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I know, me too with the weight gain. I figure she'd better get the cutesie high heel photos out of her system now because her 15 minutes of cuteness is almost over. It never ceases to amaze me how this family's fashion sense is universally awful, though. Most of that stuff looks like it's from Walmart's clearance rack. And the orange makeup, ugh.

I just answered my own question with Google and yes, they still make that "fancy mixed nuts" gag. I'll swear the can I had 50 years ago looked exactly the same! https://www.amazon.com/Loftus-Fancy-Salted-Mixed-Nuts/dp/B0006GK4AO

In New York, anything above a size 8 is considered "plus size". Considering how cold it's been lately, those people are brave!

Well, Lowell is certainly shaping up to be an asshole. Carmela looks like crap ever since getting involved with Jeremiah. I feel bad for her being involved with him, but it's not like there weren't already several seasons of this show before she married him to warn her of what she was going to face with him.

Speaking as someone that went to high school and had classes with Neil Tyson, he's anything BUT a "bumbling nerd". Our science based high school abounded with them, but he was most definitely not one (i.e., he headed up the wrestling team). Not that this necessarily makes him a predator either. I have my own opinions on these allegations but I'm keeping them to myself for now.

The only time that's true for me is when I'm seeing them for the 1st time 30 years later. She's 51, so that could be true of her too!

LOL, yeah! Another minor nitpick: $125 perfume is never just sitting on a shelf where anyone can just take it, especially in NY. It's always either behind a counter or locked away in a glass case.

Thank you. I forgot to mention that I found myself buying my mother's scented soaps, which are hard to find, only a few years ago, because they brought back her memory. So the perfume in this episode really hit me in the feels.

And then never addressed it with her as an adult? I would expect more from Fr. Brah.

Do we know that it was a tubal ligation that was suggested? I don't remember hearing the actual word used. I have two friends that had hysterectomies suggested with ovarian cyst removal, hence my question.

I have a few unrelated thoughts on this episode. The encounter with the daughter in the health and beauty store was completely random and I doubt any mathematical equation alone could predict or be responsible for that, no matter how sophisticated. Again I was brought to tears by this show because I lost my own mother 17 years ago and my father and I weren't able to really connect over that until a decade later. I was an adult when it happened so I was better able to handle it without my Dad's help, but I have since realized that it's too much to ask of a grieving father to "be there" emotionally for his child right after losing his own wife. People need time to come to terms with it in their own way and time, which is often not immediate. So I would go easy on any father, including Miles' dad, for not being able to help his own son in that situation. But thank you, show, for making me realize that. Given how far away Coney Island is from Harlem, unless they're using a helicopter it would probably take at least 45 minutes to an hour to get there by subway and would include changing trains in midtown. Would any library still have print copies of newspapers from 12 years ago?

I would think Valencia would be too weirded out to to let Fr. Brah marry her and Josh if this was their history. She didn't know at that time whether or not he had read the letter. For me it's just an example of a show rewriting history to make for what they see as a more interesting present. It's not necessarily a bad thing in this case, but it does involve some suspension of disbelief. Same goes for the new Greg, but in that case it really fell flat for me. I guess we're supposed to think the Greg that's grown so much that he looks like a completely different person would not have that original snarky edge to him anymore, and be able to deliver lines so earnestly one might think he'd had a frontal lobotomy. Yeah, no.

Thanks, that makes me feel a little better. I didn't know that about Claudette. I knew that the "bears" were still friends and had done events together, even heard some talk of joint ventures together among them, which was nice to hear. My heart is still breaking for Fatima, though.

I'm sorry to hear that Gail won't be on much this season. I just saw her on "The Rachael Ray Show", though. It looked to me like they were shopping in a Whole Foods, although it was hard to tell. I sure hope we don't get a season full of big egos and conflict. I really like this show much better when it's all about the food. Although I didn't really love last season. I didn't think it was all that harmonious between the chefs for a while, and at least one contestant seemed to have sour grapes about being eliminated and one seemed to begrudge the "bears". At least that's how I remember it, although I'm not 100% sure about that. Plus there was Fatima's subsequent cancer. I did love Joe Flamm, but the season was a downer for me.

That's great but it's important enough to some people to nitpick about stuff like that incessantly on many show threads on this board, too. It doesn't mean we don't appreciate the show. If everyone stopped watching a show because stuff about it irked them, these boards would be mostly silent, LOL. https://www.datalounge.com/thread/10888759-period-tv-shows-movies-that-got-the-look-all-wrong There are people who spend their careers listing time period errors and other inconsistencies too (scroll down for an extensive list): https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodCostuming I have often thought some of these same things about these same shows/movies! Perhaps we have too much time on our hands and should worry about more important things but I personally get enjoyment from noticing these things. YMMV.

