Frankly, Better Off Ted is far better than the lame retread of Scrubs. They would be better off renewing BOT for another season and just replaying Scrubs from season 1. :)

Well, it's the last thing I watch on the DVR, once everything else is watched and there is nothing worth my time showing on the TV. So it may be dropped if something else comes along. It's a good concept, but having supposedly professional and well-trained people act like middle-schoolers, reacting rashly and impusively, it is just disturbing. It breaks the suspension of disbelief. Poor writing, IMHO. I think they got the writer from High School Musical or Vampire Diaries to write Flash Forward. Ah well.

I would wager that the only reason they are doing this at all is to replace one or two of the existing Iron Chefs that have given notice...

Mario, for instance, doesn't seem to enjoy himself and is rarely on the show anymore, I believe he won't be there much longer. He has bigger fish to fry!

As for the others, they are all excellent, but I think that the latest addition will be quietly dropped after a year or so. He doesn't have the personality to be an Iron Chef. I found all of the contestants to be fairly boring, and the two finalists depressed me no end. I simply didn't like either one. Regardless of the skills, if the chef is not likeable, they will fail on the show.

A couple of minor details you omitted :

It wasn't their real dressing room, it was a fake - specially prepared for the prank. They were then sent to their real one, thus the camera was not in their actual bathroom.

They were all told to look at the picture of them and Ellen - a picture on the wall in the bathroom. So they were not going into the bathroom to use it, they were going in to look at a picture.

Might want to actually watch the bit you report on...

She is trying so hard to be a 'serious' comedienne, when she has no funny. Her writers apparently don't either. Ah well.

I mean, her show is really boring, unfunny, etc. Perhaps she'll be gone this time next year.

If you have carpet, just run the wires UNDER the carpet near a wall or edge of other furniture. If you have to run them across traffic zones, protect them with 'hard' shields designed for under-carpet wire runs.

If you don't have carpet, get an Oriental or other large rug and see above.

The books are WAY better than these last few episodes. The Maryann part of the book didn't last this long, it simply cannot carry the show this far. It was a sub-plot in the books, not the main one. *sigh*

The books sold well for a reason, and the writers need to stick to them a bit more closely. :)

IMHO, 'lame' would be the one with no practical use. Since all of them are at the minimum useful as either a hub or storage except the jellyfish tank, that is my vote for the lamest.

There is no spoon.

The RR show where they did their cooking and such was aired earlier this week, I forget when.

I hope Melissa wins, she is the only one that I would actually DVR, much less watch live. :)