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Yay Ben! He can hopefully take care of Yogesh! I shocked myself by actually guessing FJ right! All thanks to “Oppenheimer.” It opens with a quote about Prometheus bringing fire from the Gods, and with the book being called “American Prometheus” I guessed “Promethium” even though I have never actually heard of that element before!

I was rooting for Ike just because I wanted the Celebrity winner to really be a legit competitor and was hoping the other two wouldn’t crush him. Very cool that he won! And on (IMO) a not-easy FJ! I didn’t even have any inkling of a guess for that one.

If anyone has seen the new Oscar-nominated German film “The Teacher’s Lounge” there is a scene where the teacher leads her class in a primal scream yelling session. I was wondering how both Melissa and Janine knew to refer to the sub as “they” after only seeing the sub teaching for a few seconds and never seeing their name or “Mx.” written anywhere until the end.

I was thinking the exact same thing re: the height! Diving boards are higher than what he was planning on jumping from. And there is no way that “I was going to kill myself but I’m fine now! Bye!” would really fly. He would have detained him for his own protection and called an ambulance. The kid was out of school, that’s why they went to the mom’s apartment.

Argh, all I could think of was “the train that goes through the Chunnel.” I was really hoping Juveria would win! She was so dominant but then Luigi got super lucky with both those big DD bets so congrats to him.

Well damn. The complete non-hugging or congratulatory behavior at the end was very noticeable after the pleasantries shown by every other ToC contestant the past few days. Yogesh looked like he wanted nothing to do with the other two and kinda waved them away.

Oh god this was garbage. Mariska has turned this show into trash with all the self-worship she forces on it. Of course a whole squad of police arrive at the perp’s house, search inside and say “There is nothing inside, no one’s here!” just so Olivia can be all “I need to see for myself! Oh look she’s right here down these open stairs in this not-at-all hidden basement room!” 🙄 Only the magic of Saint Olivia can think to look in the basement.

Even after Ken’s explanation I still didn’t understand the clue or answer. Clearly it wasn’t the previous one, and it couldn’t have been Hillary because the clue said “He,” and then I was totally confused. I said McCain just to have something.

The Wordle bits were really funny. But centering so much of the episode around puppies being killed by coyotes is simply not amusing. I didn’t find any comedy in that at all, especially Larry and Jeff acting like sociopaths while we have to hear the sounds of a dog being killed. Who thinks this stuff is funny?

They way they were romanticizing Navarro’s longing to commit suicide as some kind of celebrated Native ritual to meet with her ancestors was pretty gross, especially with her being so upset when her sister killer herself earlier. I was glad we finally did get some kind of real-world explanation for the murders, but this season was terrible. The creators were much more focused on atmosphere than in telling a coherent story. “Some things have no answers” is not clever, it’s a lazy way of writing when you don’t actually know what to say. It’s better than season 2, but that’s hardly a compliment.

Episode 4 took place on Dec 24, Episode 5 was on Dec 31. I mean... it's pretty obvious we aren't supposed to take that explanation as true and that what actually happened will be revealed in the finale.

Instaget FJ for me. I didn’t even see the part about years or anniversary, just “Roman numeral” + anti-discrimination and immediately thought “Title IX.” I don’t know of any other act that is referred to by Roman numerals.

Well, I was today years old when I learned that song was not called “Walk the Line.” Oops.

Exactly. This is the main reason why the most recent seasons of this show have sucked so bad. Practically every product seems to be targeting the upper-middle class, or just flat-out wealthy, instead of regular people. It's not fun watches pitches for t-shirts that are $100, or bags that are $300. Let's see some clever, useful products that everyday people can actually afford. That bodysuit seemed like a really bad idea to me. Because what female soldiers really want to do is strip naked every time they have to use the bathroom. WTF? Pants are practical for a reason.

The category was "13-letter words" so the word they were looking for was "International." The full name of airport is John F Kennedy International, whereas LGA is just LaGuardia as they don't fly internationally.

I’m 41 and even though I was taught cursive, I only ever use it to sign my name. It’s so much slower than just writing normally. I never understood why it was taught to begin with. It’s usually not as legible either.

Did anyone else find it strange that he kept calling his wife “Mom” in the opening scenes? I kept expecting a reveal of some weird sexual role play, but nope.

The housekeeping bit was great! From the money in the toilet to her throwing his clothes off the balcony, that was classic Curb. Though I really don’t get why the clothes on the floor bothered her to begin with. That’s what happens in hotel rooms… (and also why we never have housekeeping come in until we leave. I don’t want random people poking around my stuff!)

Oh thank god the forums are back so I can say how utterly terrible and gross this episode was! This was one of the worst hours of TV I have ever watched in my life. This episode seriously seemed like it was a parody written by someone at Fox News. “White liberals are so woke that they don’t think Black people should go to jail for rape! They think cops should let gangs of criminals ransack their squad room and steal evidence with no consequences! Look how terrible these liberals are!!” What an absolutely bizarre episode.

Much better episode than the first two! And at least most of Olivia’s scenes were self-contained so I was able to fast-forward through the Maddie plot garbage without missing anything important.

Instaget FJ for me on Friday. What did the category name “2-3 Zone” have at all to do with the clues? I thought maybe the answers would have 2-3 letters because the first one was DMZ, but then that wasn’t it because another one was a longer word.

I thought she meant it should take 48 hours to defrost in 38° C (100° F) and expected them to set up giant heat lamps and didn’t understand why an ice hockey rink would be the place to go. 😂 But then Googling I found this: “It turns out you can’t just warm up a frozen body and proceed with the autopsy. It has to be defrosted slowly in a refrigeration unit at a steady thirty-eight degrees which can take up to week. Go any faster and the outside of the body will start to decompose while the inner organs are still frozen. Important evidence can be lost.”

Hmm, possibly the worst episode of SVU ever? They weren’t content with Olivia just being a saint, now she has to be Magic Psychic Saint Martyr Olivia who can see a random person in a car for 5 seconds and immediately know they are a kidnapping victim. ”I should have pulled them over!” for…. what cause?

I was really hoping for another courthouse shooting there at the end. Yup. Also come on, there was no Jewish person on that jury? No way would an actual NY jury let that psycho go free.

After the Champions Wildcard competition, the Tournament of Champions will start Feb 23, regular episodes probably won’t begin until April.