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It’s our 100th episode! Time for a pop quiz, then on to the following:

* HBO president caught secretly striking back against critics

* But is working on HBO’s The Idol grounds for any lawsuit?

* Love for Alan Sepinwall, fastest TV critic in the West

* Behind the scenes at Tucker Carlson’s exit from FOX

* The “c-word”

* “She said Tucker Carlson is a messenger from God, and he said nope.”

* The word Nancy cannot stand, and the phrase that makes Sarah blush

* Can The Real Housewives ever be a moral enterprise?

* How RHONY’s Leah McSweeney became “Hurricane Leah” and the lawsuit she recently filed

* Drinking and reality TV

* “If you go to a whorehouse, you’re gonna get fucked”

* Wild, hopeful, morally fraught stuff in the fertility industry

* A baby made with the DNA of three people: Wait, what/how?

* We cannot countenance an image of the Fleshlight, but if you must

Plus, a “pretend-ian” scandal and a smoking-hot sports star in the hot box