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Seems like a pleasant group of bakers. And they seem to get along well. Maybe FN is learning something from all the love The Breat British Bake Off (or Baking Show) gets. I found the deadhead guy (it will take me weeks to know the names) annoying because he talks so slowly (everyone in my family talks at a normal to fast speed). I kept wondering if he was high or wanted us to think he was high to fit his deadhead persona.

All these posts about heartbeats not being heard makes me realize how lucky I have been. My sympathies to all of you, no one should have to deal with that sort of pain. As for the money talk - If a cook and a waitress could live in a two bedroom apartment in Manhattan, across the hall from a rarely working actor and his businessman (what did Chandler Bing do?) roommate in their two bedroom apartment, not far away from an archaeologist living by himself (with child support payments and a pet monkey), and there wasn''t constant talk of how they would pay their rent that month, then I suppose we can go the opposite direction and have Caltech scientists complain about how little they make. TV finances rarely make sense.

Kahleesi is the delightfully astute and intelligent 9-year-old daughter of one of the posters, Drogo. Drogo posts Kahleesi's thoughts and comments about the episode. When Kyle Jason (known as Jason on the show, but called by his first name, Kyle, by many here) continually referred to another castaway as Blondie, Kahleesi commented on his rudeness and gave him the nickname Cupcake. So, the shorter, too-tattooed, former Brawn guy, who sported double man buns and spoke of his autistic daughter last episode, is also known here as Jason, Kyle, and Cupcake. Edited to change some prepositions around, because I didn't mean to imply that Jason's daughter had double man buns.

I thought of an app that you could set a timer on and if you unlocked your phone during that time, you would get a little shock. Negative reinforcement. With either app, someone would have to have enough self control to set the timer. I think that guy honestly thought Robert misunderstood and was trying to correct him. Got a laugh out of me.

I am going with the theory that Blair really did hurt her knee, but, given what I have seen of her and Scott's relationship, I would not be surprised if she was not the most stoic person. In other words, her pain tolerance is not high. Perhaps she is like the kindergartner at a birthday party who fell down and bumped their knee, limping until they see the bouncy house and then run to it and start jumping around - Racing to the mat took her mind off her injured knee. Not that anyone should take chances with a knee - you don't want to make it worse (you can race with a hurt shoulder, but not with a hurt knee or ankle - at least not race well). Or perhaps her knee hurt a lot, but by the time Scot was done with the dance it was much better - something got tweaked, but not really injured. Like when you step wrong and turn your ankle but after a little time, it feels normal again. In any case, either Scott and Blair decided that they wanted to keep her knee a secret or the editors really don't like her, because it was very odd that we didn't hear anything about it, not even a "my knee still feels weird, maybe you should do the task, Daddy."

I am getting my idols confused. Here is how I think the idols can be played, but I am pretty sure it is wrong --- regular idol (recent seasons) - played after votes cast, but before the votes are read. super idol (created by joining two regular idols) - played after the votes are cast and after they are read Tyler Perry idol - played after the votes are cast and after they are read Original regular idol (like the one Yul had) - played after the votes are cast and after they are read In my mind, there is no difference between how the super idol, the TP idol, and the original idol were played, but that can't be right. Somebody, please set me straight

Eventually, they will figure out that there is no way to connect a birth certificate to a person unless there is some other form of identification involved. So they will switch to drivers licenses to confirm birth gender. And then they will realize that a person who is planning on breaking the law by sexually assaulting women and children in a public restroom probably wouldn't think twice about getting a fake ID. And then the next step becomes tattooing the birth gender on infants so that gender is always easily identified. A few years ago, I would have said I was joking, but with the way things are heading, this might actually happen.

