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Yep, unclear sums it up all right. I guess they just didn't sell me on it.

Yeah, the talk about morality is fairly ridiculous. The rules demand that they take something from someone. Might as well be strategic about it, since it's a game and the goal is to win. It's interesting in a survival show like this that most of the focus is on the people in the headquarters who aren't doing the surviving. It's also interesting that, unlike most survivalist shows I've seen, the survivors are close enough to each other to communicate. I'm sure there are rules that disallow it (I didn't see the earlier episodes), but I wonder if they could do some sort of sharing or cooperating? Like Haley and Meagan seemed to form an alliance of sorts. But I'm not sure how they would put that into operation.

I thought it was more weak writing than an actual joke. I was left wondering why he needed Georgie's help if he was so capable of seeing it through on his own.

They really got their money's worth on that "Hills of Tanchico" song. They played it three times, including the credits.

I saw it live. I watched the video to confirm what I had heard, and that was censored.

There were three "audience participation" parts. The first and last ones were definitely "play". The middle one was likely "shit" because it's been censored from the video, and Ego says "We're gonna get fined for that".

"Play". As in Miss Aggy don't do what? "Play". I was thinking they must have had a cue card for the audience to tell them what to say.

The Connors' response to being on TV seemed pretty odd to me. For a poor family that struggles to find success, they didn't seem to be very excited about it. They didn't even bother to tell Dan that it was on, and Jackie and Dan just walked away from it when the lawyer showed up. Maybe they were recording it. Is the actor playing Ben busy with other projects? They seem to be going out of their way to write him off the camera. Or maybe they're trying to switch Darlene over to Seth Green, but it seems pretty late in the series for something like that.

Got to agree, because it didn't seem consistent with Connor's character as it has been presented so far.

Another Chuck Lorre hallmark, a mother damaging her son. If he really wants to waste his life, that's his business and I don't care. But I just don't find him very interesting. That would be interesting, but there probably a limited number of episodes they can use to tell that story. I imagine they don't want to get into that during the first season. Plus if Georgie starts his own tire business, do they move out of Mandy's parents' house? The series seems to be set up to revolve around her family mostly. In the meantime, just working for Jim shows that Georgie is learning the business. Maybe they could move him up to an office job, or maybe have him open a branch store? Lots of possibilities.

I'm glad some people enjoyed it. I just didn't care so much about Connor's love life. It might be more interesting to see him get his life together before seeing who he's dating. I'm not even sure I quite bought that he had it in him, based on what we've seen so far. They seem to send the message that he's capable of doing whatever he wants to do. The next question is so why isn't he doing it? I guess he'll probably end up being a musician of some sort. They seemed to hint that maybe he's played some gigs, even, which again seems like a minor surprise. Eh, I don't know. It's like Penny's acting career in TBBT. It's nice she had her dreams, but I'd prefer to see something more grounded. I guess having these lovable (?) underdogs/underachievers is some sort of Chuck Lorre thing? We didn't see these in Young Sheldon, so maybe I got out of the habit of seeing them.

I'm a casual watcher of The Office. I'll watch an episode or two when I'm in the mood or when I happen to catch one. Here are a few questions: 1) Is the UK version worth watching? Does it look like the same show? 2) Did the show drop in quality after Steve Carrell left? It appears to me that the episodes without him are not as good. Not necessarily because Carrell isn't there, maybe it's just that the show had run its course and the writing was weaker.

So Darlene is at the bar and orders "two more beers" for her and Chad. They're sitting at the table, drinking two bottles of beer. And the bartender brings them two frosty mugs of beer. Why wouldn't he bring them two more bottles? Oh, and some other stuff happened in the episode, I guess.

I'm enjoying it. It's strange that the networks can't seem to do these kind of shows as well as the cable networks though.

I actually wish they would just drop the goodbye bit and everybody hugging. It's mind numbingly boring.