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I don't remember where she came from either. Was she Christopher's teacher? Or am I mixing her up with someone else?

I'm frustrated with the writing. All season long Matthew has made it obvious there are money problems and Trixie remains oblivious despite his obvious distress every time the topic comes up. It makes them both look like idiots. We're five episodes in already and the writers are still dragging this out, without explaining what's going on. The shots from the shoreline made it look like May wasn't very far out. I know currents can be strong, but Cyril and Joyce could have probably stood up where May was and only be waist deep in the water.

Can someone remind me where Denny came from? I seem to recall it had something to do with Hen's ex, who went to prison. And that's about all I can remember.

Yes, but it's a continuity issue and/or plot point that seems to have been dropped. Sass did say they could have sex, but they couldn't "finish," which was very frustrating. However, since that time, Hetty had an orgasm on the washing machine then regularly dallied with Trevor. And just this episode, Alberta and Saul did it three times in one night. Which strongly suggests . . . "finishing." Trying to reconcile, I assume that Sass was just messing with Sam. She walked away and he called after her "Sam come back. I want to tell Jay about ghost sex." Sass has been known to mess with her before.

Justice for Joy - was there justice? I'm skeptical about April Atkins, the murderer's wife. I don't altogether buy she was innocent in all of this and had to keep quiet because she was so afraid of her husband. She sat on this for years, she could have gone to the police and asked for protection at any time. (And good Lord she had a scary looking mug shot, she looked like she was possessed by a demon.) The fact that the police shielded a murderer because he was an informant is disgusting, but what's even worse is telling Joy's son they believed his father was responsible. It's one thing to ignore evidence, it's another to accuse an innocent man to his own child. During one of her interviews she was wearing earrings that looked like two paper clips. Andrea would be appalled!

At this point we don't know but it might turn out to be smart strategy on Danny's part, helping other teams. At some point, you know that Angie is going to have problems with a Roadblock. And because Danny has helped so many other teams, it's more likely than not another team would help Angie in that situation. It's still early days. I don't see Danny making alliances as being detrimental at this point in the race. Now if he and Angie make it to the final five or six and are still doing it? Yeah, that's too far.

OMG. The requisite Company Softball Game episode. No sitcom should be without one, huh? Talk about your tired, over-used plots. The writing is just awful. I don't get it either.

Sure - when he blurted out to Eddie and Marisol that they were going to go find some "hot chicks" that was certainly a moment of panic. But there's a distinction between that and what's typically meant by the words "gay panic." Buck wasn't panicking about being gay (or bi or pan or whatever). He wasn't freaking out about his own feelings and running away from them or trying to deny them or beating up a gay guy because he was aware he felt an attraction to him. That's what's typically called gay panic. Buck just wasn't ready to tell anybody. That didn't change the way he felt about Tommy. He still wanted to continue on the date.

I hate to say it but I really don't miss her. It's not that I dislike the character or anything but the season has been just fine without her. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. It might not be the worst thing in the world for them to shake up the cast now and then. It's always interesting when there are new ghosts to meet. Two really good bits this episode I wanted to point out. One, when Trevor is telling Nigel and Isaac about bachelor parties, he raises his hands over his head to say "party!" and we get a reaction shot from Isaac and Nigel, clearly recoiling at the exposure of Trevor's nethers. Also, after Alberta learns that Sam and Jay tried to convince Saul to go to Italy she starts to storm out of the kitchen with Saul in tow. But then she has to turn around and say to Sam "Will you tell Jay to leave, I want Saul to storm out with me."

Not on a Toyota. I know there are stick-shift devotees, convinced they are superior to automatics in every way that matters. My father was such a person, and declared that anyone who drove an automatic was simply "lazy." Then one day he had to buy a van for his business and couldn't find one with manual transmission and had to buy an automatic. And afterwards never went back to driving a stick shift again. Also, while manual transmissions used to be more fuel efficient than automatics, that really isn't true anymore of the newer cars. I get that there will always be people who want stick shifts because they are just used to them and they feel like they have better control or like pretending they are race car drivers or whatever. But I can't believe in this day and age the show can't provide the teams with automatics. I think they make them drive stick just for our amusement.

