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I was SO hoping she'd get the boot. She's officially my least favorite now, even ahead of Eddie Money, who was sad sack but not an asshole.

I can't remember exactly how they phrased it but it was something along the lines of moving between Louisiana and Kentucky, and I commented "and by 'moved' we mean 'sold.'"

This was exactly what I was thinking when I wrote the post that I then deleted because I thought I might have been overthinking LOL! Thanks for making me feel like I was going in the right direction.

Nothing to see here (somehow couldn't just delete the post ... I misinterpreted the part I quoted so my comment was inaccurate).

That makes a lot of sense ... but for some reason I inferred from what his dad said that West would not be welcome at dinner by his mom. If she was upset because she loved/worried about her son's safety, I wouldn't think she'd take it so far as to refuse to see him. I got vibe there was bad blood or something up with the mom. I can't remember if she'd ever been mentioned before now ... Well, glad that there's only a few weeks to wait rather than a few months (or, like with David Simon shows, a year or so). I've grown to love this show more and more. Nathan Fillion has totally grown on me.

Thank you! I do tend to miss things/not remember them so relieved that wasn't the case here. And I'm always happy to see more Michael Beach.

Are we already in the know about what the situation is between West, his dad and his MOM, or was that a teaser? Because if it's been mentioned, I missed it so hoping someone can fill me in on that storyline. I did love those beach sunset shots ... we're moving from the east coast to southern California in two years and I'm already feeling "saudade" about it in advance, but those shots made me feel a little better!

As soon as I saw Chantal's ... thing ... I knew she was toast. It looked like a cheeseburger. At least she won HER FIRST EVER advantage round (not too heavily telegraphed) ... Team Lerome but would be fine with Douglas. Sarah inexplicably bugs me.

We actually both caught that immediately and wondered if we should be watching for characters from every episode to show up in cameos throughout the episode. ETA: Did anyone figure out where Ondine was from? That was a hard-to-place (for me) accent and we're curious.

Because math class is hard and memory is harder, it was my bad ... not the WaPo but another Virginia paper ... maybe Richmond? I have a yellowed copy somewhere. I'm so sorry! Honestly, I've tried hard to erase the whole thing from my memory. Re: interview subjects, they ask you to list interesting or unusual things about yourself and then spring one on you while you're live on the air. I had a somewhat unusual job so I wasn't surprised to be asked about it.

I don't think I'd watched any of the other shows he'd been in and I remember when I learned they were a couple, I thought he looked ... pleasant enough. I have to say, though, that watching this, I kind of "get it." He's not the hottie, but there's something about him (maybe partly the character) that is just so appealing ... he looks like he'd give great hugs. Sometimes when you're older "warmth" trumps "heat."

Lauren Graham may beg to differ (and if someone else posted this before I read/quoted it, apologies or Gilmore minds think alike!)

They better not kill off Rockmond Dunbar. I just adore him.

Never mind

Oh man, I just sat there weeping over my glass of red wine ... they absolutely killed me with that scene. I cannot hear that song without tearing up but this completely set off the waterworks! Hope you folks will humor me for a moment ... Back in the paleolithic era, 40 years ago exactly, I had a part-time job while I was at college as a singing waitress at a themed restaurant, The Christmas Inn (slogan: Where It's Christmas Every Day!). So, not surprisingly, we were really booked from about mid-November through Christmas eve and I stayed up at school for both Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year's to work that year (sophomore year). We each had a Christmas solo (along with group numbers AND performing the entire scores of "Annie" and "Carousel" and if I never hear "Tomorrow" again it will be too soon). Mine was "I'll Be Home For Christmas" ... at least for the first few weeks. Most of the nights were booked out with company holiday parties and family dinners and we (six-person cast) split the room to serve drinks and dinner before/while performing. One night I had the absolutely loveliest family, especially the mom/grandma ... When I was singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas," I looked at her and she was just weeping copiously. After the set, I went over to make sure she was all right ... she said "It was absolutely beautiful and means so much because I lost two sons in Vietnam." I never sang the song again. I couldn't. I shifted over to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" the next night and always think of her when I hear the song. Sorry for taking it personal there but this scene just slayed me. I was afraid for about a nanosecond they were killing off the marine and then realized 9-1-1 wouldn't do that to me. " ON 11/27/2018 AT 2:11 AM, ANIMEMANIA SAID: If the guy in the cardboard box suffocated, he deserved to, he didn't have a key to poke a few holes in the box or cut through the tape." Maybe I need to rewatch but I thought when they had a shot of him talking to them on the phone that seemed to be from the POV of inside the box, I saw there was a slit of light where the top of the carton would be and I thought, "Oh, at least he can breathe."

