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I like these 2 ideas. 😄 Actually menu and drinks have tax and accounting related words would be fun. Yes, I'll have that Cash Flow Upflow Fizzy Cocktail please. (that name's a bit long...) The first thing that popped into my mind when the guy asked for help on a bar he’s going to open if I were Hermann is where is your bar going to be. Because if it’s close to my bar I can’t help you if it’s going to make me go out of business. Hermann again being clueless/naïve/positive thinking of his fellow humans. smh

I watched him on a not so long ago show that unfortunately was canceled in its 1st season. I liked the show. I think it's called Sunnyside. He played a disgraced some type of councilman person that was kicked out of the office and ending up teaching citizenship? to a bunch of diverse people. The critics thought it wasn't funny but it had its moments. You know, I've thought that FN shows probably do waste food. It's hard to see, usable food not eating, but I'm aware that GGG donates food afterward and maybe they compost stuff. I've really watched GGG a lot because of the pandemic times and I've really started to notice how much food get cut away from produce and meats to make restaurant quality meals. It's very cringy.

I was real disappointed too, darn it. They did warn these challenges weren't easy and the differences between 2 different liquors or 2 different percentage yogurts seems pretty tough to me. You're going to need some luck to get to the very end. I was surprised the next 2 players were slow going thru the speed round. Both of them almost didn't make it. I mean the woman before if she didn't make it thru, could have not gotten thru the speed round because it seemed she wasn't getting thru to the last item before the clock ran out. The too much chatting reminded me of what bugged me about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Many times too much chatting. I get the hmm hmm is the answer this or that kind of talk but the other talk Well, my grandpa loved to fish and his favorite fish to catch is X, that kind of chat felt pointless for me.

I didn't care for the kitchen prep footage either. If you cut out some of these details, they may go thru 3 contestants, not sure if they want to do that. That's not a really bad idea.

Hey, I'll bring it up, last week's episode. So it was a competition of egg dishes! and Antonia and Hunter made Guy eat them, that is, eggs! Well he didn't have to eat them but because they're made by his friends he forced himself a little bit. It was pretty entertaining. I think by now Guy doesn't mind eggs but he plays it up for entertainment value. I kinda agree with him about hard boiled eggs tasting and smelling bad, but these days, I don't think they're eaten that way. It's all soft boiled around me, thanks to ramen love everywhere. And the distaste of a yolk bursting open, I wonder how he'll feel about how the Japanese eat rice and eggs. 😋

Hunter is on a lot, a lot of Guy's shows. He has a regular spot now on GGG! I seem that it bothers some people and he doesn't bother me as in being adverse to him, but I don't like him either. He doesn't have to be an imitation of Guy, but he needs to be a charismatic tv host, and he's...not. Anyway, it seems for sure in about 5 years Hunter will take over hosting these shows like like Ryan Seacrest taking over for Dick Clark's NYE shows. On another note, I never thought of going to a DDD restaurants. It'll be cool, but not something on my to do list. I'm surprised that DDD showcased restaurants get a major boost in business. I just thought it was foodtainment. One restaurant was close to me, I did visit it. Eh they had a schtick, that was fun, but I don't remember the food being great tasting. Now I wonder if restaurants kinda mentioned on Chopped get more business because a cook/chef competed. I once looked up a restaurant of a chef competitor. It was an Asian noodle fusion joint in some town near NYC. It seemed nice except for the prices $15-$25 a plate for lunch. For only casual foods, for me, I can't spend that kind of money. I don't make enough money to do that, it's pretty much the occasional Olive Garden for me.

I think fondant is trendier than icing these days. Isn't fondant more used to make something more elaborate on cakes like 3D castles ala Duff? But if fondant is using basically as icing for cake then well it's not really used for its greater effect compared to icing.