They said that one of the basis of the bathroom gender law was that they didn't want men dressed as women to go into the ladies room and attack women and girls in there. Of course, they were using the stereotype that the transgendered are sexual predators, but they also implied that straight men who wanted to attack women could easily do this (before the law) by dressing as a woman and calling themselves transgendered, and this law would stop that. But this law just makes it easier for straight males who are sexual predators - Now they can just walk into the ladies room in their regular male clothing and say they were born female. I really liked Trevor's joke about how Ted Cruz was like a plunger - Nobody really likes them but sometimes you have to use them to get the turd out of the way.

The unsub knocks down the last victim. The victim is lying on his back, we can see his face. The unsub pours a liquid on the vicitm's chest and then lights a match and drops it. We see flames. Next scene, the victim is staggering out of the room - the back of his coat and pants are in flames. Huh? Does this mean that the unsub knocks the victim into a pool of flammable liquid, then pours fire retardant on his chest before dropping the lighted match? Apparently someone with the show said that the computer guy is supposed to be a cross between Garcia and Reid, but I think it is more like this - Computer Guy - JJ before she became a profiler Clara = Reid Gary Sinise's character = JJ after she became a profiler Other profiler guy = a cross between Morgan and Hotch Other profiler woman = a grown up version of Garcia - no little girl stuff, but still wants everyone to be happy and cheerful

Well, I was only drinking water (although, judging by the lime scale deposits on my shower doors, it is hard water), but I saw it the same way - "Hey, don't feel sorry for him, I got a huge family to support!" I thought it was funny that Scot was so bad at trying to get sympathy that he mentioned his NBA career when he was talking about needed the money (like the boss who told his staff that money was so tight this year that there would be no year-end bonus, and, to prove his point, he explained that he was hoping to take his family to Europe, but now they had to settle for Hawaii).

Tai would know about the superidol from the parchment that came with the idol he found. Why he would think that everyone would know about it? I have no clue. I do think that if Tai knew that Jason has an idol, we would have been shown the scene where he was told. I don't think you can always trust that the expressions/reactions we see really happened when we are shown them to happen, and I know we don't see all (probably not even most) of the strategy talk, but it seems that they have don't keep viewers in the dark about who knows about who has an idol. They don't always share what the players are thinking, but they do let us know what the players know.

Last week, the Brawns and the Beauties were both trying to get the Brains to join with them. Then a Brain goes home, so the Brawns and the Beauties decide to team up. I thought it made a lot more sense for the 4 Beauties to still want to team up with the 3 Brains. When it gets down to the final seven, the Beauties have a better chance of beating the Brains in a challenge than beating any of the Brawns. I have my doubts about the financial aspects of the sob stories. I would think/hope that medical insurance and the public school system would be paying for or providing some of the therapies that Kyle Jason's daughter needs. Also, there are government agencies that help out with this sort of thing. I am not saying that it doesn't cost the family something, but he made it sound like they were living in poverty because of the high cost of helping his daughter. And I can't believe that Scot needs to win a million to help his family and he couldn't help his family with all the money he made int he NBA. I think Scot was afraid Kyle Jason woudl get all the sympathy and wanted to have a sob story too. I am horrible with names - I am surprised that, for the remaining nine players, I can rattle off the former Brawns and the former Brains, but not surprised that I only remember Michele and Julia because I just read their names in these posts. However, when I was discussing Survivor with dinner companions last night I realized I was doing pretty good this season. According to my friends, the people on Survivor this season are the little guy, the old guy, the tall guy, the guy with the tattoos who isn't the tall guy, the woman with the muscles, Debbie, and the three other girls. When Tai mentioned the Super Idol and Jeff pointed out that not everyone knew, I thought Tai's "Hmm, I am starting to wonder if the person who told me about the Super Idol was lying to me" comment was a good attempt at trying to cover up his mistake of spilling the beans. Then he voted for Jason and my gut reaction was that maybe Tai didn't make up that comment, he meant it. Maybe Tai didn't read/understand/remember the Super Idol info on his Idol parchment and it was Jason or Scot that told him - and now he really does think they lied to him. There are holes in my logic, such as I think that Tai has only discussed his idol with Scot (who told Jason, but Tai doesn't know that), I don't think Tai knows about Jason's Idol, and it makes no sense to get back at Jason for lying if you are the only one voting for him. After reading the theories in the posts above, I have decided that the most likely reason why Tai voted for Jason is that Tai does believe that his alliance lied to him (maybe he already knew about the Super Idol, but maybe the lied to him about everyone else knowing it) and he thought the Brains were voting for Jason. I would like to think that Tai is more strategically crafty than that, but he just doesn't seem that type to me. As far as we have seen, Joe's alliance is with the former Brains. If his two alliancemates say they are voting for Nick, then Joe votes for Nick. No one else seems to be trying to have an alliance with Joe. I agree. It seems to me that the real reason Aubry's team failed that challenge wasn't the people balancing, it was the people holding the posts. Scot was able to hold the post much higher up, making the posts wobble less.

