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Given all the spinoffs already planned for Discovery+. this may already be "a thing," thus the emphasis on said siblings ... or maybe "the relatives we love to hate" so that we can have more of Terrible Tiffany and Monstrous Micah. Tough times when Zied is BY FAR the most appealing and attractive and likable person on this season so far.

To take attention away from her Miss Piggy nose?

Yes to all of this (assuming I don't need to spoil that comment).

I will always be “Grey’s”’ (hope I punctuated that right) bitch but admit the previous two episodes of luminous Mer on the beach bored me to tears ... ... so this episode all was forgiven. I love Bailey (and the Chief) and having her carry this beautiful episode meant the world to me (and cameo from the awesome Frankie Faison!!!! Has he been on as Papa Bailey in the past and I just forgot because brain injury????) I thought they handled the pandemic with grace and sensitivity and the right amount of tear-inducing moments. That crawl screen at the end ... gah. Blurry eyes. Tomorrow will be 39 years since I held my mom’s hand at her bedside and sang to her (“Everything I Own” by Bread) and told her she could let go (did the same for my dad 15 years ago without the singing). In both cases, other family members were pissed at me for not begging them to fight. I hope someone will do the same for me. I’ve already written a note not yet sent to my daughter asking her to learn “Some Fantastic Place” by Squeeze to send me home.

Hey there ... me again!!! Sorry for the running commentary but, as mentioned, the highlight of our hunkering (now on Day 260) has been our daily ration of one episode of TC (we watched two on Thanksgiving as a special treat) ... So, two episodes into S13 (you may remember it for "Snot on a Rock" among other highlights) and I HAVE to ask this because I figure someone here may have SOME insight into this mystery ... I was neither a Grayson lover or hater on S9 ... she was pretty and not a bad chef but reasonably forgettable. I don't recall her departure being specifically controversial. This is not an All-Star season or a "some All-Stars" season or anything else that can explain to me the mystery why on earth she is back again. No explanation from TPTB. Is it possible there were either some behind-the-scenes shenanigans, rule-breaking that came out later under the rug, or a cosmic fail on decision-making that brought her back to our TV screen for no apparent reason ... not even taking into account here that she has morphed over four seasons from pleasant and okay to absolutely a horrid inappropriately entitled bitch who has now moved into my "GTF off my screen" league leader. Was there ever an explanation of why she of all people was inexplicably brought back (I know she's not going to be around long but I doubt they'll explain it then either)? (OTOH, on the opposite end of Bad Chefs/Chefs You Hate, I remembered I liked Isaac a lot but had forgotten just how truly adorkable he is ... also, not a lot of screen time at all for Kwame in the early eps ... of all the Top Chef restaurants I've been to, I had one of my two favorite TC dishes at Kith/Kin -- this amazing shrimp dish -- the other favorite TC dish being Mei Lin's famous shrimp toast at Nightshade. Someday I'm going to get to Portland to dine at Gregory's Kann ... though of course I guess I have to get out of the house first.)

I have to say I am totally 110% on this. I admit I have not watched this season/relationship with the complete devotion to every detail that maybe I should have, but that said I've definitely gotten the vibe from Ari that she's "Jew'ish'" ... it's, at most, her ethnicity and culture but not really her religion in terms of her being devout ... and I say this as a "nice Jewish girl" (LOLOL) who considers Judaism my ethnicity for lack of a better word but that's pretty much it. I straddle the border of agnostic/atheist. I was never bat mitzvah, was a Sunday School dropout after 4th grade, and all the prayers and songs I knew I learned during two periods: 7th/8th grade when I attended about 15 bar mitzvahs for the boys in my class and 2003 when Little Snappy was bat mitzvah (by her choice) along with all the members of HER religious school class (and now, almost 20 years later, she is completely agnostic and married to a wonderful nice-not-Jewish-boy and I'm pretty sure my grandchild when they come along will be raised agnostic as well). The difference is, I don't ever pull out the "Jewish card" like Ari does. Bini IS devout and he IS genuine. I respect that completely. IMHO Avi is at this point a baby who should be raised with love and affection and be exposed and taught about ALL of his different bloodlines (I personally was, I admit, shocked to find out Ari's mom was NOT Jewish ... but whatever she "is," that's also part of Avi ... and the more lines of heritage and bloodlines the merrier ... My unpopular opinion is that baptism or not, circumcision or not, even down the line Bar Mitzvah or not ... eventually Avi will learn all of his history and hopefully be able to warp and weft them together into a unique thread that allows him to combine everything that made him into a new material (sorry for the awful analogy) ... PS Where does the nickname "Cheesestick/Cheesedick" come from??? PPS I am CONVINCED I have seen Deavan's (GORGEOUS) wedding dress elsewhere on reality TV ... MAFS maybe? Anyone?

Thank you!!!! I do now remember the backstory thanks to you but hadn’t realized/remembered it had gone on for so long. And it also explains why his parents (especially his mom) hate her so much. Doesn’t make them any less detestable ... just understandable.

Thank you. I have serious memory issues (medical) and the most significant is my lack of ability to determine past time passage (did something happen a month/a year/10 years ago e.g.) but when she said that even I thought “wait a minute, there’s no way I’ve been watching this shitshow for 8 YEARS!!!! Did I mishear that or am I misremembering?” It never even occurred to me that this could be show manipulation!

