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I suspect what happens is among the people who only sometimes watch the show, a good chunk of them hear/read media coverage of someone on a long streak racking up big bucks, and start tuning in regularly - to see them play, but also to "be there" when the run comes to an end. Then they go back to being sporadic viewers. Thus the ratings hike during streaks that get a lot of media attention.

"My sister and me". You use "me" with between, and you put yourself last, so it's "my sister and me". Just some trivia for the day.

I just saw that this morning (for the first time), and laughed aloud at the "P.S. I also took your room" note attached to the candy. In such a short span of time, those two young actors nicely presented the sibling dynamic.

She has her own competition show now, Alex vs. America. Obviously they filmed at different times, though, because Eric Adjepong - who's in ToC III - hosts it. I've watched a couple of episodes, and, as noted in the linked article, there are similarities to this show (they share a production company), including the blind judging. It's kind of like Beat Bobby Flay made with the sensibilities of this show minus the obnoxiousness of Guy Fieri and the uselessness of his spawn; it's good (despite the off-putting title).

I've been working a long time, including many offices that are all women, and have never once had that stereotypical experience. The occasional incident or person, of course, but never anything where the group of women as a whole in any way resembled the gossipy, catty cartoons we are stereotyped as. I'm not the one you asked, but: Absolutely. But it's two-fold -- we need parental leave mandated and subsidized by the government, but we also need it to be understood within families as just that, parental leave. Not maternity leave. Parental leave, which should be distributed between both parents (if there are two) in the way that makes the most sense for them. Not with the default being a dad takes a few days off after the kid is born, but any extended leave is taken by moms. When it's seen as something mothers do, it harms all women, even those who don't have kids - as noted, women are denied hiring and/or promotion based on the "risk" she'll wind up taking leave, or quitting altogether, at some point to have kids. And then when it is something mostly only done by mothers, it harms their career trajectories because they dare take time away and are seen as less committed to their careers. If it's something parents do based on family circumstances, not gender roles, the stigma goes away and the time off is divided up equitably, so generally one person is not missing so much at once. There's a flip side, too, ways in which non-parents get screwed in the workplace. Elinor Burkett wrote a great book 20 years ago, The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless, examining that side of the coin. (Basically, Corporate America fucks everyone but the top brass.)

I wind up laughing at most of the Temptations commercials, because no scenario is too over the top -- being made almost exclusively of things that aren't good for them, cats go totally nuts for it. I call it "kitty crack".

I don't believe it; I think he wanted carpet, yes, but I don't think he actually thought it was great to have carpet in the bathroom. I think that was just one of the many times they each disagreed with the other for the sake of being contrary.

Exactly. As they did with Matt's, and with James's. I haven't looked any farther back than that, but that's already a consistent pattern no producer in their right mind is going to preclude the future possibility of by imposing a limit on the number of games a contestant can win. The only reason they would is if the financials swing the opposite way - if contestants going on long runs and getting so comfortable they consistently rack up big bucks in lock games means that cumulative payout by the end of their run is so much larger than the total they'd have paid to various contestants over the same period it isn't worth it for the increased ad revenue made possible by the increased ratings. And I don't see that ever happening. This show is tremendously profitable for Sony.

Exactly. I mean, I wouldn't live in Temecula or Winchester, either, but definitely not in Hemet. (I've been to both places, visiting a friend's family.) I gave them props for not introducing him to the daughter until the couple was serious, and for saving for a house rather than spending money on a honeymoon (except they apparently didn't save much, since they were putting zero down; they probably blew all their money on a wedding), but once they said they'd been through three real estate agents already, I knew they were going to be annoying. First up was him wanting carpet. Yay. I don't care for it, but it's nice to see on HH since that hardly ever happens. But then he wanted it because he doesn't like his feet being dirty. Okay, but hard floors stay much cleaner than carpet with routine cleaning. Then there was her evaluating houses based on seeing trick-or-treaters walk up and hanging stockings on a mantle. Cue standard script of three boring cookie cutter homes, with them having opposite ideas about everything. I quickly remembered why I watch maybe one episode a year. (I just watched it now after reading the comments here; I laughed every time they said the daughter's name, because thanks to this thread I couldn't hear it as anything other than "Embryo".)