First of all, we don't know whether or not one of the deckies is helping. They just haven't shown any. Also, at most, all they ever do is wash dishes. It's not like they're going to help cook the food. And we haven't seen Anthony asking for help, either. I think it's tempting to put the blame on the rest of the crew because Anthony seems like such a sweet guy. But the reality is that this is his responsibility - not the crew's. He is clearly disorganized and isn't properly planning the meals. Granted, these guests were more of a handful than usual, but making things that were clearly marked as no-no's on the preference sheets and having to make substitutions on the fly is nobody's fault but the chefs. Having someone help wash dishes or maybe chop carrots wouldn't change that.

True, but it was still funny. Especially the way everyone was responding to it and how invested Victoria was. Having Ken Jeong as a guest star was a little bit of a Community reunion.

This was a fun episode, and Jenifer Lewis was "pitch perfect" as Jacqueline. Superb casting choice there. I loved the whole bit where she was convinced Allison was a ghost. My only quibble was that I knew right away Magda the assistant was the real murderer. The TV guy was way too obviously a red herring. I don't get where they are going with Beverly and Susan either. What exactly is Beverly grooming Susan for? I'm thinking maybe she plans to start a new firm herself and bring Susan with her? What I hope is that Susan is secretly going along with it just to bring Beverly down and oust her from the company so she can become the new partner herself. Or at least get that promotion she wants.

Not only that, they should have first met her in some neutral place. Their first meeting with her shouldn't have been when she's being dropped off at their house! Geez, no wonder the kid was traumatized, she's being dropped off with complete strangers. She ended up confessing to Eddie that once a guy found out about her past they either freaked out and left, or liked it a little too much. Yet when Eddie found the picture she was way casual about it, like "Oh yeah, that's when I was a nun." And went back to drying her hair. If it's been a big issue in the past she should have addressed it more directly and earlier.

Sam has to put up with a lot of ghost shenanigans, I don't envy her. Notice when Hetty was trying to pin down the wedding details with Nigel and Isaac she said "There's a lot of things we have to tell Sam to do!" Yeah, Jay does have to put up with a lot but Sam has to put up with a whole lot more. I agree she should put her foot down more often but it's just her, versus eight or nine ghosts on a daily basis. That can't be easy.

As someone who learned how to drive on a stick and whose first three cars were sticks, I can unequivocally say, "maybe, no, and definitely not." I can't tell you how many clutches I've gone through.

Yeah, when he first told his story I felt there was something just off about it. I can't really get a read on him.

Camilla Luddington is pregnant in real life . . . no? Either that or she has gained a lot of weight. Her face seems wider and fuller and she's thicker around the middle. I figured that's why they wrote a pregnancy story into the show, but then it turned out she wasn't pregnant, so WTF. I get that the suicide attempt story was meant to be all serious, but whenever they do these kinds of stories where someone is standing on the edge of the roof, I just want someone to sneak up behind them and yank them down. There were so many opportunities for that to happen. And I know, I know, you're not supposed to do that. But I can't help yelling "just grab him while his back is turned!"

This episode felt off. None of the Hen and Karen story felt realistic to me. They have fostered kids before, they should have been better at this. Plus the whole thing felt rushed and lazy. They're just now hearing about some 9 year-old in a group home and bang, the next thing you know she's moving in. Did the social worker happen to mention she was that traumatized? I kept wondering why neither Karen nor Hen just sat down and tried to talk to the kid instead of tip-toeing around her and pretending everything was normal. Bobby coming out to Eddie did not feel genuine either. It felt more politically correct for Eddie to just go with the flow than realistic. Especially in an episode that revolves around Eddie's latent Catholic guilt. Eddie and Buck have been way too close for Eddie to not even bat an eye about this. I would expect the wheels to start turning and for him to start wondering if Buck was attracted to him and for there to have been an awkward phase. Then the wedding. WTF? Did this just come out of the blue or what? I don't remember hearing anything about Chim and Maddie having a wedding and then suddenly, Bang! We're at one. And it looks like we're in for a "The Hangover" rip-off. I just thought the whole thing was badly written.

