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No kidding! I'm so tired of seeing/hearing her on various shows. I'm getting the feeing she will keep it up until she gets her own show. Someone in casting must think the viewing public is somehow enamored with all her "personality". Soooo happy that the twitchy idiot was not picked. I was pretty sure she had shot her chances in the foot when she refused to let her partner speak and explained that she did not need to know the menu. I would have deleted this episode immediately to avoid watching her if she had been selected. I thought the team they selected had promise until the revealed at the end that they were a financial trainwreck. Agreed that made the episode feel like a bit of a bigger waste of time than usual.

"Fake decorator books" is a concept that just offends me but it sounds about right for the Duggars.

Good grief the mutual pity party and lack of affect in the British couple looking in Italy last night. I didn't really get why either of them wanted to be with each other. When she commented that he had gotten to do whatever he wanted for his entire life I thought she should put some of their house hunting money to therapy. Not sure why they rubbed me so much the wrong way but they were just such sad sacks.

I actually think Chef Tyler's meal was much like the yumminess on the menu at his San Francisco restaurant Wayfare Tavern (which I love!). Best devilled eggs ever (and I am a tough critic) and known for having terrific fried chicken (which I have never tried but which a good friend swears by). I think Anne was going for fine dining and Tyler was going for food that is wildly successful at his restaurant (albeit with nicer presentations in several cases). I still think Anne is a terrible sport and a general PITA.

<inappropriate comment> We had this paused because we are trying to figure out a signal error in our cable to TiVo to HDMI connection. It was paused on a shot of Ashley getting into a vehicle while wearing her purple/magenta shent. My husband glances at the TV and comments, "she should totally go as Grimace for Halloween." Not kind but so very correct. </inappropriate comment>

Thank goodness it wasn't just me. Those two will have... unique looking children if they reproduce. I did notice she was generally tiny when we saw her next to the real estate agent but until pointed out here, I did not see that there was zero meat on her bones. The schnozz was completely distracting.

I tried to watch this last night but just could not do it without fast forwarding. I think Ty is rubbing off on Amanda. I felt like she was yelling everything she said during the menu revision process. Dial it back, everyone!

I didn't think Tim wanted to work with the petulant whiner that was Ralphie so I think he tanked his bid on purpose. Could not believe it when Ralphie was yelling at Tim--his potential investor!--while Tim was doing the dishes, of all things. And the name of the concept was beyond juvenile and stupid. Could also describe Ralphie, come to think of it.

I am not that sorry to see Jane go because she was too cutesy and self-conscious for my taste. I really want MAtthew to be the next to go, however. He seems so programmed, plus his adenoid-infused speech just gets on my last nerve. Peggy and Yashimabet FTW!

Let's hope this is true, since it seems she is sleeping with an idiot.

Me, too. I am an accomplished home cook but rice was sometimes my nemesis until I got a Zojirushi rice cooker.

I actually really enjoy Duff and Valerie together, much to my surprise. I never liked Duff on his cake show but I am really liking him as a judge on the various competition shows and I think he does particularly well with kids.

So glad that Ginny went home because 1) she was completely obnoxious, 2) she thought she was all that and a bag of chips and as Nidratime notes, had zero curiosity or true desire to learn, 3) she's a gun nut as noted upthread. Principally, though, I wanted her gone because 4) I really really did not want to have to root for Anne to win and would have had to do just that if Ginny had been Tyler's final competitor.

I think it does not help that J'Chelle has the deranged worshipful (if looking at Boob)/contemptuous (if looking at anyone else and/or if she does not think Boob is looking back) expression all the time. Bitch (using the term advisedly and no offense to female dogs) looks freaking insane. But also crazy like a fox, like you can tell there is some intentionality and malevolence going on in there.

PW was on in the background this AM because FN runs it pretty much 24/7. It was an episode where "the boys" are at football camp and the wimmenfolk are home making 125 (!) sandwiches, individual baggies of fruit, and who knows what all else to take to all the campers. It reminded me that one of the things I find most heinous about this show (and there is lots of competition, from her inedible food to her incredible pretension to her rodent-y features...) is the gender politics. I am the cook in our house but that is because I love it and am good at it. I don't preach that my husband is incapable of making cinnamon toast, as I've also seen her do. Holy 1950s gender roles, batman. Ree makes my teeth grind.

The commercials for the new season make me want to kick Robert Irvine in the 'nads. Cannot stand his loudmouth smug unqualified asshattery.

Not just you two. Whenever I read it, I see California and have to mentally backtrack and correct myself.

Bearnaise sauce, particularly if you use a blender, is not that tough. Of course, I also understand how to use a measuring cup.

Yeah, I ate some cheese crackers while I watched it and told all the contestants to bite me. Step away from the fad, FN.

I thought this episode was just sadistic. It punished Liv, an innocent bystander 16 year-old, and the audience. I did not think it was terribly done but by the end I was just angry at the writers and whoever decided to trot out the let's torture Olivia again plotline. Awful.

Ack. Just watching the one with Danushka. I cannot stand the sound of her voice. I did not like her in Next FN Star and find her droning here to be nearly insufferable. I hope this isn't the beginning of FN putting her in regular rotation as they are wont to do.

I had friends in college who always wanted to go grocery shopping with me because I knew all the politics of the companies whose products they were considering buying. For me, that is the primary purpose of a personal boycott--to keep from giving my money to a company whose politics I find abhorrent. To that end, I never buy Vanity Fair paper goods, Eden Foods anything, or eat at Chik-fil-A, among other personal boycotts. I am a bit ashamed that I have never been able to quit watching the Duggars but as I am not a Nielsen family and TLC comes with my cable package, I find some (red-faced, acknowledging being wrong) excuse. Knowing your enemy, perhaps?

Totally. Entitled divas. When she was in that white kitchen (which I hate--give me natural wood or even laquer over boring white) and said that is said "ha ha she was in Florida, be jealous," I responded that she and Florida deserve each other. Whiny twerps. Edited because I forgot to add how much I wanted to slap the one daughter who stood ON their kitchen counter with her SHOES ON to retrieve something from the upper cabinets. Updated opinion: Classless whiny twerps with no knowledge of food safety.

This! Kevin, what do these products have to do with wells? And I am a Christmas freak, like a put 13 strands of lights up in my 800 square foot main floor other than the ones on my tree Christmas freak. When I get those strands that want to blink all the damn time, my first task is to make. them. stop. Lights that sing songs and blink in time would send me right around the bend.

There are two guests who keep reappearing on The Chew that will always make me fast forward: Dr. Oz the charlatan snake oil salesman and Paula Deen the crude and classless.