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All they have to do is kill the new queen. No need to do anything about the rest of the infected people because (1) they are harmless without a queen, they will wander aimlessly or commit mass suicide, and (2) the infection isn't contagious. The only one they need to worry about is Junior, who seems to think on his own. Of course, they can't kill Queen E, because she is Barbie's daughter (he and the writers will forget that he decided she was a monster last episode).

If the writers understood how oxygen works, which is very unlikely, because they haven't shown much understanding of anything remotely scientific, they could have gone with "The dome is calcifying and soon the sunlight won't be able to shine through and it will get so cold that we will all die" but they used that one before. I suppose they could have gone the opposite route of "the dome is calcifying and without airflow it will be like a greenhouse that keeps getting hotter until we all die." Of course, if they are going to start have the dome behave correctly in a scientific sense, then they should probably use a different word than "calcify." Actually, now that I think about it, the writers haven't shown much understanding of things that are more general knowledge/logic, either - like a woman falling madly in love with the man 3 days after he killed her husband, or how long it takes to build things, or how people behave when they think they are going to be trapped in a dome forever (except for a few scenes in the beginning), or that having parents that are deaf wouldn't make a person be able to read lips**, or how to wear a bandage, or how long gunshot wounds take to heal, etc... ** For some reason, I just can't let go of that lip reading thing. Perhaps because it was the first really illogical thing I noticed and it started my love of making fun of this show. There had been other illogical things before this, but they could be overlooked because this is science fiction**** and I could just say it was because of the dome. But there were better ways to explain why someone would know how to read lips - like working in a radio station where they may want to tell each other information but don't want to keep turning on and off the mics. **** Maybe, to the writers "Science Fiction" means "none of the science is true"

My guess is that they film a batch of episodes buying at a flea market (so they have a bunch of teams shopping on the same day). Then the teams come back later and work of their stuff on separate days because they use the same professionals (the workshop is probably close to the Good Morning America studio so Lara can stop by and put in her two cents), then they film a batch of episode at a different flea market, with multiple teams selling their stuff. I would think that they try to mix it up so that not everyone that bought and Brimsfield sells at the Brooklyn Flea, to lessen the chance that teams figure out where they are selling and have their friends come by and buy. So there could be quite a few weeks between when they buy and when they sell. But that is just a guess on my part. It could also be that it was an unseasonably warm day at the buying location, and an unseasonably cold day at the selling location two days later.

I didn't make it clear in my original post, but I meant that there must be some sort of rule that main characters can't die by gunshot wound - they die from other reasons like being crushed (Linda) or by fire (Dodee) or stabbing (Angie) or electrocution (the reverend) or smothering (Eva). However, gunshots don't seem to affect them much. Sure, Julia almost died, but she was up and running around a day or two later (in Dome time). Has there ever been a main character that was shot to death? And I don't count Hektor as a main character, even if he is played by a "big name," because he was a only in a few episodes and I consider him more as just another plot diversion. But maybe that is because I can't seem to wrap my head around his plan and his motive - was he trying to protect himself from getting in trouble for something and that is why he told tech girl that they will never leave the dome, did he want to kill the drones to keep the infection from spreading and protect humanity, or was he trying desperately to find a cure to save his friend? Changing the subject - I watched this episode rather late at night and was a big groggy, so when Christine said to Junior that "Children are out future" I expected her to break into song - "...Treat them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside...." I am really glad she didn't, as I thought she did a horrible job singing the lullaby to Eva, but this show is so ridiculous at this point that if it suddenly became a musical, I wouldn't be surprised. They keep saying there are 2,000 people, but we have only seen a 100 or so. The other 1,900 drones were apparently toiling away in the Chesters Mill garment district making matching outfits.

What if the entrance to the dome that is under the lake wasn't just an entrance, but it also allowed people to leave and now there are a bunch of wet old people wandering around Zenith?