That is SO awesome ... if you get a chance, try to find Ann Curry's "We'll Meet Again" episode airing now about two Holocaust survivors, one in LA and one in Brooklyn ... watched it last night on PBS and definitely got teary-eyed! (I also remember a scene in one of the "All Of A Kind Family" books where the youngest brother doesn't understand why he can't find the birdie at his cousin's pidyon haben ... "I want to see Ben the Pigeon!")

I had never even heard of this show and, fortuitously, happened to turn on the TV last night looking for something good to watch at the very beginning of the episode about the two Holocaust survivors. Not ashamed to say I was pretty damned teary. Very much want to tune in for the whole season but oddly future episodes did not seem to be available for me ... I'd watched it on one of the two local PBS channels (I'm in the DC area) but the next episode seems to only be airing on DTV channel 389 which is not available to me ... plus, if this is S2, I'd love to track down episodes from S1.

In a simplified nutshell, among the 12 tribes of Israel, the Cohens are like the first tribe, and at synagogue during the high holy days a "Cohen" descendant is the one who does the first reading and a "Levi" (another main tribe) does the second one. Everyone who is not a Cohen or Levi (descendants of those two tribes) is referred to as a Yisroelite/Israelite (or garden variety Jew LOL). It's more complicated than that but, yes, the Cohens and Levis do have special religious obligations (happily, I descend from a variety of no-name nebbishes). ETA: EEEEEEK it didn't merge ... Drogo, if there is a special magic formula -- forumula? -- please let me know! Meanwhile, profound apologies.

I hear you ... but am so glad you have them! I wonder if the age of the "house photographer" is now a thing of the past because of selfies, etc. ... I still have some of the "group photos/table photos" from long-ago cheesy resort trips in my teens/early 20s, not to mention some of my family, and they're priceless. And not something you can do with a selfie. Leida being an anti-semitic YIP simply gives me one more log to put on the "I Hate Leida" fire. It seems from what people are reporting here that her self-image and online presence has not exactly gone the way she'd hoped/planned and nothing could make me happier. I hope she's completely and utterly miserable. And a big thank you to CSS.MD for doing your bit to contribute to that! I salute you!

So, I was hoping someone here could enlighten me on a timeline thing (which might also extend Eric's apartment from "messy but not dirty" to "flat out dirty" if I'm right ... About how much time elapsed between when Eric brought Leida to see the apartment for the first time and when she brought her whole fam-damily over to visit? (BTW, I kinda liked her dad ... he reminded me of someone, not sure who ... I think a deposed dictator or something) Because not one single thing was cleaned up or tidied or moved between those two visits, from what I could tell ... right down to the red spatula in the dirty pan on the stovetop in the exact same spot both times. And you'd think that after she pitched her pissy fit about how disgusting it was when she FIRST saw it, someone might have run over and tidied up a bit in the interim before she brought her family over. Even if SHE didn't want to, preferring to make the dramatic point to her family that it was a shithole, you'd think Eric might have called, say, Tasha or Merry Maids or production or SOMEONE to go over and do a little damage control. Also, I LOVE your pix, Funky-Rat! Back in late 1983, maybe early 1984 (I know it was when we were engaged) Mr. Snappy and I thought it would be fun to go to Penn Hills (for lovers only!) ... didn't go all out on a place with the champagne glass and kind of regretted that but in retrospect it was just as well ... but got one of those rooms with all the shag carpet and huge heart-shapen sunken hot tub. I had the worst case of the flu that weekend, we didn't get to do ANY of the "fun" resort things (fancy-shmancy meals, heated pool, etc. much less the fun stuff you do when engaged at a for lovers only resort) ... ALL I could do was sit in the hot tub and whine while taking medicine and watching a lot of TV. Which I guess is kind of like our life now except without the hot tub. No pix from the risque weekend.

