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I have the opposite story - when I was around 9 we visited my aunt - she lived in another country, so this was my first time at her house. I had to poop. I was in the bathroom for a long, long time. My mother finally knocked on the door asking what I was doing and if I was okay. I told her that I was fine, but they are out of toilet paper, so I have been looking at magazines, waiting for someone to check on me. My mother replied, "the magazines are the toilet paper.' Using magazines to wipe - good for the environment and the budget, bad for your bum (and I would think the septic system wouldn't be to happy about either). I don't remember that product, but I can see the use of a litmus test for caffeine. My brother avoids caffeine because it raises his blood pressure, my mother avoids it after 3 pm because it really affects her sleep, and a know a few people that get migraines if they don't have a consistent amount of caffeine in their systems (like a withdrawal thing) - they either always drink caffeinated or they avoid it. The people that need to avoid caffeine end up not ordering coffee in restaurants because they don't trust the waitress and/or the orange coffee pot (they can all tell stories of being told it's decaf, and finding out later it wasn't). It would be nice for them to be able to test it.

Rule 43b in the Mandatory Requirements for Competitive Reality Shows Manual states "When adding an extra challenge, do not allow for extra time. Competitors must be as stressed as possible. Also, allowing enough time to properly finish a challenge creates the possibility for a competitor to do a good job with the challenge, which would lesson the opportunites for judges could make witty, derogatory remarks." Apparently, those connected with FO stilll haven't read the manual, after all these seasons. And I am very happy about that. Given that the challenge was for 3 characters from 5 people, done over 4 days, these artists don't seem as good as in past seasons. I am thinking that the producers realized this (or realized that the talent pool was getting sparse) and decided to add mentors so that there were be a teaching/learning aspect this season. This also goes against the Manual (rule 57c, I believe).

The lumio looked cool, but I thought they were too bright. I would find it distracting and/or blinding.

I was joking when I first suggested JJ might turn into a serial killer - actually, I said I hope she becomes one, not that I thought the producers were going in that direction. I don't think the show would go there, and, if they did, it wouldn't be with JJ - it would probably be with some new guy they hired instead of one of the current team. I do think it would be a cool idea to have one of the team turn into a serial killer, if the writers were good enough to make it suspenseful and believable. Imagine trying to catch a killer who has such a deep understanding of how to catch serial killers (the first thing to do would be to mess with Garcia's magic computer so your name/picture/phone records/credit card info wouldn't pop up in any search. Of course, the team member turned serial killer wouldn't "catch" it from one of the unsubs. However, the standard course of events for the unsubs is "have a traumatic experience in the past, then have something happen that triggers them turning into a serial killer." Every member of the BAU has had some sort of traumatic experience (and none worse than JJ, according to her), so they could have something happen (JJ finds out she is infertile, her toaster has a short in it and she gets an electrical burn, etc...) that triggers serial killer-itis.

The mayor wants everything to be very confidential and you know that the conversation with the mayor's wife needs to be handled very delicately ... So you take Jack with you? Jack? How many times does he need to embarrass Beth with his obnoxious style and complete lack of nuance, before she realizes that she can't let him be part of anything that remotely requires finesse? I am no legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, but my thought was that the daughter would file charges against Drew, but not against her step-brother, and the mayor would not file charges against his son. So the son would go free, and Drew would face prison time for attempted murder, etc... This may not be the way it works in real life, but it would totally work on a TV show. Just imagine being stuck in an elevator with this Muzak.

I totally agree with the first part - What good is have a set time for it to wake you when you don't know how long it will take you to fall asleep? And I think I have an answer for the second part - They said that 10 minutes before the set time to wake, the lights start coming on, gradually. They don't come on full strength at once, waking you immediately, like an alarm would. I think the theory is that, as it gets brighter and brighter, your body moves out of the deeper sleep cycle. I can see how the sleep mask might be good for some people, but I don't think it is useful for most.

Thanks pbutler111. Is there an easy way to let us know the nutrition info for the three you have it for? Or at least the average calorie count, and perhaps sodium and fat content?

Everyone was shocked when Kevin said he doubled the valuation (and they had a right to be shocked), but Kevin didn't actually increase the offer at all - he had the worst valuation. IIRC, the guy wanted $250,000 for 8% - a valuation of $3,125,000. Kevin said he was increasing the valuation to 6 million, supposedly because he was paying $250,000 and getting 4%. However, Kevin's offer was that he puts in $250,000, gets paid $7 ($9?) per unit until he is paid back $500,000, and then owns 4% of the company. Kevin would end up getting paid $250,000 and still owns 4% - that is a negative valuation.

