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She barely has the range to play this character. At least it was (unintentionally) hilarious when Brian said, about Louis, that "sometimes it's easy to see when someone really needs help. It's written all over their face." And then the show cuts to Liz, so that we get The Message that poor Liz also has her troubles, and, why, we can see the toil, the cares, the struggles written all over her super expressive face: Christa Miller is also the "music supervisor" on the show, seemingly because she once listened to Death Cab for Cutie, and thus thinks she has hip alternative tastes.

I don't understand Dag's characterization at all. Is she naive or cynical? Is she meant to be calculating? She says stupid shit, and sometimes it seems like it's because she's dumb; other times, it appears like she's stirring shit. It's as if the writers are just giving her random lines from scene to scene.

Why, I guess that an eye that swells up from a bee sting can indeed look like a butthole. Thanks, show, for pointing that out to me! The silhouette of Bob in the shower seems to be...missing...an appendage. But this is a family show. When the bereaved daughter clarified that she told Mort that they didn't need the shampoo bottle back because it didn't have much more in it, I hope she just means "that bottle," and that she and her siblings have at least one more bottle of that shampoo so that their dad can sniff his beloved wife anytime he wants 😭. (Though I suppose he can just come to the restaurant and hope that...Bob never washes his hair again?)

I hope they have cleared their schedules, because, for Bake Off 15: The Movie, I'm definitely casting Thomas Haden Church and June Diane Raphael to play Andy and Georgie respectively.

"Soaked in lemon and lime syrup and covered in lemon buttercream, Mike will marble his loaf yellow and purple." It's back! Bake-Off! And the scriptwriter who has never been able to master the use of modifiers, always misplacing them left and right to hilarious effect!

I think I'm right to think that made-to-measure challenges are issued to the sewers ahead of time, and includes the time allowance. "Make a red carpet look, and you will be given 6 hours." So sewers should be making plans with that time constraint in mind, and the ability to do so is arguably part of their skill set. Having said that, I imagine that sewers are often unprepared for how the business of TV-making, e.g., having the host or judges come around to talk to you, takes up time and disrupts their plans. In short, I think the issue is a bit more interestingly complicated then "the producers are solely responsible and they need to lengthen the time given to sewers." Anyway: the campest trophy ever, indeed.

Huh: all this talk about how the seas may have been choppy, and how the chefs may have been seasick, etc. must mean that I am the only one cynical enough to think that the ship never actually set sail, and that the entire final was them just cooking on a docked ship. I mean, right before the chefs headed into the kitchen to cook, we did get this shot, seemingly of a VAST OCEAN: Before they did so, they got to have a nice breakfast with the judges. We get shots of each waking up in their cabins, lots of stretching and curtain-drawing. Great. Now let's further set the scene! Ooh, a majestic panning shot of the Eurodam: Let's pan a little more! More! Panning! Um, waaaait a minute...

Kristen, buddy, you're coming a bit too close to making it all about you. There were quite a few "the dish came out how you wanted it" "compliments" tonight, which...I dunno, seem like faint praise to me. I mean, my breakfast omelets come out the way I wanted, but nobody has made me Top Chef.

Some updates on what people have been up to since the season ended:

Why yes, I would like to wear a fleece that makes it clear that the sun shines out of my ass. I just have a feeling that at some point Janet will reveal that she's a nudist, but she may also be running out of weeks to do so. Next week: how will Marcus find another way to not do the challenge, by just making another piece of headwear? This does not seem like a talented bunch of sewers.

Extra love this illustration.

Possibly more harrowing than Ross in the toilet with his leather pants, and the lotion, and the talcum powder!

Series 17 Ep 7's play a recognizable classical piece task: I feel like when you blow into water-filled bottles, 80% of the "musical sound" you make comes from you...surreptitiously just whistling the note. But Nick of course is too sweet to cheat that way, unlike me. Meanwhile, John playing bass on his homemade harp, and his accompanying expressions, was totally giving:

Didn't Danny G. basically do that by writing/formatting the tickets, and only having the servers fill it out? Can we now safely say that this is the Season of the Aguachile? Aguachile. Aguachile aguachile aguachile. Aguachile! Aguachile aguachile. Aguachile; aguachile. Aguachile, aguachile, aguachile. Also: aguachile.

Oh, I see: this is how the show is going to do an episode, and thus a political commentary on, Drag Queen Story Hour and having children interact with drag queens. (No doubt the field trip will accidentally or otherwise coincide with a drag event, or Shea-Couleé-as-Lisa-Condo will go along on the field trip.)