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AFAIK, the meetup hasn't happened yet but she made it obvious she was going to do it despite Yohan's objections.

And now we know why there's been so little Debbie and Oussama this season: She comes over, they have an argument, they go on a camel ride, they go to a poetry reading, she meets the parents (who are considerably younger than her), and he tells her he's only interested in continuing the relationship if they move back to the US. Can't really get much footage out of that. Methinks Yohan would be thrilled if Daniele just left DR forever. He certainly didn't seem to miss her at the party. His dissing of her was rude, but he's obviously checked out. He warned her of consequences if she met up with her ex-boyfriend, and she didn't take him seriously. (I'm not saying that Yohan's not overreacting, because I think he is. But when your spouse says "I'll be really upset if you do X" and you do X anyway, you can't say you weren't warned.) Mrs. RaiderDuck noticed that the cake shop, unlike Yohan's carniceria, had working refrigeration and didn't have flies landing on the food. Gabe sent all of his transition paperwork to Uncle Sam and never thought to make copies? El Stupido. Jeymi: Kris' failure to keep in touch with you was not because she was power-washing driveways. It was because she was scoring drugs, likely on her back, and being high for days at a time.

Catfish middle-aged American women.

The reason contemporary photos of the Pyramids of Giza all look the same is because there's only one good angle to shoot a picture from. If you try a reverse angle, the houses and apartment buildings a few blocks away from the pyramids will be prominently shown. The Egyptian tourism people would like us to believe the pyramids are far, far away from civilization when that simply is not the case. Has Kris never watched a restaurant renovation show? Restaurants (and a food truck is nothing more than mobile restaurant) are a giant money pit if you don't know what you're doing, which Kris and Jeymi totally don't. Meanwhile: Why would anyone volunteer to have hot oil dripped on their heads? How many hours in the shower and bottles of shampoo will it take to get that crap out? And while I think Rishi is a total player, I cannot STAND "Gotcha!" questions like Jen is asking. If you have something to say, say it. Don't ask leading questions designed to trap him into an answer. This is 90-Day Fiancé, not Perry Mason. Anyone else get the feeling that Nicole would love to open her chakras to Nouran, if you catch my drift? The two of them had way more chemistry than Nicole and Mahmoud have ever shown us. My guess (and I claim no inside information or spoilers -- this is just a guess) is there will be another episode's worth of drama over whether some relative will object, or maybe some dude from Gabriel's previous life will surface, but nothing will come of it and their storyline will end with Gabriel and Isabel getting married, after which we'll start seeing them on Pillow Talk. After ten full episodes, Debbie and Oussama have had an argument, a camel ride and a horrid poetry reading. Their storyline has brought no value to this season. If Yohan wore a flashing neon sign reading I AM ABOUT TO DUMP YOU, he'd be only slightly more obvious about his intentions that he is now. And Daniele, erroneously believing she is an incredible catch, continues to be oblivious to his growing dislike of her.

Daniele: You may rest assured that our dislike of you has nothing to do with your height or age or body shape or career path. You may also rest assured that few, if any, of us are jealous of you. Our dislike stems from you being a judgmental hypocrite who: Seemingly lives to emasculate Yohan while criticizing him for things that are not remotely his fault Lies to him about major things such as your reasons for leaving New York one step ahead of the debt collectors, while yelling at him for the slightest perceived inconsistency Expects Yohan to make American-level wages and treat you to an American-level life in an impoverished country Acts offended and butthurt if he so much as smiles at an ex; meanwhile, you wave your close friendship with an ex in his face Generally behaves like the stereotype of the "Ugly American." Pro Tip: If everyone hates your guts, maybe the problem is with you, not them.

Or he'll dump her at some point when it becomes obvious she's never going back to America. Without the carrot of an American Green Card, Danielle really has nothing to offer: She's twice his age, a demanding harridan, dishonest, and a total loon.

Mahmoud's uncle even said that if Nicole had remained non-Muslim, nobody in Egypt would care what she wore.

I think there were also some tickets for driving on toll roads without prepaying or somesuch. (I've never lived and driven in a state with toll roads, so I'm not really familiar with them. The closest was when we rented a car in Florida for a few days and just paid the rental company for their SunPass or whatever they called it so we could drive on toll roads without worrying about it. But my understanding is that if you drive on those roads without the necessary setup, you get fined big $$$).

At first, I thought Mahmoud was going to the living room to ask his mom that very legitimate question. Instead, he ran into the laundry room? Makes no sense. Gabe and Isabel are likely in this for the $$$, free airfare and visa fees, and/or a Pillow Talk gig (where their back-and-forth would probably be entertaining). As you and others have pointed out, he wouldn't even have to tell her parents if he wasn't on a TV show. Methinks Rishi isn't too sad to see Jen leave. He can allow himself to be married off to a nice Indian woman who won't mind being everyone's lifelong house servant. Meanwhile, Danielle continues to be a horrible person. Yohan is about two snide comments away from telling her to hit the bricks.

