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Exactly. I will not miss the sexism, but I'm going to miss him, terrible impressions and all. I'm sad it happened during a hiatus, so that he didn't get those final 30 seconds to sign off like he'd wanted. But on the flip side, his final deterioration happening during hiatus meant he didn't have to decide when to say when on the job he loved so much. On air, he'll have left on a high note. And he lived far longer than expected and had made peace with his fate. He loved his work and his family, and you don't need more than that; he had the bonus of being loved by millions. He had a great life, but I'm sure going to miss his nightly presence in mine. (I missed the last two weeks' episodes for various reasons, and now I'm sad I missed 10 of my last chances.)

He lived a hell of a lot longer than I expected and had made peace with his fate, but it still stings to lose Alex Trebek. Sometimes his snark to a contestant was unearned, and the patronizing sexism will not be missed, but he was Jeopardy!'s best host and the show will never be the same with another. He had a good sense of humor about himself. As I said in the J! forum, he loved his work and his family, and you don't need more than that, but he was lucky enough to also be appreciated by millions of people. He lived a great life, and I am going to miss his routine presence in mine.

Hadn't she only completed two years? (I keep track via syndication and this forum, so sometimes I'm off, but I think that was the timelime.) She's been working all along, so that would mean the part-time, not the full-time program, meaning four years rather than three to graduate. Transferring after first year is still far more common, but after two of four makes a hell of a lot more sense than after two of three. The fundamental issue remains shipping her off via scholarship to a prestigious law school; I appreciate wanting to give the character a happy ending, and that happy ending being professional rather than romantic, but she got into/had to argue her way into a college and then law school that admitted pretty much everyone other than her. It's a no-brainer to, upon needing to write her out, say her big fish in small pond academic performance plus internship recommendation resulted in an offer to transfer to a better school that she'd obviously jump on - but a Georgetown scholarship is just ridiculous.

I just saw this one, and I agree - the actor playing the partner absolutely nails the nervousness anyone would feel and how that's magnified for a same-sex couple; the facial expressions and body language going on in a brief commercial are really something, and far better evoke emotion than would have a more ham-handed script of the same scenario.

I just heard that one, and I agree! It doesn't last very long, but, damn, it feels like it does.

Beef stroganoff is one of my best friend's favorite meals, but I don't care for it at all. I hate sour cream, don't like sirloin (I do like tri tip, well-marinated, but in general I'm not a huge beef fan; the only steak I love is ribeye, and I also like filet mignon), and it doesn't even look good on a plate to me. I don't know why I have such an aversion to just the sight of it - I don't like it, but I could certainly eat it to be polite if it was served to me - but I do.

Gracie jumping into the car of the person trying to shoo her out of the street is a great story. She's adorably friendly. It's a shame for her to get cancer at that age; it sucks any time, but you really feel cheated when it happens when they're younger. But better to have had these years with her than to have never come across her that day. "Do your best, and cross your fingers. ... You love them the best you can, and you let them go when you have to." Dr. Jeff has it right. Foxtails are awful; they can do so much damage! Pretzel was really happy the next morning for a dog who had almost all her teeth yanked. Good drugs, but her mouth probably already felt better with dulled pain than it had before. She had such personality in her new home; definitely a happy ending. The vaccine clinic at the food pantry had me wondering a bit; if these folks are having trouble affording vaccinations and food, how many of those pets aren't fixed? Yet the clinic was just for shots, not spay/neuter. Because the neighborhood is nearby, maybe PPP gave vouchers to anyone seen that day with an unaltered pet, to bring them in later for surgery. Abel's owner's frustration and fear that tests didn't reveal what was wrong, and worrying that no one will figure it out - been there, done that, so I was glad he just needed to be flushed out really well and then use a diet change to fight future inflammation. A wildlife refuge with skyscrapers in the background is quite a sight. Dr. B jumping a little when the bison calf in the chute moved made me smile, as did him telling her/him, "Thank you," after he finished taking the blood sample.

I am completely unable to fathom anyone wanting people to show up at their home unannounced. I live a little less than ten miles from my parents (and used to live half that distance away) and generally see them once a week, so I understand someone wanting to live close to their parents - but I don't understand needing close to mean five minutes. Half an hour IS close.

