ItCouldBeWorse

This must be the least busy hospital ever, since 2 nurses can sit around half the day just waiting for a patient to die. I'm glad that at least Matt spoke up about all the money he spent on food for the family. I had originally thought that he was going to get it for free from food services (patient food.) That, and it doesn't really make sense for Joyce to consider choosing someone who's both older than her and male (Ron) unless it's a spouse/partner because statistically she'd have to start the whole process over, when she's older. By the way, Alex could renounce the worthless Sear's stock Joyce designated as the executor fee, and instead claim the Oregon statutory amount: https://www.estateexec.com/Docs/executor-fee-calculator/OR?srsltid=AfmBOorAtmG9BZgTUx_EBQN84UcCLiAku9gcMLbzhUa7TjSCiNfBvyoJ It's the best thing about the show, other than Ron's asides. David Alan Grier's facial expressions are also great.

1) I thought the same thing. 2a) Then I thought that maybe the golf course had sent the school permission slips for the parents to sign with photo permission in the small print 2b) Then I thought that the school district would also have permission slips that parents would have to sign before taking the kids off the school premises (I also thought this about Janine driving the kids in a party bus last week). 2c) Then I concluded that there was no way the school could have gotten a signed permission slip for every kid in one night (remember, Jacob greeted his class on the first day back from the strike, and mentioned that they would be missing class for the field trip the next day) 3) But they could force him to take the pictures down by threatening a lawsuit 4) But I let it all go, because it was about as realistic as Janine eating all that food and drinking 17 Arnold Palmers without throwing up or writhing in pain

I was annoyed that they left all that expensive food behind to go eat elsewhere. Gregory know she's a bottomless pit; he should have sat there while she ate and enjoyed both their meals. It was quite selfish of him to take her up on her offer to leave when he knew how much she had looked forward to this meal, and how she has been limiting herself to restaurants that serve buttered noodles when with him. They should have at least taken the food to go so she could eat it later. I kept waiting for someone to tell Janine that an Arnold Palmer is just lemonade and iced tea. I'm surprised Jacob didn't know either. I've never played golf, but I feel like it's something that people who read would have come across at some point. But maybe not people their age.

So the kids ride free, but if they are too young to ride by themselves, I assume a parent has to pay both ways, twice a day, to bring them to school and back?

So for some reason, Ed does not have a cell phone. (He had to use a Cambridge phone to call his father; borrowing a phone to call his professor's office # didn't bother me.) I hope they explain that quirk, because being able to contact people and take pictures of clues would certainly be helpful when trying to solve a mystery. Why didn't he ask Andrea about the receipt for 150,000 euros from the mysterious "KI"? He uses his dead professor's credentials to enter the Cambridge library and log into their intranet to read articles about Safiya's genius. He doesn't do a Google search for her to see if she's done anything since grad school 30 years ago, but does say to the librarian: "I'm trying to get in touch with an ex-student. She graduated 30 years ago. Her name's Safiya. . . . Maybe if I left you my new address, you can pass it on to her?" Because: 1) Ed doesn't have a phone #, and women love showing up to the apartments of men they don't know 2) The librarian is bound to run into a student from 30 years ago whose name she doesn't recognize And then the librarian actually figures out how to contact Safiya's family and finds out that she "committed suicide" 30 years ago - that is a full-service librarian! I had an issue with the message including "It wasn't ever anything that you did" because that's not normal speech for someone who speaks English. "It wasn't anything you did" or "It isn't anything you did" makes more sense to me. But then, wouldn't someone using AI be able to create any words they wanted? There's no longer a need to clip phrases from actual recorded speech, so I decided I was being too picky. Other than that, the show is fine.

True, but I think HS teachers may make more than elementary school ones, so they may not make the median. But possibly more than $60k.

Wasn't Morton sobbing in the bathroom last episode because everyone hates him? (But not Mr. Johnson.) His issues are not only with Jacob.

Yes; scabbing would be taking money from the city to drive the trains; not driving someone to work for free - or even for pay - or any taxis and Ubers driving people who normally take Septa would be scabs.

