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Spurgette? Spurlena? Spurgeline? Spurlynn? Never mind - JoKen would never dare take a name that Binessa might use one day.

100%, she misses Sam. I think she really misses that high of sneaking around, having some hot guy texting and calling, telling her all the right things, and I also think she's not done messing around on the interwebz in search of another high just like it. I remember the episode when she visited Cheryl (?), the other woman who had been catfished by Sam. They had dinner together and were giggling like schoolgirls who both had a crush on the quarterback. The continued to giggle in their "therapy" session together. I don't think Meri ever took the catfishing as seriously as she claimed to...when she was with Kody and the fam'ly, she was all chastised tears and fillings. When she was talking with Cheryl, she took on a light-hearted tone, smiled and laughed, and generally acted like it was no big dill. I found that to be pretty interesting.

If I'm not mistaken, the actual premier of this season isn't for a few days, but some were able to watch it early. I assume there will be episode threads when the show airs on 1/7.

I "hearted" this so fast, I think I sprained my wrist. And I haven't even read it yet. Thank you!! I am relieved to know that Meri is still dilling with her fillings. I was worried there for a hot second.

Why does the first hashtag say "because of Lularoe?" Is she telling us that she's mde so much cash selling Insane Clown Posse-printed leggings that she was able to buy that inn? Is she for real?

Since I cannot watch this show anymore due to cutting cable, I am afraid I am going to have to ask you to take turns doing a recap - the snarkier, the better. For reasons I can't explain and don't want to explore, I need to know what these people are doing!! EDIT: appreciate @Juliegirlj 's summary, but I need MOAR DETAILS. :)

For me, the thing is - if Kendra and her ballerina skirt (my 5-year old niece has one just like it) is shown tubing while pregnant, then what are they not showing us? It truly would not surprise me one iota if Joe posted a video on Instagram of Kendra on her sled, flying off a hill, screaming in glee with a caption like #Airtime!! or #Kendracanfly!! I honestly feel like these Duggar and Duggar-adjacent women have it stuck in their brains that because they are pregnant, everything will be just dandy. I don't know if a single one of them is capable of thinking of anyone but themselves. The bun in the oven is just a number.

The picture of Sammy's arms blanketed to his body makes me so angry that I won't requote the picture here. I don't care if they do it because their baby is a "puller." All babies are pullers! If you're dumb enough to wear shiny chandelier earrings and a 5-month old grabs them, then that's on THE ADULT. Babies reach for things because they are SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. What does it do to an infant's brain when their instincts are telling them to touch the shiny object but they are physically restrained from doing so? That HAS to rearrange their tiny neurons in a destructive way. I mean, what purpose does it serve to keep infants from doing what they are naturally supposed to be doing in order to move along at a normal pace? Even as I typed that, I realized how dumb a question it was....I need only to look at the big batch of pasty Duggar children who cannot think for themselves, dress themselves, have any outside ideas, go to movies, read books, leave the house, etc. Sigh.

I actually have Comcast (basic cable) so no TLC, and Comcast won't play with TLC Go, either. Kind of bummed that at this point, I have no way to watch the upcoming season. Do the shows ever end up on YouTube?

So let me see if I understand...the meaning of a Very Kardashian Holiday is for Kourtney, Kim and Pimp Momma to go shopping together, drop about $197,684 per person on Christmas decorations because they each need a new "theme" every year, and then bitch and moan when one of them dares to copy another. These people suck.

Next we're going to see Janelle shilling plus-sized spandex. #strive #whynot #grifterlife #lularoesucks #doesthismeanihavetogotothegymnow

This is the saddest thing of all, because who is there in her life to inform her that there are things she can do and places she can go? I look at that sweet child and want to give her a hug and tell her that she has a brain, she can learn and study and read and travel and find something she's really good at, but is there an actual person in her small little world to let her know that there's something better for her? Certainly not her stupid parents, and most likely not her pseudo-mom Jana, because she herself is firmly stuck under JB's thumb. If she doesn't know, how can she do anything about it? It breaks my heart. I never connected the dots before, but the girls that were molested by Josh are then told that they need to raise the younger kids, because Michelle is too busy baking more J's in her oven. I have no clue how one event influences the other, but if Jill/Jessa/?? were told by their "parents" that what their brother did was wrong but they needed to forgive him and move on, how does that mindset then affect how they raise their younger siblings? I would think a certain amount of disconnecting would've had to have happened to the older girls...so how could they be a positive presence for their younger siblings? Could Josh's actions have affected each and every one of his siblings, even the ones who weren't born yet?

