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I'm still sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop with this one—like maybe when

I did like the speedy and satisfying resolution of the drama between Happy and Toby's ex. I guess they used up all their super genius writers' contracted hours on Sly's conversations with the machine. The Florence fantasy has to be one of the most irritating things on TV that I've ever subjected myself to repeatedly. Hopefully by the next episode she will just explain that she tried reviving him with mouth-to-mouth, since that's so obviously where this is going.

I wondered if he was doing a variation of method acting to prevent laughing—like thinking of how terrible it would be if a POTUS really did have a brain tumor that only effected the part of the brain that controls executive function. But then I started snickering about the pun of "executive function." My 3 girls were nearly 5 years apart each, so plenty of breastfeeding (and my old bones are now as porous as coral on a beach) but still, each baby book and picture album was sparser than the previous. No first steps or first words in the last one. But they don't mind. But, yeah, if the last baby book had been entirely empty, I can imagine some pouting at Jason's age.

Heh. Indeed. Hee. Too late for that too. Just a little bit. So. About that. Am I missing some deeper philosophical meaning? Plus, plumber + political drama brings to mind Watergate and Joe The Plumber — two very disparate things. Or maybe sometimes a plumber is just a plumber? Living here in episode-referenced, frigid Lake County Illinois, I did leap up and turn on the faucet in the kitchen to a trickle as soon as the McCord's pipes burst. Anyway, for your dissecting pleasure, here's the captioning capture of the dialogue with Earl the plumber: Maybe the moral of the story is that POTUSs should have their "pipes" run through (scanned) so they won't burst unexpectedly?

Any info on the date of the next (4.13?) episode?

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Accident. Bravo on a well crafted finale that would serve equally well as a season or series ender—unlike, for example, cough*Major Crimes*cough.

This isn't the only otherwise well done period piece of late with such anachronisms. I wonder. Is their use a deliberate choice to avoid losing the point on Millennials?

In this case, the real story is that the Munchausen's victim was 23, pretending to be a young teen, whereas in the L&O SVU version she really is a 15-year-old, which—depending upon at what point in the writing/casting process that change was made—might have lead to the awkward situation in which Barba —but last minute they realized it and so tacked on the cute elevator jury machination—which seems to me to be pretty sloppy storytelling, especially assuming that those involved in writing and producing are making at least twice my salary, and probably 5-10 times more. I realize this is a rhetorical question, because, obviously, this is not one of those cases where someone on FML should be called in—rather the opposite given that it is a high stress situation. But, perhaps the writers did actually ask that question, and were told that there are benefits—like at my institution—in which employees on short term leave are paid at a rate of 66% of regular pay unless the employee is able to work half time, in which case the employee can earn full pay. But this policy is ostensibly intended to encourage the employee to be able to benefit from the healing properties of being engaged in meaningful work, and in reality is used when the employee cannot afford to lose the pay—neither of which reasons for working while on leave would apply to Benson in this case, IMO. Even given her supervisory position, her involvement would have realistically been restricted to phone and email consultations.

Seriously? It's for toilet paper? The first time I saw it, I thought it was sweet that a single dad was willing to shave his legs to show his daughter how. Then I just noticed the wrong direction shaving. Then I wondered if I'd been doing it wrong for 50 years. Then I noticed they both had cut themselves and figured they were doing it wrong, not me. Then I thought more likely the girl's friends would show her how—the right way. So I've seen the commercial at least a dozen times and had no idea what it was for.

But at least you'd get more of your money's worth from a sweater. When actors like Kaley Cuoco or Elementary's Lucy Liu wear de$igner clothes on their shows, do they have to give them back afterwards? I only recall it when they met in the pilot before they made Sheldon asexual (until Amy).

Lots of actors I like to look at, but it looks like all action and not much plot or substance.

Since May 7 is the last Monday night I might have to work until late August, it's actually better for me. Maybe. I'll probably fall asleep at that hour and have to watch a day or two later anyway.

Good point. And it would make a satisfying bookend to her character's journey on the show.

Hah. You don't know our boss. Having kids did give her a more realistic view of working mothers, but the stress of being a working mother just made her a meaner mean boss—but hopefully a kind, patient mother. But nothing in this show heretofore makes me assume being a mom of two kids will effect Bernadette's personality one way or the other. The writers will spitball working mom ideas for laughs and go with whatever sticks. And if it's funny, I will fanwank it to convince myself it could possibly happen.

True. But if Penny was a real person, the US Criminal Justice System would be advised to study her in order to learn how a person can be completely rehabilitated.

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When Penny did the newspaper boat-and-hat bit that her father had taught her, I wanted her to have grandchildren for me because I thought she would be a great mother—as she always has been for Sheldon. ETA: Now I want the series finale to be a peek into the future (5 or 10 years) in which Penny has attained an Early Childhood Education Certificate, has 1 or 2 kids of her own, and runs an in-home daycare for babies of geniuses who want their kids to be intellectually stimulated by a warm and nurturing caregiver.

I thought we were supposed to think he did it on purpose, but I can understand someone thinking it was accidental too, because if he did do it on purpose, he was very crafty about it. I mean, didn't he practically back into the crowded elevator with his head down, focused on his phone? And then, after he told a seemingly nonexistent person on the phone that the jury could give the Munchausens victim life in prison, he looked up and said with fake sincerity: Oh. You're jurors. I was under the impression that Barba then took the juror to the judge to confess his fake faux pas.

So, if Dalton has to get brain surgery, the VP will get to try out the Oval Office. Maybe she'll decide she'd rather run as Elizabeth's Veep?

Except aren't the Aleutians pretty temperate? If we really want to picture Dmitri in exile: 10 Coldest, Darkest Places in Alaska One more thought: If the writers wanted to go totally soap opera: Dmitri would run away and get plastic surgery to make him improbably look like a new, fresh faced young actor (which is precisely who would be recast as Dimitri). But alas, Stevie would either not be able to accept the "new" Dmitri, or she would not be able to lie to her parents, or she would be captured by the would-be assassins, and "new" Dmitri would have to give himself up to save her. Did anyone else get Titanic flashbacks during their last tryst at the hotel?

❤️ Basically: Bird's female partner was the mysterious "Red" (as was her brand of cigarettes that she was trying to quit) who had been a dirty cop and so became the henchwoman for the Hispanic brother who was also a dirty (high ranking) cop. His political brother seems to have not known about the corruption, kidnapping, murders, etc. "Red" re-kidnapped Lake from Jane's husband's girlfriend & family, then "Red" framed Jane's informant/lover for the kidnapping and briefly Jane got caught in the web. Bird and Jane rescued Lake.

I do think that was Henry's message, but at least some of us (me) are scratching our heads about: Henry's other motive (Stevie) the proximity of Alaska to the country of origin of those who want to assassinate Dmitri the optics of Alaska being the US equivalent of Siberia (maybe only me on this one)

Agreed. Assassins coming by speed boat. Or dog sled. But now I'm picturing Stevie coming by way of a cruise stopover. Or dogsled.

I recently happened upon the real case from whose headlines this was ripped (the daughter is Gypsy Rose Blanchard). IRL I think she got a life sentence, so I guess the point to this episode was to let the public imagine an opposite scenario sentence, especially if the Munchausens had been discovered while she was still legally a minor. The typical parallel plot would perhaps be writers' remorse for ending the Sheila arc with Noah having bonded with her—now what are they going to do with him?