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Bret Michaels hit on a friend and me when we were sixteen (and looked it, if that matters to anyone). We were easily able to extricate ourselves, but ew.

It is. I saw that commercial on TV the other night and changed the channel, because it was a kid followed by obnoxious VO about a sale -- pass. This time I watched it through to the end, and, yes, that second "It's a chair" is perfect - her voice and mannerism.

I only watched little bits and pieces because it’s now football season, so: - Dr. Pol as a local celebrity is amusing and endearing, like competing in a bowling tournament against a mini-horse - Do I need to rant again about buying a puppy from a breeder, especially with no vaccination records (and then waiting three days after symptoms present to seek veterinary attention)? Please no? Okay. But I’m glad the potential for a tragic result continues to be shown, even on this show that normalizes breeders, and I’m sorry Blue wasn’t among the lucky ones who can recover from the avoidable viral infection that is parvo - Biting a chainsaw and walking away with some chipped teeth is pretty impressive - I don’t know how you think your cat has gone blind for a week before taking him in, but I’m glad Louie (who seems to have never had a dental, given the color of his teeth) was given a good prognosis - The bad tooth cat is zaftig, so he may be given too much to eat when his teeth allow, or that may just be his natural state; he's certainly cute running around and then falling over for snuggles

Sharon Beck referring to Rusty as “our son” to Sharon is my favorite part of “N.S.F.W.” – but Amy telling Provenza to tell Patrice she’s doing a good job with his sensitivity training is a close second. I missed a few chunks of this episode to watch football, but I think I caught everything I like most. Like Provenza being excited they get to see how Julio dresses for a date (and that it’s the same as for work). But can you imagine if his date had shown up? She’d have found a man wearing a wedding ring and filling out an application to be a foster parent – and run right back out the door. I love his “can’t be any worse than my last date,” referring to Stephanie Dunn. How does Julio deduce the guy at the bar was on the job? I guess his spidey sense lets him detect a fellow cop, because I didn’t see anything in the guy’s dress or demeanor in those, what, three seconds? that gave Det. Hudson away. Another little thing that bugs me is something I only noticed because I first watched this on DVD and thus paused it to check the prop: When Provenza signs in, the log realistically includes patrol officers and LAFD EMTs, but does not include any other members of Major Crimes – yet Provenza is the last to arrive. I never noticed this until tonight’s viewing, but the part of Bo’s tie that goes around his neck sticks out beneath his collar, because the collar is oddly short. Was this a fashion trend at the time (a precursor to suits cut to look a size too small?) I just never noticed? The looks Sharon and Amy share about idiotic/gross men are always great, and Bo certainly gives them plenty to commiserate about. I particularly like Amy’s "ugh" as she reads his website name of “finallyfreegame.com”. And Sharon’s “’As we all know’, really?” and door-flinging entrance into the interview room. And, of course, Sharon – making sure to bring Amy with her - stopping him at the elevator to point out he admitted, twice now, to having sex with women who could not consent. “You’re under arrest for I don’t know how many counts of rape.” Taylor’s increasing freak-out was entertaining, as he realizes he doesn’t have a drug-dealing cop to explain, but one who used a minor as a CI, tossed her into the cesspool of the porn world, and ultimately got her killed. “Could you panic more quietly, please?” is great. “Foreign Affairs” I only saw in bits and pieces as I was watching football, which was a mild bummer because it’s the first episode of this season I feel fires on all cylinders; the first two are a bit weak (for the show, not for TV in general). I missed my favorite moment, when Rusty responds to Sharon’s theory that the other Sharon may see this baby as a motivation to stay sober by saying, well, good luck to this kid then, because it’s more than he could ever do. Heartbreaking. But I did catch the cute moment when Amy, after a moment, reacts with "I feel so special” upon learning of the alert to all current and former military personnel and Sharon and Andy – standing next to each other but looking ahead - have pretty much the same facial reaction. They’ve always woven Amy’s military