Well, I was right - sort of - I thought the new queen would grow so fast that Barbie wouldn't recognize her. He shot at "his baby." Good thing he missed or we would have had to suffer through a scene of him all upset over killing her. And Julia trying to console him - like she did with her "I know how you feel." I glad Barbie told her off. Like she really has any clue what it would be like to parent an alien queen who was born three days after conception. I had to keep re-watching that scene where Christine is giving up the last of her life force and Barbie pulls her out causing the cocoon to explode and the new queen to go flying through the tunnel and Barbie goes chasing after her - I had to keep re-watching it because I kept laughing so hard that it took me 4-5 tries before I actually saw the whole thing. That was so incredibly bad, I am almost convinced that they writers think they are writing a parody. I realize that getting the lifeforce sucked out of you and saving a chiild from drowning and becoming human again and almost getting choked to death can be a bit draining, but Christine just suddenly needs a nap? The dome is calcifying, the queen is flying loose, the people she left in charge are randomly deciding to kill off hundreds of people, and she decides this is a good time to take a nap? I guess there must be some rule that a main character can't get shot. Yeah, Hektor was shot, but he was only there for a few episodes, I don't count him as a main character. Has this no-shooting-a-main-characer thing been around since the start? The minister (and the sherriff?) was killed by the dome supercharging his hearing aid, Doodie (and Jr's mom?) died by fire, Joe's sister was axed, Christine was calcified, etc... And because it needs to be asked every episode - How stupid are these people? Junior with his super strength almost kills Christine and Barbie, until Julia gives him 40 whacks with a tire iron. Okay, I get that they can't shoot a main character (see last paragraph), but after he is lying there in the grass, no one bothers to check and see if he still has a pulse? No one thinks of tying him up and taking him to one of the many abandoned factories? And speaking of stupid things --- They decide to get rid of the old people to save oxygen, and the old people, being lemmings, are happy to go along with the idea. Why waste all that oxygen making the old people walk all the way to the lake? Why not just shoot them or poison them or give them each a razor blade? Amazing that we would consider a dome dropping down out of nowhere, chopping a cow in half in the process, as being something that makes sense, but compared to everything that happened since then, it did make sense. Hektor attempted explaining the lack of interference by the military - he said something about how the government isn't going to want to admit that aliens landed and took over a town. Of course, this doesn't make sense either - Did all those people that went to see the parade in a neighboring town just give up on the idea of ever seeing their friends and family again?

Different people have different tastes, including different senses of humor. Perhaps those people who are always offering their friends "Five bucks if you eat this" find Helping Hands hilarious. I am not one of those people.

So, all along I have been thinking that maybe the reason why I didn't find some of the people that went through to the next round as hilarious as the judges did was because I didn't hear their whole set. I figured that they left out some of it so that they could do those jokes at a later point in the competiton. But, no. There is no later part o the competition for them to bring out that material. Which means that what I saw/heard was the best of their set. Sigh. I wouldn't mind watching that too, but only if he includes a "joke" about lining up a bunch of men and slapping their penises like a picket fence.

I am known among my friends and family for having a really good memory, but I my memory is absolutely horrible when it comes to names. There is no way I would ever go on this show, because a lot of the answers involve knowing the name of a celebrity. Even if I magically happened to win, I would bomb the final game. I have heard of most of the Forest Whitaker roles people have mentioned on this thread, but it wouldn't have been enough for m to remember his name. Even if they went with "the black actor with the droopy eyelid" I would have been able to picture him in my head but probably not say his name. My best hope would have been if they said "his first name is a place with a lot of trees" or "his first name is the same as the guy with the last name Gump" My first thought was "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend." Like Jenna, I also thought of Strawberry Fields Forever when I saw the one for Raspberry Beret - the beret sort of looked like the leafy "cap" of a strawberry. I should probably wear my glasses when I watch this show - and stop doing other things at the same time.

I have nothing against Ira and can see how people could enjoy the act, the same way I enjoyed watching The Muppet Show back in the day - which is why I don't enjoy watching Ira. I feel like I have already seen it, and with more characters. He needs to add a couple of grumpy men in the balcony or a French chef puppet, but he can leave out the egotistical pig.

