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.

As an academic advisor for over 20 years at various colleges and universities, it is very common to think of jobs on the literal level. You hear “Criminal Justice” and think about things like cop, lawyer, prison guard, etc. However, CJ is a great major for those who want to go into say, Social Work, Psychology, Non-Profit Work, Social Justice/Reform, Cybersecurity, and so on. Learning about the CJ system can really help people in those respective fields. Personally, because of my experience, I don’t think the HH had great Career Advising. She doesn’t want to do the obvious stuff, but doesn’t know how to apply her degree toward doing something different.

Let me get this straight. The Charlotte woman thinks making $950 extra a month is the ticket to buying a more expensive home for the family, doing reno on said home, and talking about how generational wealth is around the corner?! Yikes. Good luck with that.

Why does it seem like there has been nonstop episodes of Dateline that rehash an old story with an update in the last 10 minutes? Have we run out of original, twisty true crimes?! And more importantly, why does Andrea wear too much makeup?!

Yes. I will acknowledge that Mattea knows an impressive amount of information. However, I am in the “please leave now” camp. The hand-flapping is annoying and the babbling about Daily Double wagers makes me want to run into a brick wall at full-speed. But what gets me the most is when she acts like she isn’t sure of the answer and 9 out of 10 times she gets it right. I feel like that she is trying to be cutesy. And if she does gets it wrong, it’s okay, because she was so unsure of herself going into it. I don’t know—it is hard to explain and probably irrational. But, when you are kicking tail in Jeopardy, just own it. All of it. I am not buying that you don’t know something. 😂

Orlando. Gah! Screech much?! I am getting annoyed at wives who use their House Hunters TV opportunity as an audition for a Bravo or VH1 reality show. Let’s show everyone how loud and sassy I am!

Speaking as a college academic advisor for the last 20+ years, I often joke that I spend more time talking to parents than I do the actual students! So I definitely buy Sheldon’s dad going to the school because sadly it has nothing to do with Sheldon’s age. It’s just what a lot of parents do.

Virginia Beach. I was too busy trying to analyze their intro to pay attention to the houses. They said they have been together for three years (after meeting at a real estate networking event) and then said the youngest daughter was three? And the youngest daughter isn’t the female HH’s? Hmmmm. I am going to need more information about these people…

I really want to like Buzzy as the host because so many others do and I am a follower who easily succumbs to peer pressure. (Ha!) However, I don’t care for just how much he speeds the game up. There is a balance to moving things along and letting the game soak in that I don’t think he’s mastered yet. Two games in and it’s just been a bit frantic for me.

I know that Dateline has paraded a bunch of bizarre people across our televisions over the years, but Kelly and Tucker have to rank up there as the most “bizarriest”. That’s right. I had to make up a new word to describe those two. Well, throw Tucker’s dad in the mix too. I wonder what the other two kids are like?

I thought Ben was a dick last week when he suggested they sell the Hawaii tickets for money. If a dying person’s last wish is for your girlfriend to go to Hawaii, then you go with her or a compromise might be to let your girlfriend go and cash in the second ticket. But to unilaterally call the shots and not respect what the dead person wanted is an a-hole move in my book! It just seemed fitting he continued to act out in this episode.