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I seem to be hearing (and being annoyed by) this a lot lately. I hope it is the language's shortest lived fad.

The character of Nadine will not be missed as much by the other characters on the show as she will be missed by the viewers. I hope TPTB at least went through the motions of offering Bebe Neuwirth more money to stay while at the same time respecting her decision. I will try to keep that thought.

Sure, because she's the lead character, but also it's probably the only way he can keep an eye on her!

Too rich for my blood/budget! But thanks for the link! A girl can dream.

Not to mention that it's really a cruel thing to do to someone who has a chemical propensity to drug addiction and is "on the wagon." But I guess Jane didn't really believe he was on the wagon? --Except that they worked that into the plot by having Casey unable to withdraw $30K for Lake's ransom because the other "recent withdrawl" had left less than a grand in the account. But yeah, I suppose it might not have been Jane's personal account. Me too! Ooo, good point! Makes way more sense than $30K to buy a better life for the crazy pregnant lady's kid. I'm still guessing the "bigger asshole" would be Jane's sister (whose name I can't recall).

I was assuming Jane was with Tom before he got together with her sister. But the way Jane's sister told Casey that Pete was still crazy about Jane, kind of felt like she was also saying Tom was (still) crazy about Jane too.

A similar theory occurred to me when I was in the shower—LOL. The sister says to her husband, "Don't worry, I won't leave you like Jane," right? It was a line that could be referring to Jane leaving Pete, but Occam's Razor says it just means "…like Jane left Tom" (Jane's brotherinlaw). So I'm guessing the sister is playing "second fiddle " to Jane. Maybe Pete was with the sister at one time too; that would explain the sister telling Casey in that tone that Pete was still crazy above Jane. Plus, Casey told her own sister that her primary goal was to get Children's Services to declare Jane unfit. So what if Jane's sister was initially financing Casey's kidnapping of Lake so Jane's sister could get custody (and Casey's getting together with Pete was not part of the plan). This would fit with Jane's sister being dismissive of Casey's praise of Pete.

I literally LOLed and clapped when: Howard said to Sheldon (who has just blinked morse code insults at Howard after Howard says he knows morse code), "I'm a little rusty, could you say it again?" The conversation between Amy and Sheldon in which collaboration was a metaphor for sex ending with Sheldon saying, "Don't be surprised if you walk out here and find me doing it myself." Bernadette to Sheldon, "You ever read Tom Sawyer?…" And I loved Penny's black t-shirt with the flowers. I'm tempted to look it up on that As Seen On TV website, but it's probably not in my budget. And, I recently used a clip from a Neil Sedaka song to break up a long interactive teaching demonstration, so this was a successful episode for me (inspite of obnoxious Sheldon). Plus, Penny and Leonard parenting Sheldon is always cute. And bonus: Bernadette not being jealous at all.

Let's hope, unlike its characters, that it stays dead.

Oh, I thought the actress was projecting total shadiness in the last convo with Casey where the sister seemed totally unsurprised that Casey thought Pete was a night in shining armor. Really? I could see Lake being better off in a now-sober home with Dad living off of Jane's child support--provided Pete is also on the wagon re gambling. IDK, is he still gambling? Or was that just an old debt?

Really? I can't figure out how it got renewed. Maybe there just wasn't much competition this year? Or maybe it was because it was relatively safe and not edgy? (Still miss BrainDead *sob*.) Regardless, if life doesn't get in the way, I'll be back too.

So does the crazy killer pregnant lady have Lake now?

There was one profile view of Elliot/Rami, silhouetted and with his hoodie, that seemed to turn his face into one of those Guy Fawkes masks—although I now read that the F Society masks are actually the face of the Monopoly game guy.

With the off-screen rebuilding of the Capitol and the demise of the Big Bad, it almost seems like a different show in which Kirkland being the "designated survivor" is no longer of any consequence.

That may come to pass literally over our dead bodies.

