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I would be fine with Lockhart, Agos, etc., fading into the background and Alicia joining Peter on the campaign trail, and having most of the show be filled with Lucca and the investigator trying cases. I like how Grace when back to be clueless this episode. "If the big cases make more money, why don't you only handle big cases." Last week, Alicia was scrapping by with bond court and Grace thinks she could just go out and get a big class action case now. I think it also reads differently because hasn't flirted (or slept) his way into getting any information. When this happened, I turned to me viewing partner and said, "So Peter is the Donald Trump of the Democrats?"

Spencer was right to stick with the majority. Sure, if he voted for Tasha, it would have been 5 for Tasha and 4 each for Ciera and Kass, as the other 8 would split their votes. But next week it would have been his alliance of 5 against the alliance of 7, and Spencer would likely be the target for flipping, and he knows he doesn't have an idol to save himself. I can't understand Ciera's vote for Savage. If she thought their plan was going to work (that Spencer would vote Tasha), then her voting for Savage would have made a 3 way tie - 4 for Kass, 4 for Tasha, 4 for Ciera, and 1 for Savage. So, she she must have known that Spencer wasn't voting for Tasha, then she should have assumed that Spencer would vote for Ciera since he has some loyalty to Kass for last week's save - which might make Ciera more likely to go home. Ciera fancies herself a strategic, non-emotional ("I voted for my mom!") player and the vote for Savage seemed completely emotional.

I have a feeling that the writer or someone close to the writer has PCOS and she wanted to let everyone know the symptoms and how it can be treated - so, if there was someone watching that had PCOS symptoms, they would go to the doctor. This was probably the first time that she could include this info and have it remotely apply to the case.

I think I will start calling this the "Public Service Announcement Episode" - not only do we learn that kids should play outside 60 minutes a day, but we learned all the symptoms of PCOS. Except the only one the unsub had was that she was overweight, she didn't have acne or excess facial hair. I really don't understand the point of bringing up PCOS, since it had nothing to do with finding the unsub. The scene where they give the profile always makes me shake my head because it rarely gives info that would actually help someone find the unsub. What were the cops supposed to do, go up to every large woman and ask if she recently broke up with her boyfriend? This time, the scene right before the profile giving scene made me shake my head too. They are sure the unsub is a man who had been left at the alter, but someone says they think it might be a woman and suddenly Hotch says, "We need to give the profile." Sure, Garcia's computer can instantly search every inch of social media for mention of a marriage proposal and can instantly like those results with people that work in the wedding industry, but it can't find the phone numbers for anyone. If you have PCOS and you bite your nails, then you are crazy, because only crazy people bite their nails. This actually makes sense to me. Both Ried's trivia and Garcia's blabbering can be seen as time wasters. But calling Reid on it, will save time, while pointing it out to Garcia would not --- If they give Reid the look, he will stop mentioning the bits of trivia and they can get back to work. If they did the same to Garcia she would say, "Oh no, I am blabbering again, I am soooo sorry to waste your time this way. I mean, I know you are all busy and there it a serial killer on the loose, so I shouldn't be talking this much. Oh dear, you don't think that he has killed someone else in the time that I have been talking, do you? I don't think I could live with myself if someone died because of me. Oh this is terrible, I need to look at pictures of puppies hugging kittens to get over this. Hold on a second.... Okay, I found an adorable picture of a St. Bernard with his paws wrapped around a calico kitty. Sigh....Whew....I feel better now. I am sending all of you the puppy and kitty picture in case you are having a bad day. What am I saying? Of course you are having a bad day, you are trying to find a serial killer and, oh no, I am still wasting your time aren't I? Okay, let me find the information again....There have been three murders in Boise, wait... make that 4 murders, another body was just discovered, oh....it was my fault too. Oh, oh, oh, where did I put that picture? I need to see it right now. Could one of you send it back to me?......"

