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OK, so Sam really is into Iceland. Not quite sure where that is going to lead to. I'm glad Sam finally opened the box. Of course, if it were me, it would have been opened once I got in my car, while still sitting in the driveway. Or, at the very latest, when I got home. I've found boxes of old greeting cards that my parents gave to each other, they date back to the 60's. And they are surprisingly sappy. It's rather sweet. I have no idea what to do with them. The weird part of this show is how it doesn't really address the fact that Sam has -0- money. I assume the house is paid off, but how is she paying her electric/phone bill? If I were in her financial position, I'd be applying for any odd job I could, working 2-3 jobs if I had to, not just bartending part time. I really don't get it. And Trish seems really oblivious to it. I know she wouldn't know exactly how broke Sam is, but she knows she's struggling to some extent. I'd be paying her to be at that trade show, as my assistant. Joel and Brad are cute. I'm glad Joel is expressing what he wants/needs, even the simple stuff. And yes, I'm one of those people who puts glasses on the bottom rack. Not all glasses, not all the time, but sometimes it just works out that way. (Like when the top rack is full due to a lot of tupperware/plastic use.) And they do seem cleaner when I do that. Under no circumstance would I be looking at my sister's bits. If it burns that bad we're going to urgent care. Because it doesn't matter what I see or don't see, that's where we'd end up anyways. This is a really enjoyable show, but it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere, at least as far as Sam is concerned. And there are what, 2 episodes left this season?

Oh, never toss a brown banana. Either make banana bread, or freeze it. Pro tip: peel first, cut up into pieces, then freeze. It's nearly impossible to peel a frozen banana. I like using the frozen chunks to make milk shakes. The banana stands in for ice cream. Add some milk, some cocoa powder, a spoonful of peanut butter, and blend. It's delicious, and reasonably healthy! A great treat for after yard work.

Midwest girl here. The 70's dessert that I remember the most is the Nilla wafer banana pudding "trifle" that showed up everywhere. I remember it because I hated it! But couldn't avoid it.

I did a slow binge, about a week, on this show. I just finished a re-watch of The Good Place, so it was fun to have a little bit of Eleanor Shelstrop back on my screen. I did think there was a little Eleanor in Joanne. But, as a few mentioned above, I was also getting some SJP/SATC vibes from Joanne, especially in the last few episodes. A few times, KB sounded like SJP, and a few times KB looked like she could be SJP's younger sister. I may be at a table of one here, but I liked Esther. I liked that she was very open about her feelings for Joanne, her allegiance to Rebecca, and how that got messy at a certain point. I liked her relationship with Sasha - yeah, I know, it's a bit over the top sit-commy snarky at times, but it was a very adult to adult relationship. She wasn't his second mommy. Sasha was my favorite character. I like how he adopted the "my brother loves this woman, so I will love this woman, and her crazy sister, too" attitude. And that he fully acknowledges that men and women can be friends with nothing else to it. He's very loyal to people he loves. That's nice to see in a character. Joanne was the weakest though. As others said, I can't believe you get to your 30's and don't have a clue about kosher food, that prosciutto is pork, or not to even ask your boyfriend about just general (not even religious) dietary issues before walking to someone's home with a plate of meat. If they had a few more episodes to play with it would have been nice to see Joanne go consult with the female rabbi from the camp about conversion or "the rules". Rabbi's dating congregants... obviously, this isn't an issue for that Temple. He was dating Rebecca. All the women were trying to fix him up with their daughters. I get why it may be a rule some places, but I also get why it may not be a rule in the less conservative temples. Rebecca/Morgan scene... how did Rebecca know who Morgan was? I've blanked on any scene that explained that. Nice that it's been renewed for Season 2, but I hate having to wait a year for these things.

