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Susie: I did a little happy dance this morning upon learning that T.R. Knight, who plays George on Gray’s Anatomy, has asked to be let out of his contract.

Oh yes, yes, yes!!! I loathe the character of George, the whiniest of Gray’s multitude of whiners. His character might have been viable the first year, although he wasn’t my favorite even back then. But TPTB have written him into a ridiculous caricature of Dr. Earnest Boy Next Door I just cringe when I see him onscreen.

Now if they’d only get rid of Izzie. She bores me to tears and she’s nearly as whiny and self-absorbed as George.

Jeanne: It’s strange because, though this is a show I look forward to every week, there are so many characters I despise. I suppose you need to have some you love and some you hate, but I have hated George from the get-go. If he were the sensitive Andrew McCarthy type, I could forgive him and even embrace him. But George is not only an insensitive clod, he’s also a mealy-mouthed whiner — not a good combination.

From the beginning, Izzie had that “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” thing going on, which might have been fine had she stayed strong. But she melted into a simpering pool of “Denny! I want Denny!” The final straw for me was when she took the gigantic check she got from Denny after his death and stuck it to the fridge and then dithered about it for months. “Deposit the check and dither about it while it earns interest,” I groused at the TV.

Still, having Izzie around does serve a purpose so if she stays, I can take it. Having George around served no purpose. I hope they send him out by having Little Grey kick him to the curb.

Susie: Well, Little Grey has McSteamy, so who needs whiny, old George? She was too good for him.

I can’t say I despise a lot of the cast, but I think any cast/show is a lot like many work situations in that there are people you like and people you could do without. I think what pushed me over the edge with Izzie and George was when they hooked up in an utterly preposterous and icky storyline. I liked Izzie OK before that, even after she turned into a puddly mass over Denny Duquette (and after all, I’d be a puddly mass over the fine Mr. Duquette, if ever given the chance, sigh).

No, what grated on me was her utterly unpleasant attitude toward Callie when she married George. She was the epitome of every snobby, self-absorbed, self-important cheerleader type I’d ever run across. Then the actress compounded the error by denigrating the writers’ handling of her character, sniffing that the writing was not worthy of Emmy consideration. I don’t think she won herself any fans among the writing staff with that little performance. If the writers are ever given a green light to knock off Izzie, Katherine Heigl is going to find herself tumbling down a soundstage elevator shaft.

Jeanne: Yeah, Heigl did herself no favors with the writers when she went public that way. And I agree Izzie was nasty to Callie. And I used to like Callie, but they’ve been so inconsistent with that character, it’s depressing. She was strong and bold and unafraid and now suddenly she’s meek, simpering (with McSteamy) and unsure (as when she lost it in the experimental surgery). Bring back the real Callie!

I hope to see the writers continue to expand on the budding romance between Drs. Hunt and Yang, but not too quickly.

The little moments we’ve seen between them so far have been swoon-inducing (the kiss in the alley after both left the bar, the sweet talk on the front steps of her building and last week’s kiss on the steam grate) and now that they’ve got us hooked, I hope they don’t let us down. I want to see more exploration of Hunt’s post-traumatic stress disorder that’s been hinted at.

Susie: Which leads me to the next subject, which is the future of the show. They need to concentrate on:

1) Little Grey and McSteamy. Little Grey is young Meredith without all the damage and McSteamy is McDreamy without all the angst. Together, they are dynamite. So where does that leave Mer and Der? With any luck, seen but not heard, at least when it comes to their love life. I’d love to have TPTB explore the Big Grey/Little Grey dynamic, which is essentially a replay of Meredith’s relationship with her mother. Young Meredith yearned for a warm, nurturing, maternal relationship with her mother, who was emotionally unavailable and downright neglectful of her daughter. Now Little Grey is yearning for a warm, nurturing and yes, maternal, relationship with her older half-sister, who is emotionally unavailable and sometimes downright mean with her sister. It’s a fascinating dynamic.

2) Christina and Hunt, for all the reasons Jeanne said better than I can.

3) More Callie and the new doc with Asperger’s syndrome. One thing that TV has done in recent years is shed more light on this, and by extension, other neurological disorders. Jerry of Boston Legal is a successful lawyer who also suffers from Asperger’s.

Jeanne: Totally agree on all especially wanting more with the dynamic between Big Grey and Little Grey. Dang me. Big Grey is so her mother’s daughter and it’s interesting to watch her both fight her legacy and fall victim to it. Can’t wait for Thursday night.

