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About Roy's fast food piece -- how can anyone, much less "journalists"* be surprised and shocked these days that creamy salad dressings have a ton of calories and fat? Really?? Not to be all defensive on McDonald's behalf or anything, but their Southwest Ranch Salad comes with a variety of dressing options. With balsamic vinaigrette, it's 370 calories and 13 grams of fat. *Referring to the TV newscaster shown in the segment, not TDS.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with this, but does it strike anyone that Stephen mentions being a Catholic a lot, both during his comedy bits and with guests? Now that I think about it, the only hosts whose religion I know offhand are the Catholics, including Kimmel, Conan, Fallon and Carson Daly. Maybe that particular religion simply lends itself more to jokes about nuns and whatnot? We certainly know that Jon Stewart is Jewish and Seth Myers has joked about everyone assuming he is.

Don't forget: Either Ashley herself or her family members create multiple sock puppet accounts at various discussion boards to belittle and undermine David.

What I didn't understand about the faux honey is why? How many of you keep honey on hand? I personally don't, and the only thing I remember using it on is peanut butter and honey toast when I was a kid. And maybe adding some to hot tea once in a while. I'm sure people do cook with it, but it primarily seems to be used as a "healthier" replacement for sugar, but BeeFree is just sugar disguised to taste like honey. Seems like a roundabout and expensive way to sweeten something. ... Okay, I went to the Sue Bee site and looked at some of their recipe suggestions -- most are deserts with some savory items like Creamy Honey Tomato Soup, which please.

Or at least not announce that you haven't watched!

This throwaway line from Roy made me laugh: "Stay in your lane Trevor."

Small peeve, but still inexplicable to me: Double exterior glass doors to commercial establishments that always leave one side locked. Is it a safety concern of some type? They're forcing a failure of, on average, 50% of all entrances and exits, not to mention creating a bottleneck that prevents people from going in and out at the same time. (I point the finger especially at you, Lange Eye Clinic.) I similarly hold a grudge against glass doors that only swing one way, because same deal. My default is to push, not pull. My local Walgreen's used to block the entry door so that exiting customers couldn't use it, but they removed that. Now it's anarchy!

The "re-enactresses" got their share of (deserved) shade! I watch that silly show and the medical staff who play themselves are pretty bad, too. There was sure a lot of open-mouthed shock going on when the chick from Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce started dancing and undressing onstage at the strip club. (Which I kind of had to agree with, just because it wasn't her party. Not cool to try to upstage the bride!) Nice to see the three Resnick sisters having so much fun singing along to Grease, although our musical theater guys weren't as into it as much I would have expected. Hell, even Rashawn ended up admitting it wasn't that bad. I enjoyed him and his dad bonding over Princella's habit of shutting everything down. Such a nice family. A lot of the couchies seemed pretty affected by the sniper scene in Chicago Fire, with Princella going so far as to plead with the TV not to shoot the kids. Afterwards one of the couchers mentioned that it was a good show, which surprised me a little. I'm going to make a point of avoiding it after this. Too stressful. This was from last week, but I keep thinking about Emerson going into a finger-waving rant about Scott perhaps chickening out on his own wedding some day: "Oh no you won't! We listened to your plans for a year and threw you a bachelor party and wore what you wanted and showed up when you said and you are getting married! After that, I don't care."

Coerced false confessions are the scourge of police work. I'd like to hear what Joe Kenda has to say on the subject. As for memory itself, my 92-year-old father emailed me just yesterday and mentioned his "vivid" recall of a certain event in WWII that absolutely did not happen the way he thought it had. Memory is shit, people!

I agree about The Expanse, although I gave up around episode six. Too many characters and convoluted storylines to follow? Too murky, both literally and figuratively? I'm not sure. The world as shown was intriguing but in the end I didn't care about any of the characters, which is a problem. Those of us who found the show confusing were chided about needing things spoon fed to us and, frankly, not being smart enough to get it. This did not improve my personal receptiveness.

I'm getting more drawn in by Sister Celine and Father Jude's journey now and less in Rhonda the ditsy and scattered. I enjoy Jamie mostly because Dave is with him, but Ariel seems to be less and less a merry prankster and more a dangerous criminal. I haven't connected all the links, either, iMonrey, but General Gaines does seem to have authority over Kyle's department (which consists of one person). Absent any org charts, I assume he's Kyle's boss as well as lover.

I work remotely, but my company just remodeled* their headquarters down to the studs (a project that took 6 weeks and involved renting hotel conference rooms for staff) in order to get rid of cubicles. In favor of quieter private offices, you ask? Not at all! Now everyone works at long shared tables with no partitions. Open work space! So creative! We're like Google! Millennials just want to have fun! People get one drawer and very little elbow room. Clients on the phone with their sales rep can hear everyone else talking in the background. Constant hubbub. I can't even imagine how much it cost. The president somehow ended up with a corner office that's twice the size of his former space. Not to be all "Feel the Bern" or anything, but the company hired a new president 2 years ago. He's a former Army general and really believes in rewarding the top. Annual bonuses used to be capped at $5K for everyone in the company. Under this new guy, bonuses are much higher for management than for front-line staff. As a supervisor, my bonus was $8000 while the people who work under me averaged $1250, which to add insult to injury, is about a third of what support staff used to get. I was furious! They work just as hard and, frankly, have to do a lot of the crappy tasks that other people don't want to. I can only imagine what the president gave himself and his executive staff. * Can't even imagine what it cost, yet raises were less than half their normal amounts this year because of "company performance." Were sales and profits down? Nope.

