RockShrimp

This has nothing to do with rolling rs dude.

Thank god bullying works. I was screaming at the TV for Sharik to suck it up one more week. They can lose next week I needed toxic positivity GONE. I said in the first episode that there’s 2 kinds of people who become motivational speakers: people who’ve hit rock bottom and survived, and people who have never actually faced any adversity in their lives ever. Guess we know which they are… Dom trying to give up *that quickly* was grotesque. Especially after how she kept being so freaking performative and condescending every time Rich (?) got frustrated. I laughed when he started meditating for her like she did for him that one time. Plus her whole: you need to drive and navigate at the same time bullshit she put on him and then got pissy when he just did it himself.

I was definitely screaming “DO NOT RUIN THIS FOR ME SHARIK” at the TV the last 15 minutes. They can go home next episode I needed the hypocritical, insipid motivational speakers GONE. Thank goodness bullying works. can the guy from the speakers team up with the dad? as someone who has struggled with anxiety her entire life I want to have more sympathy but Jfc.

To be fair, if the Bells task really didn't mention the accordion it was probably a lot harder than it looked, learning to play a rhythm or melody and doing it while something else is playing a different part is different. I do wonder if the teams could have switched "gender roles" at the dancing, since the men's part looked harder and more intricate and some of the women were more trained. The same gender teams got to choose, so why not everyone.

I can’t decide if I need the motivational speakers off my TV more or if I need to watch motivational speakers have to try and actually do something difficult more. I feel like only two kinds of people become motivational speakers: people who’ve hit rock bottom and persevered or toxic positivity addicts who have never actually faced adversity.

How is that elimination challenge not just called the CTE Express? annoying that most of the challenges have had a mental or balance component as well as brute strength and this one is just “have experience in high school or college being a linebacker”

Lmao me. I used to read trivia books for fun as a kid.

Tyson at the beginning: you can’t take it personally they’re overreacting everyone Tyson at the end: if anyone sends me in I will sacrifice winning to make sure they lose. the way Tj keeps saying it’s the end of the losing team’s time on the challenge “for now” has me suspicious of a last chance kitchen.

Every time Enzo is on screen I’m like: has he been here the whole time? I am pretty sure he and Dominick are the same person.

I hate horseradish (something in the botanical family of horseradish and mustard tastes rancid to me) but I almost wish Chris was still here to do that horseradish segment. Julia and Bridget were hilarious but he would have died. I think Dan's smartass science testing segments are my husband and my favorite part of the show now. we laughed out loud at the "jello" mold, and there's a few where he (mildly) tortures some poor intern with such glee.

would have been less eyerolling if Law & Order: Stabler Should Not Have a Badge hadn't pulled the same "big bad is unceremoniously killed in the finale" thing last week.

I am unconvinced Emma is gone. I fully expected the cliffhanger to be her attacking Violet or what’s his name.

I think there was some poor communication in the set up over whether they were "inspiring a dish for space" or "making a dish to be eaten in space" - the food they made had to taste good on earth. I also wonder whether the dessert would be easier to recreate with fewer ingredients than a full stew.

The Texas toast thing is about innovating without losing the main identity. "thick grilled bread" is one thing you can't change, like with the queso challenge, I think it was Jackson who made a freaking frico or something.

Hubs worked at dominos all through HS and College and his indignant commentary throughout this latest episode was hilarious.

Hubs talked me down from my incredulity that people would not be familiar with souvlaki but y’all just reminded me Lulu and Lala are from NYC. Like, come on. especially since it looked like it was chicken souvlaki which is what you get when the idea of the gyro mystery meat is scary.

Best part of the whole episode was the husband and wife (idk names yet) where he kept bitching at her to run when he said “we were at each other a bit” or whatever and the *look* on her face like “what do you mean *we*?” Killed me.

I kinda feel bad for Gabriel now, he's a clueless pompous guy but compared to some of the "villains" on this show he's basically a saint. IDK if it's the editing but everyone in this season just seems nice. I mean I wouldn't want to work with him ever though

Blais was a douche but ok with me - you waited til last you get the hardest one, ok... until he asked for corned beef hash AND hash browns. you're getting two potato sides? Then again those two guys got everything on the plate vs some folks with easier dishes. Sasha looked like Michelle Wolf to me. ETA: my husband was all impressed with Chef "I Worked for Tom" giving up his protein to work with Dawn's and I was like: just wait, he did because he didn't like his own dish, not to cooperate.

I kind of felt bad for them, since no one else had a "theme" that would dictate flavor. the closest was the desert one but no one would have dinged him for *not* using tequila.

When she said that Iced Coffee concentrate made TWO SERVINGS after those HOURS I actually laughed out loud. I know most of it is just waiting but make like a week's worth at once or something at least!

I feel like must have it taken Beardo and Hung *a lot* longer to find the baby than the editing made it look. But beyond the finding the baby faster was there really any way to make up ground in the leg? I guess if they'd been closer they could have outrun each other pushing the ball or seen one of them have to redo the puzzle and get theirs right the first time but it seemed pretty rote otherwise. Edit: having to parade with the band at parade speed must've been torture, because that's really where they could have outrun each other.

anyone else giggle like a 12 year old at the rod testing segment?

One of the things I immediately wondered about the soap dispensers is whether they had diversity in the testers... recognizing darker skin is notoriously an issue for automatic anything.

I’m sorry having Tiffany judge Dave is bullshit. When she was all “he wasn’t very nice to me” you weren’t either! I know it’s been 13 yrs but don’t cast that it’s weird.