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I also disliked the First Lady during this time. I remember yelling at the TV "No one elected you, bitch!"

Congrats, Teebax! It's so exciting that your fiance axed and you excepted! Being a grammar nazi, I'll be in charge of the invitations. I'll choose the color and style. I don't believe in contracts between friends, so you can pay me whatever, whenever, until I remember a verbal agreement that we made because you knew I had fallen on hard times and needed the cash. Don't worry, I truuuuuusssstttttt you!

I LOVED the moment when Charlie took off his coat because the President wasn't wearing his. It was such a small moment, but screamed volumes.

I think I'm one of the few who didn't really like the tribute to Leo. I hated that the characters all sat around sharing made up little memories of him when there was a wealth of footage of actual interactions among all of them that could have been referenced and shown or worked into a montage. I loved almost every conversation Leo ever had with anyone and would have loved to have seen some of them again.

Proud Parent Moment: I have a 16 year old son. He is often in the room with me when I'm catching up on my court shows. He sort of half pays attention to what's going on while he's doing his homework or reading or playing on his phone (which did not cost anything close to $800, is never in his room overnight, and is frequently checked by me, with and without his knowledge). He has commented lately on the blatant lack of respect that the litigants on all of my shows (JJ, TPC, Hot Bench) show to the judges. Several times he's stopped whatever he's doing, remarked on what he's heard, and has been completely dumbfounded by it. Because of my frequent aforementioned phone checking, I know that he and his friends trash talk about things and get goofy, but I constantly get compliments from adults about his manners and respect. Sharing this so that we can all take comfort in the fact that there are kids who are not being raised to be disrespectful, entitled, smartass little cretins. ETA: I always get emails from the school if my son is absent, even though I've called ahead to report the absence. I teach 2nd and 3rd grade and I'm constantly running into disconnected or changed phone numbers and email addresses when I try to contact parents, even though the info was just updated in September. Sad to say that I fully expect to see some of these parents and/or kids as litigants someday.

I felt sympathy for her at the beginning even though I found her annoying. At the end I wanted to bitchslap her for her absolute refusal to acknowledge her own part in the unfortunate death of her dog.

I totally agreed with MM's ruling. It's unfortunate that you were sick, but that's no one's problem but yours. But I wanted to bitchslap the defendant every time she said that she wouldn't reveal to what shelter the cats had been taken because the plaintiff would cause a "scandal" (it loses some of they annoyance factor not being in her whiney voice) because 1. she meant a "scene", and 2. how was that her damn business? Both of their whiney ass voices made me want to gouge out my own ear drums with a grapefruit spoon.

YES!! This drives me nuts! I get that JJ feels like the Plaintiffs in these cases should learn a lesson the hard way, but that's letting the smarmy cheats get away with it. That doesn't happen in My America!!!

Rob Lowe was the reason I started watching. I liked the show after he left, but it always felt like something was missing. My son watched with me on Netflix. In 8th grade his English class read The Outsiders and watched the movie as a follow up. He came rushing home all excited one day and wanted to know if I knew that Sam Seaborn was in it.

Please forgive how woefully behind I am (my DVR is about to catch fire). Re: The Boat Case where the plaintiffs truuuusssttttted hiiiiiiimmmmmm (the defendant) because they had exchanged a few facebook messages. I loved how the defendant never had to say a word and seemed to understand that he shouldn't because things were going his way as JJ beat up on the plaintiffs. We don't usually see that level of awareness. But in the hallterview, the defendant said that he offered to give them their money back for the return of the boat and the plaintiffs refused. I would have loved to see how JJ reacted to that tidbit of information.

I was shocked that JJ gave the skunk striped mother of the year so much latitude to ramble. I wish she would have inquired about the defendant's claim that the money she gave the daughter was to support her kid that the plaintiff was raising. She basically claimed that the plaintiff was starving the kid.

I'd like to set up a tutorial session with some of the "students" that JJ sees - you know, the ones who use their student loans to pay for rims for their hoopties, stereo systems and iphones for guys they've just met, etc., because when I attempted to get a little extra on my daughter's student loan to help pay for living expenses, I was denied and told that they only do that for oncampus housing. I guess the problem is that I have an excellent credit rating and history, excellent work history, have already begun making payments on the loan rather than wait until she graduates, and, probably my worst mistake, I was honest. I'm definitely living wrong. ETA: We got it straightened out and she was just filling in the wrong forms. Still, I can't imagine any of the knuckleheads we see jumping through this many flaming hoops to get this done.

Re: The couple that kept yelling at each other. JJ didn't want to hear anything because they'd been living together 7 years, but the TV in question seemed to be recently purchased. I thought that she either should have made the guy return the TV to her or made him pay for it since she was still on the hook for the payments. I get why she doesn't want to invest too much time unraveling entanglements for people playing house, but that seemed cut and dry. I loved when the plaintiff told the defendant he was going to hell and he said "See ya there!".