Since it seems you might be interested: FYI, there's extensive discussion of Whedon going on in the Entertainment Industry Predators thread. It begins here.

Ugh. Even where I'm initially interested in the under-represented people and issues, I give up on reality shows (not proper documentary series, but reality shows) after the first couple of seasons because they stop being an accurate glimpse into someone's real life and become a series of staged shenanigans that have zip.shit to do with the original premise. But, with nothing else on and not wanting to do anything productive, I decided to watch tonight. These folks have devolved as much as I thought they had from keeping up with events by reading here. I mean, they're not awful at all, they're fundamentally good, but they really stink for continuing this spectacle when it has clearly gone from being something worthwhile to something that exploits and stunts the development of everyone regularly involved. And they don't need the show money to live a comfortable life, so there's no justification. I understand, fundamentally, Jeanette's struggle; she's been a SAHM for eons, including to a child who had special needs. The last piece of her primary identity is about to be gone, so who will she be now, when the last time she was first and foremost simply as her own person, not someone's wife and someone's mother, seems like a lifetime ago? It's a tough adjustment to which Greg cannot fully relate because he's had a career and was never "just" Jeanette's husband and the kids' dad. But, good grief. When Greg asks why it should be any different for Jazz to have to learn to do her own laundry than she - and everyone else - had to do, and Jeanette says "because she's had all these difficulties"? Being transgender affects Jazz in numerous, significant ways, but it has nothing to do with her ability to procure clean clothes for herself! It's natural for her to have developed a co-dependent relationship with Jazz, but for her to deny it when it's pointed out to her is a problem. If Sander wants more respect for his career, he needs to do something more than shove his stupid phone in everyone's face. And, yeah, exploiting the family for money is learned behavior, but the show films for limited, pre-arranged times, while he seems to constantly be documenting and broadcasting their lives (and instead of developing one of his own, while the other kids have individual pursuits). Of course, given their history, it's also entirely possible they have no actual issue with his chosen path, and this was yet another storyline. But, no matter how scripted, the closing video was cute. And the Smithsonian segment was nice, for Jazz to see herself immortalized as a museum-worthy piece of women's history! She really has made a difference beyond what most can claim. Should the line between example/educator/activist and regular kid have been drawn differently? That can be debated even long after the Jennings are all gone. But she brought the realities of being a transgender kid into the living rooms of people who would have never even thought about the issue otherwise.

So it's a reboot of the reboot? Blech. I enjoyed the original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High, but found the next generation stuff unwatchable.

But one that, at 94, you're likely to have (as a man [the prostate cancer prong]). At least he died at home, with his family present. I can't find a more recent public appearance than 2017, at the TCM Classic Film Festival when In the Heat of the Night's 50th anniversary was celebrated and he participated in the Q&A, but his daughter posted a picture of him playing on the beach with his granddaughter a year ago. So it seems he was doing physically well for most of his 94 years, but I hope he - and his family - didn't suffer the ravages of dementia for terribly long before his heart - the cause of death, with dementia and prostate cancer being listed as underlying health issues - gave out.

I love the kid's reactions, too, but I find the backdrop sad; the dad has a teenage boy happily spending time with him away from the hustle and bustle of daily life, and this grown man is thinking about his phone - not for work or anything temporarily necessary, but that he can post a stupid video even out in the middle of a lake.

Unless contractually stipulated, it can be the owner and/or the lessee (that's how the same show aired in syndication on two different networks can have different cuts). Sometimes the studio will hire someone to produce a cut for time syndicated version, and then a particular network picking it up will make additional cuts for content (e.g. the puritans at Hallmark).

Right, so it's not just vegan dishes for which you wouldn't use chicken broth/stock; you wouldn't use it in a vegetarian dish, either. You could use it in a dish using faux meat eaten by someone who does eat meat, but just happens to be making this one with a meat substitute (like your chili scenario, or the stroganoff recipe mentioned), but not in a vegetarian dish. One of my close friends is a vegetarian, and she loves my spinach, artichoke & cheese dip. It involves 1/2 cup of stock, and when I make it, I generally use chicken stock because I always have homemade chicken stock in the freezer but virtually never make vegetable stock. When she'll be sharing it with me, though, I have to get some damn vegetable stock so it's vegetarian. (She would never, ever know if I used that measly amount of chicken stock, but I'd know and I won't do that to her.)

