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A) Product placement. B) Homeowner's usually have mismatched crappy stuff that would never look good on TV. This was never more evident then in the Flip or Flop Follow Up shows where the homes they visited looked nothing like the staged walk-throughs. There's no way some of those houses would have sold with the homeowner'a furniture.

In the past, Tarek and Christina have always had extra seasons in the tank. They usually film multiple seasons at one time, which is why the timelines seem so off in regards to the kids' ages. I'm not sure if they caught back up with her pregnancy and the summer special though. If they have unaired seasons, I could see HGTV airing those without any kind of announcement. Then phasing it out for one of the replacements they've tried in the last year or so.

It's probably pretty reliable. The TMZ article seems to have a quote from T&C about the separation. The stuff in May with possible suicide attempt and guns might be a stretch to tie to the separation, but no doubt they pulled the details from a police report.

My secret conspiracy theory is that Jinger was really meant for Austin. Jeremy showed up, met Jinger somewhat organically, and ruined those plans. Remember, Jinger was starting to pull back on the big city living narrative right before she met Jeremy. Joy is the only girl left that makes sense to marry Austin. The lost girls are too young and Jana is too old (and picky, from what reports say). Austin's getting to the point where he needs to be groomed to take over the family business. He doesn't have four more years to wait for Joy to experience life a little bit. I do think that the Forsythes and the Duggars have always planned for their children to marry. The synergy between the two families and their "businesses" have been at the forefront for years. The Duggars have featured them on the show, the Forsythes use Jim Bob and Michelle as ads for marriage counseling weekends, and Joy is on the website already. Anyways, that's my cynical side. This is much more of an arranged marriage then we've seen for the other children so far, except for maybe Anna and Josh.

Does it make me a bad person that I wanted Nas to get stuck under the rocks until after the gas line blew? My husband thinks so after all the cheering and whooping I was doing when the rocks crumbled again. Totally called Dr. Borden as the mole. I was surprised he was a cognizant mole. I thought it'd be a situation where he didn't know how complicit he was. I hope he's not dead because I want to know how in the world he pulled all his shadiness off. With Freddie given a ticket to nowhere, I certainly hope that storyline is over. I do think in a "cruel" twist of fate Reade or Zapata is going to watch the video and it's gonna be just football stuff. Freddie was just being a manipulative dick about Reade not remembering what happened. I hope the second half of the season resets a little bit. Allie and the baby needs to be gone. Nas needs to die in a fire. Weller needs to have his neckbeard burned off in the fire. Etc, etc.

Probably playing soccer. The Red Bulls had a game Sunday 11/6 that he was in the lineup for.

He also tried running for South Township Constable and lost in last week's election. He's a volunteer EMT/Firefighter for the St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department. http://www.mcrecordonline.com/news/article_6341dfe4-9b77-11e6-997f-5b768a38fbec.html Scroll to the last section to read a small Q&A between Austin and the candidate he ultimately lost too.

First weekend in October.

Looks like Austin's dad owns Fort Rock Family Camp in NWA and has been friends with Jim Bob for years. I think that's where the marriage retreat with Jim Bob/Michelle and Josh/Anna was that the Reddit guy went to. We all thought it was weird at the time Joy was there... Guess we know why! Joy is also featured on their website now. Quick promotion guys! http://fortrock.org

I do think Adam should be written as less dumb. It's not a horrible thing to be unhappy in your marriage because you got married too young. But it's hard to see any redeeming qualities in him. Even if he was written more like Jonah, charismatic but slightly slimeball, it would make more sense why Amy stuck with him. I can imagine a former star high school quarterback being a bad employee even in retail, but he shouldn't be socially inept either. Retail is weird on relationships. Something about having to rely on each other to get through a shitty day makes you jump into each other's beds. Also, people that never worked in retail just can't relate to partners that do easily. My husband would politely laugh at my ridiculous stories, but he never actually really believed them. We had several people get divorces in our store because of the retail stress on their relationship. About half of the core group I worked with was in a long-term relationship or married another coworker. Most of the managers that I met were married to people they formerly worked with. So Amy/Jonah, Dina/Garrett, and Mateo/Jeff oddly feel authentic to me where in other shows it wouldn't.

Shalita Grant also is on Mercy Street, a PBS show. The seasons don't run as long as traditional TV and is filmed mostly over the spring/summer. There is some overlap though, which is why there were a few episodes last year Percy was absent from as well.

