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Thank you, that's what I meant to say. Looking back at my post from yesterday it sounds like I was saying all the questions were easy, and they weren't. I didn't know the answers to many of them. But some of them were really easy.

Well I don't think this show comes back without significant changes. Trying to be the new Millionaire but falling way short. I guess if you're Burnett with a pretty solid track record you can pitch just about anything and the network with nothing better to do will pick it up. On the one hand I hope the brand new contestant with no money, Richard, had some sort of consolation prize clause in his contract. On the other hand - and I respect Cal Tech greatly - his occupation said he worked for a "Think Tank", and if that's some scrub political organization (like most "think tanks" are) then I'm just as glad to see him walk away with nothing. Sort of like the last contestant on 2006's "Show Me The Money" who we never got to see finish his pretty good run. Wow, was that really in 2006??? Wikipedia says yes so I guess it's been 9 years. It's a fiesta! TL;DR F500Q

The host keeps claiming they have the world's toughest questions and that's not even close to being true.

Quest is awful.

I did like the current contestant calling the host Dickey Boy when he got up there. I loathe Richard Quest.

Only started watching last night. I hope the guy up there crashes and burns pretty quickly and we get to see Pam kick some butt.

Maybe a black cat mascot would help the Cubs. Hey, it worked in 1969 right? Seriously, though, the clue was way too easy. Ain't too many teams around with a 100 year drought.

My take on Haley is she's a nurse, and a lot of nurses I know secretly (and not-so-secretly sometimes) think they know better than the doctors how to care for and treat patients. So this is her chance to let a Doctor know that she's right, and he is wrong, and everything would be fine if he would just LISTEN TO HER. I really don't want her to win any money. Laura and Tyler? Laura's face always has that look on it like she's smelling farts. So does Jenny's. And I was kind of in Mike & Rochelle's corner, but I missed the assist on the boat task, and if that really happened then they don't really deserve to win. I didn't mind Amy and Maya winning last season, but if M&R seriously needed a push from the production staff just to make sure all 4 teams made it to the final week..... sorry, Mike & Rochelle, but I can't accept that. Stay tuned for Wednesday when we find out if TAR will be on CBS's Fall Schedule!

In the immortal words of Gordon Ramsey, "Wow wow wow wow wow". I hope Itchy Alex isn't around too long. He is very difficult to watch. Also thought he was delaying on purpose towards the end of Friday's game. He bet $0 tonight, which was fine, but his long shout-out response to FJ struck me as being a bit disrespectful to the show. There's no way he didn't know the correct answer imo.

After a few days to reflect on the season I've come to the conclusion that while the finale was a letdown, this is still (to use one of Vince Gilligan's favorite words) a wonderful show with wonderful showrunners, wondeful writers, wonderful directors, wonderful production people, and a wonderful cast. I can't wait for it to start up again.

For FJ I said, "Strunk's Rules of Style". "Rules" was wrong and no partial credit for knowing Strunk's name, so sad panda. Clue: They win $150,000 and the first thing they want to do is buy a new bathtub. Answer: Who are people from New England. Whew, that was a brutal run.

Good Lord, she's like a refugee from a wax museum. She does seem to know her bartending, maybe she has a few pops and becomes fun and engaging.

You'd be surprised. I know a few who came from families with money, weren't the smartest guys and gals in the room, but who needed to be lawyers to preserve a modicum of social status: eating at the right restaurants, joining the right country clubs, going to the right parties, etc. They went to respected law schools fully intending to get into personal injury law once they passed the bar. It's easy work compared to what litigators and trial attorneys do. You never go to court, your assistants and paralegals do all the legwork and you collect your third of the settlement. That's damning it with faint praise, but in essence I think you're right. Which only serves to make me a little angry with myself for watching it now and not waiting a couple of years until I could watch the whole thing at my own pace. This long offseason stuff is for the birds. It's a Sony ECM-51 http://misterk60.com/ecm51.html that Jimmy is using http://happynicetimepeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/saul-1.7-bingo-770x514.jpg The same kind used by Bob Barker on The Price is Right. A classic. Very expensive second-hand market, but way cool. You have to admit the story about shitting on the two Cub Scouts was just about as cute as it gets. Except for puppies. And kittens.

I think Kerry is practicing to be a ventriloquist. Every game is a chance to practice speaking while moving as few facial muscles as possible. That's 3 days in a row that she has won by getting lucky. I hesitate to call it luck because she really has earned her victories, gotta hand it to her there, but she should have lost at least one of those last 3 games. "Category 3, Question 4 please."

