SHD

But if you go carrying pictures of him, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow. :-)

Yes, I always saw it as Mao Tse-Tung!

Did they make any mention of the middle guy’s height? Don’t they put shorter contestants on boxes so that contestants look the same height? Did they not have boxes big enough to level them out? Maybe they should’ve dug a hole for tall guy to stand in. Did the woman contestant really butcher Mao’s name or am I a complete idiot who has been spelling it wrong all these years? (Could definitely be the latter.) I was rooting for tall guy. I found him delightfully quirky. He seemed like someone who would live in Stars Hollow.

Disappointed that there was no Sex and the City question in the Carrie category. I got FJ just based on knowing Sodium is Na. I kind of laughed at all the guesses for the drowning question. I wouldn’t have thought a job based on swimming (scuba diver, lifeguard) would be right and underwater welder seemed so out of left field!

Jesus = karate guy

Cousin Gregory is becoming a sleeping giant. I wonder if he would’ve helped if anyone else had been the designated fall guy.

I agree with the posters who said they seem to be leaning on slightly risqué remarks or double-entendres this season. It cheapens the show for me. I was kind of surprised at the exchange with Noel and Alice (I think?) where she gave her conversations with Noel an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10 and he kissed her. I don’t know if he liked the compliment or appreciated a kind of Spinal Tap reference, but that host-unexpectedly-kissing-a-contestant thing isn’t something you’d see on a U.S. cooking competition show.

No kidding. I kind of liked middle lady today, though. The champ is like Modern Family’s Alex on sedatives. I did enjoy Alex deadpanning the yelled quotes.

I’m getting tired of these lame games. I’m not opposed to a runaway game, but only when everyone does well. This trend of players being in the red or only at a couple of thousand in the second round...what’s happening?

The wording Rhea used when talking to Logan...I thought we were going to find out she was recording their conversation.

I feel like something happened to Matthew Broderick’s acting right around the time of The Producers. Seems like he can only play super exaggerated, like he has to emote and mug for the last row of a theater audience and that comes across terribly on TV.

My opinion of this episode suffered due to my high expectations, I guess. Just an average show for me, and I love PWB. Even Taylor Swift was kind of meh to me, and she's usually at least good at making performances a spectacle.

I’m confused. The AK answer was referring to an AK-47 gun, in an Ice Cube lyric. Did someone in the game say something later about air conditioning?

Yes, slalom!

Why do the Roys ever travel as a family? It never turns out well.

Even though the winner ended up with a significant score today, I still felt like the game was a dud. The returning champ was making me nervous with his gestures every time he was beaten on the buzzer.

I got FJ right away, then wavered and thought maybe Jenga, but then stuck with my first instinct. It doesn’t really bother me, but it seems like the hated trend of starting at the bottom of the category is going to be more common than not from now on.

It took me longer than it should’ve to come up with the FJ answer today. But now I’m batting .500 for the new season and should probably quit while I’m ahead. The woman contestant seemed absolutely sweet and kind and smart, but such a time waster.

As soon as I saw the FJ category I thought, “Well, that’s it for me, then.” Like everyone else, I knew they wanted Goliath’s town but even after they revealed the answer I was like, “Nope! Doesn’t even sound familiar!”

THIS. It’s not completely stupid in that it’s a good memory challenge for them, but it’s the most boring to watch. I put that part on slow FF and just watched the scores until the final question.

Man, was I happy to read this. I kept thinking “Did I forget a whole storyline from last year where we saw their house burn down?”

I don’t think they really felt they needed to. I thought it was a joke by production. Like, if they’re going to say it looks like Cliff has breasts, then that’s how they’ll treat them

The girl who went home reminded me so much of Anna-Kat from American Housewife.

Did Hannah say something was hard to GRAVEL with? She needs to enunciate.

I think the show is like, “Let’s let Alex be Alex and let people see his humor” lately. Middle lady was like an elfin Tina Fey.