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I happened upon the end of an episode last night where a young couple with two little boys was buying a home in Florida. There were a couple of interesting things with this one: The house they chose was in foreclosure and going to auction with a starting bid at $94 K or something. They basically did a "buy it now" option and bought the home for more than that, and there was an additional fee tacked on...I've never seen a situation like that on HH but from watching Flip or Flop's staged auctions I guess that atmosphere could be odd for regular buyers (i.e. non-flippers). There was an active bat house installed on the home! The buyers were understandably a little freaked out, and I was a little surprised when they could somehow access it from inside and we got to see the little critters. The realtor tried to emphasize that they will be great at controlling the mosquito population but the buyers seemed skeeved. Fast-forward to after they'd been in the house for a few weeks and the kids are calling the bats their pets and they stand outside every night to watch them all emerge from the bat house to make their rounds. I had a bat issue in an apt years ago and a wildlife rehab company was sent out to collect/relocate them and it took several days.... they're a little scary to have in a house but I do like seeing them fly around at night.

The good thing about a lot of these movies is that they are aired more than once throughout the season, so it's no big whoop if you miss the beginning or end. A few I've watched and enjoyed (a few more than others) over the past few days: The Christmas Shepherd (I had the same issue with why the second family couldn't just give Buddy back--he was her doggie!). Angels and Ornaments--cute, somewhat IAWL-esque. Meet the Clauses (dorky Steve Guttenberg HO! HO! HO!) NorthPole (maybe my favorite of the recent bunch). ETA: Oh and I enjoyed A Royal Christmas too.

OMG this would be a great idea for a movie. On a somewhat tenuously related note, I did see that Lifetime is airing The Red Tent soon.

Yay, this thread! I am a Christmas-movie-loving-Jew so will have to look for the Joey Lawrence one. This is indeed the most wonderful time of the year, especially since Hallmark started airing these, like, a month ago. I have not checked Lifetime out yet but plan to. I re-watched The Nine Lives of Christmas last night and also caught the end of A Cookie Cutter Christmas which was OK. Then I started All I Want for Christmas which looked promising but I was tired...I'll catch the end the next time it's on or what not. Getting some other ideas upthread, woohoo thanks. Oh, and The Christmas Shepherd looks like it will be good.

Also, what did she say - something like "I am a FORECASTER!" Huh. Yessssss. Haha!

I feel like a horrible human being for being extremely distracted by her gray flyaway hairs. The agent was SUPERB. And those kitties were adorable. Aimée (accent à DROITE) may need to be in the HH/HHI hall of shame! LOL. Oh! And were were to presume the guy at the end she was giving a private yoga lesson to is her new fellow? When she started going on and on about how she was single, didn't have a husband to support her wah wah blah blah I wanted to throw up.

One of my favorite episodes! He was hilarious and from what I recall the realtor was kind of funny too. Wasn't there a bathroom with a weird gate thing to the toilet or what not? They were all likeable for HH where a lot of the people seem like asshats. I miss when I don't watch for a while then all of these horrible episodes spur me to come on here! Yes those chandeliers were tragic. With those Chicago people, I did not get their dining room either. Everyone at the dinner party they showed looked all squeezed into a hallway area! I came on though specifically to state my slight annoyance with the very entitled yet almost Stepford wife family in Oklahoma. They were basically looking at all humongous homes that, while IMO pretty posh, needed extensive renovations in order for the wife to consider living there. Blech.

BAHAHAHAAA or maybe they just got back from a cruise/the islands. Yeah they were a bit wackadoodle....

I saw most of "The Cloudburst" last night. At the end when Shelby says he is going to keep John Boy's land until the time "all you birdwatchers and flower lovers are gone" he's downright sinister! SCARY. Also, the scene when John Boy espies the workers decimating the landscape for the mining operation--it seemed almost like footage from a documentary or something. But again, terrifying. I guess I am a hippy-flower -lover.

Did anyone else see the "House Hunters Off the Grid" episode in Coober Pedy, Australia? I can't remember if it was technically HHI... Anyway. How fascinating--it was an outback mining town that looks to be pretty much in the middle of a barren desert. Many homes are "dugouts" i.e. underground due to the sun and heat. The family moving there were pretty likeable (husband was Australian I think, but the wife was from Denmark) but the wife was understandable nervous about moving someplace so severe and remote... What seemed funny to me was the realtor lady who seemed so...normal in her office on the street or what not while there was pretty much no one walking around in the town. Everyone is either working or living underground!

Oh did she have that terrible purple eyeshadow? Or am I thinking of someone else? There was something generally weird about her too...and I say that as a fellow northeast liberal LOL. I think that was the first time I'd seen someone loudly proclaim their political views on HH.

Historically my favorite was The After Hours but I feel like every marathon I watch, I catch an episode I've never seen before that's great. I know people goof on the country-ish eps sometimes, but I love The Hunt. Because in my universe, heaven is where my dearly-departed pets will be.

So, Hallmark finally finished with the final season episodes featuring Faux John-Boy last week. On to season 1, yay! Last night one of the episodes was The Sinner introducing Reverend Jack Tripper Fordwick. I don't remember seeing it as a kid, what a fun performance. Also, I knew the missionary lady looked familiar--she was the girl with the chifferobe in To Kill a Mockingbird, and in at least one Twilight Zone episode that I can remember.

I did not know in advance TSHH was going to be on, imagine my delight when I realized what it was about...it was soooo funny. I was cackling pretty much the whole time. I was hoping we'd see foot skin guy too. Also, what was that at the beginning with House Hunters 3D with Suzanne Whang? Was that just the intro (I tuned in a bit late)? Or part of a general April Fools theme of which I presume TSHH was part I wonder.

First post! Just found my way over here...wheeeeee there are character threads and everything! I watched the whole episode and was confused by that. The actress playing the mom was quite good--her growing despair and depression were palpable. And sorry, but *UGH* to the dirty diaper water. I thought they were in the mom's abode...it was not until reading here that I realize they were @ Chummy's! I guess need to lay off the wine while watching.