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Right and after Lisa called bullshit on it. It actually turned out to be true and now they have to get rid of the house. So, Martin thinking he can borrow against it? That's not how it works.

You do have to wonder if ABC really wants to keep trying to make the show work or they are giving everyone a chance to wrap it up by the end of the seasons. Ratings are down, but they have nothing to show in it's place unless the Sue (The Middle) Spin-off proves a hit in the spring.

Best part was Anna-Kat and Grandma bonding. Other wise everyone else in this episode came across as a moron. From Greg to yes, Taylor (really surprised). Pierce really played everyone into getting what he wanted and all he had to do was be a chummy friend to Taylor. I felt for Oliver, but at the same time, I'm tired of Oliver's: "My family sucks and I need to get far away from them as much as possible." How many times does he need to be hit over his head that being: "Rich, at some expensive boarding school, or trying to show off for his friends" is always having the same result. As Einstein once said: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting the same results." Instead of learning from your mistakes and moving on.

Yeah, I was really not playing much with toys like Adam by the age of 14. I was into video games more and I went back to collecting and reading comics. Plus, for those old Toys R Us shopping sprees. They started cut offs at age 14, especially in the late 80s when most kids who were winning wanted game systems and models more than say: GI Joe or Rock Lords, ect. Also, Rock Lords were in late 1984 early 1985 and was the end of the GoBot line. Him using those stamps, yes season 1 or at the worst season 2 Adam. 16 year old Adam? Murry would have killed him.

Yes, that's what they are trying to do. Same goes with how Phil is oblivious to things, but that's where it ends between the comparison of Phil and Dylan. Dylan is just at times brain dead. Phil is not self aware at times but he is a guy who can tie his own shoes, hold a great job and at least try to make a fun life. Dylan just falls up to success and how about why he called Haley for their date? Surprise he has a license at this point. I called Haley a mile away, if they would have had Alex after all this good stuff happened to her, that I would have found surprising.

Therapy? On an a Shondaland show that lasts more than one episode? What a concept! You think after 2 seasons of Station 19, Ripley, Andy, Jack and Sullivan would have been there. Everyone else on Grey's motto is: "Just have hot sex and life is great!"

Well, I can't say that is completely true. Miranda's first husband, Fletcher wanted Miranda to give up being a doctor/surgeon to be a "mother" to Tuck. Because somehow his magical law firm let him take a whole year off work. I wanted to go: "Who the hell is going to pay the bills?" Same with Miranda's father being mad at her for giving up on her marriage just to fix a person's hernia that could have been by another doctor. Nowhere in any of these shows or in real life to doctors, teachers, police officers or fire fighters go: "So I should just let the person suffer and die?" It's old.

Yeah, and thinking bringing in this "cousin Oliver" to fill in the holes from Eve, the Old Mandy and just gang up on Mike just because is not going to pan out and the ratings were down. Something that really jumped at me was Vanessa saying: "I'm putting my foot down on this!" Then Mike going: "You can do that?" The writers admitting that Vanessa has been a doormat to Mike's crap the last few doesn't mean the story has any merit. Same with apparently Vanessa in the year and a half the show was gone she got a job as a Geologist again some place. After the fact she quit because Ryan's was an asshole about it and talked Boyd into guilting Vanessa. Followed an episode later with Eve's high school friends going: "Eve, your mother's company is destroying the planet with their damn fracking technology, you should protest." Even out of nowhere went: "you are right, I should!" Then Vanessa quits her job and then says: "I'm going back to my first love of teaching. Which she couldn't deal with due to the politics, then all the crap about how they laid her off, but oh no, the principal didn't have the heart to tell her. Somehow she kept going to class and no one didn't go: "Umm... you don't work here anymore." Then you know, cancel her class and reassign the students, but why would a school do that? Then Vanessa always going to bat for Ryan over every stupid thing he did. Yet, she choose now to put her foot down on a foreign exchange student because she misses having her other two girls in the house. Plus she was protesting Mandy not wanting to have a baby by now. Then go hang with our only grandson before he is too old to go: "I don't want to hang around my grandparents, they are old." Yeah, time for the show to end.

It's like with Ripley making split second decisions when others are: "But that won't work, and we know it WON'T work from experience." Ripley is: "But it's my decision, so shut up!" After this episode, we see he has a history of it. After seeing this in the flashback and even the present and then in the finale last season. The City Council would be having him in the review chair. Plus, you also add in the fact that everyone got on Ben's case about leaving a man behind to save someone else. Yeah, because no one had been told that and then seeing what happened with the flashback. Pot meet kettle.

