Mrs. P.

Lisin, Thanks for the detailed summary of your experience at Volt. I'm glad that the food was great, but I'm even happier with your report that Bryan V. is a genuinely good guy. He's my all-time favorite cheftestant. Congratulations, Bella, on securing a table at Volt! I look forward to hearing about your experience. I'm from Texas so my chances of ever eating there are slim.

IIRC, Malcolm is a graduate of some Ivy League school.

A goat is the contestant that is considered the easiest to beat in the finals.

Thanks, auntjess. I'll check that thread.

(I can't figure out how to edit my last post.) I have just recently found The Shift, and I think I like it better than The 1st 48. I've enjoyed getting to know the detectives assigned to the homicide shift, and the show takes you through all aspects of a murder investigation. The Shift shows I've seen are all from 2009 and 2010. Does anyone know if any new shows are in production, or is this all we're going to get? Mods - sorry if this is off topic, but I didn't know where else to ask the question.

I personally think that Derek, who has been anointed as the greatest choreographer of his generation, should be retired as a contestant and brought back in as a consultant. That way someone else would have a chance to win the MBT and Derek-fatigue wouldn't keep driving viewers away. I think there's a very good chance that he and Amy will win the trophy this season, which would be a travesty for me. Meryl and Maks should win - hands down.

According to Andy Denham at Reality Blurred, Seasons 29 and 30 are going back to Nicaragua. Isn't that the location where the off-shore waters were too dangerous to use and they built a crappy swimming pool for the water challenges? Yuck. http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_29/2014_May_07_nicaragua-location-san-juan-del-sur

Maybe that's the way Nielsen handles its sampling now, but when I was a 'Nielsen family' several years ago, there was no requirement about not fast-forwarding through DVR'd episodes for them to count.

She continued with the season. IIRC, she was given a pass for one week - she was judged her on her rehearsal dance (before she was hurt) since she was unable to dance the next night. She got through that week and wound up taking 3rd place.

Except last night's episodes with the newlyweds from Washington. She was determined to get the typical HH kitchen - granite, stainless steel, etc. The husband really seemed to want an Alaskan-type home, but she got her way. They wound up with a home that looked like any new construction in the 'lower 48.'

I don't know the season or episode number, but one that has always stuck with me has the sociopathic little girl with the long curly blond hair who kills a boy and then puts a battery in his mouth to 'restart' him. I'll never forget that little girl - so cold and menacing. She referred to the death of the little boy as 'he got dead.' This was also the show when the former prosecution expert psychologist testified for the defense and successfully argued that the girl should be given an opportunity to be rehabilitated. I hated the outcome of the show but never forgot it.

This one blew me away. I kept thinking of the 30 minutes it took us to install our doggie door. And she was basing her entire house hunt on finding one that already had a doggie door.

It's been quite a while since I've been able to see any episodes, but wasn't there one with Janet Leigh as an aging actress who spent her time watching her old fims? I have a distinct memory of her sitting in a screening room, but I'm not sure about it.

Columbo! My all-time favorite television drama. It's not rerun anywhere on my cable network, so I'll have to try to purchase some of them. Agree, Kromm - it's the best procedural there has even been.