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I think their overall performance comes into play at the end. I can't remember exactly, but their average rankings or total scores come into play at some point, either giving them advantageous placement in the final rounds or their prize is bigger if they got more 1st places or something like that. So it's better for them to try to win each round rather than just aiming not to get kicked off each week.

This made me laugh. I was watching with my 12 year-old and I said, "That's a great idea!" and he said, "But if she's smart, she's smart enough to know that she's not dumb." Truthfully, Claire's mom is practicing something that a lot of experts advise - to put the emphasis on hard work and not on inborn smarts. If you compliment kids for being smart, that tends to make them try less and get frustrated more easily. If you compliment them for working hard, they succeed more often and are more satisfied with their accomplishments. Plus, Claire seems adorable and pretty well adjusted for how hard she is being pushed.

I don't understand why Probst and Wentworth were giving Keith a hard time at the reunion for not playing his fake idol at Tribal Council. What would that have accomplished? Probst would have declared it fake and thrown it into the fire. Keith did the only thing he could do with a fake idol, which is to fiddle with it to make people suspect he has an idol. I guess he could have shown it to someone else to make Jeremy, Spencer or Tasha think he had an idol, but I don't see how not playing the fake idol at Tribal Council was the "million dollar mistake" that Wentworth called it at the reunion.

Confused by a few things: -Avery and Juliette are married. Doesn't he have access to a joint account he can draw on? Or at least a credit card? -In convincing Will to take the job, Avery (or maybe it was the manager) said that one big hit written for a big star could make Will's career. But didn't Will already have a big hit that he wrote for Luke? So it's not like this would be his first big break, fight?

Yeah, I think that's what struck me as so odd in the way that conversation was shown. It felt like they cut out all of the reactions and showed Meri's talking head about the catfish instead, and we got no surprise or shock in the reaction. No one said, "Wtf are you talking about? You want to leave the family? Is this permanent? Do you want a divorce [or whatever polygs call it when there is no legal marriage]?"

I was a little baffled by that episode. Because they kept cutting back to Meri's Talking Head, it wasn't clear to me what she was actually saying to the others at that dinner table. Did she even tell them about the catfishing at all, or just tell them she was lost and wanted to maybe go away for a while? What was she really saying?

It also comes off like a consolation prize since Meri was the only one who got a gift. Because she's singled out, it is obviously supposed to compensate for her "sacrifice" with diamonds, like a husband to gives his wife jewelry to apologize for cheating on her. Because if all of the moms had gotten a gift from the three kids it would have felt more like a "thank you for letting us be a part of your family" gift.

That conversation with Maddie was really odd. She looked happy and giggly, with "big news" like she was engaged, but then didn't actually say she was engaged, just that she was serious about a guy. Maybe it's an flds thing, that they can't actually be engaged until Kody gives his blessing or something? I didn't understand what they were dancing around there. If it essentially was her announcing her engagement (without saying the word) it was doubly weird to me that none of her parents had any idea she was even dating/talking to the guy. Normally when someone announces their engagement to their parents, the parents don't have to say, "Who is it?"

and at one point was RUNNING towards the pile of puzzle pieces with a piece in his hands, and slowed down just before he ran into the pile so he could drop his piece on it. There's no way he wasn't seeing through that blindfold.

Where I can see this show? I got hooked on season 1 back when I had Comcast, now I have Time Warner and they don't have WGN America in my line up. Any help?

And their defense is that there are 5 adults. But that's still 3.4 kids per adult, which would mean the equivalent of 6.8 kids in a two-parent household. That's still a lot, especially if the majority of the adults in their household do not have full-time jobs.

In the scene with the dying baby, I assume (hope?) that Karev was holding the baby as he died out of compassion, but for a moment it looked like he was smothering it to put him out of his misery. That wasn't what was happening, was it?

She said that they made the girls eat something they weren't supposed to eat. I have no idea what that could be, given that we've seen how low Leah's nutritional standards for her kids are. But I think the point Leah was trying to make, albeit incoherently, was that when the kids say something bad happened at the other parent's house, Corey and Miranda believe the kids over her, but she would believe Corey over the kids.