Raises hand because I had same reaction. In fact, may actually have said "SRSLY???" out loud. That said, I LOVED this because I adore Hen and loved getting her back story and such a great showcase for Aisha Hinds. He is now! (Hope this merges) A few other thoughts ... I didn't know until you just mentioned it that Eamonn Walker was a Brit (I also was first turned on to him as Kareem Said) ... and didn't know that Casey was as well ... I'm so provincial to think that it must be so hard to "do" an American accent. I remember also being surprised about Dominic West! Finally, one clarification ... am assuming now that the support group at the end was made up of individuals who had all experienced some sort of harassment from the "good old boys" network (white woman, black woman, gay man) ... at first I thought they were all supposed to be gay and thought, well, Bobby must have been something to turn Athena LOL.

LOVE THE NEW THREAD NAME ... After watching orange-fingers yakking at poor Asuelo as he tried to figure out the whole car seat thing (something I, as a mom, never did get right ... I called it the Costco Death Ride), I sat there yelling at the TV "clean off your fingers before you hold that child!!!" I confess now that I cannot sit through 1-2 hours of this every week but am curious about some of the outcomes, so I'm bailing on watching and will just read all the threads here every few days to stay caught up ... I'll sit back with the popcorn (not cheetos, can't get my MacBook keys all orange and dirty). Thanks in advance to all of you for making it a lot more interesting in YOUR words than it is in the constantly repetitive show words. Oh one last thing ... Kalani, you can't refer to Oliver as "MY SON" to Asuelo ... well, I mean, you DID but you reap what you sow with that attitude. And one last last thing ... Larissa, that car you didn't like? The red one? HAS(y) AIR(y) CONDITIONING. AND(y) IS(y) NEW. AND(y) IN YOUR BUDGET. YOU DON'T(y) NEED(y) THREE ROWS OF SEATS WHEN YOU PROBABLY WON'T EVEN POP(y) OUT(y) A BABY FOR A LONG(y) TIME IF EVER.

BTW just to clarify (not that anyone cares) ... it's not that Mr. Snappy was pissy about the way his name was being pronounced ... more that his name sounds REALLY dorky with an "ee" on the end.

Honestly, I don't think anything you said was offensive at all!!! But I did just ask Mr. Snappy if he knew the story behind this (he's learned a lot of "Brazilian Portuguese" for his work, which by the way is not to be confused with Portugal Portuguese LOL) ... I hope I can explain this correctly but here goes ... while Larissa has a lot of annoying affectations, this one is actually legit. Most Brazilians have trouble with a hard consonant ending to a word (such as a T) and soften it by adding an "ee" sound at the end. Many words in their language end with either a vowel or an s (soft consonant). So it's not so much an affectation, nor an affectionate ending to a name (like a nickname), it's just how they tend to pronounce those words. In fact, he told me that the friends who always called him by his first name with the "ee" sound at the end realized it kinda bothered him and since then call him by his last name (which has an s-sound at the end).

I'm not Brazilian and don't even play one on TV but Mr. Snappy has a ton of Brazilian friends through his work and several of them refer to him by his name with an "ee" sound on the end, even though his name is not one you'd "nickname" like that ... so I didn't even think twice when Larissa called him Colt-ee. What I'm not sure of is if it's an affectation or just the way they have learned to speak English.