Aquarius

"Good choice on the color. What's that? Burnt rust?" "Makes me think someone's gonna overpay for a piece of shit." HA! Mahk is awesome. Thanks. I needed that today.

The one with Duck the dog. It's similar only starts with the kid encouraging puppy Duck, who is having difficulty climbing into the car and ends with the adult encouraging elderly Duck to climb in the car. Now excuse me because someone must be chopping onions somewhere near my desk . . .

That's a perfect way to put it.

Laura Linney. She's Frasier's last girlfriend of the series. We're supposed to believe he leaves an entire life in Seattle behind and passes up a fantastic job opportunity in San Francisco (?) to go be with her in Chicago. Blech.

Seeing the last episodes recently on Cozi reminded me of how much I really didn't like Charlotte for Frasier. She was entirely too wacky and insecure. They tried to play it off like he found her so refreshingly charming. I never bought it. There was no chemistry there.

Not possible. No one fools Dr. Shill. And if they even try, why he'll huff and he'll puff and he'll just blow the lid off the whole thing.

I'm bothered by the command "EAT" over the sink. What, does it double as a trough? Pioneer Woman inspired, indeed.

Ree's definition of a "busy day" is definitely different than mine. On my busy days, I don't have over two hours in the morning to cook a frigging beef stew to use as the base of a shepherd's pie for supper that night. And make a pie, even using pudding mix. Ree's life is nothing like mine.

I completely agree it's probably an issue of abuse. I make a distinction between bad parenting and abuse, and generally Dr. Phool does too. (I've heard the term "mandated reporter" many a time but I did not hear it in this case.) Sending these parents to classes where they can learn to positively reinforce their daughter's good behavior is sort of skating around what seem to be real concerning behavioral issues. I've always heard that violence towards animals is a red flag for serious issues. Rabbits are so docile that I cannot imagine a situation where hitting one (hard, from what I understood) could be attributed to any aggression on part of the animal. Why Phool put all these very disturbing behavioral issues up on his Big Board, and then came to a conclusion that all the child needed is positive reinforcement behavioral training, without mentioning the very real possibility that abuse might be occurring (which may not in fact be the parents), truly mystifies me.

Offering poison to a friend? Hitting the pet rabbit? Sitting in the road in front of oncoming traffic? I'm not bald and I'm no Expert, but I think that kid might have problems beyond bad parenting.

The superhero was the Prism. He made a whole bunch of pyramids from that special sugar, and put the nicest one on the cake.

Ha! And now an image I did not need will not get out of my head . . .

So sad for Justice. He deserved to win. All things were not equal, because Aidan fell back on his comfortable buttercream - for which he'd been dinged before on a lack of originality. And Aidan's villain wasn't as tasty. BOO!

I thought the guy with the big ole cavity is already set up with the equipment they use when they're going to fill a cavity (the mouthguard, that spit sucking thing, he even sounds like he may have had some anesthetic). I've never had that setup when I was in just for a cleaning/checkup but then my dentist is sort of old fashioned.

That does seem to be the theme lately, whether Phil is dealing with the addicted, the afflicted, the stupid, the spoiled, the lazy - whatever. He of The Bald Head of Experience will somehow manage to gain the insight that no one else dealing with the subject has been able to do. He's The Only One Who Can Help. Sometimes he just has to get tough and sometimes he just has to get real and sometimes he just has to invoke his superpower of baldness. But make no mistake, he didn't get to be that bald by not having been around a rodeo or two or something with a pancake . . . but anyway, Only He has the Intelligence and Expertise to help these people.

Too many things to list . . .

coppersin, thank you! As a kid I would not have even known what molasses was, but I did know what "maple" syrup was. I was sure it was maple syrup and snow.

So, Ree uses pineapple juice "just from a can, cuz it's easier." Easier than what? Squeezing a damn pineapple? Does anyone do that? This woman mystifies me. It was sad to see Charlie. He looked so tired too. I mean, I know Bassets always do, but it seemed to me he looked especially so. :-(

In my childhood version of the book (which was originally one of those condensed versions that I later replaced), it was maple syrup. I never checked to see what it was in the uncondensed version.

Yes, thanks for the correction. As you can tell, neither the BareNStained Bears nor the British Bum Lady has created any brand recognition for me.

Not to get political, but the commercials used to use the red bears for the "strong" Cottonelle and the blue bears for the "soft" version. I never thought that was pure coincidence.

Right or wrong, Kaniyah is certainly not the first contestant on this show to get an assist from another. Personally, I find their willingness to help each other one of the endearing qualities of this being a kid competition. I'm glad they don't come down on them for that. I was shocked, to the point of exclaiming loudly, that Cole was the one sent home. As others have mentioned, on balance, Cole has been the better baker. I dislike him as a competitor because he was a sore loser and I'm not sure he's not a Special Snowflake, but even I have to admit, he's been the better baker. They all had an off-day in some respect, trying completely unknown techniques. The lack of "goo" in Cole's pie filling in his underbaked shell seem to me to be a function of experimenting for the first time with molecular gastronomy and not any failing in his baking prowess per se. It was strange to eliminate him for that showing after all his other successes. Sweet Aidan couldn't be sent home after coming to the rescue, but his failure to make successful tart shells was really not a function of the challenge. (And am I wrong? Are tarts not a form of pie - which he was sneeringly dismissing all his other competition for making while he made tarts?) And as much as I am Team Justice, his ganache failure also wasn't related to the challenge. How was Cole's underbaked crust so much worse than these failures? But always, the judging on this show is skewed and strange. Sometimes the rules of the challenge apply. Just as often, they don't. <shrug> Kaniyah is annoying, that's for sure. When Valerie said, "Love her!", I completely heard "Love her! NOT!"

I never read Farmer Boy but I read all the Little House books. I once tried to make the maple candies that Laura described in Little House in the Big Woods (my all time favorite) - maple syrup drizzled in a plate of snow. I had the snow, no problem in a New Jersey winter. Obviously I had a plate. But pancake syrup is not maple syrup. Being eight years old, I had no idea of the difference, so I always felt cheated that nothing resembling a candy resulted from my efforts. It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I realized I used the wrong ingredient!

I always felt they set up Donnie, who was short, dumpy and rather unattractive, with Daphne so that Niles wouldn't look so mismatched with her by comparison. I didn't like that device any more than I liked Niles and Daphne as a couple.

Yes, sorry, there are degrees. :-) Because . . . Emma Thompson. That said, I did love the Laurie Metcalf as Nanny G episode too. There's room for both.