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I'm sorry, am I reading this right? They LOST their ultrasound pictures, so Tiffany used Carlin's from when she was expecting with Layla, for her Instagram/YouTube posting? I mean, not that any ultrasound picture looks all that much different than any other one, but who TF passes off someone else's U/S as their own? I expect a certain amount of eyeroll from anyone who makes Instagram a regular thing, and Tiffany does seem sweet, but the best I can come up with is she is an odd duck, and seems utterly unaware of how bizarre she comes off.

I just heard that commercial for the first time this week, which was the first time I've heard "love on" outside of Christian circles. I think it's supposed to communicate more "show love by caring for the physical needs of the person", or in the case of the St Judes commercial, something like "devote my full attention to" than "love" on its own does, but it evokes a lot of mental pictures (for me anyway) that I do NOT think were intended by whatever person came up with the phrase. Love offering can DIAF. For awhile, I was writing the announcements script at my church for people to read to record videos, and every time the office manager would put that phrase in there if we had a missionary in or someone who deserved a special offering, I would edit it to be just "an offering will be taken". I saw a video once where people were told Christian-ese phrases and asked what they think they mean, and everyone said "sex" for "love offering" so I will never, ever be able to say, hear, or read that phrase again. Anyway, back to the Duggalos - whether they are doing life or doing a life sentence together (I mean, sometimes marriage is a bit of column A, a bit of column B, let's be honest), despite their flaws, they seem to me like a generally happily married couple and when so many of these couples seem unhappy even despite their carefully curating their posts, I'll call that a good thing.

Doing life together is a Christian-ese phrase that's come into vogue in the last maybe 5-6 years. Sort of like "love on". The sentiment is meant to communicate sharing the highs and lows of life with someone else - can be spouse or friends. I've never been a huge fan of that phrase (or any Christian-ese phrase, I don't like love on either and I really really hate love offering) but the comparisons here to doing life in a prison have permanently ruined it for me. 🤣🤣

I live nowhere near the Bates/Romeikes, but my local news affiliate apparently saw fit to share this on their FB page, so it hit my news feed: https://wwmt.com/news/nation-world/tennessee-family-which-fled-germany-over-homeschooling-granted-temporary-deportation-reprieve-home-school-legal-defense-association-immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-nashville-knoxville-christian-values-obama-biden tl;dr their ICE officer is indicating they will get a 1-year extension.

MOC stands for my own creation, so using LEGO to create your own thing rather than following the directions and leaving the sets built. My husband as a child would build the set and then play with them, built, and then take them apart and put them back in the boxes, like some kind of crazy person. My brother as a kid and my kids now, build the set, then break it up and build other things. This hurt my husband a lot when they first started doing it. Anyway, yes, building MOCs is the whole point of the show. So I don't see them being too successful if freestyling isn't their jam.

I was only half paying attention for this episode but I agree the right people went home. I was really surprised they did an elimination on the first week because at least once before, they didn't. The first week isn't my favorite in general because there are so many teams and it's hard to identify anything about any of them, know who they are, and pick out favorites. Whichever team it was that mentioned MOCs, then said specifically that that's not their strength... ummm why are you here then because literally creating MOCs is the entire activity of the show???? I didn't catch which creation was that team's, so can't speak to if they were being modest or not. I'm beginning this season with some trepidation because the continued efforts from the producers to come up with parameters that are bigger, badder, more interesting and whatever, rather than focusing on, make us a really amazing piece on this theme, is by far the biggest weakness of this show, to the detriment of the competitors' ability to build. And now that we're on season 4, I hope we're not really going to be looking at the bottom of the barrel ideas. The boat theme was cool, even we did have to sit through two segments of, will the boats float?!, which is what I don't enjoy. And I think I heard someone say something about the boat base that made me think it's available to just buy, which is cool too. Will continues to annoyingly chew the scenery and I continue to not be a huge fan of judge Amy. My kids lost their minds at the winning build being made into a Lego set you can buy, which is actually brilliant marketing and I'm really surprised they haven't done that yet. My kids also lost their minds at the preview for next week and the cats. That one looks fun. Still too much "make your creation do things" over "look really good" but the cats look cute at least...

What I find so weird about Rachel kissing Ross after finding out that he was prepared to take her to the prom so she wouldn't miss it - is that I've seen interviews with Marta Kauffman talking about what a wonderful moment that was, giving everyone tingles and good feelings and it's such a mountaintop time in the story of Friends. I saw that before I watched through Friends, and when I got to it, I thought "oh, here we are in actual Ross and Rachel" and then it was like 4 episodes later that they were broken up. WTF?

After a few days of seeing "Jackson and Emerson: Needs a Title" in the list, I think I kinda like that with no changes. My other suggestion is "Jackson and Emerson: Who?" but that's also my suggestion for all the kids after about the first 8 for any mega family...

It's going to take me literally the entire season, if I even do get there, to separate QE from Umbridge (the 80s/90s glasses in the scenes when she's wearing them, help) but that aside, the trailer looks amazing and I am super excited for The Crown Season [I actually remember as it was happening].

Nitpick alert: title should be Trace and Lydia, Bates kid first, to match the other threads. I apologize for my pedantic tendencies.

Every single episode of this show, I say "That would have been a lot more interesting if...", finished with something like, the defendant were actually guilty and Bull's people had to figure out a justifiable reason. For the first time, they actually did it! And it was a lot more interesting when they made the likable guy turn out to be a stone-cold killer. My only complaint is that what tipped Bull off was the guy kind of burying his head in his hand when Chunk was waxing eloquent about his finer qualities, like he felt ashamed that Chunk was saying all that untrue stuff. The guy clearly felt not one single bit of remorse about any of those people dying, and was a superb liar, choking at the end like that is a cheap play. The only expression on his face should have been "You bet your ass I'm a good guy and y'all are going to exonerate me". I don't find smarmy Rob to be an enjoyable character at all. Could not care less about Taylor and her kid, and cannot stand when parents are shown being all, not MY kid, even if I do sometimes wonder if ADHD is over diagnosed. Marisa's bit was hard to follow but I think it went that the group that was actually being sued was paying the other lady's group for their services, and when they discovered that they overpaid by 20 million since they didn't settle, and that lady didn't take Marisa's advice, they decided to pull their account from that lady's group and hire TAC instead.

Not surprising. This whole season has felt like a wind down. Better to do it now then try to limp along (and yes, I know some of you have thought we've been there for several seasons already). I've enjoyed this show despite its issues, hope it goes out well.

Caroline was our family favorite so this was a bummer but I can contend that chocolate and piña colada don't need to go together so I guess we'll allow it. My kids have been watching the show for years, and my older three are now the age range of the kids on the show. The 12 and 11 in particular kept saying this whole episode, "Always toast your nuts!". Yep, they get it.

My subtitles on Paramount+ said Mandarin.

Looking at next week's show description,