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That vanity card, while beautiful and profound, is a little disingenuous. We made this choice 18 years ago, so, unfortunately, our hands are tied now and we have no choice but do this to our characters and viewers. No, you could have done absolutely anything, all the way up to not addressing George’s death at all. It wouldn’t have negated anything from TBBT, there is no law saying that everything has to happen onscreen or be reconfirmed or even mentioned in a prequel. So yes, it was a choice. A magnificent gut punch of a choice. And all the actors more than did it justice. The man playing the principal - give him whatever Emmy there is for the most minor supporting role. I could not take my eyes off him.
And yes, what’s up with not having Georgie there? They can’t have doubts in Montana’s acting range, can they, and give him his own show? I guess we are in for a pretty heavy finale and we’ll see him react to the news there. Honestly, this episode would have worked for me as the finale. It would have been up there with the best, most different of them. I don’t know if having another hour of grieving will improve on it.
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11 hours ago, iMonrey said:
WTH was Biden doing in the Dominican Republic for 45 days and what does Melissa do for a living? Secret Service?
That was my favorite part of the episode, some random, out-of-nowhere line that makes you think about things you've never thought of before. A month and a half is a long time, isn't it? Surely not an official visit. Maybe a couple of weeks of vacation for Biden? And the agents protecting him probably get there well (like a month) in advance to set up security and everything?
7 hours ago, rr2911 said:Vinny does seem like a jerk but Amber's constant complaining could make any sane person crazy!
I especially noticed how, when it became more than apparent that their driver has no idea where he is going, she kept repeating how she had said it from the beginning, didn't she say it, and Vinny didn't listen, so it's his fault. As if saying all this helps with solving the problem at hand at all. It is annoying when people do that, but it probably comes from constantly being blamed for everything, so it becomes more important to state that you are not at fault than to do anything constructive to resolve the situation. Pretty sad, really.
It irked me that many teams did not use the cutting tool and just kept tugging on the cacao fruit and bending the branches or worse (Vinny). Nobody seemed to think that the trees are not there just for the show and the farmers probably wouldn't appreciate damage to their trees. The show should have cacao'd this practice. (Yes, I cannot hear the word 'cacao' and not think about the Portlandia sketch.)
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11 minutes ago, chaifan said:
I'd say a chef that was cooking for himself and his wife, neither of whom apparently have crab allergies. It's not like Jay was making a meal for actual wedding guests. Any food there was for him and Sam. He offered food to Chris only because they were trying to get more info out of him.
Edited to add... @skooma and I were apparently typing away at the same time! 😁
Well, he invited a real person to DJ though. Gotta be careful.
1 hour ago, Badsamaritan said:she would have been trying to talk to Isaac and Nigel about why they should be included, like they shouldnt start their marriage on a negative note because it was hurtful to the basement ghosts, it's not costing them anything extra because nothing is actually real, etc.
Now there’s a thought for someone’s wedding!
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3 hours ago, PaulE said:
Yet the best thing for both him and Isaac would be for them to give each other space so that emotions can calm down--not that they should hate each other but simply spend some time apart. It's going to be awkward being in such close and constant proximity, and for Nigel maybe even painful
Well, depending on the Puritan ghost’s intentions, that might not be a problem for the foreseeable future.
2 hours ago, ProudMary said:Please tell me that I'm not the only horrible, awful person who was hoping that stripper DJ Chris would die right there on the couch and become one of the permanent cast members on Ghosts? In only a couple of appearances, we've already learned quite a bit about his character
Ah, right, the character…. But seriously, they did flesh him out (I swear, no pun intended) quite a bit. Dinosaurs, history buff, no smell, boyfriend, even allergies.
2 hours ago, ProudMary said:A Nigel/Isaac/Chris triangle would be gold.
Like a throuple?
37 minutes ago, Bastet said:Yep. Once he had a reaction, Stripper DJ asked Jay if there was crab in it. Jay said yes, more precisely crab stock, as he finds a splash of it adds to the umami flavor of the guacamole.
