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Last night was my first time watching in a while, so Liam was new to me. Pretty impressive to be awkward in every single way it's possible to be awkward and put yourself on national television. I was with friends, so didn't keep track, but we didn't have a very good night (of course, the episode being pre-empted meant we were several more drinks in than usual). Initially we all had no idea for FJ, but I kept staring at it, ignoring the names which meant nothing to me and concentrating on the job. With very little time to spare, "utter secrets softly" made me shout "Oh, whisper -- The Horse Whisperer!" My friends were very impressed.

He wasn't exhibiting any symptoms at the time -- externally, he was behaving normally, and then, internally, his heart stopped.

It bugs me that Isaac talked in front of everyone about Chris being "lost to the winds" and told them he recently thought he saw Chris on the horizon, but it was just a paper bag, so he'll keep looking up. No one asks him what the hell he's on about, so the implication is he told everyone else the truth, and either told them not to tell Nigel, or neglected to tell them about his lying to Nigel that Chris got sucked off, so inevitably someone is going to slip at some point and mention Chris's ghost power in front of Nigel.

I'm with you; all have included funny lines, and the actors are still doing their thing, but I have not liked the lazy storytelling of the last three episodes.

I cannot for the life of me remember a single thing about Joe Flamm, down to whether I liked him, from his season, but I thought he was fine here. Except that he's one of the many people who pronounces mascarpone as "marscapone", something that bugs me in non-chefs and drives me absolutely bonkers in chefs. "How old do you think I am?" in response to her asking if he'd ever worked for Wolfgang made me laugh. I liked the shout-out to the importance of PA work to everyone else doing their jobs, as it's a wide variety of tasks, many of them not pleasant, for very little money (it's a job people take just to be part of production and try to make contacts). I wouldn't eat the sweet pizza if you paid me, but I'd definitely try the spicy and sweet one. I like a lot of seafood pizzas, and I've had one similar to the smoked salmon pizza, but smoked salmon is just okay to me, so that's how I felt about the pizza. I enjoy Kristen's ranch love. I don't dip pizza with toppings on it in ranch, but the only way I will eat any portion of crust that is bare is to dip it in ranch.

I think Katiana would have won anyway, due to the texture of her dough and using it two ways, and I wanted her to win, but I said to Henry through the TV, "Dude, don't do it," when he decided at the last second to pour flavored water into his dish that already had a sauce.

Duh, Bailey, in a challenge about the ten things most likely to stick to the dishes, the green one is going to be avocado based, not pesto. Good on Tristen telling Vinny to flex his food, not someone else's. Spike and Wylie both bug me, but not as much tonight as they usually do, so that was a relief. I eat a lot of non-traditional pizzas, so I enjoyed seeing what everyone came up with. I most wanted Tristen's, so I'm glad he won, but Shuai's looked really good to me, too. I would have liked Massimo's (after picking off the potatoes, which I hate) more than Vinny's, I'm sure, as I love seafood pizza but am not into ruebens, so I'd have had a different top three. Cesar's didn't sound good to me at all, but Henry would have been my elimination pick, too, because it wasn't a pizza, it was a rice bowl without the bowl. I'm with most of the cheftestants on their "ugh" about Hawaiian pizza, and with the judges saying nay to Chicago deep dish.

The West Wing was a romantic, idealized version of American politics, and part of that was the president being a total egghead (a "lily-livered, bleeding heart, liberal, egghead communist" is how he described himself as a Republican senator would). There's a great scene where one of the re-election campaign strategists is arguing with the senior staff against the president using the word "torpor" in a speech, because it's not a word a lot of people know, and the president walks in as the strategist is saying, "... if people don't know what a word means means--" and interrupts him to say, "They can look it up." He goes on: "It's not our job to appeal to the lowest common denominator, Doug. It's our job to raise it. If you're going to be the 'Education President', it'd be nice not to hide that you have an education." (In the speech, torpor was being used as a synonym for apathy, for purposes of alliteration.)

That your parents were wrong. Telling a girl she needs to please her brother?! Siblings are supposed to be equal to each other.

FJ was one of my most instant of instagets. I'm surprised only one came up with it, but Kamau was my first choice for winner, so it works. "Are you going to do that voice every time?" LOL. "Criss-Cross, Applesauce" for the lotus position also cracked me up -- and it being a later correct response. As did Kamau's laugh when they learned what that Fun Phrases Said in Unfun ways category was about. That no one knew Annette Benning's incredible performance bummed me out a bit. The Galileo TS surprised me.

