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Neal said he himself "knew" they were going to pull him from the game. That doesn't mean that Jeff knew that he should be pulled. However, Jeff must have thought that at least one of them was bad enough that getting pulled was a possibility - which is why he had the doctor come out and take a look at it. What I don't get is - Isn't there a doctor at the challenges? Why didn't the doctor look at it then, instead of coming back later? Risking Neal's knee for drama is pretty bad. But maybe there wasn't a doctor at the challenge - maybe there is only one at challenges where they think there is a higher risk of someone getting hurt enough. I suppose they wouldn't expect any big medical issues when all the players had to do was stand on a plank while balancing balls on a wooden plate (as long as they were hydrated and it wasn't too hot out).

The woman who did the sculpturing on the winning team was Brie's granddaughter. I am thinking she must be a step granddaughter or they have babies really young in her family or Brie is in great shape for an 80-year old. During the first round, I was waiting for the guest judge to tell Brie that there is no such thing as a Brontosaurus. When he didn't, I checked and it appears Scientists have decided that Brontosauruses (Brontosauri?) did exist after all. However, I thought he was wrong when he called one dino an Apatosaurus because T-Rex and the Brontosaurus (?) weren't alive at the same time - the challenge was based on dinosaurs still being alive today. If they never went extinct, then they would all be alive today, even if they didn't start out in the same time period. If you are going to hammer a dowel through your almost finished cake and you have at least two other people watching you do it, one of them should have pointed out that you were putting the dowel at an angle. And if you are going to put a warm rice cereal sculpture on your cake, you shouldn't' be surprised that it is falling apart. And, if you want anyone to ever ask your bakery to do anything other than a basic sheet cake, at least smooth out the fondant on your crappy sculpture of a baby Triceratops, And with your eyes closed, while standing outside in a hurricane!

I wonder what Henry puts on the "occupation" line on his tax return (I am pretty sure he does his own taxes and probably without using software or a calculator) - spy, spy handler, professor, religion expert, appliance repairman, ... I can't decide if I don't like Daisy because I don't care for the actress that plays her, or if I don't care for the actress because I don't like the character. Maybe it is both. My biggest eyeroll moment was when Daisy was bummed out because the doomsday clock makes her realize that her own biological clock is ticking. Maybe I would have been fine with it if they made it a "The world is going to end and I haven't had the chance to do what I wanted" connection, but they went with "everybody is talking about this clock which makes me think of my biological clock" - which I founded rather hokey. I did love Nadine's reaction though. At least he didn't promise that the child-wife would be safe. After reading your post, I will try to convince myself that the writers threw in the machine machine plot to show us how normal Bess and Henry's relationship is (and I love their relationship), but my initial thought was they were proving again that Henry is the manly hero and Bess is just his "little woman." I would think that with Henry having to deal with catching a terrorist and Bess having to deal with hydrogen bombs and preventing a war, a broken washing machine would be a "Hey, Stevie, can you call the repairman?" or "Blake, can you please arrange for someone to do my laundry?" or "Blake, can you please get my washing machine fixed?" situation. How does Henry have time to fix a washing machine? While I can understand the frustration/annoyance of having an appliance break down (always at the worst times too, it seems), I found it rather unbelievable that Bess, while in the middle of a crisis, would call Henry over to chat over whether he would get the machine fixed.

I found Pic a Name to be frustrating to play along with. I need them to show the pictures and not cut away to different camera angles. Usually, the players would yell out the name before I had time to figure out what all the pictures were of.

I wonder who they would have brought back if Lee hadn't been the last one to go. If Lee had left weeks ago and they brought him back because he had been on Alex's team and Lisa had to leave, I would say that doesn't seem right. If they were going to bring back whomever was the last to go, because they needed to have a person for Anna to compete with for the last challenge, and the last person to go just happens to have been on the same team as Lisa, then it makes sense. I am not rooting for or against any of the contestants. However, I was hoping that Andrew's team would lose a person just so I don't have to suffer through one more episode of Andrew talking about how difficult it is to split his time and the girls (because they are acting like 7 year olds) whining and plotting over who is gets Andrew's attention. And next week, I will be hoping for Natasha to lose, not because of her (although the sob story is annoying), but because I really don't want Robert to win anything, ever.

