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Does that include viewers? Asking for a friend.

Same. Did anyone else get a State Farm ad at the beginning? Coincidence, or synergy? Also, Loretta being offered a part on a Grey's Anatomy spinoff? Paging Jesse Williams (Tobert and Mabel are totes going to smash).

Well if it is, then I just don’t want to be right. I literally SCREAMED when he went in. I was so hoping Gary would pull off another miracle run. I mean, I know the matchups were made based on seeding, but COME ON. Guy’s got one leg and he pulls Daniel Freaking Gil?? Argh.

He and that Kai kid with the stupid hair were going so fast I barely had time to parse out how each obstacle worked.

Fabio seems like a lovely person, and I’m sad to see him go. Can someone explain, though, why he frequently dresses like a house elf? I get it, the designers have their own aesthetics which are pretty out there to a normie like me, but I usually get what they’re going for. Fabio’s workroom schmattas are just *sad*. Dobby has more style, once he’s got Harry’s sock!

Right? There is so much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth when someone is eliminated from a competitive reality show. I am constantly yelling at people on the teevee to calm the hell down, because the person being eliminated is not actually being *eliminated*...

After he tithes to his church, of course. I'd like to see the receipts, please.

It is too bad that it didn't leave Cootie with permanently (and painfully) inflamed balls.

That was me! I was imagining something quite a bit smaller, to roll on a tabletop, but what you’ve built is super-cool :)

I was thinking about this when they were flailing around in the fancy grocery store. Gabri and Ali already have 2 languages competing for space in their brains--their mother tongue + English--and then they were thrown into a big store full of French. That's enough to give anyone a headache. OTOH, Victoire would have had a big leg up had she made it this far. It is definitely exhausting to work in a second language, no matter how fluent you are. My Spanish (particularly reading comprehension) is pretty good, and I can carry on a business conversation in about 60-75% Spanish, but I have to write my notes in English, which means that even if I don't have to mentally translate something that's been said in order to understand it, I do in order to write it down. So tiring. It fascinates me how Gabri sometimes talks to himself in Spanish (particularly when counting) and sometimes in English. I had to laugh at Buddha's talking head, though: My French is pretty good...no, that's a lie, my French is rubbish.

I spent the whole episode yelling at the teevee "USE A METAL DETECTOR" while they were sifting through all those pistachios looking for the shell casing. So glad they addressed that, though if there were no hits (because the battery was dead), why did they still think they were going to find it? I know they were also looking for other evidence, but they seemed super-stuck on finding that shell casing.

Daphne wasn’t expecting Connor, so she only set two places at the table. Daddy took the head and Connor beat her to the other seat, leaving her sitting at her own table without a place setting.

I've had homemade empanadas in Argentina and can confirm that they do frequently have raisins in them! I was down there working for a few days and someone's mama sent empanadas in for the office. Ah-mazing.

Sylvia gives great Peanut Gallery!

It made me miss Tony Orlando and Dawn…because I am old as dirt! I went to see them at the Allentown Fair on my 6th birthday. On topic (sort of)…the first time we saw Ed Begley Jr. “play” the oboe, he was holding it wrong—his right hand was closest to his face. Oboes are played with the left hand high. As a musician, that drives me bananas…as a flutist, I get especially enraged when someone in teevee, movies, or commercial print is shown playing one held out to the left.

Janine and Gregory having their big heart-to-heart talk…in front of a giant beating heart. I loved that, even though that heart scared the bejesus out of me when I was a little kid (and yes, @MicheleinPhilly that thing does indeed smell like stinky feet, even after they spruced it up a few years back!).

That popsicle is cool, no pun intended... I do hope you have discussed compensation for your work!

The cloth towel doesn't so much "dispense" as it does roll from one spindle (clean/unused) to the other (dirty/used). *Allegedly* the towel roll is changed when it's all used, but I've always been skeptical. That one has probably been there since the 70s, with the same towel in it! I still see them on occasion, and will always choose to dry my hands on my pants. Back on topic...either I'm getting soft in my old age or it was extraordinarily dusty in here, because my eyes were sweating during all the wedding stuff. And I think Cameron Esposito's hair is fantastic! It sets off her gorgeous cheekbones. [/girlcrush gushing] I particularly loved Katherine's pink shoes and reception Chucks... I wore blue shoes for my ceremony, and red Chucks for the reception. I still wear those red Chucks on the regular, and call them my "wedding sneakers." <3

I admire their skill and their chill (heh), but their bro-speak sets my ears on fire. I am rooting hard for Favia and Genevieve, but sadly I don't think they're long for this race. If Hakim (?) has truly messed up his knee and can't continue, they'll get another leg (maybe Hakim's good one, bah-dum-bum!). I rolled my eyes so hard when the dad-and-son team (Jeff and...HUNTER! It just came to me.) opened their rations for the first leg and were incredulous that they weren't vegetarian. Just something about the tone--not "Oh, well we're vegetarians, so this is going to be another aspect of the challenge," but "[indignant noises] Psht. Ucht. We're VEGETARIANS, we've NEVER eaten THIS food before!" Gee, catering must not have gotten your special request, buttercup. Because I'm a terrible person, I didn't even feel bad for Hunter barfing his guts out all night after eating the clams. I love those ECO-Challenge races so much, and have been enjoying this one. Glad to have a thread to discuss!

What about a nice set of wooden dice? Seems like it would be simple enough to cut cubes and put the pips on with a touch of a drill or maybe a wood burner, if you have one?

Those bunnies were freaking adorable.

Listening to the episode of the Ologies podcast that featured Dr. Milhouse, I learned that urologists are for everyone who pees! Gynecologists specialize in the care of female reproductive organs (I believe we actually say "people with vulvas" now), which sure, can include the external genitalia, so the lady with the labial cyst probably could've seen either type of doc, or a GP for that matter. Sometimes if you have something weird going on, you get bounced from doc to doc until someone steps up to handle it--I had a growth on my wrist that my GP looked at and went "Eccch!" and sent me to a general surgeon who went "Eccch!" and sent me to a plastic surgeon, who said "Hmmmm..." and scheduled me for surgery to remove it. Turned out to be melanoma, so I probably should have started with a dermatologist and saved some time!

I bought a can of Bush's No Sugar Added Baked Beans, because DH and I are trying to cut down on sugar where we can. I got suspicious when I licked the spoon after scooping the beans out into the saucepan to heat up--the sauce was suspiciously sweet for something that wasn't supposed to have any sugar added. I checked the label and found out it was sweetened with Sucralose. Now I don't mind me some artificial sweetener in things like diet soda and iced tea (I'm particularly fond of 4C caffeine free diet tea mix), but IMHO it tastes funny in other products. I did not care for it in the bean sauce. Lesson learned: Read the label!

I saw that too, re-wound the recording, and paused. There was actually a male Crudup that married into the line a couple generations down, which is where Billy gets his surname. The woman the male Crudup married was the female Crudup’s granddaughter, I believe. Billy is descended from 2 Crudups in his bloodline. I was interested in finding out if those 2 Crudups were related by blood in any way; now that would have been an interesting story!

Post-scan meals are the best! I wish you low (or at least manageable) scanxiety and good results <3