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While this sounds like a totally solid line of defense any lawyer would be proud to present in court, the part where the company used props that could actually kill people is kind of reckless... Were they actually going to shoot the actor with that arrow?

True about the deeper pockets, that’s why Sam and Jay should have settled for more money. As is stands, the company paid absolutely nothing for their recklessness and injuring Jay. They simply got a different episode than originally planned.

They should have sued the pants off the show for shooting people in the ass with an arrow, instead of being nice and settling for dropping Pete’s story in exchange for Flower’s. That would have given them a nice financial cushion.

What exactly was the revolutionary thing Sheldon invented? A searchable database? I think those already existed by the 90s. Or was it specifically the grant database that got president Hagemeyer so excited? I had to laugh at the idea that there is research funding on the table that nobody even applies for because nobody knows about it. As if! For a moment I thought the bald comic book guy was supposed to be Bezos getting the idea for Amazon there.

Blockchain! I wonder if they somehow “mine” back rubs like bitcoins, too. How do back rubs get generated? If you are free to promise any number of back rubs in exchange for something, that would quickly lead to hyperinflation and the back rub economy would collapse, so that’s not it. Can they maybe only promise a “reasonable” number of back rubs that can be actually physically delivered? But they have eternity to deliver them. Do back rubs maybe expire to control inflation? Then it shouldn’t matter too much that Trevor (new money, he) has only been dead for twenty years and hasn’t had time to amass them. So many questions… I wonder if the writers have this developed. (Favorite back rub-related bit from the episode - the facial expression Isaac produced when Trevor asked incredulously how Sam does not know about back rubs.) Hetty’s plan to wrestle control over the TV back from Trevor was pretty brilliant, but it’s not obvious why the rest of the ghosts agreed to “unionize” like that. They wanted something, couldn’t afford to keep bidding on it, so they agreed to give it up completely, believing that it will somehow force Trevor to give them what they want? I am not sure I would be convinced that it would work. Hetty, of course, knew exactly what Trevor’s buttons she was going to push and how, but the rest of them didn’t and just took in on faith that it would work. I know it was used simply as a plot device to clue Thor in that his son had married a Dane, but just want to point out that Alma, Magnus, Lars, etc. are all-Scandinavian names, not specifically Danish. Although maybe they were just Danish a thousand years ago? Another Thor moment I loved was when he asked Sam: “What kind of journalist are you? These are obvious questions!” I know the feeling! I like how they write Thor to be astute in some cases and not so much in others. “Irony he gets, but cars are still landships.”

Missy did no such thing! She simply asked, discreetly enough, whether Mrs. Wilkins wants to give the test today with "everything you are going through." Nothing more specific than that. It will probably come out and she might lose her job (although the principal doesn't seem to be moving in that direction, at least not yet), but it's not on Missy. Loved her small talk with Coach Wilkins on the couch. "Saw your wife today." - "I heard." Yes, but George did have an extra incentive here - "He is my friend. And if I want him out of my house, he needs a job"- that Wayne did not have at the time. Why is he the one out of his own house, by the way, and not Darlene?

Someone’s phone? A team was able to use someone’s tractor! That lady was so nice (and ready!) to just come and pull them out of the ditch in no time. It probably happens often enough on that road. Maybe they figured some of those games would involve being good at aiming? That would've made me choose the walnut task since I have terrible aim. Did they know in advance what the games were going to be? I guess they may have been able to see them. Yes, the game where you had to toss a bag onto a high platform was essentially basketball, wasn’t it. Once people figured out they had to use basketball (or shot putt, I suppose) mechanics, they got it done reasonably easily. I would have hesitated to pick the walnut side of the Detour because I would have no idea how many walnuts it takes to squeeze any significant amount of oil. My guess would be - a lot? But it turns out, if the numbers I’ve found are accurate and if my math is correct, it’s not too bad - only about a hundred walnuts to make 3-4 ounces of walnut oil. Now I know. Also, you can use walnut oil and walnut shells for pretty much anything, from cosmetics to woodworking to oil well drilling, apparently. What was with the brothers not finding a walnut grove while standing in the said grove? Not seeing the forest for the trees, literally.

