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I agree. It seems to be essential to her to celebrate ignorance, and that is disappointing for me. I was really enjoying her on Nailed It! because originally there was less focus on her but that's been changing. I couldn't finish the last season because her antics have become predictable and unfunny. I also think she's getting to be overexposed. That's a career-killer for a performer with as limited a range as she has.

Yes! Thank you!

Could be, but apparently he's the only therapist in town just as Carla (Abby's mother's caregiver, Christopher's babysitter, general dispenser of wisdom and domestic help) is everyone's non-professional source of emotional aid.

Yeah. I've seen enough of her already, but at least now I have a clearer picture of what a "pick me girl" is.

I was hoping they wouldn't go for the obvious bit of relationship tension (to be resolved by the end of the show, of course) by making Cooper be a hot young guy for Carlos to be needlessly jealous of but there it was. Dan Castellaneta as Patrick Sr. was a good choice. Fooled me -- I could almost see Catherine being into him although it was stretching my brain all out of shape. It's always fun seeing him being a live human actor and not just Homer Simpson's voice.

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The cases could be interesting, but I always felt the team interactions were modeled after a pack of dogs. They had an alpha (Gibbs, naturally) a beta (Tony) who put an inordinate amount of energy into sucking up to the alpha and trying to keep the others down, and Abby the Perennial Puppy whose main job seemed to be to amuse the alpha. I can't remember the sad sack's name but he was there mainly for Tony to dominate every chance he got. The relationships finally got to me too much and even though the show still provides a never-ending wealth of procedurals to watch, I noped out years ago.

@grommit2 If you can squish them all together maybe you can have the next underdog 'bot to replace Rusty next season. Start thinking up a name! I'm sad about End Game losing but there's no shame in losing to Minotaur. Those guys are amazing and always have been. I've been watching Jamison Go competing with his lighter weight (3, 12 & 30 lb) robots in the Norwalk Havoc Robot League (NHRL) fights on YouTube these past two seasons and his 'bots are truly awesome. He's won the Golden Dumpster, the league's Giant Nut, multiple times both years. He never stops innovating and it keeps paying off big time. It's only a matter of time before he wins the Giant Nut, too.

The same thing happened to Bobby on the other 9-1-1 show. A grateful hippie lady brought the firehouse a pan of LSD-laced brownies after they'd saved her from some situation but of course didn't tell them about the enhancement. IIRC Bobby got really strange and had to be talked down off a ledge because he was hallucinating his dead daughter. Afterwards he had to go to a whole lot of extra support meetings.

Ooh yes! The vital clue. I'd forgotten that!

I thought it was the combination of the guy acting squirrelly, having all that iffy stuff in his yard, being an asshole to his next-door neighbors and as the icing on the Mad Bomber cake, living right across the street from the family who almost got blown up in their car. And when he scurried off back into his lair when he saw the cops that must have made their spidey senses start tingling.

Re Bobby: I know it's not as satisfying an atonement as public execution or a sentence of life in prison, but from 9-1-1 Wiki: Because of donating his blood during the blood drive Chimney organized, he finds out that he has a rare type of blood that has the ability to cure rhesus disease. He views this as a God's punishment because he is now obligated to stay alive and donate his blood for the rest of his life. However, Chimney helps him realize that it's not a curse, but rather a blessing that he is able to help out so many babies.

Witch Doctor did have a lot of spectacular wins in past seasons, but I think they don't seem to shine as much now because there are so many amazing new bots in the competition. It seems like the veterans are starting to get trounced by the young'uns, and Witch Doctor is no exception. I never expected to see Tombstone or Lockjaw get beaten by newer bots either but it's happening regularly now. What's the world coming to? Not to be mean, but I'm glad the two most annoyingly overrated bots on the planet didn't make it into the tournament. If I never see Duck! or Chomp (interesting concept but has no place in a fight competition) ever again I'll be happy.

Big, lovely orange fireballs all the way up to the ceiling.... It doesn't get better than this.

There are way too many differences between the book Agatha and the TV Agatha for me to want to watch it, though I tried a couple of times. I adored book Agatha for most of the series until the later ones where she seemed to have reverted back to being the bitchy, jealous, insecure person she started out as instead of the combination of shrewd businesswoman and good villager living in Carsley slowly turned her into. I stopped reading the books before the last two or three because they were making me sad. And I wonder how self-referential her Hamish MacBeth book Death of a Screenwriter was considering

This trope makes me absolutely stabby. Some egotistic fool with life-threatening health issues or an injury that requires convalescence refuses to tell anyone how bad it is or outright lies about it because "people need me" or "I have to do this." As if dropping dead unexpectedly in the middle of something important isn't going to be a problem for anyone else.

Probably that combined with the horrendous traffic jam they ran into on the way to the airport. Those things always seem to happen when you can least afford to deal with them.

Throwing its stabilizer bars up into the air like a couple of arms while it danced was the perfect touch.

The ads use the exact colors of a Medicare ID card when they display text in order to reinforce the association, too.

Yeah. Maybe some actual weapons besides being extremely infuriating and annoying. Something sharp. Or flames. Or a tactical nuke or two. Since it usually manages to remain mobile for the entire 3 minutes, it needs to take more advantage of that and have some other defense than expecting its opponent to have a heart attack and die on its own.

Some redesign was in order, but the changes didn't address the problem because their strategy didn't change. They still just roll around, pissing their opponent off until the opponent self-destructs, but it's been known for a while that instead of trying to smash Duck!, you just need to be fast enough to chew off a couple of its tires or flip it out of the BattleBox. Like other unique bots like Huge or Mammoth, a design is only effective until everyone else figures out your weaknesses and starts consistently beating you. Also, now that Duck! has that long, apparently fragile beak, it's subject to something it's avoided in the past for being just a rolling brick -- it's got parts that can be ripped off to score damage points against it. I'm glad they came back, but they have to do better. A rookie just beat them.

NOOOOO! All that pink, the awful flat "singing", the obvious lack of familiarity with musical instruments, the earworminess of that crappy jingle -- NOOOOO!

And threatening to stick it to the windshield afterwards was the icing (heh!) on the cake.

I think they're given a mix of the dry ingredients, but they still have to add wet ingredients like eggs, extracts, milk, etc. themselves at the right times, by the right methods and in the correct proportions. That's where things go horribly wrong.

If you're bringing salty snacks, I'll bring the beer. Gotta have it. Hell's hot.