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On 4/11/2024 at 4:00 PM, gaPeach said:
All the other seasons the crew stepped up and helped the chef. Why not on this season. I realize interior was down one, but exterior wasn't and could have helped Chef out.
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.
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On 4/11/2024 at 12:27 AM, possibilities said:
Clickers are supposed to be used to mark the desired behavior. They are not used to silenceor scold or intimidate the trainee.
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.
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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.
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4 hours ago, Calvada said:
Wouldn't Hen and Karen have been provided more background on the child, not just that her parents were dead?
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.
4 hours ago, Calvada said:Why does Marisol have a framed picture of herself as a novitiate?
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.
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18 hours ago, Packerbrewerbadger said:
I love this show and all the characters, tho Sam is by far my least favorite and it especially bugs me how she constantly honors the ghosts requests ( no matter how ridiculous - paying Nigel for the book when they’re struggling financially ) with no regard to poor Jay who’s a saint!
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.
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22 hours ago, Skooma said:
Stick shifts are cheaper, more reliable and easier to fix.
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.
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5 hours ago, QQQQ said:
Two thoughts on Hunter and med school: 1. There's a big difference between being admitted to medical school and completing medical school. Both are laudable achievements, but they are not equal. 2. If Hunter is still bringing up the fact that he could have gone to medical school (but didn't) he may feel like needs to justify his decision to himself or people in his life.
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.
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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!"
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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.
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4 hours ago, PurpleTentacle said:
I'm not sure if that stripper was meant to be conventionally hot, despite the abs. But I have to say he really did it for me. I have a thing for mustaches, then the nice ass and on top he's also nerdy? *swoon* So I totally get where Isaac is coming from with his second thoughts.
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.
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13 hours ago, howiveaddict said:
I bet the tip was smaller because Jill did not contribute enough for her and Gary's share.
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.
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22 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
And they go back at least a few hundred years for most Western European and some Eastern European ancestors.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
3 hours ago, seacliffsal said:Was this Kenzie's redemption story-that she showed compassion and care for Ben?
What has Kenzie done to need redemption from?
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2 hours ago, Rodney said:
The guy she beat sure looked quietly pissed about it, though.
I can't believe he missed the March of Dimes question though. I mean, I didn't know FDR created the March of Dimes but the clue was right there in the question when she said his likeness appeared on the ten cent piece.
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2 hours ago, PRgal said:
I hope they'd do this again. I don't know how far they can trace back, but my last name at birth (i.e. my maiden name) has aristocratic roots. I have a kinship book, but it doesn't go THAT far back. Don't know if you can even trace back like 3,000 years.
This show doesn't really trace anything beyond American history though. They will go back to the first generation that came to America, and explore what conditions were like in the country of origin, but they seldom go back further than that.
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Sunday's (or Saturday's?) episode was The House in the Woods, which I'm sure is a repeat since it was only an hour long. The husband hired a co-worker to kill his wife while he was playing poker with friends nearby. There was another similar case where the husband himself was the killer, and used the poker game as his alibi but it turned out he left the poker game just long enough to drive home, kill his wife and drive back. That's what I thought this story was a repeat of, but different situation.
Something they mention almost in passing was that he was a former hockey player who was known for starting fights. That should have been a red flag right there.
I don't know what kind of monster can send someone to his house to murder his wife when both his children are in the house. This guy, I guess.
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I haven't noticed any particular change in format WRT seeing certain characters less. And if it means less Stella, I'm all for it.
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I actually liked this one better than a lot of the celebrity episodes (especially when I've never heard of or have no interest in said celebrity). Coming to the table with a specific mystery to solve makes the show more interesting.
57 minutes ago, meep.meep said:The first woman made up an entire novel about her ancestor. Motives, plot, supporting characters, etc.
Yeah, I mean I understand wanting to give her ancestor the benefit of the doubt when it came to abandoning her child to start a new life elsewhere, but I kept thinking it's possible she was just a horrible person. And I'm not sure her great-grandfather would have preferred to know the truth after all. He might have been better off left in the dark about the whole thing.
I hope going forward if they do more of these they pick stories that can find more information about. Two of them were very similar, too.
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15 hours ago, psychoticstate said:
I felt so bad for Chef Anthony. No one can win in a situation like that, where everyone has different dietary preferences and needs - and Jill Zarin. I wanted to hug him when he said the whole event reminded him of a teacher calling him a loser and born a loser, die a loser. He is not a loser. He simply does not have a chief stew that knows how to accommodate him and help him. And therein is another failure of Fraser's management style. Instead of complaining to Xandi about Anthony, talk to Anthony and find a solution. And yes, Fraser, you can help him because now you've got Paris. #TeamCheffy
I felt bad for him too but I don't think we can blame this one on Fraser. A more experienced yacht chef like Ben or Rachel would have sat down with those preference sheets on Day 1 and worked up meal plans that were doable. And that's not Fraser's job, it's the chef's. Instead, Anthony seemed to be deciding on courses on the fly, and it was Fraser who had to keep reminding him about the various preferences.
Fraser may be 100% wrong about Barbie but he's not wrong when he says Anthony is disorganized (and not just messy). When you have all these different requirements, you work out maybe two things that will meet everyone's needs. Not seven or eight different things you're figuring out in the moment.
Anthony seems like a sweet guy and I'm sure his food is great but he's not cut out for this job.
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12 hours ago, heatherchandler said:
Barbaric and sick, how are we still putting people to death?
Because there are a lot of people who favor the death penalty, precisely because they see it as justice. And they vote for politicians that campaign on the death penalty. And they don't really care whether people sentenced to death die in a painful way because they see that as justice too.
On 4/8/2024 at 10:28 AM, peeayebee said:And I think any Gov or AG who pushes for the death penalty should be required to watch one being carried out.
Agreed.
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Dulcé could not keep her hands off Amir, she was pawing at him left and right.
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I often wonder how much time the team gets to spend together before the game begins because sometimes it appears certain players are voting together to eliminate the biggest threats to win. That seemed to be the case here. And it's a feature of the game that could be overcome. When it was just down to four players, the two strong players on the left (Jennifer and Chris) should have voted together against either one of the two weak players on the right (Micah and Ashley) which would have forced a tie they would have controlled. Instead one voted for Micah and the other voted for Ashley, which gave Micah and Ashley the power to vote Chris off together and leave Jennifer by herself, who they could then pick off at the end.
In that respect, Micah and Ashley were better players than Jennifer and Chris even though they weren't as knowledgable when it came to answering questions. They let the more knowledgable players build the cash then voted them off. The other players should have focused more on eliminating weak players than players they considered threats at the end.
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S36.E05: Save the Stress for Later
in The Amazing Race
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.