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I think it would be really funny to start the season with everyone coming back/walking in the door after a successful rescue mission. It becomes a job you hear about but do you not actually see.

I think you added some highly relevant and valid points to the discussion so I'm glad you didn't read my post before posting your comments/rant.

I would say maybe to not really. They did something similar in season 2 and it was more ridiculous because they had him going back and forth between the undercover assignment and being out on patrol.

I enjoyed the first episode. I wished they had more footage or images of what Vegas looked like in the 1930s-1960s. There was too much modern footage for my taste. It was fascinating learning about the history of Vegas. This episode gave me a new understanding of profitable/lucrative gambling was and is. I am looking forward to future episodes.

Bebe Neuwirth as Vera is near perfect casting.

Joe Hill didn't know Joe Reagan was his father until one of Danny's sons did a home DNA test for fun or a school project (I can't remember which), and that's how they discovered that Joe Hill was a biological relative/Joe Hill discovered he was a Reagan. Joe's mother told him that his father was a police officer, but I do not think she ever told him who his biological father was specifically.

Which now makes me wonder what happened to the plan and why they didn't adjust it or somehow show that the plan no longer worked with the extra people in the house.

I grew up doing chores. I had probably had fewer chores than others in my generation and more than others. Among the first chores I remember doing were helping my mom with the laundry and setting the table for dinner. There's a big difference between an adult/parental figure giving age appropriate chores to a child/teenager, and a young teenager being completely responsible for running the household. I'm okay with Missy doing chores. I am not okay with Missy being the one to run the household for as long as she did. Even if George didn't see a problem with it and thought it was okay, Connie is living there. She should have seen what was happening and said/did something. Based on how worried he is about the police and going to jail, I'm sure that is where this is headed. Georgie has always been responsible when it comes to family. In an early season, the minute he found Missy and Sheldon at a high school party his immediate response was to take them home.

Joe died about a year before the show started. Jamie decided to join the police force and enter the academy after Joe's death. Joe Hill is a bit frightening but in a way that's fun to watch. It's Danny's temper/disregard for the rules and Jamie's brains/intellect. Last week I thought Jamie's beard looked awful, but I think it looks better this week. Jamie showing up family dinner while undercover is totally ridiculous, but I simultaneously love it.

Thank for reminding me of the very important and critical fact. We don't actually know what kind of instructions Mary left or what the real plan was for the summer while Mary and Sheldon were in Germany.

Pretty much same here. I learned to cook by helping my mother and then when I was older by reading cookbooks or recipes from magazines. Going by real-world logic of the 1950s/setting aside what you need to make a sitcom work, it was pre-internet so it's possible they no longer had the instructions for the pressure cooker. I was born after the 1950s. Did boxes of rice have cooking instructions/amount per person or serving on the boxes yet? Getting back to Young Sheldon This is a totally valid point that I can't believe so many of us missed. Mary leaving was not a sudden unplanned thing. The family knew she was going to be spending the summer in Germany with Sheldon. They seemed to be functioning pretty well before the tornado (in terms of the household running smoothly and things that needed to get done being done). The additional number of people in the house due to the tornado should not have caused the chaos it did in terms of meal prep and chores. I think the joke was supposed to be that George is just a big kid and now Missy is the responsible adult, which is super wrong and icky in so many ways on so many levels.

To clarify my point. It's summer, which means Missy doesn't have school and George isn't working. Missy and George both have the most free time. However, because George is the parent/adult, he is the one who should be in charge and running the household, not his young teenage daughter. It would make sense for Missy to have more chores around the house because she isn't working like Georgie is or taking care of a baby like Mandy is, but Missy should not be doing everything nor should she be responsible for making sure everything get done. I realize this is off topic, but I feel like Fred and Ricky with the rice gets overshadowed/forgotten because it's in the same episode as the chocolate factory. If it was in a different episode, it would be just as famous/iconic.

