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The examination of Stone and Teigen's ancestry didn't start until 15 after the hour and then Dr. Gates spent way too much time talking to them about how they felt, skipping over details of their ancestors. He asked Teigen how she felt about her great-grandparents working in Thai rice paddies. It might have been interesting to know how her grandfather became a teacher with parents who were farm laborers. Same with Stone. Aren't you proud about your great grandfather who fought -- on the right side -- with the Union in the Civil War. Then later, Sharon, you had an ancestor who was a slave owner in Connecticut -- but let's just mention that in passing -- and go to Wow! Charlemagne was your 34 times grandfather!

I don't recall all this animosity towards Abby when she held Kasie's position and Abby filled up loads of screen time. At least Kasie isn't cuddling up to her boss like Abby was always doing with Gibbs, behaving like she was his little girl.

Thanks for posting about Patience, krandydoodle. I see that it is scheduled to appear on PBS in America sometime this year. One of the detectives is played by Mark Benton, a favorite actor of ours from Shakespeare and Hathaway.

I really enjoyed episode 6 of season 4, where the woman who attacked an environmental activist claims she is from the future and how Raph deals with that. In addition to an interesting COTW, I like how Astrid's relationship with her half-brother is growing. As is she.

CNN also ran a story about the prisoner firefighters. They pointed out that these men and women work cutting fire lines and removing fuel; others work as support staff. Apparently, it isn't in their job descriptions to jump on top of a downed airplane to douse the flames or to run into houses on fire -- all alone -- to save, I don't know, maybe 20 or 50 children. Or even just operate fire hoses.

It was nice to see the gf and ex-wife working together, but I'm getting awfully tired of Alec Mercer thinking he has to be the hero and do everything on his own or it won't get done. Getting up from his bed and trying to do -- what? -- was as ridiculous as stepping in front of a moving train.

I understand why fans of Always Sunny liked this crossover, but for me, the Sunny characters are stupid and obnoxious and made it hard to watch a normally funny Abbott Elementary.

The Wild Sow "But it always ticks me off when a person reaches adulthood (or any age over maybe 10!) without knowing how to swim!" If a person doesn't live near the water and has no intention of ever going into the water, why should they be expected to know how to swim?

The 49er's coach said that the football player who left the team in the middle of the game will never play for the team again. The same thing should happen to Gabrielle for just leaving in the middle of a fire. She should be kicked off the force for abandoning her fellow fire fighters.

Weren't any of the current team around in Season 4 when an episode involved a driverless car that locked a Navy officer in and killed her? Maybe McGee was the only one. Ducky would have remembered. Not that the two instances were related, but they might have mentioned NCIS had had a previous driverless car incident.

Audrey takes over from Gabs in wearing dresses that scream "I'm available."

Andyourlittledog2, that was my thought, too. The crime boss grandmother won't bother her granddaughter again because Parker told her to stay away? After she goes to all the trouble of tracking down and then kidnapping her son's lover, a well known D.C. personality - along with a Federal agent! - and they just let her go? Even if the guys who committed the crime won't talk, it shouldn't be all that hard to show that they worked for her.

Dowel Jones, that was my thought exactly about Sharon putting a trainee in charge of the Command Center. It takes a fair amount of training and experience to do that job, and you put a lot of people at risk doing that. Furthermore, Sharon has lived there all her life and knows the land, while Audrey is new to the area and is nevertheless asked to choose the best route. Also agree that it is absurd to be discussing personal issues as the fire rages around them. This is completely typical of this show, however.

Bode and Gabs are toxic for each other. Her father is right. Before the luggage filled with celluloid caught on fire, Gabs had been luring Bode into coming to her trailer and he was about to go with her - even though it was in the middle of a shift. Very mature on both their parts.

You can find what episodes of L&O the actor was in as well as his other performances from IMDB. Couldn't watch TV without it.