The show has not handled IEP or 504 or even the school assessment in any realistic way here on the show the last 3 years. That's been one of the problems with the show, I get it's a comedy, but it comes to the point where you want to go: "This isn't realistic to the point, there would be law suits." Plus, for all that Maya has been portrayed about helicoptering and so forth, she didn't think or know of anything of this? Plus, yes Kenny would have been present too and no, I don't care how big the school is, that would not be a place for an IEP meeting, even in small schools it's some back room, closet that is far away from others. Plus, if it's say by a teacher's lounge or anything. They either hang up signs about it being that kind of meeting or tell others to stay away until it's over. They want to respect privacy. However, at this school they have the administration and teachers act like they don't follow any state rules or use common sense and then act like the biggest idiots on things when you want to go: "How did you get a PHD or Masters?"

Problem is, this is as cliche and as old as time and has been talked about with the spouses of: firefighters, police, soldiers and yes, even teachers. They all of a sudden can't deal with their better halves being gone so much or when they will or "if" they will be home. If it's not in Bailey's head about: "I can't breath every time I try to sign your benefits if you die." I wanted to go: "yeah, because who needs money because your are Miranda Bailey, who ALWAYS has money and then complains about over spending budgets. If it isn't that, it's the cliche that doctors care more about working hours than spending time with their families. When you want to tell others: "What am I suppose to do? Let them die?" Like with teachers where it isn't 9 to 5, it's a world of hoops jumping through, constantly being looked over and parents who try to get your fired if you they see you out at a bar drinking a beer with a brother who has is visiting out of town. Yet it's: "You work too much and care more about your students than me." It's these out of control double standards where you just want to go: "Then what is the perfect spouse do that will keep you from always arguing?" Same when you have a person who constantly screws up at a job, what will it take to fire them?

I like how the writers thought this would be such a great idea, including there was no build up to this. All of a sudden Vanessa is: "But I love this program and the kids are basically all gone, I need a teenager in the house again." Umm... why? Plus, you can't seem to get Kyle and Mandy out of the house.

Half the characters you don't want to root for because they are acting like 1st graders and can't even just talk to each other.

Same goes when he was heading off the rookie training and wouldn't bother getting people's names right and even telling them: "I don't care." Then again, this is the same department that promoted Andy by default and put a guy like Ripley in as chief when he makes bad calls in the heat of them moment. Plus, had a Section Captain purposely giving bad reviews to said Station because she didn't like them and even put them in no-win training situations because of an argument she had with the Station Captain when she was the one who screwed up and not them.

Yeah, I'm questioning Ripley becoming the chief too. The show is probably treating it more like a fast food manager job where it's: "The people who shouldn't rise to the top, do." Yeah, they are not showing us any reasons why Ripley would have made it to chief and appointed by the City Board (that's the final decision in getting that high of a job). I mean Papa Herra was Captain long before Ripley even got a Captain Position. Yet, we are to expected that Praitt didn't want a "desk job" and apparently soften after the death of his wife. There are too many holes in Ripley being in charge now or that Sullivan didn't take him apart after basically doing something that other people would have been: "You don't give something to someone that will most likely kill them." Same going back to Ripley at the end of last season not getting EVERYONE out of the building saying: "We access the rest of the building to see if we NEED to get everyone out." Oh no, find out that there are explosives improperly stored and then half the building explodes from the fire getting between floors when he KNEW it wasn't contained and spreading. Same with seeing Sullivan is emotionally disconnected from his Station not because he is trying to teach them a lesson, but because he doesn't see a point of that anymore after his wife died. Which was evident at the training academy and even Dean saying how much Sullivan seems to yell at you if you blink. You think they would have heard his record.

Plus even Maggie saying: "Yeah, Right." About Teddy will not tell Owen anything, because the writers are pretty much saying: "Yeah, we got nothing and we have to string this out." Plus, same with Bailey saying her major stress is coming from Ben. Those kind of BP on a regular basis, even after she has had a "good stress" day. Something else is going on there, yet it must be because Ben might not come home alive some day. Yet, Bailey has almost been killed how many times in the last 14 years?

