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.

I don't even think it was that--it looked more like thin set that is used to tile floors, although Hildi called it "self-leveling floor" something or other, so I think it was quick-set concrete. I've tiled floors before, and scraping thin set off the concrete slab is bad enough. It won't come off the walls without destroying them, so they will have to be taken down and drywalled again if the homeowners don't keep it. Which I imagine they won't. What a disappointing episode. Hildi sucks. The one thing I'll give Ty was that when the homeowners balked at putting straw on the floor, he said okay and didn't do it. Of course then he brought in goats, which is even worse.

LOL, 10s of acres of almonds in Sac County. Reminds me of Kevin O'Leary on Shark Tank telling an entrepreneur with a mediocre product, "You'll make hundreds!"

I've lived in Sacramento for 30 years and have never once heard it call the almond capital of anything. Sacramento's nicknames are the Camellia Capital of the World or The Big Tomato. Sacramento doesn't even rate on the CA Almond Board's map of growers in the state, but someone put it on Wikipedia, so I guess that makes it so.

My first thought when the episode started: Anyone who wants a '70s themed house/room clearly never lived through the '70s. That said, and while I would never want it in my house, I thought those stripes turned out quite nicely. Very Partridge Familyish. The Frisbee wall was horrible and cheap looking. Why not just paint the remaining walls each a solid color of each stripe and put some artwork on them? The Burt Reynolds homage would have made better wall art than a lumpy seat cushion. I did love the shelf/divider though. Kahi's room was very classy. I thought some of the color choices were off, but overall the style was timeless. The wall color was beautiful in the can, but too dark for the walls. It would have worked as an accent, maybe on one wall with lighter artwork on it, or as highlights throughout the room. The wall screen was cool, as was the Sputnik chandelier, but I wonder how cheesy they look close up?

Probably not going to happen, but I've wondered if they could be setting up a Stuart/Denise spin off, although more likely that everyone just gets a happy ending.

Me too. I was expecting a three-way battle to ring in on that one and couldn't understand why no one was, lol. I was brought up on The Owl and the Pussycat, so runcible spoon was an insta-get for me. Although I was thinking, "Ogden Nash, people. Ogden Nash!" when it was Edward Lear. HG Wells was the only pre-1900 sci fi writer I could think of. No judgment on the answers they gave, but I was surprised no one got it right.

My son recognized him right away as Ben Franklin from The Office.

Happened to me, too. I wonder if you and I are in the same viewing area, and the local broadcaster made a mistake? I believe what happened is they skipped a day and showed today's episode yesterday, but somehow the FJ segment was the correct one from the day that was skipped. No one else here seems to have gotten the wrong episode, so I assume it must have been a local issue.

I had to go back and check. The category was Shakespearian opera by aria, and the clue was "Desdemona! Che veggo!" I noticed that Alex hesitated a moment before ruling "Othello" correct, and I wondered at the time if he was also thinking it should be Otello and just let her have it. I wouldn't have.

Was it "Othello" as an answer in the opera category? I thought Otello was the opera, while Othello is the play.