Minor injuries where the pain is completely out of proportion to the damage ... what the hell, body?

That was some lame-ass hiding, right? How is an abandoned warehouse someplace nobody can follow you? Island or not, ferry or not. I guess Alex had already done the "open fields for miles" anti-spyware thing. Well. At least I had prepared myself for Scottie's death, although the method was unexpected and more devious than I had imagined. The Big Secret was believably something that governments and regimes worldwide would want to quash. Alex's supposed brilliance aside, I didn't really buy it as an achievable invention, but that didn't detract from my involvement in the story and characters. Damn, the acting on this show is uniformly amazing. The actor playing Marcus brought so much longing, grief, anger, and regret into his scenes with Danny. Why did the police drag Danny to headquarters just to tell him he had been exonerated? (And oh yeah, sorry about the HIV, dude! Our bad!)

Fixed!

Oh, Ashley. Way to confirm everyone's worst opinions of you, and by association, the people close to you. The only way she would have a legitimate beef with Kinetic Content is if she was being genuinely affectionate, expressive, openhearted, and communicative with David and the editors cut every single bit of it out. Which they would never do because there's nothing in it for them. Showing both the good and bad is what keeps the audience engaged and guessing. It's hilarious to me that this is the first time any of the men in three seasons has acted sketchy with regard to other women* and nobody blames him for it! The Free David movement is in full swing. * Although a lot of them acted plenty bad in other respects.

I keep trying to mix-and-match every season, and this time it's Vanessa and David. She doesn't feel secure unless she's constantly being smothered in affection, while David needs to follow his wife around, cuddle, give her gifts, and declare his love 10 times a day.

To expand the topic a bit, I simply can't watch what I think of as heist/caper shows. They seem fun and I want to like them, but shows and movies like Leverage, Alphas, Scorpion, Person of Interest, Oceans [X], Mission Impossible, etc. are impossibly boring to me. A problem arises, a group of people lay out a plan, they begin to execute plan, they're stymied, they overcome the problems, and success. I don't enjoy the build-up and planning and outright dislike the fake "tension" of carrying it out. No thank you!

No idea! Maybe some of this will be explained later, but currently there isn't any purpose to having magic. Excepting the instructors at Brakebill's, no one makes a living out of it. What do students do after Brakebills? Set up psychic hot lines or go into sidewalk busking? We're supposed to buy into Quentin's belief that his life had no meaning before magic and now does, but what then? I assume we'll eventually learn why Marina was expelled but it doesn't really matter to me. All schools have rules and boarding schools more than most; I'm okay with just knowing she broke one or more of them. As for the ex-spelling part, I see it more as a kindness, if Quentin's and Julia's life-consuming freakouts are anything to go by. But again, why exactly? To lie around and create mini fireworks or bend light seem to be nothing more than parlor tricks for one's own amusement, with no value in people's lives as insurance agents or nurses. The psychics have a bit more scope for police work or family counseling. Why is having magic so awesome and life-changing? Nothing yet has convinced me of its benefits.

These four didn't know each other previously, right? Yet the minute they get in the stew room together, they start posturing and talking shit. Ink Master contestants as a whole represent their profession so poorly it makes me never want to get a tattoo. I've forgotten most of the artists on the show but still want to say the only nice person ever to be on was Tommy. Since the show is ostensibly about the artwork/tattoos, I guess I should mention that most were mediocre. Julia winning the second round with illegible lettering? Yeah, the average was skewed down pretty low. Nick's microphones and final heart were the best of the day. Ashley's bleeding maze was unrecognizable -- it was drawn well enough but the idea behind it didn't translate. She should have tried to talk the canvas out of it and just have the dagger pierce the heart. Cheap-ass show couldn't come up with more than $10K prize?

An engine block heater. Comes standard with every car I bought in North Dakota. :)

RIP, show. I don't think I'd be interested in more of the same again, only with Cary + Diane - Alicia, but if an actor's availability is irrelevant, I'd love a new series with Kalinda and Jason teaming up as morally ambiguous private investigators.

So adorable! She watches TV like a dog following Westminster -- posture forward, head tilted, eyes wide, mouth slightly open.

I've tried to watch Farscape a few times, because of all the online love and hype, but am always left shaking my head in confusion. Is the super cheesiness and wooden acting deliberate and I'm just not in on the joke? People advise me to keep watching, but I gave it five episodes and nothing got any better.

Ha! I did spare a thought for how they blocked that scene, and the comfort of the actors. The woman was on a hard road surface with just a blanket underneath, and the man was flopped on top of her without really supporting himself on his knees. He couldn't lift himself up and away too much and still have her breasts be obscured by his body. I just hope it didn't take too long to film.