They couldn't afford Jane Lynch for one last episode? But we have to suffer this Seth Green character again? Darlene and Ben could have had this same conversation without actually seeing that dude on screen. "Compared to my previous husband, you're Barack Obama" and "Why would I text someone I'm lying next to in bed?" did make me laugh. Harris's new boyfriend being included was utterly pointless, though. Yes, Louise, Roseanne is the love of Dan's life. Duh. I don't know, her feelings are understandable, and I want to receive them that way, but I find myself annoyed with her. But she said it right in that scene at the cemetery. Dan's talk to Roseanne and the subsequent storm, with him asking her not to strike Louise with lightning amused me. You have to agree to a settlement offer, or proceed to trial; they way they handled the check - with Dan not knowing how much it was for - was so damn stupid, but maybe, yeah, "on brand", as Neville said. Whatever. "It's not fair you did the hard part and aren't here to see that everything turned out okay. Well, not for regular people, but for us." Nicely played. "No, Sir, she ate the exact right amount to maintain her weight." LOL. The actors clearly tearing up as themselves got me, I gotta say, for all my complaining. And John as Dan's "Goodnight"? Tears.

WTF, Becky, put your entire paycheck into a joint account?! Period, let alone with a boyfriend of, what, a year or two? Add Louise being pissy about the reality she's only the second wife because the first one died to that and the previous idiocy of Darlene about Ben's availability, and I was ready to tear my hair out at how stupid the women are written, but then she decided not to burden him the night before his deposition and I calmed down enough to remember I have great hair. Nice realistic callback to when Becky decided to go to Minnesota with Mark and Dan was so pissed he hid in the garage rather than talk to her. And I liked Darlene explaining that she always felt like such a failure as a mother, but being able to send him to college would have made up for that, and Mark explaining this is just a different path, but she did set him up for a better future. Her sadness that it's away from her, when she moved away from her parents at an even younger age is hypocritical yet also makes all the sense in the world.

Her dad hasn't given her a whole lot of reason to trust him until very recently, and it wasn't just him, there was the girlfriend, too, who Sam doesn't even know.

From the stories you've shared, it's he that is not good enough for you, and he's certainly not doing anything to change that, so why expend pointless emotional energy?

It's always been so unfortunate for Republicans that reality has a liberal bias. (Oops, I missed that this point had already been made.)

My favorite part of that Colbert clip is Stephen saying, "Truth is a gateway drug to science, you don't want that."

Someone dropped their cell phone off the resort balcony onto her head -- since they were so big back then, it killed her. They've established only a small percentage of people who die become ghosts, so him not asking makes sense to me.

I'm not going to watch until tomorrow, but had to check in to see if Antonia finally pulled it off. I, too, am really happy for her!

No, she said "I'm pregnant" and then "We're pregnant".

I thought that would have been one of the several GG clips posted in this thread, but apparently not, so here it is:

Yeah, we're supposed to put discussion of health & wellness subjects in that subforum. Here's where the dental implant conversation started.

I was annoyed by the phones even before then, when Trevor, using Sam's phone, meant to text the dad but texted the daughter -- Why does Sam have the daughter's cell phone number? She'd have the dad's from him making the reservation (although why it's in her personal phone rather than just in the computer, I don't know), but does she ask for the cell phone number of every guest when they arrive?

Not me, under these circumstances -- when I know her and I know exactly why she's doing it.

They show outtakes on The Dish With Kish, and on this week's episode they showed Tom's reaction, in the kitchen, to César describing his dessert (which was hilarious), so he is still doing his sniff & sneer routine at least some of the time, but we haven't seen it on the show yet this season.

It's just all so stupid to me, because Sass died young and had only liked one person, who he was too shy to do more than smile at (and bring an anonymous gift of a deer). So it's not weird that he didn't have sex while he was alive (and how any of them didn't know he'd died a virgin, when he was so obviously lying every time he rattled off the specific number of times he'd had sex, is beyond me, but I guess they believed Thor's covering for him). Yes, he's been around as a ghost for a very long time since then, and if someone lived out in the big wide world for 500 years without having sex despite wanting to, that would definitely be worth being surprised by. But he's spent those years where his only options are other ghosts within that property. That's a fairly small number of people even over so many years, so it's simply not the huge shock they all regard it as.