MooCat Pretzel

I am going to have to break up with Dateline if this is what they do now—recycle the same stories over and over again just to add 5 minutes of new content to it. Remember when they used to tell the whole story all the way through the trial at the end?! Even if there is an update to the case, just put it on the Dateline website. Please stop with telling the same tales and get back to shedding light on stories we might not have heard about.

Josh giving Valerie relationship coaching was worth the 2 hour sit for this episode. Where was he in my 20s?! 😂

NOLA: Nothing house related, but when the mother took a drink of wine, this question occurred to me: Why must everyone on this show drink their wine from the biggest wine glasses known to man?!

Orlando: Babies! Babies! Babies! Sometimes having children is an arduous journey whether it be naturally or through adoption. I hope it’s an easy path for them because I got the impression that the wife wants to snap her fingers and have it happen. Thought they picked the right house and their cats were beautiful! 😸

Principals in WA: Do they even like each other? If that was supposed to be playful banter between the two, it was incredibly awkward. Surely they have agreed to have a child because if she was unsure or didn’t want one, why would her fiancé keep needling her about it on national television?!?

Is it just me or does it seem like Dateline and 20/20 just recycle the same 40-50 murder stories?! I am getting annoyed at sitting down to watch Dateline and it features a case I’ve seen two or three different times! Are there just no more new “mysteries” out there or is it just incredibly lazy television production?!

Iowa: One of my apartments back in the day was next to an active cemetery. The daytime funerals were never that big of a deal and they were the quietest neighbors I’ve ever had! 😜 I would have chosen the converted church on the space it provided alone.

Along those lines @cinsays, as she was putting something about “flying” on her graduation cap, I said to my husband that nobody should be allowed to talk about “flying” after college graduation if plans are to stay in their mother’s basement for the foreseeable future…

Dill Creek Farm. Why is the sister yelling at me? Good night, she was loud. My mom was in a nursing home before she passed of kidney and heart failure. She had her wits about her the whole time until she went into hospice. If Ken was a frequent visitor, then I would think that they would have to tell him because he would wonder why Ken stopped coming to see him.

Philadelphia: I totally get the wife’s wish to not overspend. Having worked in college athletics in a previous life, the coaching life can be a roller coaster, sometimes hired and fired within a year, other times coaches are someplace for 20+ years. With her husband not working, spending more would have been a big gamble. I liked that they stayed in their optimal price range. I don’t have to be stressed for them. 😂

Washington DC: Worst case of vocal fry I have ever heard anywhere, on anything. My God. The three of them, especially the food blogger, made my ears bleed. Here is a tip, ladies: STOP adding multiple sounds and syllables to vowels. For instance: Meeeeeeeeeeee. Bedroooooooooom. Entertaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiining. ACK!!! Seriously, just stop. It’s not sexy and it certainly isn’t charming.

Albuquerque. Those were three of the worst choices I have ever seen on this show. Yuck.

Western PA: Was I supposed to be moved by that proposal at the end? I was too distracted by the wall-mounted television behind him. I seriously hope they aren’t going to open a bistro with about five million cords hanging around the TV. Unless that is the look a “creative” goes for these days?

Newark, NJ: Her name is Princesse. Strike One. She is a “Part-Time Influencer”. Strike Two. Talk of “generational wealth”. Strike three. Didn’t watch it through. Thanks for the recap with your comments!

Nashville: You’re Greek. We get it. Mr. MooCat and I live in Nashville. I can’t say I know where that exact power plant substation is, but a lot of the Nashville area has no sidewalks. If there are sidewalks, they don’t go for long stretches. Every time he talked about walking to bars and restaurants, I pictured the wife trying to push their stroller on the side of the road. Worst. Investment. Ever.