Well, in the world of the show, the chief did tell her that normally they do look the other way, but he was running for sheriff and needed to demonstrate accomplishments. And she reopened and is operating under the brilliant legal theory that playing for teddy bears and getting cash for them is somehow not the same as gambling for cash. I think the police can easily shut her down again at any moment, but they aren’t. Is it actually possible to duct tape a person to the wall like that? Will it hold a kid of a hundred pounds or so?

Sam claimed that they are trying to space out dead body removals. Not sure what she meant (Thor's bones? But it was quite a long time ago), but I guess it explains why they have not retrofitted the vault door to open from the inside yet. Hetty (about a seance she had once): "The lights flickered, the smell of death surrounded us, and I'm just now realizing that was Thor and Isaac messing with us." Smell of death, huh?

That may be true, but if that's the calculation, then Connie and Dale assaulted the guy and damaged his property for nothing. And if his threat was credible, which Connie thought it was, then what she did still accomplished nothing to protect them from it. I guess the moral of the story is - if you get involved in something illegal, you panic and it snowballs? Connie should probaly hold off on her gambling empire expansion in case the guy does tip off the police somehow. Which means Dale is out of another 20K. He really should start thinking that he can do better. And the tragedy is that George was so happy when she was happy, and now it's all gone. There is no way he can say no and keep being happy.

If he didn’t get their license plate, how was he going to report them? They’ve got to assume that he did.

Um, Connie? You know that Dennis person can still call the cops on you, right? Before he just wanted the money, but now that you pissed him off by slashing his tires he has a reason to actually do it.

Remember that team in Chile painting some random house thinking it was a TAR task? Yes, better be sure. And this park didn’t really look like a park either. I think that’s what gave the military brothers trouble, they were looking for something green and couldn’t find it. I agree, it made for a relatively relaxed leg. I am guessing they are going to start the next leg after flying to their next country? Because if they start 45 minutes behind while they are still in Jordan, then it’s absolutely meaningless because they will all be on the same plane out of Jordan anyway. Same here. I took it as a comment on how hard-working and into-the-task she is.

And Isaac continued with “well, I was trying to be more delicate, but yes, tree dead.” I also loved how Isaac, marching into a room when Jay was standing in the doorway, offhandedly said “Move him” and kept moving without slowing down a bit while Sam told Jay to move and Jay scrambled to get out of the ghost’s way without asking anything. They have all gotten pretty comfortable with their situation. Flower shined again when she explained to Thor that you can’t get people to do what you want if you only yell at them. This was my exact problem with Greta Thunberg. You cannot yell at everybody at the UN and expect them to become passionate about protecting the environment because you shamed them into it. ”Trevor wise like Odin… if Odin’s butt cheeks visible every time he bend over.” I liked the little look Trevor gave Hetty after she enquired about researching stable boys. And yes, that, apparently, is indeed in there.

Not being fundamentalist simply means that they are not going to prosecute you for wearing shorts, it doesn’t mean that you can’t cover up to be respectful of Muslim sensibilities. Wearing long clothes works both for this and for sun protection at the same time.

They robbed the bank when she was in a hippie commune, not a cult. At least Flower insisted it was not a cult because they let you wear shoes. She must have been in a cult before the commune. UPD: Ooh, here is the direct quote: “This was the commune, not the cult. They're very similar, but the commune let you wear your shoes and you could still talk to your family.” Fits perfectly with what she said in this episode. Nice job with continuity, writers.

You could, sure. You would probably wear it all the time around those people in the car, not just part of the time, no?