Okay, I am tweaking my original hope for a JJ story - JJ becomes a serial killer, but is so good at it and has insider info, that even Garcia's magic computer can't trace these murders to her. It is not until she kills her husband and herself that they figure it out (Henry is spared and goes live with his grandparents). Then they flash forward 3 years, so I don't have to sit through a bunch of episodes about the team dealing with not being able to spot a serial killer right in front of their noses.

I am willing to cut the show a lot of slack for this. I did a quick search for how this show was promoted before the season started, and found descriptions like this - It would make sense that we see so much more of Dre's work, since the show premise revolves around him. And it makes sense that the show was to revolve around him since Anthony Anderson was the most known of the actors. It is very possible that the whole idea for the show was based on "Hey, Anthony Anderson is funny, let make up a show for him" rather than "Here's an idea for a sitcom, now let's find someone to star in it." This emphasis on one character is typical - Roseanne was built around having Roseanne as the star, and in the early years we saw much of Roseanne's work life and knew her work friends. I vaguely remember a scene at a worksite where Dan was installing drywall, but I that memory is really, really vague (he may have tried to get Becky's boyfriend a job?) It wasn't until Dan opened the bike shop that we saw much of Dan's work (and Roseanne was working there too for a while), and there were still far more scenes of Roseanne's job. Eventually, they may spend more time on Bow's work and Bow's side of the family (as they did with Dan's), but we are only 12 episodes into the first season. That said, the real question to me now is why was no one saying "Hey, Tracee Ellis Ross is pretty funny. Let's make up a show for her." I had heard of Anthony Anderson before Black-ish, although I knew nothing else, other than the name was familiar, but never heard of Tracee Ellis Ross. I checked her bio on IMDb and was surprised to find she starred in Girlfriends. I never watched it, and didn't know anyone who did (I tend not to watch sitcoms until I hear a lot of other people saying how much they like it, because too many of them are such a waste of time - I just started watching Black-ish over the holidays), but Girlfriends was on for 8 seasons - longer than any series AA was on. TER has kept busy since, so it isn't like she dropped out of the public eye. I was also surprised to find out her mother is Diana Ross.

I don't have a problem with JJ, don't love her, don't hate her. I actually don't have strong feelings (good or bad) about any of the BAU members. Although I think it can be nice to know something about a characters backstory or personal life, I don't want to see a lot of it. I dislike episodes that center around one of the team, because those episodes usually end up being so contrived in order the give the character the story they want. They didn't even bother trying to make the case related to JJ's trauma, other than it was close to the anniversary date. JJ was never frozen, the victims weren't tortured and/or didn't loose unborn children. There were electrical burns in common, but JJ as already having trouble before then. I almost laughed out loud when JJ was talking to Hotch while on her way to free the children - they show JJ in the car, then cut to the rest of the team standing around a desk at the station listening to JJ on speakerphone. It was like they were all planning on giving JJ their Chipotle orders so she could pick up lunch. None of them went along to search and save children? Was there a 2-for-1 sale on donuts at the coffee shop across the street? There was no plausible reason for all of them to stay behind - no other leads to follow, no other mysteries to solve. As long as they are planning to focus on the main characters instead of the actual unsubs and victims and cases, the scenario I am hoping for is that JJ is going to turn into a serial killer. This episode could serve as her trigger. They hinted at it when Reed was detailing JJ's behavior and asked who else acts that way and JJ said "serial killers." Although I don't usually enjoy season-long storylines, I like the idea that they keep running into the same type of murder, but they can't solve the case, until someone realizes that these murders always happen when the BAU is already in that city on a different case.