It's hard to believe a chef could see the symptoms that guy was experiencing, hear him ask if the dish has crab in it, and NOT have the light bulb go on that this was an allergic reaction happening.
Ah, I did not catch that it was guacamole either. What kind of chef uses an allergen where you wouldn’t expect it and does not warn people? Jay is going to kill someone with that.
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9 hours ago, DanaK said:
the stripper was back and almost died
Do people who have a serious food allergy just sample hors d'oeuvres without asking what’s in them beforehand? Just a thought.
9 hours ago, phalange said:So there are limitations to Pete’s ghost power. He can venture away from the mansion but not for too long or he starts disintegrating. He did have a nice time on vacation though, and even met someone. Good for you, Pete
“I’m here on vacation with my family.” Are you sure, Pete? Didn’t see you try to go to your family once.
Baxter may be peripheral, but doesn’t he sound like James Bond?
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36 minutes ago, Netfoot said:
The six teams needed a vehicle each. Then, their crew would need a second vehicle each to follow behind. So, a dozen vehicles for the racer teams alone.
I am trying to do the opposite - have the team and their crew in the same vehicle, like they usually do. This would eliminate the possibility of losing their crew and having to wait for them for 90 minutes (!). So six total, plus decoys, maybe.
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They only need 6 cars to seat the teams together with their crews. Phil, producers and the advanced crews can then rent whatever mismatched vehicles are left available. They are not on camera, their cars don’t have to look any particular way.
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8 minutes ago, Netfoot said:
They have to rent what the rental companies have available. Small SUVs are very popular. If every team needed two and then a dozen more for Phil, advanced crews, etc, etc, maybe they could only find SUVs in sufficient quantity.
They probably arrange all these rentals in advance though, not at the counter after getting off the plane. If this rental company doesn’t have what you need, look somewhere else.
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11 minutes ago, Notabug said:
The camera crews were in separate cars because the cars were too small for all the people and equipment to ride together. Don't know if that was based on the sorts of rentals available or if TPTB just wanted to try something different. Probably the same reason they sometimes tell them to take a cab and other times tell them to walk or use public transportation. Navigation is a big part of the game and mixing it up is one way to keep the teams on their toes.
That’s fine, but renting tiny cars created a situation where the crew could get lost or pop a tire, and their team would be out because they had to wait for the crew. They do have normal size cars in Barbados, and I doubt very much they were out when TAR came. They just went for cute, probably. Not a great call on the production’s part.
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1 hour ago, Skooma said:
No, Danny was saying the instructions were if they lost the crew they were suppose to go directly to the next task and wait for them. Those would be the crew's instructions too. They would meet up with the team they were covering at the next task. Not go look for them. Which was what happened.
They got to the next task before their crew did though, so if they lost time looking for the crew, then the crew probably did not go directly to the next task either. Or maybe got seriously lost on their way there. Come on, crew.
Why was the crew in a separate car anyway? I thought it might have been a Covid thing, but they did not use separate cars for the team and the crew on previous legs, everyone was just fine riding together.
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7 hours ago, Tango64 said:
At first I thought Dany and Angie took the correct roundabout exit and the crew didn’t. So I wondered why they were being penalized waiting for the crew. But then at the mat they said they took the wrong exit??? So how did they get to the task first?
What does losing the crew even mean? Isn’t the crew supposed to follow them no matter where they are going, even if they are going to the wrong place or taking the wrong exit? Weird that a team is penalized when the crew failed at their job. Although, I guess it wasn’t a penalty, they simply couldn’t continue filming without the crew and had to wait, but still, Danny and Angie lost time through no fault of their own.
The ending felt kind of out of nowhere. Here we were, watching everybody assembling those cages without any drama or visible problems (except for Rod and Leticia), and then all of a sudden Angie and Danny are last. It was like someone was picked randomly for elimination, there wasn’t any buildup or anything.
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8 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Just in case you missed this:
he probably wasn't reading her emails (hence the letter, although it wasn't explicitly stated in the episode).
or did you just think that's not what we were supposed to glean from what was revealed?