Is Corinne of Survivor: Gabon the most unlikeable Survivor ever? OK, maybe she has to share that distinction with alliance-mate Randy, but I actually think Corinne might be a tad worse. Not even Jerri Manthey of Survivor: Australia could match the reprehensible Corinne.

You know, I don’t think it’s just editing. After all, no one forced her to spew her poison confessionals, which if you watched Thursday’s recap episode, you know included fantasies of actually poisoning her tribemates. She has that whole flirty, I’m-too-hot-for-color-TV vibe going on, even before she pranced around in a bikini for her audition tape and declared that she was going by win by virtue of being flirtatious and manipulative.

Imagine, then, her shock at being not only upstaged in the hot category by pin-up girl Sugar, but outflirted and just plain outmaneuvered by people she clearly sees as her inferiors. I had wondered about her vehemence in respect to Sugar in the Nov. 20 episode. Now we know that it was sparked by Sugar’s attempt to tell Corinne that her negativity was costing her allies in the game. The fury on Corinne’s face at such an affront was a thing of evil beauty. The forums at Television Without Pity have been lit up over the trollish Corinne. One poster summed up Corinne’s character so succinctly, I just had to share:

Corinne is a thin, white, young and “attractive” woman. She’s probably had a pretty easy ride. She thinks she’s smart, successful, sophisticated and hot, and so far not much has happened to dispel that. In her mind, Ken is a geek, Crystal’s butch, Susie is old and ugly, Bob is just old, and Sugar is a bimbo. (Sugar is the only one of these people who I think Corinne might see as a threat –and that being in the “hot” and appealing to men department– which is why Corinne harps on her lack of education and unemployment). In Corinne’s world, she is better than these people. But that’s not the way it’s working out in the game, and it’s making her crazy.

It’s also not the way the world always works, post-high school. (And thank goodness). If she doesn’t adjust to it, life is not going to be pleasant for her. She is NOT going to cope well with getting older.

Hilarious. And so true. Still, fellow blogger Jeanne DePaul and I have been going back and forth on whether the nastiest of the Survivors will have a change of heart and kiss and make up for the reunion show. I think they’re probably urged to do that by the producers, but it’s much more fun if they let their true feelings show. I doubt I’d be so ready to forgive and forget if I’d been on the receiving end of some of the comments that Sugar, Bob, Susie, Crystal or even Kenny has been.

All in all this is shaping up to be one of the best seasons ever of Survivor. I wouldn’t have a problem with either Kenny, Crystal, Susie, Sugar or Bob winning. Even Matty would be OK. This is going to be one fun December.

Leave it to Tina Fey to write a line that perfectly sums up the wish list of a single woman in her 30s/40s.

Thursday night’s “30 Rock” was hilarious, but the best line of the week, perhaps of the year … maybe of the decade … belongs to Liz Lemon.

In answer to the query, “Liz, what is it you want? Do you want to be single the rest of your life?”

Liz: “No. I just wish I could start a relationship about 12 years in, when you really don’t have to try anymore and you can just sit around together and goof on TV shows and then go to bed without anybody trying any funny business.”

Hilarious. And well put.

Jeanne: I’d forgotten about Bob’s making his fake immunity idol, and I’m so ticked that he told Sugar about it. Why didn’t he just keep that to himself? It really did look good. Dang.

I can’t believe Bob has to go to Exile Island again. I hate Kenny.

Randy is such a scumbag when he said he wanted to bathe Susan. Ick. And didn’t you love how he bought cookies “for the tribe” and then tried to keep them all for himself? I loved that Sugar dusted him by giving her cookie to Matty. I want Randy to go home now!

Susie: I don’t have wireless, so I had to dash back to my computer to do my post. I can’t believe Kenny is being such an idiot. What is he saving the money for? He could have gotten himself a legup AND prevented Corinne from getting the same.

I’m waiting for Randy to get his comeuppance. My hope is that Bob will fool him into thinking the fake immunity idol is the real one, he’ll play it and then he’ll have the rug jerked out from underneath him. I’ve hated him since his stupid racist comments last week.

As for the bath, I can’t believe Susie didn’t just sit in there and soak. I certainly would have. Maybe it’s strategy … she didn’t want everyone to see her luxuriating too much.

Love Sugar. Love. her.

Susie: I think they have to do what Matty wants. They have to keep him happy this week, so he remains in their alliance long enough to not form an alliance with the evil Randy group. Who I really hate.