I haven't watched this yet, but I wanted to check in here to see how they explained Christy's absence. Having her transfer to a better law school was my suggestion when Faris's departure was announced, so obviously I like this choice, but damn, show - I didn't mean a full ride to Georgetown! That's ridiculous.

Darlene was a big reader, and I think we saw Harris reading when someone came into her room in some episode. Maybe the Conner-Healy branch of the family brought books with them when they moved in.

I've been re-watching Cold Case lately, and making a bit of a game out of how many guest stars I recognize from other things - either before or after that show - but it often takes me a bit to recognize where I know them from. The actor who plays Schneider appeared in an episode, and when it came to me and I thought, "Oh! It's Schneider," the voice in my head said his name in Lydia's accent.

About 400 years ago. But it has become far more common in recent years - and it's annoying.

Other than in the middle of a deadly pandemic, I give zero thought to germs, but even I would not want to eat in a shared bathroom. Because, again, don't care about germs, but the sounds and smells from others are not exactly conducive to eating, not to mention the cramped quarters and uncomfortable seat. I get that this is fall in Illinois, not Los Angeles where I live, so eating outdoors is probably not an option, but how about in the car? If they take the bus to work (or parking is far enough away it's not feasible to clock out, get her food prepped, go to the car, eat, come back and clock back in), did she even try sitting by herself or with Becky in the breakroom and just not participating in conversation beyond that which is necessary to be polite if someone else sat down and started chatting? I know she said something about looking funny while she eats, but I think Darlene fundamentally just wants to be left alone at lunch. And I can understand that, but there has to be a better way than eating in an employee bathroom!

Colleen Flynn. She's appeared in several shows I've watched; she had a recurring role on Judging Amy, and guest starred on Cold Case, The Closer, and The X-Files. She has an everyperson quality that makes her well-suited to these one-off sympathetic roles, because you really get caught up on what the character is going through. She and Whitford did a great job keeping their ER characters feeling real, with a script that sometimes tried get a little too on the nose making them the perfect couple and parents-to-be.

Oh, she was referring back to when she told Darlene the nice things Roseanne said about her when she was born, Becky asked what good things Roseanne said about her, and she didn't have anything? I see. (So that when Becky said she'd been good at drinking, she said, "Your mother did tell me you liked the bottle".) That makes a lot more sense, duh. I'm not sure Roseanne was working at Wellman back when Becky was a baby (I thought she'd been there about ten years when she quit); Nicole is ultimately just making a joke, regardless, but I think not having that timeline as head canon is partly why I missed it (election anxiety-induced bourbon consumption being the other part). Anyway, I'm still irritated they brought back someone who actually had worked with Roseanne at Wellman, but then invented a new character to be the one to say, "I worked with your mom here" and lecture Darlene about her attitude. Why not just give that story to Juanita? Especially since she'd quit and opened up a business with her husband; her having to come back to Wellman would give a nice context to her giving Darlene the reality check, because she'd relate to it feeling like a giant step backwards.

I used to have a ridiculous amount of X-Files merchandise, but I sold/donated it all about 15 years ago -- except for my Mulder and Scully action figures from the first movie. Those guard the TV in my home office.

She lived 91 years, and, as woman in her thirties, launched a screen career back when the industry told women they were done at that age, not just getting started, ultimately accumulating over 75 credits and working into her 80s. My condolences to her loved ones, but if she had as good a life as her IMDb bio suggests, hooray for her.

