Colorado David

lol obvious solution me and I'm sure many people overlook!!!! DUH - chop down the friggin tree. Granted might take awhile if its thick, but still.

You know Ramsey is a super type A control freak. While that person is incredibly hard to deal with at times, I'm sure it makes a fantastic chef - so I assume most great chefs are type A superfreaks. Except Ripert, for some reason he always comes off as nice and personable.

Agreed, Nathan total douche. And if he is aware that he gets over-defensive as he said, DUDE TELL HER AT THE BEGINNING AND HOW TO HANDLE IT. Head it off before yall start trekking, that way she can be ready if you turn into Mr Bellowfeast. I tend to clam up when I'm angry, and I would totally let my partner know at the beginning 'hey if i go quiet, i'm just angry and dealing with it internally, it's not you.' Well in this case, if Nathan is my partner, it is YOU dude, you do not communicate well.

I would assume coming on the show, they sign some kind of contract/agreement, and I'm certain they must have to disclose any conditions they have, ie allergies, disabilities requiring extra care, anything possibly communicable as they are handling food. One would think Covid would fall somewhere in those parameters.

Isn't imitation crab made of fish? The kind I buy is - great for fake crab salad. yum.

Not to stray a lot here, but Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters has passed. I always enjoyed their episode, where the contestants had to do thanksgiving dinners outta microwaves and like 1 oven. Wasn't Taylor the one who said something about the dessert? I can't recall it now, but it seemed pretty funny.

While I love Northern Exposure, you totally hit the nail on the head. There's a lot of side character focus, which is fine in small bits but NOT as the primary. If it drives their main story ahead, that's good...but just fleshing out minor characters without any purpose feels fillery. And yes, enough on people's sex lives - it just doesn't make interesting watching, and only creates a quick smirk joke at best and diminishes whatever characters have to use it.

Wylie my man, shoulda gone with this hair like 10 years ago. I appreciate the I cook great so my appearance isn't so important mindset, BUT it's nice seeing chefs looking nice. I don't know, maybe that's a me thing. I have the same issue seeing lip-rings on my chefs - it's perfectly fine, but for me it detracts. THAT is definitely a me-thing. Interesting challenge - someone thought outside the box for this one, which I appreciate. Really impractical in reality, but a fun chef mental challenge to tackle. I was amazed at how well everyone did at it. I couldn't duplicate someone else's pork chop, much less the level these guys did. Buddha is interesting - confident yet not confident at the same time. He seems like he does really know his stuff.

They abs are, but I one of these weird people who do not care for wings - too much work for too little meat. Now a drumstick (or 6) or a breast, NOW we are talking. But yea, Jackie could totally do that - she'd need help probably as it'd create volume for customers, but it's easy quick fix food and encourages beverage consumption (oh no, turning into Jon Taffer here 😈).

oh. i either need to go back and rewatch, or pay better attention! lol. yeah sports bar it up, burgers, fried anything else, finagle a liquor license. they could make bank - the only other place i remember was the Lobo that Dan and Rosie used to go to.

did i miss when the Lunchbox went from sandwiches and sandwich type stuff to stews..?

Exactly this. Hire whatever clergy/ghost whisperer/spiritualist to cleanse the house, get rid of everything in it, redo all the walls with wallpaper/paint designs you like. It was a regular home prior to being a funeral home, so it can definitely go back to being a home again. Tear down/build up is expensive and a waste. And not a one man job for anybody, much less Dan.

I assumed the prep room would just be a large area in the basement, so you'd use it like you would any other basement. Remember, Patton said he's taking all the stuff out - that would include any prep room equipment. On the plus side, the basement would be piped for water supply, so you could even add a bathroom down there if you wanted. (Watching 6 Feet Under makes you understand funeral homes a lot better, tho granted theirs was HUGE.) Interesting the different takes people have on spiritual attachments to funeral homes, and it giving them pause for living there. Do you feel that way in hospitals? I know you don't live there, but I don't get a downer sense around them, nor do I funeral homes - they are to HELP families in their grieving times.

so the premise is bad memories need to be avoided, but build in the exact same spot. i'm sorry, are the memories attached to furniture, or walls, or books? if anything, in my mind memories are tied to the location, NOT the physical materials that are on it for a period of time. Just remodel the thing completely - much cheaper and pretend those memories are gotten rid of when the old crap is taken out. writing is taking a big nosedive, and the jackie plots are becoming complete buffoonery. i think i'll check reviews here now before even bothering to tune in the first time.