service into any situation it’s relevant, and I love her “You signed up, you swore an oath” refutation of the surviving guys justifying stealing the money. I also got to see Dr. Morales tossing the FBI out of his morgue. It’s one of my favorites of his scenes. But it raises a question: It’s a scene in which we see the DMV photo of Nick. This is one of the rare episodes in which that’s all we see of the victim – there’s no body on the table (since he’s decapitated) and we see no video footage or flashbacks of him. So there’s no credited actor, just someone’s headshot (horrible pun unintended). The photo looks similar, but not exact - different hairstyle and facial hair - to the actor who plays the boyfriend who turns out to be the father of the dead realtor’s kid (the skin care sales rep) in the next episode, “Skin Deep”, and I’ve always wondered if it’s the same actor and they just borrowed (with permission) his photo for this. Because they wouldn’t bother paying just to use an actor’s likeness in a headshot – it would either be a friend of the show (a fun little in-joke, where a writer/producer/whatever’s cousin’s photo is used as decapitated guy) or someone they were also going to use in a substantive way. Given the likeness, I suspect it’s the “Skin Deep” actor, but I’m not sure, because the photo is not definitive. I thankfully missed the scene where Gus draws a false equivalency between Sharon Beck’s fetus that will develop into Rusty’s sibling, which Rusty doesn’t want to hang with once it does, with Gus’s existing sibling he lived with for years and would love to see again. Rusty has been a noodle about the pregnancy, yes, (I love Sharon telling him “That is your mother’s choice, young man, not yours” when he says Sharon Beck shouldn’t have this baby), but he has the right to decide what relationship he’ll have with the kid once it exists. I like Sharon and Gus’s conversation about patience with Rusty paying off, but not Gus’s comparison part of that scene. There is another, this time little thing that oddly bugs me: Agent Soto repeatedly referring to the victim’s death as a “decapitation” when “beheading” – used by one or two other characters – is much more common. She’s not wrong – both describe the act of cutting off a head – but I’m used to “decapitation” referring to what happens to the victim, with “beheading” used when talking about a killer having decapitated the victim; basically, the killer beheads, the victim is decapitated. My only other little quibble with it is always making me want to hop in my time machine and travel to the writer’s room, because they missed an obvious opportunity for a great line. When the friends are hesitant to reveal where they went out drinking with Nick in front of the one’s fiancée (“It’s where he wanted to go, honey”), so Provenza sends the fiancée out of the room, once she’s gone Amy asks again for the name of “the bar”. But, based on the guys’ squirming in front of the fiancée, by now Amy of all people would know they were at some sort of titty bar. So her question after the woman left should have been “So, the name of this strip club is?” and they still could have segued to all the great stuff about no, no, it’s just a bikini bar, and it’s perfectly fine, but, no, the waitresses couldn’t possibly have boyfriends/husbands because no man would want his woman walking around like that. (And, of course, yet again, Julio knows the place, heh.) The only thing I truly dislike about the episode is the (admittedly, frustratingly realistic) way in which they regard the bar owner’s son for being wise enough to demand a warrant (in general, and especially in light of profiling).

It's nowhere near that bad at my parents' house, but there's only one good pizza place, one good Chinese, and two good Thai restaurants that deliver - but only the pizza place is open late (the Chinese restaurant will take delivery orders until about 9:45, but the Thai restaurants stop more than an hour before that). I live about ten miles away, and it's a completely different world - I have at least one and usually several good options for just about every cuisine, and better hours with most. It's never bothered them, as their natural state is to cook about 95% of the time, with most of that five percent consisting of eating out, and when I stay there kitty-sitting it's every other night for only one to four weeks, so it's no big deal to my temporary self. But it would bug me full time; I cook about 85% of the time, but when I decide to order in it's almost always because it has grown late and I don't feel like cooking. To be stuck with Pizza Hut and the like would frustrate me.

