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In 15-20 years, when this show becomes some sort of campy cult classic and people will go to Dome conventions dressed as butterflies or wearing bandages tied around the outside of their pants and large plastic purple blobs around their necks, the show description will read "A mysterious dome surrounds a town filled with idiots, sociopaths, and idiot-sociopaths, plus a pair of hoarders, a dog, and a woman named Dodee who can read lips because her mother was deaf."

A few years ago, we tried out a new restaurant with another family. It was dinnertime, but the kids all wanted breakfast and the menu said that breakfast was served all day. Every time someone asked for a breakfast item, didn't matter if it was eggs, pancakes, omelet, or french toast, the waitress said, "Okay, but it is not our regular breakfast cook." We asked her if that meant it wouldn't be good and she said, "it will be okay, but I just want you to understand that he isn't the regular breakfast cook." My husband was the last to order, and when he ordered the salmon, the waitress said, "No, you don't want the salmon." He asked if they were out of salmon and she said that they had salmon, "but you don't want to order it." We had a good laugh about this, but we never went back, and we didn't leave her a very nice tip either. There are ways the waffle boys could discourage people from ordering the steak sandwich without literally telling people not to order it - just don't list in our your posted menu, or raise the price so that it wouldn't be worth it to most people.

I thought about this to - having Drew's act be a comedy duo, like Martin and Lewis or Abbott and Costello. But I think it may come off as one guy making fun of another guy's stuttering. So, I have decided that Drew should write a book. Talk about what happened and how he dealt with it. Include a lot of jokes and funny anecdotes. Then he can stutter in his dialogue, but the other person wouldn't stutter. And he can laugh all he wants while writing it, and Howard will never know.

I watched the first part of this show - I think I stopped when they had the challenge between RW and NPH. I decided to come on here and see what everyone thought - see if it was worth trying to finish later on. I still don't know. I like NPH - he didn't quite seem himself, which I will chalk up to it being the first episode and live - I think he will find his normal rhythm if the show lasts long enough. Not sure I am going to be able to like Nicole S - She annoyed me, seemed too stuck up for someone who peaked, career-wise, years ago.

I think if the judges were going for drama, they would have had someone jump from worst to first between the second and third rounds - doing it between the first and second rounds was rather anti-climatic. At first, I thought that they would just rank them and maybe give points for where they placed in the rankings - so 10 points if you finished first, 9 for second, 8 for third, and so on. Do the same for the second round but multiple those points by 2 or 3, since that round was worth more, it that would have made it very difficult for Kevon to move from the bottom to the very top. So, now I think that each round had a possibility of a certain number of points, with a higher possible amount for each successive round, and each artist was given a score. For example, Kevon finished the first round with only 10 of a possible 20 points, but they were so impressed with his second round make-up that they gave him 49 of the 50 points possible. Now he has a total of 59 points. Meanwhile, Nora did great the first round and got 18 out of a possible 20, but the second round, she only got 37 out of 50, now her total score is 55, and she is in third place (someone else managed to get 57 points). I wish they would have explained it better.

Yay for Nora winning, and boo for Jasmine leaving. Jasmine is normally such a good painter that she should have been a contender to win the Gauntlet. I think messing up on the instructions in the first challenge, plus having trouble last week (which was probably the day before to the contestants) broke her confidence and got her too nervous to think straight. Last week she tore off the prosthetics and just painted in a really short time (and was safe), but, this time, when she saw that the paint wasn't working out as whe planned she jsut kept trying to fix it. i think it would have been better if she jsut removed as much as she could or paint over the whole thing and start all over. Most of the contestants would not be able to do that, but she probably could have. This was a fun episode. I hope it becomes an every season kind of thing.

Drew needs to stop telling jokes that contain dialogues. His jokes are about the situations his stutter causes, but if the jokes contains a conversation, then both people in the conversation have a stutter and it makes it more difficult to understand what the joke is supposed to be. I have a feeling Derek's wife and kids said - "Oh no, we are not moving to Vegas. You will be doing an act every night and we still won't get to see you, but we also won't get to see our friends. And it is really hot in Vegas. We would see you more if we just leave things the way they are." So he decided to do the trick he didn't do for the first audition round because it was to lame. I didn't like any of the singing acts. I have never cared for Woody Allen, so Gary has never impressed me. I like his roommate better than him. The ladder guy would be great in a Cirque du Soliel show. I could see Oz, Stevie, Paul, or Piff winning this - not based on last night only, but based on all their performances.

Imagine if Nigel had talked to female models the way Tyra and Kelly talk to Nyle.