I'm a little surprised that, with all that extra time to think about it, Dan didn't have an "a-ha!" moment when Taryn said "alert & alter" and come up with the right answer, but I know it's a lot easier at home! On a shallow note, I love the color of Amy's blouse tonight. She's worn quite a few colors I really liked. I joined the contestants in the Phil Murphy TS, and missed four other scattered clues in the first round, with no bad categories (and I ran three of them). In DJ, though, I only ran anagrams. And I didn't do very well in much of the rest -- I missed all but Amy Winehouse in deep cuts and three each in cars and murals. I missed two each in the others. And no FJ. Boo, his.

Or that when you're through with a show, you're through with it. I still have people trying to get me to watch seasons eight and nine of The X-Files. Why? I gradually lost interest in the show somewhere in season five, and quit altogether at some point in season seven, because even the great dynamic between Mulder and Scully wasn't enough to slog through the mythology mess. I later made it through the revival seasons 10 and 11 to see how things played out with them working together again. If anyone enjoyed those two seasons with no Mulder and two new characters, rock on with their bad selves. They do not interest me now any more than they interested me then. I don't know why that matters to anyone.

I hate when people write about things they obviously don't watch; he calls Harris Dan's daughter. (Probably because the one thing he did know, the ages of Joe Walsh and John Goodman, would lead to the assumption Walsh's character's son would be dating Goodman's character's daughter.) Anyway, gee, I can't wait to see Dan defend this weird-ass relationship. And more of Darlene making an idiotic jerk of herself over Ben. Not. Hopefully the Goodman/Walsh duet will be enjoyable, despite being totally random, like that time they brought Blues Traveler on for Goodman to sing with John Popper.

It's a company that sells copper-infused compression sleeves, and runs a bunch of annoying commercials for them making all sorts of claims. They recently announced they were partnering with fellow pseudo-science peddler Gwyneth Paltrow - whose line will come in her "favorite feminine colors, Serenity Blue and Powder Pink" 🙄 - so now she's in one of the commercials.

There are aspects of the Battlestar Galactica finale that are iffy, but there are more aspects that are quite beautiful and powerful, so on the whole I think it's great and a fitting end to a thought-provoking series (and I can count on one hand the sci-fi series/movies I've liked, so to get me swept up in four seasons worth is a feat).

I do not share the sausage aversion (I think it's very much something Dan would do to get a laugh after he got caught switching his plate for Harris's, and I'm certainly not grossed out by it - he didn't open his mouth to show a lump of masticated food, it's just an uneaten piece of sausage touching nothing other than his own mouth), and I doubt they'll spend the money on shooting a new sequence unless Katey Sagal becomes a regular and the show goes on long enough that it looks weird for Louise not to be in the scene (they didn't shoot a new one to add Ben even though Jay R. Ferguson gets a last billing credit even for episodes in which he does not appear).

I haven't been anywhere near as amused by the newest entries in the Mayhem series as I have most of the earlier ones, but I do love that line. I appreciate the concept of the "fries" one, since I pick up fast food maybe once a year and, yes, absolutely must eat a few fries on the way home, but in execution it's just okay: They seem to have lost their touch.

Yeah, I've never understood memorizing the names of the Great Lakes in a random order rather than in geographic order. My own SMHEO mnemonic is something personal that wouldn't make sense to others, but SuperMan Helps EveryOne seems easy to remember if I didn't have that, so I don't really get people memorizing HOMES instead of SMHEO -- the two things being equal, why not memorize a mnemonic that gives you more information? Since I was reading the archive, I couldn't see the visual hint within the Huron clue - was it a picture of the lake, or was it a map of the Great Lakes highlighting that one? (Because I quiz myself on geography for fun - I know, I'm a real hit at parties - all I needed was east coast of Michigan to get it.)

Nothing wrong with the hit, but that should have been a taunting penalty. All the stupid shit they've called under the new rule, and that's ignored? I don't think Akers realized Baker was hurt when he did it, but it doesn't matter - that's taunting. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Rams play, and hope they bring it next week. They're my only team to actively root for, since everyone else I'm neutral on or, in the case of the Bucs because of Tom Brady, rooting against.