Yeah, the only way Gabby has been portrayed as a liar is with respect to deceiving herself all these years that she wasn't actually feeling what she was feeling or it didn't mean anything, so it makes sense that when the kiss forced her to be honest about those feelings, she'd still convince herself she could just "explore" via Andrea and not implode her marriage, only later - with her husband gone and her having had time in the aftermath of that departure and the conversation about sexual orientation with Christine - admitting "researching" for "method acting" is not going to cut it; she wants to do it in real life. But it would not make sense for her to be knowingly lying to her husband in their conversation, or to Christine in recounting it. She believes what she's saying when she's saying it; if there's any lying going on, it's again only to herself.

I watched "Bernice's Sanity Hearing" last night, and fondly remembered my then-roommate and I nearly wearing out our VHS recording of it. "He said Bernice is not crazy. But we are." I love that drinking makes Bernice sharper, and she spends the whole episode telling the rest of them they need to get it together. Mary Jo's demonstration of how a heavily-pregnant woman can put on her underwear is terrific, particularly that she shoves a pillow under her shirt for full effect. A co-worker is also a fan of the show, and if we have a case that might be going south on us, we always say something like "I'm afraid our entire case might be built around two Dicks and a hat" to each other for a moment of levity. And, of course, there's Charlene's reaction to reading that droves of killer bees are headed towards the United States from South America and will arrive in three to four years: "That is terrible. Can you imagine? I bet our bees are scared to death." It's another episode I cut off early, this time to avoid Julia's "May You Always" performance (there's even more of it in the credits -- stop the insanity!!), but other than that it's perfect.

A rare (5% of cancer patients) metastasis - leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, which is when cancer spreads to the membranes surrounding the brain and/or spinal cord (the meninges); I believe hers was in the brain. She had lung cancer ten years ago, and this hit four years later (in the rare cases it happens, it's usually lung cancer, brain cancer, or melanoma). It's not only virtually always terminal, death usually happens quickly -- months, not years.

The toxicology report confirms the rumors: Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs (found dead at 27 in his Texas hotel room July 1 [the Angels were in town to play the Rangers]) died of an accidental overdose. He had a combination of fentanyl (apparently the main culprit, and ingested shortly before his death), alcohol, and oxycodone in his system, and choked to death on his vomit. His family has hired an attorney to look into the possibility this "may involve an employee of the Los Angeles Angels. We will not rest until we learn the truth about how Tyler came into possession of these narcotics, including who supplied them." Following that allegation, Major League Baseball said it would assign its investigative unit to look into it.

Via the Sunday Night Football Twitter page, here's the commercial:

"Priestley also told "GMA" that Carol Potter, who played his mother, Sydney Walsh, will return ..."

Set floors are pretty dirty; when a character is barefoot (and I agree far more real people than TV characters go barefoot at home), if there's a moment that the bottom of her/his feet are visible for some reason, there will inevitably be internet chatter about how dirty they were. Well, yes. They're walking on a floor that has equipment rolled across it constantly.

I agree. I don't think they should have pandered to her by coming up with all these reasons for Julia to sing, period, but especially given her voice was nothing special. A lot of fans seem to enjoy it, though. It wasn't so bad in real time, but watching multiple episodes in a row on DVD means a whole lot of Julia singing in one night, and it becomes unbearable to me. Anyway, "bad old church lady warbling" was in my head last night as I watched "How Great Thou Art" -- it's one of my least-favorite moments of Julia singing, and I normally just move on to the next episode when I get to that scene at the end, but that means skipping the wonderful look of pride and joy on Charlene's face. (Jean Smart is so killer at those -- I get chills every.single.time I watch her react to seeing Mavis and the kids at the back of the auditorium in the "Rowdy Girls" episode.) So this time I decided to go ahead and watch for Charlene's face, because I could ignore the singing in favor of chuckling about the verbiage of your post. Thanks! I watched "Reservations for Eight" last night, the original vacation episode, and I wonder if they knew then they were going to make that a recurring storyline or if it's something they decided to do more of based on how well that one came off. Because that's an absolute classic. “Now, the truth is we women haven't had enough power or money or confidence to start much of anything, but we sure as heck get the blame for everything. And I'll tell you something else: I love men; in particular, I love this one. But you cannot ignore history. And history has shown that, in general, it has been the men who have done the raping and the robbing and the killing and the war-mongering for the last two thousand years. It has been the men who have done the pillaging and the beheading and the subjugating of whole races into slavery. It has been the men who have done the law making, and the money making, and most of the mischief making. So if the world isn't quite what you had in mind, you have only yourselves to thank.”

