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Add me to the list of those who were not happy Ken was invited back and were surprised to discover that they actual like him now. I had sort of the opposite reaction to Kini. I was happy to see that Kini was on this season, and, although I didn't remember much about him, I thought I liked him the first time around. However, as this season wore on, he seemed to be getting more bitter, more full of himself, and less willing to listen to what the judges were saying, that his outfits are throwbacks to the 80's. It was like Kini never was able to move past the incident with Sam winning for an outfit that was basically his, adn it dragged him down, personality-wise. Dom is delightful and always has such a bubbly attitiude, but her styles aren't my styles.

I like Wanda Sikes, but did not like her character on this show, although, I found her more tolerable once the stopped having her do the old joke of saying one thing then saying completely the opposite a later and claim that she never said what she had actually said the first time. Having Charlie back is so much better. Not only is he a great character, but he is Dre's only work friend. I hadn't given it a lot of thought until just now, but, while Charlie was gone, all the work stuff ended up being everyone putting down Dre. The closest thing he had to an ally was the white woman, and she is mostly indifferent.

More stupidity - They are knocking holes into a wall (and I don't think that is really how someone goes about taking down a wall) and yet the debris is falling from the ceiling. They are left with a big, gaping hole in their ceiling - so big they can see that the 29th floor is empty. What sort of project did the 18th floor people have in mind that they needed to have a hole in their ceiling. I know Diane decide to put in a staircase, but whey wouldn't they just take the elevators? They were all relieved that the firms insurance would cover it. But the firm doesn't need to cover it, the company doing the demo needs to have insurance to cover it. David Lee, high-powdered attorney, has nothing better to do with his workday than to listen to music really loudly. and his music was apparently so loud that no one else in the firm could hear the workmen banging away, except for the two that were in the same room as the workmen. This was another example of the writers trying to add levity with screwball/slapstick comedy. Oh the wacky things that happen a the firm, the campaign office, Alicia's apartment, etc. When Peter was arrested, I half expected the Keystone Cops to show up. The comedy would be funnier if the lack of realism wasn't so distractingly obvious - and if it weren't the same lame jokes being replayed - "Oh, Hardy-har-har, there goes Eli again, standing on something so he can listen through a vent!" "Oh, tee-hee-hee, someone went to the wrong floor and look what havoc it creates!" "Oh, guffaw, the desk is too big for the office!"

I think the only treason why Jason's team won the RC is because Jason was on the team and it helped that he was on it with Tai. Jason was the biggest player out there - the ball would roll toward Jasonno matter where the others stood. Tai doesn't weigh enough to impact which way the ball moved, and Michelle probably only weighs enough to determine ho fast the ball moves toward Jason, but the ball would always move toward Jason as long and Tai and Michelle didn't stand very close together. The other team had three people that were closer in weight, so they needed to work together to move the ball the way the wanted (and they also needed Joe to not be one their team) I am hoping Aubry had some discussions with Tai and Cydney (separately) rating the pros and cons of getting rid of Michelle or Jason, and that her vote was based on more than "do I let this person tell me what to do or do I let this person tell me what to do?" My take on the block/balancing/spelling bee challenge is that the ones who designed the game thought that people would put the blocks toward the far side and use the rope (keeping it taut for the most part) to keep it balanced. However, it looked like most of the players tried to get the blocks balanced on the table without using the rope instead, which is closer to what is done on most of the balance-these-on-top-of-this-wobbly-thing type challenges Your comment got me curious (I am generally too curious for my own good - if I were a cat, I woudl be dead)... One of my jobs is as a substitute elementary school teacher and, in the ten years I have been subbing, I have known a few Jasons, but no Kyles. I figured that my experience is unusual, as there are a lot of kids with "older" names in the classes I sub in. I checked the Social Security website's baby name popularity page and was very surprised to see that Jason was the 75th most popular name for babies born in 2014, and Kyle was 178th (5,510 Kyles born in 2014 vs 2,370 Jasons). Kyle was in the top 30 names from 1085-1999, Jason was in the top 30 from 1969-1988, and was in the top 10 for most the 70's Although I have called him Kyle, Cupcake, and maybe even, Bounty, I generally call him Jason, because of the Friday the 13th movies.

Before the show started, I said that I don't care if this is the most boring episode in the history of the show, as long as Jason is out, I will be happy. So, I am happy. However, I would have been happier if Joe or Aubry had voted for Michelle so that it would be Michelle 3, Jason 3, and Joe 1, then they would re-vote and Jason would go home and he could join the other fools who voted themselves out of the game. I think the only reason why Jason didn't kill Mark may be because his daughter loves animals. I am guessing they didn't consider blindsiding Tai because they assumed that his advantage was an idol that could be used after the vote or that he had a second idol and could turn his idol into a super-idol to be used after the vote. There were comments made about his "second idol or super idol or whatever" at TC. Aubry and Joe knew about the second vote advantage but they didn't want to get rid of Tai.