My guess is, they didn’t give much thought to why Sheldon wouldn’t know about the paper. Lorre’s depiction of academia is pretty unrealistic anyway (like the time on TBBT when a professor died and then everyone applied for tenure a few days later, just because).
Normally, it is the corresponding author’s responsibility to contact all the other authors listed on the paper before submitting it so that they could know exactly what is being published, agree to be an author, make corrections, etc. The corresponding author is almost always a professor with a research group and funding for the research described in the paper, so, realistically, Sheldon would be ignoring the professor’s emails rather than Mei Tung’s. And then, when the paper gets submitted, the authors get an email from the journal too, asking them to verify that they have indeed authored this paper and to sign disclosures and whatnot. So Sheldon would have to have ignored correspondence from this prestigious journal as well.
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6 hours ago, ahpny said:
Also, I don't get how a peer-reviewed journal article could be published with a named author unaware he was to be named as a co-author, or even aware it had ever been written. What exactly was author Sheldon's contribution if he didn't even know the article had even been drafted, let alone submitted with his name as an author?
He knew it had been written, he said “It’s the paper I wrote with Mei Tung.” I’m guessing it was a class paper that ended up being submitted for publication. Not sure why he did not know that it had been submitted.
8 hours ago, shapeshifter said:To be fair, I think a storm of that magnitude is referenced as an "act of God" in many homeowner insurance policies.
Nah, that wasn’t much of a storm. They didn’t even cancel flights.
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9 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
Would this have also been the case back when Pete was a travel agent? Would he know?
Wikipedia says that airport has been operating since the 60s, he would probably know. He still needs to find a shuttle or a taxi with an empty seat somehow that is going to the right place, so there are some operational difficulties for him. He had a hard time navigating his own town, he can totally get lost in a different country that he only knows from brochures.
What was that (retro-looking) burrito-smelling robot, by the way? I've never seen anything like that.
10 hours ago, shapeshifter said:That Deal Mart seems like it has some very bad historical haunting mojo.👻👺😱
No kidding, really weird place. "Oh, right. The arrow. I was murdered by a little girl." - "Where? In Sporting Goods?" Now there's an image! And they said it like it's a reasonable possibility.
Nancy was crushing it. "Totally. I can't read, but same page." "If you cut me, do I not bleed? I mean, no, none of us do, but you know what I mean." "Cost Thor how? - You'll see. You'll see... (leaves, comes back) I actually need to go this way." And the clincher at the end, "I also slept with Pete's widow carol. - Me too."
Flower is so sweet and understanding and compassionate. But I have to say, I agree with someone who said last week that they are not feeling the Flower-Thor romance. They are just saying lines to each other, I am not seeing any chemistry there. Maybe it's a conscious choice on the show's part? I mean, we've seen Flower's doubts about Thor, now she brings Nancy into the relationship...
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1 hour ago, Annber03 said:
I absolutely cracked up at Isaac struggling to describe a bus
It was awesome. First, Hetty’s and Alberta’s faces when Sass challenged Isaac to describe a bus. And then Isaac’s face when Sass moved on to keep talking to Pete.
23 minutes ago, ams1001 said:Maybe they looked up maps of the area online before he left. As a scout and travel agent, he probably has a decent memory for that sort of thing.
The thing about St. Lucia is that the airport is in the south of the island and the resorts are in the north. It’s an hour and a half drive between them. When I asked why, our cab driver said “There’s just no room for an airport up there. Plus it’s good for taxi business” :). Pete is going to have to figure it out.
33 minutes ago, Badsamaritan said:I'm thinking the Deal Mart wasn't always a Deal Mart so those ghosts were bound to the land, not the multiple businesses that probably were there before the big box store.
I figured Deal Mart is a warehouse club like Costco or BJ’s. They have a meat department, I can see (not sure that I want to) something happening to the butcher there. Here’s a thought though - only a small fraction of those who die stay on a ghosts. And we have two people who died on Black Friday is that particular store…
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Linkletter: “You’ve outgrown us.”
