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I've heard of that, although it's not putting sugar on the spaghetti. It's mixing it in the sauce. At least the way I heard it. I've long wanted to try it but it seems like it'd be difficult to get just the right amount of sugar to enhance the flavor without making it too sweet. Spaghetti and tomato sauce are already pretty sweet though. The starches sort of break down during cooking it seems. I love spaghetti but try to avoid it because I become a gluttonous monster if I get near any.

I liked that she came from Indianapolis, because that's where I live. In that opening establishing shot, I was trying to figure out where they were filming it from. I could see Salesforce Tower in the background. I need to take a longer look at that. An unfortunate ending. She needs to lose the weight, but she just doesn't have the psychological strength to do it. I usually don't get angry at the participants, more frustrated. I am finding that this season is a lot less exploitative than last season. I loved the part where Dr. Now said "You have been in your body for 28 years but I have been practicing medicine for twice that long." Sick burn! Next week's episode seems to be the finale of the regular season. After that, they move into followups from previous years. I love that parable. I think of that a lot when someone points to the indifference of God.

It was pretty good for a bottle episode, but I couldn't get past how utterly stupid the perpetrator was. He had literally nothing to gain and everything to lose from going to that interrogation room. I guess there wouldn't be an episode without it, but the whole time I was thinking "SHUT THE HELL UP AND GO HOME". It boggles my mind that anyone ever confesses to a crime. I can understand if someone is too naive to know his rights, but this guy was very smart and well educated.

I have a feeling that Chase's plan is going to backfire. Kidnapping the general's daughter might make the general ease up, but in the process Don made that screwup at that convenience store. Now the public knows that a zombie escaped quarantine. That is going to terrify people, to the point where public pressure will mount to take drastic measures to contain the outbreak. The general (I still refuse to use his stupid name) might ease up, but it's not really his call.

Why do zombies have such unusually sharp fingernails? Does the zombie disease cause them to somehow grow claws? Zombies seem to be able to give infectious scratches with the same ease you would draw a line on a piece of paper. But you try giving yourself a skin penetrating scratch. It's tough. All the scratches I have come from my cats and their razor sharp claws.

That's what I thought too. Remember: when a zombie eats a brain, he doesn't act like the person he ate. He acts like an exaggerated caricature of that person.

I would like to see Liv eat the brains of a New Zealander or Australian person. It would interest me to hear Rose McIver talk in her real voice for an episode. I am constantly amazed by how well Australian actors can mask their accents while performing.

I really liked the way they handled the kid wanting to wear the skirt. Because they were being supportive, yet pragmatic. It's true. If you have a lifestyle choice that is a little unusual, you need to be prepared for the fact that people will mistreat you because of it. You may not like it and it may not be fair, but it's still gonna happen.

So is New Seattle just no longer part of the United States and subject to its laws? Since when can a judge just declare someone guilty then execute them the next day?

So I thought it was strange that Jackie was so upset because she thought that her vote for Jill Stein impacted the election by being a "spoiler" for Clinton. They live in Illinois, which is a pretty blue state (owing a lot to Chicago I guess). And I just checked, Illinois went for Clinton in the 2016 election anyway. Unless maybe things went slightly different in the show's universe and Trump did in fact carry Illinois by a slim margin.

I never watched much of the original show, but I do remember a scene where Dan found out Darlene was pregnant and was upset about this. I know the 9th season ended in 1997. This I remember pretty distinctly because I remember a student in my 10th grade history class talking about the finale with our teacher. Since that was close to 21 years ago, any child conceived during the original show would have to be 20 years old, minimum. I don't know what the name of this child is, so I didn't immediately find anything wrong with Darlene's older child being in high school. I was just left wondering where this early 20s child was. When I heard this show was coming back (only 3 days ago) I immediately decided they would have to cast Sarah Chalke in some role. I am glad they did not disappoint. But her hair is a lot darker than it was during Scrubs.... The political dispute between Roseanne and Jackie seemed REALLY heavy handed. Do people really get that passionate about it in real life?

I never meant to imply it was a good plan. I mean, look at what happened. Don freaked out and gave the world evidence that zombies had escaped the quarantine zone.

Chase Graves needed the general's daughter (I wish I could remember her name) to be turned into a zombie so that the general (I remember his name but it was so stupid that I will not repeat it). But he needed 1) for it not to be public knowledge 2) for Major to have some sort of excuse 3) for there to be a witness to this excuse. Don E. is an idiot who won't ask questions, so he makes a great witness.

I liked that the zombie bus driver was starving, yet he didn't prioritize spray tanner and hair dye over food like certain other zombies.

Compared to how Liv usually acts, and that idiot French inspector, I thought Liv's behavior was laid back. The inspector reminded me of that clumsy French waiter from that episode of The Simpsons where the waiter gets savagely injured and Freddy Quimby is accused of it. Does anyone in the entire nation of France actually act like that?

I liked this one. Liv was her usual annoying self, but there was less of her. Less of the case of the week, and more service to the world at large. I liked that General Mills (groan at that name) was pushing for the destruction of Seattle and that he was gaining support. Yes there are a lot of innocent humans and zombies in there, but this is kind of one of those things where you make tough moral choices. Kill a small number to save a larger number. When Major infected the general's daughter, I was worried that they were going to smuggle a zombie outside Seattle. I am wondering if Chase's gambit to keep Seattle safe by abducting the general's daughter will work. It will probably soften him up, but I can see a military man sticking to his guns. Kind of like in Failsafe when the President nuked New York City in order to prevent a full scale nuclear war, even though his wife was there. Very interesting that we now have the world witnessing a zombie escaping the quarantine zone. This is bad. And now Liv is going to become a criminal?

I liked the stereotypical French investigator. Not in an objective sense, but because it was nice to have a character that was more obnoxious than brain of the week Liv.

The Simpsons has always been terrible with continuity. It's like a joke that they don't even try to work with it. So I wouldn't expect anything different. I just kinda pretended these different timelines just took place in different universes. There seemed to be more freeze frame fun than usual.

Why do the zombie thugs at Fillmore Graves wear bulletproof vests anyway? They're already bullet resistant.

I fell asleep watching this episode, and as a result it kept invading my dreams. One dream interpretation I had of this episode was that the painting was made of cupcake frosting, and that's why Homer was so in love with it. I liked the explanation part. It was a very funny and over the top spoof of the convoluted nature of heist movies. I kept wondering why Homer didn't just buy some print of the painting though.

The Mickey plot seemed like an Idiot Plot. Once she got the tire iron, why did she then try to break into the back seat where Ben was? I think she also did this with the rock. Why didn't she get to the front seat, where the keys were? I liked the catfishing story line. I think I would have liked it more if Sabrina didn't know, but it had a satisfying conclusion.

So after Major and his two cronies saw the big cult meeting did they just say "meh" and go home? Because it seems like important news. How is something that numerous zombies accidentally stumble upon staying secret?

This was the worst part. Fillmore Graves is nothing but violent thugs at this point. A privately run police force completely unchecked. This whole show is just getting too depressing. Blaine has the only cure. A private mercenary group terrorizes the citizens of Seattle with impunity. The main character of the show is obnoxious and all the zombie brain reactions are becoming utterly overblown. A zombie apocalypse is beginning. Nobody takes any of this seriously at all. The bad guys just keep winning left and right. Did anybody notice the connection between the killer of the week and Blaine? He was selling those brains to Blaine. I hope they follow up on this and maybe the killer tries to broker a deal.