Muffyn

Yet again Geena Davis does an extraordinary job while swimming in a pool of crap. That was just terrible. 45 cringe-worthy minutes of overdone garbage. Then finally an excellent scene with Dr. Hermann. First we have Amelia’s crying jag. All I could think was now she’ll go into surgery with makeup dripping into her eyes. Then we have the ridiculous glow little glowworm tumor scene. Yes, the dye can make the tumor glow. That doesn’t mean it’s going to produce enough light to illuminate a city. Yes, it’s a large tumor. It’s not Neptune somehow located in her skull. Of course we follow with Amelia’s freak out, just staring at the brain. How long does she think she can safely keep someone open on the table? Then the joy of yet another Bailey screaming jag. In what world does a surgeon stand in an operating room screaming at another surgeon? If Arizona had decked her, I wouldn’t have minded. She should have kicked her out of the OR. What would create a greater risk to the patient, letting Arizona operate or making her upset and distracted, ensuring she cannot concentrate on her patient? And then wrapping it up with Amelia’s big speech. Can she get a brain tumor that takes away her power of speech? We would still have to see her overdone faces but at least we would be saved from her pontificating. While making death run like a little bitch, she made many viewers laugh, scoff, and throw things at the TV. Shut up Amelia. Just.shut.up.

It could have been worse. She could have punched him in the liver to really drive her point home.

Luke's son is named Colt (looked it up on IMDB), but I prefer the other names we're giving him - Cole, Kole, Kale, whatever. Since Maddie is becoming a singer, Cauliflower should become alcoholic so he and Maddie can relive Deacon and Rayna's lives with their own love story.

I find myself wondering if Rick decided to go "dolphin smooth" since he shaved his face and chest. Perhaps he's trying to get rid of the various critters that have nestled in his man fur.

Between the hidden heart defects, the uncertain fungal infections, elephants sitting on our chests and the bladder external to the body, no wonder we need so many advertisements for medicines. Of course if your bladder is outside of your body, you would have SAM outside of your pants rather than in your pants. And you could potentially train the elephant to sit elsewhere. Maybe yogurt cures all of these ailments?

I hid my heart defect in the back of a kitchen cabinet. I'll just have to find out what the other condition is to see if this medicine is right for me,

Some of the best episodes of GA have shown the doctors working together. A whole team worked on separating the conjoined twins. They had press conference type talks on that episode that made sense. It is interesting to watch them think through how they would try to solve a difficult case. That is what makes so little sense about Amelia, lone warrior of the brain. What is especially aggravating is that two episodes ago she was telling Hermann she could do this and she had a detailed plan. Now she is all bravado to the audience with no actual plan for the surgery and no confidence that she can do it.

I've only seen the truck ad with the kids talking about what kind of pet the guy would have. Makes me stabby.

They custom fit the mask to the person. It is like a mold of your face and upper body. So it is a one-size-fits-one situation. Just having one made can push a claustrophobic over the edge. They will give them to the patient when their radiation is over if the patient asks. Some use them in celebrations. I've also seen people use them in art pieces.

Stabby was first used on The Simpsons. It was used extensively on Futurama by the robot with the knife on the end of his arm. It is one of my favorite terms. And yes, Pauline makes me stabby, extra stabby.

Taking Taco Bell on the train should be considered an assault on the other passengers. So one idiot can hold on to the pole while eating his crappy Taco Bell one-handed breakfast while the other non-TB eating idiot falls onto a busty woman's chest. There are so many horrible things in this ad, starting with the stinky food. Then the thought that the older woman would be happy to have this ass fall and plant his face in between her breasts - aargh! I can guarantee their is no one who would be adding having some greasy, stupid stranger fall into their cleavage to their fantasies. He would be much more likely to get a hand to the face or a knee to the nuts than a knowing smile.

That would be the moment when Dr. Muffyn looked at me and said, "You could have hit the ice, broken your nose, and would still keep going without asking for a medic." Okay, so I might ask him to pop it back in line, but we'd have a race to run. Then again, we would have been eating noddles. I can't skate. Rochelle needs to show not tell on the toughness. She comes off like a big, brash wimp. Her partner seems very sweet.

It seemed like all they knew about the detour was chair or share. I cannot ice skate so I would have been totally screwed if I showed up at chair. That would have been a lets get right back in the cab moment for me. I know it felt hand picked for the Olympians but I do not believe in the conspiracy theories. And I really like that team. Their attitude (so far) is great. I was surprised Blair didn't snap when Hayley was being super cutesy at skating task. If ever there was a time to buckle down, that was it. But they have each made mistakes. They do not seem like they'll make it that far. Then again, some seemingly weak teams have done the cockroach routine, barely staying in but always being ahead of someone. Bergen was very patient with Kurt's freak out over noodle eating. Sheesh. He's eating a bowl of noodles for a chance at a million dollars. Get slurping! I had flashbacks to the infamous high drama pizza eating final leg challenge.

I would assume that Penny doesn't use the products that we might. She doesn't wear underwear, so there is no place to adhere a pad. She could try to find the old school pads with belts, but that would be a one mighty big belt. And now I'm having visions of Edgar helping with tampons, but I think she probably uses bed pads at all times (similar to puppy pads). She can just roll on and off as needed. Alright, I'm queasy now.

