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That "Don't get above your raising" storyline was really well done, with Darlene suddenly seeming like a "them" rather than an "us" to the family back in Lanford, so all her usual sarcastic digs they'd also make themselves no longer felt okay coming from her. And it's indeed a sad commentary on how things have changed; even at the time Roseanne said it, it was no longer true that Darlene's education meant she'd do better than them and her future kids would do even better than her, but it still felt true to someone who grew up when Roseanne did and Darlene believed it as well. By the time Darlene hit the same age, it was quite demonstrably untrue. This spinoff is more ham-fisted in its delivery, but the original series did a terrific job of showing the truth behind the "American Dream" myth. The destruction of unions put middle class out of reach for blue collar workers, the decimation of small businesses severely narrowed that other traditional path, and higher education certainly wasn't an automatic golden ticket like it was trumpeted to be; individual success stories aside, most people who are born poor will die poor.

I think raisins are a crime against grapes, but this had me laughing out loud. It's science, Grandma!

I generally really like those "on a spotty network, this is what you hear" commercials (even, quite grudgingly if I'm in the right mood, the one with Tom Brady and Gronk), but with that one I'm distracted by how fucking ugly that shirt she's considering wearing when she thinks it's a regular business dinner is. And then I get way too realistic, and start wondering why in the world when her ... friend? co-worker? ... seems to have said, "Wear something crazy; it's a costume party," she doesn't ask, "What? No one mentioned that." Or even if she for some reason just accepts that, how does discussion of what she should go as not follow, leading the other woman to clear up the confusion? Basically, this would never actually transpire in real life. And in many commercials I just go with such scenarios, but with this one I can't get sucked in.

I love that after all this time and all she's seen, Tia still gets upset obsessing over what dogs must be thinking as they're abandoned. That was an impressively nice shelter for what is not a wealthy area (I looked it up, thinking maybe it was a wealthy ranching area, and there is some of that, but it also has a good chunk of the population below the poverty line and the average annual income is pretty low), but I appreciate that Tia feels Nina is her responsibility, and wants her friend, too, given how pits fare in even the best municipal shelters. I also appreciate that they've never shied away from allowing adoption fails to be shown. Bro running full speed into Tater was funny, but there's a difference between the slow-as-molasses Potato and the hyper-excited Remington. I loved the adopters for the Remington Steele reference, and I'm glad everyone wanted to give it time to work but didn't want to force something that wasn't right. So cute to see the buddies now. M2 and Kanani are so wonderfully cognizant of the fact Luke has been an only child for a long time, and he's not Kanani's biological child while his sister will be, thus making the effort to be honest with him about the baby needing a lot of attention, but him not being any less important or loved. Losing half that iron Villalobos gate to hurricane winds, yikes - I understand that being emotional, and the warehouse that was a home when they needed it so badly no longer being the right place for them. Was this the last episode of this batch, and we'll pick back up with them moving into the new place?

After staring into the refrigerator for a while, I realized I have the ingredients for bún ga nuong. So I've got chicken thighs marinating, and made the nuoc cham, and tonight will make a big bowl of vermicelli, vegetables, and herbs, top with the grilled chicken, drizzle with a generous portion of sauce, and enjoy.

She already did that at the Mexican restaurant (she was still working there when she quit drinking) and it didn't cause a problem for her.

Yep, you got it right - he's the one who performed the funny "It Wasn't Me" song the commercials are riffing on.

I saw them in Moxie. It's a problematic film with some real positives, but their scene is fun. I don't know why they're suddenly getting internet attention several months later, but good for them because they're great.

I think I vaguely recognized Veronica. I missed two prefixes (including cyber, which was a major duh! moment when revealed) and two Stephen King titles, but otherwise ran the first round. In DJ, the "sweetheart" hint in the first Hole clue led me to say "love" rather than "bogey", even though that is completely the wrong sport. Yikes. I got the rest of that category, and ran countries, jargon, and T. But I didn't get a single mythology clue right (I should have come up with Electra, but the others I had no chance at) and only got two in She Sang It In a Movie. I didn't even have a guess for FJ.

