It's Paul's Party & You'll Cry If He Wants You To on 'The Great British Baking Show' Season 14

My favorite thing about reality competition shows, not just The Great British Baking Show, but all of them, from the nationalist contests that spawned American Idol to the early years of Project Runway when it truly was The Greatest Show on Earth, is that every week is a new week, and you're only as good as the last thing you produced. That even goes for heavy-handed thumb-on-the-scale judges like Paul Hollywood, who has done quite a bit this season to undermine what was a fascinating set of contestants and whittled them down to a Top Three we could have predicted in Week One. But it's a new week, a new theme introduced for the first time in place of the never-well-executed national theme weeks; the sun is shining, and Noel Fielding is about to show off his blow job skills, or lack thereof. On the bouncy castle, obviously!

You think I'm being dirty? Alison Hammond has turned this tent into the most double-entre-filled set since Sue and Mel refused to go with the dough when the show moved to Channel 4, and God bless her for it. You heard me; God Bless her and her small sausage, large spoon, no holes-barred hilarity this season. If we're going to have to put up with a tent of folk kowtowing to Paul at every turn (though I do love that as the seasons go on, Prue Leith gets a little bit pluckier and grows a bit more backbone every year), I will have my ridiculous laugh out loud guffaws as the boys in the tent blush bright.

And "Party Week" (or "Party Bakes Weerk" as it was initially deemed, and Noel still calls it) looks like it will be filled with bad puns, terrible jokes, and accidental suggestive comments galore as the bakers lose their heads just a little from quarterfinals stress.