I felt the good-byes were more like the ones when someone moves away, not just leaves their job but stays in the same location, especially considering that Morgan had recently been gone for 6 months after he was tortured. I mean, they are kind of used to him being in town and not at the office. I wish they would have had a line or two explaining that Morgan and his family were relocating to a different city/state because working at that hospital brought back too many bad memories for his wife. The way they left it, he could still play poker with Rossi and his famous pals. I thought Morgan using "Aaron" was supposed to be some sort of hint to the BAU about where he was going, but apparently it was just Morgan getting snippy with Hotch. I heard "ten beats in the last few seconds" - if "few" means 4, then it is 150 beats per minute, if "few" means 5 then it is 120.

WOW is unfamiliar territory to me - I have no opinion on how accurate the make-ups were. I think Rob's was in the top because what he had was very good, much better than Melsnie's or Yvonne's. It seemed unfinished to viewers because we heard about all the trouble he had snd what he wasn't able to get done, but the judges fon't know how much was missing from what he planned to do.

I have never used one nor do I know anyone who has - Do Neti Pots really work like that? Turn you head to the side, put the spout up to one nostril and the water flows out the other one. Seems like his head was titled far enough for the water to get to a place where it could cross to the other nostril. Edited to correct - I meant to say that that his head did not seem tilted enough for the water to get to a place where it could cross to the other nostril. (not is an important word - his head wasn't titled, it was tilted, - and I really should proofread better). For relatives that are willing to ask/beg others for money, you don't need to have money, you just need to have more money than they do...or less debt than they do...or more expensive stuff than they do. All they need is a hint that you are better off than them.

If I were Tai, I wouldn't think my 4th place in the Beauties was very secure. The three women had a very tight alliancee, one would assume the two remaining still do. But the rest of the alliance was probably never that tight. Caleb was only brought in because the women needed a fourth. Tai was brought in because he was allied with Caleb. Now Caleb is gone. The only former Beauty left is Nick and he wasn't part of a Beauty alliance, he was the one they would have gotten rid of had the Beauties had to vote. There is no reason to assume that Nick would stick with the Beauties after he has spent time on a new tribe (there is no reason to assume he wouldn't either, it is just not certain either way). Plus, after the shuffle, the Beauty who went home last week pushed for voting off Tai, so she had no loyalty to him.

Does that include the 20 posts before the show was over? Tai knew he was 4th in a 4 person Beauty alliance, however (as far as we know) Tai doesn't know that the 3 Brawn have a tight alliance. He may think that Scot was only kept for his ability in challenges and that Scot would have been the next to go if Brawn lost again. She also inverted the internet and was a reporter who was under fire while in a helicopter in Iraq.

Well, of course Lucca couldn't be there for the hand job. Having her leave to do something that will take a minute is just lazy writing. There are a lot of reasons why she could leave that would have her be gone long enough that would make a lot more sense than getting chips, which should only take a minute. For example: --She could have left her phone at the office. --She could see an old friend at the bar or another table. --She could have spilled something on her clothes and have to go to the restroom to clean up. --She could have complained that the place was so busy that it will take forever for a waitress to get there and she was going to go order their drinks at the bar. --She could have gone to get chips, and then have Jason mention something about her coming back, Alicia could say "have you seen the line at the bar? We have plenty of time." Having her go away to do something that will only take a minute makes Alicia look like the rudest and horniest woman on the planet, so impatient to get her hands in his pants that she doesn't mind if her only female friend is sitting at the table with they finish the job. The only way it isn't bad writing to have Lucca's excuse be something that would take such a short time is this one - Lucca goes to get chips, Alicia and Jason get frisky, Lucca comes back mid friskiness, Alicia and Jason react to her being back (giggling, faces turn red, etc...).

I posted this on one of the episode threads - The Grand Jury investigation leads to Alicia being arrested for tampering with the ballot boxes (even though she is actually innocent, Peter is the guilty one). As he drops Alicia off at prison, Peter says, "I am filing for divorce." Alicia says, "What? I stood by you for years, and now you are just abandoning me?" And Peter replies, "You may be Saint Alecia, but I am no saint. Besides, it would be bad for my career if I were married to a felon. "

I have only seen Shemar Moore in Criminal Minds. Does he usually dress so hipster when he is not acting?