I wasn't going to watch it but then I peeked at it and then I ended up watching it, but only because it was a bit interesting and new. I like new shows because of the freshness factor. I think there are more misses than hits for the show's concepts. Like the good looking server, didn't like Kal mostly asking the female judge on her opinions, ignoring the 2nd judge more. It's glaring obvious and unbalanced tv watching. I want to hear the good looking male judge say stuff too. I think it was a pretty tough challenge, telling the difference between 2% and 5%, I think it's suspicious to have the male contestant eat bugs. If later they have a woman eat bugs, then that'll be good. Also pretty hard for a contestant to accept eating bugs to continue in the game show. And 5K is a too cheap walk away bribe. I think 10K would be better. I like the concept of tasting foods and identifying correctly the foods in it.

I didn't watch FNS when it was on and now no more. :( But per wikipedia, it seemed to be on a number of years and toward the end gave us...Christian Petroni... Anyhoo, I didn't like Matt either. I like high energy < to Guy, but he is Guy X 50 points. Too exuberant for me. However, I liked his choices in dishes, my tastes in food, go figure. I think Matt was stuck with the # spiel because the show was reminding viewers of these people's schticks on FNS, and some buzzwords are now passe or commonplace, like # is. It was probably relevant when Matt was on the show. It was nice Michelle won.

I like Ming too ^^ I thought the new games were good. The "falling rocks" were crazy, outrageous and funny. The slingshot game was also fun and funny. Did not continue watching to see the winner.

It's fun for me to an armchair detective, but I think some clues and red herrings weren't well executed, which would have made me misinterpret things easily. But that's the lousy cards a tv show will deal you, and that's why I think competition shows like this, 40% is random luck, and hopefully the luck is on your side. Knowing me, luck won't happen to me, it'll run off to the next person, sad lol.

Majorly lol. Yolanda, it seems she has some fame as a youtube? uber cake artist and now she's on her way to being a minor reality tv star, but she'll have to accept wear sexy/somewhat sl*tty dresses. I remember I think someone else saying Luis and Natalie seem like nice people but boring and forgettable. I think on one hand that's true and may make for boring tv. But also I kinda like that real people not get trashed over just because they're on tv and made out to seem like awful people when they aren't, they're edited to look bad or mean or stupid or whatever. So it was nice to see nice, boring people win. I think I heard in the last two eliminations that the judges value taste more than presentation when the worst desserts were compared. That clearly explained to me why they chose Unicorn Hair and husband over Emma and mom and then Luis and Natalie over Unicorn Hair and husband because I heard clearly their cake was dry vs. other cake was very yummy, but clearly slanted. I'm not sure which is more important, presentation vs taste, but I kinda like that taste is more valued than presentation. A good tasting cake is better than a pretty, not good tasting cake. I don't agree with Yolanda saying Unicorn's cake isn't birthday looking. I like the idea of other decor themes for a birthday cake. What I didn't get enough from Yolanda's statement is if she wanted more traditional birthday decor themes on a birthday cake-words, candles, etc., or basically just the words happy birthday on the cake. Setting aside Unicorn's cake being dry, if she had piped?/stenciled? happy birthday on the cake that would have taken care of that criticism. It's funny how people think they listen well, but they actually don't. Thomas listens to the judges and thinks what kind of cake would Yolanda like? But somewhere in that thinking it changes to what kind of cake do I like? Forgets the receiver of the cake Yolanda. I think it's a huge thing that for a cake with a value of $100,000, you do not do understated cake knowing cake has that value, and you do not do understated cake knowing cake is series finale cake, and you do not do understated cake for a cake to give to a person that supposedly never ever had a birthday cake made for them.

I've watched this show from the start and I never felt bothered by the mom and daughter until this episode. Very meltdown. I've never seen the daughter that way before. But I don't watch too closely everything generally. I feel it's not really not true as they keep saying that these bakers are the best in the country. They don't seem to be at all. Sometimes they're good and sometimes they're not. If they're professional bakers they should be good 90% of the time. I don't see why some of their bakes are bad. They're ordinary people, so maybe consistently they're not going to be good detectives, but there's no excuses for having bad bakes. They have hours, hours, at least 3 hours on average. How can you still botch up baking multi layer cakes with or without filling with so much time? I think they should spend less time on decorating, some time so it's not plain but not too much time. Also, I want to say some of the wardrobe choices were atrocious. Emma? looked like she was wearing a colorful haircutter's hair cutting apron all that time. It was very distracting to me.

