St. Claire

I will admit to not usually having salad stuff in my fridge (since I invariably buy the produce and end up going way too long without making any salads, thus rendering the produce a disgusting rotting mess in my fridge drawer). However, if I want a salad and the rest of the family wants pizza- we are totally suspending disbelief on that count, BTW, because I almost never turn down pizza- I will go to the store to buy a bag of greens or I will order from someplace else. I prefer pizza places that also offer salads so that I can order both and delude myself into thinking it's a healthy meal, but the idea that the rest of the family is deprived of pizza because I want salad is totally unreasonable. If I'd copped that attitude as a teenager, my parents would have informed me that the family was getting pizza and I could fend for my own darned self if that didn't sit well with me.

I was not very familiar with Jack McBrayer before (having not watched "30 Rock"), but I would be totally happy to have him on pretty consistently. He has the right combination of amusing-but-spot on answers with occasional self-deprecating humor and an overall sense of the most entertaining way to play the game.

I went with "buff her beaver," "make everyone's classified emails disappear," and "woke up next to a Munchkin." I wouldn't have done well, I suppose, but my answers wouldn't have been as solidly ridiculed as "election ballots" and "used condoms."

I think I expected more of Marilu than she delivered because I remember her having had good dance skills back in her Taxi days. That being said, I am a big honking hypocrite to expect much of anything, since I am living proof of how previous dance training/skill doesn't stay with you when you stop dancing regularly and hit middle age. Going back to my first ballet class in 20+ years made me use muscles I'd forgotten I have, and my flexibility is completely shot.

I especially like Ice T's endorsement of the product after he rolls his eyes at the potential customers "LEMONADE. It's *delicious*!"

never mind.

I just saw this and came here to post! I love "OK, doctor poses."

I liked the Raisin Bran one from a couple years back with the dad and daughter getting ready to go golfing. Dad wasn't wearing ugly golf clothes (like the Caddyshack stereotype), so it was less cringe inducing than biker dad in his Spandex. I like both for the purpose of having dads and daughters bonding over physical activity- usually it's only the sons with whom dads will share sporty interests in commercials.

The thing is, accident forgiveness is not a function of which plan/which company you choose; it's dictated on a state by state basis. I first found out about the accident forgiveness thing because the person who took my statement when I had a one-car accident (full disclosure- I have Liberty Mutual) told me that I qualified based on the state I live in and the fact that it was my first claim with them. I didn't choose it as an extra option and he said that all of the insurance companies provide it in my state.

I was really glad that Agent Davies wasn't shown in the episode, because I watched an old episode of another crime procedural immediately before watching R&I in which Mark Devlin was a super creepy bad guy. Nice nod to Frost/LTY; I got choked up. I full on cried with Jane and Korsack's goodbye. I was also glad we didn't actually have to see a Maura/Jane goodbye. That might have done me in.

Man, that's too bad. I remember him as Crosetti on Homicide: Life on the Streets.

For the swallowed remote, I was torn between "fart" and "scratch his balls." I would have gone with fart, since digestion doesn't reach all the way to the crotch. I would have gotten no matches for the Jaws question, though, because my first inclination was "boat" (with the line "we're gonna need a bigger boat" ringing in my head).

Happy birthday and good luck in HS to FrenchToastJr. My youngest started his final year of middle school on Monday, so I am getting all nostalgic myself; I'll never have another middle-schooler again. I'll probably get all misty when he starts HS next year, and will be a full on mess when he graduates.

My love for Korsack knows no bounds. That isn't specific to this episode, but I just wanted to say it while I still have the chance. A colleague of mine noted on Tuesday that she thought the case didn't fall together (she'd watched live on Monday, I hadn't watched my DVR yet), and told me to text her once I saw the ep to see if I could make it understandable. Nope. My text was "Wait, what? What's Robby's motive? Did he give her the locket or did he just know who did? Why did he sell it? OMG this makes no sense." I'm so relieved to know that I'm not alone in my questions.

That commercial was in heavy rotation during the Olympics, which I had on fairly steadily while we were on vacation. Every time that "ping" started, my husband and I were instinctively grabbing our phones.

Contrast this to Lily Von Schtupp and you see Madeline Kahn's incredible range when singing from her organs.

Maybe I need to get that for my friend at work who always texts me when someone dies, but sends me years-old info. In December, he sent me the "Colonel Potter aka Harry Morgan, also Joe Friday on Dragnet, dead @ 96" to which I replied "um...yeah, in 2011." This week he texted me that Mickey Rooney had died. Which was true in April 2014. I told him to upgrade from his darned flip phone so he could check Google to verify before sending me old celebrity death news.

I also laughed at the lack of pixie dust as evidence that Tinkerbell was not, indeed, the prime suspect.

I'm assuming August 8 is skipped because TNT carries Olympics coverage. I was surprised, in a good way, when the slipped in the reference to Frost. The characters spoke for the viewers when they said they missed him.

I still have a VCR, but only because my VCR/DVD combo still works and I can't bring myself to replace an appliance that isn't broken in any way. It's been years since I actually played a tape in it. I'm so old that I was watching videotapes back in the days when you needed to specify what format you were using- VHS or Beta. Hell, I'm so old that I starred in home movies that you need a projector to view.

Yeah, I totally picked up on the previous relationship vibe, but until they found out about Courtney being a widow, I couldn't figure out why she'd want to kill Avery. I hadn't even considered the insurance fraud that would have been revealed by Avery coming out with the truth. I also really like how supportive Avery's husband was about the transgender issue; he totally made it all about what Avery felt was right in terms of how much she wanted to reveal about her past and such. I appreciated the even-handedness of the transgender topic- it wasn't sensationalized, but the police were very careful about how and to whom they spoke about it.

I worked at McDonald's for a few years, and I provided the best service I was capable of providing without any expectation of a tip (we weren't allowed to accept tips if offered, but I don't know if that was corporate policy vs. my individual store manager). I did get offered a job by a woman that worked at the bank across the street; her boss was so impressed with how well I handled their complicated lunch order every day. I was leaving for college, though, so I couldn't follow up. I don't tip at fast food or quick service dining restaurants, only at sit-down places where they have to take my order and deliver my food. I never really thought too much about the hypocrisy of tipping my bartender but not my barista.

I confess that I do refer to our vehicles by name (we took the Sorrento when we took the kids to Disney last week, but used the Rogue when it was just me and my husband going to Myrtle Beach last year) and my phones (I ask someone to grab my iPhone if I need to check work messages and the Samsung if I'm doing something personal, although my husband still just lifts one up and says "This one?" regardless of which I ask for- I may go to gold phone vs. blue phone to distinguish instead of using the brand names.)

We weren't allowed to accept tips when I worked at McDonalds. That was a lifetime ago, so the rules may have changed, but if someone offered us a tip we had to decline it.

I actually did that for a school play- the girls playing the parts in Little Women were, for the most part, not accomplished knitters but the director wanted them to be knitting. So, I did up a few pieces to be large enough to be visible from the audience, and the girls only had to do a stitch or two at a time while on stage.