Sir RaiderDuck OMS

A friend of mine actually went the K-1 route, bringing his would-be bride over from Indonesia to NYC. After a metric f**kton of paperwork and interviews, she finally got the OK to fly over. They were married about a month after she arrived. My wife and I didn't think the marriage had a chance in hell of working long-term (for one thing, he has a son older than her) but were supportive anyway; our opinions of their match were not asked, so we did not offer them. 7 1/2 months after their wedding, she left him without saying a word and flew back to Indonesia. A week later, her Facebook profile listed her as being "engaged" to some farmer in Canada. And so it goes.

Are Mrs. RaiderDuck and I the only ones who saw those dangly bits on Elizabeth's hat and thought they were purple marshmallows?

I couldn't believe Roddy calling Margaret "darling" and her immediately saying "Don't you ever call me that in public." Then again, when Antony started attacking Margaret, he didn't defend her in any way. Just a messed-up situation.

Gotta love the royals' nonplussed reactions when Anne basically said "Yeah, me and APB had a fling. So what?"

Supposedly, what attracted David to Wallis was her personality. She was very witty and abrasive, and that appealed to a man who normally had women swooning all over him. She played hard-to-get and it totally worked. There's no revisionism in calling them Nazi sympathizers, though. Wallis had at least one affair with a high-ranking Nazi spy, and of course we all have seen the pictures of David reviewing Nazi troops, greeting Hitler, etc. Even the official whitewashed royal family documentary on the Duke of Windsor/King Edward VII ("Edward on Edward," hosted by QE2's son Prince Edward) says he was an unwitting dupe of Nazi spies via Wallis and was very careless with his royal duties, even mentioning that the official papers the government would send him in the "red boxes" were often received back with multiple circular stains: Wallis and Edward were using them as placemats when they drank their tea. The Edward documentary says he could find no evidence of the Duke of Windsor actively helping the Nazis, but what would you expect a royal family-sanctioned documentary to say? As for the episode: I loved the callback of QE2 bringing up the snotty "Shirley Temple" nickname the Duke had given her all those decades ago, and his frank admission that he'd underestimated her.

That's why we have the House of Windsor. The royal family was known as the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but due to that anti-German sentiment, George V (QE2's grandfather) decided to change it and asked his courtiers to research and determine the most hyper-English name. They came back with Windsor, so the House of Windsor it was.

I'm assuming Elizabeth knew Phillip called Anne "sweetie;" otherwise, she seemed awfully unconcerned with his using an affectionate nickname towards a woman that wasn't herself. I loved how she didn't even look up when telling the aide Phillip's pet names for her.

At the risk of going massively OT, Sinise had played Wallace in the earlier HBO film George Wallace, also directed by John Frankenheimer. So his inclusion in Path to War was a nod to that earlier film. Back to the show: Tommy may have been awfully curt with Margaret, but I could see his goal. There was no way hundreds of years of royal tradition were going to be changed because of the wishes of a couple of gradeschoolers. Best to get that thought out of both of their heads immediately.

It's a measure of how well cast she is that with zero introduction, we (the viewers) take one look and say "Oh, it's Anne."

Exactly. This was not a master diplomat reading the room and acting accordingly; rather, it was a loud, bawdy princess with no filter being lucky enough to visit a President with many of the same qualities. The presidents surrounding LBJ (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford and Carter) would all have been left cold by her act. As an example, Irish actor Michael Gambon was exceptional as Johnson in the HBO movie Path to War (also starring Alec Baldwin as Robert McNamara).

I was thinking he must be awfully handy with a sewing needle. Add to that having to use a heavy-duty needle to pierce both the patch and the leather, and you're looking at a day's worth of work at least.

Random hits: *Did Angel and EZ really think Potter was going to slink away with his tail between his legs? This is not a man accustomed to losing. *Did we ever find out what beef Dita had with Emily (evidenced by her calling Emily a "White Devil" once or twice), or was it just racism on Dita's part? *Glad EZ finally made the club. Similarly with Chucky being told how he was accepted and loved by the members. *I could see next season going a couple of ways. It could pick up immediately where this one leaves off, or it could timeskip a year and have the VMs and Mayans grudgingly doing business while not trusting each other (with their leader and his mother having gone underground), Angel trying to locate Adelita and his child, and EZ as a firmly-established member. *I'm guessing the whole "Felipe/Ignacio is really Miguel's father" plotline is done. No way Miguel ever believes such a thing without Dita around to confirm it. This assumes her suicide note to Miguel and Emily didn't just tell them.