I'm pretty sure the Felber's had some kind promotional consideration in their contract for the wedding. It's too coincidental that both Felber accounts posted that they were hired for the wedding at nearly the same time and that it's basically the first bit of wedding knowledge we have. They wouldn't jeopardize the contract leaking something they shouldn't before the wedding. We still don't know the exact date, location, or people invited.

It's still there for me.

I think we can't necessarily discount last weekend just because Derick was at his brother's bachelor party. It was also an early game, so Derick could have made it back to Arkansas for an evening wedding if JD was flying.

Most pregnant women aren't going to be tested for gestational diabetes until 28 weeks. If you have ultrasound markers, you can be tested a few weeks earlier but the results are less accurate. 28 weeks would have been the middle of August for Jessa and Spurgeon. I don't think the ancedote gives any indicators of whether Jessa had prenatal care or not since she probably wouldn't have had that test yet. All it shows is ignorance at best about pregnancy, which isn't surprising for the Duggar's. The more telling aspects are the lack of ultrasounds and not listening to the heartbeat. I can't believe that Jessa wouldn't want some confirmation of pregnancy past a pee test. Pee strips are not a definitive confirmation of pregnancy! I don't think Jessa's approach to pregnancy is necessarily insurance-related. She could be using Jill's midwife contacts to obtain better care. Even if Jessa decided she didn't want all the blood testing and extra ultrasounds which can be seen as invasive in hippie midwifery (which is totally different from fundie midwifery anyways), she should have listened to the heartbeat. You can't tell me there's absolutely no one in their group with a portable Doppler besides Jill.

Some people think Josiah is gay. Some people think Joy could possibly be a lesbian. I don't necessarily have a strong opinion either way. Joy was the only daughter in a cluster of boys so honestly I think she tends to have a more tomboy personality then the older girls. Michelle and Jim Bob followed (all but officially confirmed IIRC) the Pearl belief that toddlers should have a blanket to play quietly on and to explore on. If the toddler reaches or crawls outside the confines of the blanket, they are spanked with a wooden spoon, rod, or whatever inflicts pain to correct the behavior. The older kids were raised with this method. The younger ones weren't. It doesn't appear that the grandkids are being raised with such techniques. TTH = Tinker Toy House or Tator Tot House. Both refer to the Duggar compound and tend to be used interchangeably around here. Tinker Toy House is a phrase used on the show since their house is some kind of manufactured set that only needed to be put together on site. It's not built like a normal house from the ground up. Tator Tot House comes from the famed Duggar Tator Tot casserole that was featured a bunch during the early episodes.

Jessa has said she didn't have an ultrasound at 17 weeks and when they announced at 13-ish weeks she had not heard a heartbeat yet. Both were throwaway comments during their respective episodes, so they are more likely to be true. That screams no official prenatal care since routine care would include both. Also with Spurgeon IIRC she was Jill's guinea pig while Jill was still stateside. The only ultrasound Jessa had was one to determine gender at a glamour ultrasound practice, not a doctor's.

I don't think Izzy is an abnormal toddler. But I do not think that Derick and Jill were ready for children yet. Jill spent a lot of time around kids, but she never really raised the babies. Then Michelle and JB blanket-trained the older toddlers while not paying much attention to the Howlers and younger. So for Jill, I don't think she truly knew what raising a child was all about even though she's been around plenty. I'm sure she remembered her childhood where the kids sat around on blankets all day playing quietly. She would have been around for the Howlers, but she wasn't their mother and was a teenager at best. She wouldn't have the instincts that jumping off the back of a couch was necessarily a bad or dangerous thing, for example. Derick doesn't seem like he spent any time around kids, so his experience probably did come from TV shows, reality or sitcoms, where you're seeing the most sanitized version of someone's life. Then Jill probably does feel overwhelmed in the fact that she's lonely. She doesn't get to talk to her family every day, Derick is away doing god knows what, and she can't make friends because she doesn't speak Spanish. If Izzy is anything like my toddler, he probably hates spending all day inside with one Mom, no playmates, and few toys so he would be pretty fussy. I would guess that Jill counts down the minutes until nap time and feels overwhelmed when the routine changes (like Izzy not wanting to nap, or fighting feeding times, or general toddler tantrums) because she loses more and more of herself.