Sturgess: ”Me. Literally.”
Beautiful.
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3 hours ago, BuckeyeLou said:
Does anybody know if Amber & Vinny are still together? Wasnt this show filmed awhile back? They are so unpleasant to watch, I am not sure what drew them together? Vinny is mean & a bully to her, and Amber has severe self-esteem issues.
Well, if I may (and I know I may not, because I have no degree in whatever field deals with this and I know nothing but four things about them, but here’s how these four things fit together). Amber grows up with a blue-collar welder father who is not the kind of person to cut her any slack, so she develops self-esteem issues. Then, at work, she meets this guy. Who is not the kind of person to cut her any slack. And she already knows how to love someone like that. This can work, no?
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1 hour ago, SoMuchTV said:
While we're nitpicking... Near the end, Hetty said something like "I didn't realize you could dial out on that phone" but I can't remember if it was flashback-Hetty or present-day-Hetty. If it was in the flashback, I call foul, since it wouldn't have had a dial and nobody would have used "dial out" to mean "make a call". If it was present-day-Hetty, I give her a pass since she's probably heard "dial" used by a few generations of livings. (And hey, now "dial" has been sent to the word history museum along with rolling up the car windows and taping a tv show.)
Right, you would just pick up the receiver and tell the operator to connect you to “4”. It was ghost Hetty, present-day, who said it. But does it mean she thought she had a phone that could only receive calls and not make them? Was that a thing? Why didn’t they get the top model, the one that could make calls too?
“Has he called?” - “No, no one has called. Ever, I believe.”
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14 hours ago, Bastet said:
Its biggest flaw was repeatedly using "cement" when they meant concrete and then only finally getting it right in one line (cement is an ingredient in concrete, which is what was getting poured). That's a personal pet peeve, yet a flaw I can easily dismiss with for how terrific this was.
Actually, it was Mark, the contractor, who used the word “concrete”. The rest of them are lay people who may not know the difference. If they wrote it like that on purpose, it’s pretty brilliant.
Another point I’m wondering now is, did they write the bits with Carol and her candy to establish, on purpose, that ghosts can have contact with another ghost’s object as long as that other ghost is still in possession of it? Which allowed Flower to grab onto the cord as long as Hetty was one of the people pulling?
1 hour ago, chaifan said:Also, how did killing herself save Hetty's son from financial ruin? He would have inherited his father's debts. Maybe not the legal liability about the child workers, but possibly so since he would have inherited the factory. I just wasn't tracking Hetty's reasoning on this.
I was wondering about that too. Maybe, since neither Elias nor Hetty have actually been convicted, there are no debts to inherit yet, in the legal sense? Still, it seems that, if he inherited the factory, he would be on the hook for restitutions. Also, had she been convicted, would that really mean that her school age son would be left penniless? Were the laws really that cruel in 1895 (we have the date for Hetty, btw!)? I mean, things were looking up for children, that’s what started the whole prosecution, right? (I liked how proud Hetty was that they were the biggest employer of children in six counties. “We are doing our part.”)
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4 hours ago, pH-factor said:
Wow, what right does the girl friend team have to ask Angie or Danny for assistance and get prissy when they don't get it? Hello, what are you going to do to repay them? Entitled much.
Why wouldn’t they have the right to ask for help and get upset when refused? It’s not rational, most people get upset when they don’t get what they want. I don’t know if it’s entitlement. Especially in a case like this - you see someone helping others, you ask for the same thing and to you they say no. You are probably going to feel excluded. It’s not a great feeling. As far as repaying for the help, it’s not obvious that Rod and Leticia are offering anything and yet they get helped.
1 hour ago, iMonrey said:Hey, if it's not against the rules it's not against the rules. Blame the game not the player.
I think most people are doing exactly that, blaming the game for allowing this, rather than Danny. Although it did rub me the wrong way when he started demonstrating different cuts of meat to his allies like some kind of instructor in a classroom.
This has got to be the first time ever that the words “not a very meat-related chef” were put together.