OK, so I must be remembering something different. I thought Pete called home when he was disappearing. I can't go back and check the episode, because I don't have Paramount+ or CBS paid access. I suppose it wouldn't be a good thing if ghosts could see other ghosts in video/film/tv. It would make any show/movie impossible for them to watch. But Pete wandering into an Amazing Race challenge would still make a fun crossover promo. 😁

I liked that Dylan did something different with the profiteroles, instead of just doing a standard croquembouche tower. However, they all missed the fabulous opportunity of somehow making a ball shape out of the profiteroles, and dusting it in edible glitter. A profiterole disco ball! (Seriously, how did no one think of this for 70's week???) I was a bit disappointed that Noel didn't dress to theme. I would have though he'd have a blast with some retro outfit. I loved Allison's pant suit. Her falling over the counter was hilarious! And the cameras just followed along... Pink & green... I do not associate these colors with the 70's. I associate them with the 50's (so many pink and/or soft green tiled bathrooms in homes from that time). But really more with the early 80's, with the Preppy fad in full bloom. Pink and green were the quintessential preppy colors - polo shirts, madras plaid, bermuda bags, ets. Oranges, yellows, browns, etc., those are 70's colors to me. Back to the bakes... I like all the elements of a banoffee pie, but all together it doesn't appeal to me. I'm weird about bananas. I love just a regular banana (a day or two after green, no spots whatsoever), I love banana bread or muffins. But I don't like banana creme pie, puddings, etc. I love caramel. I love all the other parts. But together? Nope. I'd walk right past it. I think the technical challenges benefit the older bakers, as sometimes it's just how long have you been around to see/know/have baked one of these "classic" desserts. I love mint & chocolate, and Paul knows this is a classic combo. Wasn't it this season someone used some kind of chocolate mint candy/wafer in their bake? But yes, mint flavoring can come out like toothpaste, so I understand Prue's concern on this. I loved Gill's shag carpet icing. This is what I love about Gill - sometimes her bakes are a little basic, but she does some surprising details. Sorry to see Illiyin go. I wonder which is worse from a baker standpoint - to go at this point due to an obvious fail, or to go simply because your bake was 97% perfection, but everyone else was at 98% perfection? I'd like to have Gill in the final 3, along with Georgie and Dylan. I think Gill is more consistent in her bakes being just good bakes than Christiian, but Christiian has more flair. If Disney makes any more Pirates movies, someone needs to give Dylan a small role, as Orlando Bloom's 1/2 brother or something.

Wouldn't it be hilarious to have Pete trapse through an Amazing Race challenge, and have the rest of the ghosts at home watching see him? (Of course, he'd be all, oh, that was a year ago, I've been sooooo many other places since then... let me tell you about them...) I can't remember... when Pete was in Aruba (or wherever he first traveled to) and phoned home, were the ghosts able to see each other on the video call? Do we know whether ghosts can see other ghosts on tv/video, or in pictures?

It would be cute if somewhere in the second half of the season, they tie into the "missing" ghosts by having them all be purposely absent because they were working on a special surprise for Sam & Jay. I don't know what that could be, given their limitations, but they could think of something. Or, it could be that they're all taking turns (except Issac) keeping Nigel company in the shed. That would be an easy one. Where's Thor? Oh, it's his turn to keep Nigel company.

I thought he was purposely doing it with the snacks, just joking around. No idea on the second occurrence. I loved the awkwardness of this whole episode, and Noah remaining calm as the awkward was ramped up. I totally get the "ick" factor. I remember explaining this to someone over 20 years ago, how there were little things someone did that at a certain point a) faded to white noise in the background, or b) amplified so much you'd want to drive an icepick through their skull in their sleep. Ugh! The siblings! No!!! I have to admit, I didn't catch what was on the screen, just that it was from Sasha (I saw something about loser sibling), but Morgan's expressions. Just, no. I really like Esther and Sasha, and their whole dynamic. I don't think Sasha will go there. I'm hoping for just a really embarrassing moment where Morgan learns that Sasha is just being nice and isn't interested in that way.

Joanne and the teenagers had Eleanor Shelstrop written all over it. I agree, Noah taking Joanne to the camp made absolutely no sense if he was trying to keep the relationship away from his boss, as it certainly would have been hot gossip and made it's way back to the Temple. The podcast isn't live, is it? When the mom walked into the room while they were doing the podcast, I expected her to drop Noah's name and there to be a big to do about it. But that would only be an issue if the podcast were live, which I guess it isn't?