To be fair, there are tasks that are obviously impossible to do. If I were presented with (what I thought was) a solid block of marble and told to chisel a Michelangelo-quality sculpture out of it, with no other context or considerations, I wouldn’t need to try to know that I simply cannot do it. I mean, there is a nonzero chance, I suppose, that I am a genius and don’t know it and would be able to knock it out, but it’s highly unlikely. So it would be a safe assumption that it would be a waste of time and effort to try. But, of course, Dom did have other considerations. This is TAR, it’s very unlikely that she would be given something that’s actually impossible. And here are people around her that seem to be doing pretty well with the task. This all should suggest to her that maybe the task is not what she thinks it is. I cannot believe she didn’t immediately go to reread the clue or actually thought that the others were experienced sculptors. That was funny, they had the same kind of mask and it almost looked like passing it back and forth between them. I’m sure they simply were filmed after stopping and getting out of the car to ask for directions or interacting with people on the street for some other reason. Otherwise, I can’t imagine why you would wear a mask in the car when you felt perfectly fine not wearing it some time before and after. The fashion shoots were Zoolander-level ridiculous. I liked how one of the brothers referred to the giant feather one of the models was holding as “her broomstick”.

It wasn’t necessarily a tech issue, more of a lack of basic reasoning. If you can see other reviewers’ names on your computer, why wouldn’t other people be able to see your name on theirs?

Nope, there was no Gunnar, Ivar or Other Ivar. Between this and the ghost at the Farnsbys that was never addressed, I wonder if this was filmed as a potential series finale in case the show would not get renewed? The scene where the ghosts are thanking Sam for everything certainly could be used that way. Then, of course, the show did get renewed and they had to recut it into a standard-length episode and use a different ending.

I can see that, everybody's situation is different. It just felt like a teen pregnancy trope in the episode when everybody was like "of course you are scared, we will help you." Why would they (the characters, not the writers - the writers just write whatever comes to them most of the time) assume that this is an "of course" reaction? Everyone is different, she is an adult, she just said she was not religious, so she is probably comfortable around her parents when faith or lack of it is concerned. There is no need to write it as "of course she would be scared, why wouldn't she be?" Well, Mary probably has the right to be as furious as she wants, but she is talking to an adult who has her own ideas and opinions about what her life should be. Those ideas and opinions have as much value as Mary's. And yet Mary is dismissing the adult in front of her and is talking to a teenager who cannot possibly have valid opinions simply because she is not old enough. I think it might be on the writers, they just forgot that Mandy is supposed to be an adult.

He is really not very observant, is he? Even if he is not into smelling things the way Sass or Alberta or Hetty are, he has spent a fair amount of time in Jay and Sam's kitchen. Even if he never noticed cinnamon, I am sure he's had a chance to see a (gasp!) pound of sugar. The whole time they were talking about pickleball, I was picturing shuffleboard for some reason. And then it was like "wait, this is pickleball?" Good job, Jay, thinking you can do things in real life because you played videogames.

Was hers a teen pregnancy though? That's what my impression was too, but then it makes Mary barely older than Mandy. Say, she was 19 when she had Georgie, he is 17 now, so Mary is only 6-7 years older than Mandy. Where does she get off then lecturing Mandy about everything the way she did at the dinner table? She was talking to Mandy like she talks to a dumb teenager like Georgie. FWIW, Mary Cooper's BBT wiki has her birth date as Jan 13, 1950 (no idea where this comes from). Georgie's is Mar 13, 1975. The acting in the episode was top-notch. Missy's facial expressions were priceless, especially the suspicion side eye she left Mary and MeeMaw in the kitchen with. Georgie's reactions were spot on too.

I think her parents are originally from Oklahoma, but now they are living in Texas and Mandy grew up in Sheldon’s town. She said when she met Georgie that she moved back from San Antonio and is living with her parents again, and is trying not to bump into anybody she went to high school with. So they are local, there is nowhere to go back home to. It was a little off hearing everybody treat Mandy as if she is a teenager, especially the part about her being scared to tell her parents and how her father was going to shoot Georgie. The woman is 29 years old, this is not a teenage pregnancy!

I don't know about that. For me, standing in the line of fire when you should know better, in front of people who don't know what they are doing with a bow and arrow, is stupider. I loved how the ghosts were right there and Isaac launched into his "we are ghosts" speech as soon as Trevor dropped dead. I guess it was always like a show for them whenever there were any goings-on at the mansion. But there was no reason for the ghosts to expect that someone would join their ranks during the proceedings - and still Isaac was ready! Same speech he tried using to welcome Sam's great aunt some twenty years later, too. He probably honed it for centuries.