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I think she has had a lot of bad luck in an industry where even a lot of good luck is often not enough to succeed. I think she would like to open a restaurant but only on her terms. At this point, she has had such mixed PR from this and from the industry that she may need to go cook somewhere and generate some positive buzz....or just win this and then wait for the investors to flock to her! (where is the sarcasm font)

heckkitty, it will be interesting to see if the judges take the need for future drama into account. I know, I know that they always say they don't consider it,but given the head to head nature, maybe it will be in the back of their minds just a little. There is way more drama with Tiffani than Dale, but based on restaurant success, Dale should mop the floor with her. Isabella brings lots of drama too so we will see if it factors in at all. On the original format of TC Masters the judges did not seem to help out the people with bigger resumes (Besh in particular laid an egg), but may be something to keep an eye on here.

Just got an e-mail from Martin Sheen endorsing Gov Quinn of Illinois-calls him a friend and everything. Can you get a powerful endorsement than from the last president I actually admired.

I think that Cam is such a ham that I don't really enjoy when this family is featured. I feel that everything is forced and that there is no real affection. HOWEVER, saw a repeat last night of "Bringing Up Baby", the episode right after they don't get a baby (and Gloria is pregnant (and going to get so fat)) and their interactions were honest, true and funny. Lily actually made me laugh by acting like a 5 year old-"Then can we get a cat and name him Larry?" was a perfect line and funny. And the stuffed animals on the roof was laugh out loud funny.

I'm afraid of something worse-it won't even be that interesting. This show has been a real snooze-another episode where nothing happened and it was totally unmemorable. I like Diane Farr as an actress, but the situation was meh. Only part I enjoyed was the interaction between Jeremiah and the waitress-of course something will develop, but his character has been so boring that I can't see her really being interested.

The one I use the most, and I use many, many lines, is "Good writers borrow from other writers-great writers steal outright". Ok, Sorkin stole it from TS Eliot, but at least he stole a good one. I've also been no to say that "more and more, we've come to expect less and less from each other", but I then have to decide if I stole it from TWW or SportsNight or both. ETA: BIzBuzz, we both stole from the same great episode(s). I think I'll need to watch it/them tonight.

Had a Jed Bartlet moment last week. Met the mayor of a major Midwestern city at a reception and in response to a question, he said, "I know what you want me to say, but I think it should go on the north side, not the west side, because it will be safer for everyone and better for all businesses. I know it screws you over a little, but that is what I think is right." Not quite as altruistic as saying he did it so that kids could afford milk, but the 1st thing I thought of was Jed with the dairy farmers in "The Shadow of Two Gunmen". Missing TWOP for this quote!

But she is, at this point, acting like most working spouses back in the '80s. Hopefully she will break out of that mold and maybe some dealings with Cameron will help her so that their "relationship" (if we can call it that) turns into a 2 way street. Very bummed that the Pie Maker has turned into such an abuse dick. Was he planning on saving the day himself? Was he going to get back at the asshat reporter who told him he was not an engineer so not important? I know he is supposed to be some kind of "man of mystery", but he is just coming off as an unsuccessful Machiavleian jerk

I don't know what this says about the episode but 2 days after watching it, I have absolutely no idea what it was about, what happened, what the cases were about or anything else other than Jeremiah pulling the white pillow out of the Rubbermaid container to yell into it. Oh and Eddie showing up at the end acting like his usual self centered duffus self.

But I miss me some skeevy Howard-the tame one is just too boring.

Wow, this is tough. I loved the entire Dr. Stephanie trilogy, especially the first few minutes of the Vartabedian Conundrum when Penny and Stephanie meet. I also love both major visits from Beverly Hoffsteder (Maternal Capacitance and Congruence). Also have a special place for Lunar Excitation (wow has Amy changed since then) and Desperation Emanation (got your back Jack, bitches be crazy), as well as Mrx Cooper's appearance in Zassy Substitution (pure gold, especially Laurie Metcalf's delivery). I especially love Bath Item Gift Hypothesis and not just for "if I had a healthy ovum I could grow my own Leonard Nemoy", but for the wonderful scene between Leonard and Penny just before it (where it is clear that the two actors are actually in love and not just the characters. HOWEVER, at the very top is Adhesive Duck Deficiency-both story lines are solid and the jokes are perfect "Sheldon, could you stop being, I don't know, you for a few minutes", and obviously the Soft Kitty at end is priceless ("Injured and drugged is a kind of sick"), but the camping stuff is also great ("It's like a freaking 7-11"). As for worst, I think I'll go with Robotic Manipulation or 21 Second Excitation or Speckerman Recurrence (it is sorta depressing when they remind us how picked on they are/were in the real world).

