Zanne

I'm watching the latest tell-all and one of them makes a comment about how they still need to do the show because people still have (erroneous) preconceived notions about their family. I'm thinking, they've been on television about five years now? At this point all the notions people have are post-conceived, based on evidence of what they've seen on the show. If those notions are still mostly negative, even (especially!) after watching the show, then the Browns need to rethink their strategy about introducing the wonders of polygamy to the world.

Being a Jeopardy champion doesn't seem to be all that helpful in this scenario. Most of the nerd-offs have required very little smarts and more watched-an-episode-of-Xena or picked-up-a-book-at-one-point-in-their-lives knowledge, as well as relying heavily on chance (zombie/cricket bats). I think people would have less of a problem with Colby's loss if there had been no alliance tainting the process. Pardon if I overstep my bounds here, but I don't think people are upset that an alliance is working as it should, but are angry at the fact that there is an alliance at all. Revenge of the the Nerds was all about inclusion, not exclusion (they even allowed Ogre in!), and this alliance has excluded the most stereotypically nerdy from its numbers. For the title King of the Nerds to mean something, they should all be trying to win on their own merit, not who is best friends with whom. This isn't Survivor or Big Brother, where alliances make sense. This is a show theoretically about outsiders getting their chance to shine, but when they get there, it's the same crap as the real world. One group deems itself better than the rest and starts taking down those that don't belong. The strategy excuse can only be stretched so far. Let's look at it from a Firefly perspective - who were the bad guys? The Alliance. Who were the good guys? The Independents. We've got our answer from Joss Whedon himself.

The Unfair Wolves are calling from inside the house!

He's going to sell it on ebay for thousands of dollars. And then that person will make little crocheted Rick dolls stuffed with his beard hair to sell on Etsy.

I am amused that they have so many names. No one has just called them The Dead. It's like calling them Jefferson Starships*, just for kicks. *TM Supernatural

Robyn, I want to share something with you, sweetie. If you are sitting in the lawyer's office as Meri's "very best friend", sit by Meri, not Kody. Robyn + friendship = you're doing it wrong

I got into it over a summer break, but fell out of the habit when work started up again. Unfortunately, I'd managed to get my mother hooked on it somehow. She became such an uber-fan that she would drag me to all the fan gatherings that Passions would host. Not too long before Josh Ryan Evans died, they had the Passions gathering at Universal Studios. After the panel, I was waiting for my mom to get through the autograph lines and Josh Ryan Evans sat down at my table with his handler/caretaker. You could tell he wasn't doing well and needed a rest, though he was still very polite and pleasant. The show was never the same without Timmy.

Me, too! Once the Secret Six thing started and I saw who was excluded, I wanted her to win. With a vengeance. She flat out said she wanted to win on merit alone, not because of what BFFs she's made. ETA: I have found my people. I hate the alliance for all the reasons stated in the above posts. Seeing the people on the show (and the host) defend the alliance as "strategy" on Twitter just makes me smad (sad/mad). It's not strategy when the alliance is formed in less than 24 hours with people you like to hang out with most and excluding the people you don't immediately get along with. Plus, strategy would not require more than one expert in each area. They had what - 3 cosplay "experts" in the Secret Six?

I'm #TeamAnyoneNotintheSecretSix. I want them all to lose. I'm fed up with alliances on these shows and want a show to finally turn everything upside down by penalizing people who make an alliance - something like they have to go into the nerd-off until they're all gone (or win, whatever). And only when they run out of alliance people, then they start voting who else goes in. I think this alliance particularly bugs because it goes against the Revenge of the Nerds theme of inclusion by excluding those who are the most obviously nerdy/different. Not cool, nerds. Not cool.

Rick's group finally smelled cleaner than the walkers after the rainstorm. They were just following their noses to dinner.

I didn't rewatch, but it seemed that in most of those pictures that one brother was smiling and happy and the other looked angry and miserable. I actually wondered if they were going evil-twin-serial-killer or something since the one was making such faces in all of the pictures! Since they were twins, it may have represented Tyrese's dual personality of pre- and post-ZA. He was happy before, and is definitely not now. Rick's group is a bit like a mini-ecosystem. My research study(*) indicates that the carrying capacity of African-Americans in Rick's group is approximately three. The group can occasionally accommodate up to four African-Americans for very brief periods of time of no more than two episodes before equilibrium must be reestablished and one must die. Fortunately for the current African-Americans in Rick's group, Morgan has yet to officially join their numbers, currently serving as an outlier, which means Noah, Sasha, and Father Gabriel will survive for a little while longer. (*)=the officially unofficial study based on bad memory and this episode

I hope the adoption agency watches this show, because if they do they would not give a baby to Todd and Christy. Todd is the first to respond to every situation with violence - the recent party, the beach, etc. What makes it worse is he's always doing it on behalf of Christy, supposedly, and in every case it's some shit she started - bringing an unwanted ex-girlfriend to start trouble because she was mad, asking Elena out to lunch to grill her about knowing about Terra's pregnancy first and then running to tell Traci. Right now, this does not look like a healthy situation to put a baby in, not until Todd smartens up and realizes his wife is a trouble starting bitch and he shouldn't be fighting over what she starts. He should be apologizing for her behavior. In the is last fight, he not only pushed Christy (in her chair), he pushed Tonya, and he knocked Traci over. How is that okay? Sure Joe was egging him on, but that's where a real man excuses himself and leaves with his family to keep things from escalating. At that point even Christy was trying to hold him back and he didn't listen.

