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It is quite possible they decided not to re-enlist when their terms of service were up. I've met plenty of veterans who served for quite a length of time but decided not to re-enlist, even though they might have had a decade or more of service. Sometimes it was because they got tired of the grind of military life or sometimes they wanted to try new things. Sometimes, even though they left voluntarily, they still express the desire that they had stayed in. If the three men were medically retired, they would have gone through a medical review board to determine the extend of their disability. This is separate from VA disability. This is from Military.com: Military Disability Retirement Given that Riley went to the VA for his disability rating, I believe that all three of the men left the Marines voluntarily. Riley may have been feeling the health effects from his service and decided not to re-enlist, although he would have denied feeling disabled in any way. Todd might be the same way too. This episode also really made me feel for Lizzie again. As Michael's fiancée, not his wife, she's not entitled to any sort of survivor benefits or anything that might have come from his service. She kind of exists in a nether region. Her grief is real, but who knows what services she can reach out to. Art was spot on with his take on grief and how it can come back roaring when you least expect it. I still cry about loved ones I've lost, even though in some instances, it's been decades. Damn but I love this show.

Michael Weatherly sounds like such a sleazy, disgusting asshole. Unfortunately, I don't think she helps her case when she says that she didn't know her contract contained an arbitration clause, nor that in all the contracts she ever signed she never realized this clauses were present. I assume she has an agent, business manager, or lawyer who looks out on her behalf, but wouldn't you read the contract anyway?

I don't think the release Chris Evans's dick pics was truly "accidental." 😉 Hemsworth: blond, muscles, Thor embodied. Pine: Captain Kirk, new Star Trek. And it's clichéd to say: piercing blue eyes. As others mentioned: Christopher Meloni. That zaddy blows the baby Chrises off the playing field entirely.

And it may be that having experienced the horrors of combat and war first-hand, he was reluctant to revisit them.

I don't think it's "elitist" to say something wouldn't be funny today that was funny 70 years ago. I watch the show on Hulu, and there are some episodes that would be considered "problematic" today. The plot of one is where Lucy gets a black eye from Ricky throwing a book at her, and Fred and Ethel think it's because he hit her -- and it's played for laughs. And it's not just one episode; there are a number of episodes where Lucy expresses the belief that Ricky is going to beat her for something she did "wrong." And if I recall, he spanks her on more than one occasion. Lucy is often infantilized by Ricky and treated like little more than a stubborn, slightly "slow" child who needs to be punished. Her career aspirations (whether or not she has any talent is beside the point) are mocked and squashed down. Even "The Operetta" has Lucy singing about being a gypsy, a term which is considered offensive to the Roma today.

To be fair, any character played by Chris Elliott is loathsome.

Sure, freelancers get hired by magazines or other publications. If she has relationships with editors (e.g., has written articles for them in the past), they might reach out to her specifically to cover a topic. If she's pitching stories to magazines, she still needs to create relationships with editors and know their publication's market. I'm not a fan of embarrassment humor, so part of problem with this show for me (other than the quick cuts) is her talking to the ghosts and being thought of as "crazy" for talking to thin air. The excuses she gives are lame and not funny.

When I read more about the lead, it just creeped me out at what a sleevy sleaze he is, so I never got into the show. Even the trailers for upcoming episodes that feature him gross me out.

This is the first episode I didn't think sucked. It was actually kind of touching, although I couldn't help but wonder about the little girl who killed him and the guilt she's had to live with for almost 40 years. Given what they've shown of Pete, You'd think he might be more concerned about her. It didn't make sense that Pete was the leader of a Girl Scout-esque group. Even in the 1980s, I don't think they would have had a single man on a trip with young girls alone. Why not just have it be a Boy Scout rip-off? The quick cuts still give me a headache. I wouldn't be surprised if some version of "It's Getting Hot in Here" doesn't end up as an actual reality show.

I never watched Warehouse 13, but I feel the same way about Mulder & Scully. They had a great platonic friends/brother-sister vibe, but it should never have been established as canon that they were lovers. It still bugs me to this day. 😒

Plenty of people don't care, deny it's happening, and mock those who do care. If it takes a child to make them feel uncomfortable enough to do something, I'm all for it.

I was always under the impression Kemi and the mother teamed up to pick the woman who would bear his children/his mother's grandchildren since Kemi is too old.

Young or old, Sheldon Cooper is a selfish, self-centered prick. I like when the show focuses on other family members, but I'm sad we're seeing the trajectory of the break-up of George and Mary's marriage.

Well, that's a sexist generalization. Connie was always a bitch, it was just sugar-coated because of her southern accent.

That's what I thought too. I hope they find a way to let Jay see the ghosts. I really, really hate the quick cuts from ghost-in-the-room to no-ghosts-in-the-room when switching perspectives from Sam to Jay. A restaurant would be a great idea, but is the property zoned for commercial use? A B&B would be one thing, but would a full restaurant be something else? There are neighbors close enough to walk over. Supposedly, the ghosts are in the clothes they died in, correct? So did Hetty and the singer die suddenly while fully dressed? Trevor presumably died with his pants undone for some reason (likely sexual in nature), the scoutmaster was shot in the neck, so we see the arrow. If the Revolutionary War soldier died of dysentery, it's likely he wouldn't be in his full uniform, so why is he? The show's "ghosting" rules are very inconsistent. I'm watching, but I'm still not really liking it.

Forget the DJ son, give me the restaurant owner father. 😉

I love this show. I love how it isn't afraid to wring tears from my eyes in almost every episode. I love how the actors can go from comedy to drama in a snap. I love the sensitive way it's addressing damaged people trying to find their way whole again, while acknowledging that there can still be laughs along the journey. Al had a good point at how Americans are not connected to one another the way they were, and although I'm glad Lizzie said she didn't want to give him bad advice or tell him the wrong thing, I do kind of wish she had pointed out that people also used to keep so much pain hidden and unacknowledged in prior times. Also, sweaty Riley in shorts and a sleeveless muscle shirt. 😉

That's why I gave up this show a few episodes into the first season.

Yes. I liked the show better when it was about two fat people falling in love. I think I stopped watching by the time Molly quit her job.

Part of that was that Melissa McCarthy was an over-the-top physical comedian in her movies, and TPTB thought she was being wasted as the "straight man" in the sitcom.

They're adding another character to an already bloated cast?

I've tried, but it's just not working for me. The constant quick cuts between the ghosts being in the room when Samantha sees them to gone when Jay is the focus give me a headache. I hate all the over talking among the ghosts. It's especially unfunny when they're talking to her when she's with other living people and demanding she respond so it looks like she's "crazy" and keeps talking to air. I've never found embarrassment humor funny. The Viking's loud story while the living at the dinner table were supposed to be having a quiet discussion was particularly grating. Of course the asshole neighbors did something wrong (and talked about it in the "enemy camp") so that the ghosts could hear and tell Sam about it so she could use it against them. Didn't even realize the native American ghost wasn't there until I saw it mentioned here. That just means there are too many characters. Hetty's cocaine/barber joke was mildly amusing.

I'm from downstate New York. Anything north of the Bronx is upstate. 😁

I like the one where they scare Louise with the haunted house. It had some genuinely scary moments.

I still remember on 9/11 listening to 1010 WINS news radio because my office didn't have cable, so no good TV reception. Some WINS marketing staff person was calling in from her apartment's rooftop in Brooklyn because she had a clear view of the Towers, and then her shocked gasp, "Oh my God, the building fell!" Chills because we could only hear her. Twenty years later I still remember that moment.