Which is why she is such a failure as a Realtor as well. I don't know what makes her think she can do these things so totally against her nature. Or is she being forced into it, assigned tasks by the Lord High Prophet Kootie who threatens her with no place on his planet? Exactly! Not only is she a true introvert, she is not even a "people person" either, which is something introverts can be, just not with the high energy of extroverts. She is trying to be the opposite of what she is by nature. She would probably make an average mid level accountant or business analyst. I used to work in the corporate world and there are a lot of 'Janelles' in positions like that. Her inability to pursue what suits her speaks of a lack of self awareness and an inability to listen to her own inner voice, probably because she's been told what she "should" be and buys into that instead. She may fundamentally not like herself for any number of reasons and wants to reinvent herself as someone very different, which obviously isn't working. I don't even think she is aware of that if so. She just thinks she's discovering her "true self".

I really want to like Wendie Malick as the grandmother on this show but I still can't get there. She's been in so many great roles that she seems underutilized here. I'm still wondering whatever happened to Viv. I hate it when shows set the audience up for a recurring character and then either kill them off like they did here with George Hamilton's character (Spencer), or drop them without any explanation. This show has done that several times already. There was another woman next door, she moved away, then Spencer, then Viv and now she's even MIA. I wish the show would get its act together with the neighbors already. This episode didn't suck but for some reason I'm thinking I liked last season better so far.

Having not liked the way they made Sheldon and Amy just accept that some 40 year old article "disproved" their theory, I'm at least glad the show eventually allowed them to come to their senses. Obviously, them sulking and acting defeated was just a vehicle to show them getting inspired by Sheldon's dad's pep talk on the tape. I just didn't think it was in character for them to give up so easily without really thinking about it, but again, whatever, at least they finally got back on track with some encouragement. And at least I can stop being as pissed off at the show now. OK, maybe I'm still a little pissed off because I still think the whole thing was stupid. Of COURSE an article that old would be based on outdated science and there would still be a chance that their theory is true in light of newer knowledge. That's what I was thinking all along. But then again if all that sulking was serving the purpose of seeing the tape of younger Sheldon and his father, then I suppose I can appreciate that a little bit.

Yes, I totally agree with you, and agree that these are nitpicks because I enjoy the show too. I notice that a lot of period shows and movies often try very hard to get the period stuff right down to the littlest detail, like home decor, cars, food, music, etc., but then they goof when it comes to hair. I've even read articles about this online, like that they do it consciously, because they don't want to offend the stars and make them wear hairstyles that are uncomfortable for them. But then it should be no surprise that it really irks the audience that might remember that time period because it's super frustrating to see them get so much right but then bloop so badly in one area. It's only natural to be irritated by something like that. Speaking of period accurateness, I always thought "That 70s Show" did a pretty good job with the clothing, although it was a mishmash of different years all put together. Being older now when I see that kind of thing it gives me a very odd feeling because it's like entering this alternate universe where everything is close, but not quite like the one you remember. Which reminds me of a "Star Trek Next Generation" episode, but I digress.

That was 2 years later than my school. The girls in my Jr. High and I staged a revolt in the Fall of 1970 and started wearing pants to school against the rules, and the teachers gave in eventually.

Yep, preach to the choir, Scoopski! For more on this, there was a discussion on this in the social media thread on the board for the most recent season of MAFS.

Thanks - I'm fine now but after the laparoscopic gallbladder removal I also had to have 3 endoscopic procedures due to stones still stuck in the bile duct (they couldn't be removed during the regular surgery). So I had pain and digestive discomfort for 3 months even after the surgery until they were able to get all the stones out. It was tricky and the surgeon was being careful so it took a few tries. And I STILL wanted to show my husband some physical affection even though I was often not feeling well. So I'm sorry but Danielle gets no sympathy from me! She's just a cold, withholding person.

Janelle is one of those people that's lived such a sheltered life that when she discovers something new to her she thinks the rest of us are similarly unsophisticated and need to be told about them. Meanwhile any average person would already know a lot of those things since childhood already!

Danielle doesn't seem to want to do anything that makes her in the least bit uncomfortable. Hey I recently spent several months with gallbladder issues, which didn't make my stomach feel all that up to anything romantic and I lost a lot of weight, but I still found ways to show hubbie a little physical affection! Everything Danielle does just seems so self-serving to me.

The hairstyles on this show have been bothering me too, but mostly because they look too modern and too precise to be home cut. And judging from Catholic school class photos around that time like here and here, some young men wore their hair covering their ears, some did not. I think they definitely needed to have more volume in their hair if not covering their ears. You know, parting it way to the side with a big long bang combed over. That seemed to be the most common style back then everywhere, even in public school in my class photo that year: