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That is quite a sport. You are only allowed to guard a player of the same gender as you, and that player is not allowed to shoot as long as you are guarding them. Meaning, essentially, that you have to pass the ball around and wait for the defense to screw up and leave someone wide open.

It’s not impossible, of course, that she would call a lawyer and ask. Personally, I would just google “online impersonation” or “is cyberbullying illegal” and find out in two seconds that yes, it’s could be crime. Many people probably wouldn’t even do that, they’d just call law enforcement to report whatever seems questionable to them, no lawyers needed. And Tara wouldn’t not need to be represented by her own lawyer - she’d be the victim of a crime, the government would prosecute it in court if it ever came to that (this is also googlable in a few seconds). If I were writing the episode, I’d just have them find all of this in Tara’s search history. I guess she never reported Oksana though, she just wanted to threaten her in order to what, get her to stop and be nice? Seems like you need a lawyer even less for that. Case in point - Sam Altman of OpenAI replying yesterday to some latest insult from Musk, original orthography: “wrong, as you surely know. want to come visit the first site already under way? this is great for the country. i realize what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies, but in your new role i hope you'll mostly put first.”

But if he read it online like normal people, it would make him stick out a bit less and he needed it for plot-related purposes. Or he just decided that a printed newspaper goes better with his Columbo outfit. I think the creepy park guy was Chuck, not Little Sleazy or whatever it was. I liked how Soto was all “What, nobody took a picture of this random person in the park?” Er, no, that’s not really what people do?

The motive was getting scared on the spot when Tara told her that she was going to get her deported. The rest were the reasons the nannies bullied Tara, they were not planning to kill her over it. I don’t buy that Tara would hire or even consult with an immigration lawyer though. What was she, planning a legal case against the Russian nanny? Google the ICE number and report all you want, for free. I guess they needed something to tell Morgan that immigration issues were involved. Another case where Morgan’s conjectures were presented as the truth that she just divined without real evidence rather than a theory to be checked out. For example, not capitalizing the day of the week doesn’t mean the author has to be Russian - most languages don’t capitalize that, only Germanic ones do. In fact, even English speakers sometimes don’t capitalize things properly when they are texting. But they made it sound like it was the centerpiece of Morgan figuring everything out. My favorite was in the beginning, nanny to a kid: “… we don’t eat grass! Come have some seaweed!” :)

Also, since “tiddlywinks” was the word that came to his mind as soon as he recognized the guy, it probably means that that was what he referred to Tiana’s boyfriend as in his mind. It wasn’t a one-off thing he came up with while being run over, it was the name he had for the guy, right? If so, Tiana may have heard that name when the announcer was talking to her about her boyfriend. And yet she said she had never heard the word before. Yeah, she probably isn’t as innocent as she claims. On a related note, is it possible to prove that you never learned how to drive? Even if there is no record of you having a driver’s license or being in a driving school, and nobody can be found to testify that they’ve seen you drive, that’s just absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. Or, from the police perspective, can they prove that you are lying and can, in fact, drive?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a public service announcement. If, God forbid, you are facing an impending demise and would like to help the police identify the murderer, please try saying something that actually identifies him. Like "Tiana's guy". And not "tiddlywinks". Tom can't be gone, can he? What would be the purpose of him story-wise then? Unless they started something with him and then changed direction during the hiatus and now he is going to join Morgan's elderly neighbor from the pilot who probably moved to San Diego too. Is there a Tom in the French version of this? And what exactly is "cubed meats" that Morgan associates with picnics for some reason? The side-eye the baby gave Oz when Morgan dropped her off at his desk was hilarious :)!

The light made her think about the guy who invented snow globes when he was trying to develop a brighter lightbulb by filling the bulb with liquid and suspending stuff in it.

I thought at first that she was attacked in the morning and was found shortly afterwards, but you are right, they said it was the night before. I'm guessing the tide was not a problem there? Not that tides work the way Morgan described anyway. In any case, if I were looking for information about a murder and someone called and said "let's meet on the beach in the dark", I'd probably be extra careful and would be looking around the whole time. It's not like there are a lot of places to hide there. Speaking of beaches, I had to laugh when Edward was high on that cliff and everyone was talking to him from down below. If the cliff was high enough to be worth jumping from, good luck hearing each other over the surf and the wind. I think it just clued Morgan in that Lucas discovered the affair and that Edward would want to prevent him from exposing it, given that the woman's husband was some kind of official who could revoke the club's liquor license. Fun fact (and a chemistry lesson nobody asked for) - moissanite is not sodium carbide as Morgan stated; if it were, that necklace would pretty much explode around your neck if you were to go in the pool wearing it. Question. When Morgan and Tom were on their date and he said "you don't know my last name, do you? I could tell you but I don't want to rush things" and she said "your name is Flores", he laughed and replied with "I see what you did there" - what is it that she did there? The only thing I can think of is that he thinks she tricked him into saying that he doesn't want to rush things, but she didn't do that. It was all him saying things unprompted. I liked how Judy Reyes was all cryptic and double-entendre-ish with the way she said the Concierge is someone who "procures certain items for people on both sides of the law". Doesn't that describe anyone running an honest business that criminals happen to use too? Like a baker? But she was all Austin Powers about it :)...

Did I understand it right - Lucas accepted the diamond necklace as payment for keeping quiet about that lady’s affair? And that’s different from blackmail because… he gave it to his girlfriend? Or because he didn’t keep quiet and went to Edward? And then the girlfriend started dating—to what extent, exactly?—the oldest-looking 57-year-old for the noble purpose of finding out who killed her boyfriend? Well, I suppose the show didn’t insist that we think highly of the moral character of these people. The Mediterranean is really quite a bit more than just Spain, France, Italy and Greece. Maybe they should see if anyone got killed with the Cyprus and Israel snow globes. I liked learning about how snow globes were invented though. Can you really not notice that someone is sneaking up on you on a beach?

Technically, anyone who dies gets sucked off, it just happens right away (like it happened with Sam’s great aunt, for example). But yes, to know that it can happen to ghosts at a later time they had to have seen it. It is a great question how the ghosts could know things about the ghost world if they had not seen those things themselves. They have ways now that Sam and Pete can tell them about ghosts outside the boundary, but what about before? They didn’t know until recently about poltergeists or ghosts attached to vehicles, so they were not receiving any information about the outside world through channels like that either. Could they know somehow that ghosts in, say, Vancouver or Honolulu have the same ghosts rules? Maybe this boundary thing and getting sucked off is just a local anomaly. Could they know for a fact whether there even are ghosts out there? I don’t remember, did they even know about the ghosts at Farnsby’s house before Sam discovered them there?

1692 is when Patience got the boot, they had the date on the screen during her hearing. I figured she wandered around for a couple years after that, so yes, probably a few years before 1700. I agree, they can always say there were other ghosts there in the past that just have not been mentioned yet. I was trying to find if there is any info on when Flat Maria was there (trampled by a herd of cattle - buffalo? Or domestic cattle? In upstate New York? When would that have been?) and apparently there has been another former ghost mentioned, someone named Luella, who had also been Thor’s girlfriend before she got sucked off. I had no recollection of that. And what it means is that now is probably not even the first time Sass has felt that his best friend is abandoning him for a girlfriend. “Just to be clear, there is no moose carcass. Was just making gesture. But there is a flattened bird on the road.” - “Yeah, I could check it out.” Ahh, small pleasures…

Oh, I’m not sure she is being judgmental. I think she really is a live and let live kind of person. It’s just that, for her, it’s incomprehensible that someone does not sleep with “him and his bass player” every day. She reacts to it like we would react to someone who said he doesn’t breathe air - “But how do you live?” Maybe that’s why she made it her mission to get Sass laid. You just can’t live (well, exist, as the case may be) without air. It’s a distinction without much difference, but it was less than 500 years with no one else to talk to. Even in these difficult times we must be precise 😜. Isaac showed up “only” about 260 years later, and Patience around 1700, so about 190 years after Sass died (but Patience is Patience, of course, so we are not going to count her, necessarily).

I didn’t quite get what “Sam is so thirsty, and not just for chai” meant. Was Champa just referring to Sam’s need to be liked? The way Jay reacted with a shocked “really, Mom? On the family thread on Christmas?” sounded like it was something inappropriate that went over my head. I loved how they were saying goodbyes to him when he was getting ready to get electrocuted back into his body. Hetty’s “I hope it will be a long time before we meet again (but do bring cocaine)” and then Trevor totally melts my heart with “We’ll be here, bro”. Made me think about our discussion here a couple of weeks ago about whether they actually want to get sucked off and leave all this. Little Pete is growing up! “The people who killed grandma?” 😆 He really is adorable… little bastard. Take it up with his parents. Where is his father, btw? I noticed that Laura’s screen name looked like LauraMartino[some number] on the post where she said they were moving to Australia. Never took the guy’s last name? Or just kept the screen name from before marriage?

I’ll beat that. For whatever reason our CBS affiliate had the sound messed up for the first half of the episode. The music sounded fine, the commercials too, but the dialogue was totally muffled. It was unwatchable. So I had to wait till today to stream it. So happy it was worth it, this was truly one of the best episodes yet. From the writing perspective, I especially appreciated how Pete’s ghost power made it impossible to get him out of Jay’s body the usual cross-the-boundary way, so they had to do an exorcism, which led to exorcising the wrong guy out, which made it possible for Jay to interact with the ghosts and also observe his parents without them knowing. Basically, Pete’s power was the reason for everything that happened in this episode (except for Sass’s B plot). It’s almost like the writers knew they were going to do all of this when they set up Pete’s power last season. Just fantastic. Having Bela already know about ghosts also allowed to use her seamlessly here. I forgot, is it supposed to be an Indian restaurant? People might assume that it’s Indian based on the name, so those who are not looking for Indian cuisine might not give it a try. So, Mark can afford to vacation in Fiji, eh? Wonder how much money he saved on using a 3/4-inch pipe instead of one-inch… Zombie Jay made me think of the “zombie aren’t real…” line from a basement ghost in the pilot. Shows what you know, Stuart!

Here you go - ChatGPT’s version of Isaac Higgintoot passing through a sofa (notice his right leg). It took two minutes and then I ran out of free images for today.