LoneHaranguer

The producers. I think they brought in JM to increase the chances that someone would notice the switches. I noticed in the recap photo that their weight difference really shows in their faces, so I'm not sure it matters, but I think it was Da' that put bikini-wearing in with workouts as being a difference between the twins.

What has Lady Gaga been doing with herself lately that a drag queen version would look better despite the task restrictions of this show?

There have been times in the past when the skull-picker deliberately took a difficult one to "show off what [he] could do". It usually backfires. I had hoped they had buried this aspect of the show when we hadn't seen it in prior episodes this season.

I'm almost certain the picture was of an actor I've seen before, so I think a small payment would have been in order for using his image, but Nev and Max could mock him for free.

I don't see how the "last laugh" was really designed to live up to its name. A real last laugh would have been something like the power to void the eviction. A double-eviction later on would balance out everybody staying this week. If they wanted to keep the winner a secret, Julie could have asked the HG at voting time (a mere formality in this case).

I think you need to draw a distinction between someone who doesn't meet the challenge out of ignorance vs a transparent attempt to dodge something the artist knows he sucks at. Artists shouldn't be penalized for the producers' repeated negligence in properly laying out the terms of each challenge.

II think Da''s blackmail attempt would have been pointless even if she hadn't already blabbed. If she got enough votes to stay, she couldn't be sure if Liz/Julia's wasn't one of them, and if she didn't, how could she make her case for Liz's secret as she was being hustled out the door by Julie?

Dictionaries don't tell you what's acceptable; they reflect what people are doing. When enough people don't pay attention to how something is already being pronounced and a different way becomes common enough, that gets added to the dictionaries. The same thing happened with "q pon" as a way to pronounce "coupon".

Hand tattoos were recently given a popularity boost because of some celebrities that got them.

What was Nev doing asking the catfish "can we meet up tomorrow?" without first finding out if he really lived where he said he did? Supposedly they didn't know anything about the guy except that he wasn't the person in the pictures, and it would hardly be the first time that a catfish had lied about his location.

I've heard that most people have trouble remembering a list with more than five items. The comp used seven. The trick is to combine things to shorten the list, so if you need to remember a giraffe and a hat, put a hat-wearing giraffe on your list instead of the two separate items.

It really grated that they kept pronouncing "GIF" with a hard G. Is that a California thing (like saying "tore" when they mean "tour")?

At this point in the season it's whatever works; they want to keep the talent and everyone they expect to generate "drama" and dump the contestants they cast to fill out the number of episodes they needed.

Not if that had given her some skills in telling when someone is lying, which she claimed to have at the beginning. Realizing that she actually can't tell might make her paranoid.

I think one has skinnier arms than the other, but I didn't pay attention to which. It's nice to see them get a normal amount of air time now that we've been told they're the twins; the episodes were edited to keep them mostly off screen prior to that to keep viewers from figuring it out too soon.

You're misquoting the ad, which quotes a historical document with a certain context. It talked about rights which were supposed to be respected for everyone and mostly were. But, people will always take into account how powerful or respected someone is in deciding whether they're likely to get away with screwing them over, so saying that white property owning men had a distinct advantage is true, but it's not like no slave was ever given a fair trial, either.

It's been previously discussed elsewhere that more HG's have twins than you'd expect, trying to make it tough to figure out the swap, so it's a possibility.

Actually, they've already had at least one canvas from this show get his tattoo fixed on Tattoo Nightmares. IIRC, it was a salty old fellow with a botched pinup on his arm. The best they'll be able to do with the skull would be something that screams "coverup", but the show has aired a few like that, as well as some that weren't entirely successful, so you never know.

Did you notice that Da'Vonne directly faced a camera and talked to it at the end of one scene? Save it for the DR girl. How dense do you have to be to even break into a guy cozying up to another HG, much less persist when he says not now?

If it was feedback, what took them so long? Maybe this week's guest judge ripped them a new one over disgracing the profession. I'm a little skeptical of how they're going to maintain the theme as more artists become partnerless, but they're on the right track. I definitely won't miss having winners match canvases with artists likely to screw up what they're asking for. I'm surprised the producers haven't been getting sued over the results, regardless of what kind of contracts the canvases have to sign.

I don't think they make quite that many, but isn't that what they do with the "commemorative" plates and coins? They produce whatever fixed number they think they'll be able to unload, and when they're all sold or dumped onto a closeout retailer, they move on, to a brand new "limited edition".

Names coming from any group in the minority are going to have more trouble reaching the cutoff. I used to know a Polish fellow named Piotr; no surprise it's not listed.

Especially the ads where it's clear that the actor isn't swallowing it, or even doesn't like it at all and wants to spit it out.

I was astounded that the canvasses were 100% in agreement with the judges as to which were the bottom three works.

It's a flawed premise. Good writers are able to make you care about the deaths of characters you hardly know. It's even easier to get you to instantly hate somebody so that you're happy to see them die. The explanation for why the show has pretty much nothing in common with the movies sounds suspiciously like a rationalization covering for not being able to strike a deal with a rights-holder.