I don't think having an adult brain/experience negates the fact she's in a 14 year old body. Her adult brain had her trapped in a witch's basement for several days. It never got her out of there. If it were for just a week maybe it would be fine, but not for life. She admitted to having debt and three ex-husbands. She probably has a job. When her bills go unpaid and she doesn't show up for work, someone is going to start looking for her. That immediately knocks out her own ID and bank accounts for her own use. I suppose she could have emptied out her accounts through an ATM, but that would only make investigators more curious when they start looking. She can't open a bank account without parental permission so now she has to carry all that theoretical money with her, which is asking for trouble. She can't get a job because she's underage and now can't use her ID or SSN. She hasn't graduated high school or college in her new life, so even if she could get a job, it wouldn't pay more than minimum wage. If she does get in a situation, she can't go the police because, again, who is this girl on the road by herself? Where are her parents? She's much smaller and slighter which makes sheer physical overpowering more likely. And, be honest, bad things happen to those who look weak when they are living on the streets, especially kids. It doesn't matter if she has an adult's mind. To the rest of the world, she has a child's body and she is a child. So what if she can discourse on the current goings on in the Middle East or knows how to make a sloe gin fizz. Sure, the Boys could have wizarded some emancipation documents to say she is in charge of her own life, but they barely gave her the change in their pockets before shoving her on the bus. All they needed to do was say they made her some new ID and background documents and that there was a nice lady named Jody she could drop by if she needed a place to crash, and then they wouldn't have looked like such heartless morons. This show is probably going to make Tina and Claire the center of a new potential spin-off..."Two young girls touched by the supernatural, and anyone with $20 since two dumb hunters and an angel left them to wander the roads with no support and they need money for a place to sleep and some food. Yay!"

What is with Show kicking underage teenage girls out on the road by themselves? Do they not realize that this is a terrible idea?! It does not turn out well. Just ask every person ever to appear on Jerry Springer. It's like Sam and Dean do not live in a world where underage teenage girls living on the street get raped, murdered, or turned into junkies and prostitutes on an alarmingly regular basis because they have no support system, no money, no place to live, can't get a regular job, and have no ID (in this case). Are the only threats in Showland monsters? And yes, I'd still have a problem if they sent underage teenage boys on the road by themselves. Children need a support system that's not just a phone call and several states away.

So much yes! I was watching the rerun and Christy just drives me crazy with her rationalizations. Nothing is ever Christy's fault in her own mind, or her husband's apparently. Her sharing this information had absolutely nothing to do with being a good friend and all about being a shit-stirrer. I think less of Brianna for falling for Christy's self-induced drama. Christy is just nasty and mean.

I mourn the missing punctuation. In other news, I bought the Supernatural Clue game recently, but have yet to play it. I can say I like the box, at least.

They don't even need to fence in the entire front yard. They could do the part closest to the back and some on the side of the house and still manage to expand what little backyard they have. I see that a lot around where I live. It still leaves a sizable front yard while expanding the back for kids or pets. Fences aren't ugly anymore and can be somewhat disguised/decorated with landscaping. It depends on the laws where you live, of course. Since I live in a historic district, only certain kinds of fencing or walls would be permitted around my home, for example.

They seem to have a gigantic front yard. If they put up walls/gates around that, the kids would have tons of space to play. They seemed to be using only a little part of the yard near the driveway for Zoey's party.

That's what I've been thinking, especially after she lied so quickly and easily to get her girlfriend committed and clear herself.

I thought they'd thrown him in the drunk tank for the night. On TV, drunk tanks seem to be a Three's Company version of real jail.

Dean's Hell was a long con. His personal Hell was getting him to agree to hurt other people. It was both physical and mental because they needed Dean to make the choice to physically hurt others. Even with knowing what it was like to be on the receiving end, he made that choice. Dean was used to saving people, and he became the one they needed saving from. Sure, he tortured others once he flipped to the Dark Side, but that wasn't their Hell, it was still his. They were merely bit players in a larger story.

I'm afraid they have them separated because the evil plan is to spin-off Cole into the new Supernatural series that was unable to come to fruition with Bloodlines. Cas will be his partner/co-pilot, the angelic Bobby to inform him of what he doesn't know since he's a newbie to the hunting business.

He's likely there to keep the power imbalance in place. If your work force equals or outnumbers the ruling group, and is comprised mainly of young, fit people, then there won't be a ruling group for long. However, if you purposefully seed your work force with weak people, then they won't be able to get together the manpower required to overthrow their oppressors. We've mostly seen young women, at least one young (frail) man, and at least one old man in the "working" class, so far.

I'm pretty sure every louse, nit, gnat, and rat are attracted to it by this point. That thing has got to reek. You could probably stick an egg under there and poach it.

It's a sign that Glen and Rosita are going to die. There's no GR in TEAM! Or maybe it means they'll be the only ones to escape alive since there's no GR in MEAT.