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I had a big ol' crush on Michael Sarrazin after seeing him in Sometimes a Great Notion and They Shoot Horses, Don't They. I didn't realize before him that I even had a physical type, but he was it. And I totally had a chance against Jacqueline Bisset!

My default when reality show participants start whining or backpedaling is always -- always -- to have no mercy. You knew the rules when you signed up, folks. If you didn't, that's your fault too. "It's the editing" is it? Give me a freaking break. However. I'm starting to feel the eensiest bit of sympathy every time one of the MAFS people say they're going to give it their all because they know "we were matched for a reason" I want to throw my clunky orthopedic shoe at the TV. THERE WAS NO REASON! THE EXPERTS DON'T KNOW SHIT!! Which by season 3 they should have realized, anyway.

Well. I didn't expect it to be good so wasn't disappointed. I guess we did find out that Obama shaves before his morning workouts and that all his underwear is the same color. I wondered how Jerry was going to go out for coffee with the Secret Service tagging along, but should have known better. I did get a quiet chuckle out of Obama telling Jerry to throw his half-eaten apple into the non-Presidential trashcan. Hey, that shit will start to smell. Not sure whose idea this was but I hope Jerry isn't going to make a habit of it -- stick with the other comedians, dude! I've watched all the episodes and single shots multiple times, but will be skipping this one.

Have we talked about podcasts before? I'm enjoying Serial and What the Crime?! The Making a Murderer series has gotten stellar reviews, but knowing the end has put me off watching. I did read the recaps on PTV.

One of the many mothers-to-be on Call The Midwife was an poor, unmarried East End teen named Avril who completely won me over with her fearlessness and guts. She had of course fabricated an entire story about herself, but it was one she was determined to live up to. "I am a fabulous, fashionable, modern girl wearing a mink hat. Okay, it's not really mink but will be some day. If the rest of you are too cowed and beaten down to speak up against the abuse this wretched home for unwed mothers is visiting upon you, well, just give me 2-3 days and I'll bring the place to its knees." Many viewers wanted to see her incorporated into the series as a regular.

Still holding up for me: Northern Exposure, M*A*S*H, and The Wonder Years. Not sure if it's a "good" show or not, but I still enjoy Leave It To Beaver, mostly for the nostalgia. Not good on rewatch: Magnum PI, Knight Rider, China Beach.

The holiday special with Dr. Jeff gave me a pretty good case of the cries. It was heartwarming to see the new adoptions as well as revisit some older patients who are now thriving. All the doctors featured on these shows clearly have devoted their lives to helping animals, but the others at least seem to make a decent enough living. Jeff charges so little and gives so much away that he's constantly on the precipice, not to mention living in a small apartment above the clinic. I can only assume that the other staff members also take a lower wage than they might otherwise earn. I suppose Jeff is divorced but I wonder what his life is like outside the clinic, or if he even wants one.

What do you guys think of Yankee Jungle? It's on Animal Planet about the DEW Animal Kingdom and Sanctuary in Maine. I saw the first 3 episodes but found the owners hard to watch, to be honest. Bob especially looks so disheveled and dirty that it's unpleasant for me. I can only imagine how he -- and the whole place -- smells. After I searched to remind myself of the names, I found a couple of sites that are trying to get the show canceled because of what people claim are the poor conditions of the animals there.

Otherwise viewers would miss out on the scene where the visitors walk in on something untoward/embarrassing going on! My sister lives across the street and we do walk into each other's houses, but we give a couple of announcement knock and yell out "hello" as we enter. I don't live in a sitcom so there's no need for us to catch each other in our underpants.

I never really thought about it, but I'm an incredibly fickle TV-watching slacker. I should consider that the next time I get agro about I show I like being been cancelled -- "Oh, please. You would have gotten tired of it in four more episodes, anyway." I made the effort to sample every new Fall network show this season and gave up on all of them except The Grinder, which I catch up on when I have time. I was particularly disappointed by Blindspot, Limitless, Code Med, Minority Report, The Player, and Quantico. Others were just startlingly bad, like Rosewood and Wicked City. For summer series, I made it through probably 5-6 episodes of Mr. Robot and Humans, but eventually couldn't be bothered.

The ratings were good, too, at 11.2M total viewers. For comparison, Kelly Clarkson's special was 3.53M total viewers.

Along with nobody calling her Miss Universe, nobody is going to call Miss Colombia gracious after her post-show theatrics.

Only on TV are doors answered within 3 seconds. Residents apparently linger in their foyers all day just in case someone knocks. This is when the viewpoint is from the outside, typically the police or an investigator of some type. If there's no answer within that 3 seconds, the person knocking with usually decide to break in (or else why waste time on a door-knocking scene). If the viewpoint is from the inside, there will be a long delay while the residents play a round of, "Will someone please get the door?"

Check me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember, from probably the first season, that one of Cilona's tests was a physical attractiveness measurement where people looked at 50 images or so and rated them. As with all their other assessments, fairly bogus and non-predictive is my guess. Or else the experts are shit at accurately interpreting the results.

I wonder what the relationship is like these days between the experts and producers with regard to differing outcomes. The goal of the producers, pardon my cynicism, is to make a compelling TV show. Trainwreck relationships may even bring in more viewers. The experts, on the other hand, must surely be invested in having at least some of the couples stay together. They're the ones who end up being castigated and blamed and their professional reputations besmirched when the matches go spectacularly awry. What's in it for them to continue? They have no experience in matchmaking or dating algorithms before this, although I think most of them have done couples counseling of some sort. I suppose I question their motives the same as I do the participants -- WHY??

