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Loving Rosehaven, thanks for the rec!

I always feel like such an outcast when I proclaim my dislike of Game of Thrones. Everyone i know seems to love it, even the bookish girls who worship Anne of Green Gables. So it's always comforting to hear that Sarah and Tara don't watch it, I feel validated! I thought Tara's comment about the entire episode feeling like a bunch of meetings was spot on about most of the series. And I gave the show a good chance, watched the first three seasons. My husband still watches, so i catch a bit here and there. To me, it feels like watching The Young and the Restless, a lot of stilted, dull dialogue between two people standing still in a room with very little wit, except sometimes from Tyrion, and very little heart. But, since I am a twitter and podcast addict, I do try to keep up vaguely with what's happening, so I am not completely out of the nationsl conversation. Has anyone read or written a really clever good takedown of the show? Would love to read one.

I knew I had heard this somewhere before! I think my stepgrandfather used to play it for us.

Sarah D. Bunting saying "ew" after the clip of Kelly and her dad canoodling was great.

You would also think that if Joe was a quarterback at a UCLA-like college, he'd have spent plenty of time with diverse teammates and wouldn't sound like a such an ignoramous.

This was such a hilarious treat to listen to, downloaded it a few weeks late, so glad I did!

Just want to add that I thought Alex was a great valued guest, haven't watched Anne, but her review made me want to watch, and loved her commentary on Six Feet Under. I hope her Gross Equalize Challenge goose eggs don't scare her off from returning to the show!

Was sorta sad to hear Sarah and Dave indicate they did not like Six Feet Under, since, despite its flaws, one of my favorite shows of the "prestige" era. So rare to have a good drama that doesn't focus on a man who either kills or cheats or both. I also hate this episode, but I hate all torture, and why I won't watch Dexter, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Fargo, certain seasons of Breaking Bad, and the list goes on . . .Actually kinda thought TV writers had become desensitized! So nice to hear everyone on the podcast still horrified by this one.

Am enjoying The Great War on OnDemand, thanks for the rec, Sarah D. Bunting!

No joke, I just teared up in my car when Kim described all the menfolk helping Pa after seeing the girls lift the sack. Never watched the show, but read the books and saw ads for the show enough that I can picture all the characters. Not sure if a recap has ever made me both LOL and COL.

Kelly is very Kate Gosselin in these episodes, both in looks and personality.

I actually thought Brandon's list of things wrong with college girls was kinda funny. Especially since it's true, none of the women on the show have a sense of humor.

I guess I'm a dork, but I thought Brandon's and Dylan''s banter was amusing. "You bought the college, didn't you?" made me LOL. Maybe it's because I'm not watching any of this, just listening to the podcast. Also, the college in my hometown, Montana State, had a paper with a paid staff.

Sarah was on fire this episode. So many good snarky comments in the background. I especially loved "jerked off to it" about Kellys cover, made me LOL on my dreary drive to work.

Also, attention Kim Reed, who wrote the most hilarious recap of an old Battle of the Network Stars episode as one of her most awesome things I saw on TV last week back in the TWoP days. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.tv/AuzQAT-3j_M

Who is Danny Drennan?

I read the book and was disappointed the TV show didn't take place in Australia, as the setting was part of the appeal for me. In enjoyed seeing the similarities and differences between Australian and American suburban moms, plus there are soooo many shows and movies in California, an Australian setting would have been fun to watch and listen to!

I also really liked this gametime, reminded me of the Will Shortz puzzles on NPR on weekend mornings. (also good). One of my fave gametimes in the short time i've been listening to the pdocast was the one that Joe Reid did that was a Price is Right game where all the answers were numbers. It was a good game, but also good cause of the rare participation of David T. Cole as a player.

Just want to comment, I love the new trivia card breaks in Gametime, fun to remember old old TV.

Agreed.

I'm also coldly logical with a heart of steel, but this is the episode of the series that finally got the tears flowing!

I was discussing Steve with friends today. American audiences more receptive to types like Steve these days, wide-cracking, sexist antiheros, with some troubles in their past, and audiences more bored with Brandon types, shiny super heros. Could this same warming to 80s villains also be the same warming that allows Trump to be a presidential nominee? Time for a thinkpiece comparing Steve Sanders to Donald Trump!

Wasn't planning on watching this show, but then saw all these things on social media about "the twist!" at the end of the episode. So I watched it and what a letdown! I kept thinking that one of the babies was going to come out black, a la "Call the Midwife", and THAT was going to be the twist. And Mandy Moore was going to be so mortified at her cheating come to light, she would give up the black baby and pretended like he died. When the actual twist was announced, I was like "Oh, is that effing all?"

I have to side with the commenters saying that some people do kinda care about who wins student body president, especially at UVa, where I went, which was politico central, with tons of people competing against each other to get into law school. I would imagine student body president would be a pretty decent line on the law school app. As someone who once read undergrad resumes for internships, it would def. have caught my eye as I was flipping through them all.

I also found Dylan hot in those screenshots.