I hate to reply to myself because it's been a while but I can't seem to delete/edit previous comments so ... Mr. Snappy and I have been watching one episode a day during "the hunkering" and are now a few episodes into Season 12 (a "palate cleanser" after all the awful folks on Season 11) ... And I don't mean to be disrespectful to the recently departed, but I'm amazed that in three pages of seemingly awful, nasty people no one has mentioned Aaron Grissom. I don't remember THAT much from this season (I think my work schedule conflicted with it to some degree ... of course I know that Gregory became my all-time favorite cheftestant, just a tad ahead of Sheldon ... but I only really clearly remembered him, Mei Lin and Melissa).

Still cannot for the life of me figure out where skank-ho Brittany got her unwarranted sense of entitlement/superiority ... I know she has $$$ etc. but she’s so not all that or even ANY that.

Damn, he’s even worse than I thought. Though it shouldn’t come as a surprise. I’m sure his Boys who posted responses are very Proud of him.

Just watched the episode from S5, I think, with Floyd and his toddler Charlie. That one raised my hackles more than anything. And I couldn't help but wonder what the story was with the mother (who apparently is in the picture somewhere, since the older kids referenced her) because how on earth could CPS give custody to this POS? Looks like (from the Google) that Floyd has become a self-professed preacher and demi-god and is clearly completely off whatever rocker he might have had to start with. Poor Charlie and Lily.

Hello all my long-lost lovelies!!!! Thanks to my having spent so much time binge watching favorite shows since February, I’m now ecstatic to fully embrace this throwback to the good old days (adding the B’ette and new season. Of Amazing Race to my must-see TV). So many familiar names (even though a silent stroke and a pair of transient global amnesia episodes have wiped out chunks of my memory creating frequent Error 404s, I still remember the important stuff like old B/B’ette good times with my TWOP buds!!!) Staying on non-topic topic, I haven’t had my hair cut in about a year and a half (had already been growing out a shoulder-length look in anticipation of an updo at Cazzie Lite’s wedding in September 2019) so it’s now almost waist-length and very straight. I was absolutely shocked to discover that the shampoo that makes it ridiculously soft and manageable is ... Prell! I’ll weigh in on topic on my early thoughts on the Bachelors ... even though I know the main Dale Moss spoiler part, I wonder if all of the guys in the house will just transition over to Tay’s candy box or if she’ll be allowed to choose a few discarded, say, truffles or caramels or whatever to bring back. Not sure my analogy works but you get the idea.

The first time they mentioned it, Interlochen was my first thought.

Carter is Karen’s maiden name. But not sure why/when they decided that the rest of the kids would all be Ds. Also ... and I may be wrong about this but I noticed it a few times ... at home/away from school each multiple unit is dressed identically within their group but they’re different outfits from group to group ... usually color-coordinated though ... my thought was that it was probably a lot easier to sort the laundry, do headchecks in crowds, etc I expect as they grow up they’ll at least be encouraged to have their own individuality because it seems like it would be the parents’ way to see to the kids’ best interests I am loving this family but suspect it may be one and done because (so far) not much “draaaaaaama” that makes these shows go viral. For me, though, all these unbelievably adorable, funny and loving kids is enough to make me go to a happy place for an hour a week and I’ll take that.

So if you’d asked me a week ago who the most heinous people in reality TV are, I could not have come up with an answer because so many to choose from (the only shows I watch regularly in the oeuvre other than this are MAFS, the 90DFs and RHOfP but that alone gives so much to choose from) but damned if we don’t have a winner now! Horrible mother and sisters of Reese, please come claim your prize of a few jumbo sized corks to stick in your mouths. You! Are! The! Worst! Run, Reese, run ... Nonie is lovely and thank God she’s too old to have kids so her offspring won’t carry the crazy your genes would bring to the table.

Once we don’t have to socially distance that would be so much fun! Maybe pick a season finale or something to group watch!

So now I have “Let’s Get Together” stuck in my head. Thanks, y’all!

I’m in “upper MoCo” but a pretty easy and mostly scenic drive (under an hour) to OPaCY. That said, in normal times I’d rather go to Frederick or Bowie or Harrisburg.

BTW, I’d totally listen to/watch you talk Orioles on a fantasy baseball-related show or podcast!!!

Absolutely positively this.

Thanks guys! I’ll do some homework if I can re: what shows are being taken off of Hulu and Netflix and moving solely to Peacock. Maybe we’ll wind up giving up Hulu and paying for Peacock (I have 3 more seasons of ER to binge watch but think I can do that by September 20).

Don’t know where else to ask this so ... does anyone know if Peacock’s acquisition of Top Chef means it will disappear from Hulu? Midway through S7 and can’t go cold turkey. I know Mr. Snappy doesn’t want to spend anymore $$$ on new pay-to-play channels but ...

YES!!! PLEASE DO!!! And bring D ❤️ ... (ETA because my memory) ... Seriously, since we're rewatching the whole "oeuvre" (just restarted S7) I always wonder WWWD for every challenge! Mr. Snappy grew up in a blended family of which all branches had fingers/tentacles in a lot of top NYC restaurants and he made pocket change by working in kitchens where he shared space with Jacques Pepin among others! It has been hard to keep my girlish figure these 37-plus years! I just say "what do you have to lose????" especially as we're retiring anyway!

I read that they are in the process of working on S18. So maybe not right on time and maybe with new vision but still hopefully something.