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Sworkit seems like a great idea, but I thought their valuation was pretty steep. Mattress guy would make more money if, instead of a huge expensive mattress cleaning machine, he invented a mattress pad that would block stains and you could wash it in a regular washing machine...Oh wait, they already have those. The one on my bed works great. Although, I suppose a mattress pad wouldn't help with bed bugs. Did the mattress guy specifically say it would get rid of bed bugs? I think the shampoo kid has a good idea but I think he should get away from the saving the planet angle and focus on the travel market instead. I recycle my empty shampoo bottles, but I am pretty sure I would throw the pod wrapper in the trash. More specifically, since I would be opening the pods while already in the shower, I would probably end up piling up a bunch of them on the soap tray and they would eventually end up on the shower floor and make a mess. The pods are too cumbersome for home use. Plus, as others have mentioned, different people use different amounts of shampoo. I think it would be a much wiser idea to make the shampoo balls much smaller, like the size of those Dippin' Dots ice cream BBs they used to sell at amusement parks. Put those into a bottle and people could take them on airplanes. There are a lot of reasons why those swimsuits aren't going to sell, most of which have already been mentioned. I think her best bet is to make it mostly flesh colored except "paint" a bikini on it - make it look (from a distance) that someone is wearing a swimsuit. Then, hope it becomes the next Snuggie. Her patterns seemed very 1980's too me - all they needed were head bands and "Let's Get Physical" on in the background.

I have no problem with Tim Daly as an actor. I enjoy the family scenes and find Bess and Henry's marriage to be one of the more realistic and refreshing ones on TV. I would be fine with 60-70% the show being about SOS stuff and the rest being about family stuff - as long as Henry is only part of the family stuff. I would even be fine with the show being 50% SOS stuff and the rest being family stuff and whatever Henry does outside of the family, as long as Henry is not involved in government stuff like spies and international affairs. I would be fine watching Henry run of a non-profit or teach at a university or work at a dairy farm or serve the perfect double mocha espresso macchiato at a fake Starbucks (and I don't even like coffee) - whatever sort of thing they would have the wife of the secretary of state do on a TV show, because if Henry was the SOS I am pretty sure Bess wouldn't be running a secret agency or going on spy missions or running into buildings and saving people. Why couldn't Henry's recent brush with death lead him to decide he wants to be a doctor and future episodes could have the family adjusting to Dad being in med school? (rhetorical question) Apparently that is just the attitude POTUS was looking for to lead the new Super Secret Agency, or SSA, which is just ass backwards (get it?).

I don't think the dairy farmer is being targeted by the FBI (although the show made it sound like he was somehow involved). I think the only reason why we heard anything about him is that it was a reason for Elsbeth to stop being Peter's lawyer. I am not sure if this would be a conflict of interests in the real world, but the actress who plays Elsbeth appears to be a regular on anther show so she probably couldn't commit to being their lawyer for the rest of the season. And they are probably trying to bring back all the wacky side characters one last time because the show is ending (they brought back the song-writer guy, brought back the snarky computer guy, etc...we will see the druglord and the guy who can kill his wife and get away with it sometime soon). Plus, trying to figure out why Elsbeth couldn't be their lawyer led to the wacky hijinx (oh look! he brings a dog with him everywhere!) the writers are always trying to insert. And it gave us the closest we have seen to actual investigator work by Jason - actually tailing someone and taking pictures! Although, I am completely surprised that Jason didn't just walk up to Elsbeth, give her a sexy smirk and say, in his raspy voice way, "Who is the client?" Then again, I could be completely wrong and maybe the FBI investigation has something to do with Peter and the judge being involved in a "marketing non-kosher milk as kosher" scheme.