Alicia drinks water only now? She didn't even go through withdrawals or join a 12 step program? If having Jason around keeps me from watching Alicia drinking wine or tequila from a glass the size of a fishbowl, without ever getting even the slightest bit tipsy, I say keep Jason around. However, I think it might be a good ending if Alecia had to join a 12 step program. Of course, it could never happen - there aren't enough episodes left for when she gets to the step where she is supposed to apologize to all the people she has mistreated, If Diane's husband was part of the episode, then Diane would have had more screen time, and we can't have that, now can we? I have come to the conclusion that it was all the same dress with different shades of gray used in color-blocking. I am okay with her getting an office, since they had one available and they didn't kick anyone out to put her in. Lucca had her own firm, she is a step or two above the others in cubicles, IMO. How long do they think it takes Lucca to get some chips? Was Lucca driving to Target to pick them up? Heck, she even beats off her friends Maybe Alicia was just making sure Grace got into college so she could have the apartment all to herself.

Another week with very little attempt at giving us a Big Catastrophe. The closest they got was "Oh dear, the cake is crumbling too much to make a beach ball. I will have to use rice cereal treats. Using cake would have been faster." I don't know if I am happy or sad that the editors seem to have given up the Big Catastrophe. On one hand, I enjoy trying to figure out whether the Big Catastrophe was recreated or shot live. On the other hand, the Big Catastrophe was usually pretty stupid. Hers was, by far, the best decorated. If there really was a big party for the 75th Anniversary of Archie, I don't think a pole, that they could doctor up (balloons, paper sign) or cut off (bolt cutters, hacksaw) for the party, would have been enough to keep it from winning. However, the judges also said that the frosting was not mixed well - it had chunks of butter in it. I am guessing that none of them were very familiar with Archie and the Gang. They all made the same sort of comments and at least two of them referenced Josie and the Pussycats - who started with Archie, but aren't really what most Archie comic lovers would think of right away if they were listing Archie characters - they weren't part of the gang. I am guessing that they were given reference material (which shoots down my notion that they are told the topic in advance). I mean, really, how can you have Archie and the gang at a party and not have Jughead devouring a big plate of burgers?

As I understand it, when they decided the company couldn't excavate for gold where they originally wanted to, the Chilean government was going to sue for lost royalties. Then the company decided that they would mine farther down and go under the glacier - more expensive, but better than paying royalties on gold they never mined. The final resolution was that they would mine for gold in Argentina instead. What about the lost royalties - wouldn't Chile still be able to collect? As I understand it, when they decided the company couldn't excavate for gold where they originally wanted to, the Chilean government was going to sue for lost royalties. Then the company decided that they would mine farther down and go under the glacier - more expensive, but better than paying royalties on gold they never mined. The final resolution was that they would mine for gold in Argentina instead. What about the lost royalties - wouldn't Chile still be able to collect?

This pleasantly surprised me too. I was also pleasantly surprised that, when the email had a passage (supposedly) from the Koran and mentioned the passage after it, Henry didn't email say what the next passage was. But then it made sense, since the passage wasn't actually from the Koran, because I am pretty sure that Professor Spy Daddy Arm Candy has the Koran, the Bible, the Torah, and ever other piece of religious literature memorized. However, it seems to me to be a rather foolish move for the girl to "quote" the Koran, but then the passage wasn't actually in the Koran. If someone is checking her email, I would think this would arouse suspicion. I am okay with assuming that they had discussions about what he could offer to get her cooperation before he met with her.. I am glad we didn't have to watch these discussions, as I think it would be boring since I am finding it difficult to get interested in this story line at all (which I will probably regret when Bess eventually has to get involved) I think the point they were trying to make was that it doesn't matter if he could win the lawsuit, just filing one and the inevitable social media about it would make him win in the court of public opinion. However, it bugged me that no one pointed out to the kid that he "threatened" the SOS first and that all the Secret Service guy did was put his hand on his chest. He was stopped, not pushed, and certainly not hurt. I don't remember the exact details, but since no one else has filled you in (including me - I forgot to respond when I originally posted and had to edit): Short answer - he lives. The speechwriter gave the SOS staff a thorough overview of what someone should do if they are in an avalanche (boy school training). The rescue mission had to wait overnight because of the weather. The next day, we see him half buried in snow, waving at the rescue helicopters. I don't remember if the protester story was fully resolved by the time of the avalanche.