I kept starting to watch this and trailing off because it didn't hold my interest. Then it began showing up on almost every "Best Of 2015" TV lists and I thought maybe I hadn't given it a chance. I plowed through the whole thing this week but it didn't help. Still not funny to me and I also thought the acting was pretty bad; took me out of the show. I never watched Parks and Rec so maybe speaking in a flat, rushed monotone has served Asiz well as an acting choice, but it didn't click with me. Denise, Arnold, his parents, and the guy who played Brian also made me wince. I think some of them may be fellow comics/friends that he cast? And of course I can't blame his parents. The women who played Rachel is the only actor I thought did a workmanlike job. I did get more interested in the story once she showed up, so opposite reaction again. Anyway, I also don't like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or Brooklyn 99 or Kimmie and hate Louie, so if those really do have a similar vibe to this, maybe MoN and I were doomed from the start. ... Just read Tara's story. Maybe I stand with her on simply being too damned old for it.

They're expecting a lot from us, especially with all the slang and Pidgin. I had to put in the effort to watch the episodes twice as well. I liked the concept enough to do so, but it may be driving some viewers away.

Ha! I think David looks approachable and friendly. Most people date/marry within their own general sphere of attractiveness, right? If they don't, it's unusual enough that the rest of us comment on it: "What's she doing with him?" or "How did he get her?" or "Wha?" Would any of the couples this season provoke that kind of reaction? Not at all, if you ask me. I'd rate Tres and Vanessa both in the 8-9 range and the others at 6-7. Above average and not unattractive by any means. The disconnect seems to be that Ashley and Sam consider themselves to be 9s and therefore deserving of men at the same level.

I'm pretty fed up with the women on this show. As far as I can recall, not a single man has ever complained about his new wife's appearance, either at the wedding or afterwards. We've speculated that Vaughn and Ryan D. weren't especially taken with their brides, but neither of them actually said so. Why is it that the women feel free to blurt all kinds of hurtful and demeaning shit? Even if it's only in their interviews, they know damned well their grooms will eventually see it. And why do they feel so appalled in the first place? I don't think I'm that much of an outlier by being attracted to men based on their personalities. Yes, guys register as being conventionally handsome or not, but sex is 95% mental. I could not care less if someone is doughy or pasty or has moles or googly eyes.* Is the guy smart, playful, kind, and enthusiastic about life? That's sexy. I live in a retirement community and if any of these women need it spelled out for them, I can show them proof that, 100% of the time, LOOKS FADE. It seems like a new concept to them. * Although poor hygiene or chronic halitosis would be a no-go. I guess my physical deal breakers for the experts would be "doesn't look grimy or stink."

If by "opposites attract," the experts mean that one person is the flower and the other is the gardener, then okay. My sister is extremely bossy and opinionated and her husband is quite mild and soft spoken. She picks out his clothes to wear every day, she drives when they go anywhere, he helps with her hobbies, etc. She likes being in control and he likes not having to make any decisions. Except I don't see that sort of yin/yang thing so far with any of these couples. I personally don't understand Sam's manly man concept. Does she want someone who won't allow her to speak her mind? Who expects her to take care of the "women's work" such as cooking, cleaning, and raising the kids without any help from him? Does she enjoy being shouted at and derided? Is she okay with her husband going out drinking, playing poker, or hunting with his buddies six nights a week and leaving her alone? I'd honestly be interested to know. Jerry Seinfeld and Stephen Colbert had a conversation about masculine man (from around 8:20 to 9:30). Maybe Sam really does want George C. Scott or Charles Bronson to rise from the dead.

It seems like each season I question the motives of the men more than I do the women, which is my own bias. Let's see if we can suss out everyone's real motivations, in hindsight: Objective: to promote themselves: Jamie (wants to be a TV host/actress) Jessica (modeling career) Cortney (make-up/stylist business) Jaclyn (her company and brand) Ryan R. (real estate business) Objective: the money: Tres Vaughn Ryan D. (plus wanting to marry his grandmother) Jason (he and his mom were struggling financially) Objective: finding someone to love Monet Doug Jessica David Neil Davina (unrealistically) Ashley (unrealistically) Samantha (unrealistically) Objective: who the fuck knows Sean Some of the people wanting to promote themselves likely weren't against falling in love, but it doesn't seem like that was their primary motivation.

I continue to wonder what these women possibly could have said to so many casting agents, producers, and "experts" to get chosen. There's no way they could have acted the way we're seeing them, right? I don't want to put words in Ashley's mouth, but if she had sat there and run down her list of must-have looks ("combination of Ian Somerhalder, James Marsden, Matt Bomer, Chace Crawford, Chris, Pine, and Channing Tatum. Must be tan and fit, with a sculpted physique. Under 12% body fat."), I have to believe she would have been thrown to the curb alongside all the other delusionals. I can only assume that she and Sam are lying liars who lied their faces off, both in person and on Cilona's vaunted-but-worthless "instruments."

Oh! I didn't realize that! Thanks. I kept wondering what happened to her because I don't think we've seen her again and that ship got blown up.

Speaking of CGI, I thought the depiction of the gravity-impaired Gumby belters were very well done. It was uncomfortable watching the OPA smuggler hanging by those hooks under his arms.

Closed captioning is my bff!