Cam saw Mitchell talking to Lily right before Lily says she wanted to quit clowning. If Lily had told Cam the real reason for quitting, Cam would have blamed Mitchell for "making" Lily feel that way. Cam was already blaming Mitchell for Lily's slapstick antics, and he blames Mitchell for most everything else that doesn't go his way (it is often deserved). Then Cam would have gotten all hyper-sensitive and whiney. So, given the two options - Cam fights with Mitchell then storms off crying or Lily spares Cam's feelings, I think they chose the right one. However, they only had those two options because they had Mitchell talking to Lily as Cam walked in. I think it would have been better if Cam would have told Lily that she has to stop hitting him and she would have told him that they hits him because she was hoping he would make her stop clowning. This may have opened Cam's eyes to what he was doing and how his behavior makes it difficult for anyone to be truthful with him. Of course, this scenario would not be funny at all. I thought the joke was going to be that there are so many diaper options now, plus Jay would have to have some idea of how much Joe weighs (I have recently bought diapers for my grandbaby and found that diaper choicess have changed a lot since my kids wore them). There would be so many details that Jay would rather potty train than deal with the decisions. So adult diapers took me by surprise.

Just think of the plots these writers would come up with if he was "Used Car Salesman Arm Candy" - - The only way to get the leader of Mozambique to allow a military base in his country is if he gets a really good deal on a 2009 Dodge Caravan. - The SOS gets upset because her husband didn't tell her he was a on a secret mission to go on a test drive with a terrorist - The ambassador of Tibet can't get to an important meeting at the pentagon because his car won't start and Arm Candy is the only one who knows which wires to jiggle.

Three of the presenters - cookie ladies, vest guys, and bottle cleaner dude - had products that there was no need for. I often bake cookies from scratch, but am not opposed to using a mix. I don't like the roll of refrigerator dough, because it often has a "plasticky" flavor to me, but the boxed mixes are good. And they are a lot cheaper than $11 a box. Perhaps the vests do distribute the weight more evenly, but they were so small, that putting that amount of weight into a back pack wouldn't be a problem. Now, if it could handle the everything a college-bound, over-achieving high school student carries in a backpack, it would still be ugly. Bottle dude would have had a better chance if he could prove his cleaner would do a good job with the spout and/or straw, but he didn't even mention it. The only product I could see a possibility for was the stickers, but they lost me with the price and the re-usability. I could see $2 ties with "Luck of the Irish" for St. Patrick's Day and sports teams logos for fans that don't want to paint themselves or whose team jersey is in the hamper. I can also see a use for stickers that turn a everyday outfit into a halloween costume (I can't think of an example, but I think it could be possible). However, people aren't going to save them to use again. And they were too expenses for most people to use once.

I expect this show to not be like other reality competition show, I expect it to be above the manufactured drama, snarky judges, and completely unrealistic challenges that happen on other shows. My expectations are high, but Face Off has never disappointed me. So I have decided not to worry about this show becoming like other shows until they actually do something as horrible as the other shows. I don't mean to imply that all of the Face Off "twists" and "tweaks" have been winning ideas - pitting newbies against returnees that one season was not a good thing, but they haven't done it since. This team thing may also prove to be a bad idea, but Face Off will likely do it with as much class as possible. I am not bothered by the addition of another character - they had 5 people working on two characters, it was a bit too easy. Actually, this "twist" reinforced my belief that Face Off will continue to be different from the rest of its genre - other shows would have waited until the middle of the second day, at the earliest, before springing this twist on them. But Face Off stayed true to itself and told them about the additional character before they went home the first day, giving them the evening to think and plan. I also thought she was older. I think it is partially because there is a fine line between lavender and grey. Years ago, I needed purple paint, so I mixed together red paint and blue paint. Makes sense, right? I ended up with grey paint (it was all oil based wall paint, I am not sure the same thing would happen with acrylic or latex). One of my kids once had lavender bands on her braces, by the next orthodontist visit, they had faded to grey. One of my neighbors painted his house lavender years ago (this was a typical mid-1980's style house, not a Victorian). We speculated that he had gotten the paint on a clearance sale or maybe for free. His wife later told me that she was so glad when they finally repainted, said the color looked more grey when they were picking it out (it may have had something to do with the color of the house before the lavender paint - it may have looked more grey next to the original paint color) If I recall correctly, lavender was the only atypical hair color. How long has it been since we have had a season without crimson or hot pink hair?

I took Diane's question as "Why are you still running if you want to be so involved in the law firm decisions?" Well, that is what I thought when I wrote my post, but I am now thinking that I was dreaming or hallucinating or confusing the show with a local news update. It would make no sense that they would use my local affiliate as the station logo since I live no where near Chicago. The program is no longer on the DVR and the episode on demand has a revolving 8 in the bottom left corner and the CBS eye in the bottom right. Actually, I think it was a case of really well placed local affiliate logo, since it what I saw was in the lower right corner next to the eye (and, therefore, not replacing the 8). I have corrected my original post.