Baby Bully seemed so terrified. I'm sure part of it was that he was on TV and JJ was asking him questions, but he seemed terrified when JJ caught the contradictions in what was basically (heh) his dad's coached testimony coming out of his mouth. I wonder how dad reacted once the cameras were off.

What it boils down to is that the people who claim poverty on JJ don't accurately reflect actual people who are living in spirit crushing poverty and doing their best to stay afloat, any more than the ones who claim to be students, teachers, or any other type of professional accurately reflect those groups. It's easy to start thinking that the douchebags we see in JJ's courtroom are the norm. I'm a teacher in NJ and I have dealt with families who are living in poverty, working whatever jobs they can get, and legitimately need help. I've also dealt with families who are playing the system. I've bought (boughten?) coats for kids who needed them. Most families appreciate it because their kid needed a coat. One mother returned the coat to Target for the $40 and her kid continued to wear a hoodie on negative wind chill temperature days. That's the type of family that will eventually end up in JJ's courtroom.

I agree, but I think that with most of the plaintiffs she sees it's hard to separate the person who is poor from the person that is a freaking idiot / lowlife. Many that we see who are "poor" manage to have many luxuries that the rest of us do without. It's hard to justify not moving and claiming you couldn't afford it while suing the landlord for $5,000 worth of property (including flat screen TVs and multiple gaming systems). Not being able to prove that you paid your rent and leaving behind tons of damage when you do move are other dumbass moves that plaintiffs want JJ (and us) to swallow. I don't think that we see too many truly poor people as litigants on any of the court shows.

I absolutely loved the defendant's facial expression at the end when they were on split screen and Jimmy Durante started yelling about reaping what you sow.

And it's people like the aforementioned single mother that cause people who honestly need public assistance to be looked upon as leeches by the general public.

Except the plaintiff told the defendant that she wasn't in the mood to mess around and stop swinging her locker door. If you're asked to stop whatever fooling around you're doing and you continue to do so, at that point it becomes malicious because you're obviously just trying to piss someone off.

Sorry for the double post. I DVR JJ during the week and let them play through on Saturday when I'm putzing around the house, so all of this week's episodes are happening for me today and I'm irked about something else. (Maybe I just need a JJ vacation). Earlier in the week, there was a case where a kid was messing around grabbing papers from the plaintiff's hand, which led to milk spilling and destroying the plaintiff's computer. (On a side note, that was the angriest looking young man I've ever seen, and his excuse making mother is going to have her hands full). JJ ruled that even though it was an accident the defendant has to pay because the kid's fooling around led to it happening. JJ even illustrated her point by giving a scenario where the defendant was rear ended in an accident and would expect to be compensated even though it wasn't on purpose. I just watched the case of the high school girl plaintiff's retainers being broken because her friend (frenemy?) was messing around with the locker door. JJ reamed the plaintiff's parents out saying that it was an accident and accident's happen,. So, which is it, JJ? Is making reparation for an accident the responsibility of the one that caused it or not?

Agreed, but that stuff is listed in their complaints and if she doesn't want to hear it then that case shouldn't be part of her "docket". It happens with bigger items as well - she says all the time that she's not interested in certain things like a portion of rent or a utility bill. I remember once she told a litigant that something was only $200 and she wasn't interested in hearing that. I'm far from what would be considered a regular JJ litigant, but someone not paying me back $200 would be a serious set back to my budget (not that I'm dumb enough to go around lending it, but you get my point).

I love JJ, but she's starting to annoy me with her lament that her parents didn't send her to law school to listen to your stupid problems. I just wish a litigant would pipe up and say "then why the fuck did you bring me here?"

Ha! When the did the mini preview before commercial I could hear the accent coming through. I told my husband that she must really be getting pissed for that to happen and I waited on pins and needles for slap down that was coming. I was very distracted by the magenta hair and teef, as well. That defendant needed to be kicked in the nuts a few times to keep him from procreating anymore.

I was really liking Hot Bench for a while. It had a JJish feel to it but with less hostility. I liked how they discussed the evidence with each other before ruling so the audience got to know about texts, emails, and other evidence that we aren't made privy to with JJ. Lately, however, they are becoming increasingly nasty (which can be entertaining) and more interested in joking around and speaking with each other than actually hearing what the litigants are telling them. I guess it was just a matter of time before they started competing with each other to be the "star".

I have a thick curly hair, but I've fighting gray since I was 25. *sigh* I have a few episodes to go to wrap up last week and I'm tingling with anticipation over the hairdo!