RobustRutabaga

Nice to have you here watching with us! I love epguides for keeping track of future airdates or looking up past episodes: https://epguides.com/Hoarders/ TVDB is also great too: https://thetvdb.com/series/hoarders#seasons

I haven't thought about that show "Clean Sweep" for a while! I enjoyed it too. I see from its Epguides listing that it ran 2003-2005 and over 120 episodes! Peter Walsh was involved who also did some books/audiobooks on organization.

Looks like "Hoarders" is going international with the announcement of a planned Canadian licensed version of it: https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/hoarders-canada-ae-saloon-media-1235230095/ https://www.blogto.com/film/2022/04/toronto-tv-producers-announces-canadian-version-hoarders/

Man, I'd love it if this were Martha Stewart. What a watch that would be! (She has to put all those leftovers components from her crafting projects-of-the-day SOMEWHERE!) Alas, I don't think we're so lucky. 😄

Based on https://epguides.com/Hoarders/ , tomorrow's (Dec 6th, "Martha") episode, the season's 8th, might be the last of the season given the last couple of seasons were only 8 episodes also.

Fascinating! My DVR's copy snagged it from the broadcast itself (not On-demand). I wonder if they fixed it in time for broadcast but the OnDemand was an "unproofed" or early edit copy they uploaded in advance or something before a final edit pass. They've been using that title card for ages (years?) so, it's so odd a typo would slip in for this one episode. Maybe the title cards are done separately for resolution/sizing/font reasons for on-demand vs. broadcast or something.

It was okay for me! I too was curious if they were that sloppy or rushed. But I made this screengrab from last night's episode - if that's the place where the error might've been.

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Hmm, this January 2021 article about his PBS series "Legacy List" writes this: That explains why we saw him show up more recently on a "freelance" basis.

😄 Yeah - she often looks to me like she's ready for a night of clubbing; she's one drink order and a matching purse away from that. I see she was born in 1965 and is now 56 and while nowhere near "old" in the world at all, her outfits are more like a 20-something (or, pushing it, being generous, a 30-something) might wear. Interestingly, in earlier seasons I thought she was more subdued and frequently was rocking multiple layers, turtlenecks, sharp blazers/jackets, etc. I understand some of these climates are hellishly hot and humid. But combined with the obvious facial work I wonder if she's insecure about aging and over-compensating in outfits and facial enhancements.

LOL! I'll probably rewatch that one down the road and I know I won't be able to un-see that now that you've made that observation! 😄

Posted earlier this month about a property in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles: And from a couple days later when - of course - having it hit the news finally spurred some action. I do have to say it's extremely satisfying as a viewer to see the small Bobcat tractor just "have at it" - no gentle organization, hand-holding or "The Zaz" therapy here! Just bulldoze that stash!

LOL! Yes! 😁 Season 2, Episode 12, "Dennis & Nadene"/"Erin & Malinda". Also the famous "river of poop" episode. That's one of the more famous "The Zaz" moments - I was just thinking about this post earlier before you mentioned it too!

I agree with this! I'm not "handy" in the least, but I had a loose, wiggly door knob on an inside room door that was irritating me. I wondered if I could repair that myself easily without replacing the doorknob outright or calling a handyman - I actually had no idea. I found a number of Youtube videos that showed there was a little groove at the bottom of the plate at the base of the handle flush against the door that you can gently use to pry loose and slide it away and the internal piece you see has multiple screws. Several of them were loose. Tightened them nicely with a matching bit from my socket set, put the plate back, and the doorknob was now tight and as good as new. As silly as it sounds, and it's "just" a doorknob, but now whenever I use that doorknob I have a flash of pride that I restored its functioning to what's expected and it cost no money for a fix. Youtube is amazing for educational/how-to videos where still pictures sometimes don't show the progression or a nuance. To bring this back to "Hoarders", I'm sure a number of those houses have got to have loose and wiggly doorknobs - I can just feel it in the depths of my soul - but it's the least of the property's worries! 😄

Another fine write-up/synopsis, @CrazyInAlabama! Thanks for doing those. If I can't get to the episode for a day or two I'll rundown the synopsis and then check out the episode afterward. Funny how plumbing issues are such a constant amongst these hoarders. When I saw that line of your summary I thought, "Oh, of course, because is there more than an episode or two that goes by before that's the story?". It should be a drinking game, everytime the water was shut off, or is on but various taps or bathrooms are non-functional. Or a severe leak developed in a hot water heater or something. I guess combine serious neglect of the house and individual rooms and/or life instability (and not working or barely earning, leading to utility shut-offs years ago - or dumping the "poop bags" everywhere) and that's what happens. I've been watching that "Dirty Rotten Cleaners" that was mentioned earlier in this thread and many of the sites are plumbing nightmares too! They're often doing the big initial clean (to "stabilize" the environment as one of the cleaners on the show puts it) before the tradespeople come in to make repairs.