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I don't know how I missed Allison's Wheel of Murder the first time around, but I have a lot of reading to do now!

I can't tell you how much I adored that adorable political ad! I have good friends who cancel each other's votes Every. Single. Election. (Well, they used to. The Republican husband has veered more and more left over the years.)

I love Brian's impression of Ryan Trump so much!

Exactly. This show isn't subtle. I'm tired of the oh-so-convenient thunderclaps, as well. That's how it happened with a lot of women: They'd be put to sleep and wake up three days later with a baby. Yikes. If that portrayal is even 50 percent accurate, poor Tony. Lady Rosse is a horror. (Anna Chancellor can do no wrong, however!) "That's how it happened with a lot of women: They'd be put to sleep and wake up three days later with a baby. Yikes." That's how my grandma tells it from when she had my mom and 2 aunts. I thought it was really creepy, but she thought it was fantastic because it was so easy. The messiness of motherhood was never really her thing anyway. :)

Grover. My exuberant typing got ahead of me.

Gorver AND Better off Ted! There's a reason I love you guys.

Yes! I was sitting in my car saying, "Thank you, Tara!" out loud. Super Grover was the best!

I can't help but want them to have a respectful, slightly affectionate meeting.

The mishmashing of clips together to form a sentence on this show is ridiculous! I'm pretty sure there was a sentence from Dr. Pepper where every single word was taken from ten other sentences. It's so noticeable when I'm listening to the podcast. It's as bad as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A

Cody's vocal fry is KILLING ME. And Danielle is the worst. I yelled "Oh my God!" alone in my car when she said her seven thousandth "manly" in this episode. These "experts" who put them together are just terrible. I have to wonder how much mismatching they do to ensure some drama on the show? Even excluding any other concerns, putting a 25 year-old man with a 30 year-old woman seems like a recipe for disaster. Those two people are at different places mentally and emotionally.

"At the same time, I don't understand the impulse to adapt a beloved story that everybody knows and make it halfway unrecognizable in both tone and detail." This was eventually my problem with Kevin Sullivan's productions of Anne (the CBC/PBS versions we all watched as kids). The 2nd half of the 2nd movie became a mishmash of 2 or 3 Anne books, and the 3rd movie was just a train wreck that put Anne and Gilbert in WWI with some sort of spy story. What? I read and reread all of the Anne books growing up and they still have a place of honor on my bookshelf. Anne was a touchstone for this nerdy, bookish girl who wanted to be a writer. The stories are good stuff and I wish someone would loyally adapt the source material for real. I would love to see those movies, and to pass them on to my kids. Calling something "Anne" when you're not going to actually present the story of Anne Shirley seems like a cheap attempt to co-opt characters who are beloved by many simply to gather an audience that is hopeful that you might create something like what they already love in the books.

I have to raise my hand as another American who loves Anne of Green Gables I was a bookish little girl in the 80s and Anne spoke to my soul. If I was at home and not at work, I'd take a picture of my shelf of well-loved Lucy Maud Montgomery books, who I found because of the Megan Follows miniseries. I agree, there is NO REASON to remake this.