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So much YES. And what I'd really love to see is Dr. Now providing a picture to back that up. A picture might help the message sink in for Dolly and plenty of other poundticipants. There's probably software that can do this, and people with the skills to make it happen. Let's say Dr. Now shows Dolly an image of her 5'2" self at 120 pounds. And gives her two printouts of the image to take home: one to stick on the refrigerator door, and one to hang up next to a mirror. 🧐

Got a few suggestions for Jessica's next T-shirt. I'd rather eat than get my cancer treated. I'd rather eat than be a CNA for all those old folks. I'd rather eat than see my awesome nephew grow up. I'D RATHER EAT THAN LIVE Eeew, broccoli!

On the giant-leg-lymphedema scale, Lisa ranks somewhere between season 5's James K (hopeless) and Tracey (real progress). Actually, I really really wanted to make Lisa watch Tracey's story — just to see that it could be done, even with legs like that. Tracey (45, from Ohio) ended up losing 200 lb and getting her first lymphedema surgery by the end of her episode. She had huge legs and tiny flipper feet, but she was still mobile despite the pain, and she rode for 20 hours in the back of a car to get to Houston. Lisa ("I dunno") didn't seem very strong on imagination. Maybe it would have helped to show her the example of someone in a similar situation. ...No, I don't really think it would have helped much. Sigh. RIP Randy. WHERE'S MY RESPECT??? 😵

Yikes, what an episode... I buy a season pass on iTunes, and each episode gets released just after midnight Thursday (West Coast time), so I can't make it to the Live Chat but I do love reading along with the fabulous snarkery while watching. Dolly reminds me of Nicole. Next time she's seeking a new best friend, they should get together and bond. Dr. Paradise was somewhat over-optimistic with that homework. If you told a 10-year-old to "find a place to live, interview the landlord, maybe go visit somewhere and take a look at the apartment" — would it really be surprising if they ended up renting a room in a hovel? But I think what I'll always remember about Dolly is this: “I don’t blame the ducks.” Did the show write those lines, or could this actually be something approximating Dolly's real inner monologue? What she's like when she waxes philosophical. Just savoring, is all. 😵 “I say that I'm going to go get some exercise, but then I don't really exercise, because I'm too tired usually. So instead I like to feed the birds or the ducks. Sometimes I wish I was one of them, because they just eat whatever, as much as they can. And their moms help them eat. And it feels unfair that I have this problem, but I don't blame the ducks. I just feel trapped with my mom.”

Bonus points to cousin Cheyenne for that blue t-shirt she wears on the first day of the road trip (from about 17 minutes into the show): WAKE UP IT'S FEEDING TIME 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 (works as a summary of the first 10 minutes of any episode)

Wish we'd heard more of Ryan's mother's story. I thought she was a lot more interesting than Ryan (who really, really doesn't want to stop overeating... end of story). But this woman had a relationship and a child with a super-morbidly-obese man. If Ryan's father died at 41 weighing 800 lb, he was probably pretty darn large already at the time of their relationship and Ryan's birth. She's seen massive overeating before. So, did she enable Ryan's father? Or try to stop him going down that path? Did she leave him because he wouldn't stop? Did she try to stop Ryan from turning to food when he was younger? Or did she give up on the kid, assuming he was doomed to end up like his dad anyway? Is she trying to make up for that with her efforts to keep Ryan on Dr. Now's diet? Is she getting distressing flashbacks to her time with his father? And how does she feel about all this? Yikes, there's an entire family saga's worth of material here. 🤯

This. And while other poundticipants might read from a script, you just know this guy is performing lines from Star Wars. "Help me, Dr. Now Kenobi! You're my only hope." If he could, he'd beam out a hologram of himself from the R2D2 on his shelf.