I guess I’m ok with the scoring since it seems fairer somewhat. I think judges say whatever still about a person’s food. You say this mistake makes a chef look more bad than another chef’s mistake, but you don’t know for sure, it’s what the judge say, judge may say whatever still because they like that person. Uh, why are they so far apart at the judges table??? I think it’s a pandemic precaution. I kinda don’t like it. People are supposed to be cozy with each other, and cozy…is not having to holler at your fellow judges across a great expanse of a table. I’m still burnt out on GGG. I only watch the first game to enjoy a GGG game, don’t bother to watch the remaining 30 minutes of the show.

nice you made a thread for this. It's a good theme of seemingly normal people surprisingly spiraling toward murderous ends. I liked the one old episode where 2 neighbors in an expensive canyon area argued and argued over basically fence rights. One neighbor got so fed up with it he put a hit out on the other neighbor. It's very surprising and sad and shocking that because a person is a very bad neighbor/very bad person and the receiver of this suffering comes to murderous blows in real life.

lolwut?? what kind of tv show is this?? I had to google it after spotting its thread. It sounds...weird and interesting. a new show to watch out to er watch.

Heh. I knew it. It was a wisp on the edge of my memory, which is saying I didn't remember the title at all. It would have probably taken 2 weeks to finally pop out of my memory. And now I've been taken out of my misery. Thank ye thank ye.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the stabbing with the syringe scene and what it may remind people of. Geh, when I was watching the scene, I thought oh oh, it's just like the scene from. And what do you know, you know how something was very memorable, but you don't see or hear it for a long while, and so you only remember parts of it, but not other parts? Title of a song, or who sang the song, or a movie title. So I remember 4 big things from the movie with the syringe scene-John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino, but I can't remember the movie title. Argh. I'm gonna be stubborn and not google it and try to remember on my own, I hope it doesn't take a week, sob. I guess it's a particular memorable medical thingy that hasn't been used often since that movie.

He is pretty hyper isn't he. And that shark fin mohawk and those bright frame glasses, ee yi. But that's kinda ok. I'd rather have his blinding light hyper physical and emotional impressions than other judges' peeping out snugness and arrogance. It's kinda justified as she's accomplished a lot. Her own restaurant, some cookbooks, a great deal of esteem from other chefs, the prestige of Chopped, especially that. Having that prestige is like being given Michelin star. She's been at the top for a long time, so she's gotten a swell head. There are other swell heads at FN worse than her. As long as she's not too obnoxious, I can put up with her. I like the notes I take from her about making good Italian food. I've gotten burned out from all of Guy Fieri's shows. Ugh. I watch now only 1-2 of any of his shows a month. If I totally burn out on something, I end up not touching it for another 5 years.

I agree. I do know from other aired episodes they seem to be friends. Who on Food Network hasn't appeared on GGG? Maybe quite a few still. Those others are probably busy with their own shows and other work. I'm surprised some Chopped judges have appeared. Chopped is great but an elite FN show, and GGG is great, but pretty casual, so seeing some of the Chopped judges appeared on GGG feels a surprise for me. I can't imagine Marcus S. competing on GGG. I wish Marc would win a GGG competition. I wish Greenspan would win a GGG competition. I'm sure a few more wishes... I agree, Duff on being a new daddy soon. Sigh, Aaron not keeping off the weight. Greenspan needs to bring his down too, to be obviously healthy and long lived. I recall some episodes whether Carl Ruiz looked thinner. Sigh, he went too soon.

I like GGG Delivery format too. It's ok and enjoyable at times. Sometimes, I'll a little tired of seeing a judge-chef that already played recently, but overall they rotated the judge-chefs well for variety viewing. Even Justin in the heat of time pressure put in too much hot hot ghost peppers. I've been liking Indian foods in recent years so I'll look up her sandwich. Indian food has a very large varied selection of vegetarian dishes, so I hadn't known that one until now. But Marc's patty melt look very good too. Mouth watering...I can't do what Marc did reverse all that backward said clues. 😵

