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After the mistrial was declared. was there not even discussion of a retrial? In news reports I have heard, there is often a retrial after a mistrial. But here DOW was just sent to do community service or something. Possibly I missed a line or two but it seems like an important point.

Is Bear always played by the same dog? AIUI, animal actors often have an "understudy" in case the main animal is sick or whatever.

Enjoying this show, but I hope to see more of the adults interacting with each other and their colleagues and friends. Not that the children are bad actors, I just have a limited tolerance for watching kids on TV. Has anyone heard whether we will see the adults more?

CeCe Moore's article on DNA testing in last week's episode includes a 7-minute clip (not included in the broadcast show) about Ben Jealous's mitochondrial DNA, i.e. his maternal line. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/telling-stories-mitochondrial-dna/

Penny does at least have the ability to memorize lines (such as Sheldon's description of Leonard's experiment). She may do OK with doctors who don't ask questions. We're still hoping to see Dule Hill as her trainer, because he played a pharm rep on Psych.

What bothered me most about Elspeth's hallucinations is that we had not been shown this before. We knew she was flaky, but the sudden appearance of the penguins, clowns, etc. gave the impression that something had changed. That is why I wondered if she had been poisoned.

Castle didn't tell the kids that he was looking for the witness in the ice cream truck, did he? If not, how did the boy know that his drawing of the ice cream truck would interest Castle?

Somewhere I read a story (fiction or nonfiction?) that detectives were tracking a criminal in the early 1890s. They didn't know who the criminal was, but they knew that he had lived in Johnstown, PA, at the time of the great flood of 1889, that he was now living in "other town," and that he had children. So they arranged with the schools of "other town" that on a particular day, every child in the school system would be asked to write about the Johnstown flood. Most of the pupils had only heard about the flood, but a few had clearly been there. From that evidence the detectives were able to narrow the search and arrest the suspect. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

BBT comes from the same smelly factory as 2.5 Men, so I watch BBT with "one foot out the door." I'm pleasantly surprised that they have not shown Penny wearing a chain mail bikini to a sci-fi convention. (Character consistency, what's that?)

What was Tascioni's problem? Have they shown her hallucinating before? I was wondering if she had been poisoned. Advantage of a couple in bed being the same sex -- we don't have to look at the stupid TV "L-shaped sheet" that covers a woman up to the armpits but a man only up to the waist. Always enjoying Diane, but when she had to contact someone at her old firm, why not someone who didn't hate her? Some authors like to think of the worst thing they could do to a character, and that is what Diane's subplot felt like.

CeCe Moore's article about DNA testing of Anna Deavere Smith, Anderson Cooper and Ken Burns. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/telling-stories-autosomal-dna/

In the airport scene, did anyone else wonder if the snow globe was a bomb? I wondered about carrying so much liquid through security so I looked it up. TSA allows a small snow globe, about the size of a tennis ball, but that one was considerably larger. At least they are consistent about being unrealistic.

Hasn't Alicia heard the advice that if you are going to get into politics, you should decide by age 12, and you and your family live un-attackable lives from then on?

Adding to what photo fox said -- there are many examples of people hailing strangers with whom they have something in common. Some drivers honked and waved at others driving the same unusual type of car, such as VW bugs in the early 1960s and PT Cruisers in the early 2000s.

Since this show does DNA testing, it's convenient to have a place to discuss it and ask questions without having to scroll through pages of episode discussion. For starters, here are some sites that have been mentioned: Article about the DNA testing in the episode featuring Derek Jeter, Billie Jean King, and Rebecca Lobo. Has links to others. CeCe Moore is a widely recognized expert on DNA testing. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/breaking-autosomal-dna/ ISOGG's introduction to autosomal DNA testing. http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA

The actor who plays Claire got to show off her physical comedy chops, especially when she came home and slid bonelessly down the wall.

"Does anyone else wonder if the show borrowed the flashy thing from Men in Black to wipe Castle's memory?" I wondered if Spock came back in time to do this for Castle, as he did for Captain Kirk once.

Have you tried this site: http://www.sheldonshirts.com

Guess I dozed off, because when I opened my eyes there was a drug sniffing dog. Who requested the dog, and based on what evidence? Where was the dog's human handler?

I keep reminding myself that "Castle" is set in a universe in which a dinghy launched in Massachusetts could drift south to Delaware. If the Gulf Stream works backwards in the Castle-verse, maybe a lot of other things like human nature do too.

What are some current predictions on when this will be canceled? In the mean time I'm with kaygeeret -- except when I watch Brooklyn 99, missing half of Madam Secretary is not a problem because I'm not really missing anything.

I was disappointed in this episode because I dislike aggressive ignorance -- in this case the many incorrect statements/jokes about vasectomies. Had hoped that this show would be more intelligent than that. I generally find Jake tedious anyway, but I adore Holt.

Please excuse if we are insufficiently observant, but some of us do not recall Mal wearing unusually tight pants. Maybe someone would be so kind as to post a link to a picture for our edification?

We expected Vance's lung problem to have something to do with toothpicks.

Might be fun if they got Dule Hill to play the person who trains Penny, since his "Psych" character was a pharma rep. I don't usually comment on hair etc., and I think Penny's short cut looks good, but I'm baffled by the "blond in front, brown in back" look. Does Penny/Kaley think nobody can see the back of her head? I have seen this color dichotomy on other people and it looks odd to me.