Years ago, one of my daughters had a doll that giggled. That giggle was so infectious that when the doll giggled, we all giggled, If we made the doll keep giggling, we all kept laughing until out stomachs hurt. I can see how some can find Drew's laugh to be maniacal, but I think, for a lot of (maybe most) people, Drew's laugh is very infectious. I wonder how many people in the audience were just laughing along with him and not really laughing at his jokes. I have heard that sometimes comedians try to have someone with a great/infectious laugh in the audience because it gets other people laughing and it gives the impression that the jokes are funnier than they really are, Drew may be his own "laugh plant" For the record, I thought his set last night was funny, but not laugh out loud funny.

I won't miss the show, but I will miss making fun of it. Can we just pretend there was an episode, make up a thread title and keep posting our comments about stuff we pretend was part of the pretend episode? For Example: S:03 E:14 My Three Hairless Sons Needschocolate posted 17 seconds ago Okay, I get that Jim couldn't do any sort of DNA testing since they are trapped in a dome (for once their backwards science doesn't come to the rescue) so I understand that he had to shave their heads to see if they bore any resemblance to him, but why would he have to shave Junior's head too? That makes no sense - he already knew Junior was his son. And I think it was stupid of the writers to name the other two sons "James" too - what are they going to do now, call them Junior, Little Jim and Jimmy Boy? How many actresses did they hire to play Queenie (another stupid name - somebody get the writers a baby names book)? There was one scene in that never-before-seen mall that had three different little girls. Yeah, she is supposed to be growing quickly, but they could have at least tried to find little actresses that looked alike. And that was some "discovery" that the New Scoobie Doo Gang made - Mentos and Diet Coke as a power source? I mean I am glad the Prius finally ran out of battery (a seldom seen brush with reality, but where did these supposedly starving people get all those Mentos and bottles of Diet Coke? And, because it can't be said often enough - Julia really needs to stop wearing bandages on the outside of her clothing.

Maybe it is a different sort of race against time and they are racing against baby Alienqueen's sped up aging proccess. They don't have to worry about nursing because she was already feeding herself solids by her next feeding. If they don't find her soon, they won't recognize her.

Well, it seems more Freudian that any of the other furniture psychologies. However, "Bed Psychology" sounds very close to "Bad Psychology" - especially after drinking wine (I mean that literally).

I have nothing to back this up, but I get the feeling that Kelly is one of those people who is rather insecure and doesn't have anything she was better at than anyone else she knew, so she acts like she is powerful and talks about knowing a lot of things and having a lot of experiences, but she feels deep down that she is not that good. While I can imagine her saying she knew sign language, I don't think she will try to communicate with Nyle that way. Besides, if she was really good enough at it, she would have showed off by now. Note: This sort of diagnosing someone that you don't know and when you don't have any sort of psychology training other than that one class in college is known at "Armchair Psychology." However, I do not watch this show while sitting in an armchair, I sit on the couch. Therefore, I am exhibiting "Couch Psychology" and, since the classic stereotype of a psychiatrist includes a couch in his office, I feel that Couch Psychology is much more accurate than Armchair Psychology.

I was okay with the "Voted Best Curry in America" although I would probably feel differently if they wrote it on the side of their truck. Technically, she didn't lie when she said it - she was the only one that voted. Perhaps knowing her "trick" will make some viewers at home think first when they hear that sort of propaganda - People tend to be too quick to believe any statistic and don't question what it really means. After all, 43.7% of all statistics are made up (wink-wink). If I were one of the people walking by, I would take her comment with a grain of salt, because joking like that was really common in my family growing up - saying things that sound one way until you really think about what they said. The one comment that did get me (more of a "huh?") was the woman (not sure which truck) who said she wanted to win this competition so they would be the best food truck in American. I don't think that is what this competition is about. I really want to eat a chocolate stuffed waffle. I don't even like waffles that much, I guess I just need chocolate.

I google "MK Trademark" and apparently, Mary Kay sued Michael Kors for trademark infringement over his use of MK. They had some sort of trademark pact but Mary Kay felt Michael Kors did not follow it. They settled out of court in April, 2014. I don't know any other details because I got bored and stopped reading about it.