There is no additional penalty for not selling an item. But they are penalized in that the cost of the item affects their net profit, so it is better to get some money, even if it is less than you paid, than to get no money for an item. For example, Scenario 1: they purchase three items for $100 each, for a total of $300. They sell one of their items for $500. They don't sell the other two. They have collected $500, they paid $300, their net profit is $200. Scenario 2: Same situation (bought three items for $100 each, for a total of $300), but this time, they sold one for $500, one for $50, and don't sell the third one. They have collected $550, they paid $300, their net profit is $250. I think in the very early shows, they didn't take the cost into account. Whichever team collected the most was the winner. So, if a team spent all $500, and sold them for $900, they would win over a team that spent $100 on all three items and sold them for $800. Then they decided subtract the cost and base it on profit. Then they decided that they would give them an additional $100 (they always let them use fabric and paint, but they started telling us that they put a dollar amount on it). I do not know if it is helpful if you don't spend he whole $100 for other stuff.

Once again, they completely change their theory because of a hypothesis regarding a tiny piece of evidence - "Oh there is blood on the bumper of the car, blood that we haven't analyzed, blood that we aren't even bothering to collect and analyze, therefore, Hank didn't kill the first guy, Hank must have been abducted" and "Oh, first guys's mom doesn't recognize this one name on our list so he must be the unsub" And we also get stealing evidence and Gary Sinese having so much power that he single-handedly controls the amount of financial aid Egypt gets. Although I thought the moms were played good actresses, the writing for them still sucked - first guy's mom comes back tot he FBI then refuses to answer any questions, until they show her a picture of her son, arm in arm, with the man he loves, and despite her homophobia/prejudice/hatred, she cooperates. How does that make sense? - she stormed out the first time because she was told her son was gay, she refused to talk tot he FBI when she came back because they continued to say her son was gay, and after she sees a photo of her son with his boyfriend, she suddenly changes her mind? On the plus side, this show may finally be my replacement for Under the Dome - a show I watch just so I can make fun of it in the forum and laugh at everyone else's making fun of it in the forum. If only more people were posting in the forum....

So sorry to hear this Shapeshifter. You will be in my thoughts.

A woman who worked as at the grocery store once asked me if my daughters could be her flower girls. I didn't even know this woman's last name or what city she lived in. We saw her when we went to the store, sometimes. She was someone my kids and I would say hi to if we happened to see her, but we didn't go out of our way to see her. I told her the truth - well, part of the truth - my kids, both under 3 years old, would be too shy to do a good job as flower girls, and I doubt they would even be able to walk down the aisle by themselves without bursting into tears. The part of the truth that I didn't tell her was that there was no way I was going to buy them fancy dresses and go to rehearsals and make them sit through a wedding for someone I barely knew. I think she just wanted to have flower girls and my kids were absolutely adorable (at least in my opinion) and extremely well behaved (also in my opinion) I don't think Steph and Kimmy were close, but I would think that, given the amount of time Kimmy spent with the Tanner family, she felt that Steph and Michelle were like sisters to her.