Of all the poundticipants, Jeanne struck me as the most....useless, for lack of a better word. The other subjects of the show, messed up as they were, at least had a career (whether in the present or past) or a family or a significant other or...something. Jeanne was in her late 30s and had never had a career (or anything more than an odd job), never had a relationship, had no friends she ever mentioned, and still lived at home with her folks who had to wait on her hand and foot. Her entire life had been one huge nothingburger.

That was Maja, best remembered for calling Mommy from Dr. Now's office and screaming that her boyfriend Christian was ruining her life. As for the worst ever: I picked James. So whiny, so unwilling to do anything to help himself, so willing to put others in discomfort for his own sake, culminating when he demanded Lisa sleep on the floor next to him instead of her own bed because "What if something happens to me during the niiiiiiiight?" Just a worthless human being. Something in me still chuckles over Lisa hiding a Lay's potato chip bag (or whatever it was) in her belly folds, though. Dr. Now had all kinds of fun grilling her about that.

That would explain the freakout about some of the redesign. I couldn't figure why the guy was so against the team's changes when he was supposedly about to sell the place anyway.

The phrase "If I can't have him, no one can!" comes to mind...

I noticed that as well. Part of my problem with the show is its emphasis on the Mexican resistance and Galindo and the feds. The MC members have become a subplot in their own show.

Looks like the Dallas warehouse is only going for $300/night instead of the $425 Jordan and JoJo figured, but it's pretty well booked. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/32420012

I can see what he's talking about. There's a great deal of cliquishness in Survivor (and a lot of other reality shows), and also a lot of ostracizing anyone who doesn't fit the "young hot model" template. You really get a chance to see humans at their worst.

Kemi didn't come off particularly well last night. Chenbot was running interference for her, but she just acted aloof and above it all. What I noticed about Jackson and Holly: They hugged briefly when he was announced as the winner. No kiss at all. They walked out the front door without holding hands or touching in any way. They didn't even look at each other that much. Once the confetti started flying, they perfunctorily held hands before going their separate ways.

20 people is just too damn many. My early favorite is Elaine, but it's hard to remember most of the cast when all these names are constantly being thrown at you. ITA that Elizabeth's lying about the Island will come back to bite her. There would have been little or no downside to just telling the truth, especially when it will be found out soon enough anyway.

Two quick observations: 1) Very weird body language between Jackson and Holly when they were coming out of the house. Don't know that this showmance will last. 2) Nick's a two-timing jackass, but I still don't feel sorry for Bella.

ITA with everyone who thinks Susan Olsen looked bad. Maureen McCormick and Christopher Knight looked more or less like Marcia and Peter decades later. Olsen looked like she'd been sleeping under a bus stop. Hats off to Food Network and HGTV for getting all six Brady kids involved in the same project at the same time. Historically, each of the Brady spinoffs has been missing at least one of the actresses: Jan (recast) for The Brady Bunch Hour in the mid-70s, Cindy (whose character was away at college) for The Brady Brides in 1981, Cindy again (recast) for A Very Brady Christmas in 1988, and Marcia (recast) for The Bradys in 1990.

So let me get this straight: Derek and Wells are hanging out at the bar, minding their own business, then JPJ shows up for the express purpose of telling Derek he's not interested in speaking with him. SO WHY GO UP TO THE BAR IN THE FIRST PLACE? This is something a grade-schooler would do. Caelynn: When someone specifically tells you they're a rambling man uninterested in anything more serious than a weekend hookup, BELIEVE THEM. They're not telling you that for kicks, and you are unlikely to be the one to convince them to settle down and take you seriously. I would be seriously interested in watching BiP with Demi just mocking everyone's conversations as they appear on screen. Maybe they could get her and Chad Johnson to trade off weeks or something. Ben will be hosting The Bachelor Live On Stage when it goes on tour next February. You can expect to see him attending every franchise shindig for the foreseeable future (not to mention CH specifically mentioning him as a candidate to be The Bachelor again at some point in the future).

Probably because their buy-in convinced the others. Once Jackson let it be known that voting for Analyse was OK, everyone else fell into line.