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I hope Gabe is not one of those insufferable jury members who thinks he's still playing the game and tries to add his amazed and dumbstruck reactions to whatever is going on with the remaining players at TC. It was cute when Eliza did it, but I'm thinking Gabe might lean more towards Debbie's weird theatrics. I always wonder that too. I know they all have sunscreen access, but I also remember John Cochran's feet being so sunburned that he could barely walk on his first season, so clearly he missed a spot or two. :) It's bizarre that I can remember details from 20 seasons ago on Survivor but not what I had for dinner last night..... Also, I heard the word "community" so many times at the last TC that it lost all meaning.

That poor photo op doggo. Poor Tessie - if her braces are off, she's on the market. I wish I could hear JonthanKayleeHill(Rodrigues)Hill's presentation. I'm sure it's riveting. And why do we need to know that Renee is single on the speaker's list? Does that mean that whatever she has to say doesn't carry as much weight as Mrs. JKH(R)H? LOL, just kidding, I already know the answer. Anyone who sends their cash directly to Jill is foolish. The attendees are going to end up bunking 8 to a room while Jill pockets the rest - after all, she's going to need to reward herself for all of the hard work she's going to delegate to her daughters.

Not to mention the rift between Gwen and Paedon so deep that they cannot be in the same room together, and this goes way back to the episode where the Browns were going to a plyg march in Utah. Robyn stayed behind with some of the kids and I remember Christine saying that if Paedon went to the march, Gwen would have to stay home with Robyn. Whatever happened between Gwen and Paedon started when they were quite young. It's entirely possible that the two siblings just simply can't stand each other, but I think it shows that Christine's house probably lacked discipline. And I don't put all the blame on Christine's shoulders. I have two kids and when they were young, I did have to play the "wait until your dad gets home" card more than once. Christine didn't have that, and I can see where she'd be even more permissive than maybe she should have been when her kids acted up, since she had zero backup and was trying to be the fun parent to make up for the fact that her kids were neglected by Kody.

Made some additions. :) But I bet Jill would sell the La-Z-Boy right out from under Dave's keister if the price was right. My daughter and her pitbull/Lab mix rescue doggo have lived in our house for almost 4 years and that dog simply does not like me. She's not aggressive at all, but I can count on one hand the number of times she's wagged her tail when I've come into a room - she usually gives me side-eye or ignores me. Her previous owner was also likely a female. After this long, I have come to accept that we are just going to co-exist and not be friends which makes me sad, but also makes me want to find whoever owned her first and let them feel my wrath. As for Jill's dog - I find it weird that she's so adamant that the dog loves her BEST. Does literally everything have to a contest in that family, and does Jill have to win every single time? It must be so emotionally exhausting to be related to her.

Robyn puts the weight of her own emotions, suspect as they are, on her children's shoulders. Think back to when Aurora cried when she saw Coyote Pass for the first time, or when she fainted and had to be carried upstairs by Kody, or when Breanne cried when she thought that she had given her entire family Covid...not to mention, the cookie-stealing story, the creepy pencil sketch, moving the entire family to Flagstaff so Dayton could attend college there, etc. Robyn does this, I think, to keep Kody on her side by being able to say, look at how the actions of others are affecting my kids! You have to help! They are all so fragile! Poor me! I hope those kids manage to leave and settle happily in their own lives, minus constant interfering from Robyn. She is doing them no favors by involving them in every single convoluted family situation over which they have no control.

I don't know about these t-shirts. Is the non-snarking SW community that big? Maybe I'm wrong, but I have been watching this show since Day One and I would personally not walk around in a shirt that says "Teflon Queen," and then have to explain its meaning...although what do I know, "Teflon Queen" is currently sold out, but who knows how many were made - 25? Also, selling shirts with sayings that came from or are about Kody - her awful, neglectful ex and the terrible absentee father of her kids - seems like a weird way to make a buck. If she's going to finally break with that guy and go on her own, then do that. It just seems like dirty money to me. As for the flower garden idea - I'll believe it when I see it. I have a small garden in comparison to what Janelle is planning and it requires work nearly every day, especially in the heat of summer. I also think it's sort of suspect to start selling t-shirts for a business that doesn't yet exist for customers. That's a lot of venting, but come on, Janelle. You're still young. If your finances are a disaster because your husband took advantage of you for your entire marriage, go find a great job with benefits and actually make a living without these constant get-rich-quick schemes that don't ever pan out. /rant

Same. Even if the episodes are boring and repetitive for the most part, at least we are finally getting the unvarnished truth from these women. Even Robyn is whining that she's stuck with a murder-faced angry man. But that's the bed Robyn made, and now she's got a scary man-baby lying in it full-time. I give Truely a lot of slack. She was literally born with a camera in her face and grew up among people filming her that weren't related to her. She nearly died under her dad's care on television. She's watched as her dad showered love on her new half-sister and brother while she went without. When Kody decided he needed to cosplay as her dad and force her to do things like ride a bike, she had to participate when she clearly didn't want to. Now she's got a new man in her life whether she wants it or not. She probably has no basis for how to interact with David, as she's never had a father figure. She has no choice when her mom and David suck face right in front of her. She probably feels very powerless. I think the blue hair, the acting out, and the burying herself in books makes sense when her world is basically out of control. Acting out might be the only way she knows how to express herself since Christine clearly doesn't seem to care how all of this affects Truely. I also hope Truely gets therapy - all of the Brown kids need it, IMO. I hate this, because the women are also taught that normal feelings of jealousy, suffering and emotional abandonment are THEIR fault, and something that THEY have to overcome. So while they may be allowed to leave, if they do leave it's because there was something wrong with them. Men can act however they choose and the women have to keep sweet if they ever have hopes of their children seeing their father. It pulls at the rawest part of a mother, IMO, having to tap-dance for table scraps from an a$$ of a man just so he'll visit his kids once in awhile.