I have to admit that I am kind of liking the show a bit more now than in recent weeks/months/seasons. It is liek the writers are just toying with us. We complain about Alicia's drinking so they work her drinking into the story. We complain about the constant firm break ups and make ups and they give us a ridiculous story about the men being afraid that the women will form an alliance and vote the men off the island. I predict that next week all the white people at the firm will be worried that the 3 black people (the two associates they forced to bond and the one partner I thought I saw in the group picture) will try to start their own firm. They are going to have to add other races if they are going to carry on this "Fear of the firm breaking up" nonsense for the rest of the season. I liked the scene with Smirky and Lucca waiting for the elevator and Smirky says, "This firm is insane." I thought it would have been more appropriate if he said "This show is insane" but I still got a giggle out of it. Well, as usual, all the wrongdoings by Alicia and everyone close to Alicia have no effect on Alicia. They writers probably recently found out that these sort of secret meetings exist and wanted to use it in an episode - just like they do with very new theing they discover (remember the employee who telecommuted by being a monitor on a segway and kept bumping into things?). Of course, it had to be Alicia that got this special position, not only because it is the All-Alicia show now and everyone else is a paranoid buffoon, but also because this was the way they could bring the NSA guys back into the mix. I thought I heard that the other civilian lawyer was Mr. Something from the firm of Polmer and Something. Finn Polmer maybe? A fourth law firm in Chicago? Well, I guess we are back to three now that Florrick and Quinn no longer exists. He can smirk, he can smile "knowlingly," he has done the best he can at giving off an "Intelligent guy" look, but have we had any proof that Jason is smart? He thinks juice is the only drink in San Francisco and that computer guys work in Silicone Valley. His "investingating" usually goes like this - David Lee to Jason: "Find out if the women are trying to start an all women firm." Jason to Alicia: "Are the women trying to start an all women firm?" Alicia to Jason: "No." Jason to David Lee: "No." I love this name, but it is too long to type and needs more vowels to be a better acronym. I wish Cary's last name was Ogos, just so the current firm's initials would be LOL My current favorite idea for a final episode is that Alicia gets arrested for the vote tampering, even though it was really Peter who was guilty of it. And then as Alicia is heading off to prison, Peter tells her that he wants a divorce. She thinks about throwing her drink at him, but decides to chug it instead, gives him her death stare and says, "I stood by you when you went to prison." And Peter replies, "But you are Saint Alicia. I am not a saint. Never was, never will be. Besides, being married to a criminal would be the death of my political career."

It took me 6 days before I watched this episode. I don't think I will miss this show when it is gone. Because the writers are crazy? (one definition of "crazy" is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results). I don't understand how he could ever be held for stealing it. They had no proof that he stole it, only that he had it - he said he found it, which would be a reasonable explanation. I would think the would need some other proof like fingerprints. Plus, the employee's text saying that he was going to be in a lot of trouble adds a lot of reasonable doubt that it was stolen I am not buying the marketing ploy story either. If it was a marketing ploy, why would the employee send a text implying that he lost it? You don't even need ant spray. There is no reason for ants to be crawling all over a desk in courtroom unless they smell food on it. All they need to do is wipe it off with any sort of cleaner - Windex, soapy water, furniture spray, etc - and make sure there is no food hidden somewhere . I want to know if Cush rhymes with push or with lush. They seemed to be headed down the Alicia is an alcoholic path then Lucca asked Alicia to be her friend and Alicia was all better.

Your theory makes a lot of sense. With the way this show is going, it will burn itself out after about 2 seasons.

Zoe has her dad wrapped around her little finger, but Junior is Bow's "favorite" and I am okay with that in a sitcom. The part that bugs me is that Dre seems to dislike Junior, while Bow doesn't treat Zoe like she is less important. I wouldn't want Bow to dismiss Zoe that way. Dre's attitutide is just following the standard sitcom "rule" of nerds/geeks should only be laughed at and made fun of. This episode got me wondering ... How old is too old for boy/girl twins to share a room? I am not sure how old Jack and Diane are, but it seems like they are nearing the age that Bow and Dre should be thinking about separating them. I don't have twins, but I have heard numerous times that you should make a point of treating them as separate people - don't dress them alike, don't give rhyming names, make sure they have different teachers, different after-school activities, etc... (note: I am fully aware that this is a tv show, and there are comic reasons for keeping them together, I am just wondering about twins in the real world). Dad car? I was thinking that Buick was more of a Grandpa car. I don't think most people in their 40's and 50's think "I really want a Buick." But Buick is really trying to change their image and appeal to the the 20-somethings. I can see how it fit in with their marketing plan to have Zoe be so excited about getting a Buick. But I am surprised that they were okay with a grandmother thinking the car was perfect for her.

Last week I was relieved that Blair and Dad didn't get sent home, only because a friend of mine (also a TAR fan) watches Blair's videos - or so I thought. Turns out that I misunderstood - Blair is the only racer she had seen on Youtube, but my friend can't stand her because she finds Blair's voice so annoying.

I watched an episode of an old game show called Tattletales a few days ago. The show is sort of like the Newlywed Game, except with three celebrity couples. The show was filmed int he mid-1970's. One of the questions was directed to the husbands "Are you possessive of your wife?" All three said yes. All three wives said yes and at least two of the wives said something to the effect of "If he wasn't possessive, then it would mean he doesn't love me." Times are changing, but it usually takes sitcoms a while to catch up.

