justjen

Who is the second narrator?? Kind of have a tv crush on him right now for the way he called out his own misogyny (calling it a little article with finger quotes) and for the way he name dropped Exxon-Mobil and Texaco. I just really liked his self-awareness and I loved that it isn't a story I know.

After catching some of the pre-marathon before the new episode aired (the last few episodes of Season 2), I realize how much more enjoyable it is to watch with slightly older kids (12-13). A Teen Baking Championship would be great...or even Middle School Baking Championship. Linsey is...rad (I can't think of a better word, she's awesome). Abby annoys me for zero reasons, maybe it's the ponytail? I have started ignoring the actual baking portion talking heads because listening to them explain what they're doing is tedious and boring. Maybe that's my fault, though, for watching too making Food Network competition shows all at once?

It's the greasy looking hair...he just slides by! (sorry not sorry)

So it appears I have a lot of feelings on this show. Guess I watch it closer than I thought. That being said, Anne's reason for getting rid of Lacey (even though I definitely did not like Lacey) was that "[she] didn't have enough time with [her]," which is ABSOLUTELY not Lacey's fault. Production switched her to Anne's team! Asaf (of the gross hair needs) too much attention and I don't think he could get anything done without it, last week he didn't know a measuring cup from a measuring spoon - even *I* know that difference!

To be fair, every season they do the sausage challenge thingy and every year it is the same jokes but I think maybe it serves to relax the contestants and I think if one is making sausage, you can't help but crack those jokes. (Says the avowed non-cook) I've personally been trying to find ways to use "grease the horn" in my everyday life, but then again my inner child is a preteen boy.

The Sun. Alex was (surprisingly) creative, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make an edible sun without using fondant and the other thing they weren't allowed to use AND not making rice crispy treats like the other girls. In fact, I am spending an awful lot of time thinking about this when I have actual work I could be doing. A Google search led me to learn that edible sunscreen exists...sorry getting off topic.

I really just watch this because I would totally watch a Buddy-Beginning Cooks show with just Steven and Sharon. They will both be great fathers one day, they have the Dad Jokes down pat. :) Asaf's sweaty, over product-ed hair continues to gross me out!

Was this one kind of boring? And what was up with Derek crying...like what lead up to it. I enjoy Alison Rich.

I still really like Linsey as the winner. All the kids just seem so much more mature than they have in previous seasons (except Beverly, but to be fair she is pretty young). They should call this Older Preteen Baking Championship. I also really like Duff's unicorn tattoo - I'm super into unicorns and a couple of weeks ago I even said if I was to get a unicorn tattoo it would be a fat lazy looking one. I really liked the placement, right above his waffle tattoo from last season. As for the actual challenge, Luke was dead in the water from the start. It's hard to make a tuna fish imposter look appetizing, there are other things kids bring to lunch. Like Lunchables or grilled cheese or anything else that could possibly look appetizing. Unrelatedly related, I can't stand the Canadian kid at all. I wanted to, but now I'm over that.

Unrelated, but kind of related: a while ago I filled out the application to be on the show. Never heard anything, but I just want to throw it out there that I would totally have a secret signal to the people at home letting them know I am being forced into some stereotype/making dad jokes. Steven is my season crush, but he's an idiot -- Sharon is my second favorite but mostly because he's a drag queen but also because he's picking this stuff up pretty quick! He's the least stereotype-y to me.

Wasn't there a week when Red won an advantage and no one went home from that team? (I just did a crazy amount of website research just to remember that tidbit).

I figured out one thing that has kind of been bothering me this season. Asaf's hair...and the fact that sometimes his sleeves are "sleeves." I wouldn't want to eat anything with that much potential for hair product flakes and/or armpit hair...

This was my favorite episode in a while, probably because the narrators didn't seem like sloppy messes who aren't funny (I'm looking at Doug Jones and Duncan Trussell and kind of Nick Rutherford). Derek Waters seemed less sloppy, too. I honestly think my favorite parts were when Derek broke out the elementary school music class staple Ta Ta TeeTee Ta TeeTee Ta Rest to Questlove and how broadly influential Nichelle Nichols was.

