The Wild Sow

It was pickles for me. Pizzas.

I've never heard that in my entire life. I guess my teachers weren't big on mnemonics, because I didn't learn one for the colors in the spectrum or for the Great lakes either. And biology class was decades ago so I also wouldn't remember taxonomy. Might've come up with order but probably not. Roy G. Biv for the rainbow. I once used "Who is Roy G. Biv?" in a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-style trivia quiz I wrote. One of my distractors was "Barbara Walters' husband"! For the Great Lakes, do people here use HOMES, or Super Man Helps Every One? I prefer the latter, especially since it has them from left to right (west to east.)

Taxonomy, people -- taxonomy! King Phillip Came OVER For Good Sex! (Or Good Soup if you're teaching it to children 😄!) Kingdom, Phylum, Class, ORDER, Family, Genus, Species!

Hah! I'm just wondering how many hookups that Airstream Fixer-Upper is gonna be hosting this season! Are there any couples besides Bode/Gabby in need of spur of the moment privacy right now? I can't really think of any. Major characters (Jake, Eve, Manny...all currently single and not really looking.) But I can actually see Vince and Sharon trying it out.... even though they're married to each other and have a house! Speculation, not spoiler....wonder if they'll both retire from active firefighting and run Smokey's together?

I just realized he's Rusty from The Closer/Major Crimes. (I had to look it up, realizing he looked familiar.) I recognized him from the preview the week before!

Ha! But really, who didn’t see that coming?

Vince didn't actually know about her trying to jump out till Jake told him, though, right? Or am I misremembering?

Thanks, Danielg342!

Ha! I've always thought Gabby's boobs ought to get their own credit, since she shows them ALL. THE. TIME! Necklace, not bracelet - which they should certainly have seen when they cut his shirt! What a couple of dumbasses is right! And if Bode had to snatch it off of him to cover for Gabs, dropping or tossing it over to where they dragged him from would have been smart. THAT would be plausible deniability - not putting it in your unlocked locker! And Airstream is a travel trailer, not a log cabin! But yeah, neither is something to "surprise" your spouse with! As soon as they talked about Smokey's being sold, I knew Sharon and Vince would end up owning it, though (I do love Sharon and Vince - a cute middle-aged - younger than me! - couple still obviously very much in love 😘)

I'm getting tired of her having some arcane bit of information that just happens to be pertinent to the current case, along with some winking reference to her "misspent youth" (my interpretation). Yeah. Sorry, I've never been a fan of Maura Tierney, dating back to her ER days. She's just so one-note, in my opinion.

Yeah, really - let 'em go out in the woods like we did! Yes - that was a TEDIOUS. Way to make "sexually based offenses especially boring." We've had "choking" before, both "auto-" (Ridicule, Season 3) and "non-consensual" (Twenty-Five Acts, Season 14), "teenage mixed signals" (A Misunderstand, (Season 17), among others, and "little boys watching porn & acting it out" (Unorthodox, Season 9), among others. Plus "dad gives son VERY bad advice" (too many to count!) They just threw 'em all together and ended up with a dumb mash-up that satisfies no one (except, I guess, Saint Benson.) Yawnnnnnn! I'm just ticked off that Stabler is just gonna be on Peacock (which I don't want to pay for.)

Kevin Hagen was only 47 when that episode was filmed (but passed for at least 10 years older!) , and Anne Archer was 28. Gee, a whole 19-year age difference! I guess Doc was supposed to be a bit older than Kevin's actual age? Aw, that was on this morning. That would have been nice.

Heh heh - came here to see if anyone caught that! The Cairo dog got up there safely on its own, and got down on its own just fine, by the way.

Oh my, is that where the Minotaur came from?? Wait, I just looked it up -- it IS where the Minotaur came from!

I still always crack up at "Once Upon A Time" -- where Laura's publisher wants her to change her stories to add more DRAMA! And of course, she refuses because she has integrity or something like that. And the very next (2) episodes are "Home Again - parts 1 and 2"! The ones where "Albert" -- the completely MADE-UP, nonexistent adopted brother, added to the series for DRAMA -- joins a gang (DRAMA!) gets addicted to mor-PHINE in the Big Bad City (more DRAMA!) and Charles has to bring him home to Walnut Grove and help him kick it cold-turkey (DRAMA!) And it becomes the "Little After-School-Very-Special-Just-Say-No-To-Drugs-Episode"! Cause, DRAMA! And all this takes place after Nonexistent Albert sneaks a smoke and burns down the Nonexistent Blind School and kills Mary's (Nonexistent!) Baby, peeps at (Nonexistent!) Sylvia, get accused of knocking up Sylvia (ok, falsely accused), etc., etc., etc...... Laura wouldn't make up stories for DRAMA. Michael Landon, OTOH.....