Interesting...perhaps it has something to do with watching in real time. I have watched all the seasons in real time, and stick with each until the end (and never regretted that decision). I don't know if I would have given up on a Hantz (any Hantz) season if I was watching it months or years after it aired. Maybe it is easier to stop when you know there are as many as 30 other seasons you could watch instead.

That thought crossed my mind, then I thought that Frank had set up the whole thing to make Conway look bad - get hi to admit he regrets what he did in the service, then have the family get killed by the terrorists and paint it all as Conway's mishandling of the situation. About 4 times each episode, I think that Frank or Doug (or occassionally Claire) is going to kill someone. Frank meets with Kathy and I think "Frank's going to kill her in the Oval Office." Freddy confronts Frank and I think "Frank's going to kill him for not making ribs." Doug meets the wife at the restaurant and my mind goes to "Run, widow, run! Doug is going to take you out to an alley somewhere and kill you with an empty highball glass!"

I just started watching this show a month or two ago. I realize that it is a comedy, and assume the people the interview know it is a comedy. However, I wonder if the interview segments (not the ones with Trevor) really happen as they are shown. Are the questions they show really the questions that were asked? They rarely show the interviewer's and interviewee's faces at the same time, which makes it very possible that the question might have been "So, if no one wins a majority of the delegates, the nominee could be picked by a small group of people, without regard to the number of votes received?" but then they dub/splice in the question "So the nominee could be picked by a roomful of monkeys with voting machines?" (not a real example from the show). If the interviews are exactly as we are shown, then I am very impressed with the interviewees' abilities to keep a straight face.

You are so lucky! I'm jealous.

My mind only goes to "tipsy" when Jane giggles because she mentioned liking to drink. I don't think she is actually tipsy. I always feel sorry for contestants on FN shows because of the questions and "direction" they must get for those talking heads. You know the must be asking them "What is your influence for this dish?" Why does every dish have to have an inspiration? It woudl be one thing if the challenge was to "Bake your favorite cake" or "bake your 'comfort food' dessert" - then they might have an inspiration. But they tell them to make a dessert from beets or that it must have five different colors, then expect them to also be inspired by some dead relative of childhood memory. I wonder how many time they are honest about it and we don't see it - "My inspiration is the beets you told me to use" or "My inspiration is to not go home this week." Fortunately, FN's searching for sob stories and/or trying to create drama, isn't overtaking the show (as it does sometimes on Chopped and Food Network Star). The contestants all seem like normal people (except maybe the deadhead guy that went home a few seeks ago) who all seem to like each other and get along.

If I hadn't seen any prior seasons, I would be tempted to start at the beginning and see them int he order they were shown on TV. My suggestion for anyone doing this - Watch all the episodes, even if you find them boring or aggravating. The forums for most seasons have many "This season sucks! I'm out!" comments, prior to the merge, but most season pick up considerably after the merge. However, I contend that you need to watch the pre-merge episodes to make the post-merge ones more enjoyable.

The woman who has been winning most of the time is very giggly. Normally, I would think she was just really friendly or peppy or maybe nervous, however, since she keeps adding alcohol to her desserts and talks about how much she loves alcohol, every time she giggles, I think she is tipsy. When I watched this show last year, and when I watched the Holiday versions, I thought nothing of them making desserts every week. But I recently watched the Great British Bake-Off (aka Great British Baking Show)a nd now I keep thinking "Why not make breads or savory pies?"

I imagine that two guys were selecting a video a a Red Box, and when they went to leave the store it started to rain. One turned to the other and said "You know what the world needs? A Red Box for umbrellas!" Like others have said, the idea has potential, but there needs to be a lot of them. I step out of a store and it is pouring outside. I put in my email address and cell phone number, swipe my credit card, and get an umbrella. I walk the 8 blocks to my apartment. Now what? I have a wet umbrella that I have to bring back withing 12 hours - take a 16 block walk what there is a break in the storm or pay extra. I believe they said the one order they had was for one umbrella box at a university - I can't see having just one box at a location will get there business off the ground. I was lucky enough to have a job where I was able to be home with my children most of the time when they were babies. I knew what they were doing and was able to take pictures to remember things by. I now take care of my grandsons 1-2 days a week, and I try to take an occasional picture. When they are napping, I will send a text and/or pictures to their parents, who look at them on their breaks. Therefore, I didn't see much wrong with the app, other than it was unnecessary, since they could already send this info via text. Then, I read these posts and saw the light. There are probably lots of parents like my daughter and her husband, who like to get a picture or a story, but don't get annoyed (or worse) if there it no "update," but there are also a lot of parents who would be hounding the day care workers for information to the point where their child would be receiving substandard care, since the worker was always on the phone. I have no clue how sticking sticker on a piece of fruit will make a kid eat it. I think it is far more likely that a kid who would normally eat a slice of apple, will now eat less of the slice, because they will eat around the sticker to "save" it. It reminded me of a video I saw recently where a mom arranged the kid's meals so it looked like a happy face and the kid was in tears refusing to eat the meal because it was "too cute to eat." I pick my clothes by what feels good and what is clean, so I am not a good judge of what is fashionable. Therefore, I was happy (and a bit surprised) to see I wasn't the only one who thought the fashion bloggers dress didn't fit right.

