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*sigh* Basically, just about everybody does something awful, with Rogan's maneuvering at the top. Basically, he tried to gets into a thing with Dee, and he's scheming to get her sent to the Proving Ground. As much as I get the rationale, his ass is gonna get lit up like a Christmas tree on social media. CT throws a mission in the crappiest way possible. Great, now he's going back to shit he did in The Inferno and Gauntlet III. Of course, when Josh blubbers about how CT sucks, I want Josh to STFU. And there's TJ bitching on the sideline. I don't care what he thinks. He has no real authority. Cara Maria is still the bitterest Betty of them all. At this rate, I'm thinking she gets booed at the Reunion. Jordan and Tori figure it'll be a year until their wedding . . . so I'm thinking mid-2020. You think Cara might bury the hatchet and get an invite? I think Turbo might show up at the reception . . . dropping a dead yak at the feet of the newlyweds, telling them they can get meat and warm clothing from the carcass, and then he walks away. Honestly, CT has balls. "Awright, we're gonna kick things off after I shot the team in the foot. All those for Tori? [hands raised] Awesome. I hear a buffet calling me." Once again: he doesn't come off well this week. Only reason I can think of his actions being justified is if Lillie's last words to him before leaving were: "Come home with the money, or come home in a coffin." Jenny is basically inoffensive . . . and, natch, she loses to Tori in Hall Brawl. I could see Jenny running a season, especially if she teams with Mattie. But damn, Tori just slammed into her so hard. Shut the fuck up, Josh. Just because.

"Okay, so this week on South Park, we're presented with the issue of gender identity." "Cool . . . but this is Matt and Trey we're talking about. What's the catch?" "Vice Principal Strong Woman get beaten in an athletic competition by a transgender person who identified with being femlae two weeks ago." "Yikes. And this person looks like . . . ?" "The late 'Macho Man' Randy Savage." "Delightful." For a possible one-shot character, "Heather" was used awesomely, in the sense that she took aim at an area where PC Principal Pete Charles (go figure, he has a name) couldn't help but look awful anytime he protested. And this was all to spite Strong Woman. But then she gets schooled by the gamer girls of South Park Elementary, and she runs off like a bit- . . . coward. Runs off like a coward. With Cartman also stalking off, I'm hoping Stan and the other boy can take control of the "Dice Studz" and merge with the "Board Girls." Cartman leaving would leave a leadership void. And Butters and Scott could be sacrificed to make it happen. Who cares about them? I don't play tabletop games. How accurate was this episode? I'm guessing we'll be getting new credits with each remaining episode. I like how PCP has the same casual lean Randy was doing at the end of the Tegridy Farms credits.

deGrom gets deCy Young again . . . and like Polar Bear, he got all but one first place vote.

Team Four Star introduces DragonShortZ:

I'm chalking that up to exhaustion. That, and how Freeland is a never-ending carousel of misery, and it might be a few days before Anissa realizes she was fighting Khalil. Probably weeks.

You'll pardon me if I feel my butt is still hurting even after the balm.

Funny115: Rodney's Horrible Birthday

Which meant TDS got to bring out their graphic of candidate heads. The one filling out the final spot last night: Sister Night from Watchmen. I have no idea why Bloomberg is flexing. I get the dissatisfaction of the current nominees, but he’s a billionaire AND a former NYC Mayor. I don’t think Democrat voters want either one. Anyone else think Anna Kendrick didn’t promote her movie as much as she did her shoulders? Damn, those were out there.

Checking to see if anyone else saw the fourth season opener. I'm thinking a lot of people are pissed that the latest Toonami "event" pushed things back about five minutes. The episode is a little light . . . freelance writer gets access to Class 1-A, determines that Midoriya has been tabbed as All Might's successor, but he doesn't spill the beans to his editor. His Quirk? He can grow camera lenses from any part of his body. Also, he can print out photos from his chest. Yep.

Another fun-filled episode of political and social intrigue, interrupted by Adrian Veidt gathering and growing servants, and disposing of the old ones. Basically, when you are as rich and as smart as Adrian, you get to raise real-life Sea Monkeys to be your help. It seems fitting, whether it was his idea or not. The catapult? Reminded me of the Yard-A-Pult commercial from Saturday Night Live. All that was missing was Adrian telling his new staff that he just wanted to help their predecessors get to Heaven. Seriously, I'm not straining to think of where Adrian has been kept. Mars? The moon? Maybe he's been shrunk down, and he's in a terrarium kept by Lady Trieu? And that he's been launching dead servants partially to try and get the attention of a passer-by? Hey, I do not dismiss much with this series? Rejected scene: guy in the silver bodysuit slides into a sewer grate. Lady Night: "Fuck that. I am not dealing with Pennywise bullshit today. Life is too interesting as it is." Well, there's no such thing as the Internet in this world. But they got at least one museum where you can get your family tree charted, with an "acorn" serving as their version of a USB drive. I think they broke even. Also: unbreakable eggs, and a mysterious trillionaire (I'm getting the red squiggle) that wants to buy your house in exchange for the baby you could never have conceived on your own.

Bring on the red skies and/or antimatter waves. Holy shit, that was depressing. Even for this series, that was depressing. Once again: I get that we're not as far removed from the tone of this series as we'd want, but watching soldiers beat the ever-loving shit out of Jefferson in front of students just . . . fuck, man. Fuck. Oh, and Tavon Tayvon (sic?) got killed. His parents got proof he wasn't a meta, Blackbird was trying to smuggle him back into town . . . but then Painkiller intercepts and kills the kid. For Freeland? That hurt. And when the students rebelled, the soldiers beat the shit out of the big one going in front. How bad are things? They could have dragged Lowry (the only principal made entirely of straw and entitlement) out and gone to town on him for ten solid, uninterrupted minutes, and I wouldn't have smiled. Yeah, we got hope at episode's end, with the various "rebel" forces joining forces. And Tobias is healthy now, and you know damn well he's not gonna "disappear." Fuck it, stick him into COIE. Actually, he'd probably die laughing at all of the people in tights. Never mind. And the new kid (still "Troy Jr." in my head) has some sort of insulation power, as he takes Jennifer's rage-fueled electrical storm.

