St. Claire

If this is the commercial I"m thinking of, the voiceover was "...a condo near the train tracks," followed by a distinction between "near" and "next to." Which I accept- you may see something described as NEAR the train or airport when it is actually so darned close that the planes and trains rattle your home.

I want to find a way to work the phrase "felonious ball huggers" into conversation.

I thought the Applebee's commercial was emphasizing that you can get cheese on your mini sandwich (which I refuse to refer to as a "handheld;" slider is OK, though), dip your sandwich in the beer cheese and wash it down with a beer. Thus beer...cheese...beer cheese.

I can totally understand Mer wanting to sell the dreamhouse. The dream house is Derek, it was his creation. Also, logistically, being sometimes on call at the hospital while your house is a ferry boat and drive away is a bad idea; she needs to live closer to the hospital. But having her sell or rent the dream house and having Meredith being the one with new space (not Alex and Jo) makes more sense than her moving back into the frathouse, with its constantly changing number of rooms (I swear there were times when more than three people had bedrooms, yet sometimes space is an issue). I like Alex and Jo making a fresh start in their own private space, but if the producers had to get rid of some sets to create new space, why not sell both of the houses and have loft+Grey-Shepard land be new sets? As much as I loved seeing good dance moves from the principal characters, I was especially pleased to see some bad dancing among the extras. No wedding reception is complete without some dude doing the "white man overbite" style of dancing.

Oh, I forgot about Seattle Pres. Thanks for reminding me.

In my long years of medical training (and by "training," I mean "watching TV dramas and having a concept of how the spinal cord works"), I have learned never to mess with a stabilizing collar. That intern is a moron. As soon as Dr. Pretty Intern said he was a surgeon, I wondered what hospital. Now that Mercy West is no more, the only hospital that exists other than GSM in the GA universe is the one where Derek died. So, I wasn't too horribly surprised that he was a tardy intern with a cover story.

I was ready to throw a sock ball at the television with the "Amanda got Victoria's heart" scene, since organ donation from someone with a gunshot wound to the torso is a complete no-go (even Revenge couldn't pull off that medical miracle), so I was relieved that it was just a crazy dream. I watched this show from the first episode to the bitter end, since I have an unhealthy, co dependent relationship with nighttime dramas who hang on a season or two past their prime. I was watching for the camp factor: David died at the perfect, memorable moment of having just had a meaningful conversation with his loving daughter flowers covering the first name on the Clarke grave- attempted misdirect to show that Amanda had died from Victoria's last moment gun wielding (because, please, as though they really were going to kill her off) speaking of which, Victoria had great aim for someone who'd been spewing blood for however long it took for David and Amanda to have their little heart to heart about how she shouldn't become a killer Amanda just happened to find another person who needed Nolan's super-duper revenge skills to clear a loved one's name

And I do believe that the saledouche mentioned that Margeaux wanted something "refined but understated," or some such hooey.I won't even wear diamond studs to a funeral, only polished stones enamel, or plain metal. Louise is dumber than a box of hair. She knows how much Margeaux distrusts Nolan, yet she's all "Oh, when I saw the man you hate while he was trying to illegally enter a dead woman's hotel suite, he gave me information to indicate that we might be on the wrong track! I know you'll drop your vendetta and totally agree with him now!" I never thought I'd watch an episode of this show in which I said "Wow. Charlotte is the most level headed, mature, and well adjusted person I've seen on screen tonight."

I completely agree. I would have accepted a remark about wanting to move to a senior community because of the lady:gentleman ratio being very much in his favor, but adding the "rich widow" thing was slightly creepy.

Yeah, I think the promos they are showing with Bruno walking out and such are the reaction to viewer discomfort with his remark after the fact. I didn't see any of that last week, so I just assumed that they brought it from the live show outtakes. (Just like every week they show the judges showing scores in unison from the previous week, not the actual string of them showing the scores in succession.) I wasn't horribly offended by the remark when he made it, especially when Tom fired back to point out that he's not a mental giant either, but I did think it was classless (not a shock for Bruno, admittedly).

Michael Welch has played many non-Luke types since JoA went off the air. He was on Scandal a few weeks back playing a cop that shot an African-American youth/young adult (I can't remember how old the shooting victim was), and I think he played jerkface characters in both CSI and CSI:NY episodes. I have a soft spot for Luke, but I enjoy seeing MW convincingly play dislikable people as well.