I hate it when sharks make an offer and end with "but you need to decide right now." At least when Lori did it this episode, she had made a better offer than the entrepreneur was asking for, but most of the other sharks have done this "now or never" threat too and often for offers that worse than what was asked for and/or before all the other sharks had made offers. Just once, I would like the entrepreneur to reply, "Do you really want to go into business with someone who is so easily manipulated? Wouldn't you rather invest in someone who considers all options?" Just like I would like someone to tell Kevin, "Now really, I don't think you want to give your money to someone stupid enough to take your deal." When Lori first started speaking to the STEM women, I fully expected her to say, "As a woman, I don't understand technology, and, for that reason, I'm out." Maybe she invested in them because she was hoping they could teach her something. When they first tasted the coffee and they all loved it, I thought he make get a lot of offers, but after he told them about the amount spent and the lack of actual performance, they all lost interest to the point that they didn't even ask him about how much each can costs or how much it costs to make the hotboxes or discussed calorie counts or adding cream and sugar, etc. When he walked out, he said something like, "Other people have told me I should get out, but I I am sticking with it." Dude, people telling you that you have a bad idea doesn't make your idea a good one. He is like people that are in a bad relationship and say things like "I know my partner treats me badly and we fight all the time, but we have been together 8 years." When he mentioned having put so much time and money into it that he couldn't stop now, I was thinking, "How much money and time to do you need to spend to make it okay to stop? You can't stop after 6 years and 2 million, can you stop after 10 years and 4 million?" Did they explain where you were supposed to live while your house was being rented/vandalized by a bunch of sports fans? I don't trust her as far as I can drool.

I found it weird that none of the close up "fierce-o-gram" shots looked like what their hash tag was. For instance, Mikey's "story" was that he was sending text to his boss letting him know that he closed the deal. But his close-up didn't look a bit like a guy that just closed a deal, it looked more like a mugshot. All of them were like that, but none of the judges mentioned it. Why bother having the background story, just tell the models that they need to look serious in close up while having a "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" time. Speaking of fierce-o-gram...Yikes! I was really surprised that Tyra went with hashtag, instead of calling it a "Tyra-tag" or a "Hash-Tyra"

I see the similarities between Kalinda and Lucca and think that, sometime in the planning of this season, someone in charge said, "We need to find someone that will take Kalinda's place on the show. Alicia needs a female friend and, with our reliance on having cases be won by someone suddenly knowing or discovering something they should have realized long before, we need a character that will magically come to the rescue." Okay, they probably didn't say that last part out loud, but I am pretty sure they thought it. However, there is one major way that Lucca and Kalinda are different that I am very happy about - there have no signs that Lucca has a magic vagina.

I think the reason I am having trouble rooting for anyone this season is because none of the teams are fun or funny. They are either obnoxious or annoying or just there. I think the dancing brothers added some levity, and I have a vague recollection of the cousins being somewhat funny. I think one of the Texans kind of said something sort of funny, but it wasn't funny enough for me to remember it.

I am confused by TBC legs - are they starting the second half of a leg or a whole new leg? Last week, there was discussion as to whether Denise and James Earl had to use the express pass when they did. The rules were to use it by the end of the next leg, but was that leg really the next leg or was the one after the pit stop the "next leg" (the leg they raced this episode. The consensus seemed to be that it was the next leg because, when Phil told them to keep racing, he said "the next leg starts now." Now we have another TBC, and once again, Phil tells them that the next leg starts now, implying that this is a new leg, but then why didn't the Green Team get a prize? And if it is just the second half of the the leg, then Denise and James Earl won't be eliminated, so why bother with the cliffhanger at the end of the episode? I hadn't realized, until this episode, that they had a long distance relationship and most of their dating experience had be communicating electronically. His full personality probably doesn't reveal itself unless you are in seeing him "live." This may explain why Justin is less "on" than he was the first episode or two. I can see Diana starting off thinking, "Oh, he is so excited to be racing, I am so happy for him" and quickly moving on to "Man, he sure is tiring to be around. Doesn't he ever turn it off?" leading to "Justin, you need to stop being so 'exuberant' you are acting obnoxious and it is wearing me out." From my seat on the couch, I would say the answer to your question is "everything." Everything caused them to argue. Well, Diana had to tell him to "Read the clue!" Oh, but she is a pretty, young girl, with a great figure - what guy wouldn't want her to jump into his arms and straddle him? I was being sarcastic, but I have a feeling that was her attitude - that any guy would enjoy it. The cheerleaders seem a bit full of themselves to me. Mom never gives up, except on her only child (for a few months, anyway). She also "gave up" during the song many times - she would get a few lines into it and then stop. I guess she knew that she had said the wrong word, but it seemed like she decided her tempo or her pronunciation was off and stopped. I kept thinking that she should just keep going because she had done it so many times, that maybe the judge would have some sympathy and let her pass. I have a feeling that, in all the judging tasks, the judges are told "be a stickler for the first 3 or 6 or 9 tries then it is okay if someone a bit out of step or something is a little off-center." There is a fine line between never giving up and being stubborn.