Yeah; Melissa and Barb might be making $75k after decades of teaching.

Sounds too high for a relatively new lower-grade teacher in an inner-city Philadelphia school. I would guess more like $60k for Gregory/Janine/Josh and $75k for O'Shon (so still "poor", but with an extra 15k he could spend on Ava.) Perhaps a teacher in Philadelphia will chime in!

Based on what Ava said to Gregory, it sounds like he makes $15,000 more per year than Gregory does. Ava asked him how he would spend the money if he got a $15,000 raise, the equivalent of what a school IT worker makes.

A surgeon should not be donating blood on a day where he later will be operating on someone. (Unless there is a patient who will die without a transfusion, and his is the only matching blood available, and then the later surgery should possibly be postponed.) Even perfectly healthy people can feel weak after donating. It's also unlikely that no one on the staff is pregnant, anemic, has a recent tattoo, is on certain medications, is too old, or otherwise has a condition that disqualifies them from donating blood. I actually thought Joyce was going to try to get to over 100% by asking the officer to donate (also a no-no.)

Diedrich Bader: https://www.superherohype.com/guides/590865-creature-commandos-task-force-m-new-team-members-king-shark#:~:text=Nanaue%2C aka King Shark (voiced by Diedrich Bader)

Because she's a monster! Her crime is monster in the 3rd degree!

Totally different origin story from the comics: ETA: Actually, a similar origin in the Flashpoint timeline. Why wasn't Nina just a candidate for a lung transplant, instead of a guinea pig? Also, Phosphorus can touch people without burning them, as when he put his hand on The Bride's shoulder, but he can't feel anything? He certainly felt where Weasel had bitten him!

However, once Dee said she had also attended Penn, there's no way that Janine wouldn't have asked her class year, and told Dee her own. In Hacks, based on her character's life choices, someone is shocked to find out that she attended Cornell (or any college, probably). Mr. Johnson was putting some of the urine-soaked stuff (I think) in a lunch bag labeled "Mr. Morton".

I wonder what would happen to Pete if his body continued to disappear. Would his consciousness disappear, too? No afterlife, but no pain? Or just a disembodied voice, which only other ghosts (and Sam) could hear?

Yeah, and don't forget Eric's rapey-ness, which wasn't at all in the comics. That one actually bugs me the most, I think.

So Dr. Phosphorus can choose whether or not his body parts are hot? Even if his clothing is "him"- retardant, he can clearly touch things and people with no immediate harm (not sure if his radiation is dangerous as it once was in the comics, but there is precedent for him being able to control the burning aspect at a certain point.) I will say that in a few of the scenes, Dr. Sartorius did closely resemble Alan Tudyk. Speaking of the comics, if they hew to them in explaining Nina's origins, which I hope they do in next week's finale, they are quite different from The Bride's and Phosphorus's. Up to now, Nina really has been mostly useless, as well as a hindrance to The Bride, so I do expect there will be a large body of water in next week's episode. (And since The Bride wants nothing to do with Eric, she really should stop defining herself in regard to him, and choose a name, which at least Nina would use.)

The sons of Aharon (Aaron) the Cohen haGadol (High Priest of Israel).

If the trope had emerged, I wouldn't be annoyed in this fictional show at the character named Thor for enjoying the trappings of Christmas (although Christianity replaced Norse paganism which of course he did not personally experience), or for trying to encourage the character named Trevor to do the same (and I agree that Thor knows nothing about Judaism), and possibly succeeding. I would be annoyed at the showrunners for not letting a Jewish character just be Jewish and not embrace Christmas. Anyway, enough about this topic, I think. What I was concerned would happen, did not. I thought that this was an exceptionally good episode.

Isaac's wife Beatrice washed and dressed him in his uniform before he died. Nigel has a bullet hole with some blood on his shirt.

I never thought he would change religions, but plenty of Jewish showrunners have embraced the Christmas is for everybody! trope or the "Chrismukkah" combo. Based on what Asher Grodman has said in interviews, I doubt he'd like either.