Now we really are getting regional. My 84-year-old uncle, who still has his Newark accent, could pronounce door and dour the same way, but for the rest of us it would sound like a doer door, as in a Law & Order reference to a "doer" or perpetrator of a crime. But add me to the list of those who have only heard it pronounced the way Beverly did and was surprised to see when I selected and right-clicked on the word here and then clicked define that the first pronunciation was "do͝or," not "dou(ə)r."

In addition to the complaints above, it seemed really wrong that after having the students close their eyes in the darkened auditorium (presumably darkened so those peeking wouldn't easily see others) and then stand if they had been victims, that she had them open their eyes and look around even though a lot were still sitting. It felt like a betrayal, especially in a gossipy high school. I guess originally they were all standing at the end—which can be done by including things like "now stand if you've ever been afraid of being bullied if you stood up for someone else"—but I guess they wanted to have the seated guy speak up and say he was sorry for being an insensitve jerk. The very recent Me, Too campaign following the Weinstein reveals made me wonder if 18+ seasons of SVU episodes on network TV and Hulu might have contributed to what seems to at last be at last a sea change of calling out the powerful perpetrators.

Hah! Yes!… …Ah-ha! Via the dead guy, right? Lyor didn't hear the vase crash? The insurance adjuster wants to date him?? Not related, but Lyor rhymes with Eeyore.

I suppose the desperate-to-have-a-child sister could be plotting with the assistant to get custody of Lake, but that would imply the sister is an unfit, short-sighted psycho. I mean: Be the fun dependable aunt or kidnap your niece? Sane choice or crazy pants choice?

I *loved* that line. Excellently penned/typed, directed, filmed, and acted episode. I really enjoyed seeing Elliot's genius in action rather than just referenced by other characters. It was easy to see how Darlene would both want to protect Elliot and protect herself from his Mr Robot alter. I happened to see the same actor in an old L&O rerun recently playing almost the same role. I like to think he was cast here because of that old role. Hah! Speaking of L&O! But I didn't see it that way. I assumed Darlene has seen Mr Robot many times. No? Yes, now that you mention it, it makes much more sense for this show to be referring to multiple personalities when mentioning multiple universes.

Maybe they killed her because she stood idly by for over a decade while their father regularly raped them? Just a thought. Yes. Posters on various boards commonly preface their comments with "everything I know about the law I learned from L&O." Well, looking back on this case and the Harvey Weinstein cases and my own unprosecutable cases from decades ago (not remotely related to the Menendez case), I can now say that everything is 20/20 in hindsight with "everything I learned from L&O SVU," including that victims of child abuse blame the enabler—sometimes even more than the abuser, especially if the enabler refused to believe it was happening when confronted. With the 20/20 vision of countless hours of SVU cases, any 21st century defense attorney could have probably at least had the brothers incarcerated in a psychiatric facility.

Do you mean the scenes in Barney's apartment? I don't think there's more than a couple of episodes. I absolutely cannot watch the two episodes in Wojo's apartment with his ex-prostitute girlfriend. The episode in Fish's apartment is tolerable.

My exact reaction too. Hawaii 5-0 still shoots on location, right? Must be different shooting schedules since Salvation is summer and 5-0 is fall. He's not the lead in either, so even though he may be required to hang out on set full time, the two roles would have about the same number of lines to learn as one lead role. It could be fun if Hawaii 5-0 writers give Ian Anthony Dale and Jorge Garcia (Hawaii 5-0 comic relief conspiracy theorist) an exchange like, "Any news on if that asteroid is going to hit?" "Not until at least next summer" (or maybe, "They cancelled it"). I don't watch 5-0 regularly, but I'd hope I'd read about it if they did make an asteroid or apocalypse reference so I could catch that episode.

I was wondering if that was a Leslie Abramson hallmark, or if it was an Edie Falco thing, or if it was both.

^^This X 1,000,000,000 (times a billion). I really don't recall. Was the show always like this? Or maybe the writers hate it so much that they're willing to tank their paychecks for a chance to write it into a corner of Scorpion going out of business?