Aargh! I can see why they couldn't let Alex's guy win, think of the backlash after he had already been eliminated once before. But I didn't want RI to win, so I am bummed. My theory is that Natasha won because she was always the best cook, not because RI taught her anything useful. I thought Robert and Natasha should have been penalized because when she was plating (the last dish, I think) Robert leaned over the railing and helped her plate. If he was helping her, he should have had to punch in on that clock and com down into the cooking area.

I think part of it had to do with where the infection was. Neal's was near his knee and if the infection spread into a joint it might damage that joint permanently. Also, based on his interviews, his was really deep. And, like others have said, they had tried antibiotics and they didn't work as well.

I can understand becoming a lawyer and then changing careers. I think a lot of people go into law because they was to help society and save the world. Then they find out that most law practice isn't like that - it is contracts and wills, and horrible people getting away with things because of a technicality, and long hours, and much of your time is spent trying to find new clients because most people only need a lawyer a few times in their lives. And I suppose if you went into law because you wanted to help people, becoming a doctor instead makes sense. But it takes so much time to become a doctor. And so much money. I guess understand the "why" of going to law school and med school but I don't fully understand the "how." How does someone have enough time and money to get both degrees? Yes, he isn't the only one, but I could never have taken the time it would require.

I have a shelf in my house where I put souvenirs from trips (it is not a big shelf, as I don't travel much). If I was on Survivor, a show that I have never missed an episode of, and I found an idol, and then I was medivac'd, I would keep the idol unless I was really close to to another player (assuming I could give it to them without putting a target on their back). I got the impression Neal and Aubry had an alliance out of necessity only, not that there was a strong bond between them. I would rather keep my idol than give to someone and then find out that they were planning to vote me out. The other option for a souvenir would be the buff but since there was just a merge, Neal had only had that buff for 2-3 days (they turn in their old ones, right?). Of course, the souvenir I would want the most would be a copy of a million dollar check made out to me.

Finally watched this. I did like how the policeman they were dealing with asked how their profile was supposed to help them catch the unsub. The rest of it was pretty far-fetched. The heck with the computer guy being the Spencer Reid of this show, these people are all geniuses because they can determine what happened based on extremely little information. One little brand on the back of a guy's neck and they are positive that it is a native who is hunting the girls to use as a sacrifice for his family because they all died and he is the only one left. Which also means that the girls are still alive because he has to hunt them and can't just sacrifice them by killing them after he captured them the first time. And since they found a picture of his family, taken years ago, with everyone standing extremely close together, they were sure that his family was very close knit, because no one ever posed with their family for a picture if they weren't really close to them. Oh and he had some long white stick-like things in his house, so he must be self mutilating (I wonder if the profile included "if you find a tribesman who recently lost all of his family and he doesn't have white rods piercing his body someone, just let him go, he can't possibly be the guy we are looking for). The team doesn't second guess themselves, even after being completely wrong about the American guy being the unsub. They total give up the notion that this might have to do with sex slaves. Apparently, there is no possible way that it involved a (tribal) gang who brand their murdered victims and sell girls into slavery. I guess the members of this BAU unit have watched enough criminal minds to know that it is never the most likely scenario, or even one of the five most likely scenarios, and that every murderer must be someone who has gone off the deep end and behaves in a way that only one in 230 million people would behave. That said, I will give it another chance because one of my faults is that I can be a little too optimistic at times - this time, by thinking that since it was the first episode, they needed to spend time on character introduction instead of on actual profiling.