One of my jobs is substitute teaching and, in my school district, they teach telling time with an analog clock. There have been 3 different math programs in the 10 years I have been subbing, and they all had lessons on analog clocks. I have taught lessons in Kindergarten that dealt with the "o'clocks" and the difference between the big hand and the little hand, and lessons in first grade with telling time to the nearest 5 minutes. I am not sure if telling time to the minute is a first grade or a second grade thing. The classrooms have analog clocks and digital clocks. I remember my daughter's kindergarten teacher saying that she thought it was ridiculous that kids still had to learn the multiplication tables in 3rd grade, because everyone has calculators now. I asked her if she brings a calculator to the store with her when she figures out how many bags of something (popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, etc) to buy for a project for 30 kids to do. She thought for a moment and said I had a point. This was years ago, before everyone carried a phone with a calculator on it. But learning stuff like multiplication tables and telling time on an analog clock is important, even if you will have ways around using it when you are older - it all helps train your brain to think in different ways. Perhaps not being able to tell time implies that Blake is not a well-rounded thinker, and that is why he didn't understand the problem with sewing stretchy and non-stretchy fabrics together (I just threw in that last part about Blake because I am trying to stay on topic and get my post to relate to the episode) I don't have any sympathy for the designers either, at least not with regards to the amount of time (if their work station is next to someone annoying, then I have sympathy). Everyone has the same amount of time. If you are going to be on Amazing Race, learn to drive stick, if you are going to be on Survivor, learn to start a fire without matches, and, if your are going to be on Project Runway, learn to make a garment in a day - or at least practice enough that you know what you are capable of sewing in a day. However, I would like to see longer challenges just because I would like to see what they would come up with if they had more time or if they had time to scrap a bad idea and re-start. With the shorter challenges, they tend to stay in their comfort zones and usually have to stick with what they started because they don't have time to re-think it. I think this keeps some of them from attempting something more creative. However (another "however"?), I wouldn't want to have longer challenges every time, because the shorter ones tend to point who has a wider range of talent. I wish they would have more even mix of 1-day and 2-day challenges, with a 3 day challenge thrown in once a season. It just seems like there is only one or two 2-day challenges a season now.

Finally watched the episode and finally stopped laughing after reading all the posts on here. I am kind of sad there are only 2 weeks left in forums threads. I kept finding myself finishing Barbies lines --- "...the Eva I used to know...in a dream I had in a cocoon" and "I want to what is best for our baby...so I drugged her pregnant mother." Oh Joe, I am pretty sure when Barbie told you to stall, he meant to stall without letting the other side know you are stalling, as that would be the best way to make sure that the stalling works. In other words, sit at your desk and fiddle with things while making your "I'm deep in thought" face, not blaring music and dancing wildly around the room. Scariest moment of the episode for me - when I thought Christine was going to have sex with Joe. So glad that didn't happen. This episode left me with a bunch of questions --- --- If Junior is now strong enough to throw Big Jim across the room, why wasn't he strong enough to break through the twine that held him? --- Why do the the humans believe what Christine tells them? Why doesn't anyone think that maybe the calcifying is just a projection, like the firestorm? (yeah, I know, dead animals, but Christine has gone hunting before, or at least that is what she said). ---- If the bad aliens are coming, wouldn't the safest place to be be under the dome that a nuclear bomb couldn't destroy? (and why don't any of the humans consider that maybe she wants the dome down so that the rest of her people can get in?) ---- (this one should have occurred to me seasons ago - or 3 and a half weeks ago in CM time) Why did the Shumways have a house and a cabin under the dome? Who builds a cabin that close to their house? The dome isn't that big. And my last question - When I birthed my babies, why did I have to do all the work? Why didn't the doctor or a nurse or my husband or a reporter just use their forearm to squeeze the baby out?

I agree. I would have been fine if Blake had just been declared safe and walked off with all the other safes. I would have sat on my couch and thought, "Blake was safe? Well, his construction sucked but it was different. They probably want to encourage different, so I can see why he was safe." However, if he walks off with the safes, then the judges can't gush about how innovative he was and try to make themselves seem more hip and modern, so I can understand that they wanted him on the catwalk with the tops and bottoms. I think they should have either told him he was in the top, gush over it, point out his mistakes, and then give the win to one of the other two - or just have five people up there and tell Blake that he is in the top and the bottom. But there is no way that he deserves to win.

