(Also, you may have a surfeit of quick Indian in your area, but others are not so blessed. Just sayin'.)

True, but their test markets are New York, LA, and Miami - I think he'll encounter some competition for Indian fast food in all of those.

I think Minneapolis, not Miami. But yeah, point stands for the other two at least - no idea about Mps.

The AV Club has a terrific recap: [link]

From one angle, Bobby Flay’s seemingly adorable daughter, Sophie, who spent most of the hour pettily crushing dreams and offering insincere laughter when the contestants tried to butter up, was the best character this show has ever had, the only person who could possibly stop Steve Ells in hand-to-hand combat. From another angle, she was a desperation move. “Fuck it. What do we have left? I guess we could throw in Flay’s kid?”

The whole thing smacked of the producers suddenly realizing just how stagnant and boring the show has been in the last few weeks and trying to come up with something—ANYthing—designed to bring back the sense of fun the show had in its first few episodes. The contest was essentially pointless, including several scenes where the contestants sat around with a panel of experts on toys and/or childhood (I guess?) to try and design an awesome toy. But what all of this resulted in was some of the most unintentionally hilarious TV of the season, from Stephenie’s random Pete the Pita figure, designed to, uh, teach kids about how voracious pitas are, to Greg and Krystal just giving up and tossing out a lightning bug that looked like the sort of creature you’d find crawling all over your food at a picnic. But his bottom lit up, Krystal offered weakly. Also, Jamawn had—I shit you not—a cornbread muffin man, and Joey decided that what the kids liked, what would really get them into meatballs, was a giant-ass version of Connect Four. (Joey appears to have no fucking clue how money works, since every business scheme he’s come up with would have involved losing lots of it.)

I think the fact that there are only young (minus Gary) relatively physically in shape folks (minus Kent) left in the race made the sofa moving task look a lot easier than it was. I can imagine Ron and Christina, Mel and Mike, even Margie and Luke all really struggling with a task like that. That said, there's no way I'd ever go for the eating task. It sounded impossible just reading it. Only 12 minutes to eat the entire meal? If you've ever watched this show, let alone run the race before, you'd know that there was going to be an assload of food (and I would've been anticipating something weird/nasty, which they managed to avoid). Unless it's for a FF, never go for the food challenge! I was especially shocked that Gary and Mallory picked it. She's tiny and picky.

The Cowboys are terrible at the flight game. If everyone is together on the same flight, then it wouldn't even matter if the flights got delayed. You'd all be on equal footing once you got there. It just didn't seem worth the risk. It's a good thing Gary and Mallory picked such a poor detour choice.

AI: I wasn't around a computer to post my thoughts this week, but since my thoughts this week were basically that the kids were neither great nor terrible on the performance night (except Paul) and then Paul went home and our long national nightmare is now over. Not very deep. Also, Haley killed on that jazz number. I wish she would sing like that all the time because she'd win.

ABDC: Pole dancing? I refuse. I like the New Zeland girls and the little NJ boys are adorable (but I think they will get old fast). I'm gonna hate it if they never actually critique the krumpers just because the "inventor" of krump is in the group. Also, krump praise dancing? Ummm, OK. Dominic on the panel is like a wound on my soul. I still love JC. That's all.

even Margie and Luke

Yeah, because Luke wouldn't be able to do it.

ba-dum-bump

I was especially shocked that Gary and Mallory picked it. She's tiny and picky.

I was glad Gary apologized after, because she didn't want to do it, and she was right.

Gary's a coach in real life, right? I bet he's learned something along the way how you treat teammates.

Good point about the couch challenge. I felt for the guys who carried it up and down an additional three flights of stairs....

If anyone cares, ANTM is changing times ... at least in my area. Looks like the 8:00 show is going to be a repeat of last week, with the "never before seen" footage show at 9:00.

And they're going to Morocco ... next week, I suppose.

Dominic on the panel is like a wound on my soul.

WUT.

I missed the beginning of Idol. Does anyone know what the theme is?

songs from the 21st century.