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Danielle was wearing false eyelashes for the reunion show! I also thought that her eyebrows looked a tad more groomed. They still resembled woolly caterpillars, but a little thinner, I thought. A few times she has been shown without her glasses on but she doesn't look better without them because she has a "cast" to one eye.

It looked like a new stove, because of the orange plastic covering the top, sorta like the plastic that comes on new TV's and other appliances. She'd install them herself "to put her stamp on it" and because the stove was probably shipped without the knobs being attached. Ooh, I think you may be right! Good eyes! If that's the case, it's yet another example of one of these pretentious house hunters who immediately rips out a perfectly usable stove in order to replace it with a more prestigious brand.

The more I think of it, maybe that Wolf stove was there all along and all the Chicago woman replaced were the red knobs? Why else would she be installing them herself? And the red knobs do add a nice "pop of color" to the white, oops make that gray, cabinets.

I have to say my gaydar wasn't pinging as far as Patrick's relationship with Matt, however my "meddlesome douche-dar" was.

They also played the Chicago scene twice where the realtor says, "These are nice high-end appliances, you wouldn't have to change a thing..." and the wife smugly replies, "Oh, but we WILL!" in the kitchen they eventually bought and immediately swapped out the existing stove for the coveted red knob one. I also had to laugh when she kept talking about knocking down walls and him saying that was too much work, too expensive, etc. then in one house HE was the one who said that in order to get his open concept it would be necessary to get rid of several walls. Which brings me to another pet peeve of mine, these couples who just blithely walk into an old house and assume it's easy to eliminate walls to open up the place. I've learned from "Flip or Flop" and "Fixer Upper" that load bearing walls can now be dealt with by using steel beams but it involves structural engineering and it's quite expensive. It seems many people like the looks (i.e. "character" and "curb appeal") of a Victorian house only from the outside so an easy solution is to stick a turret, porch and some gingerbread trim on a new build and you can have the best of both worlds.

Patrick isn't Matt's brother. He's (supposedly) his best friend and I believe he works at the car dealership with Matt. Matt has a twin brother with an M name, Mark maybe?

They never said what Chicago couple did for a living. She was a real piece of work. The house had to have "character" and a white kitchen but no ghosts because she had SEEN one. She was adamant about needing a special garage door! She was so pretentious, too, when she commented on the "fwah-yay" in the last house. I had to agree, though, the second house in the city had absolutely no curb appeal. From a distance, I thought the brownish bricks on the bottom was boarded up plywood.

I don't recall any mention of him before and last night when they were putting her in the ambulance and they asked if there was someone they should call, she said, "I don't have anybody." Sounds like the King has abdicated.

I think possibly the disappointing diamond might result in a huge argument that triggers her van keying rampage in the coming attractions. Stay tuned...

It always amazes me when these mothers go on and on about how much they pay for entrance fees, hotels, glitz dresses, hair, makeup, flippers, manicures, spray tans, not to mention coaching--everything pageant related, then the ONE top prize is only $ 1000? How could anyone EVER recoup the cost? It probably is more for bragging rights for kids like private Jet Setting Abby, and the (suspected, wink wink) Goat Poop Twins traveling in their fancy tour bus, but these people living at or below the poverty level in a double wide, what could they possibly gain by shelling out this kind of money except a bunch of oversized tin crowns, trophies and sashes?

Why would she have to change her name at all for her CAREER? Even if it works out, she could just go simply by "Paola" as her supermodel name.

I think that when you're looking at a closeup of one person without anyone or anything else to put them in perspective, it's very difficult to get an idea of their size.

There are pelvic floor SPECIALISTS? Who knew!

you must have forgotten the pink fuzzy handcuffs!

I have to say that, compared to the "No Hassle Castle" in KY, Liberty Diamonds could be the Poor Man's Tiffany's of Irvine, CA! (although they might already have a REAL Tiffany's!)

If Nicole wants a demonstrative husband who appreciates "BBW", maybe she should go back online to seek her own Nigerian Prince. Someone like Lowo would not only have trouble keeping his hands off her, he'd romance her with flower petals, ply her with cupcakes and never criticize her eating habits. Who knows, maybe Lowo himself is back in the Available-Prince-Seeking-a-Green-Card Pool.

I thought so, too! And I couldn't quite figure out why Danielle looked a bit better than usual until I realized she was wearing false eyelashes. Plus it helped to get rid of that Ronald McDonald Red hair. See what you're missing, Mo! I also think Alexei's father was wearing a very bad hair piece. In some scenes, he wears a do-rag but for formal occasions, like a wedding, he must bring out his toupee. Why does Kyle avoid eye contact? He always looks like a sullen teenager.

(Nicole's climbing the sand dune) Maybe the cameramen had the luxury of riding in some kind of dune buggies with their equipment. My iPhone has the option of playing that pinging sound to locate the phone.

The Audi must have hands free Bluetooth capability but someone upthread suggested that they didn't want to broadcast the person at the other end of Jorge's business conversation. With regards to Alla not saying those three magic words to Matt, could it be that her feelings towards him have changed since she got to the US and saw first-hand what a coddled Mama's boy he is and how his friends are so "up in his business" and react so negatively to their relationship.

At this point in the show he's been here 87 days and still hasn't shown much of an effort to learn the language. I'm sure he has access to a computer, there are plenty of free language programs. Or like you pointed out, you can borrow things from the library. I just wonder what he DOES do all day, the only thing we've seen is him going to the gym.

I find it hard to walk on FLAT sand at the beach!

Could somebody explain to me the purpose of the pole walkers? Are they just there to serve as a reminder of what happens if you don't cooperate, or do they have some kind of "job"?

Then maybe it's a good thing she doesn't know how to boil water. Run and hide, Little Kitty! I took the liberty (pun intended) of looking up Liberty Diamonds on the internet. I found in Jorge's $ 10-15K price range, the majority of their round stones were about 1.5 carats. Certainly not the 3 to 5 carat rocks that she was looking at in the first store. I wonder if the disappointing diamond is what triggers her keying the the side of the previously unseen van (is that where Jorge slept the night she kicked him out?) And I'm furious re-watching the scenes of him being totally distracted, holding his phone and reading texts while driving!

Jorge, I'm pretty sure if you were to pull over (!) and look at your iPhone settings, you could easily disable the "find my phone" feature. Change your password while you're at it! I don't think the "f word" is in Azan's vocabulary, at least on camera. All I ever recall him saying was to plead with Nicole to "stop talking!" I couldn't help but compare Nicole and Azan's taxi ride to the airport and her departure and Narkyia's arrival and ride from the airport with Lowo. I couldn't watch Chantel's THs between her clenched teeth and how she kept narrowing her eyes.