LadyintheLoop

To a slightly older generation, he'll always be Jim Ignatowski.

Was she inspired by the first season of Cheers, where Carla explains why she's pregnant by her ex-husband? The scene seemed eerily familiar, right down to the Very Special Shirt.

Maybe her first bad decision was a grief-fueled drunken hookup with a community college teacher, and her second was dropping out so she'd never have to face him again.

I'm just assuming that the Connors never mention Andy because it's such a sore point with Jackie.

And comes over to do her laundry. And Mary throws herself into Granny Rose's arms. Looks like they don't see each other all that often, and it's a treat when they do. I just want to know why she lost her job. If she had to uproot her kids after she was fired for cause, that would explain her guilty indulgence of Harris.

Saw Roseanne earlier -- was this Get a Dog night on ABC? I was starting to think that Dre might have a point about Junior.

Becky can get wasted as duck on the job? What's with the tattoo? Did she get it during the original show, or was it a memorial to Mark?

I thought the sink incident was further from abuse than Roseanne's busting in on a naked Harris (naked herself!), though she was making a point about hogging the shower and the hot water. Interesting that DJ's the successful Connor kid -- he's performing close to his potential (though that's not a very high bar) and he's separated only by distance from his spouse. Until the show states otherwise I'll assume that Andy went to live with his father as soon as a judge gave him a choice and that this fact entered family lore as further proof that Jackie can't do anything right.

I'd been thinking that they should have gained some ground once all three kids left home. Then I remembered Jerry.

A "shambles" is actually a slaughterhouse -- fitting, considering the condition of the meat Amy served.

I think Lisa Beth got a raw deal. If Alex had just left her hanging instead of jumping in with "Forever," she might have realized in time that her answer was incomplete. I was yelling "Jack Johnson," but the fictionalization had him as Jefferson.

Funny thing is I'm older than RedHawk, and the information we girls all got was about the uterine lining "sloughing off." That's actually the only context in which I can recall hearing that phrase, unless you count "sluffing off" for half-assing it. I just remembered my brother reporting that his daughter had reached that milestone: "We're all very relieved because she's had PMS for a year."

I thought they were creepy. Most brothers and sisters don't look that much alike.

Can't blame Erica for vocalizing her disappointment when Nan had done the same, but I hope it's not the start of a trend.

And it specified three words so it couldn't be "cum laude." People say LaFont? Okay.

Each clue had two answers, and you had to pick the one that didn't have "sum" in it -- "spring" instead of "summer," "subpoena" instead of "summons," "zenith" instead of "summit," and whatever those other two were.

Speaking of French pronunciation, Justin got away with one today. He left the first N sound out of L'Enfant. This game shows the advantage of starting at the top of the category. They didn't seem to expect that "The Chandler" would be Raymond. (Of, course, we never did see the top clue.)

"What is the eradication of smallpox?" So proud that I got it.

I loathed Austin but he acted so happy for Scarlett – all is forgiven.

Borrowed this from the library, and had to order my own copy. I’ll probably pick up more on the second viewing. That was my biggest quibble. In the book only Marston and Armstrong killed their victims directly, and they hadn’t meant to kill at all; the others didn’t see themselves as murderers. There could have been a flashback where Miss Brady, in the throes of a heart attack, scrabbled through her nightstand and cried out for her medicine; then Rogers could have laid her body out peacefully and pulled a little bottle out of his pocket. Better yet, Macarthur could have given young Richmond an order that made him blanch, then looked him in the eye and said, “You’ve been a great friend to my wife and me.” (That’s ME! Not I!) Sadly, kicking a pregnant servant to the curb was nothing unusual back then. I think the writer turned Emily Brent into a jealous lesbian because she didn’t trust modern audiences to comprehend the character’s moral outrage. In the book, Armstrong had once testified before Wargrave. He knew the old man really was His Honor, and he couldn’t see such a personage committing a crime. Off to the rewatch . . .

Maybe it's going to be part of a bigger story arc. Dre's job woes haven't been too compelling because because the family could live comfortably if not lavishly on either parent's earnings, but suppose Bow can't work? She has to keep running out to vomit, she'll have more and more trouble staying on her feet, and she may well have to go on bed rest -- so much can go wrong at her age. If Dre lost his job or had to take a big salary cut, they'd have to face the fact that their drunken-sailor spending had landed them in a hole.

No, that's what Alicia said. Grace just wanted to put off college for a year, which was not completely insane. Glad Cary ends up happy. I guess even Kurt had to be knocked off his pedestal. Kurt and ex-student Holly both testified that the bullets (finally found in the evidence room) had come from Locke's gun. Lucca and Alicia wanted to undercut Kurt but Diane wouldn't agree. Lucca asked Kurt whether he'd had an affair with Holly, and he didn't blurt out a denial over the prosecution's objections. Any overlap between law and justice was purely accidental. At least the show was consistent in that.

Did the baker and the florist really make the same mistake, or was that a Freudian slip by Alicia? Liked seeing Kurt and Diane as a social couple.

. . . and wear wedding rings. Hadn't anyone heard of microchipping?

Heck, Grace could become a pastor.