At the Halloween parade at the nearby elementary school yesterday, there were quite a few parents who came in costume to watch the kids parade around the school - at 8:30 in the morning - on the day before Halloween. There were no parties afterward - actually the kids were required to change out of their costumes by the first recess. So having parents get dressed up seemed odd. Maybe they had to dress up for their work?

It always bugs me on reality competition shows when contestants say they deserve to win because they "want it more" or they "worked harder than anyone else." I don't think anyone on Face Off has ever said that...about themselves, but Ben said something similar about Nora - something like "I am happy Nora won, she worked harder for it." Face Off always has the nicest contestants. Your post got me thinking -- if a tree is a vegetarian, would it be a cannibal?

How were the all so sure Spencer or Woo didn't have an idol? There seemed to be no plan or discussion on splitting the vote. I wish we could have heard Savage's logic for saying that he would tell Spencer that he was voting for Ciera. I wonder if she really was on the bottom of his pecking order, or was she the one he most wanted to sit next to at tribal and thought she would be game savvy enough not to get offended about being chosen as the decoy? Perhaps he felt she was the most believable pick because she is the "weakest." Or maybe Spencer had mentioned voting out Ciera earlier, that we didn't see. It just seemed very random - "Okay, we are all going to vote for Spencer, but I will tell Spencer we are voting for ... eenie, meenie, minie, moo...Ceira" Thanks to everyone who posted twitter info regarding the choice of Woo. The editing made it seem like that Ciera was just bothered that she was named as the decoy vote and decided "I'll show you and vote for somebody else. Nyah, nyah, nyah. I will pick, um, uh, Woo. So there!"

Last episode, Bond Court Judge was giving Alicia all the cases because she saved him when Eli warned him about the FBI bribery sting. This week he's taking all her cases away from her because she won't lie to a defendant to force her to take the plea, thus "wasting" the judges time, in a case that doesn't belong in bond anyway. Huh? And why did all those people who were arrested want to have Alicia as their lawyers? Were they all arrested for shoplifting at the same store? The store didn't seem that busy in the surveillance video.

I am enjoying this show more this season - probably because they are actually having cases. Although it could be because this show is becoming the show to watch just so your can find the idiocy and make fun of it (RIP Under the Dome). I can see it coming back, but then Peter will make a phone call or the new investigator will discover something, or the new lawyer comes up with some law none of the long-time lawyers have ever heard and no one gets in any real trouble and the voters will completely forgive an forget. My theory is that the Kings really want to be comedy writers - the too small office, Howard, Alicia's mother's drinking, the Three's Company sort of misunderstandings, etc. They have been trying to make this show a comedy for years - Remember the previously unheard of lawyer who telecommuted by being on a computer screen rolling around the office? Purely for comic effect. And then there was the comedy banter between the two government computer guys that were spying on Alicia and the firm a couple of seasons ago. The problem is they seem to take most of the comedy lessons from old Marx Brothers movies and I Love Lucy episodes, and, while both of those are classics that were performed by very talented people, that sort of comedy has been done and re-done many times and is not the laugh riot the Kings seem to think it is.