I think Tristan's screw up days ended before the war. Volunteering (especially when he didn't have to at all) was the final step in his transformation. We're not seeing him during the war, but in my mind he's a scrounger like Hendley (the James Garner character in The Great Escape) and he's using his charm to make deals and get impossible things, so maybe he's more like Charles Madison (the James Garner character in The Americanization of Emily, with a bit of Radar or Klinger from M*A*S*H. I'm not sure which.)

My guess is that Allison does not want her mother to know what a complete and total mess her life is. This may be my favorite episode of the series so far. I loved Allison thinking/overthinking the puppets after she testified as an expert witness. This is what the series should be. It is the spiritual successor to Psych not some gritty CBS procedural drama.

Same here. If there was no meat, someone would have commented on that. To me, the thing they were commenting on was the presence of vegetables, not the absence of meat, which I thought meant the meat was still there.

I agree. It was an international class, so they had to pick a single language. Since English is taught in many European and Asian schools, as well schools in other places as well, it made sense to go with English as the universal language. I agree with all of this. Missy is at an age when it is perfectly appropriate/acceptable for her parent to expect her do chores/help around the house. For example, Missy cooking dinner was not a giant red flag, but Missy doing the meal planning and making the grocery list was. Again, I agree with almost all of this. The one thing I disagree with is that Missy has the most time available. George doesn't work summers. It seems he had plenty of free time. Missy being Missy, I'm sure she took into account the fact that Mandy has a baby to take care of. I could see Missy assigning Mandy something like cleaning the dishes. No, no, no. I get that was played for laughs, but it was not okay. He is an adult. He should act like one and not expect his teenage daughter to become one overnight and take on grown-up responsibilities. This is where he should have stepped in/stepped up and said no. Because this is a sitcom and it's supposed to be funny, show him taking over the household responsibilities. It's a trope that goes back as far as I Love Lucy, but it still works with a character like George. For those who forgot what was happening at home while Lucy and Ethel were at the chocolate factory:

I like that Georgie pointed out without realizing it that she didn't actually have to be the one doing everything at home. Georgie is well aware that he has adult responsibilities due to a kid and a fiancé. From Georgie's perspective, Missy is basically still a kid (he's not totally wrong) and she should not have to deal with all of the responsibilities that go along with running a household. I'm guessing she's a double major. Many schools offer majors in science and education.

I think for the summer, and yes Mary was planning to spend the whole summer there. I think it's two separate trips to Germany. This is the first one he took that Sheldon did not mention on TBBT. The second trip to Germany occurs two years later when he a visiting professor and is the trip mentioned on TBBT.

I really enjoyed seeing all of the different storylines play out within the courthouse over a single day in this episode. It reminded me of The Wonder Years episode "Lunch Stories."

I get that Max is the more pop culture savvy one of the two, but it would have been really funny for super serious cop Ellis to have a vampire mystery show as a guilty pleasure. The show within the show seemed like a mix of Twilight and the first season of Angel. I thought it was interesting the other cops seem to be becoming more accepting of Max's presence. No one complained about her being in the room for interrogation. Overall, I enjoyed the episode.

I think they have a strong bond that no one else will ever be able to understand and they are absolutely devoted to each other. I do not see that translating into a long term romantic relationship. This is exactly the way I feel about them, or possibly friends with benefits if they are both single and not seeing anyone else romantically.

I see Will and Angie as each other's third or fourth chocolate covered marshmallow. You know it's a bad idea, but you do it anyway. I think the two of them can be friends with benefits and source of support or comfort, but there is no way the two of them are headed for a long term stable relationship with each other.

They are blowing up family members who they think went to the authorities or are likely to try to stop the extortion scheme. I think Will's potential biological father is a possible source of information, not the mastermind of the entire extortion scheme. I'm kind of surprised Will didn't mention Nicco as part of his family. That's what I thought too. I think I may stick with the show even though it's a little darker in tone than I usually like.

It sounds like a meh straight to streaming movie.

I think Todd is about the right generation for Inspector Gadget so you may be onto something. I love that the show is usually just pure silly fun and sometimes goes into farce, with a dash of drama. Not everything needs to be a super serious dark gritty drama.