Fun to see Juanita again! But why the hell not give the "I worked with your mom" storyline to a character who actually did, rather than to a stranger? (I've liked Anna Maria Horsford since Amen, so it was nice to see her, but come on.) And this rando saying Roseanne told her Becky liked to hit the bottle was dumb; by the time Becky started drinking heavily, Wellman was long gone (and Roseanne working there was even longer gone; she quit at the end of season one) so they wouldn't have been in touch, let alone to share stuff like that. (Oops; re-watching it, I see I missed the joke. Complaint withdrawn.) Darlene and Becky maskless at Wellman continues to drive me nuts; I know it's because they want to show the actors' faces as much as possible, and they're showing the sisters without anyone else around (which is not how factories work), but it's still distracting - and then they get to the break room and it's even worse. And why the fuck is Dan still having poker games? I'm glad this was the first one and everyone else was smart enough to cancel. Dan getting butthurt at Louise going home was ridiculous. She ought to be going home regularly; part of the bubble, not living there (like Jackie and D.J. and Mary). I'm trying to decide if it's in character for him to be that needy, having had a woman living with him for almost his entire adult life, and him being all in once he's in. Maybe. But "How can you be so stupid and still survive?" was great, regardless, and I like that they worked it out in the end. Darlene realizing why her mom sucked it up, did that job, and made the best of it was overdue, but welcome. And Louise and Harris were nice (although, WTF with "dating" [it was online only, right?] a married man being stupid but no big deal?) together. Ben again made me laugh when he said, "I was just faking it until I could get my hands on all of this" when Darlene said he was more interesting in the beginning.

Yet when they air the commercial promoting their crime shows, Cold Case isn't included. So I'm still binge-watching just in case it does get yanked soon; I'm a few episodes into season six. For all the show's myriad recurring faults - police misconduct brushed off, the characters talking about Person of Interest B in front of Person of Interest A (which they keep doing even after it results in a vigilante father trying to throw someone off a roof!), the godsawful personal storylines (I think Lilly and Scotty were in some sort of contest for the most ridiculous love life), the formulaic nature, etc. - I've been struck by how the final scenes are not just cool musical montages (since the music is a good 80% of the show's appeal) but terrific statements on the futility of violence. Especially when watching so many of them in such a short time span, those endings really drive home how many lives are destroyed by one act. The killers' intents vary - everything from accidental to premeditated - but we consistently see that the life taken away is only the start of the damage; the victim's loved ones, the killer's loved ones, the witnesses, those who had a temporary beef with the victim and never got the chance to resolve it, the killer, those who killed in retaliation for the original homicide and their own circle of loved ones ... a whole bunch of lives are all irrevocably altered. I can get distracted by calculating how quickly most of these cases won't hold up as soon as the arrestees secure legal representation, but by ending with the arrest and cuing up the montage showing all the folks the episode was about, I'm quickly shifted away from the legalities and back to the people.

Godsdammit. If the entire Giants defense opts to corner Daniel Jones in the showers and beat him with soap in socks, I will absolutely look the other way. Of course the D wasn't perfect, and of course there were additional problems on offense. But fuck that guy. He makes the same stupid-ass mistakes under pressure game after game. And if he hadn't done so tonight, this terrible team would have won.

They mentioned Geena - when Darlene comes up with her brilliant idea to up and take Mary, she tells Becky, "Until Geena gets back, we have to move her into the house."

I cannot listen to this song without tearing up. This damn song - which I like, but is ranked too high - is used in some commercial that airs a lot, and it gets stuck in my head all the time. Way too low.

I've provided the same care, and my oldest was 19 at death, most were around 16, a couple were 13, and two were only around nine. While I prefer to adopt adults, kittens have dropped into my life, yet there's not remotely a guarantee of a better outcome if I'm the one providing their care almost all their lives - I got the one who lived to 19 at approximately one year, but also got one of those who died at 13 at about six months and the other one at just a couple of months. Just like with people, a pet's diet and medical care increases the odds, but one can't control for genetics and/or chance.

That's almost me with Red Hot Chili Peppers; I can maybe handle "Love Rollercoaster" (only because it's a decent cover of a song I kind of liked to begin with), but I otherwise hate all their songs I know and will immediately change the station when they come on or cringe until they're done if they play in a bar. It wasn't always like that, either; I quickly got so ever-loving sick of "Under the Bridge" for how often it was played that other songs of theirs I'd been "eh, fine" on suddenly and permanently also became unbearable to me. I really cannot listen to them, other than that one song (which I will still skip past if I'm in control, but won't twitch if I have to be subjected to it).

I think ticking Ed and Holly off was part of the appeal of Roger for Maureen at first, and I liked that orneriness from her (and loved the mutual respect and affection that developed between her and Roger). I also liked how annoyed Holly was by Maureen sometimes; it was a fun contrast to everyone else thinking she was the Saint of Springfield. And I loved most of all that they had moments when they genuinely liked each other, and were honest about the fact they were each a little jealous of the other.