So the Mom and Son had to use the express pass by the end of the next leg, but was this really the next leg? It was a TBC and they got it when the got to the mat and told they were still racing. Therefore, one could take it as they were still in the same leg in which they got the pass. So could they use it on the next leg (the one in episode 6)?

I am far from an authority on this sort of stuff - heck, I don't even watch The Walking Dead - but I was sure that one of the judges would point out that those were skeletons coming up out of the graveyard, not zombies. I thought zombies still had (most) of their skin, based on ones I have seen (in movies and on tv, I have yet to see one in real life, although there was that guy on the train one morning, but I digress...) Seems to be a popular opinion... I didn't like the pumpkin guy from the winning team. He is a good carver, but is terribly obnoxious. I was impressed with him making a giant vegetable peeler, but, as he used the grinder to make it, I kept thinking why doesn't he use the grinder to remove the rind/peel. Also, I would think that if you are the self-proclaimed greatest giant pumpkin carver to ever carve a giant pumpkin, you would already have some tool to peel giant pumpkins, other than a regular size vegetable peeler. Food Network seems to try too hard to make their competitions "exciting" and "suspenseful" (both are in quotes, because I don't think they are too successful at it). "Oh no, I broke the most important part of our display and don't have time to re-create it, but I will try anyway" is to Halloween Wars as "Oh no, I put too much/little of something in my batter and now I have to start over and don't have time to re-make it, but I will try anyway" is to Cupcake Wars.

How long is Joe in school? Most kids go to preschool in the morning only, so Jay could have been at the retirement party to give a speech and he could have easily made a cake decision over the phone (although it would have made more sense to make the decision the day before, if not earlier). If Gloria was still at Jury Duty, Jake could bring Joe with him. This whole episode felt like it was written like they had certain jokes in mind and created situations to lead to those jokes, but they didn't bother to make sure that those situations were logical.

I checked the website and you are correct - a bear, a donkey, and a chicken/rooster/cock. I think the real logo is worse than the one I thought (I think I was the first to say it was a pig) - it might make people think the jerky is made from horse meat. I don't know about that, the skinny mirror would also make Kim's famously large butt smaller too. But now I am envisioning a future where all the pictures on dating websites are of reflections in a skinny mirror. Saves time over using photoshop to make yourself look thinner. They already have apps that get rid of blemishes (although, if you have more than one or two, it ends up giving your face a plasticky look).

Waited two weeks to watch this episode - I guess that is an indication of how important this show s to me. When the defendant (turned plaintiff?) said that he destroyed the picture because whenever someone (employer, potential girlfriend, etc) googles him, the naked pictures of 8 year old him are first on the search list, I thought, "Yeah, and now the articles about how you got arrested for damaging a picture of naked 8 year old you. Don't think you improved your situation there, buddy." So, apparently he won financial damages because Alicia and Grace were discussing the amount of money, but did he get charges against him dropped? When Grace said that she wants him, I am not so sure she was talking about his investigative skills. Diane's role has decreased so much in the last few seasons that she is now literally fading into the background.

Can you imagine what Chris is like when he is working --- He is walking 8 feet behind Angelina Jolie and she turns a corner. Rather than following her around the corner he stops and whines "Oh no, she turned the corner, now I will never get her picture! Maybe I should walk in the opposite direction around the block and hope I run into her again. Or maybe I should hail a taxi and take the freeway to the next exit. No, it would probably be better to find a shoe store and get some good running shoes so I can keep up. Nah, that will never work, I should go to the roof on a tall building and track her from there. Or maybe I should...." Can you please do me a favor? Given your track record so far, can you declare the Paparazzi your favorite team? I don't have a fear of heights and, as far as I know, I don't have a fear of lions. However, I enjoying being alive and would find both of these tasks to be scary. However, I think I would find the lion walk less scary than the microlight. If he microlight fails, I will most likely die in the crash. If the lion decides to attack, I don't have to be able to outrun it, I don't even need to be the fastest human there, I just need to be able to outrun one of the other humans. The camera guy is weighted down with equipment. I could probably outrun him if he keeps the equipment on, and, if he takes it off, I would have the opportunity to push him down while he is removing it. The lion will go for the human already on the ground. Joking, of course, as much as I like living I don't think I could push the camera guy to his death (unless he kept filming me from my bad side). I would think that, if I were on TAR, I would just keep telling myself that the show would not have us do anything that really put our lives at risk, because if someone dies when doing a task, the show would get canceled. Therefore, there must be precautions in place to keep us from being in as much danger as it looks.

