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  1. On 3/18/2019 at 4:26 PM, Trini said:

    Yes, this was the funniest part!

    Oh, and I forgot to mention; Rio plays tennis? At a club? WHO is this guy?? And I assume his lawyer(!) is going to play a bigger role at some point?

    He's a man of many talents.

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  2. On 8/21/2016 at 9:31 AM, fishcakes said:

    This was a cute episode, but if I weren't already a fan of the show, I don't think it would have turned me into one. These characters need a few episodes to grow on people, and most of their quirks (like Mateo's burning dislike for Jonah and the way Garrett likes to mess with people) were muted on this one. But I did love Dina checking out the food by tearing it in half and then throwing it away.

    I liked the cameos too, especially Apolo Ohno trying to get around the lady who kept blocking him with her shopping cart. They should have gotten a Korean woman to push the cart though. Because I don't follow gymnastics or watch SNL, I didn't know Missy Jones wasn't a real gymnast, but I did think it was strange that she was so tall.

    That's why he looked so familiar! I was trying to figure out where I had seen him before. I thought he was an actor from another show. 

  3. On 1/26/2019 at 10:49 PM, starri said:

    I'm glad we finally got some character development for Donna Maria.  It figures that since she's clearly the smartest out of all the Mole Women, she'd process the trauma in a way that was more like Kimmy and less like Gretchen or Cyndee.  The hair friendship bracelet was the right combo of gross and touching.

    Am I the only one vaguely disappointed that he wasn't really into Titus?  He really sold it.

    I was disappointed as well. Those looks he was giving Titus would've fooled me. 

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  4. On 4/26/2017 at 11:40 AM, auntiemel said:

    Yeah, he's gonna slay in college. And if he wants to further cement that, he could invest a couple of months in acoustic guitar tutorials on YouTube.

    He will be unstoppable!

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  5. On 11/12/2014 at 10:46 PM, suomi said:

    Where I live, during the winter, sometimes half of the parked cars are idling while the drivers are inside the store (and no one else is in the car). Some started locking the doors in their homes at night only about 10 years ago, and there are many who have yet to begin locking up. Lotsa elderly who live alone leave doors unlocked for early morning home health care visits. Not me! I'm locked up during the day! Having lived in other states (CA and AZ), I tell people that "big city ways are coming" but this goes largely unbelieved which has me SMH on a daily basis. (We have a state university here and our population is about 100,000 but the pervasive mentality is old-school rural).  

    I am living with my parents right now (saving up money to get my own place) but it's the same where they live. I don't think we ever lock the door until it's time for bed which is usually around 10 pm for us. I've noticed my neighbors do the same. Not just locked but doors open for most of the day. There have been a couple of robberies too lately but it doesn't seem to have phased anyone in our neighborhood. I can tell you when I lived alone (I'm a single female in my 30's) I made sure to have that door locked but I didn't live in the safest neighborhood either because it was cheaper so I'm sure that didn't help. My mom sometimes will say "Lock the door!" and I just confusingly look at her and ask "why"? She's the paranoid one among us.

  6. On 11/1/2014 at 4:38 PM, mattie0808 said:

    That case was upsetting for sure...especially when the mother was explaining that she wasn't able to verbally express to that "nurse" that she wanted her to stop her completely incompetent attempts to start her IV. It was so obvious that the mother was physically trying to motion and cover her arms and the "nurse" just lost it, CLIMBED ONTO THE BED ON TOP OF HER, turned her head aside, and threatened her while holding the needle ("I'm going to get this blood!"). Holy crap.

     

    And then SHE has the nerve to sue them?!?!?!? It's been a while since I've gotten truly upset/angry at a JJ episode, but that one did it for me easy. And then she claims they changed their story, and it was EXACTLY the same. This is one of those times I'm glad people are stupid enough to expose themselves on one of TV's most popular shows, because that woman should never work in health care again.

     

     

    Oh, and LOL at the foster dad who never showed up for his foster daughter's case and then tried to sue her. Lame! 

    This reminded me of an incident at the dental clinic we have in our office building. I work in a non profit agency and we have a dental office for low-income patients. Anyway they made the woman wait in the waiting room for almost 2 hours then once she finally sat in the dentist chair and the dentist was about to numb her with the needle she put her hand up to gesture that she needed a minute because she was scared. At that the dentist threw down the needle on the floor and yelled "I'm not dealing with this! You can work on your own teeth then!" Now I agree it's never a good idea to make too big of physical movements while getting your teeth worked on especially when there are needles involved but the reaction of this dentist was ridiculous. I swear some people need to rethink their professions especially if they are in health care supposedly to "take care of others." 