I enjoyed the play outside of the musical tunes, they just really seemed uninspired and kind of filler-y. I like the costumes and most of the hammy acting. Dinklage did great as I had no doubt he would - not a great singer, eh, but one can forgive - let him put his toe in the water and see. Crowe did it (ouch), Brosnan did it (ouch), and lets not forget Cats the movie (big ouch). Still nice seeing Dinklage again. Haley did fine, she has one of those faces that I know from several different places but can't pinpoint it.

Its an archie comics joke. Jughead was notorious for always being hungry and eating.

Enjoyed it. Nice and dark and brooding. Like Seven meets American Psycho meets Watchmen. My favorite right after the Bale ones.

Good on you being in that great a shape at 74!!! I'm 55 and doubt I could do 1 mile in one go. Oh and yeah good point on the night before - thinking of the Office episode where Michael ate fettucini right before their fun run for rabies. Hysterical.

Enjoyed that. I'm sad Marcel got zapped - I like him as he seems to have found himself after being so dang arrogant on Top Chef. But yeah underdone chicken is such a rookie mistake, I'm surprised he let that get him. I don't mind Shirley, tho she can be OTT exuberant at times. (And I question being proud of being 'the opener' - do her opened restaurants stay open, and didn't Marcel have like double the number of restaurants to hers???) Antonia feels like Amanda F to me now - she (Antonia) is highly ranked, but gets taken out fairly quickly by the up n comers. So much so I wonder if there's not some dealing go on behind the scenes, but that's just my opinion on feeling, I have no facts to corroborate that.

I wondered about Sam as well, he's looking like a much unhealthier version of his previous self. He's older now, I get that, but yeah he's lost weight and looking a bit haggard. I hope he's ok, always liked him as a competitor and seems like a genuinely nice guy (esp doing lots for the diabetes community.) Yeah, the football thing is only fun if they are doing like the tailgate competition from seasons back (I love seeing the veteran players showing up to chow down - 'Fridge' Perry among the others.) The carb loading thing seems to barely tie to football, it could tie more to track and field or swimming IMO. Those long distance runners gotta carb up, and what Phelps had a daily intake of what like 6000 cals per day while competing? Insane. Bless those mascots, they must have been so friggin bored with no crowds to showboat for.

the 1966 batman is classic. there's never a place to run when you gotta get rid of bomb - hysterical!!

awwww 42, not a proper way to go, little guy. nice episode mostly, lots of goofy moments. i prefer Harry not in the big city tho, just my opinion. So the sheriff's got a heart, yay. I was afraid a moment there he was going to say his dad shot his friend, but as he was his partner later that made no sense. Liv as always supportive, nothing surprising there. LSD, well ok - I was almost exprecting H to idenitfy it exactly when he tasted it. Eh Darcy, you are starting to sound desperate and losing the funny quality. Leave Ben alone and go back to being funny D.

good episode. i liked Harry's daughter, for not playing a likeable character she was very likeable. not obnoxious, just regular teen defiant, which is fine. Harry trying to connect with her was hysterical - wrong on every front. The water balloon fight was a NICE connection moment tho. The play totally reminded me of Cannibal the Musical - if you've not seen it, treat yourself and watch it. It is out free on youtube. Really liking Asta so far this season, the actress is bringing a lot to her. I think they are trying to make Darcy more relevant....I guess this is ok, but she still seems more like comic relief. UGH that pepper challenge - food challenges always get me. They look fun and repugnant simultaneously.

Decent episode, funnier than the last one. Harry being so arrogant against the human race makes me laugh, and the little girl manages to one-up him a verbal battle. Bravo. Man the sheriff has some issues, doesn't he? I totally was NOT expecting that date to shut down like that. Is that supposed to be a jab at the New York angry attitude stereotype? I don't think his date asked anything out of line, but he got all bent. Liking Liv more and more, getting some good character development and not just comic relief from her. Poor Darcy, it's gotta be hard having success early and having that end before the career got realized. Overbearing parents, yep, I think a lot of us have come from there. Why didn't she go speak to the young man with the rose tho? Perfect opportunity to salvage a sucky night. And totally agree with @kiranan, the music's been spot on, at least IMO it was for this epi. Some good stuff I've never heard before. Eh the town competition - not getting that storyline at all. Small quaint little towns are loved for being just that, and that pretentious other mayor was just way too annoying. Regarding developing less major characters - it reminds me of Northern Exposure, you'd typically have one major storyline and one more minor one with the more background characters. Which I'm absolutely fine with, it adds more color and less reliance on Harry/Asta to carry the show so much. What a weird tech, using flowers to help power/amplify the radio. Loved the bison, I'm sure it was digital but man a nice touching moment there tween it and Harry. I'm a sucker for animal stories tho, so there's that.

Yeah, I don't like superhero type moves on my funny alien characters. I would've rather seen him grab the guns and crush/bend them (we know he's quite strong) rather than the acrobatic parkour moves.