Edmond should have said, "Since there were no qualifications about which awards show the red carpet would be for nor for which year the awards show took place, I designed the dress I thought Jane Fonda should have worn when she won an Oscar in 1972 for her portrayal of a prostitute in Klute."

I wish the designers would interpret the question as "Why do you deserve to go to fashion week?" or "Why would we want to see your collection at fashion week?" and give answers like "I am the only designer you have had on that enjoys making plus size fashions and you will get to see them on plus size models" or "I have a different style than the others up here on the runway with me and I think I will be best able to show you something new and fashion forward at fashion week" or "I have had the top look three times and you will be really wowed when you see what I can make when I have more than a day or two to make it." Instead, too many of them interpret the "Why should you go?" question as "Why do you want to go?" and give answers like "I have wanted this since I was three" or "I have worked hard the entire time."

I though the drone guys and the jerks were two of the best negotiators I have seen on the show. I don't understand the excitement over a phone drone. I get the cool/fun factor of a drone, but I would want to send my phone high in the air and worry about it falling out, or the drone crashing into a tree, or get lost or stuck in a place I couldn't retrieve it from. Don't (some) drones already have cameras? What would be the purpose of using your phone then? A roving drone playing your iTunes library as it flies around at parties? So the 3 Jerks Jerky logo is a bear, a pig and a chicken (aka a cock) and their jerky is made from beef. I understand how they came up with it - each picked an animal, blah, blah, blah - but I kept thinking that if Barbara was there, she would comment that they should change it because it makes no sense. Barbara seems to get hung up on that sort of thing more than the others. I think there may be a market for the story book, assuming the story is interesting. Parents that are afraid that their children will stop loving them if the enforce any rules (and those parents exist) or parents that are into that sort of novelty/fantasy thing would probably love to have a story to explain why the Switch Witch will come and trade their candy for a present. It would be Halloween's version of the Night Before Christmas. But you don't need a stuffed witch to tell the story. Using the tooth fairy is a better idea than a witch - but there doesn't seem to be a way to give it a cutesy rhyming name so it will never catch on (/sarcasm). The parents who think they have solved some huge problem that doesn't actually exist almost always irritate me.

I don't mind the "Why should you go to fashion week?" (I am not always fond of their answers though). It is certainly a better question than the one they always ask winning olympians - "How does it feel to win the gold?" Isn't the answer obvious? Or are the interviewers thinking someone might say, "Hmm, it doesn't feel as good as I thought it would. I can't believe I gave up 3 hours a day and every weekend of my life practicing and training just to get this tacky necklace. I bet it is only gold plated - if it really is gold. And my foot hurts a little bit." I really dislike the "Who should go with you?" question they always ask on PR. Just once, I would like someone to answer, "I would like to go with Designer A and Designer B, because there is no f***ing way I could beat Designer C.

It bugs me when participants in any reality competition think they deserve to win because they worked harder than anyone else. It also bugs me when they think they should win because they want it more. It is impossible to know how much someone else wants something unless they say "I really don't care if I win" and even then you can't be sure, unless, maybe, they say that to the judges. My third peeve is when contestants say that they are sorry to go, but if they had it to do all over again, they wouldn't change a thing. Really? You want to stay in, but, even if you knew something would get you sent home, you would do it again?