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  7. On 4/2/2014 at 8:38 PM, zillabreeze said:

    I get twisted when JJ acts as if a dude slaving his ass off in some chicks house has ZERO dollar value.  It has big time value.  Unfortuneately, the dudes never come to court with time logs and before/after pics.  Some of these chicks are happy assing along, letting the guy bust his ass, working on her house.  THEN.. they break up and she starts whining for rent.

    Good, honest craftsman get $75-100/hr.. It does fucking count.

    Many moons ago, I lived (without benefit of marriage) with a very talented carpenter.  He rebuilt kitchen cabinets, fences, floors and made furniture that I still have today.  He tried to pay rent, but his work was so flawless, I always said NO.  Even though we fought towards the end- it would never have crossed my mind to sue him!  Fair Market Value should come into play somewhere.

     

    Can't disagree with you there. I had a friend that was living with her boyfriend and while yes it might have been good for him to get a job since she was working and paying the rent he did help her. He fixed things, cleaned, made the meals, went shopping. I think that should count for something. It doesn't technically contribute into the monthly income but it's stuff that I wouldn't want to have to do when I get home or can't do like fix things around the house since I have no patience or skill in craftsmanship of any kind. This irks me as well so I'm glad you brought it up.

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  8. It was better than I was expecting but mostly I enjoyed the scenes with Sam at the acting class and the car commercial. The eulogy part was a bit too sappy for me. Not saying it wasn't done well but it's just not my cup of tea. The episode got me more excited for the next one and I hope they have more with Sam's boyfriend. I like him. 

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  9. On 10/12/2016 at 2:32 PM, Kromm said:

    It's not normally up against Kevin Can Wait. It was that week, where the Kevin Can Wait repeat beat it, because it was an attempt that week by CBS to boost the viewership of that show by airing it twice.  Football, and eventually another show coming in a few weeks called "The Great Indoors" is the normal timeslot competition from CBS.

    Ironically it seems Thursday night football airings are jumping from CBS to NBC, although there will be a gap of a few weeks it seems where neither shows it (it ends on 10/27 on CBS and starts on 11/17 on NBC). So The Good Place will stop having to contend with football, only to be REPLACED by Football, basically. 

    Of course ABC is the main place beating the pants out of TGP, but so far everyone but Fox and CW has been. But that could change when CW starts airing new episodes of Legends of Tomorrow...er... tomorrow night. 

    Disgustingly (although I admit a bit off topic), Kevin Can Wait, in it's normal Monday slot, is getting sickeningly good ratings. It's enough to make you despair about TV audiences and their taste in general. The ratings are second only to The Big Bang Theory, for all of CBS.

    By the way, The Big Bang Theory is definitely going to help make things even worse for The Good Place very soon. It's being planted in the 8PM EST CBS slot as soon as football goes off of CBS on 10/27, so it will create a huge lead in for this new Great Indoors show at 8:30 EST. Enough people still watch in that mode of watching live and simply leaving their favorite channel on after a show like Big Bang, that TGP's ratings will definitely feel it during it's home stretch of episodes, on 10/27, 11/3, and 11/10).

    I never know how this works exactly but if it gets cancelled by NBC can Netflix revive it like legally? If they feel like it will be a good addition that is. 

  10. On 9/20/2016 at 7:45 PM, VMepicgrl said:

    Something else I laughed at was when the walls closed around Eleanor's bed, showing a large picture of a clown and making clown music (if I remember right), and then Chidi saying, "That's creepy!" or something to that effect. Admittedly, I was a little distracted while watching and may need to rewatch.

    I loved that! The creepy clown music and Chidi's expression right after were spot on. 

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    I'm viewing this show as a comedy and not making direct parallels to actual real life.

     

    It's sketch comedy. written by people who are comics, who's writing style is to take a premise, find an angle, add stakes, and take it to an extreme conclusion wherever it may go.

    If the characters were good people who made reasonable choices, it would be boring to watch and wouldn't explore interesting crevices of human behaviour.

    Fictional people making imperfect choices.  It makes for interesting  TV.

    People see 10x3 weeks and say  "There is a huge, gaping chasm between "give him a chance" and falling into bed with him 10 times in 3 weeks.  Once or twice, maybe (not an obligation, but it happens), but 10?", I see the same thing and say "Ok, I don't know why, but for whatever reason, she is seriously invested in this relationship."

    It's an absurd premise ready for exploration.  I choose not to make a judgement, but instead just watch what happens.  It's no different from going to an improv show, and the actors asking for the most ridiculous suggestions from the audience.  It's futile to question why an astronaut would go see a dentist in an amusement park.  That's not the point. The whole point is to see what happens if an astronaut goes to see the dentist at an amusement park.  And as a viewer, I have to be open to the possibility that the astronaut could go see the dentist at the amusement park for something other than dentistry.  If anything I hope that is what happens.  Anything unpredictable is welcome.