My first thought was - is that Olivia? I know she's growing up but she looks very different in this picture - like she's on step one of Jill's eyebrow makeover. Either that or she just had a haircut. My second thought was, there is no way Jill bought this at Forever 21. It might be that brand, but she would be properly scandalized by some of the clothing in that store. So where did she get a "brand-new" dress from Forever 21? (Nothing against Forever 21, I have found some great stuff in there and I am most definitely NOT 21). I love how Jill assigns herself nicknames and pretends that Hunk actually calls her by those pet names. Jilly-bean. Dove. Etc. Somehow I can't see Dave doing much more than grunting in her direction when he needs something. I think Jill likes to put forth her inner fantasy life as factual in the hopes that if she pretends hard enough, it might come true.

How does it work, with Jill giving her sons a sub-par "education" and then expecting them to marry when they are barely out of their teens, support a wife and kids and still give Jill nice little Best Mahmo gifts when she's having a bad day? On what income? Tim seems to have managed to break away from Jill by leaning on Heidi's family - somehow I don't think Sammers is going to be able to do that.

You would think, having had all of those kids for quite some time now, Jill would innately know how much food to prepare to give everyone a healthy serving. Of course if she's brainwashed her daughters into thinking that they need to stay thin to attract a man, as well as making sure they know that the men always dip first and women get what's left, then she's unfortunately figured out a system where she can cook less food using less money and still insist that everyone's been fed adequately. I don't remember ever seeing her post pictures of food that looked anywhere near enough to feed that entire group unless someone outside the family brought it themselves.

The only good part of this episode was the preview for the next episode. I have thought all along that once Meri finally peaced out, Kody was going to suddenly decide that he has the hots for her again. He pushed and shoved her off the cliff, she hung on for dear life, and then finally let go and found out that the fall was only off a curb, not a mountain. And now that she's landed on her feet without Kody's wisdom and leadership, he's all turned on by it. Kody seems to not want to hate all of the OG3 at the same time. I think he feels like he has to dangle his carrot in front of at least one of them so he can pretend that polygamy would have worked for them, but it was the women who forced it to its end. Christine is a lost cause for him now. Last week we saw him slobbering over Janelle and she was all - dude, no, LOL. Now he's doing it to Meri. Only now, she and Janelle both seem to finally be on to his mind games and they're done. Look, Kody, you don't mess with a woman of a certain age - many of us are mentally exhausted and have no more f***'s to give.

Perhaps Andy is angling for that empty spot next to Gabe on the Survivor Mt. Rushmore. Boston Rob and Sandra weren't that great anyway. I think I zone out in befuddlement whenever I see Andy onscreen, because he seems to enjoy telling us how awesome he is while boop-de-doop music plays in the background. Is he actually good? Is he getting a clown edit? Is he purposely bungling challenges? He's totally going to win this game, isn't he? I also understood about 5% of what was going on in that drawn-out whispering TC. Normally I enjoy that stuff and will rewind and catch what I missed the first time around, but not this time. I'm tired.

Hi, Jill! You should go to the library (it's a big building with books) and check out the book "The Year of Living Biblically." The author followed the Bible to the letter (within the boundaries of the law) to see if he could do it. You might really like this, Jill - it's right up your alley as a member of the Best Christians Club! But! No Plexus. Or makeup. Or hair extensions. No clothing of mixed materials. No nail polish, toe rings, cowboy boots, baseball bonnets or luxury cruises. No Olive Garden. I say give it a try and see how long you last. It could be fun! Then come back and talk to us about how none of us are following the Bible as you interpret it - it's all right there, written down. Follow those rules, Jill!

Jill has to be buying clothes and jewelry in bulk from someplace like Goodwill, or maybe she's one of those people who prowls around garage sales and pounces while the sellers are trying to set up and starts grabbing stuff and yells, "Ten dollars for everything in my arms!" and the sellers say OK just to get rid of her (I speak from personal experience as someone who used to have garage sales - you desperately want those people off your lawn). Then Jill resells it for a markup. Otherwise it makes no sense why she is unloading a crapton of clothes and jewelry when she still has several little girls who could wear those items in a couple of years.

I guess to be fair, none of Christine's kids except maybe Aspyn really had a male figure around them growing up so they probably don't know how to act. It all goes back to Christine's kids panicking that she is moving way too fast with a man they barely know, while Christine is busy mauling David's face in front of them. She might alienate her kids in defense of her new man, which sounds like someone I know....someone with corkscrew curls and eyes as black as coal....hang on, it'll come to me....