I didn't see it, but if she grew up in CA and has been living in England for a time, her speaking style may very well have naturally morphed into a combination of the two accents, and there may be times where one aspect is more prominent than the other (especially in situations where one is a little nervous and possibly even particularly conscious of how one sounds, like being on camera). Or, yeah, it could be an affectation, because look at who they cast on this show.

His last name is Thomason and he has very few credits to his name, with two of them being this show and Hearts Afire, so I've always figured he's related to Harry. Suzanne learns her accountant has absconded with her money in season two, and we just see Reggie's photo (she has to give one of him to the cops, and it's a headshot he signed to her "May you find the kind of happiness money can't buy"). It's not until season three that they find Reggie working as the bellboy/piano player at a local hotel (he'd been last spotted in Bimini) -- the "Reggie Mac is taking his break now, THANKYOU" episode. So I assume they used Harry's fledgling actor relative's headshot in the season two episode and then brought him back for an actual role when they decided to revisit the swindling storyline with a Suzanne vs. Reggie Mac showdown.

We join their conversation in progress. What exactly she wants "to explore" is not explicitly part of what we hear then, no, but she does specify in response to his "I don't know how I feel about this, but I don't want to have an open marriage" that it's not about having an open marriage (which, by definition, means she's ruling out the possibility of an additional partner) and what she talks about to others before and after that conversation-in-progress is always about Andrea's story. After, she corrects Christine's "I'm very invested in your story" by saying it's Andrea's and she's just very close to the character and, as their conversation progresses, eventually admits it's also hers, but in doing so says "I thought that if I had Andrea do this I could see how it feels." She further says she told her husband about this and he accused her of wanting to cheat, but that's not what this is. So at the time she talked to her husband, it was indeed about using art to dip a toe into this aspect of her life, not about actually pursuing something with a woman. (Again, which shouldn't need to be said, but apparently does, this doesn't lessen his reaction or the validity thereof; it's about why and what she is doing as circumstances progress.) And even when Christine tells her to think of this as method acting - live it to research the character - she says she's not ready for below the neck, and doesn't immediately back away from the "research" angle; she's still conflicted on what she's "allowed" to do. Granted, that means when the husband said "then go explore, but I'm not going to sit around while you do it" he, too, was only talking about the as-Andrea scenario, but I'm not nettled by the subsequent trajectory of their relationship not being spelled out step by step to where we wind up in the next episode; like I said before, in a character drama based on this premise, I'd raise hell, but for one storyline in a seven-character ensemble, no. Re-watching parts of this episode to confirm the dialogue, I saw for the first time something funny another poster had pointed out -- that Brian, the only one not wearing reading glasses, is holding the script out at his full arm extension. So he needs them, too, he just won't admit it. Terrific little touch I'm glad was pointed out since I missed it.

Maybe another thing that Tori and Nate have in common with Tori and Dean is that they're being supported by Tori's mom, and thus have a fancy lifestyle even when neither of them work. My friend who I'm watching this with (who has maintained a "love to hate" relationship with the original all these years) rattled off about as many possibilities for the stalker last night as have been mentioned on this forum. I don't begin to know enough about the original series to speculate, but if it's not a character we've already met, it pretty much has to be an actor from the original series (who will be appearing as a faux version of herself/himself, not just name-checked as a dangerous psycho!) or, if some random new person, someone acting based on a storyline on the original show -- if there's no big meta payoff, it's totally out of place within the style of this show. It being the guy who played David's dorky friend cracked me up. Same with it being James Eckhouse or Carol Potter. I don't think it's any of those three, but those were the theories that most made me laugh to picture. And they're going to have to somehow have this be something we can laugh at, which is not easily done with a stalker - especially one who sets fires. I'm not sure they can pull it off, but I guess we'll know soon (unless they go the cliffhanger route, hoping for additional episodes, but I hope these six were written as a self-contained run).