For the past few seasons, people have commented on the artists being less and less talented every season. I didn't completely agree - I felt like there wasn't anyone really amazing, but I didn't think the artists as a whole were that much worse - until now. These people need a lot more practice before they would meet the average level talent of past seasons. I am now wishing they would just have them do monsters every week, because the non-monster stuff is not being done well and perhaps monsters would be more successful. Thought Rob (?) did a great job with the grayscale, escept the legs, of course. Thought the winner did a great job with her make-up, but I thought it would have been better if she would have had the hole saw turn the other direction - or, more accurately, put it on the other side of the face - so that the skin would have been turned upward, instead of downward. Turning upward would have created a "smile" - adding to the whimsy.

Maybe Valerie meant "I can't help you, because I have no idea how you can fix this."

I must have not been paying attention - I thought they got the drawers from a supply room, where they would have other stuff like hinges, handles, etc... Taking the drawers out of a storage cabinet is not cool at all and should not have been allowed. I stand corrected.

I am sad to see Peggy go (you could replace "Peggy" with any of the other kids names and that sentence would still be true). I especially hate the twists that involve adding in an ingredient, after they have already had time to start mixing and even baking the dish. I don't think this week's twist would have been so bad, if they had also given them extra time. Give them an extra hour or two to add a savory cupcake.

Well, Ellen told Miles to make a fun desk, she didn't say it had to be practical. I can imagine sitting at the desk, side doors open to get at pencils and whatever. My laptop and papers carefully arranged on top of the desk, along with a something to drink. Got my phone propped up in the back so I know what time it is, because it is somehow so much easier to keep reaching across the laptop and water glass and papers to turn on the phone to check the time than it is to just have the phone next to me. And now I want to check my notes, which are on the whiteboard inside the desk, so I take of the laptop, the papers and the water glass. Open up the top and smash my phone. Every time I see Kyle, I think I have somehow switched channels to an episode of Full House where Uncle Jesse is pretending to be a nerd or is trying to look respectable for a job interview. I liked Kyle's chair. Looked comfy, also looked like something you could already find somewhere, but Ellen asked for comfy, not innovative. I liked Vivian's table. I like Vivian. I can't even switch drawers on the same dresser - I have to label the back of the drawers to make sure they go back int he same places. One of Sef's post-its must have said, "Use pre-made drawer boxes." Everyone knows he used the pre-made ones, so it must not be illegal. Besides, why would they even have pre-made ones in the shop , if it isn't okay to use them. I think they planned on this being a non-elimination from the start and were probably glad that they could find some positive things to say about Sef's dresser.

Well, I had a lot of trouble paying attention this episode. Not much there to hold my interest. Had to rewind to see the (first ) Big Catastrophe - "Oh no! The cake is crumbling!" - which consisted of a tall stack of cake layers and the one on top was broken. Must have been a re-enactment because they just kept fussing with it while most people would have just said, "Can't use this one" and tossed it, or saved it for th top. Plus they made it sound as is the whole cake was falling apart and it was just one layer - although, it seemed like more than one when showed the garbage can. And the editing was wonky because the numbers of layers on the cake kept changing. The cake is crumbling ended up not being the Biog Catastrophe, it was just the foreshadowing to it. The real BC was the shark head falling apart as she put it on the cake. Not sure what went wrong there (I wasn't paying much attention), but it looked to me like that pole was much to long for the shark head. I don't know what they were planning to do with the rest of the pole if the head did go all the way down (that last sentence sounds R-rated).

I think there has always been a tendency for a lot of posters to have an instant dislike for anyone who is "stunt casted" - the Globetrotters, Rob & Amber, the girl whose arm was bitten off by a shark, also suffered from this. Sometimes they win viewers over, sometimes they don't. There is a notion that people who are casted aren't as big of fans and won't race as well, leading to a boring season (people on the Survivor boards are also against people being casted, rather than applying). The reality is that there are probably more teams casted that viewers realize, but since they aren't "famous" viewers don't know about them. I was leery about this season for a few reasons. One, because I feared that anyone who needs to do a lot of self promoting had a higher chance of being as obnoxious as Justin last season. I didn't expect them all to be obnoxious, but one Justin was bad enough, I didn't want 3 or 4 or more of them. I would have felt the same way if it were a season made up of all radio deejays or all news reporters. Plus, the theme seasons - family edition, blind date edition, etc - haven't been my favorites. This was definitely promoted as a theme season. Also, I am really get tired of shows trying to be cool by forcing social media - taking up a chunk of the screen to show what #lovespuppies47 thinks of some contestant. If I want to know the opinions of strangers, I would go to Twitter myself or, my preferred method, read these forums. Since this was marketed as the social media season, I was leery, but they aren't running strangers' opinions on the bottom of the screen, so that fear was probably unfounded. Because I was a little leery, I didn't get my hopes up and didn't let myself get too excited about this season. That isn't necessarily a bad thing (it's worse to look forward to something and then be let down). I am glad to say that, after only one episode, I only found one person (frisbee guy - Brody?) that I fear will annoy me until he leaves. However, based on past history, there will probably be more - there are always a few. Then again, the ones who usually annoy me most are the bickering couples, the whiners, and the ones who yell at or are otherwise mean to their partners. The good news is that this group may be enough camera aware that they keep that behavior in check. So, this season may end up being the least annoying of all.

