Madame Crabanda

Well, I am really old. 70. But I can still recall, back in the day, the difference between being with a) a guy who wanted me right now this minute, b) a guy who wanted me but maybe was a bit slower moving or was being respectful and waiting to be sure I was ready, and c) a guy who wasn’t interested, no way no how, no matter how many obvious or subtle innuendos or accidental touches I threw his way. There’s a vibe.

Is there a German word for feeling humiliation on behalf of someone else? I feel so bad for Becca. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but at this point I actually kind of miss the guy with all the sex toys. At least he was into his wife and she didn’t have to practically beg him to do the deed with her, and then be blatantly rejected over and over. It’s just embarrassing to watch, because you know that if he was into her, Austin would be, well, into her.

I was interested to hear that one of Nate's friends apparently found it appropriate and important to tell everyone at the wedding that Nate is a "freak in the sheets." Coupled with how naturally and easily he told the bachelor party dancer to "Get on your knees," I wonder if he likes his women submissive in the bedroom.

It was an amazing reflection about what happens in the real world to see Kellee have to sit there, unable to speak because of the rules of the game, while predator Dan gets to hold forth ad nauseum (with tears in his eyes, no less) about what a great guy he is and how he would never, could never....”Why, I have a wife.” So did Harvey Weinsten have a wife. “Why, I have a daughter.” So did Bill Cosby have a daughter. I’d love to be a fly on the wall of some of his “professional interactions.”

I think Jenny's goal was to groom Sumit simultaneously with her ancient, yellowed toenails. I could swear I remember her once asking Sumit, "When I'm old, will you change my diaper?" I think a significant part of the impetus for the older women to find younger men who need them financially and/or for the green card is that they are hoping to avoid having to eventually go into a nursing home, because they plan to have their 24/7 aide, in the form of their hubby, to care for them. She's just getting him accustomed to his permanent role as her nurse. With Ronald, I give him props for saying he was actually wearing his friend's jacket. Way back in the 90's, when I was a police clerk, pretty much every lowlife who was caught with drugs on them said they were just holding their friend's jacket. You know, like you do, because everybody just gives their jackets to their friends to hold or wear, without mentioning the LSD and heroin in the pockets. The hysterical thing to us clerks was, we knew that each and every one of them thought he was an absolute genius for coming up with such a sure-fire excuse. Tiffany must be really, really good at denial.

I stand corrected. It seemed reasonable to me to assume that quite a few people were aware, due to the fairly extensive news coverage, that Prince was in fact found dead in his elevator. But not everyone, so maybe not anyone who wrote the show or edited the music that coincidentally emphasized the word "elevator."

I was creeped out by the song they decided to go with at the very beginning. Of all the Prince songs or lyrics they could have chosen to have the family dancing to in the kitchen, they decided to start out with "...and if de elevator tries to bring you down/go crazy/punch a higher floor" and then the original recording is altered so that after a brief musical interlude, the very next words are "Are we gonna let de elevator bring us down?" How or why would the recording be edited that way if they were just enjoying some Prince music as they all what? cleaned up after a meal? Was this a special edit for elevator fans? Because it sure wasn't the original recording. Everyone knows that Prince was found dead in his elevator, right? That is some seriously messed up thing to emphasize on a sitcom. Just really strange.

This was disgusting. I got sucked into it from the first episode and broke my rule of never, ever watching a series until it’s concluded (with a proper conclusion that ties up at least a majority of the loose ends). If I were TPTB over the entire Universe, I would judge whoever made the decision to just cut the series off without a real finale. And their sentence would be this: That they would have to be in a white room, watching the series from beginning to finale, over and over, for the cumulative amount of time all viewers spent watching the series. And there would be a clock ticking it down. And when, after millions of hours, the clock finally ticked down to zero, they would be like, “OMG, it’s over, our sentence is finally concluded.” And a voice would say, “Do you call that a conclusion?” And the clock and the video would start up again.

This was so dull compared to Tabatha's other show. I like her so I'll keep watching in the hopes that it gets better. For the life of me, though, I couldn't do the kind of math where keeping the restaurants and probably working his butt off and hearing his children complain and disrespect his perfectly nice wife for 10 more years = $8 million and being fairly carefree.

The storyline about the kid was horrible. Many more like this and I'll be done with the series. It was one of the kinds of plots I absolutely hate, where if anyone had acted or reacted remotely like a normal person, there would be no story. Um, if the guy was that rich, why did he just have a busy student as a part time nanny? If the mom had been dead for three years, wouldn't that be enough time to find a real caregiver for the kid? And seriously, after being this way ever since she was born, a random judge and Bull show the dad the light and he magically turns into the perfect father? And why was there no mention of the fact that the kid had told Bull her mom was in Europe? I really think that would have called for at least some therapy. (At first I thought the dad had been hiding the mom's death from the kid, but no, when it was mentioned in front of her, she didn't bat an eye.) There were a few seriously creepy moments. I find it difficult to believe that any child who hadn't routinely experienced some type of major personal boundary violations would want a total stranger to see her in her nightgown and tuck her in. Also, maybe my mind just goes to these dark places, but why was the dad carrying her up the steps at the end, in a very strange straddled position? She's nine years old, not nine months. Why did she need to be carried like a tiny child? And when she ran up to Bull, dressed as Santa Claus, and hugged him, he said, "Somebody's excited," in a weird voice and then said Santa could only give her her present after she was asleep. Good grief, was this a Very Special Episode for pedos? I had a moment of hope when the nanny said the little girl was loving seeing everyone twisted up in knots over her. At that point I was thinking that maybe the girl was some sort of tiny sociopath who was doing this for her own enjoyment. The way the child actress played it, this could have been the case. But two seconds later, the nanny was all smiles. Weird nanny to throw her ward under the bus like that for no reason other than that she had a term paper due. I was left thinking that perhaps the writers had written it the way I had hoped to see it, then chickened out, or were overruled by those who wanted the Hallmark syrup to prevail. But IMO, it would have been awesome if she had been The Bad Seed. Or if maybe Bull had just passed out from too much eggnog and this was his Christmas nightmare.

Seriously, am I the only one on here who was mentally calling him "Erek Clapton?"

I am with the others who really don't feel that asking someone to wash their nasty feet that have been walking around all day (and who knows what kind of crap, literally or figuratively, is on the floors, sidewalks, and ground where he has walked?) is somehow diagnostic of OCD. Unlike observing someone else's lack of unpacking skills, waking up with someone else's foot grit on you is gross, and affects you personally. I am of the "start as you mean to continue" school that says that if it bugs you, talk about it now instead of bringing it up in an argument six months from now.

I enjoy looking at well done tattoos so I was really looking at his to see what they were, and in each honeymoon episode there's been at least one shot where it was really easy to see the neck with the flowers coming out of it. It's on his upper left arm and when he puts his arm up over his head when he's relaxing it's pretty hard to miss.

Can anyone explain to me Derek's creepy tattoo of a naked headless woman squatting on a skull with flowers coming out of her decapitated neck? That would bother me more than the smoking.

You aren't going crazy--I noticed this, too, mostly because I couldn't figure out why it was blurred every time before, so I was focused on it.