Clearly I am missing the presence of snark in my life, because I am irrationally looking forward to this next season. That said, I discovered that I have no way to watch it after going to basic cable (thought I could get it on the TLC Go app but my provider doesn't support it). Is there a way to watch (delayed would be fine) without paying for it?

I hope she files off those talons before trying to change a diaper....... Hahahaha never mind, I didn't think that through.

Too bad Dreck doesn't get paid to sit on his ass responding to his Twitter followers with phrases loosely disguised as "neener neener" and "I know you are but what am I?" He'd be able to buy his own island.

I'm certain they have no freaking idea that the video is awkward, or that Jordyn looks uncomfortable and miserable, or that they have a daughter named Jordyn.

Thank you! He creeps me out too...like when Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory tries to smile and ends up looking like The Joker from Batman. And I hate that picture because geez, can Jordyn get her picture taken at all (on her BIRTHDAY no less) without Josie jumping in the frame?! As much as I want Jana to escape and be free, if she's the only one paying attention to Jordyn, then...well, it still doesn't make it right but I'd feel better knowing that there was an adult Jordyn could go to if she is hungry or sad or skins her knee. Clearly that person is NOT Michelle. I loathe Michelle so, so much.

Does anyone know which episode it was when Meri visited the other catfish "victim" from Georgia or wherever, and they giggled and had dinner and went shopping? I'm having fun reading up on past threads, and I remember that particular episode had me all weirded out.

Because of course it's not official until the entire family posts its repetitive, generic, bland congratulations on social media.

That's how I watched it this morning, sound off. I immediately noticed that Jordyn was not happy - and she probably innately knows that she should be, but she is too young to fake it. JB gripping her the entire time, constantly nudging her, was disturbing. Jordyn's complete lack of facial expressions while Michelle was blathering, not to mention her recoil at Michelle's touch, was really disturbing. I can't help but wonder if Jordyn was told by her "parents" that they'd be filming this for public consumption and that it was important for her to act happy, but Jordyn just couldn't do it...so JB kept nudging her to get a reaction, while Michelle was just as clueless as ever. I'd love to hear a more professional opinion, but it sure seems like we're looking at a little girl who has no connection to her mother. And that is just freaking sad, MICHELLE.

I would actually be content with this as the main storyline for the upcoming season. I find the juxtaposition of the wives proclaiming how polygamy makes "each of them better," they "wouldn't have it any other way," they "wanted the fam'ly, not just the man" and, of course, the fact that they "all shoulda been together from Day One" with the fact that each of them has their misery etched on their faces quite fascinating. At this point it's become a joke, but gosh darn if they're not still going to give us that stupid spiel at the beginning of each show...followed by an hour of Robyn's fake frowny face, shots of a spaced-out Janelle, Christine breathlessly whispering how wonderful everything is, and Meri discussing her many fillings. So sign me up for Season 9, y'all! This is scary. Given what Jackie has put Meri through (at her own behest, of course), the fact that Jackie's still out there maintaining this fake persona is chilling. I'm not sure why Meri is still so active on social media, to be honest. Not that she needs to necessarily hide away, but perhaps keep a lower profile given that social media is where she got into trouble in the first place - which is why I still think that the high Meri got from this illicit online fling outweighs the negatives it had on herself and her family. It's like she's playing a little bit of online cat-and mouse, along with a hefty dose of "poor me."

Starsky and Hutch? Cagney and Lacey? Crockett and Tubbs? Mulder and Scully? No thank you, I'll take Remini & Rinder all day long. They play off each other and read each other so well. I can't remember, have either of them talked about how well they knew each other when they were both in the CO$?

Just saw an ad for a new TLC show called "Seeking Sister Wives," about three plural families seeking another wife. You just KNOW the Kodester would've signed up for that show in a heartbeat if they weren't being renewed, with the argument that those McMansions aren't going to pay for themselves unless we get a renewal, a new show, or - horrors - real jobs. Best part about the new season is MOAR SNARK!!

When I first read this, I thought you were asking what kind of bowl Jill put on Dreck's head to get that haircut, LOL.

Does anyone else read anything weird in her comment? To me, it reads like: "I HAD to make these. Because I ACCIDENTALLY took some meat out of the freezer on ACCIDENT and so I HAD TO USE IT because it was an ACCIDENT. I know this is really fancy but it was all an ACCIDENT. So I made these but it's not like I WANTED to make them. But since I made them I have to eat them and so I dressed them up with veggies for this photo and after the photo I smothered them in sour cream and crushed Fritos. But don't judge because it was all a terrible ACCIDENT and I didn't mean to but I ate them anyway." It's bizarre. If she didn't want to make them in the first place, why post a photo? It's like she's apologizing for her dinner that we wouldn't have even known about if she hadn't taken the picture and made up the excuses as to why she made this. I don't get it.