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I was sure the last hour would feature a journey or med evac or something.

The Weekend. Started off strong, 3 good hosts at a table tossing it around with guests. Took just a few weeks before they settled back into Zoom-mode, where the hosts don't even have to be in-studio for 2 d**n shows a week.

I like the Live thread but my Xfinity feed is so delayed that it's all spoilers if I read it in real time!

Seems the whole franchise might be sputtering. Short of hitting an iceberg, how much more drama can they wring out of the same old antics?

A moment of sympathy for the aspiring child actor who will have to go to school as the Kid That Peed Himself. I hope he makes it big enough to someday be interviewed about his first acting job.

I'd be surprised if there aren't a whole lot of unaired scenes of Q talking about it back at camp. I think most of the tribe knew what went down. Who could resist telling a good hourglass story?

I'm sure Ted's pen was nice, but can it write upside down like Jack Klompus's?

And so the quitting begins.

Odd, isn't it, how many ad campaigns are built around the theme of "You Stink." Outside of folks leaving the gym, medical issues or those with just poor hygiene, most of us are pretty inoffensive, aren't we?

Remember when the whole show would head to NH for a few days, installed in some iconic bar for some lively conversation? I suppose supporting whatever they've got in FL plus 2 full studios every day cuts into that travel budget.

In a sense, all Season 1 shows fall into the Limited Series category, limited by the whims of networks and studios.

Well, I'm relieved as I was dreading an unfortunate intersection of Duped and Dejected Oscar with the new Bklyn Bridge, just before the Rev Richy Rich Reveal.

Did "I'm out, not my areola expertise" not make the final edit?

Somebody forgot to renew the Zoom subscription.

They do what the Mouse says 🫤

Food fight would have been my lowbrow option for a closer.

Yeah, I don't think the feigned awe and amazement of a mobile app carries the same marketing weight it may have in earlier (way earlier!) seasons.

I hope contracts and insurance are taking care of the staff and crew. It's been a rough year for them.

IME, trying to signal turns with the wipers was the problem; they're reversed.

But, at the time, a profile in Life magazine was huge, an amazing and exciting opportunity for one's good friend. Who wouldn't want to be there to support and share in that? It's not like Stanley was home on a 48-hour pass from the front lines or he had great Red Sox tickets. I didn't get her resistance in the first place.

Appreciate the sentiment, Willie, but "Happy Chanuka" at the end of the Greenblatt/Hostage Family segment fell a bit flat.

I wish the not-a-subway had pulled away so we could have a "bad news, wait, good news" reaction from Rob&Corey.

I'm sure similar discussions have been going on since Season 1. Even without a Fern Factor, the BCE (Before Cellphone Era) featured teams pestering hotel concierges to use Netscape to print out a map and highlight a route, for example. Navigation tasks, trivia tasks, etc. encourage the "out-of-towners" to approach locals, as racing in a TAR bubble was never the intent of Bert and Elise; we saw how unsatisfying that was during COVID.

That had to be the funniest sequence in the history of the show. From the horror of the first disastrous unmolding, the heartbreak of the second, then the slow realization that the entire bake had been an epic fail. Everybody rose to the occasion and had a good time with it. Of course it should never come to this and represents a real misstep by the producers but it was good entertainment.

He leaned a little too hard on the illegal immigrant aspect of the young rape victim, as if that's what made the story horrific.