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There are still so many for season seven that I don't remember (or never saw). Pinker Rawls Timothy Landau Padgett/Naciamento Oral Peattie Reverend Mackey Ellen Adderly

With five votes, Dr. Ian Detweiler is out first. Pinker Rawls and the sea monster got two votes each, but one of those for the sea monster was a first place vote so it's out second. With four votes, Maitreya is sent into the ether. Sexist stereotypes = not interesting. With three votes, the dopplegangers follow her. Season Six Antenna emitting ELF waves (Drive) Morris Fletcher (Dreamland) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Wayne Weinsider (Terms of Endearment) Holman Hardt (The Rain King) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Bernard Oates (Monday) Gene Gogolak and his “garbage monster” tulpa (Arcadia) Pinker Rawls (Trevor) Phillip Padgett/Ken Naciamento (Milagro) Timothy Landau (Three of a Kind) Underground fungus (Field Trip) Season Seven Rob Roberts (Hungry) The Millennium Group (Millennium) Max Harden (Rush) Henry Weems’ good luck (The Goldberg Variation) Donnie Pfaster (Orison) Herman/Albert Pinchbeck and Billy LaBonge (The Amazing Maleeni) Reverend Mackey (Signs and Wonders) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Oral Peattie (Theef) Ellen Adderly (Chimera) Tobacco executives using super beetles (Brand X) Jenn (Je Souhaite) Vote for three, in order.

Yes. North Hollywood, specifically. That closet was ridiculous, but the layout of the house was so odd that turning an entire bedroom into a closet made a lot more sense here than it normally does. If I had a gun to my head and had to pick one of the three houses shown, I'd pick theirs simply because I wouldn't live in Simi Valley or Woodland Hills, but I didn't like it before or after. Terrific yard, though. And it was nice to hear parents talking about how much their kid loved climbing stairs (I always did, too, as a child) rather than fretting that he'd tumble to his death.

I assume I'm stating the obvious here, but just in case -- the episode is titled The Curse of the Bambino because of the Fenway Park challenge. When the Red Sox failed to win the pennant for what wound up being 80+ years, a superstition/joke arose that their trading Babe Ruth ("The Bambino") to the Yankees was at fault. Prior to that, the Red Sox had done very well while the Yankees had faltered, and after that roles were reversed.

I've never met a Boston sports fan who didn't annoy me (as a sports fan, not necessarily as an overall person), but I've always found Boston an interesting city to visit. I hope they're basically picking the low-hanging fruit in this early stage of the show, using the more obvious and cliché Boston-specific challenges to interest the greatest number of viewers and also to get them out of the way, before settling into a variety of more niche-oriented aspects of Boston culture and cuisine with a smaller, and better, group of cheftestants. There is plenty to choose from.

It makes sense to me, too. Potato chips are my kryptonite. I cannot eat less than half a bag in one sitting, so I don't buy them. (I just plow through them at other people's houses.) But as much as I love ice cream, I am perfectly capable of portion control. So that I can buy.

Unless it was one of the many international episodes in which the HHs had already lived in the country for a good while at the time of filming.

I'll start with the characters who were so uninteresting I forgot them. Dr. Ian Detweiler Pinker Rawls Maitreya (her, I wish I could forget) Oral Peattie

And we're off, with the most-interesting villains of the week for seasons six and seven. Season Six Antenna emitting ELF waves (Drive) Morris Fletcher (Dreamland) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Wayne Weinsider (Terms of Endearment) Holman Hardt (The Rain King) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Sea monster (Agua Mala) Bernard Oates (Monday) Gene Gogolak and his “garbage monster” tulpa (Arcadia) Dr. Ian Detweiler (Alpha) Pinker Rawls (Trevor) Phillip Padgett/Ken Naciamento (Milagro) Timothy Landau (Three of a Kind) Underground fungus (Field Trip) Season Seven Rob Roberts (Hungry) The Millennium Group (Millennium) Max Harden (Rush) Henry Weems’ good luck (The Goldberg Variation) Donnie Pfaster (Orison) Herman/Albert Pinchbeck and Billy LaBonge (The Amazing Maleeni) Reverend Mackey (Signs and Wonders) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Maitreya (First Person Shooter) Oral Peattie (Theef) Ellen Adderly (Chimera) Tobacco executives using super beetles (Brand X) Doppelgangers (Fight Club) Jenn (Je Souhaite) Since there are fourteen for each season, we'll vote for two this round in order to get down to 12 and easily vote off in groups of three from then on.

Going back a night, I'm glad the Chicago wife found "retro" detail and "character" in their home, because I sure didn't see any.

I'm really surprised American was a triple stumper. Between the area of the country and the language about "un-hyphenating" and identifying "simply as this" (or similar), I figured at least one would reason their way to it. Malaprop and diacritical mark also surprised me as triple stumpers (and I don't think Alex's misstatement had much to do with the latter). I loved the "Words About Words" category. The Picture of Dorian Gray seemed over-valued in the "Only One" category. As did the clue about Nora in A Doll's House. There was a remake of That Darn Cat? In the final DD, the answer came to me almost immediately even though I'm not familiar with the specific term -- reference to condition took me right to mint, and then IB meaning in box just popped into my head. It was a little weird. I couldn't reason my way to FJ, however. I must have spit out half a dozen machines related to flying, none of which were the answer.

Testify! Okay, we'll stick with a general "dopplegangers" unless someone with a great memory - or a great affection for the episode - comes along with a correction. I'll keep checking to see if there are any suggested revisions to list, and will open up voting in the morning.