The minute Kip Pardue looms blandly into the frame, you know he did something. Ditto Riverdale's Casey Cott as Lucas. Sooo...I accidentally read the Article before watching the show (the plan is for Friday night), but when I read the above sentences I realized that I'm officially Old because my head automatically assumed, from the first sentence, that Kip Pardue was obviously the one playing Lucas. Glad to see no mention of Olivia acting rookie this week...looking forward to actually watching!

I loved this episode so, so much! I actually met my current boyfriend of 6 years on jdate, but before that it was....GAHH!!!! Extra awkwardness is running into guys I used to go out on "jdates" with at my niece's and nephew's schools! There's one guy who every time I see him I want to scream "YOU WERE THE GUY WITH THE GALLON OF PEPTO IN HIS CAR!!!" I really liked how the episode was shot, too! It reminded me of what speed dating events felt like if that makes sense! Was the woman who played the really cool, but oddly racist date Seth Rogan's wife?

Next week Alan Thicke is one of the celebrities competing and I am having so many feelings I never expected to have about it. Also, I never realized that I loathe Jonathan Sadowski. I never knew I even had an opinion on him, but I guess I do and it is unbridled rage!

I need to rewatch this episode without The Boyfriend because the other day I wore a shirt super similar to one of the shirts Christine was wearing in this episode and he would not let it go!!!! Anyway, does anyone else forget that Christine isn't a real person? In this episode particularly, Louie Anderson has just done a phenomenal job at making her a real, relatable woman. It would be so easy for him/anyone to overemphasize her lady-ness (trying to do extreme weight loss surgery prior to Ken coming to town, being a mom in general, etc.). I also really love how Christine and Ken feel like a real couple. I loved "Curly fries for everyone!" and might make that my personal motto!

Mike the Security Guy is my pick for Head Bad Guy because...yes he was shot, but he got over it pretty quick; he's Prez. Keifer's confidant -- he knows too much, he knows it all. He's just too...there at the right times, if that makes sense. Please tell me that makes sense!

I was giving him credit for experience as having eaten food before, but from what I understand Bachelor contestants never eat so there goes that theory! I also don't understand the rationale behind someone deciding that serving off of cardboard is a good idea. Or being surprised at the complexity of the challenges. I mean, the episodes are probably available online or on demand somewhere so one could watch and do a little research beforehand. I also lovelovelove that when Heather threw her teammate under the bus, they did everything not to use the phrase "under the bus." Did anyone else notice that?

I'm not sure where to put this so let me know if I need to move it, but it just occurred to me that since they are both Fox properties WHATIF this show is Sweet Dee acting on a TV show. The characters are similar enough without being identical. Am I crazy??? Can anyone else see this?

My boyfriend's new favorite thing is to just say, "Chiiiiip!" in Christine's voice at unpredictable/annoying times. I hear it in my sleep, I hear it when the air conditioner whines itself on, I hear it right now.

I think we're missing the big picture that I think Jason brought up (maybe Aiden but probably Cole )...with only 2 girls left it looks like chances are pretty good we'll have a Boy winner! At last a win for a group that has just suffered so so horribly throughout time!!! It is about time a Boy is proven to be better at something than a girl.

I've been thinking about the latest episode a little bit more and there was a little part where Justice and Jason were having an argument over whether something needed to go into the blast chiller before something else could happen (I wasn't really paying attention at that point, but Justice was pro-blast chiller and Jason was not). Justice, realized that he would not be changing Jason's mind and gave up, but should Jason have realized that the person giving him advice hasn't been in the bottom 2 three times and maybe knows a little bit more than him? There was another little part where Duff, seemingly out of nowhere, said something about how citrus adds liquid so you would need to add more flour and baking is science but then SUDDENLY Aiden was like "I have found an answer to my too much liquid problem." Why didn't Duff say the same thing a few weeks ago when they made the rainbow cakes?

When Justice was announced as this weeks winner, Cole very definitely said "dang it," and I think maybe that was deliberately left in for some Reason. I'm not sure how TV shows are made, but I know we live in The Future and there has to be a way to have edited that out. Right?? I like that Justice is just a total real kid! I did think Kaniyah's reaction was genuine and I'm not sure why...she could have gone, too!

9 minutes into tonight's episode and I've mentally punched almost all the kids in the face. Especially Cole.