Kerri Okie

Not sure if anyone has answered you yet (haven't read the whole thread) but it was Feist. I know exactly one song of hers from about 10-15 years ago and I've never heard anything else by her since, but I recognized her name immediately.

I half paid attention to this because I love cruising and was a big fan of The Love Boat back in the day, but I expected it to be, er, not good, so I wasn't disappointed. I didn't mind that so far it seemed to be a more G-rated version of BIP (which I also stopped watching when Chris Harrison left) and will probably watch it again, if only to see what happens to Shea Lynn. I'm guessing this was all shot on turnaround day, which would explain the lack of passengers, but whew, whoever said Rebecca and Jerry need better stylists, you're not kidding! They looked bad in a "didn't want to look but couldn't tear my eyes away" kind of way.

The kids were cute. I watched each family's initial greeting and then hit the fast forward 30 second button on the remote as soon as Jeff started talking. Worked like a charm.

Except that he pronounced it wrong. Maybe not good gameplay, but I thought it was sweet of Parvati to share so that the six of them, many of whom, as she pointed out, had been there longer than she, could eat.

I agree that both girls need to run very fast from that whole dysfunctional family dynamic. No matter what they feel for Peter (or may think they feel for the moment), that boy was not raised to have healthy relationships and is not good marriage material, period. Barb...OMG she was something else, but don't forget that it was dad that started it the minute Peter and Madi sat down on the couch: Madi: "We had an issue to discuss." Dad: "And what was that issue?" They already knew what the issue was, but to sit there in front of the cameras and make her describe it in detail was horribly uncomfortable and not a good sign for the future. Clearly any future problems between her and Peter are going to be analyzed and dissected by the whole family, and she will never, ever, be in the right. No wonder she decided to get outta there. Say what you will about Madi's eyelashes, she's the only one who showed an ounce of maturity last night. Peter only heard one sentence she uttered, basically ignoring all the rest, and then wanted to make out, which seems to be his solution to every problem.

I also took issue with Lis-a-beth (or Elizabeth, which might also be what was said) Salander being accepted. It's Lisbeth, no "a" in the middle. I was also curious about the judging decision to take away the money earned for Lord Greystoke but not penalize the contestant for a wrong answer.

That party scene and the "replace the SIM card" mission reminded me of something from Chuck. All in all, I'm enjoying this. It is a big cast and a lot of story to juggle, but I'm mostly keeping track so far. I don't need to know everything now as long as it ties up in the end, but I do find if I blink, I miss things, like how Tara knew to find Kwon's daughter at the Palace of Versailles.

My thought as well, since I've done the LAX to San Pedro thing myself. In fact, next week we need to get from Houston (Hobby) to Galveston for the same reason. Uber looks like the best bet for us, and should be easy enough in LA too. I like Elise. Hope she sticks around for a while.

I do! I do! I was flipping through channels a couple of years ago, saw him on HW, and stuck around to watch. Yeah, he's very "hosty," and you can bet it's 99% scripted, but he's not any worse than most other competition show hosts. He bothers me less than, say, Jeff Probst or Nigel Lythgoe, for example.

That whole thing between Chris and Katie was weird. She goes to bed crying, he says they'll talk tomorrow, and the next scene opens the next evening when Chris H announces there will be no cocktail party. Did I miss something? Chris and Katie had all day to either talk or awkwardly avoid each other and we saw or heard nothing of it? What happened during the day that the editors didn't want us to see? If it was awkward avoidance and gossip around the bar, I think we would have been shown that. If they talked and worked things out, there's no drama and it doesn't fit the narrative. So which was it? I know Chris B's history so I'm not putting the waffling past him, but I got the distinct feeling that this time it was more producer-driven than him.

I just happened to be reading one of those click-bait "exposés" today, this one about reality shows being fake. Shocking, I know, and it didn't really contain anything we don't already know, such as the home buyers in House Hunters are already in escrow before going on the show and things like that, but they had this to say about Masterchef: So not to say Micah didn't play along, but it wouldn't surprise me if the producers were 100% behind it, maybe turning something innocuous like his parents not showing up at his audition because they thought he was wasting his time and would never make it onto the show into his parents disowning him for chasing his dream. If so, I doubt the producers even bothered to try to contact Micah's family, since it wouldn't have fit the story they were telling. FWIW, Micah putting up a GFM page for any purpose doesn't bother me. I save all my disdain for those who contributed.

I know this is petty, but the more I hear it, the more it bugs me, so I'm going to say it anyway: Does it drive anybody else up the wall when they announce a player's winnings ending in 001 as a singular dollar amount instead of plural? I've been noticing it for months, and sometimes I think I've heard wrong, but it happened twice on Friday. At the top of the show they announced that EJ had a two-day total of fifty-four thousand two hundred one dollar, and then in FJ that Eric had a total of eight thousand one dollar. Last I checked 54,201 and 8001 are both a lot more than one, and therefore should be dollars, not dollar. Or is this some obscure grammar rule I've never heard of?

Someone else said it earlier, but I also thought she was just extremely dehydrated. As for why is was all so abrupt, I assumed it hit her after the cameras were gone for the night, and that they only caught up with her when she got to the hospital, but probably weren't allowed into her room until the point we saw. Throw in some stock ambulance footage and we got all they had.

Any time spent commenting on this episode is more than the episode deserves, but here goes anyway: It felt like I was watching a cheap, Trading Spaces version of Chopped, but where none of the food was remotely edible, and the judges were so lackluster it didn't seem they bothered to even phone it in. The painting projects turned out least bad of everything else on the show, but I'm shocked--shocked!--that Cayle (?) beat out the girl in round one with a "stool" that couldn't even handle the weight of someone sitting on it. At least his opponent made something that could stand on its own. And Kara was a snot. Between this episode and the recent one where they had to use Sabrina's sister and mother as contestants, I get the feeling that Trading Spaces doesn't have enough, or any, people volunteering to be on the show anymore. Can't say I blame them. I used to love this show, but now it's a chore to get through.

I said L Train too, and I also knew it was wrong.