When I watched, I assumed that Diane was being Diane and was just saying that because Jack isn't as smart as her, and that Jack reads at an appropriate level. Diane often makes comments about Jack being dumb, but I don't recall anyone else implying it. Jack often says or does things that would be a sign of stupidity if they were done by an adult or even a teen, but are normal coming from an 8 or 9 year old. Diane is the unusual one in that set of twins.

How so? Dre said one of his clients was State Farm, so he got them to sponsor the team. I also thought 'Good Neighbors' was a great and funny name for the team. I believe Dre mentioned State Farm, but I think it would have been funnier if he had just said, "I'm going to ask one of my clients to sponsor the team," and then we see the team wearing the shirts. I felt that, if it were real life and a adman dad was looking for a sponsor for his kid's team, he would say, "Hey, I think i have a client that might be interested in sponsoring the team" Instead of "Hmm, State Farm is a client of mine and they like to contribute to the community." Those aren't the exact words, but I remember Dre didn't just say he'd ask State Farm, he also mentioned State Farm's benevolent side. It felt more like a advertisement to me than Chipoltle or even the car did. I love your idea of not saying it was State Farm and having the audience notice from the shirts, but, I suppose, if State farm was paying for the placement, they'd want to be sure viewers didn't miss it.

Because everyone else is civilized and Doug has the element of surprise on his side - no one would ever expect the Chief of Staff to attempt to kill them.

I would rather have them do product placement in a logical way than have as many commercials as Big Bang Theory does (some of their episodes are under 20 minutes of actual show). The "where should we get food from?" discussion a few episodes ago is a good example of how product placement should be done. In a real life conversation, it isn't unusual for people to say "Do you want Chipoltle or PF Changs?" It might start out with "Do you want Mexican or Chinese?" but then the next question is likely to specify the place - "Taco Bell or Chipoltle?" Same thing with the car - people often refer to the make and model of a car. The State Farm product placement was more atypical of how real life would go.

Now that Robert is gone, Melissa has taken over giving the character a name and "humorous" back story. The difference is that it doesn't annoy me when Melissa does it. I am guessing/hoping that the judges thought it over and came to the conclusion that Melissa and Rob were never going to be the worst looks - they are just too much better than the rest - and that it was safe to use the save on Mel. Personally, I don'[t think they should have saved Mel. I think she has been in top looks in the past - maybe even won a challenge - but it wasn't a surprise that she did this badly. If Rob's had looked like Mel's, it would be obvious that he had a really off week, but for Mel this wasn't completely out of character. I also think that if Walter would have been declared worst, they would have used the save on him.

If I recall correctly, Neal was the only one who had the actual "tool" to get the key out with. I think the others had lost it and had to come up with another solution. Peter is so unlikable that no one seems tobe considering him as a goat because they don't want to stay around him that long. I don't think we ever saw anyone on Brains looking for idols - which doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just means that we don't know if they did and, if they did, we don't know how they did - were they all out in a group? No one on Brains found an idol until shortly before the swap. Given Joe's deciding that Debbie was right that the water doesn't need to be boiled, I think he is the type of guy who says "They said there was a twist. I have not found an idol, none of my alliance has found one, there must not be one - that must be the twist." Plus, there are a lot of people who feel that being called by your last name on Survivor has to be earned (the exception being people who have the same name - like the two Kellys last time being called Wentworth and Wigglesworth). Kyle certainly hasn't done anything awesome enough to get to be called by his last name. But Tai couldn't know for sure if it were him or Anna that was targeted. He could have played his idol for Anna and he gets 4 votes and is sent home. Plus, he knows that the 3 female Beauties were very tight and he wasn't part of their alliance. And Scot may have told him that Anna was gunning for him earlier.

I believe it is further proof that Claire is willing to ruin anything and everything just to prove that she is ultimately in charge. Claire hasn't done anything that proves that she should be in control, but she keeps proving that she is the one in control and that Frank and others only get their way because she allows it - she could change the course of events anytime she wants. And Frank felt those consequences on a purely gut level too (sorry, couldn't resist).

I am not angry at The doctor or at Peter. The point of my post was that I don't understand why it seem so many are angry/annoyed/bothered that Peter didn't run over to help people on the other tribes or do more for Debbie (who kept saying she was fine) when they aren't bothered that the show's doctor didn't run over and help.