Jeanne: I can’t believe Bob hasn’t figured out that Sugar has taken the idol already and that’s why he can’t find it. He’s so smart about everything else. I can’t believe these jokers are falling for Matty’s line about how Bob has to go. Above all, they need to break up Randy and Corinne and Randy could go first because he’s a pompous jerk. I don’t get why Susan got out of the tub so quickly, except perhaps she felt creepy taking a bath in front of a bunch of people on national TV. Can’t imagine why she’d feel that way.

Susie: OMG … that was awesome. I can’t wait to the end. If Bob actually gives Randy the fake immunity idol and he plays it, it will be the most hilarious, satisfying moment in Survivor history. The most delicious part of it is that he is soooo certain that he’s got all the angles figured. I haven’t like Crystal much through this whole thing, but she correctly described Randy: What a troll.

Jeanne: I hope this most delicious of evil plans on “Survivor” works out like Bob and Sugar have planned. Oh please, oh please, oh please.

OMG, I have never heard so much animosity from people when reading their votes. Randy started it last week with his nastiness so what goes around comes around. What an idiot.

I was laughing out loud when Crystal just started yelling her comments so everyone could hear them.

I’m not sure I’ve ever been so happy to see someone leave as I have Randy. He looked like he wanted to hit someone when Jeff put out his torch.

Susie: I’m screaming with laughter. Sugar had the best line of the night, summing up Randy’s rotten character to a T. I know editing plays a part in this game, but I do think he’s a trollish human being.

The best, though, was watching the cat-that-swallowed-the-canary look on Corinne’s and Randy’s faces give way to disbelief when Probst tossed the fake idol in the fire.

This started out as being a fairly uninteresting season. When Crystal and Kenny and Susie started out being so physically weak and outmatched, it seemed a foregone conclusion that they would go home early. This is where Survivor knowledge plays out. All three are longtime viewers and it’s obvious they’ve plotted strategy year after year. Who knew that the weakest players would end up controlling the game? Next week’s wild card? Sugar.

Jeanne: How much fun was it watching Corinne laughing her head off thinking that Randy was going to spring the big surprise on them all only to watch her face drop when Jeff tossed it in the fire.

You know, the deal with the weakest players controlling is they have learned it’s important to get rid of the strong ones first “while we have the chance.” How many times have you heard someone say that? Sometimes the strong ones can also play smart, but not this time, I guess. It’s going to be interesting to see who wins the battle of wits now.

Susie: I just checked out Life at the Ponderosa on the CBS site. For the uninitiated, that’s where the kicked-off Survivors go after their elimination. They haven’t posted Randy’s yet. That’s what I’m waiting for. Just watching Marcus’ and Charlie’s reactions to him, though, I don’t think they’ll be that sympathetic to him. The jury questioning should be interesting. I suspect that’s where Randy is going to try to “burn the house down” again. Maybe he’ll surpass Sue’s rant from Season 1 as the most sour grapes, bitter rant EVER.

I think you correctly pegged the most important aspect of Survivor, Jeanne, and the one that not many people take into consideration. No matter how much you’ve watched the game on TV or how crafty and wise you think you are, the game tends to strip people down and reveal themselves. I mean, look at Randy. I don’t think he’s a stupid guy. He’s just so bigoted and nasty and all those things Sugar said that he simply can’t help himself, even with $1 million on the line. We’ve seen that over and over again with contestants year after year.

Quote from Television Without Pity forums (and one with which I agree wholeheartedly): “The next person who goes to Exile Island will get a map to the location with the legend, “SUGAR HAS THE IDOL. REALLY. SUGAR FOUND IT WEEKS AGO.” Then maybe they’ll finally get it.”

Susie: Update from Life at Ponderosa (11 a.m. Friday). The supposition that perhaps Randy was putting on an act of being the most hateful person ever to play Survivor has been laid to rest. Turns out, he’s all that AND MORE. For a vile human being, he’s pretty insightful about his own character. He said (and I paraphase) that the deprivations and gameplay of Survivor amplifies who you actually are. If you’re a nice person, you’ll be even nicer. And if you’re a mean, hateful person, you’ll be even meaner and more hateful. And then he confirmed that he indeed falls into the latter category. Charlie and Marcus welcomed him back as a conquering hero, so I have to wonder about them too.

I’ve always wondered about how people fare in the post-Survivor world. In his bio, Randy lists his occupation as a videographer. While his stint on Survivor may have earned him publicity, it definitely isn’t great publicity. I wonder if he’ll end up losing business because of his time on reality TV. Of course, he could try to milk the world of celebrityhood for all its worth, but other people with greater talent, looks and likability have tried to do the same, and failed. Just think of all the past Survivors. How many can you even remember now?