I get the feeling it could be difficult to have a conversation with Heidi, because every time her eye would catch something shiny, she would go running off after it. Blake reminds me of one of those fluffy little dogs that is too dumb to remember to eat on his own, who doesn't understand any basic commands, runs around whining and yipping, chews on people's shoes for while they are still wearing them, poops all over the floor, and the owners just say, "oh isn't that so adorable!" (I am not saying all fluffy little dogs are like this, but some definitely are) Because of this fluffy dog image, I have decided that Blake has a much older, much wealthier boyfriend who dotes on Blake because Blake amuses him. And they have parties where all the guests are older people who talk about how adorable Blake is, because they don't want to offend their host by complaining about Blake chewing on their shoes. I am trying to decided if you mean people who sew at home and also dive, or people who dive in the tunnels under the city. Either way, it works. After watching this show, I am getting the feeling that the new meaning of "editorial" is "full of crap" and I think I will start using that way in my everyday life - someone starts bragging about how they spent $15,000 on a ugly rug or $20,000 on a tacky piece of furniture, and I will smile and say "oh, that is so editorial" - I think there may have been a typo - the "i" in "flip" was supposed to be an "o"

I am not sure how many "likes" we are allowed, so I had to stop giving them (I caught up on two other shows last night and wanted to save some likes for those forums), but I think I would have "liked" every post here, if I had an infinite number of "likes" (in other words, I did like every post, even if I didn't "like" it). I really wanted them to shave Mikey's head. Why do all guys with long hair think their long hair is great hair? If you put Mikey's hair on a women, they would say it was stringy, messy, dirty-looking, life-less, frizzy, etc... When they were all sitting around and Haddasah was complaining about her hair (before Nyle made his comment), I was thinking that it must be hard for him to keep up with the conversation because there are too many people and some are not in his field of vision - no matter how fast his interpreter is or how well Nyle reads lips, he must miss a lot of what is going on. Nyle, if you are reading this, I can hear what they say and this is one instance where you should be happy to miss out (and I am talking about your time in the house with these people, not just this one conversation). And while I am sending messages to the hamsters, let me say - Stefano, I can understand why you love your family so much. I am sure, based on what I have seen from you, that they must have constantly complimented you, telling you how handsome you are and how good your are at everything you do. You probably feel that the other hamsters, the judges, etc, don't appreciate the wonder that is you. Stefano, I am going to put this as gently as I can...Your family is a bunch of liars. Didn't they call it a "chic bowl-cut"? - Now, there's an oxymoron. I think the only reason why they posed with the disabled vets, besides letting Tyra think she is supporting the troops, is so when one of the hamsters freaks out about her make-over, they can point out that she posed with someone who lost a leg fighting for their country and she is a baby for whining about hair. Therefore, they had to do the make-overs after the shoot, because saying "how can you complain about a haircut when you are going to pose with a disable vet tomorrow" just doesn't work as well.

When Norm commented that that some comics try to show how smart they are instead of showing how funny they are, I thought "Hey Norm, do you realize you are talking about yourself?" - the Harry Potter and the Bible, the "why did you say upsetting, when it wasn't upsetting?" (although I agree that "upsetting" wasn't the right word for her to use, the joke didn't hinge on it). Roseanne has given negative feedback ....but only if Keenan says something negative first. I wouldn't mind getting rid of Norm and Roseanne. I'd rather have Russell Peters than either of them. Let it be Russell, Wanda Sykes, and Keenan.

Now maybe the designers that have been scraping by without their sewing kits will be able to finally get scissors, pins, needles and thread. I am expecting a vast improvement in their constructions skills this week (/end sarcasm). Seriously though - I am looking forward to seeing Swatch.

I don't think our opinions are that far apart - what I was trying to say (and perhaps didn't do such a good job of) is that the route they took was more typical (or stereotypical) and was, therefore, the easier and safer route. And, because it was easier and safer, I can understand why they took it. I feel that many of these people do not have the confidence at this point to try to do something more "daring." I wouldn't have been surprised if some of the past contestants would have gone the small prisoner and large guard route.