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Dave/Leslie were awesome, that's not a UO. My UO is that Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are actors who cannot actually portray the emotion of anger. They both do it by putting on toddler angry faces and talking really loud. Which makes most of the last episode utterly unwatchable. Other than the saxophone fart, not something I'll ever want to see again. My other UO is that Billy Eichner is one note and we've all heard it over and over again and it's time to make it stop. My final UO is that the Councilman Jamm character is one of the worst ideas they've ever had on the show.

I don't mind the ending. It's not like there's a mystery to be solved (aka The Killing) - if they don't tell me what happens with Gal and King Dick, I can make it up myself. The lesson of Into the Woods is that there's not really any happy ever after. I'm looking forward to personally busting out This is my Moment in the Sun whenever it seems appropriate.

I do love the joyous round of "Well done!" when the star baker is announced. Nothing anybody made this episode looked good to me. Doesn't help that I hate pears. Who would want to eat a soft cooked pear with crunchy pie crust wound all around it? Nobody baked a custard tart on a baking sheet? That's how you keep it from sloshing excessively.

Zauber in German means magic. Like Die Zauberflote, the opera. My concern with Wu in the trailer was condensation from his drink dripping onto the fragile elderly pages. I thought the whole corridor walk and the trial were wildly cheesy, but I don't expect much else.

They don't seem to notice people doing the same garment over and over on the current show either. Sonjia has done a lace or eyelet or cutout pencil skirt repeatedly. She's won with it twice. I don't know why Michelle didn't do the exact same thing that nearly got her aufed in her original season: emerald green trousers with a fancy white T shirt. It was gorgeous but they'd been told specifically not to do pants and a T shirt.

Gregory gets major points over George in my book, just because he's been through so many more challenges. George got back after Restaurant Wars, right? So he missed something like 8 shows, each with 2 different challenges. To make the finale, he really needs to pull out a perfectly executed show stopper. Melissa kind of phoned it in during the first half of the competition. Mei's been consistent all the way through. Gregory was brilliant in the first half, and has been levelling out since then, but not bottoming out. George was resting. I hope Doug comes back from LCK. I haven't even watched it this season.

If there's going to be a drinking game, better include "a cool new ---". Tonight's episode was a cool new pendant light.

Martha used peanut butter! And Paul didn't seem concerned during the discussion of her concept. Does he only freak out about Americans using peanut butter? The whole Baked Alaska thing was ill conceived. Why? #1=the stupid tent. If they were indoors, they could have decent freezers. #2=the producers. If the freezers die, bring in new ones. You're asking people to bake in a tent. #3=the timing. Let them have the ice cream set up over night. Split up the challenge, even if you have to pay overtime for the crew.

Zanna is the senior fashion editor for Marie Claire. Isn't one of the prizes, a year working as a fashion editor at the magazine? (After they drone through them week after week, you'd think I'd have it memorized by now.) If so, the winner is probably going to be working closely wth, if not under, Zanna. What Dmitry is doing is make someone look bad who he may end up working for. At the least, she's not going to be rooting for him or doing him favors in the fashion world. And, she is in a position to do so. Dmitry won the regular show and his career hasn't gone anywhere. Maybe he should try a different attitude towards those who might be able to help him.

"Are you going toddler on me?" On Psych this was referred to as going boneless.

Every time I saw Michelle's model I thought, "This wasn't the design-an-outfit-that-Alyssa-can-wear-right-now challenge." Dmitry bugs me. It wasn't avant garde and it was a recycled idea. Didn't Fabio use that color pink to mimic the color of the tube worms? Like, be true to your inspiration.

Well that may explain why he named the town Pawnee and then invented the Wamapoke Indians to live there. East Coasters.......

And playing croquet! I did laugh out loud at "the news is already black!"

It was the red track suit. Cracked me up too. Didn't Nick call it his "word processor?" That's a description you don't hear anymore.....

That was spectacularly unfunny - approaching Season 1 levels of bad. Werner Herzog and the return of Lucy were the only redeeming aspects.

The shot of Terry Crews with those weights - I just said "Dear God" in astonishment. I've never seen anyone do curls with that much weight. Patrick Willis is hiding his head in shame. Who doesn't find a horny dog funny? Three maybe overkill though. Whole wheat no flavor nutrition bricks - it's got to be better than green smoothies.

Re the death of Dr. Reginald Crawley my madness is spreading! BTW - has anyone but me noticed that Thomas no longer has an artificial hand. Guess it was too much trouble. And on a less snarky front - I too think it's odd that with all the talk about the war memorial, no one has mentioned Thomas' service or the household's fallen. Shouldn't the committee be consulting with the widows of those who died? That would include Mary and Daisy. Not to mention Ethel the forgotten prostitute.

She's very brittle! I bet Tony's not very good with buttons either. Sex Week! tee hee

Ebony Falcon needs to read Go Dogs Go!

Hooray for Luis! I like a man unafraid to use gold leaf to decorate the olives on his bread show stopper. Even if I'd been told to let my ciabbata rise at room temperature, I might be tempted to put it in the proofing drawer when the temperature dropped and torrential rain started in. Again, why are they in a tent? Jordan's goopy berry twisty loaf looked horrid at every stage. I can't imagine why it would ever work, unless he used miniature berries. Bye Bye. I counted two duckies and a horse.

I can't stop seeing her as Olive Oyl.... So many of these designers are now filling me with hate (Michelle, Dmitry, Helen, especially) that I can barely watch the show any more.

I hope when this thing is finally over, that Fellowes has it that Bates secretly was behind all the evil things that happened. He did kill Vera and rapist valet! He got rid of Grigson in Germany. He caused Matthew's car crash. He convinced the Earl that the other doctor was right about how to treat Sibyl. He infected Lavinia with the Spanish Flu even if he had to do it from prison! He probably talked Robert into all those schemes that lost all Cora's money. He sank the Lusitania! It's all been Bates Bates Bates! He's pure evil.

If anyone had dared call that woman Dowager, she would have gotten her revenge! I think that the term is only used when there is someone else with the same title, in order to eliminate confusion. On Downton, Cora is the current Countess of Grantham, so Violet is referred to as the Dowager Countess. Violet is still Countess, but this way everyone knows who you are talking about. With the Duchess of Windsor, no one else became Duke of Windsor after her husband's death, so there was no new Duchess and she could continue on being referred to as the Duchess of Windsor with no confusion.

Me too. Sorry about Doug, but it didn't look well cooked. That's when you should go. I know it's common to snark on the Texas season, but they had one challenge that was similar to this one and that's one of my favorite shows ever: The Evil Queen dinner with Charlize Theron. This reminded me of that. I agree that Gregory saying he was following Julia's own recipe is what spared us the Tom C rant on coq au vin and roosters. This is the first time I ever noticed how short he is - he's the same height as Jaques Pepin.

PIckles just likes to give kisses, Dre!