    So having a rant in a parking lot with an audience where she unloads on the guy is great.  It's different, it's interesting.  No, it's not mature, not it's not grown up, but it's a hell of a lot more interesting than the two of them still in the restaurant saying to him, "you know that last conversation with my friends didn't sit well with me, and I'm thinking that I'm not happy in this relationship, and I'm going to break up with you, and I'm going to get up and leave, and I wish you the best, you're really a nice guy, but I'm just not ready for this."  Boring.  She hated him, but broke up with him in a mature fashion.  Not interesting to watch.  No payoff as a viewer.

    Questioning or making judgements on the sex misses the whole point.  Of which is, what will happen if Sam is stuck in a relationship where she is unhappy.  3 weeks/3 months or 2 times or 10.  It doesn't matter.  Those details are there just to set stakes.

     

    Most TV relationships explode in a spectacular manner.  I don't understand why it shouldn't be the same case for this show.

    I'm sorry but I disagree. Sam has done some things in the past that were questionable and she does tend to be very direct with people but before the parking lot scene at least I understood where she was coming from. I don't expect her to be perfect because we all know no one is but some basic human decency would be good. I hate that they painted the rant as if she was being "honest" with him so that makes her brave. If she really wanted to be honest she could have let him know at least a week or two after they started going out that she wasn't interested. But she let it drag on. It might be the guy's fault that he didn't pick up on the signals she was giving off but when he tried to bring it up she could have acted like an adult and let him know that things were not working out for her. Yelling at him in public and insulting him as if the whole situation is his fault and she had no part in it doesn't make for an engaging character. It just makes her a really shitty person and one that up until that scene I could at least relate to. When she called him a dick at the end when he drove out of the parking lot that was the last straw (not to even mention that woman clapping??) I was already in stunned mode that she was acting like this and proud of her behavior but her calling him a dick after what she just did put me over the edge. I also disagree that you couldn't have had an exchange between them discussing their relationship without drama and ranting and not made it interesting. That's where the writing comes in. You can make anything interesting with witty dialogue and humor which is why I enjoyed this show in the first place. This is just laziness..not being unpredictable. I am disappointed in this show if this is the direction they are going with her character. It's a shame because I was really enjoying it and since Season 2 it seems to have given up on itself. 

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  12. On 6/14/2017 at 9:32 AM, insubordination said:

    I think it was a mistake to write him out. The character was really growing on me.  Couldn't he be the one good cop? What was the point of him then? The actor was doing a good job and didn't deserve to be just dropped like that.  Hopefully, he gets work on a better show.

    As soon as I saw Tanner I knew Marco was gone for good with some shitty excuse as to why he left. He still could have stayed on the case even with Tanner there. But this is Rosewood. They can't have any competent police detectives so obviously he had to go. I was starting to like him too and was disappointed when I realized that they just kicked him off the show. 

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  13. So many to choose from but two that I always rewind and have to watch over again:

    1) Lorelai and Rory in the car after Sherry's baby shower talking about how drunk her friends were.

    RORY: Every one of those ladies was slobbering drunk.

    LORELAI: Maureen and Susan almost coming to blows was worth it, though. How did that happen, anyway?

    RORY: From what I can tell, Susan said, "Bla ra um beh bleh," and Maureen took great offense.

    Great timing and gestures by Alexis and Lauren's laugh right after make it one of my favorites.

    2) Lorelai's painting song. Lauren at her improvised rambling best and the reactions from Alexis and Scott just make it so much better.

    LORELAI: Ah come on, we’ll drink a couple of beers and we’ll sing some painting songs.

    LUKE: Painting songs?

    LORELAI: Yeah painting songs like, um…you know the songs that goes, um…’Grab your brush and grab your rollers, all you kids and all you bowlers, we’re going paintin’ today’. Say yes or there’s another verse.
     

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  14. On 12/9/2014 at 10:53 AM, ddiced35 said:

    I don't think I've seen this one mentioned, and I can't believe I didn't think of it before -- at the grand opening of the Dragonfly, when Lorelai is all nervous around Luke when he arrives and she turns and plants herself into the passing door! I have to rewind and watch that moment at least a few times every time it's on.

    I love this! Makes me crack up every time too. Lauren was really great at the physical comedy as well. 

  15. On 10/31/2014 at 11:28 AM, evilmindatwork said:

    I love every episode with Lane and Dave Rygalski. Those scenes made my preteen heart soar. I wonder if her character would have had a better ending if Adam Brody hadn't decided to leave for The O.C.

    I didn't mind Zach as a character (sometimes he could be obnoxious) but I really didn't like him with Lane. It just felt like they had no chemistry and the relationship came out of nowhere. Her and Dave were amazing and adorable.

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