Reading the recap (which was great, as always) reminded me of another ridiculous thing that happened this episode -- Dawn steps onto the plank and Barbie appears out of nowhere and tells her that he has weakened the plank. So she does the most logical thing (</sarcasm>), she stays where she is. Most people would just take two steps back and go some other way. There wasn't a land mine (and plank mine) under her foot. And why didn't Barbie just let her keep walking, the plank beaks, she tumbles to her (non) death. Why come out of nowhere and warn her, giving her time to take two steps back and go some other way? And Barbie didn't have to step out onto the plank and break it, tumbling to his (non) death too. He could have just kicked his end of the board and knocked the board and Dawn into the apparently not-so-deep ditch. And where did he get a plank in an empty cement factory, how did he manage to weakened it it such a short amount of time, and why didn't he weaken it more? All the ridiculous plot contrivances. They wanted us (and Julia) to think Barbie was dead so they had to have him magically find a board and magically weaken it just enough, but not too much, then have him be stupid enough to think he had to jump on the plank and die for the cause and have Dawn be stupid enough to stay on the plank.

I agree. IMO, Clayton, and possible the first guy, are the only ones that NBC would consider doing a show around and the other three were in the finale to give some variety. I think it would be more interesting competition if they took the development deal out of the prize package.

I have not seen all the HGN episodes, but I don't remember seeing any of these --- Gilbert Gottfried because I would have to mute the episode and that would take all the fun out of watching. Any of the really old performers that I like - such as Betty White, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner - they are all great for their age, but they would probably suck at this game and I wouldn't want to see any of them be doddering old fools. Jerry Van Dyke - because he seems to have always been a doddering old fool, even when he was younger (based solely on the characters he plays). Anyone who seems to think they are more important than they are - Justin Beiber, Kanye West, Paris Hilton, any Kardashian. And, after watching the most recent season of Last Comic Standing - Norm MacDonald

At the end, when the kids announced that they had found something, it was no surprise that it was an egg, but I was kind of hoping that they would say "look, we found a snowglobe and here’s a story we wrote a story about a bunch of people trapped inside. We went around in a circle and each of us added one part to the story, but we weren't supposed to look at what anyone else had written. Melanie said the part about the butterflies, and Jimmy kept having everybody shoot everybody else. Joey wanted it to be science fiction, but Julie wanted it to be a love story. It is all really silly.” Yeah, this is a rip off of St. Elsewhere, but there were plenty of other shows UtD ripped off. They could have also gone with Julia waking up next to her dentist husband, saying “I just had the strangest dream” or Barbie nonchalantly stepping out of the shower or a drunken Roseanne saying “Hey, I jusht finnished writin’ my shcreenplay. I’m gonna be the nexsht Shteven King!”

Well, Dodee remains the only main character to die, or supposedly die, by gunshot. This time we got stabbed with rebar (Sam), stabbed with knife (Junior), falling (Dawn), and death by dome destruction or being the 8th amethyst (Joe). Prison Guard Kyle, though far from being a main character, got a real name, so he got to die by golden baseball. Of course, not all of them actually died because no one ever physically checks to make sure someone is dead. It is one of few consistent things on this show. Another consistent thing is people suddenly showing up - they put the last amethyst in its place and suddenly a bunch of blue shirts start walking in from all sides (though nowhere near 2,000 of them), the dome comes down and instantly the are a bunch of soldiers coming in from all sides. And - why weren't the soldiers in hazmat suits? They power wash everyone that was in the dome, I suppose to get any kinship germs off of them, but the soldiers don't even get face masks? Why would a cement factory have tunnels that lead to the next town? Why would a cement factory have tunnels at all? I got curious and looked up how cement is made and found absolutely nothing to the process that would require tunnels. I am starting to think that "Cement Factory" means "a factory made out of cement" not a place where cement is manufactured. When Sam died, my husband pointed out that all the former CSIs are dead. And I realized that 2 of the 3 former ERs are already gone and the only one left is suspended in a glass tube with a horrible case of "TV Snow" Poor Christine - she had to "drug" Junior with oxitocin to get him to have sex with her, while Dawn has characters literally fighting to the death to be her mate. Jim's point was valid, but still incorrect - Unless you check the body and can't find a pulse, they ain't dead. I believe they were burying the doctor who thought she might have found a cure (Stem cells! Bring me the umbilical cord!) not Eva. That gun battle was one of the worst pieces of acting I have seen in a long time, and I have watched every episode of this show. I don't remember the details, but the dog tags somehow prove that Barbie killed Dr. Shumway. I think Julia found them in the cabin where her husband died and that is how she knew Barbie had killed him (must have be her highly toned reporter instincts). I have no clue how the government was going to use those dogtags to prove to anyone in the outside world that Barbie is a killer. This is Chesters Mill - there is only one key and it opens everything, including jail cells that never existed before. Poor Kyle, not smart to know that a glass of water doesn't cure a heart attack. I have a friend who manages a fast food place and one day there was a gang fight in the parking lot. So the police asked him for a copy of the video from the surveillance cameras. This was in one of the 100 largest cities in America, but the police had to ask for a copy of the video - they weren't able to just go on their fancy shmancy computer and pull it up. But somehow Hunter is able to hook up his facial recognition software to every security camera in the US? Assuming that it is possible, why hasn't it spotted Dawn since then? Maybe Hunter only connected the software to a few random cameras and just got lucky that Dawn decided to walk into that store. Either way, why did it take a month before Hunter knew that Dawn was spotted. Big month