I was also confused by the term "locked knees." I looked it up and got a bunch of sites that talked about a medical condition where your knee can't bend - not what they were talking about here. There were a few other sites that discussed not standing with your knees locked for a long time - like when the military stands in formation or when choirs sing, or if you are in a wedding - which is what they meant on the show. Unfortunately, none of those sites were "official," just people answering a question, but there seemed to be a general consensus, which is --- Locking your knees means standing with your leg completely straight, which actually bends the knee joint slightly backward (one person said that if you sit on the floor with your legs out and try to touch your toes, that is the position your knees are in when they are locked). If you stand with your knees locked, it will stop or slow down the blood flow back to your heart, blood will pool in your legs and, not getting enough blood to your brain will make you pass out. You should relax your knees, bending them slightly, so that they don't lock. Like I said, this info did not come from any sort of official medical site. This makes it sound like not locking the knees is something the model has control over. If the pose requires standing and your know you are supposed to stand for 3 hours, then make sure that your knees are slightly bent (I assume not bent enough to cramp any muscles). So, unless the artist tells them the model to straighten her legs completely, I am not sure how this is the artist's fault (which changes my opinion of Michael a little bit).

I completely agree with penalizing a team that u-turns someone ahead of them. However, it u-turning a team that is ahead of you results in penalizing the team that was ahead, it would encourage teams U-turn teams ahead of them. There should be benefits to getting there first, not the risk of being penalized. I would be okay with u-turning a team ahead of u resulting in the team that was ahead getting some sort of bonus - like a 30 minute head start, but that wouldn't do much for making the next leg less predictable. I think if you U-turn a team ahead of you, then you also have to do the other task - it would be like u-turning yourself. And then make it a blind U-turn, so that you don't know who has already been there. But that may be too extreme.

Mark is the JT of this season.

I suppose one could go with the theory that a team of good racers will get to the u-turn first and so they are still rising on their own merits (doesn't work as well for teams that are poor racers falling on their own merits). However, I think the real purpose of the U-turns is to add drama and excitement to the show - "Will they be able to catch up?" But it generally doesn't make the episode more thrilling, instead it usually makes it more predictable. That certainly was the case with single U-turns - one team would end up so far behind the pack that they couldn't catch up. The W-turn was probably intended to prevent that, it it seemed to in the beginning, but teams have been more savvy lately and they end up turning the W-turn into a single U-turn, as they did in this episode. They also placed the u/w-turn in places that didn't help create excitement - like putting a u-turn in an episode where there was no bunching, and a team already had to do a speed bump - or putting the u-turn after the last task (or before a last task that doesn't allow for a change in order) so that the u-turned team(s) don't have a chance to overtake another team. This was the first u-turn of this season and, although I mentioned it once, I didn't miss it. I would be fine with them never having them again. However, I am a fair weather friend when it comes to u-turns - if Justin would have been out last season because he was u-turned the way the frisbee guys were this time, I would have been very happy with having u-turns.

Re: the first paragraph - I don't remember Ashley using the word "scheming" just that she was concerned that Cole would waste so much time at the jump that B/K would pass them and the u-turn would be wasted. Opinions differ, but I see nothing chickenshit about following the rules of the game to help eliminate someone who has a good chance of winning. I would probably have a different viewpoint if they used it to get rid of a team that had little chance of winning, but were instead getting them back for something (although I think I would call it petty or vindictive, rather than chickenshit). And I see a big difference between using a u-turn that the show provides and shoving someone on the the bridge so that they lose. Re: the second paragraph - I agree - I thought that running away was a completely chickenshit move. If I were the one who u-turned them, I wouldn't want to be there when they arrived - because I am not a fan of confrontation, but more because I wouldn't want to appear to be rubbing it in their faces (they may interpret it as "I got here before your, neener neener") and wouldn't want to interfere with their "I am glad I was able to do this with my best friend, etc...so proud of us/him" moment. Being eliminated can be an emotional time and they may not want to face the one who u-turned them right then. So, I would have walked away after a typical amount of time. However, I would not have run away, even if they were so close behind me that I was still on the mat as they were running up.

