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Agree. This really was a tough call, and at least to me, they were all neck and neck. Jürgen was creative in different flavors, but personally I thought that sometimes they were odd. (Beets and matcha?) His real error was spending too much time on the centerpiece, which was clearly a passion, when he should have spent that time on the entremets which were meant to be the main focus. The centerpiece was secondary as Prue and Paul alluded to multiple times during the judging. Last week many were upset because Lizzie was eliminated instead of Jürgen, even though he dropped his sausage rolls and had a relatively visually boring cake with no embellishments. At these levels of competition, it's not who is worst as much as who is very slightly below all the other excellent bakers.

I saw that as well, and my brain decided to fanwank that her mother wouldn't let her wear heels in the 50's because she was too young (and still growing). Yeah, it's a stretch, but it keeps me from being distracted by it.

It felt great to finally watch someone follow the rules, be accountable for missteps, and ultimately succeed in getting the surgery. This show has me expecting train wrecks, which I don't love. I totally prefer watching these "boring" episodes with nice people and positive outcomes. Bianca was lovely and while I don't particularly like children, hers were just adorable. I wanted to run in and hug her son--so sweet! Go Dr. Paradise!

I'm right there with you. Love the flamingos twerking.

Chris gave the true reason, (IMO) which was sort of buried. He said that she would end up fighting the program and getting kicked out, so it's not worth it for her to stay. It sounds as if he speaks from experience. Amy and Tammy apparently stopped maturing in their pre-teens. From years of watching Intervention, I've learned that it's par for the course for addicts to stop maturing at the age when they first started their addiction, and the abuse/trigger began. Their mother was awful, and I recall them talking about their terrible childhood. Chris is the oldest, right? Maybe he escaped some of that and it's why he's an adult.

Oh goodie! Maybe they'll spend more time on the roadside breakdown, because they only glossed over that.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm old enough to remember a fan being killed at a David Cassidy concert. It's not like this is a new phenomenon.

I was puzzled as well. For a straight man, if his risk factor was performing oral sex, it seems like it should be the other way around. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Lots of fillings in mattresses and likely some of the other materials are made from foam, polyurethane, polyester, and who knows what else. That's why it makes a difference to some people.

I can totally see it being Crystelle, Giuseppe and Jürgen in the finals. That should make a lovely show. Loved when after Giuseppe won the technical and they all started clapping, Paul said "I wouldn't applaud".

Considering how many times we've seen ridiculous comment from celebs about multiple issues, I was extremely impressed with his statement. High class and smart.

I tend to mute Morgan & Morgan commercials, but for some reason this one made me chuckle. "Do you need your parking validated?" Morgan & Morgan Law Firm TV Commercial, 'Santa'

Since this subject comes up in here about this time every year, it's probably worth bookmarking this SNL commercial.

If we didn't overthink commercials, this site wouldn't exist. It's the whole raison d'être of this forum!

Same here. For some odd reason that probably is a deep rooted psychosis, I have a tendency to avoid the shows that everyone is talking about. Strangely enough what made me want to check it out was seeing a local news story about Squid Game halloween costumes. The red light/green light girl drew me in to take a peek and I didn't surface until I had watched the whole thing. I'm still trying to recover from Episode 6, where I couldn't stop crying. Holy shit that was gut-wrenching. I haven't been this emotionally drained since watching Chernobyl.

It's funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing when I saw that commercial. The father dancing with the baby to that song just takes it to a different, really sweet level that doesn't make me mad about them using 'Just the Two of Us'.

Add me to the list of 12 year olds, I was chuckling as soon as she said (paraphrasing) she uses two holes and then they really get filled. What I believe made it even sillier was that it was so incongruous with her Dame status.

I really want to like this show. She seems very kind but she's blah to me. I had to laugh when she said she used "talkesthesia" to calm the patients down, and then didn't talk.

It can also lay you out flat. Ba dum bum.

It looked like Jürgen was trying to concentrate on the number of eggs he was adding and Matt was making him lose track.

Yay, other people are watching! I totally love this show and would be surprised if it doesn't get a following. It reminds me of American Pickers when it first started, when they all liked one another. It really checks all the boxes and hearing the history is fascinating.

These kinds of tragic situations are never due to only one error. I'm guessing that in the end, they'll inevitably find that there were multiple mistakes and if only one of them hadn't happened, the accident would not have happened.

From the Deadline article: The very first safety bulletin adopted by the Industrywide Labor-Management Safety Committee dealt with the dangers of blank ammunition. “Blanks can kill,” the bulletin says. “Treat all firearms as though they are loaded.”

This! My god, her trying to flirt with him is painful to watch.

I don't discount that the fentanyl was likely the cause of his death, however I've done enough armchair TV classes from watching Autopsy: Last Minutes of... to know that cocaine is frequently involved as the match that lights the fire. Cocaine can mess with the electrical signals of the heart leading to arrhythmias.