I'll disagree with this. This show is really well written. And, it's taken from the British Ghosts which has the same boundary explanation problem. So I can't imagine that the writers just didn't think about it when setting up the US show. I think it's deliberate in not having a neat explanation, and is one of those "ghost mysteries" like why they don't fall through floors or chairs or beds. Keeping the boundary issue messy and unexplainable gives the writers a lot of creative leeway. It's a feature, not a bug.

I'm with you on that one. But I loved how Flower was telling Alberta it was a bad idea to entrust her with that plan. I liked this episode. And I was apparently wrong about the ballroom, mentioned last week (or was it the week before?). It is not on the attic level as I presumed. I don't know if it's historically accurate for a ballroom to have a full stage, though. I suppose the band/orchestra has to go somewhere, though. (my apologies if they covered this, I missed the first 4-5 minutes of the show.) I wish Pete well in his journey to find another traveling ghost. With Sass' luck, it will be some 80 year old woman, or another tech bro. I think my plan would be to go to a big antique store or flea market, and see if there are any ghosts attached to objects. Then get Sam to go buy that object. Or hang out at the airport, train or bus station. I really don't mind a ghost being missing for any particular episode. In some situations two ghosts would make a bit more sense, or a line explaining where they are wouldn't hurt. I do think they missed an opportunity here, though. I would have liked to have a small child in the audience, saying to their parents as they leave, "I really liked the lady in the red hat." I do wonder if they'll ever have a guest who can also see ghosts.

I agree. I like what little of the character we've seen, I like Judy Reyes. I think she's being underutilized so far. I was hoping that we'd see her each week solving a little more of the puzzle about the ex's disappearance. The first two episodes (I think) had her finding small bits of info, and I don't think it's been mentioned since. On the discussion of "realism" in these shows... reality, for the most part, is boring, at least from an outside viewer's perspective. And in the world of cops, hospitals, lawyers, etc., reality is very very slow moving. We have to accept tv versions of these environments where lawsuits go to trial in a week, murders get solved in a few days, and weird shit is always going on in ER's. (OK, maybe that last one is true, I really don't know.) So I don't always chalk it up to bad writing. Not to say there isn't a whole lot of bad, or what I call lazy writing, out there in TV land. I also think that there are so many changes made to scripts during the process, not to mention post-filming edits for time, that a well written script can turn into a jumbled mess by the time it hits the air. If everything else in a show clicks for me, I'm much more willing to handwave that type of stuff away. Oh, and on that note... I SO knew that the dog in the beginning of the episode was Chekhov's dog. I knew he'd come back in play somehow. I really thought he would end up biting one of the hostage takers, or something like that. But I like how Morgan knew the dog would have reacted to bomb chemicals. It's stuff like this that makes me like this show - new twists on old tropes, I guess.

I thought the whole point of the "we don't mark it, we go full out" comment was to say that they were trying to do authentic drag. Granted, a 2-3 rehearsal high school boy version of it, but that is was what they were going for. Yes, I agree, Evan saying that Shazam was there to "teach you how to dress like a girl" was weird. I chalked it up to Evan constantly saying things just off enough to be the wrong thing. But the whole point of the "authentic drag" was to get the LGBTQ student group to rescind their objection to the boys' participation in the powderpuff game. So that's why they dropped mock cheerleading and went with drag. The part about Shazam stealing all the office equipment... I sort of expected Evan to hold all the outfits, shoes, wigs, breastplates hostage in exchange for the return of the printers, etc. The drag stuff probably is worth a lot more than used office supplies. Actually, it would have been great if the new teacher came up with that idea, and saved Evan's ass. A little 'knight in shining armor' to add to the already simmering connection there. I loved all of Gwen's "Boom! You're dead!" lines. That was a hilarious sequence. Strangely spot on and rather depressing, but still funny as hell. I'm really liking this show. Trying not to binge it too fast.

I like that theory. But with Sam's financial situation, I can't see her putting what little money she has left to a trip to Iceland. I was also wondering why Sam wasn't getting paid for her work with Tricia.