Of course. I'm guessing CBS wants to go all-in for the fortieth season of Survivor. Apparently, it's the highest-rated show on the network, even as it's been getting dinged up every week by The Masked Singer. Hey, it's not like there's a season of TAR already filmed. Oh, wait . . . yes, it freakin' has. 😠

Congratulations to Pete "Polar Bear" Alonso for winning Rookie of the Year! He got but one of the writers' first-place votes. I hope he has an excellent 2020 . . . and since he's a Met, I also hope a piano loaded down with anvils doesn't fall on him.

Now I'm imagining the last thing Theo heard before passing out from the pain. "Oi! I bet that pain is UN-BEAR-ABLE!!! Here's some money, luv. Thanks for taking out the competition! Looks like the next Challenge is gonna be mine to win!!! Now I gotta find out where Doctor Who is filming so I's can phone in a bomb threat, because that's the asshole that I'll always be!!"

I think the criminal element needs better P.R. A guy in full-on executioner gear killing the corrupt? That's good (so to speak). But a murderer is nicknamed "Chris the Fist"? The hell? Good episode, though I'm clearly not paying rapt attention. I missed that. And now I want a Robin Lord Taylor-like Penguin. Just someone that is funny, neurotic and murderous at the same damn time. "Batwoman? Sure, why not? I mean, Batman was a huge success, right? This is like a sequel for a movie that stood well enough on its own!!!" Or would that be too meta? So Luke's dad was killed? I thought it was a significant other, and that Luke was gay. I swear, it doesn't matter for me . . . but then I wonder if Lucius hooked up with another woman, and that's how we got Curtis over in Arrow. Alice and Mary continue to carry the series. I like Kate, though . . while she's still learning the ropes, she's probably a lot snarkier than her cousin ever was.

No press release yet, but we have an episode title ("Board Girls"), a clip . . . . . . and an image of Vice Principal Strongwoman lifting weights in what looks like a competitive environment. So I'm guessing we'll be getting a mix of . . . Dungeons & Dragons and CrossFit. Should be interesting. ETA: There's a link on the official site, but I keep getting sent to a 404 error page. ETA2: Press release is up. Looks interesting. 🤔

Lesson learned: Andrea has been the absolute worst for a long, long time. Sure, she helped her family, but it basically made Lena go into her shell, and it set up the precedent of being betrayed, which is going to hurt Kara really bad in the near future. Shit, it's hurting her now. Not even getting neat Shadow Thief-adjacent powers wasn't worth that. I like the security system with the medallion. Someone else touches it, two dudes come out of the ether and beat the snot out of that person. I'm guessing the part about turning into a weird Doc Ock/Robocop cosplay wasn't part of that, though.

Welcome back! Great season opener, with Rick dying and getting flung into increasingly bizarre alternate realities, and Morty becoming akin to a god thanks to a future-seeing Death Crystal and his need to die with Jessica at his side. Of course, he automatically assumes they're going to be a couple by that point . . . but finding that out in the stinger [correct term?] was cake. And he decimated an army with the help of Meeseeks boxes! Lots of sweet variants . . . fascist Rick, fascist shrimp Rick, Teddy Bear Rick, Wasp Rick . . . I didn't get that reference. Could someone explain it to me?

This week: Bruno decides to help Giorno with his quest to take over the local Mafia. This leads Giorno to a prison to meet one of the capos of Passione: The Allfather. Wait, no, that's Preacher. Polpo is also unbelievably big, and he basically stays in prison out of necessity. He gives Giorno a lit lighter, and he orders the would-be mafioso to keep it lit for 24 hours. And Giorno manages to do just that, without any incidents. Just kidding. Basic tropes go into effect, and everyone and everything unknowing threatens to put out the fire. Prison guard patting him down, the wind, Koichi (searching through Giorno's room to find his passport), etc. Eventually, a street sweeper accidentally douses the flame, and he manages to get the lighter working . . . but that apparently summons a death parade-looking Stand (that's the best example I could think up) with a Deus ex Arrow in its mouth, and it separates the sweeper's soul from his body . . . and Giorno is next. I know that Araki probably never meant his stories to be exclusively for kids, but I think Gold Experience matches the mindset. "Good thing I turned the lighter into a flower, with the flame underneath the petals!" "I managed to turn the chandelier into a snake!" It feels very playground. Toonami shortened the credits. Here they are in full, in case you missed it last week:

Isn't Big Brother far, far worse? I mean, if someone from that show pops up on Survivor or The Amazing Race, my first thought is usually, "Okay, how fucked up is this person?" Well, we had two people with athletic backgrounds finish WOTW1 last season (Theo, Natalie), and I think Wes played competitive soccer for a while. Turbo probably could qualify for the Olympics in many sports, but I think he doesn't want people to know he's related to the legendary Minotaur of Greek myth. Any drug tests he'd take would probably come up positive because of that.

Found this. Had a good laugh.

Brief clip from tomorrow night's episode: And, apparently, "YAAAAAASsica" is an Instagram profile. No photos posted, though.

Found this. Thought it funny.

Update on Theo. Turns out he lost a lost of vision in that injured eye. He did not, in fact, lose the eye. However, he is sitting out the next Challenge.

Here are the opening credits for the new season.