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1 hour ago, Tango64 said:
But this episode with all the cooperation between teams, outright telling teams the puzzle answers, and alliances blocking others from a task have taken the fun out of it for me.
It’s ugly. But also - this cooperation means that, instead of watching eight different versions of someone trying to complete a task, we are watching what, four? I have to watch less material instead of more? For ninety minutes? Late at night? I am starting to think that maybe I’d rather sleep.
The bubble soccer was cool. I liked how Cesar realized that being heavy gives him an advantage and he simply bump everybody out of the way. And how one of the girlfriend burst out laughing when her partner got smashed into and went flying.
Weird that they even mentioned the fingerprinting option when nobody took it. What exactly was the point of that?
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11 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
This may have come up in an earlier thread:
The ghosts are like children to Sam, and she is like their mother.
The ghosts have "lived" such sheltered lives, that in many ways they are childlike.Yes, that’s exactly what it is. This is not friendship, it is a different kind of relationship. They are selfish burdens and she feels an obligation to take care of them and they love each other. It’s a parent-children relationship.
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17 minutes ago, PaulE said:
I mean, think of it: he's supposed to sit in a silent empty room while Alberta and Saul canoodle.
Which he absolutely did do. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no reason for Jay to be sitting there all by himself, he was totally being a good sport and just providing alone time for Alberta and Saul. Probably alternating between being bored and resentful of the whole situation. I would not be so generous and good-hearted, no chance. I would go about my own business, if it works for you ghosts - great, if not - well, you will have to adjust to my needs.
26 minutes ago, PaulE said:Sam at least has the reward of personal interaction with them
That’s an interesting thought. I am not sure I can remember Sam having a personal interaction with them, of the kind where you are just chatting with a friend because you find it rewarding. Has she done that? She seems to always just react to their demands and situations.
29 minutes ago, FakingIt said:The thing about Sam always doing what the ghosts want/ask is at least partially because she can't get away from them. She will literally have 6 people talking at or screaming at hear about something or other. Hard to ignore even when you know you should. I feel for her because no matter where she goes (at the doctor, at a restaurant, in a store, etc) she has the potential for ghosts to start interrupting and interfering with what she's doing.
Yes, the ghosts really are not Sam’s friends, are they? They are a burden she has to deal with, that’s pretty much it. I am not sure that understanding Sam’s situation and feeling for her means that what she is doing to Jay is OK. She may be miserable, yes, but should she be spreading this misery onto Jay or should she be making an effort to shield him from it?
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42 minutes ago, PaulE said:
As for Jenkins's lap dance (I shudder, horses neigh), I did notice that, for a supposed beginner, Jenkins wasn't exactly clueless about what to do.
He was all into it, wasn’t he? Just got up and did, dare I say, a great job there. Knew to ask Baxter for some music, too. I died when he threw in a “I'm making my way through university”. They all totally accepted it as a necessary part of lap dancing, Thor mentioned it later too, when he was explaining the concept to Isaac.
Isaac’s stripper was something else too. The music, the lights, the dino noises (that must have been some very detailed stuffy dinosaur for him to ID so specifically). Not judging Sam whatsoever, even though she was the only client in that room as far as he knew. “You don’t have to explain. That’s what the money is for.”
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S07.E12: A New Home And A Traditional Texas Torture
in Young Sheldon
See, that’s the curious thing for me. With John Ritter or Carol Ann Susi, a whole episode about mourning their character was also a tribute to the actor. You almost couldn’t not do it and it worked on several levels. Plus their shows were continuing and the episode also set up things that were going to be different later. Here on Young Sheldon, there is no later, nothing needs to be set up (unless we are talking about the spinoff, and I would hate to see George’s death used for that) and the reason for this upcoming sad episode is just… because they can? It is a sitcom, you don’t want to go out leaving the viewers depressed for no good reason. We’ll see what they do with it.
Fantastic. This thing is going to have bland Mandy, her toxic mother and Georgie taking care of his devastated family? And did someone say laugh track? Lorre doesn’t want it to be successful, it’s his version of Springtime for Hitler, right?