hand: guns are a great way to defend yourself. Often the best way, by far. So having them and knowing how to use them is not inherently bad. On the other hand: guns are really, really loud. They attract herds of zombies. And they also tell groups of bad guys: "Hey, there's people there, and they have stuff. Let's go after them." The more people you have carrying guns, the more target shooting there's going to be. And the more zombie shooting, in spite of the fact that one or two zombies at the fence can easily be dispatched with something far quieter, like a slingshot or long spear. CDB have a long history of forgetting this whenever they get comfortable, and then wondering why every place they stay is immediately overwhelmed by zombies, no matter how long the previous people survived without them. I think a soundproofed indoor target range would be great. Store the guns there, securely, instead of with Chocolate Pickle Lady, and have the staff (Possible candidates: Glenn, Maggie, and, to show you how much my opinion has changed, Carl,) always armed in case a bad guy takes one of the guns and starts acting up. But, we all know they aren't gonna be there that long. I give it two episodes before that whole city burns to the ground.

Maybe something like "WTF is a CDB? Nicknames of 'The Walking Dead.'" I think it should certainly have "CDB" and/or "Unfair Wolves" in the title, because those are by far the ones most commonly asked about,

So am I the only one who looked away from the screen for one second, and missed that close-up of the little plastic sword the first time? All I saw was Michonne, on the porch with Abe, holding a little skinny suspicious-looking white thing. There was one brief hilarious moment where I thought he had just handed her a doobie.

Even if Sasha hadn't flipped out, how exactly was that "dinner" conversation supposed to go? "I'd like to cook you your very favorite meal." "Holy shit! You have lobsters here?" "Well, obviously not lobsters." "Ha ha, that's okay. Honestly, I'd be pretty happy with just a burger." "We don't actually have cows." "Well, okay. Make whatever jokes you want about this, but it has been a long time since any place has had fried chicken..." "We have applesauce, spaghetti, and sometimes rabbits." "Spaghetti sounds great!" "We actually just ran out of spaghetti, though. The neighbors (they're a couple of gay fellows, god bless 'em,) just got the last case of it. Oh, but if you could be a dear, and go out and fetch me a pasta maker..." "Apple sauce would be fine." "Your friend with the flowered blouse took the last of the apple sauce." "What the hell is this, a Monty Python sketch?"

Carol, smiling, says: "You can die screaming in pain or have some cookies." Daryl in bike shop: "Hopefully, this ends better than on 'Diff'rent Strokes.'" Buttons was a horse And a horse is a main course to a corpse, of course. Sasha shoots pictures Executes them for their crimes Last words? "We were framed!"

One morning you'll wake up, and you won't be in your bed. You'll be outside the walls, far, far away, tied to a tree. You'll scream and scream 'cause you'll be so afraid. And no one will come to help because no one will hear you. But something will hear you. The monsters will come. The ones out there? And you won't be able to run away when they come for you. And they will tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive, all while you can still feel it. And afterwards? No one will ever know what happened to you. Or, you can promise to vote for Carol Peletier, and nothing will happen. And you'll get cookies. This post has been approved by The Alexandria 'Tatorial Committee to Elect Carol Peletier.

I like his movies. Just not his TV show.

So, when Carol said she could turn invisible, I assumed she meant "metaphorically." But now that we know she's an actual wicked witch, I'm wondering if she just meant that the kitchen there had whatever spell ingredients she needs to become actually physically invisible. She probably took care of the Unfair Wolves already. Remember all those frogs a few episodes ago?

I'd never thought to check before.

I hate "Comic Book Men." it's badly acted, badly scripted, and, to be honest, it's 2015. Everyone likes something nerdy, so the whole "Hey, look at what a nerd I am! Isn't it funny that I'm a nerd? Can you believe that I'm admitting I'm a nerd? Hee hee hee!" shit hasn't been funny since maybe the early 90s. Oh, if it leads to funny jokes, then the actual jokes can be funny, but the premise itself is boring. I'm not even into comics, mainly because they're expensive as hell and seem to be 90 per cent advertising. Yet I still feel like I should on some level be offended by the patronizing air that Kevin Smith's show takes toward them. I always feel like Fouad from "Family Guy' should be wandering into each scene, saying "Oh ho ho ho! Is liking comics! Is funny because are grown men! Oh ho ho! Is grown men reading comics like children!" Yet, Kevin did not bother me at all on TD. He was humorous when appropriate, but often thoughtful and serious, and overall just seemed like somebody who liked talking about TWD. CBM has a shallowness to it. You can tell that when the guys on that show are talking about, say, Batman, that the scene isn't about Batman. it's about them being seen talking about him. But outside of that, he was fine. I honestly felt like he likes TWD as much as we do and considered his couch time to be about it, not about him.

Yeah, Beth was busy this week. Damn! Beaten to it!