Lakebum

The intro is the same for every episode. Sometimes the opening can be a bit spoilerish. But in the case of someone being taken out on a stretcher, that happened back in Episode 1 (maybe 2, but I think 1) when the guy-who-tapped-so-quickly-I-forgot-his-name slipped and -- if you believe him -- broke his leg. Ray had actually lost 15% of his body weight, not 15 pounds.

I kept waiting for him to drop a “Lisa, you’re tearing me apart!!” or “Who wants to play some football?”

191 surgeries is accurate. However, how they defined “surgeries” matters. Some relatively minor procedures are legally defined as “surgery.” (Which is not to diminish Yasmin’s ordeal, which was horrific. And, given the trauma she had to endure, even those relatively minor surgeries —if there were any — probably took an incredible toll on her already battered body.)

5 years since the last post; does anybody even remember this show (maybe not) and does anyone care about my thoughts (definitely not)? Still, I'll feel better once I write them down so... About the final episode (which of course is the "What Happened" to Season 4 as well as the "What We're Gonna Say Happened" to Season 3...) So maybe I missed it, but did they ever acknowledge that Kyle was NOT the product of his mother and father (until the big reveal, of course?) "Dad is not your father but he doesn't know" works; "Mom is not your mother but she doesn't know" does not. More importantly... saying that Skinner shot himself in the head works... until someone asks questions. (And his daughter was the question-asking type.) Questions like "WHY did he shoot himself, since someone else was the Pied Piper?" and "Did he really drive his car into the lake and then shoot himself?" and "How much of a coincidence is it that Linden threw his phone into the lake exactly where his car went in?" Speaking of which, how convenient was it that Skinner's wife went up to the cabin to look for her husband AND HID HER CAR? If she had simply parked at the cabin, Linden would have seen the car and not tossed damning evidence into the lake. But she didn't see the car (probably the only other car in a 50-mile radius.) And I guess they'll put poor ol' Joe Mills on Death Row for killing all of those girls that Skinner really killed... and no one who knows will say anything about the innocent man who is going to get the chair (or hung, or however he chooses to go.) There was a lot to like about this series, but also a lot of "Huh?" and plot holes and "I don't think that's the way it would have worked." And of course a happy ending, after 43.9 episodes of everything but happiness.

I’m pretty sure that if Caroline sat on me, I would be the one who is gleeful.

I have built similar traps with chicken wire, and it sucks. Truly death by 1,000 cuts, and all of the cuts are on your hands. So I would have done the seaweed for that reason alone. BUT, I would have done it just for the Save the Turtles aspect, too. And if I arrived last and everyone was doing the same task, it would only make sense to do the other.

I’d be happy just to see them have to compete in a country where they don’t speak the language…

I thought this had the potential to be a long-running series. Finding out that it was cancelled after only two seasons is disappointing. But at least I still have the books… and CJ Box keeps writing more of those.

Maybe a jump rope?

For a while there I thought we were going to have the first-ever leg where every team lost. Many of these teams are going to have to improve, a lot, and in a hurry, or this season will be less about adventure and more surviving a comedy of errors…

Definitely my favorite Final 3 ever; there are reasons to be happy no matter who wins, and no reason to be upset if a certain team wins. I might even go so far as to say that if any of these teams were in past seasons of TAR, I'd probably be pulling for them to win it all. Since somebody has to win, I hope it's Rob and Corey. But I'd be OK with any order of finish. As for this episode... i would STILL be trying to complete the Riverdance task. My wife and I usually make a comment about which of us would be better suited for a Roadblock, and when we saw that this one involved dancing, we just said "We'd be doomed."

Whiny ol' AL is going to pull a Flo on us, isn't she? I might as well start preparing for the disappointment now... But until then, at least there are three teams left to root for, and a couple more I can almost tolerate.

I guess since there will be no Season 3 my dream of seeing a Mighty Ducks hockey game scene that looks like it was written by someone who had seen a real hockey game will never come true. And I guess we'll never know what happened to the players who were on the six teams that did NOT make it to the Camp Championship Game. Were they on lockdown, or spending time in a really big penalty box? I don't think I saw any of them at the banquet, I'm pretty sure none of them were at the lake, and I know that none of them were at the campfire. Speaking of the campfire scene, of all of the unlikely things that happen in the Mighty Ducks universe, gathering that many 13-year-olds who ALL know all of the words to "Landslide" is the most unlikely. Who would have thought that the Mighty Duck with the best chance of making it to the NHL would be... Nick? As an announcer, not a player, but still....

Apparently there will be a Season Four coming in Fall of 2023. I don't know that they have any original source material to work from, but the characters are so wonderful that they should be able to come up with a decent storyline.

At what point in the sequence "We found the diary!" (Treating as a spoiler in case someone hasn't made it to Episode 3 of Season3 yet.)