I can understand getting your suit tailored, but is it really that necessary to get your shirts tailored? Men's shirts comes in a wide selection of sizes already and they are usually tucked in, so it isn't that important that it fit the waist perfectly. Besides, it seems most men want the shirt to be a little loose - looser than the shirts those guys were wearing. I suppose it would be nice to get the color you want with the type of collar and cuff that you want, but they might have less returns if they just let people specify color, fabric, sleeve length, collar type, collar measurement, instead of having their phone take measurements. Speaking of measurements, I can see how the software would be able to get the ratios of the different measurements - such as the waist measurement is 1.5 times the arm length (I am completely making up that ratio), but how would it know if it is a 30 inch arm and a 45 inch waist or a 20 inch arm and a 30 inch waist. I know it takes a picture of the background, but I don't see how that helps. I had the same thought with the food app. If it takes a picture on the special plate, it knows how big the slice of pizza is, but if you just take a picture of a slice of pizza with your phone, how does it know if it is one of those big 12 inch slices on a 13 inch plate or a a 7 inch slice on an 8 inch plate? The food measuring guy's pitch ended up being - "I have a great idea for a plate that will tell you how many calories you are consuming and, if you can't have the plate with you, you can take pictures with your phone and find out how many calories, except we haven't actually made a working model and we don't know how to add in the calories that can't be filmed, like the amount of oil or sugar in the recipe." He should have just started off with "I think I have a great idea but I can't make it work so I need you guys to spend money on it." Actually, that could have been the Baby Spa lady's pitch too - "I love my idea but I need you to tell me what to do." I loved the look on her face when Mark asked about the grind. I didn't know what he meant until he explained it, so I may have had the same look on my face, but that is the only thing she and I have in common. I can see how the exercise a baby gets "treading" water for 20 minutes could help build muscle that leads to them sitting, crawling, and/or walking sooner, but brain development? Nah, unless you are reading a book to them as they swim. And most swim schools have Mommy and Me classes that are probably less than $65 for 20 minutes in the water. If she really has a better float device, she should market it to hospitals for babies that need this sort of therapy (assuming there is a need for it). The reason for using the Bee Free Honey is the same as the reason for using imitation vanilla - it is cheaper. You get, basically, the same taste for less money. Honey has a distinctive flavor, so you don't want to substitute a different sugar if you need honey for the taste. But, if you use a lot of honey (example, you own a baklava company) you could save money using Bee Free instead the real stuff. I am not sure there is much of a market for Bee Free for home use. Vegans would buy it. However, there a theory that honey is healthier than other sugars - I don't how if that is true, but a lot of people seem to believe it (a lot of people also believe gluten is the work of the devil). I don't know if the price of a small bottle of Bee Free would be enough cheaper to make people purchase something they think is less healthy. On the other hand, if they can convince people that Bee Free helps save the bees, people may be willing to pay extra for it. I don't know if using Bee Free helps or hurts the bee population. In the bee ladies' defense, I don't remember them saying that it helps the bees, I thought it was brought up by one of the sharks and the other sharks held on to it. I got annoyed at Kevin (and he has been less annoying lately) for harping on them for having so little in sales for 16 years of business, especially after she pointed out (again) that the mistake that lead to bee free honey happened 16 years ago, and they haven't been trying to sell it for that long. At least the other sharks were able to understand.

There was no prize for finishing the leg first. I don't remember Phil telling the last place team that they would have to do a Speedbump sometime during the next leg (please correct me if I mis-remembered). If there is no speedbump and there was no prize, then is this an NEL or a TBC leg?

