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And another thing... they could have made Zeek look a BIT more frail during the wedding scenes. Instead, he looked incredibly healthy (more than ever, actually) which is why it just looked like a bunch of actors enjoying themselves. That's fine, but it didn't move me emotionally at all and the final montage, which could have been moving, was so rushed and crammed with stuff that instead of weeping I was saying "Huh? What? Huh? Jason Street? Who is that kid?, and why do they think pregnant women hold their bellies at all times?" and other non-weepish things. Finally (I think), when that girl was dancing with Max and said "This is fun" I thought, OK... we're in a freaking snow globe.

I am not a monster, but that just felt like a giant wrap party to me. Zeek dead in the chair was the tropiest of tropes. Lazy. (the writing, not the dead guy). OK, maybe I AM a monster. So did Joel and Julia and their magically healed marriage end up with TWO more kids? (I did have to laugh when Joel said "where are we going to put another kid?" Oh I don't know... in your GIANT HOUSE?) Anyway... what was once a great show really went out on a low note for me. But it seemed like they were enjoying themselves so, yay?

And then, as people started getting wise to the crackpottery of est they changed it to The Forum. I was briefly married to a hardcore est-ie who dragged me to a Forum weekend in 1988. What a freaking nightmare. The whole thing was just a multi-level marketing scheme ("How many people can YOU sign up for the next seminar??") Anyway I loved the episode and LOLLED at the est meeting as well as the Frusen Gladje in its decidedly un-sustainable plastic tub. Someone should make a Pop Up Video version of this show.

I really and truly want Arianna to say this very thing to Kristen. And how is this "evidence", anyway? Kristen can easily give that Miami Lice chick every physical detail of FL Tom's body to 'prove' she fucked him. I think what I love most is watching Kristen (AKA "I never screwed around with Jax! Never! How could you say such a thing! Oh wait, you found incontrovertible proof? Well maybe I did...") stand on the moral high ground about any of this stuff... She is TV gold.

What she said was that people come for the "food and ambience" (not according to people who live in LA). She's delusional. It was really hilarious seeing people's reactions to the screaming match. I kept pausing the show and doing other things, not because I was bored but because I wanted it to last for hours. ha. Right now I am living for the Reunion show. How many more episodes are there?

During our Friends rewatch, we're finding it hard to believe that Jennifer Aniston is the one with the big movie career. I guess she's....fine? But since she and Ross were always the Pierces of this show for me, on rewatch I'm even more puzzled by the trajectory her career took (even if her movie roles were mostly dumb rom coms).

"Charlie's Angels" was my "Benson" during this game time. I must have guessed it five times (incorrectly). So by the time the tiebreaker was coming up it was pretty much the only show left!

I'm thinking of becoming an astrophysicist. Do you think Adam Braverman can mentor me, you know, now that he isn't a recording executive or shoe salesman or French chef anymore? No wonder Sarah isn't worried about Amber earning a living. In Braverman-world YOU REALLY CAN DO ANYTHING!

When I was doing labor support, we did tell women that CONTROLLED vocalization is actually helpful in getting the baby out (open mouth=open vagina) rather than "purple pushing" (holding one's breath). But what she was doing was completely insane. TV versions of labor and delivery drive me crazy...it's why I love Call the Midwife. I'm not surprised she'd do it without drugs, because California. That part was actually realistic to me. I'm kind of hoping she spells his name "Zeeek".

And why do Adam and Kristina insist on telling Max that one of his fine qualities is that he's "funny"? That kid is many things, but funny ain't one of them.

And what a shocker that Amber named her baby Zeek! WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?

I was going to ask the same thing. When I was on that stuff I saw Al Sharpton in my hospital room and asked my daughter why there was a ventriloquist's dummy on the window sill. Then I cackled like a crazy person. She still thinks it was the best day of her life. She's mean. haha Anyway you guys have pretty much said it all... this episode was really, really painful to watch. And aside from all the complexity about addiction, Kyle's highly emotional reaction to being pushed makes me wonder about physical abuse in her childhood. That was a visceral reaction from her, but maybe it was all really just about Kim's state. Ugh, not entertaining.

That's also the tagline for Mad Magazine (or was in the '70s, the last time I bought an issue.) I loved the 2nd episode but thought the first one fell flat. I'm completely willing to suspend any and all disbelief, so it's not that. The first one just wasn't funny to me at all (plus we've been rewatching "Friends" and peeing in our pants, so there's been kind of a "bar" set around here). But then the bottle episode made up for it and all was right with the world. I hate that freaking Billy Joel song so they couldn't have picked a better one to butcher!

Loved the whole thing, but my favorite was the Looney Tunes moment with the shovel. BOI-OI-OING!

He's also on an upcoming episode of "Friends to Lovers", apparently. Well I thought that too for a minute, but it didn't really help me. And after I rewound three times I started to worry about my mental health.

Right? Apparently so Lisa can say "she wouldn't fly all the way across the country if it weren't true..." (people have done far more to get on TV, lady) And is no one going to comment on FL Tom's "small shaped dick"? What does that even mean? It's small AND shaped.... like what? I'm thinking about this too much.

I'm on board with all of your "panther" suggestions. DUH HUH.

OK, tonight we watched The One Where Rachel Quits with the EVEN THEN amazing Mae Whitman.

Oy vey. Binged the whole S2 today since it poured rain all day but as much as I liked S1, this just felt like a CBS procedural wearing better makeup. I have no problem with slow pacing or a noir feel, but there was so much extraneous bullshit in this show that I'm annoyed. And while I love both of the leads, some of the other performances were really weak (again, see CBS procedural).

Wait, wasn't that Rose? The one who knew him as Peter in college? I'm trying not to go back and watch the entire first series but I've had to read a bunch of recaps to remember who was whom.

I'm so glad you brought up the teeth thing (and I think it's more than bleach).. It's reallly true. When you see someone on TV with 'normal' teeth now it looks completely strange! Bottom line is that we've come to see weird as normal, and normal as weird.

THIS. And let's not limit this POV to men. "A friend" told me she deflowered a 22 year old super-hot looking guy and it was, how you say?... TERRIBLE.

I think she just has "Goldie Hawn Syndrome" where a person's face starts to melt into her neck and the jawline completely goes away. I agree that I'm glad to see someone looking real, but it's so unusual as to be distracting.

OH MY GOOD GOD RIP THE BANDAID OFF ALREADY. Seriously, at this point I just want SOMETHING to happen, so I find myself hoping that 'grandson' will pull a box off the garage shelf and be killed by a tumbling power drill. Or that Crosby would speed off on his motorcycle in despair over being jerked around by Adam and crash into a tree (christ, Adam. Make up your fucking mind.) And speaking of tools, Sarah was a building super but can't put a crib together and worse yet, doesn't own a hammer?

Worst episode ever, but I do want Yo to be my mother. Bella's DUI was clearly a cry for "help me find a great NYC apartment and get it all furnished and set up for me!"