If I were Bow, I would say that the cards must have been de-magnetized by whatever would demagnetize them (I remember being in a few stores that had signs on the counter saying not to put your credit cards over that spot because it would cause them to stop working). Then I would replace the cards out of my own money, make my kids do chores to pay me back, and kick Ruby out of my house. If I were Ruby, I would tell people that whoever donated the card must have donated a used card and start complaining about the donor would end up in hell for their actions.

It was a good leg, but it seemed like half of the episode was watching people carry coconuts and chickens accross a bridge. I feel like we saw every trip they made. And nothing interesting happened on the bridge trips. I guess they had absolutely nothing else to work with - no big freak outs on the cliff jumping, no overturned seaweed boats, no hilarious chicken chasing frenzy, no bad taxi drivers - just a little bit of trouble with clue recognizing in the very beginning and lots of trips over a bridge. I am not a fan of U-turns or W-turns, no matter how they are played. I get annoyed when teams "gang up" on other teams - although I am a big Survivor fan and enjoy the alliance-making and strategizing there, I don't want that sort of strategizing on TAR. The strategizing on TAR should be in picking who does the road block, choosing a detour, navigating...I don't want alliance making. However, I also get annoyed when teams get sort of righteous and don't use the u-turn because they aren't that "type of people". I understand that it is part of the game and don't fault teams for using it, but I think I would rather have the U/W turns gone. That bugged me too, but I am guessing that she must have carried only coconuts for a trip or two. If she only carrying one chicken and one coconut each trip, and they needed to move 4 chickens, then she made 4 trips. This would mean that Matt carried the other 46 coconuts in 4 trips - that's 11-12 coconuts per trip, which seems impossible. I doubt this was the intended purpose, but, in my case, I made me realize that I like Kurt. Not necessarily. It was B/A best option and they seem like a smart enough team to figure that out. They knew that they could likely beat S/C and D/M in the final leg. Their real competition was T/C and B/K. Tyler and Corey had already been to the U-Turn. So B/A had three options --- --- Don't U-turn anyone and run the risk that B/K u-turn someone else, which would very likely keep B/K in the race (and B/K were so fast at physical roadblocks, that there was a really good chance they would get tot he u-turn before someone else). --- U-turn one of the other two teams that were behind them, which would very likely keep B/K in the race. --- U-turn B/K, which wouldn't gaurantee B/K ebing last, because they were so fast, but it was the option that made B/K going home the most likely. Many people have mentioned finding Tyler's laugh annoying. I didn't notice anything at first, so I paid more attention to it. I still don't notice anything annoying about his laugh. People are allowed to have different opinions about what annoys them, but all the "complaining" about Tyler's laugh has made me wonder if it has something to do with the sound quality of the tv it is being viewed on, or with the acoustics of the room. Or maybe I hang out with people with laughs that many others would be annoyed by, but I am just used to it. Or maybe my hearing is going bad.

The purpose is to put Henry in danger so that either Bess has to worry about him, or Bess can get mad at him for brekign his promise, or both, and to give Henry an action hero story line, and ... Oh wait, I bet you meant what is the purpose in a real life sort of way. There isn't one. It was hard to imagine a religious professor as a spy handler, or as a spy, or as the guy who runs into the radiation filled building, or, even, as a guy who could fix his own washing machine.

The Brawn Tribe lost the most challenges. Michelle and Julia, former Beauty Tribe members, were the only ones who got the animals right on the first try. Aubry, former Brain Tribe member, has amazing social skills. So much for stereotypes! Wonder if the producers will decide they shouldn't label people.

I feel like the wrong person won the wrong person lost. Hans's painting looked flawless to me, whereas the painting of the guy who won was very good, but I could see a few places where it was off a bit. It feels like they gave him the win because of his sob story. I think the woman that lost was really the second worst. The other guy had barely any painting on his model - all his fault for putting her in lousy poses and he didn't really own up to it being his fault to the judges. I guess they base it more on the body of work (no pun intended). I really wish they would get rid of the "Go wash off your canvas" good-bye. "Pack your knives and go" makes sense, but telling them to wash off their canvas creates the image of the painter getting into the shower with their model and scrubbing her down. Change it to "Send your canvas to the showers" - still a crappy tag line, but it at least it makes sense. And speaking of things that annoy me - the host needs to talk faster at the end. She takes such a long pause before saying each name I forgot the name by the time she said the next one.

While I understand the reasons for getting rid of Julia over Jason, I did not think it was a good idea to plan to vote out Michelle's bestie right after Michelle joins your alliance. It reminded me of Tai mentioning that Aubry wants to work with them and Scot/Jason immediate say they want to get rid of Aubry. However, the plan work and Julia is gone.

I agree. Depending on the comment they are responding to, I believe it is possible to educate someone on your religion without making it sound that those belonging to another religion deserve to be feared/scorned/hated.