That's exactly it! We get where Sullivan is coming from and hell he is right. However, we are really expecting that Ripley in the last 15 years hasn't learned that people don't just "get over". Plus, why did he come back? We know he came back, headed up the fire academy training as a hard ass as we learned from both Jack and Dean flashback in the premiere and even Sullivan saying he now "had to know there names". While you need someone to lay down the law, follow the rules, ect. However, no one from Ripley to the Section Chiefs didn't go: "Maybe he should see a counselor before we put him back on the job, not to mention promote him?" Plus, I can see Ripley and Sullivan getting into a fight before too long, the writing is on the wall.

Not mid way through the semester you can't. There are also set terms of when you can drop a class in either community or 4 year colleges usually up to 3 weeks at max. Now, can a student lose all credits for a semester course or even a year if they are found to be cheating or say having a relationship with a professor who is also their teacher. Oh yes! In no time flat. Plus, if these other kids thought about dropping out of a class because they felt ONE student was being favored more than another. I would have liked to know where they went to high school at? Because really, GROW UP!

The problem with Sullivan's past is that he now has gone the opposite direction and his problem is, he jumps at any little thing. Ripley's problem is, he follows protocol but doesn't use common sense. I mean, you know the patience is allergic to something, giving it to them isn't going to make things better. Just like with the burning building last season. His reason: "We assess the rest of the building and then move people out!" Um.. fire bad, building on fire bad, you don't wait until you find out there are explosive canisters being housed illegally and then decided to start getting everyone else out. Of course Ripley was below Captain Herra 15 years ago, and he didn't want to be as Sullivan put it: "Pushing pencils and paper work." Then he complains about how the the command structure is imbalanced. Because YOU who had years and experience on the job could have risen up in the ranks and instead you get Ripley who only reacts when he knows people are using personal problems to motivate or being bias to other officers. I don't disagree, Sullivan had a point about people treating it like a joke, but at the same time this is a guy who not only left Seattle for years following his wife's death. Came back, became a LT and was Mr. Hardass on them and now Ripley realizes that Sullivan was still having "issues" some former best friend.

Especially when he knows it will backfire every time or make it so he isn't the center of attention. You think about 10 years he get a clue.

Have to love the Lion King/Disney joke that JTT makes when giving candy to them.

You think at this point in time, with all the other bad plots they throw out, you would get what Martin does for a living. Interesting they have decided to really prove that the house is under water as it is and that it was purchased before the housing crash in 2008. Which, how they did not lose the house right away, unless Lena's father paid for most if it doesn't make financial sense. Of course, none of the finances on this show have made sense since last year. They want to divorce, but we find out that Martin didn't lie about the house being under water. Yet they throw a start of the summer BBQ bash. Send their kids off to summer camp for almost 3 months. Head out to large dinners and so forth. Yet, now we find out the house really needs to get sold because they would be financially more stable if it's gone. Sure, sure.

That's exactly it. Plus, even the piece when Tim made the joke about Whisky Joe's name and Alvin is: "This is a horse!" I wanted to go: "Yes, but people name their horses weird names." Plus, Al didn't do anything and even in the following episode when Tim was using the blimp to spy on the back stage crew. We see one smoking, I mean I knew it was the late 90s, but no one didn't go: "You can't smoke on the set."

Yeah, it is also something that didn't need to "go there". There was no previous history between the two the last couple of episodes and all of a sudden, Linc and Jo knew each other back in teh day. Knew that Paul was abusing Jo and didn't do anything about it besides be Hank Hill and kept drinking his beer when he knew something was up. Ok, however seems more like Linc didn't know what to say, said something and Jo didn't want to hear it "at that time" and they drifted. Why is Alex so pissed? Would have Linc kicking Paul's ass back in the day before he was some "big name" doctor had made a difference? Most likely Paul would have pressed charges, Jo would have been quiet and Linc would have had his career partial ruined. However, none of that was talked about or even allured too, so what was the point?

I've been in many trailers that are honestly very spacious and beautiful inside and even on the outside. You almost go: "This is a trailer?" I see both David and Becky's downward spiral since Mark died to be sadly, extremely realistic. David did have a very abusive background growing up and catered more to women of authority like Darlene, Rosanne and now Blue. Same with Becky just not knowing how to dig herself out of the hole she built herself. It started at 18 with: "Oh no, I'm not getting into my college choice, my life is over and my boyfriend is leaving." Flashforward a few years later with: "Oh my God!" "I was being a really stupid little kid, I could have just gotten over myself and things would have been fine." Then Mark died and Becky didn't know what to do, she had no education, she had a shitty job, her husband was dead, she was now stuck in a shotty trailer and the only she could think of was: "My life sucks, might as just come to he fact, I'm a loser." As a result, look what has happened.