The firm is back where they started. It is was like that whole season was just a bad dream. Next episode - Bobby Ewing, oops, I mean Will Gardner, will step out of the shower. Me too. But my biggest wish is that they didn't name this show after Alicia. If they had called it "Chicago Law" or "Law and Disorder" or "Hey! It's a Bunch of Good Actors" they could have Alicia and her political aspirations just fade farther and farther into the background until they just fade away. I think, at some point, one of the writers said, "It could be interesting if we have the firm split up..." and they all jumped on the idea. Then, when every story suggested involved pitting the new firm against the old firm, they realized, "Okay, that was a bad decision. Let's get the firm back together." Edited because I don't pay as close attention as I should.

Thanks MaryMitch, Since we both heard "ballet" instead of "valet," I will go with the theory that it is a sign of intelligence, rather than faulty hearing.

They are more than a dickey. You couldn't wear a dickey without a shirt underneath or you risk being arrested for indecent exposure, but they said that you could wear the skinny shirt without a sweater on top - it goes all the way down to your waist. So it is $80 for basically a tank top with a collar (she called it a cami but I thought a cami had to have thin straps or it was a tank). I thought it was a good idea if it were $15 (which it isn't) and you liked wearing that sort of style (which I don't). Even if I had Mark's level of money, I would never have invested in it.

I think they should change the name to "Worst Actors Pretending They Can't Cook" This show has always had wannabe actors on it, and has always had an strong air of fakeness to it, but it was like professional wrestling - if you close one eye and don't concentrate too hard, you could let yourself believe that everything was real. This year is ridiculous - the fakeness is so obvious, it cannot be ignored, even if you close both eyes and turn the volume way, way down. I wasn't paying a lot of attention during the critiques, so I don't know what comments each received, but I knew which one was going home from each bottom two - the least wacky person goes home (at least at the beginning of the season).

After he hit Ollie and was still in the street, the coin fell into the gutter and rolled down the drain. At first I thought "how could it end up at the pool?" and realized that it was probably found in the gutter drain near the pool. I can see why someone might think it wasn't important evidence - some coin in a gutter drain probably wouldn't lead to the kidnapper - there are probably a few coins in a gutter drain, only they are regular coins, not sobriety coins. While it makes sense that all the street drainage would be connected, I do find it a bit unbelievable that the coin would drop on the street (on a small hill above the pool?), roll down to the pool area and just happen to stop in the drain in the street near the pool.

I don't think we will ever see much of Penny at work, just like we don't see much of Bernie or Amy at work - it doesn't involve enough of the cast. The times we have seen Bernie or Amy at work, they had another character with them. We saw a lot of Penny working at the cheesecake factory, but other characters were eating there at the time. They spend a lot of time at the university, where the guys work, but that is because 4 of the characters work there. Bernie and Amy used to talk about their work more - Amy's monkeys, Bernie's deadly bacteria. I suppose Penny could discuss her work more, but I am not sure what she could say that would be funny. They have already done the "Penny dresses sexy to sell more" and "Penny pretends to be single to sell more" and "Penny flirts with a doctor to sell more and the doctor falls in love with her." They should have had Penny get a different job where she had more chance of interacting with other characters (She works at Bernie's company but Penny is out doing sales calls and Bernie is in a lab). Maybe they should have had her get a job at the university, or at least at a comic book store. To me, living together one or two nights a week means that Leonard goes straight to Penny's after work, has dinner with her and they watch tv or whatever (wink-wink) and he picks up Sheldon in the morning. If it were two consecutive days, it would make more sense, but Sheldon wasn't ready for that (and he is a flight risk). One night per week probably didn't change things much. I think the difference was supposed to be that, if they are living together one night a week, they would be alone, Sheldon wouldn't be involved, but then he just ended up sleeping on the couch (that was the punch line). So, it was probably better before - Sheldon probably didn't sleep at Penny's apartment under the old arrangement.

I have recently discovered this show and I love it. I thought this was a great episode and I agree with so many other posters that the kids on this show are awesome actors (the adults are too, but greatness is hard to find in child actors). I may be checking my hearing more than anything else with this question - Did they say that they went to "ballet" or "the play" when they watched the kids perform? It sounded like ballet to me, but there was no dancing.