So, does the list look accurate? Specifically, is dopplegangers the right description for Fight Club, or was it a specific person (or persons) -- there's that guy who's the father of the two women that trouble followed wherever they went, but I couldn't figure out if any or all of the three of them were instigating (intentionally or not) all the action or if it was just the fact that dopplegangers existed.

When Costco has a bag of those squares on special, my parents and I share one as a treat. I love the dark chocolate and mint ones best, but some of the milk chocolate varieties are quite tasty, too, even though I much prefer dark chocolate.

He killed people many moons ago under one of his other names, though, back when that was his strategy. Plus there is the fact he knows people are going to die and attempts to use that to his own advantage. The sympathetic villains tend to be more interesting to me, so I'm curious to see how they rank.

Oh, we're not voting yet -- this is just to make sure I've listed the villains of the week correctly. Voting will start tomorrow.

Okay, her is what I came up with for seasons six and seven. Please take a careful look, because I had to rely heavily on other people's summaries. (And even from reading about it, I still don't know what the hell happened in Fight Club and there's no way I'm watching that piece of crap to find out.) Antenna emitting ELF waves (Drive) Morris Fletcher (Dreamland) Maurice and Lyda (How the Ghosts Stole Christmas) Wayne Weinsider (Terms of Endearment) Holman Hardt (The Rain King) Alfred Fellig (Tithonus) Sea monster (Agua Mala) Bernard Oates (Monday) Gene Gogolak and his “garbage monster” tulpa (Arcadia) Dr. Ian Detweiler (Alpha) Pinker Rawls (Trevor) Phillip Padgett/Ken Naciamento (Milagro) Timothy Landau (Three of a Kind) Underground fungus (Field Trip) Rob Roberts (Hungry) The Millennium Group (Millennium) Max Harden (Rush) Henry Weems’ good luck (The Goldberg Variation) Donnie Pfaster (Orison) Herman/Albert Pinchbeck and Billy LaBonge (The Amazing Maleeni) Reverend Mackey (Signs and Wonders) Full moon fear monster (X-Cops) Maitreya (First Person Shooter) Oral Peattie (Theef) Ellen Adderly (Chimera) Tobacco executives using super beetles (Brand X) Doppelgangers (Fight Club) Jenn (Je Souhaite)

Season four was close, but John Lee Roche takes it by one vote. Tied for second place, with two votes each, are Leonard Betts and Eddie Van Blundht. Season five, on the other hand, was a runaway. With all but one of the votes cast, Ronnie Strickland comes out on top. The one vote for Greg Pincus puts him in second, and the Mothman is relegated to third. So, here we have the most-interesting villains of the week for seasons four and five: Season Four 1. John Lee Roche (Paper Hearts) 2. Leonard Betts (Leonard Betts) Eddie Van Blundht (Small Potatoes) 4. Gerry Schnauz (Unruhe) 5. Bettie the Talking Tattoo through Ed Jerse (Never Again) The Peacock family (Home) 7. Jason Nichols (Synchrony) 8. Nurse Innes (Elegy) 9. Dr. Charles Goldstein (Demons) 10. Dr. Jack Franklyn (Sanguinarium) 11. Golem (Kaddish) 12. Nathaniel Teager (Unrequited) 13. The Buente brothers/El Chupacabra (El Mundo Gira) 14. Samuel Aboah (Teliko) 15. Vernon Ephesian (The Field Where I Died) Season Five 1. Ronnie Strickland (Bad Blood) 2. Greg Pincus (Folie a Deux) 3. The “Mothman” creature (Detour) 4. The AI (Kill Switch) 5. Linda Bowman (Kitsunegari) 6. The killer Chinga doll (Chinga) 7. Dr. Pollidori (Post-Modern Prometheus) 8. Aaron Starkey (All Souls) 9. Charles Wesley Gotts (Mind’s Eye) 10. The tree monster through Karin Matthews (Schizogeny) As usual, the list for seasons six and seven will be up later today for clarification and revisions before that game commences tomorrow (I had to look up a lot of them, so reliance on other people's summaries may have led to misunderstanding.)

When didn't he? I like most of their albums (not GNR Lies), and enjoyed the Appetite for Destruction concert I saw, but the protracted Use Your Illusion tour was such a debacle I never saw them again. What a waste.

Ah, yes, of course - how quickly it became muddled in my mind ... polish/Polish, mobile/Mobile, etc. I held my breath for a beat thinking the DD contestant was going to blow Tangier/tangier by forgetting to phrase it in the form of a question.

I loved that category, too. I love homonym categories in general, and it was a nice twist to have one word in each pair be the name of a capital. I was watching the football game during commercials, and came back a couple of clues into the round so I missed the explanation of that category. When I realized what a "capitonym" was upon seeing the first clue in that category unveiled, I laughed out loud.

Hell, I can't even use the bathroom alone or talk on the phone uninterrupted with children of the feline variety.

Very cool photo. It seemed clear by Alex's reaction that the contestant who said "space lab" was on the right track and had misspoken, so between that and the image I was also quite surprised neither of the other two rang in with the correct answer. I loved the fishy words category. When I saw the FJ category, I thought I was doomed - who ruled what when clues are not my thing - but once the clue was revealed I knew it instantly. Count me in among those annoyed by the lack of a "be more specific" on Gandhi, the Hitchcock clue, and allowing the late correction of Tony Hawk to hawk.

All fixed (and vote counted).

David Addison, Moonlighting George Costanza, Seinfeld (yes, I'd be fine with the others) Rose Nylund, Golden Girls