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Even better, tell Ruby to unass the couch, put some shoes on, get in her fancy new car and take Diane down to the dollar store. She wouldn't even have to get out of the car. As far as I thought she was rather vacuous and self-absorbed, Zoey probably dropped off and picked up the younger kids quite a bit and maybe made a grocery run here and there. One of those "you can use the car if you also..." type deals parents make when their kids get their license. Unlike my family, where I couldn't get a license until I got a car "because you're not driving ours, so why do you need a license", so I took the bus to my job until I had enough to buy my own car and insurance. I also walked to school and back. Uphill. Both ways.

Oh, you're right, in the kitchen. I'd forgotten about that since I don't think they had any interaction. She was probably on set during the scene with Dre, Rhonda and Ruby, then. Or maybe even read it in the script. Could be I'm being overly sensitive and she didn't think anything about it since it's been so long. Meanwhile, Ruby not only owns a duplex while she sponges off of Dre and Bow, but then has the nerve sass him about it while she's relaxing in her bare feet on his sofa in his living room taking a nap? While her new Mercedes (Lexus/BMW/whatever it was) he paid for is sitting in the garage? No way in hell Couldn't she have just explained that Rhonda really needed the money and hope that Dre would offer his half to her of his own accord? Oh, I forgot, this is the Johnsons I'm talking about here. I really do like the show, but I need way more Pops and way less Ruby.

The Tupac line seemed a little heartless given that Rashida Jones was on this episode, even if she and Ruby weren't in any scenes together. It doesn't seem worth possibly causing someone pain just for a one-off throwaway joke.

I didn't understand the whole "red stands for Satan" thing. Isn't red the color of good luck and fortune and white is for death? I had just watched the old movie Bridge to the Sun on AMC on Tuesday afternoon, so the girl being attracted to Asians storyline really hit me in the feels.

Bow is an anaethesiologist, not a surgeon. I recall her being turned down for promotions, so it's quite possible that Dre makes more money than she does, especially if she's still paying off student loans. I'm also not sure that she's really that good at her job, it seems she's always screwing things up in some slapstick kind of way and acting like a complete idiot at work. I think she's also commented before that she killed some guy once. I can't remember the reason, but I'm pretty sure it was due to some failure on her part. I realize that it's a sitcom, but Bow is generally shown to be some sort of incompetent ditz in the workplace.

Quoting my own post to say that, although I saw The Men Who Built America, the series I was thinking of was American Titans. I just came across a mini-marathon on AHC and all of the titles are *** v. ***, which is how I remembered it. Right now, they're showing Vanderbilt v. Drew, which is the one I remembered with Fisk and Gould. Sadly, they've either already shown Edison v. Tesla or that's not on the current slate but it might be available online somewhere. I'm not sure the gang would consider it a documentary, since there are re-enactments, but it's a great series. I see that it's called Season 1, so I'm hopeful for a Season 2. Great stuff!

Thank you for sharing this. That is what I meant by "there has got to be more to that story than that". It makes me feel a lot more charitable towards Paige, that's for sure. Charitable isn't really the right word, but not derisive isn't right, either. Maybe that she doesn't irk me as much now that it isn't a case of 'oh, poor privileged baby'. I don't think it was wise to even bring that up because she might have garnered some ill will with the way it was presented, as if she didn't have enough with her parents being dance teachers.

That was my thought as well. I'd love to see James, Calvin, and Kurt Warner. Most of all, Natalie Coughlin! She was beautiful and a good dancer and I think she kind of got a raw deal from the editing. I'd even like to see TO again, but that probably won't happen. Unless they changed the timing of the season, third week in March still leaves out any active baseball, basketball or hockey players. I'm not sure Simone would go for it as she seemed pretty salty about it, but I wouldn't mind it because then Sasha be dancing. Meanwhile, I'd forgotten about Nancy Kerrigan but that's another one I'd like to see. I loved her partnership with Artem. If not, I'd like him for Natalie Coughlin because I think bridges have been burned between the show and Alec Mazo.

For me, the standout one on this has always been Paige and her "bullying" story. She gets flack from other girls because she made the cheerleading squad as a freshman, so her parents pick up stakes and move to a different STATE. There has got to be more to that story than that.... Yes, bullying is serious but it's also a word flung around with entirely too much abandon these days. Which ultimately cheapens the meaning of the real torment of the situation. "I was bullied because I was a cheerleader and they were jealous" is not being tormented. On a more shallow note, who was that cute little Blitzen reindeer? I don't remember seeing him in the troupe.