One of the best throwaway lines from the episode was when Tony said he had intimacy issues, and Bishop said "And thank God you do," or something to that effect. It just cracked me up.

The label is wrong, too. If you can quantify, the correct usage is "fewer" and if the comparison is more vague, "less" is the correct term. My dad has less hair than my husband (overall comparison- Hubby has a thick head of hair, Dad does not); he has fewer active hair follicles (if we wanted to count the individual hairs, we could). I do have to confess that the less/fewer distinction is one of my grammar peeves.

It was just a tiny moment in the episode, but seeing Michael literally struggling to swallow his salad while his father berated him about this sexuality had to be the most painful things I've seen on television in a long time. I felt so awful for him, and I could feel my own throat closing up a bit as I fought back my emotion. very good acting choice by Matthew del Negro. (Note: it's impossible to cry if you swallow something; your throat tightens up when you cry, so drinking something when you feel tears coming on will force your throat to open up and make the tears stop. That's why I keep a bottle of water handy all the time.)

Saw this commercial a few times again last night and am reminded of how much I love it. Awesome animals, Roger Miller, what more could a girl ask for?

Yeah, "booties" has a whole different meaning for the newborn set.

I am an unabashed Felicity Huffman fan, and from all accounts she seems like a lovely woman, so I applaud her ability to play a character that I find so grating. (Although plenty of folks found Dana Whitaker and Lynette Scavo pretty hard to deal with, so I guess she's not so far removed from playing annoying people.) Barb Skokie just has such a gigantic chip on her shoulder, not just with regard to her husband but with everyone. Her pushing for Gwen's parents to speak to the press when they were still feeling raw was over the line, IMO, and her insistence that Matt be buried where it's convenient for her (as opposed to near his own wife) was kind of rotten. I know she has bad memories of Modesto, but her son chose to keep that as his home and she should respect that. Also, when she was pushing for the hate crime designation, and the DA (??) said it came across as overzealous, I wanted to respond to her "To who?" with "To WHOM." /grammar pedantry

Maybe he means he's the venue for people to be crucified. Notably for other people's wrong-doing. It is the season, after all.

That commercial is excellent. Dad was bit out of his element (see: stupid sippy lids that never match up with the cups) but was far from the standard incompetent father usually portrayed on TV. Also, I never got that much accomplished during any of my kids' naps, so I'm very impressed with his ingenuity and stamina.

I thought the store owner had actually given a description of the shoplifter that could have matched Brandon. The guy they had in the car didn't look remotely like the young man who was killed. I would rather have seen some nuance to the story to show that what Brandon reached for in his pocket (or even just something within his jacket) actually did glint instead of the cop just saying that he was reaching for a knife. The purely evil cop diminishes the story; it would be more compelling to have the officer having made a horribly wrong call and still having to face the consequences of having shot an innocent victim. Show the overzealous assumptions that this non-neighborhood white guy is making, don't just make him a cardboard cut-out of a racist character.

He did. the reveal started with the gloved hands strangling her, then panned up to his face.

Even as the whitest of white girls (Irish, Scottish, Scandinavian and Welsh mostly), the hair scene took me back to childhood. Whether you are dealing with a matted kitchen or silky fine hair that tangles if you so much as look at it cross-eyed, I think the feeling of your mom with a brush or comb in her hand while you sit on the floor in front of her is nearly universal.

You and me both. Emily had better be a fairly regularly recurring guest star, though. And I also love that Emily calls Jethro "Uncle Gibbs."

Not only did she do this story while pregnant, it was her idea! Shonda was resistant at first, but SD pursued it as a good story. The middle name was Norbert, after Jackson's favorite uncle. He and April discussed it during the name deliberations, with April rejecting its dorkiness. The only person I've ever heard of named Norbert is Norbert Leo Butz, who admitted that he might have changed it if he'd realized that he was going to end up successful on Broadway. Did we ever get an explanation for the disappearing nanny? Did Mer's freak out a couple weeks ago scare off that woman who waited all day to be interviewed? If she had a nanny, none of her intrusiveness on last night's episode would have been necessary.

As soon as I saw that Anne Dudeck was playing the wife, I got suspicious. She's too recognizable to be just the supporting guest character of a supporting guest character. As much as I love Agent Borin, I don't want her to join the NOLA NCIS team. I like her as someone who frequently crosses paths with both the DC and the NOLA teams; I don't want her slotted into one show (and if she did get slotted into one show, I'd prefer Original Recipe because I love her chemistry with Tony, Tim, and Abby).