My thoughts exactly. I've loved every BrBa and BCS montage before, but this one seemed like filler. This seemed to me like a 40-minute episode. The Bingo scene was good, I guess, I felt bad for him thinking of his 'B'rother with every B ball that was coming out. But it just went on way too long. The closeups on the balls and the tube where they came out was a little too artsy fartsy for me. If there was a point to it, fine, but there didn't seem to be one except to waste time. Same for the coin scam. Interesting but it went on way too long. I'm not an impatient person, but the scenes to let us know Jimmy still enjoys a good scam went on, again, way too long. The writers mailed this one in, in my opinion. They got the word that Season 2 had been picked up last June a couple of weeks after they started filming the season. Writers all on vacation maybe? It seems like they stuck with the original plan to make a self-contained season/series in case Season 2 wasn't picked up, instead of returning to hash out the finale and lead us into Season 2. If there was no Season 2 and this was the series finale, I would have been fine with it. Unfortunately that's not the case. Also, maybe nothing, the BCS Insider podcasts left coverage of this episode to last. They recorded the 110 podcast first to get it out of the way because they knew 109 was a better episode, and they didn't want to leave off the podcasting on a downer note. That's my take, anyway. (I've been wrong before.... like I was last week about Chuck!) I get that a lot of Vince Gilligan series make the 2nd-to-last episode of the season the key awesome episode. I get that. This is the first time, though, that the actual finale feels like a lazy effort on the writers' parts.

As they say... if you speak 3 languages you're tri-lingual. If you speak 2 languages you're bi-lingual. If you speak 1 language you're American.

IMO Kerry is awful. "Category 1 Question 3 please". "Category 1 Question 4 please". Boring monotone with no verve or enthusiasm. The Stepford wives had more life in them than she does. And that hairstyle.... oh my. She was extremely lucky that the guy in the middle flubbed an easy FJ.

Huh, a new 2-day champ and no comments? Is she really that bland and unremarkable? Knowing a lot of people like that in New England, I'd say yes. Glad she won some money, but she can lose any day now as far as I'm concerned.

Of course he invited the document dump! Here is his ne'er-do-well brother who just pulled off an amazing bit of lawyering by finding the Sandpiper case. Can't have that, now, can we? He got his law degree in a box of Cracker Jacks and me and my buddies at HHM went to fucking Harvard for pete's sake! Who does he think he is? Chuck torpedoed the whole thing sitting at the table last week and telling the Sandpiper attorneys that they wanted $20 million. Could have demanded $2 million and settled right then and there. But no, that would mean Jimmy actually accomplished something. And Chuck's ego could never accept that. Chuck is a piece of shit and whether or not he's right about a chimp with a machine gun, the fact is it was Jimmy who played rainmaker on that case. Nobody else. And Chuck couldn't stand to have Jimmy taste any success with it.

As much as I hate Chuck now, you've gotta hand it to Michael McKean for bringing it. Everyone assumes Jonathan Banks's "I broke my boy" episode will get submitted for Emmy consideration in the supporting actor category, but McKean's "I know you! You're Slippin' Jimmy!" rant from tonight might deserve to be in the mix too.

I think Kim wanted to tell Jimmy what Howard told her. But the depth of depravity on Chuck's part was too much, and she was right to not tell him. Jimmy needed to know the truth but he didn't need to hear it from her. If it wasn't for Jimmy, Chuck wouldn't eat. Chuck would have zero contact with the outside world. Chuck would be in a friggin' mental institution after his petty theft caper a few weeks ago. Chuck You Farley indeed.

I think we haven't seen the last of Eleanor Guthrie. The English captain seemed to have recognized her on the beach. Amanda's death was shocking, to say the least. All in all a great episode. Not enough to rescue the season from its string of snooze-worthy scripts, but a really good episode anyway. The biggest disappointment for me was that Anne didn't kill Max in their scene together. Everything else was top notch.

On the heels of an awful Survivor episode CBS dishes up a really bad TAR ep. Eat egg, say prayer, shoot pool, feed cats, remove 4 bolts. Last week and this week combined gave us 2 hours of one team elimination, and who that team would be was never in doubt only 10 minutes into last week's episode. Not impressed. There were 2 good moments imo. When Blair told Haley she could lead, she insisted that he do it, and 30 seconds later, "I think we should go this way." That and Rochelle truckstop girl getting the transmission off in about 5 minutes. Other than that..... I got nothin'.

Probably not going to be on the following Wednesday due to CBS and the NCAA basketball tournament. That's the reason The Amazing Race is taking 2 weeks off after this Friday's episode.

No they can't. There is no scientific or medical evidence that shows that to be the case. It is a psychosomatic condition, i.e. it's caused by mental factors such as stress. Nobody who claims to suffer from it can tell the difference between a real and a fake electromagnetic field. Proven fact.