I'm off today, and have been doing a whole lot of nothing, including watching part of "Thick as Thieves" on StartTV. Trials on TV always irritate me with their inaccuracies, and Slider's is no exception, but I try to let things go - like a death penalty case lasting a few days (especially irksome since they weren't totally out there with the time between arrest and trial like most shows are). But there's a continuity error that annoys me: Andrea refers to Bug's testimony (which we didn't see), in which she described watching Slider "as he started drowning Marianna Wallace in a swimming pool" and how the victim was "held underwater for over a minute". Except there's no way she said any of that. (Unless Andrea suborned perjury, which they certainly don't intend for us to infer.) Bug ran back inside when "Alice" fell as Slider was chasing her, so before he even rolled her into the pool and certainly before he held her under when she yelled at him for trashing her phone. Bug later saw him take money out of Marianna's pocket, and she helped him pawn the stolen items from the house after he put the body - which she wouldn't touch - in his trunk. She knows he killed her. But didn't see it. It's one of the reasons Andrea was initially willing to offer Slider a deal. Grrr. With a year and a half between episodes, I don't expect the average viewer to remember. I would like it if the writers did, however. Of course, it's possible they did remember, but didn't care since they just wanted a shortcut to setting up Andy's dramatic demonstration of how long a minute is. But that brings me to another annoyance, because Andrea would have asked the "Is that enough time to kill someone?" question of Dr. Morales, not Andy. (In real life, if she had asked Andy, Slider's lawyer would have objected and it would have been sustained.) I know, this is the kind of stuff that only bugs lawyers; it's one of the many reasons I don't watch most crime dramas. But this show is typically better about that stuff than most, so it disappoints me when the writers get lazy.

I've heard of it, but never had it. I haven't had cottage cheese since I was a kid, and I don't think I ever had it in a warm dish. But if someone handed me lasagna that had been made with it, I'd try it. I'm not a huge fan of traditional lasagna, as I'm not big on tomato-based sauces and I don't generally like ground beef other than as a cheeseburger. I love white sauce lasagna with sausage and spinach, kale, or chard, though. And now I want some, but I don't think I have the noodles. Yeah, sometimes I think everything made in the '70s involved canned cream of something - mushroom, chicken, broccoli, celery.

I forgot to mention that, but I thought the same thing last night once I saw it written: It should have been Kokozón to better incorporate corazón with kokoro.

Yeah, he sucked all the interesting right out of her. I love the scene when he's trying to encourage her by talking about the five-year survival rate, and she just gazes out towards her kids and softly says something like, "Five years. They'll barely be teenagers."

I think I'm going to get some for overnights; I'd heard about them awhile back, and have been contemplating it since I started seeing the commercial. I hate pads, but I can't count on waking up in time to change tampons overnight, so I wear a pad as well then as back-up. It's reusable, since I'm creating enough waste with the tampons, but it's still a pad; I'm sure I'd like the period panties much better just for the lack of bulk. (And I don't have any squeamishness about washing them, so that doesn't bother me.) Thanks to you and @TattleTeeny for the review.

Yes. I don't know if they think that makes it a funny running gag that their kisses either don't happen or are cut away from, or if it's just something that has happened twice by coincidence. I thought this non-kiss was fine on its own, but it did give me flashbacks to the awkward cut away, and then it wasn't.

"What made you get out [of the Marines]?" "Bombs." Ha! Good for you, brother. It was interesting to hear how Keely had no interest in a promotion, wanting to keep working the streets, but changing her mind when the top brass came to her and said she has what it takes. I also love her saying everyone knew who was in charge before she had all the extra insignia on her uniform.

I'm a Los Angelena, and correctly guessed that one even without seeing the picture (which would have confirmed it) based on "longtime NY senator" but I think one might need to be a bit of a policy wonk to get it. I said "paper pusher" and am so confident that would have been accepted I'm surprised it wasn't noted as an alternate answer.

I don't think so, other than Sara having a different idea of what she was following with one course. Team Penny's lack of cohesive progression went far beyond Dawn being late in finalizing her dishes (in fact, I think because she was safe for producing, by leaps and bounds, the best food of the team, the editors played up her delayed communication for suspense before ultimately admitting via JT footage that she was never a consideration for elimination). She could have told her team from jump exactly what two delicious courses she was going to do and they'd have still been a mess in that it was a sequence of dishes rather than a meal, there was no interaction with the guests, there was the "all hands on deck" each course "non-strategy strategy" rather than dedicating anyone to any of the necessary tasks.