I haven't read this since it first came out and couldn't remember much other than the main characters and Ballston Spa. Seeing the adverts on tv spurred me into action and I'm now re-reading this and Angel of Darkness (on the Kindle because God knows where my paperbacks are packed away in the garage). I'd forgotten just how good this book is so now I'm in hyperdrive waiting for the show debut!

This is probably the best summing up the season in a single, simple sentence that I can think of. As for the rankings, I put Asylum and Hotel as 1a and 1b and from there it gets a bit murky. Some, like Coven and Freak Show, grab me right at the beginning and then sink into a ridiculous morass, while others, like Roanoke and Cult, are almost too boring to sit through at the beginning, get red hot in the middle and then end with a bang that feels more like a whimper. Murder House was so long ago I don't think that I really remember how much I enjoyed it. I just remember being disappointed that I'd had Violet pegged from close to the beginning and I hated the ending just kind of leaving us hanging with Jessica Lange and the murder toddler. I'd probably put Murder House at 3 with the rest in a tangled puddle with Roanoke stumbling at the finish line and finishing last.

Sheldon uses Uber now, was it the comic book store where he used Uber rather than wait for Leonard to take him? Or Amy could be taking him. She might have not known that he screwed over Leonard and Howard with his proposal specifically, but that doesn't mean she didn't know that he was working on something for the military. Or he could have been using his office at the school. As a theoretical physicist he wouldn't be working with actual models, right?

I think the one I saw maybe a few years ago was The Men Who Built America. It was a series on the History Channel or American Heroes Channel, or one of those type channels. It was a series that featured famous feuds among titans of Industry. Some I remember are Vanderbilt v. Fisk/Gould/Rockefeller, Carnegie v. Frick, Edison v. Tesla, and a few others that I can't recall at the moment. Great series! I learned so much watching those. I'd never realized how much of a role JP Morgan played in the Edison/Tesla deal. Now that I think about it, it was probably on H2, because I used to watch that constantly. I loved that channel, more off the beaten path stuff than H1 aka The Nazi Channel. Haven't thought about that series for some time I might have to check and see it's available if only to remember the name of the guy that sold coke (not that kind!) to make kerosene. Anybody remember who I'm talking about?

He had a contraband cell phone, during one of their phone calls Bow was shocked to find out where it had been hidden to smuggle in to him.

The first time his dad called him Connie and I put it together that his name was Connie Stevens... I laughed harder than when I first put the twins' names together as Jack and Diane (in the beginning they always either referred to them separately or as Diane and Jack, so it took a minute to sink in the first time).

I don't know why Dre thinks that sleeping on his couch (and it's not even a pull out) would be preferable to having a hotel room to himself. If I'd spent 10 years crammed in like a sardine I'd appreciate a little time to myself, luxuriating in a full size bed, cooking things for myself, flipping through the television channels and generally acclimating myself to 2017. Nothing wrong with inviting him over for a home cooked meal and maybe doing a little shopping together with Bow and perhaps taking in a Clippers game with Dre (although that's arguably a punishment at the moment). But having one's own space and a bit of autonomy cannot be downplayed. I'd like to think that they didn't show Omar so the audience could come to their own conclusions about him. Was he a hardened criminal type forced to learn to survive in prison or a complete innocent and a nice, appreciative guy? But it was probably because they saved money by not casting an actor for a one off. (Yeah, Barrington, but I think non-speaking parts can be classified as extra work and a lot less dough.)

I'd never thought about it before, but that would have worked! He looks a lot more like Solanas than Dunham does. The first few episodes of this season were such a nonsensical drag and Sarah Paulson annoyed me so much that I was going to give up on a season of AHS for the very first time. I had a couple of episodes on the dvr when I decided to give it one more try before I deleted it from the program manager. That episode was 11/9, where everything started popping and I am so glad I gave it one more chance. I'm totally hooked on this season and right now it is ranking #3 on my list (after Asylum and Hotel). Evan Peters was an absolute tour de force this episode and I am loving Ally Eyeliner (who I was praying would buy it by ep 4 I was so done with her). Every time I hear the Mayfair-Richards surname it makes me think of the Anne Rice series that started with The Witching Hour. I would love for that and the Manwich to be a hint about next season. High point of the season? Kai telling Ally that naming her kid Ozmandias was just asking for him to get his ass kicked (paraphrasing).