I don't get why Bad Cop had Maya drive or why Maya calmly drove to the location after he took off the wire. She dropped a ring and some flecks of paint, but how did she expect the police to be able to follow her - to know which way they went? The only explanation I can come up with is that they both knew that his plan was to save Maya, but then why did they take off the wire? And why switch cars? So she had to be thinking he was a bad guy, which comes back to the question of why did she drive so nice and calmly. Drive erratically and lay on the horn so that you draw attention to the car - if you are speeding down the road, he probably won't shoot you because that would crash the car and could kill him. I can handle stuff like them seeing a couple of flecks of paint in a dark parking lot, and using the paint chips and tire treads to know exactly what kind of car it was, but I have trouble when they have something ridiculous happen that could have been easily handled in a more logical way --- It is ridiculous to have the hostage drive (were Bad Cop's eyes getting tired?). I guess the writers wanted the Maya to have the key so she could scratch paint off the car, but if she could scratch it off with keys, she could scratch it off with her ring (maybe use a differently looking ring) or with a rock that she picks up in the parking lot.

I think Ollie is dead and Tony has gone over the edge. All through the final episode I was saying "he can't be dead, why did they show that opening in Russia if he is dead?" Plus, when they showed the boys staring at the man coming into the playground, the face of one boy was obscured by playground equipment. And I thought Julian's phone call was to let Tony and Emily know that they found Ollie in Russia or that they have evidence that he was taken to Russia. Until they got to the final scene. Then it all made sense to me. Tony telling Julian not to give up on his child - Tony can't "give up" on Ollie or the possibility he is alive, and, as long as Tony doesn't see Ollie's body, he will be convinced he is alive. I love a happy ending, but the ending they had makes more sense to me. It would have been nice to see Tony's perseverance pay off, but that would have been horrible from a story perspective. If they had found Ollie alive, they would need many more episodes about them dealing with a child coming home after so long and having gone through what he would have gone through. They couldn't just have everyone hug at the end and go back to their old lives. I would have found that ending to be more unsatisfying. I was most annoyed with all the people that could have helped, but didn't. Like the journalist not turning over the evidence he was given (wouldn't that have helped his career?). Or the bad cop not telling anyone that he gave evidence to the journalist (sure, it may have increased his sentence, but it may have also been a good bargaining tool and he would have been able to get back at the journalist and get him into trouble). But I don't see these actions as bad writing or bad storytelling - there are, unfortunately, awful people like this in the world - it is just frustrating that Tony and Emily had to run into so many of them. I also found it annoying that Georges had the body removed. If they just left it in the street, everyone would think it was a hit and run. I am assuming there was no damage to the drunk guy's car. But then the series would have been only one episode. But the most annoying thing to me --- I really hate that Tony has now lost the picture Ollie drew. The guy was expecting to find a dead body in the trunk. Ollie being alive and wandering around surprised him. I can see how he wouldn't immediately think "if I don't let him see me, I can blindfold him and drop him off in the woods and hope he doesn't remember anything." He let the boy see him and so he now had to get rid of him. Also, did he know how Ollie died, or did he just know there was supposed to be a dead body? He may have though that the boy being alive may be bad for Georges. But the reality is that the guy was the slime that grows on the scum of the Earth. I think Ian made sense, from a story standpoint. A good mystery has to have some leads/characters that turn out to be unrelated to the case, otherwise everything just becomes obvious. Plus, having Tony kill Ian was a way to show how angry Tony could be (perhaps to raise the idea that Tony actually killed Ollie out of anger). And it gave suspense as to whether Tony would get caught. I am not sure why they had the Vincent character, other than more proof of Tony's intensity. They didn't say it, but I think the connection between Ian and Vincent was that Ian had molested Vincent when he was younger. Vincent had commented that Ian threatened to hurt Vincent's mother if he said anything. It is common for pedophiles to threaten to kill family members to keep their victims silent. As for Emily, I think her bizarre dress and behavior were to show the effects of the loss of a child on her mentally. Tony gets angry and intense, Emily goes a little crazy in a more typical sense - seeing visions, etc. Her speech at the end was the background for the updates, but, with her seeing Ollie at the wedding, it was also a way to show that Emily hasn't fully healed or maybe that her visions of Ollie are what is keeping her functioning. Tony keeps going because he thinks Ollie may be alive, Emily keeps going because she always has Ollie with her, even if it is just in her mind.