It could have been if it existed in a vacuum, that she pretended to want privacy to say a proper hello but really wanted to ask him WTF? about not telling her the shitshow Mary has been living in that is allegedly better than being alone at home. But since it exists in the same universe in which they cut away just as DJ and Geena went in for a simple kiss in a previous episode, it's troubling. Since the show is going to go the marriage route with them, blah, I hope they do indeed just get married while traveling, and the next season opens with them married, rather than their wedding being a storyline. Because a) I don't care, and, more importantly, b) the more they show of them getting engaged/married without ever showing a moment of bittersweet twinge from any of the kids, or Dan "talking to Roseanne" in some way to be fully ready for this step, the more glaring that omission is.

I like the Chef’s Table twist on Restaurant Wars, and like that for this challenge they got to go pick out their own ingredients rather than ordering online. I feel like we saw more of the brainstorming process this time, and I enjoyed it. Kokoson’s service had me drooling! There was not a single bite of food I didn’t want to eat. What a great compliment for Tom to say they raised the bar for every Restaurant Wars to come. I’m so happy for Maria getting the win; it’s nice to see service be the thing that puts someone over the top in RW instead of sending them home. I have, for some reason, been tickled my whole life by getting a hot towel on an airplane, so I liked that touch by Penny. And it’s a nice idea to immediately hand an amuse bouche to chef’s table diners, but that thing was too big. Add in their lack of interaction with the judges, totally missing the point of a chef’s table, and I knew they couldn’t win no matter how good the food. And once it got going, it became clear the “non-strategy strategy” was a mistake, because it was a collection of dishes rather than a progressive meal. And some of those dishes weren’t what they should have been to boot. Dawn’s two dishes had me wanting to crawl through the screen to get to them, though. Gabe’s octopus was very inviting, too. And Chris’s dessert was quite interesting; I suspect I’d be like Padma, not expecting to like it and winding up loving it. But you can’t keep screwing up pasta! I thought it should have been Chris eliminated, or maybe Gabe, and find myself a bit annoyed that it was Sara. I know, I know – I don’t taste the food, and it’s not based on cumulative performance (in which case Chris would be the obvious selection). But still; emotionally, I share the “What? No, you’re not” reaction of the others when she said she was the one going home. I guess it's that all three had one dish they liked and one they didn't, but they liked the hits by Gabe and Chris a little more than they liked her hit. Because I don't think they disliked her miss more than their misses. I hope she comes back from LCK.

I just checked the archive, since I'm going to be watching something else tonight, so I don't know if I'd have recognized anyone. Probably not. I ran constitution, cities, and jobs in the first round, and only missed four total across the other categories. Things went downhill in DJ as usual - and then some. I didn't run a single category. And I only came up with two each in battles (I hate war history!) and authors. I missed one or two each in all the others, for 12 total. (It could have only been a nice, round ten if I'd picked the other gang from West Wide Story and been able to get Norgay from my brain to my mouth in time.) No clue on FJ, so I was just as stumped as the contestants.

Same. I don't want the police in my life, and I'm not going to bring them into anyone else's, either, unless it is one of the few things to which they are the appropriate solution.

In my experience (and a quick internet search bore this out), it's the opposite - cabinets to the ceiling used to be the norm, and it's in the last several decades that the open space became a trend. My 1938 house - very much a middle class home when built, not at all upscale - has the original kitchen cabinets, and they go all the way to the ceiling. That was typical for the neighborhood. Same with my parents' house, built in the early '60s. I don't remember seeing a kitchen with a gap between cabinets and ceiling until the '80s in a cheap apartment. I thought it was ugly, but after I saw the same in nicer kitchens I realized it was just an ugly kitchen, period (I still prefer cabinets that go all the way to the ceiling, but I don't automatically hate the others).

Me too, which is why I was complaining about the damn thing being in my head.

I believe that part is technically the Gulf of Something, rather than the Red Sea proper.