I use the search episodes and occasionally chose to watch a few reruns of some earlier episodes. It's kinda fun. It's neat how the final game went from find 20 items in 2 minutes to solve 5 food clues and then find the item in 2 minutes. Both challenging under time pressure. Like I blanked out at holiday protein that shares name with a Middle Eastern country. Duh, I could have blanked out because of the time pressure and could have missed out on solving that clue. I've been watching the various Guy's shows. They're light entertainment. The GGG covid edition is ok, some episodes a bit more entertaining than other ones, personal preference only. The cynical part in me thinks that they try to subtly steer that each GGG judge take a turn in winning. Recently, it was Antonia's turn. It's kinda funny she's

Did I hear this detail right? Someone on the team said the carpet over the hidden safe is noted is worn down, yet cheating husband to be killed soon never heard the unusual hollow sound when stepping over it like Hewitt did. I agree with you on the hotel scene. It seems sucky that Jackie was stuck with the money and dragging it along wherever she goes, but it’s not as if Hewitt had resources to know her money’s serial numbers was being used to buy things, so maybe she should have spent some of it. Semicolon tattoo, YMMY cool, it was .5 rank interesting for me, which means interesting for about 1 second. I hadn’t really care for the Tali character, one reason she’s pretty underdeveloped because of only sporadic, brief screen times. Spunky, spirited, cheerful, in mostly conventional ways so that she comes as pretty ordinary and therefore quite boring. She was a tad more interesting in the episode when she was thrown in ICE, and that’s basically a character in distress dramatic situation. FBI Most Wanted isn’t a completely mindless procedural, and I don’t want to watch real brain taxing procedurals, but it’s not too far away from being mindless. I dunno, I guess I’m ok with flavors of procedurals rather than if a procedural is logically sound these days.

Re Jubal, I feel bad for him. I haven’t watch all of FBI to know all the bad parts of his backstory but man when your past emotional messes rear up in the present to possibly bite you in the you know what I feel sympathy for the character. Or maybe it’s just good acting I’m enjoying that I feel sympathy for the character. Re Tate, him being on the website was a parole violation. But really would you burn up a laptop costing at least $200 for that? Can you um hide it in a woodpile or something? That 3 second screen stare sure did make Deleon obvi as the bad guy, yup. McMay could probably try to sue for restitution for being wrongly convicted, for sure. It is a rare medical condition so not egregious miscarriage of justice, so maybe he could get at least half of time in restitution, 4 years. FBI is at times dumb with explaining some unique concepts and at times intelligent with explaining. For example, when I hear incel I knew the term from other procedural shows and various characters had to define it 4 times…as first we didn't get it the first time…of course Isabel knew what it was, but Maggie still dumb-explain it to her anyway. But then Isabel ask how many people visit an incel chatroom geez…you know what a chatroom is and what an incel is but you don’t know how many people visit a chatroom, it’s a good guess to guess hundreds or thousands of people, what's the point of having a chatroom for 200 people, you have a pathetic server and what's the point in that, make up your mind, are you dumb or well informed… But then I read the twist about the genetic chimera and I thought cool, I hadn’t heard that often. It seems familiar, it might have played a part in an old CSI LV episode. I get why Rita said what she said. It is true, she could look bad for a possible new job. It does look bad on her that she doesn't want her past work reviewed even if it keeps a wrongfully convicted person in prison, but also it does look bad if a law enforcement person may have their previous work reviewed again. I hope I'm not being naive and I think hiring people shouldn't be narrow minded and count it against a person if their police or legal work or whatever is being reviewed. No conviction is 100% certain. Last, Ian needs to shut up. Nobody cares how hard you work at something or how complicated it was, and especially how you did it. Just say, this is the footage I've determined may give you the perpetrator. It was hard, long, complicated work, but here you go. It's annoying when they explain how they got there when their audience show on their faces they don't care because they don't have time to care. Happy T-giving everyones!~

I haven't been watching the show from the start, so I'm not sure, but isn't Malcolm having night terrors because Girl-Box keeps saying find me? And yes, Malcolm would want to give closure to Eve. Sadly, Eve's mom won't know because she died. I don't think Dad would give up location of body. It doesn't seem most serial killers do that.