I think I record it because every once in a while, when Jim is talking to his best friend or to his wife's former boyfriend, they say something funny. That, and I am too lazy to delete it from the list. One of the things I find weird about this show is that in the fast-motion scene they do at the very beginning, Jim is helpful, working just as hard as his wife at feeding the kids or getting them ready for bed, but then he is a lazy loaf during the rest of the show.

My guess is that they figured it was easier to hide any stubble by covering the whole chin.

Does this prove the working moms talk slower?

On a positive note - I enjoyed seeing the contestants taking a break and goofing off with the wigs. Face Off always has the least "cut-throat" competitors and I always like seeing them have a little fun.

And get some sort of measurement where their nipples are on their chests (far apart? high up?, etc) and notice how "perky" they are. There have been a few incidences of nip-slips or near nip-slip,s and side boobage. I wonder how closely the dress forms (mannequins?) they use are to the models actual body. My mother had a dress form many years ago that she could adjust to match her body - probably not as closely as nipple placement, but at least her waist and chest measurements. I would hope that the show would supply them with a dress form matching each of the models' measurements, but I don't think that is the case.

ottoDbusdriver, you are forgetting that you are smarter than the writers. They have all sorts of wacky notions about the way everything works - acid rain, freezing temps, shrinking domes, oxygen, fires, bullet wounds, geneology, art, dead bodies, construction, first aid, birthing, butterflies...even the stuff they make up doesn't work the way they first decided it did. For all they know, a light year is a measure of time and the moon is thousands of light years away because the moon has lit up the Earth for thousands of years.

Even if Joe is singing it? I thought the purpose of having them all stare at the moon was to prove that Christine was able to control them. She told (willed?) them to stare at the moon and they did. Oh my, I just said that the writers actually had a purpose for something that happened on the show. How could I possibly think such a thing - they have never been shown to have a purpose or a reason for anything else they have written. Heck, they don't even remember writing it half the time. This heat wave must be affecting my brain.

And don't forget that she has her dad's eyes, as Christine pointed out.

They could certainly leave out the part about how it is their own spice blend. The potential customers don't know you, and your ability to blend spices has no reputation, good or bad. No one is going to say, "well, I was trying to decide between your stuff and the stuff on the truck across the street, but since you blend your own spices, I will eat here." I am a mom and I was able to say your phrase in under 4 seconds,

This might have been one of the downsides of the women taking so long to figure out what they were and then having to start some of it over after Tim pointed out that they weren't cohesive. Or they just aren't very good at fitting..

Oh, it will probably be mentioned, but, if any reasons are given, they will be what they want us to think is the reason, not necessarily the real reason. Some may be telling the truth, but we can never know for sure.

Took way too long to watch the episode this week .... I didn't see Ashley as "shutting down" as much as not wanting to make things worse. There was some reason they picked her last - it could have been any combination of a number of things - they are mean girls, she's is bigger than they are and they knew it was somewhat physical, her aesthetic is different, she's bossy, they don't like her, etc (we will probably never find out). If I were in that situation, my feelings would likely be hurt, but I would also be thinking "I don't want to give them anything that supports that they were right to pick me last, so I will be as much of a team player as possible. I will let the team decide and go along with them." No one else was pointing out that they needed to be cohesive, and perhaps Ashley didn't want to prove that she is the odd one out. My first thought when I saw that they had white fabric and extra paint was that they should make the garments then paint them. Maybe do some sort of hombre or paint a bolder pattern - much easier to line up the print. Of course, they would have to be careful that it doesn't look like a coloring project. When I saw what the women's Easter explosion fabric, I immediately thought "put it in some water before the paint sets. Their team was really foolish - you have a limited amount of material, make a sample, don't cover the whole thing. They popped those paint pellets like they were popping bubble wrap - I guess once you start popping, it is hard to stop. I wasn't surprised that the women did poorly as a team - too many of them seem to be over-confident (Amanda, obviously, but Candace was too, in thinking that her guidance would keep Amanda out of the bottom). But I was surprised at how well the men got along - given the way some behaved in the partner challenge and Blake's unwillingness to help the team in the paintball portion and his general demeanor. I thought I noticed Amanda's eyes light up during one of her talking heads when it seemed to dawn on her that, since it was a team challenge, she had someone else to blame if she went home.