I knew I recognized him from somewhere. He was in "The Flight Attendant" and "Maid," but also played Aladdin in "Once Upon a Time." This episode will go down as one of my top five or six favorites of all time. It was hysterical. I can't believe what this show gets away with, dialogue-wise. "Saul jerked himself off onto Jay!" I wonder if people write to the network and complain the show is too dirty. And OMG, those lap dances. Both of them. I can't decide which was more cringe (and hysterical) - Jenkins' or the stripper's. It's funny they've kept Isaac's dinosaur obsession going. And we haven't seen Baxter since Season 1 - although imdb.com tells me that's not the same actor who played him back then. I also loved the whisper-fight between Sam and Jay while Saul was asleep. This was a great episode for Jay. Especially at the end when he had to just stand there while Alberta broke up with Saul. This appears to have been the first episode written by Akilah Green. I hope whoever that is gets to write a lot more of them.

Aside from the fact that the crew had to tolerate Jill, the fact is that when your dinner comes out cold, you don't get a huge tip.

Well, yes, the show tends to root around for an historical moment they can talk about. So they go back as far as that happened to take place. But my point is they don't do a lot of backtracking once they've landed on that story. So if they find an ancestor who fought in the Boer War, for instance, they will launch into a whole story about the Boer War. They're not going to explore much more about that ancestor and trace his roots further and further back in history, especially if it's in another country. I think that's why I liked this episode more than most of the celebrity ones. It didn't serve as another excuse for a history lesson we've heard over and over again.

I don't think they've ever said how Mark died, have they? Interesting when they were pointing out all the people in the photos to Beverly Rose they said "And that's your grandma Rose" - not "Roseanne." Nobody ever called her Rose. Also - Darlene saying "great aunt Rebecca" was Becky's namesake - I believe it was established way back in the original show that Becky was not in fact short for Rebecca, it was just Becky. Even the dumbest criminals don't do smash-and-grabs while the store is open and people are inside.

Danny went to school in Santiago? More info, please. How did everyone know where to go to find the Thunderbird? Was that on the map? We needed more info on that too. Why are there still stick shift cars? Those were brand new cars, not old ones. I get that some people still prefer manual transmission but they're not really better for gas mileage anymore so I don't get why they are still so abundant in foreign countries. I missed how Danny and Angie fell behind after leaving the Roadblock in first place. Whose kid was that greeter? Still no big placement shakeups. This is turning into a really anticlimactic season. Ricky and Cesar still 1st. Amber and Vinnie from 2nd to 3rd. Angie and Danny from 3rd to 4th. Rod and Leticia still 5th. Juan and Shane from 5th to 2nd, the only big jump in the leg. Derek and Shelisa from 6th to 8th. Yvonne and Melissa from 7th to 6th, Sunny and Bizzy from 8th to 7th. The leaders keep leading, the laggards keep lagging. I did kind of laugh at Ricky and Cesar saying they want all the prizes.

I simply do not understand the point of merging the tribes only to split them in two. This is the second week in a row that they've done that. It does not make the game more interesting. It makes it less interesting. A group of 12 scrambling to assemble a dominant alliance results in all kinds of chaos. A group of 6 targeting one or two people is boring. Why on earth do they keep doing this? I'm sure they think it keeps the show "fresh" just to change things for the sake of changing them, but in doing so they are ruining what people like about the show. Every week that goes by that Q does not get voted out makes me more and more worried he is going to win. Despite some players this week expressing exasperation with him, I'm worried about the amount of screen time he's getting. Of all the people left, he's really the only one I'd be really pissed off about winning. (And I do not believe for one minute he purposely threw the challenge. This guy's ego is incredible.) 90 minutes of filler and they still can't find time to explain how the new tribe got the name "NuiNui." What has Kenzie done to need redemption from?