Richard Schiff is in the new TNT drama "Murder in the First", playing a lawyer to the supposed bad guy. (If you see 30 seconds of the show, you will know that is not a spoiler). One of the first times we see the character, he is on a plane and I flashed back the first scene in the Pilot where he talks about how unlikely it is that something he bought at Radio Shack could disable the plane. However, he played the character as mopie Toby the whole time so I was disappointed, even with Tommy Schlamme directing.

I am one of the ones getting frustrated. I want to like this show since I like Ned the Pie Maker and the other characters seem interesting and clearly have secrets on some level (only one of which is Draper like at all), but I am not following what is going on with the most important topic-the computer stuff. I don't know what "bios" is and I don't think I am supposed to be guessing. I know that they want us to focus on the "other" issues involving the characters and their pasts (as well as their futures) but I think it would be nice to have some idea what forms to basis for the storyline and the drama. I easily followed that IBM was getting back at them with their economic muscle (something our genius Pie Maker should have anticipated since there was no way IBM was going back to Greenwich Conn (or Armonk NY) with their tail between their legs), so why couldn't they figure out how to explain or demonstrate the basic tech stuff that would have made the other 40 minutes of the show understandable?

Two other random observations The best duel is missing-Voltaggio vs Voltaggio.I know we got it in the Season 6 finale, but it would still be fun to see again. AND the best thing is NO SPIKE!! No stupid hat, no stupid game playing, no mediocre cooking, no bullshit.

This looks to be the cooking highlight. Great chefs, great creative food, great cheftestants, no drama. Same goes for Shirley vs Brooke These will have lots of drama and in the first case liquid nitro and foam Is this Kevin's first time back for anything?

I prefer to think that the whole season never happened and that Sorkin either wrote The Supremes and gave it to Debra Cahn or she was totally channeling him when she wrote it. Least favorite is either Access or 90 Miles away or Isaac and Ismael. Favorite is Bartlet for America, unless it is He Shall from Time to Time, but then again maybe it is Shibboleth ("It was made for my family by a silversmith named Paul Revere" always gets me), but I am always partial to Galileo, and then it is tough to beat In Excelsius Deo or....... This is like choosing among your children,

"How do you know I don't have a big house" still cracks me up. It is a great episode and shows the affection they all have for each other. I remember watching the episode and thinking "I want to work with those people"

Casey: "Whitson, Woodson Robovsky" Casey: "You're dating a porn star who likes sports?" Jeremy: "I know, that's why I'm not talking about it. Any minute now my mother's gonna wake me up and tell me it's time to go to school." "It's Draft Day Baby" By the way, and just an FYI, The Weather Channel says there is a 0% chance of rain today at Indian Wells.

Was talking about how bad commercials were on a local radio station and I said, it's not like its Red wigglers or anything....and no one laughed. "Red wigglers, the Cadillac of worms...of worms"

I think I liked the interaction between Burke and Christina, I am not really sure since I could not understand anything he was saying since he mumbled so badly...and I am not talking about the medical jargon. He was stiffer than ever, although I did like his confession that his passion for her was all consuming, but I still have a hunch it was because he was in love with her mind and ambition and talents, none of which changed. This is stolen from TWOP because I did not think of it myself..but should have-which was Twin A and which was Twin B-Meredith or Christina?

While everyone is cracking up, it almost drowns out Penny's almost perfect response "I'm only giving you the napkin, Sheldon", with a perfect look on her face. I am pretty sure that episode was shot around the time Johnny and Kaley were secretly seeing each other in real life and the interaction between the 2 shows that something was going on

The whole episode was done so that he could say that one line. I think the sat around and thought up that line and said, "hey let's take them to Australia so he can say that" and the network said ok. BTW, HATED everything about Mitchell and Cam ditching their child to star-f-ck rather than be with their daughter.

Saw the episode where Murphy had her baby. Even tho I knew what was going to happen, I truly laughed out loud at several scenes like Miles diving in case the baby just fell out and Murphy yelling that they should cut her open with a melon baller....not to mention everything that came from Eldin ("Don't want to upset you, but they stole the good stapler"). The show hasn't always aged well, but this episode did.

Must have run out of guest star money since Chris Parnell was a weak and uninspired choice for Sue's lust. And where were her 2 dads? Is that the last we will see of Sue? I hope so, but if she appears again, I hope Rachel etal lay into her the same way.

"It gets pretty strange after that" My favorite part of Les Nesman's story in the Turkey episode-actually everything he says in the last 5 minutes is comedy gold