I know some states have them because My 600-lb. Life's Dr. Now once cut off a patient (Steven Assanti) who was abusing opioids. Dr. Now explained that he was red-flagging Steven as an opioid abuser in the Texas database, meaning Steven would henceforth be arrested if he tried to fill an opioid prescription anywhere in Texas other than Dr. Now's hospital pharmacy. I don't know if there's a national database, but it may not matter. If you start telling your doctor in Alabama that you want an opioid prescription filled in (say) Mississippi, it'll raise all kinds of red flags unless you have a good reason.

She's had a lot of work done, and not all of it good.

If the thief's defense is "She loaned me the bike," Kris might be required to testify that she did not give him permission to enter the garage or take her motorcycle. If the bike was insured, the insurer may require her to cooperate with any criminal proceeding. I've been cutting Kris a lot of slack, but this is where I officially call BS on her story. As others have mentioned, these cases are scheduled months ahead of time. Danielle is gradually taking her rightful place beside Angela and Big Ed as one of the worst people in this franchise. Free Yohan! Kris was injected with Diclofenac, which is basically a 12-hour Advil. It's good for muscle and joint pain, but will do nothing for opioid urges. Nicole: "I gave up EVERYTHING and moved all the way to Egypt for you...so even though I know things X, Y and Z are really important to you, I'm not going to do any of them and you just need to accept that." Whatevs.

And now ET is reporting that Will Smith feels "embarrassed and hurt" by Rock's routine. Maybe Smith should have thought of that before literally starting a fight with a standup comedian. Or as William Shakespeare once said of people like Chris Rock: "...they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."

How does Rock's disdain for Jada Pinkett Smith "prove" he despises an entire gender??? Sounds like a beef between the two of them.

Rock's dumb joke about Jada (like 99% of jokes told at award shows) would have been long forgotten by show's end if her husband hadn't smacked Rock over it. Now that joke will be remembered for decades. Heckuva job there, Fresh Prince. As for Polanski: I will NEVER understand how people give him a pass for the anal rape of a 13-year-old. Even though he's a talented filmmaker who's made some great films, I have resolved that I will never buy or stream anything of his while he's still alive (I realize that depriving a multi-millionaire of a few dollars of Blu-ray revenue is pointless, but it's one of the few legal ways I have of punishing him for what he did). On the day he dies, I'll probably buy Chinatown, Macbeth, and Rosemary's Baby: his kids will get the money then, and it's not their fault he's a pervert predator. If everyone's a victim, nobody is. Denis Leary* had a routine years ago about people being outraged about the dolphins caught in tuna nets whilst not caring about the tuna caught in tuna nets. *I don't know if this bit was actually Leary's or if he stole it from Bill Hicks.

It's even longer than 7 years. When you declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the accounts and creditors you stiffed are wiped off your record after 7 years, but the bankruptcy itself stays on your record for 10. I speak from personal experience. The Road to Morocco thing reminds me of when Mrs. RaiderDuck and I saw Rich Little (now in his late 70s) perform in Vegas last year. He opened the show by warning that anyone under the age of 40 wouldn't know any of his impressions. I'm 51 and got maybe 3/4 of them. It WAS nice seeing Carnac the Magnificent (a famous Johnny Carson character I'd always loved) one more time, though. I remember reading a 2003 (or so) story about an Arab couple who traveled as a family a lot and had named their child (born in 1999 or so) Osama Bin Laden. EVERY SINGLE TIME they flew in or out of the US, they'd be questioned by TSA agents.

I also suspect his primary concern over his mother's $$$ is how much he'll get when she dies.

I couldn't believe she was repeatedly haranguing Yohan for misstating a past abortion as a miscarriage (which an abortion technically is, the only difference being an external instead of internal cause) while she's been lying about her entire financial situation and reason for not wanting to return to New York. She's approaching Angela/Big Ed levels of awfulness. Her New Agey stuff was just as bad, but she wasn't this much of a demanding harridan. Also, the mother was quite plain that she's expecting Rishi's new bride to completely take over the housecleaning, cooking and whatnot else. No way Jen is going to be good with that. Kris is starting to give off hypochondriac vibes. Is a "mint allergy" even a real thing? And however bad her neck situation is, I find it hard to believe she'd have to be in a halo brace for an entire year if she had neck surgery. She might have to be in a halo brace for a short time before transitioning to one of those stiff plastic neck collars, but not a whole entire year. Even professional wrestlers who have disc replacements or fusions in the neck don't have to be a collar for a year. As for the apartment: Both Kris and Jeymi are in the wrong. Jeymi shouldn't have gone 25% above budget for a place without asking, but Kris should understand that an "American-style" apartment is going to cost more than the average. Nicole seems to revel in being a put-upon victim. She's constantly crying, begging for attention, asking her hubby to break all sorts of local rules and customs so she can feel better (she's either never heard the expression "When in Rome" or thinks it doesn't apply to her) and generally demanding the world revolve around her. Just watching her on TV is exhausting. I can't imagine how bad she must be in person. My question: If it takes a month or more for his stamp to get from the US to Colombia, wouldn't his clothes take a month to get from Colombia back to his US customers as well? Either this is a made-up storyline or Gabe is dumb as hell.