I guess this makes me an old fogey now, but I was really surprised they aired this at 8:30. At 8:30 I still have little kids awake. I had to keep pausing the show whenever they walked into the living room. If I watch this again - and I might give this a second chance because of the cast - I'll dvr it to watch later. I had thought CBS' strategy was to try to be the middlebrow, older folks channel, so I'm not sure what they're doing with this show.

Meri was acting like a petulant teenager in that scene with Janelle coming over to her house to ask her to work on their relationship. Janelle was dressed and acting like an adult, while Meri was sitting there in a bedazzled "Rebel" t-shirt and jean jacket, fiddling with her phone and not making eye contact.

Leah dancing around the issue of going to "therapy" is getting baffling. Like when she said, "I can't wait until I get done with therapy so I won't be so tired anymore." Is there a "therapy" where you take a nap for a month and you're never tired again?

The big difference (from what we've been shown) is that Kirk talked to Carley about moving to be together, and let her continue the fantasy that he was "the one" and even played into it. Tenley told Joshua from the beginning that she was looking for a "summer camp" fling and she never told Joshua she was going to move to Iowa (Idaho?) or asked him to move to her. They had talks before about how she wasn't sure that their lifestyles would mesh in the real world. I think she was honest when she said she cared for him (and Kirk probably cared for Carley, too) but she had been expressing her doubts about continuing their relationship in the real world all along, but Joshua went into the break-up with eyes way more open than Carley did, because Kirk was never honest to her prior to that about the fact that he didn't see it continuing beyond the show.

They get paid per episode they are on BiP, so that gives them some incentive to stick around. Plus if they are trying to build up some sort of fame-related career, it does help their visibility to get their face on TV a little bit more.

I don't think that would have gotten past ABC standards & practices. They bleeped every other word, for goodness sake - words that were spoken to a room full of 12 year-olds, mind you. If they had a male reproductive model they probably would have had to blur it.

Just saw the cupcake cars at Maker Faire last weekend! You can see them at http://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/50473/ My kids loved them, but if a grown man came up to me in one to woo me....not so much.

What is up with Farrah's only friend being her 70 year-old neighbor? Does she live in a retirement community? As far as Catelynn, Tyler is "supporting" her weight loss in all the wrong ways (Why doesn't he exercise with her or cook healthy food with her instead of just telling her what to do?) but she is also in denial. Asking Tyler to Google if losing too much weight could be bad for breastfeeding? Catelynn, you are not in any danger of that. You can worry about it when it happens. Or God forbid, actually consult a doctor instead of Google.

It made me laugh out loud when I saw that Davina bought the Duplo (toddler) Legos to represent Sean and his life, and bought regular Legos to represent herself. She obviously feels like she needs to treat him like a child, probably because he acts like a child. Also - what was up with Jersey being represented by a farm? Does he live on a farm? I'm not on the East Coast, so I really don't understand the great divide they seem to have about Manhattan versus Jersey. He lives an hour away in the suburbs, right? Is it really that much of a culture shock to go from one to the other?

Quick google gets the answer on Wikipedia: Barack Obama – Renegade Michelle Obama – Renaissance Malia Obama – Radiance Sasha Obama – Rosebud Which makes it all the more ridiculous that no one on Olivia's team knows that Foxtail is the first lady's Secret Service name.

That was super weird. Catelynn seems to be thoughtful about how Nova will feel about the situation - she doesn't want Nova to feel like a replacement child - but she doesn't give much thought to how Carly will feel. Carly is going to grow up knowing that her bio parents had two daughters, who look identical, and chose to raise only one of them. Hopefully Carly will realize that she got the better end of the deal by being raised by B&T. But it's odd that Catelynn & Tyler never consider that Carly might have complicated feelings about being adopted, and maybe she won't want to be besties with her bio parents and bio sister.

That was really weird, because it was the same scene, so it doesn't seem like editing monkeys. She said she was just diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and then she said she was 37 weeks - in the same conversation! 37 weeks is way too late to be diagnosing GD; there's very little you can do about it at that point. Normally you are diagnosed around 24-28 weeks, earlier if they suspect you are likely to have it.