I didn't enjoy this episode as much as everyone else. It was nice to have a more adult Garcia. Although, the Garcia we usually have would have been perfect to talk to the kidnapped girls - "Look! I have this one of a kind My Little Pony. I will let you play with it, if you tell me everything you remember about the disappearing place." I thought it was all kinds of wrong to bring the parents in when the unsub had his meeting with Amelia. It was wring to put Amelia through that. Wrong to have the parents be int he same room with the monster. Plus, from a less emotional perspective - You know that the unsub may be the only one who knows where the 2 little girls are, he says he will tell you where if he meets with Amelia first. If the BAU is so well trained in behavior, they had to have known that there was a good chance that, if his meeting with Amelia didn't go well, he wouldn't tell them where the girls are. And they had to have known that bringing in her parents during the meeting was going to increase the chances that the meeting wouldn't go well enough for he to hold up his end of the bargain. I wish they would have explained the rational behind why he took eight year old girls. Yes, he wants to control every aspect of his life. Yes, his mother died when he was young. Yes, he father beat up (?) a prostitute and was married 5 times. But why did he kidnap 8 year old girls. And if the first girl worked out so well for him, why did kidnapped the other two. This is the kind of info I expect to get from CM. (Note: we have been watching early seasons of CSI shows lately and as I watched this episode, I kept thinking that they should have plenty of fingerprints and DNA to figure out who the unsub is and what the true names of the girls are). As usual, it is the logistics/details that bug me the most. He kidnapped Amelia when she was eight. Later, he kidnapped Gina, when she was eight, then, later, he kidnapped Sheila, when she was eight. He kidnapped Gina ten years ago. Amelia gives birth twice. The kids are kept at a separate house. They look to be around 6-8 years old. Therefore, Gina was there it was before Amelia had kids, but Gina has no memory of Amelia being pregnant. Plus, did he keep Amelia's kids at a separate location all their lives? Why? How? I suppose it is possible that Amelia's kids were older, like 8-10 years old. But this would mean that he kidnapped two kids while he had 2 babies around (well, 2 babies at a separate house). Why would he do that?

I never knew the "Black people can't swim" stereotype until I started watching Survivor.

It seems to me that last season or the one before that, the teams were required to take selfies - didn't one team miss a train because they were busy taking a selfie? I think that time they were only allowed to use the phones to take pictures.

No! Don't do it! Fight the urge! Take the 4 hour penalty and don't complete this task! I had forgotten about Justin, had forgotten about everyone from last season, then I saw his name upthread and all the memories came flooding back. Don't look him up! Let him stay out of your brain. Ignorance is bliss.

I will gladly take an NEL the first leg over an express pass. I was glad that the make-up girl and her father weren't philiminated, only because I actually know someone (a TAR watcher) who actually watches her videos. So, I had heard of make-up girl indirectly, and the frisbee guys and the magician seemed vaguely familiar to me, I think I may have seen something someone posted to facebook. I have a high tolerance for what most would call mugging - for instance, the Afghanimals didn't bother me at all, I was even rooting for them every season they were on. That said, the mugging done by one Frisbee guy - the better looking one who is single (not a surprise given his personality) - bugged the crap out of me. Too bad he couldn't fit a neon sign saying "LOOK AT ME!!!" into the carry-on compartment - maybe if he had a sign like that, he wouldn't feel the need to yell all the time.

It is like how you never realize how much people touch you until you have a sunburn, or realize how much you swallow until you have a sore throat. I thought this episode was the perfect example of how this show should be. Separate stories told separately, but they have little bits that keep them connected. Some of the other episodes felt more like they filmed a bunch of stories then figured out how to put them into episodes based on how much time they took. The dinner reservation story, the stork story, and the tattoo/heater story all had connected somehow. I don't remember anything in the guitar story that was a reference to anything else. So, now I know the following names - Lark is the baby, Heather is the daughter and the mom of the three kids. I think that Heather's husband is Jimmy, but I might be making that up. I am horrible with names, and my not remembering the characters names doesn't surprise me - I often learn character names best from reading these forums. However, with this show, everyone seems to be having as much trouble as I am. Perhaps they don't use the names as much in the episodes as other shows do? Maybe we should have a forum called "Who are these people?"

I laughed when he said this. What sort of life experiences would someone have that are similar to having any alien or parasite break through your skin? A splinter that worked its way out on its own? Then he "tasted" the slime and I wondered if he wasn't trying to be funny when he said to use life experience with the challenge. That is what I thought when I saw Mel/Melanie's, but then they explained that they parasite had slowly taken over the body until it finally breaks through the skin. I imagined it growing over the skeleton, under the skin, until it burst through - and it would make sense that if would burst at the top of the head, since there is no padding and the skin on the scalp is tighter than on the rest of the body. I can understand them not going for the alien busting out of the stomach, as it is the classic approach, but there are plenty of other places for an alien to break through than the head.