Howard was making a joke. Like, "I'm in the shit already, let's just go ahead and finish me off". But that would mean that the writer was being subtly clever rather than wielding the obvious anvil. Okay, they just messed up and forgot about the peanuts in Kung Pao... I still have all of my Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr books, which were originally my mother's. I have some Jean Craigs and Rosamond du Jardins as well.

I feel kind of cheated that I wasn't surprised about the double elimination. For some reason, I thought there was a double elimination scheduled for tonight and, since I recorded the show, didn't know any different when I switched over the last couple minutes to see who was leaving. After they announced Terrell and Cheryl safe, I was expecting the don't let the door hit ya music from the band and was surprised that it seemed that only one was going home. I didn't even have enough time to be surprised at a single elim when Tom stopped his lowest vote spiel after saying their names and I knew that signaled the "yer all outta here!" Glad Vanessa is leaving, sorry Artem is leaving. At least I have those shirtless overalls to look forward to... Now that I think about it, Tom not saying anything about having the lowest votes might have had a hidden meaning. Makes me wonder if Nikki and Artem was the real elimination and Maks and Vanessa requested their ouster, thereby turning it into a double and relieving the need for a double in the quarter finals. Because they usually harp incessantly when there's a double coming up at the end of the show

We had Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn read to us in elementary school. Through Grade 6 there was an hour or so every day where the teacher would read aloud to the class. Other books I remember are Pippi Longstocking, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Island of the Blue Dolphins and Johnny Tremain. Can you imagine kids these days actually having the patience to sit and listen to somebody read without fiddling with some device? Not sure if the school had a reading list for the teachers to choose from or they made their own. I had the same teacher in 4th and 6th grade and he's the one that read both Twain books. He'd really get into it, too, with facial expressions and accents and such.

It's not the meddling and busybody stuff, it that she's becoming so mean. My problem is that it seems that she no longer cares about her coworkers. Last week, she drew Myrtle's name, said it out loud and then announced a do-over. Then she gets all the "losers" excited about a bowling date and turns them down because she only wants to hang out with the popular crowd. Then she abandons her safety buddy Sandra to catch up with said crowd. This week she refuses to give Jonah back his phone several times. Which isn't the point, it's that she does it in dismissive ("I'm still playing") and demeaning ways. She takes away the new girl's lunch hour and then decides the best course of action is to get her fired. And it's not done in a "ha, ha" or rhetorical way, but dead serious. She's just becoming downright cruel as opposed to 'straight man/dorm mom" that she's been portrayed as thus far. Maybe America just can't play mean and deadpan in a fun way like Colton Dunn. Speaking of new girl, isn't she the actress that played Alan's chiropractic assistant on Two and a Half Men?

What the hell have they done to Amy? Character assassination might be too mild of a term.

I'm not sure that I see it that way. I think Mary Brunner was the top dog among the females, but Susan Atkins (Sadie) "in charge" as far as the rest of the girls because she was completely malleable and under control as far as Manson went. Beverly is in no way subservient or under Kai's control. She definitely has an end game and I don't think it involves Kai leading them into Death Valley. She has her own agenda and she's biding her time and letting Kai have the group do the heavy lifting for now. As soon he Kai said he called his brother, I literally screamed "the shrink!". I was so pleased that I didn't see that coming. But has it actually been established that Doc Cheyenne is part of the cult? I don't think he'd fall in with Kai's world view, he's more of a Beverly type.

Thanks! Glad to know somebody else looks at the little things, too. I swear I spend more time checking out the set decoration.... I tried to catch her name tag, but she turned as she was going off screen and it was blurred. Is she the same one that has the black hair down to the waist? She pops up every now and then, maybe it's the same one with a different hairstyle so I didn't recognize her right off.

As soon as I saw the title of this episode, I knew Brett wasn't dead, because they would have taken a bunch of crap about spoiling stuff. Before that, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had perished, as he would have been a perfect choice. He's not some off screen nobody that we've never seen, but there isn't a real attachment since he's never really involved in the storylines. What I didn't see coming was how we find out he's alive. That was terrific and perfectly played by Lauren Ash. I'd also like to find out more about the associate that hung her garter over Brett's memorial picture.