I was worried that Cory and Tyler would be out, because it would mean that Kurt and Brody, who have an express pass, would likely win every leg and make this a very boring season. It is an impressive feat, but I couldn't help but wonder why anyone would go to law school and med school. Both of those take years and tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars. Was he one of those perpetual students, who keep getting new degrees so that they don't have to graduate and get a real job? Did he decide to a lawyer and realize he hates it and then decided to be a doctor instead? I think Kurt is the one who celebrates every victory by jumping as high as he can

I think this episode worked so well because they tied the stories together - the (grand)parents divorce came up in more than one storyline, the proposal came up in more than one, etc. However, this cross-over-ing makes this more like a regular sitcom, instead of the four separate stories theme. I am okay with that. Although CBS has not officially said whether they will renew or cancel Life in Pieces,, TV by the Numbers is pretty confident that it will be renewed saying -

I am confused - did they do away with sweeps months? The past few episodes dealt with Morgan being tortured and almost dying and his wife and unborn child almost dying and him leaving the show after almost 11 seasons and this one had a beloved character return after being gone for years and all of these episodes were in a non-sweeps month. This makes no sense to me. Don't shows try to put the episodes that will get the most viewers in the sweeps months? I would think that Morgan's last episode and Emily's return episode would pull in some former viewers that don't normally watch anymore. I can't imagine what they have planned for the May sweeps that they think it will attract more viewers and I don't remember any episode from February that had a premise that would entice more people to watch than these March ones have. I liked how the unsub made friends with the boy on the bus and then really didn't kill him or his mom. As soon as he started talking to the boy, I thought "this is the final victim - the one who almost dies, but the BAU comes in just in the nick of time." It was nice that it wasn't so predictable (although, I suppose one could argue that the bus scene was a waste of time - time that could have been spent making the profiling and unsub's actions make more sense). I thought this was so ridiculous, especially Emily's little pep talk as they walked out of the SUV "I didn't want to bring up Morgan because I didn't want to make anyone sad. I know it is so hard to lose someone and you miss him terribly...." Huh? He's not dead. He didn't even move, as far as we know. They could have easily invited Morgan to join them at the restaurant for their little reunion. And their reaction is even worse because Morgan was gone for 6 months (recuperating from being tortured) before he came back for one or two cases and then decided to quit - they had time to get used to him not being around. Were they this depressed during those 6 months he was gone? I felt like they originally had Morgan die, then shot this episode, then went back and re-shot the last one so that Morgan quits instead of dying. And them figuring out that he was a fisherman led to yet another sudden, awkward, decision to give the profile. "He must come from money or have a job that is very lucrative so that he can spend half the year emulating serial killers." "And travelling the world isn't cheap!" "But he didn't steal the watch" "Hmm, maybe he is actually poor and he works a seasonal job - like being a fisherman" "Okay, let's give the profile!" Most people would think "Well, if he is a fisherman, then everything we were thinking up to now is wrong. Hmm, maybe this poor fisherman idea is wrong too. Let's play out this new theory..how would he have the money to travel the world if he worked as a fisherman?..." But instead, they go down the wrong path for a while then someone comes up with a different theory and they immediately give the profile. The writers probably come up with a backstory for the unsub. Then they have the BAU make assorted assumptions and once they have someone make the correct assumption, they have them give the profile, but they don't give any support as to why the BAU would be so sure this new idea was the correct one. It is just bad writing. Just like him killing the rich couple in the car was bad writing The only reason why had that scene was so the BAU could speculate that he was rich or that he was poor and hates rich people. But they never explained why he would bother killing this couple when he spends so much time copying other serial killers - did they happen upon the scene and he had to get rid of witnesses? And him being wealthy or hating wealthy people really didn't help them catch the guy. It was a lot of time and effort put into something that took away more from the plot than added to it. Maybe the unsub was picky eater.

Except that they usually get help from the eliminated players for the final challenge, which makes me worried that we will be subjected to a bunch talking heads of Mel telling us how worried she is for the artists she is helping and how she isn't sure that she is doing what he/she wants, or that her work isn't good enough for them to win, etc... I wonder if, despite being "fourth best" Mel will be picked closer to last when they choose the finale teams - just because no one wants to deal with her lack of confidence and second guessing.