After her husband left. Camille, Jason, and Ian's wife all had sex with someone else behind their spouse's back, and then doubled down by not admitting to it until getting caught. Gabby was kissed by someone else, and feeling all those fireworks from being kissed by a woman forced her to confront something she'd been suppressing her entire adult life. So she told her husband everything, including her idea to have Andrea go through the same thing and to use that art as a means of exploring her life. She didn't cheat. She didn't pretend the kiss never happened. She talked to him. It's what you're supposed to do -- if you develop feelings/an attraction you want to act on despite being married, you tell your spouse rather than going around behind their back. They can then tell you to get stuffed, either honor the original deal or it's over. And, indeed, he was not okay even with what she was proposing - for which no one, including Gabby - blamed him - and by all appearances has left. After a bit, she gave up the "I'll just research" stance and Of course, to Gabby's husband, the sexual orientation issue and her honesty don't make much difference to how awful and angry he's feeling, certainly right now and possibly never. That's his side of this equation, and I don't recall seeing it argued any other way. What I have seen is it conflated with her side of the equation, which is that this only happened because it was a woman who kissed her, and her actions in response to those feelings did not sink to the same level as the other three being discussed. There being a specific set of circumstances at play for her doesn't wipe out her poor husband's experience, but his experience doesn't transform her behavior into a false equivalency, either.

"Carlene's Apartment" is not only the best episode of the last two seasons, it can hold its own with a lot of what aired in the earlier seasons. I only have seasons 1-5 on DVD, so I haven't seen it in a long time, but I remember it quite fondly.

You didn't ask about him, you asked about her -- would she still come home and talk with her husband about how she wants to explore something different. That it was a woman is the only reason she did that, so, yes, the gender very much matters.

They are separated, aren't they? He's not living there. She was honest with him about being kissed by a woman, what she was feeling (and had long been denying), and what she wanted to happen (using Andrea's storyline to explore these long-suppressed feelings; actually dating herself came after), and he didn't want to be part of that. We haven't seen him since, Jason is staying there, and in the next episode I highly doubt he's living there. I don't begin to fault him for that, but I'm not jumping on her, either, because she did what she was supposed to do - be up front and thus give him the chance to make an informed decision, rather than fooling around behind his back. Of course not, indeed, because feeling that way upon being kissed by a man she found attractive would have been perfectly normal to her. Pretending as if the gender doesn't matter at all in this equation doesn't wash. If this was a show about Gabby and her family, we'd be getting a lot more and a lot better stuff about the intricacies of all this, the ways in which it is the same as if she wanted to date other men and the many ways it isn't, and a lot more attention paid to her husband's feelings. But this isn't Grace and Frankie, it's an ensemble soap about making a soap, with Gabby no longer being able to convince herself she's really a 1 or 2 on the Kinsey scale being just one storyline, so we get this surface treatment. But the messiness of it got fairly decent acknowledgment under the circumstances in the episode when she told him, so I'm willing to go along for the six-episode ride.

"Consuela, Consuela, bobayla, bananafana fofayla, me, my, momayla, CON-SU-ELA." I watched that last night and it's still in my head this morning.

I love how irritated Christine is by these people. LOL at Shannen holding out for twice what everyone else signed for. Otherwise, this episode was pretty ho-hum. My friend and I missed the first five minutes; what was the opening nightmare this time?

Time for you to go on strike!

I fall out laughing every time at "Suzanne's fits me like a beanie" and just keep going. I've been watching season two and three lately (on DVD), and I love the relationship between Suzanne and Reese. He teases her, but there's real warmth in it; he's truly entertained by her. I love after his heart attack when Julia thinks he looks pale and Suzanne thinks he looks tousled and sexy. "I am obviously messing around with the wrong Sugarbaker sister." And then when Julia is embarrassed because he says in front of Suzanne "the bottom half" of him still working, too, and he says horse feathers, Suzanne knows all about the bottom half of men.