Even an OB is going to use the LMP as the gold standard for the due date if one is known. Ultrasound dating is still just too unreliable on its own. There are some due dates that are calculated from conception, but that is mostly used by women undergoing fertility treatments. It's not a super special Duggar conspiracy to calculate due date from the LMP. Now it could be very possible that Jessa pulled a due date out of thin air based on dates they had sex, basal temps, and likeliness of ovulation but it would still be reported as weeks/days. We know that Michelle gave birth in a hospital most times, but we don't know how much routine medical care she had before she met the parameters for having a high-risk pregnancy. I got the impression for the early births that she showed up at the hospital once her water broke.

Right before Jill talked about the shower rack falling, Derick mumbled something to the effect of, "We don't talk about the specifics of what happens because it doesn't help the ministry." As others, I highly suspect something else happened but the contract with SOS prevents them from talking about it. It doesn't look so good to college-age "missionaries" and their parents that the company can't even keep Jill, Derick & Izzy safe. Jim Bob and Michelle had an impromptu visit in February, I think, where they brought the AC units. Then there was a major emphasis on doors and windows needing to be shut and locked at all times this season. I suspect the shower rack story was supposed to be one of those anecdotes that highlight how "scary" Danger America really is without actually talking about any one specific incident. Only problem was Jill couldn't keep it together and laugh about it yet.

Didn't we basically just do this episode with the George Glass one? I have a feeling Adam F. Goldberg is running out of family anecdotes to write about. Every episode this season has basically been Barry loves Lainey and it's reciprocated, Erica loves Geoff and it's not reciprocated, and Adam hates his mother in the beginning but loves her in the end. I know there was an interview last season where they explained having all three kids in high school was going to lead to better stories but I'm not seeing what that was supposed to accomplish. The whole Geoff thing is so dumb. At this point, Geoff isn't going to make any more moves on Erica because a) she made it clear she wasn't interested and b) he has a crazy girlfriend. So Erica is going to have to make the move. But she's clearly waiting for HIM to make a move so she can accept this time. They are going to circle each other until Barry does something stupid and reveals Erica's "secret". So much dumb, so much cliche. Erica should have just gone to the dance with Hot Cousin Nate.

That blind item was badly worded probably on purpose. It doesn't refer to how pregnant someone might be, if the baby is born already, etc. It could even refer to Michelle's family member that the Duggar's want to adopt but can't show on camera. IIRC both Jill and Jessa had pregnancy rumors before their marriage that weren't true. Hell, I think even Marjorie had some speculation thrown about with the early courting.

The policies were pretty similar to my retail ones. You only were guaranteed an unpaid 30 minute lunch if you worked more then 7.5 hours. A lot of shifts were scheduled exactly 7.25 hours so employees didn't get a meal, which sucked if you worked 9am - 4:15pm. Our company would only let us clock in up to five minutes early, so managers would be watching the clock hard to get employees out right before they were required to take a lunch. You also couldn't leave your shift early to replace the meal if you worked 7.5 hours. You had to clock out before you hit 7.5 hours, down to the minute. Then you had to clock back in after your meal, work five at least five minutes, then clock out for the day. I remember the managers basically standing over my shoulder watching me clock out down to the second. They had a report that would generate every half hour to tell them who was approaching a mandatory mealtime or took too long for their meal. The store managers would get audited by the district manager every week for meal time violations. As for breaks, you got one 15 minute paid break for every four consecutive hours you worked. You were expected to use the restroom, smoke, eat a snack, rest your feet, etc during this time. Now our managers weren't so strict that they counted those down to the minute and if you had to take a second bathroom break, it was generally okay most of the time. They did use the paid breaks against you when they wanted to fire an employee. They would literally pull video footage of employees entering and exiting the bathroom to prove time theft.

Would they throw Jessa a baby shower already? It's a little early, but she's at least six months pregnant now. If the next few weekends are going to be multiple weddings (Jinger's, Dan's) and then Jessa would want to take time for her anniversary, Spurgeon's birthday, and the holidays. Doesn't leave a whole lot of time in the winter for a baby shower.

I don't know if it's an Internet FU or that's the one thing Ben put his headship foot down on. Remember, they weren't even going to call the baby Elliot as a nickname -- the nickname was going to be Quincy. I definitely see where Ben would be annoyed that his kid wasn't going to be called any derivative of his given name especially since the name had such meaning to him. Plus, I have a feeling Jessa let him choose Spurgeon for this child because she wanted a less Christian-focused name for any girl she has. She wouldn't have an argument in that case for not calling Spurgeon by his given name.