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It was all a con - he chose the third one, the giant pirate ship, because he wanted to make it a B&B. Shockingly, neither of the other two options were appropriate for that specific use that they only mentioned for the first time at the end of the episode.

No, it's still lame. I have twins. We've never lived in a place that didn't have stairs. I'm not trying to sound boastful or arrogant or anything, and I appreciate that people have different tolerances for things, but you can easily deal with stairs no matter how many kids you have.

Caught an episode of this show the other day where they looked at a bunch of houses and then, at the end, the Hawaii Life owner or whoever he is came on and said they bought a different house altogether. It was so unbelievably lame. Especially considering the whole thing is just a glorified infomercial, I'm actually kind of surprised HGTV keeps this show on the air in such a good timeslot.

I'm a longtime Doctor Who fan who only casually watches Sherlock, so it astonishes me how the complaints about the two shows are nearly identical. Everything people have been saying about Moffat's Doctor Who -- massive plot holes, incoherent storylines, deus ex machina left and right, characters that never die and who live in a consequence-free world -- seems to apply here as well. I thought the "I love you" scene with Molly was powerful and really well done. Sadly, I'm also not surprised that there was no follow up, and that she apparently just gets over it and moves on like nothing ever happened. That's SOP for this creative team.

No - US medical residents are MDs who are now doing their post-graduate training in hospitals. From the posted description, it sounds like a specialist registrar is more like a pre-med student in college.

Lots of people have drawn a clear parallel to the real-life Jimmy Savile, who was a British TV personality and noted philanthropist who was also accused, mostly after his death, of being a serial child sexual predator.

The instant they showed that third house I knew it was the one the Chicagoans were going to buy. I have friends like them -- I'd be surprised if I don't know somebody who knows them -- and that's exactly the kind of house they would get. Plus of course the unfinished master closet in an otherwise move-in ready McMansion was a dead giveaway. I liked them a lot. They had great chemistry and their banter with their broker was hilarious. "There's just one problem with that house," he said, looking at the adjacent townhouse she wanted; "it's not for sale."

I might have missed something, but I thought the husband said at one point that it was when they met Yuka, and were welcomed into her family, that they knew that this was the place for them to live. They took Yuka's warm friendship as the sign that this was where they should live. It all came across as vaguely cultish.

Japan was . . . interesting. Lovely scenery and the guest house was cool. But it was one of those episodes where the lack of a coherent backstory made it all really strange. They were day traders with a young child? And they moved to rural Japan simply because they were friends with that woman? But they had never before lived in Japan and spoke no Japanese? I wish they'd just explain why these people felt the need to move to this particular town to be next to this particular person.

Thanks I missed that part. Agreed, they were sweet.

I'll bet he's moved around a bit. His accent sounded Scottish, and definitely not from the southwest of England where they were looking.

I agree. It makes absolutely no sense. It's like turning down these Hawaii houses because they're not close to any ski resorts, or because they're not within driving distance of her mother's house in Tennessee or something.

I watched one episode last night -- they looked at three houses in the 600-700k range. They put in a low bid, about 100k below asking price IIRC, and then announced at the end of the ep that they didn't get the house so oh well, we'll keep looking. The whole thing was a complete waste of time!

Watching ANOTHER Chicago episode -- please no more. It's like the new Atlanta. And I say that as someone who's lived and owned homes there!

Was Phoenix definitely a new episode? I'll admit to only watching the first five minutes before losing interest and turning it off (for the reasons everybody's already given), but the whole setup seemed really familiar.

If they ever do an April Fools House Hunters episode -- and I have the entire script already worked out in my head, producers, ahem, cough -- I would love to see a realtor try to sell the hunters on a "Fully updated, open concept contemporary Victorian," just to see them nod approvingly.

Yeah, I'm sure he was smirking because he had to fly out to Iceland to visit his sister who lives there in the house she bought years ago but then pretend to be looking for new places just so she could be on TV. I'd be laughing if I had to walk into my sister's place and act like I'd never seen it before. And then to say the usual HH stuff about fridges and countertops.

I had a hotel room in Italy once that had a bathroom with an open shower. Used the shower once and ugh it was awful -- even though there was a shower curtain to pull over, the water got everywhere. It pooled on the floor and splashed around. The whole bathroom was wet for the rest of the day. Using the sink, using the toilet . . . ugh. Never again.

I would hardly consider myself a close watcher of this show, but it really seems to me that they've upped the Ridiculously Annoying Woman Quotient recently. I mean that in a gender-specific way. It's starting to really bother me. The woman is always either insane, absurdly demanding, or both. Just ep after ep where you the viewer is left shaking your head at how awful this woman is behaving. Have these House Hunters ever moved for the wife's career instead of the husband's? (I can think off the top of my head of a Paris photographer but even her partner had a job, too, right? And also some London nutcase.) Am I being selective or is it really that way?

I caught most of the Chicago episode. I don't understand the point. There have been HH episodes where they look at old(er) houses. How is this different, except with a cheesy voiceover and different font graphics?

I tried to watch the "Greater Manchester" episode last night and couldn't make it. Watched through the first house and then the last 2 minutes. Ugh. She was awful, complaining about everything large and small. The show's formula must work because people keep watching, but I swear HHI manages to suck the life out of any interesting situation.

It's a fake show. They all had home inspections and they know about these problems. The show just has them pretend not to, for dramatic purposes.

I liked it but yeah, it was tough. Not much of a happy ending. Though I actually thought the sub story was a neat twist. One big distraction for me, however, was the changing foliage. Green leaves in some shots, bare branches in others. The beautiful scenery shots were all filmed in the summer. The closeups in town or at the beach were in the spring. But whenever they showed the mansion or the grounds around it, there wasn't a leaf to be seen.

You're absolutely right on both counts.

I had a similar reaction. It reminded me of an HHI episode from a few years ago where an American family were relocating to . . . Switzerland? I think. They had a huge budget thanks to the husband's job and they were looking at these beautiful, enormous homes and all they did was give the stinkeye about the size of the third bathroom or the wine fridge or whatever. The wife especially made it a point to always say something negative about everything.