Sommer's awfully abrasive. Her idea of being assertive is to literally yell at people, and it seemed like she was always stirring up drama. I'd be surprised if Alex doesn't win it.

I was thinking Danny Trejo was kind of weathered for a guy in his 50s, then I looked him up and discovered why: He turns 79(!) in a few months. I also noticed he didn't do any specific food critiquing other than saying which taco he liked more. If you could buy Abe for what he's worth and sell him for what he THINKS he's worth, you'd be a rich person. Tara is the only truly annoying chef left.

And the show is back, although maybe not for long: Irvine broadly hinted on the show's Facebook page that RI is facing cancelation unless the ratings pick up. One of the FB commenters said Food Network is scheduling RI opposite Fox's Hell's Kitchen, which is truly stupid if true: despite their personal animosity, Gordon Ramsay and Robert Irvine have a lot of overlap in their respective audiences, and a Fox show will have an audience reach and promotional heft Food Network just can't match. (I always watch RI on Hulu or D+, so I don't know when a new episode officially "airs.") Anyway, it was a good episode. The owner and her kids seemed like nice people, but she was just beaten down by the stress of running a failing restaurant in a dead-end town, and the fact that her husband's job kept him out of town so much just added to her obvious depression (it's telling that we never saw him once during the ep). I've watched a lot of RI episodes, but few owners have been this emotionally defeated. She came off as a good person who just needed a hand up. On a brighter note, I loved Robert showing her that although driving to Phoenix instead of Flagstaff was ostensibly saving her money by buying from a cheaper supplier, the added gas and car maintenance costs (from turning a one-hour round trip into a five-hour round trip) more than wiped out any "savings," not to mention the equivalent of two full weeks per year spent driving instead of sleeping or being with her kids or whatever. It's often the stingy person who ends up spending the most, and this was a perfect example.

I'm giving this show one more ep. So far, it's showing us a lot, but giving us no context as to what's going on or why we should care about any of it. They need to knock off the world-building and get to the plot, pronto.

Mrs. RaiderDuck and I liked the series well enough until the final couple of episodes when it went seriously off the rails. First, Wednesday decides to accuse multiple people of being both the Hyde and the bad guy, then wonders why no one believes her. Then the cliché festival starts: Troubled boarding school student ends up being expelled even though they've done nothing wrong? Check. Put-upon roommate finally snaps and gives the protagonist a piece of her mind? Check. Friendly supporting character turns out to be an evil minion in disguise? Check. Good guy's ally shows up in disguise (or shapeshifted) and gets the evil minion to reveal all their nefarious plans? Check. Long-dead Big Bad wasn't just killed and buried, but had some extra-horrible curse placed on their soul that could be reversed and make them all-powerful? Check. Evil minion resurrects the long-dead Big Bad, hoping to be the Big Bad's sidekick, only to discover the Big Bad has no use for them? Check. Seriously, it seemed like the writers ran out of ideas how to finish up everything and just started throwing elements from The Mummy, Bully and other applicable properties against the wall to see what would stick. Other than the horrid finale, the series wasn't bad. Jenna Ortega did a great job (even if the show did overplay her "cynical sociopath" shtick) as did the other actors (Luis Guzman is seemingly incapable of a bad performance), and the production values were through the roof. I just wish they'd come up with a better ending.

The jury disliked Cassidy and Owen: they felt betrayed by Cassidy (no doubt egged on by a spiteful Karla), and saw Owen as a curmudgeon prone to anger outbursts. Gabler was the nice old guy they all liked (or at least didn't actively dislike), and that was enough.

Just like Nicole on BB All-Stars a year or two back, Karla thinks any backstabbing SHE does is just part of the game, but strategic play by anyone else is an unforgivable crime to be resolutely punished by any means necessary. Pet Peeve Time: I cannot STAND it when reality show contestants respond to a surprise announcement with that "Slowly turn your head towards the person saying it while opening your mouth in shock and making your eyes really big" shtick. It's so obviously practiced and never convincing. He may not have been able to. Years ago, Probst said there were two things that would get a contestant kicked off the show immediately with total forfeiture of their prize money: 1) A physical confrontation that's not part of a Challenge, or 2) Any discussion of giving up part of one's prize money in exchange for votes or other considerations. Gabler may have been worried about violating the second one.