Hopefully no one sitting near them on a flight will have the vegetable lasagna. He'll be doomed. The team was Lebya and CJ. He was sporting grey sweat pants. I loved how casual they were versus the racers with performance gear. His pants were creeping their way down during the dance, almost giving him a dropped crotch look. If only he had yelled "You can't touch this!"

I have had MRIs in a head cage more open than the one shown. My sister had radiation done in a mask that covered her head and both shoulders. I'll never know how she did it. I've reached the take major drugs, insist on an open MRI and have a fan going to blow cool air on my face route and even then it's hell. Of course my sister also had a boob in a mammogram machine when an earthquake hit. She did say she always thought about that when they would bolt her into the mask. On topic - we can only hope Herman has a bad reaction to the anesthesia and projectile vomits on Amelia. The whole silliness of bringing her a gown and wheeling her right into surgery, so over the top. The two women sold the scene, but it was ridiculous.

Worst. Episode. Ever. I have watched my share of surgical lectures. Dr. Muffyn is a cardiac surgeon. SheShepard would have been laughed out of there. Way to be professional! Please tell me how the tumor is god's little wonder. Maybe she should gorp out Dr. Herman and keep her alive on life support so she can watch that wonder grow. Also, way to announce the patient's name. Let's hope none of Herman's recent patients have any post-surgical complications. You just handed them a malpractice suit. And after you've been working all day, why not start an 18 hour solo surgery? There is no extra risk there. Hell, line up a few more patients while you're at it. There will be plenty of space in the operating room since it's just you, a resident, an anesthesiologist and a surgical nurse. There should be plenty of room for some clowns and performing seals to join you. Might as well make sure your chances of success are as low as possible. How about a blindfold too? I assume the other people at the hospital understand how phones work and have even possibly spoken to Derek since he left for DC. No need to place a call.

Great moments - "Read the clue again". The lawyers analysis of vicinity. The blond woman recognizing new kid Jon. Methinks Kurt watches too many dating based reality TV shows. Maybe he was expecting a rose at the end of the leg? Yeah, when the partners came running, I was disturbed to see the insta-minority pairing. But they do have the lawyer connection. I really liked the Olympic team, especially when he said his silly thing about not getting gold but getting her (okay, I don't remember the exact bad pun) and she rolled her eyes and smirked. They seem like a great pair.

I need to go buy myself a really nice sheet to wear while watching her super-sized episode. There's nothing sexier than jiggling in a nice sheet.

Beth had to die. She was wearing a polo shirt! I can see jeans for more protection from bites, but loose fitting jeans would be better - harder to get a grip. You could have a walker just hanging on to the fabric by its teeth.

My colleague whose wife bred Swagger, the Old English Sheepdog, is back in town. His take is that the OES, Poodle and Portuguese Water Dog were ranked numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the country. The judge did not want to choose between them so he chose a great dog who was not in that group, and gave reserve to another such dog. Of course, this could be sour grapes. I did learn from him that it takes approximately three hours to get the OES all fluffed up for the show - there is a lot of back-combing. Then they have to "degroom" him for another 3 hours after the show, brushing his hair out straight so it doesn't get matted overnight. The next day, it's back to creating the fluffball we saw strutting his stuff. I'm sure the owners with the high-maintenance dogs were a little miffed that a low maintenance beagle won. There's no three hours of back combing needed for a beagle!

In the original showing they talked about her involvement with NAAFA, attending the conferences, having a large social network and being a bit of a poster girl because she was gregarious, out-going and seemed to really enjoy her life. I don't think they ever made it clear if she met Gareth through NAAFA. They did show some of her modelling shots, in bikinis, etc., but they did not specify that these were a money-making venture. She also talked about men taking her on vacations and the like. The information on her modelling/porn career was brought out more on the other special she was part of about the group of women in her area that were all having weight loss surgery. They presented her work as modelling. In this kind of fetish work in particular, one person's modelling is another person's porn. There is a great variety in the type of work the women do.. One of the reasons these issues come up on the boards is some of the women would rather say they are on disability than say they do porn. I believe they fear backlash from viewers. Some posters have jumped on the disability issue and are very adamant about their issues with people "living off the government dollar" or "wasting my tax money". So, either way, porn or disability, when the person is an asshole, people tend to get pretty riled up. For those of you wondering, people do pay taxes on the income they earn as "performers". Their work is shown on legitimate, registered sites that must file 1099s for all performers and maintain clear accounting records. I am not saying there aren't some that try to get around it (there are in any business) but porn work is not exempt from taxes; the deductible are just a little more interesting. (For those of you wondering, I do not work in porn. However I know many people who work in different specialty areas). Also, we don't know how much the women told the show or how much of what was told to them the show decided to present. But there definitely does seem to be a trend on this show of not displaying people's, shall we say, specialized careers. Just like throughout their programming and much of reality TV they don't like to point out someone is a famewhore that will do anything to stay in the public eye - the godawful women trying to have the world's largest implants comes to mind. Pauline will do anything to be on TV - reality, talk shows . . . . I think she would put a flag in her ass and shoot firecrackers out of her cooch if she thought it would bring more attention to her. And along the way, her family be damned.

Love's Baby soft, for when you want to turn on the pedophile you're dating.

Then his family can be in Nationwide commercials explaining that they never grew up.

I really expected us to learn that Declan was one of the pimps who had been raping the girls being held in the dungeon. Something is way off there, especially with him supposedly being the scariest guy around. What has he done to these girls to maintain his image?