We had so much fun mocking the idiot savant-lets last year, we decided to get drunk and do it again. Okay, to be sure, we were already drunk when we made that decision. On Twitter, that would be #DRUNJ, but for the sake of standardized spelling, we’ll be stick with the conventional tonight.

Also, Erin Andrews has been replaced by Rob Stone for this year’s broadcast, so that should reduce awkward speller boners by a legitish 100 percent.

If you have an afternoon to kill this summer Friday, I strongly urge you to replay last night’s live blog of the Nationals Spelling Bee. It’s a veritable hailstorm of comedic brilliance. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Anyway, I also watched the Bee last night, but couldn’t join in the blogkakke. Here’s a quick mini-gamebook of it:

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