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Yeah, I don't think 'remake' is the right word. Adaptation might be better. I can't think of UK comedy shows either. They have a lot of panel shows, which are fun. Would I Lie To You? and QI are two I've enjoyed. It would be nice if we in the US would be able to see the UK version of SNL.

Oooo, watch The Leftovers on HBO. She's fantastic there, too.

Thanks for bringing that up. It was one of my favorite parts of the ep. It was nice to see Gregory coming up with a perfect solution that would appeal to the guy's terrible motivations. The golf guy is a horrible person -- White Savior! -- but the character and actor are hilarious. I guess that's possible. I was surprised that Crystal showed up to support Ava. She seems to really want what's best for the schools and students, so I can see why she'd rat on Ava, aside from their rivalry. Maybe she saw that Ava was devoted to the students and getting them what they need, and that made her show up at the meeting. Maybe she just hates the school board, which may be the most likely reason.

Those are good points. Now you're making me try to think of scenarios where she would have been comfortable enough to talk to him about it. OK. How about this... He was in the woods and came across her hiding her uke, just as the young woman had hidden her rabbit. He's sympathetic to Naomi, she sees that and confides in him. It's possible the show had filmed such a scene, but needed to edit something out and figured that scene was disposable. Still, you made good points.

I don't know if it's bad TV. There are lots of things that are just not important to show. It's ok to just reference it. To me, one bad thing last week, which I mentioned, was the shot of Marion moving a chair into Will's office. We didn't need to see that.

I'm guessing that's just her schtick. Andy Kaufmann had his schtick, too. I'm sure there are many others.

I believe he repaired it for the woman. It was hers but was broken. She must have told him about it off-camera, unless there was a scene from last week that I forgot about.

I agree, although I just put that all down to sitcom logic. On the one hand, I do enjoy Ava even though IRL I would want her fired. On the show I find her attitude funny, and she delivers great one-liners. She does often show concern for the students' welfare. On the other hand, sometimes I get a bump into reality and wonder how the teachers can be so supportive of her. Again, sitcom logic. I found the school board members to be pretty funny. My favorite part was the woman throwing her pen at the window to let the teachers know that time was up. Jacob is probably my favorite character. Gregory: I heard even Morton's interviewing. Jacob: I will RIOT! And then when Morton's name is mentioned, Jacob gags. Loved how much his students love him, and that he's so affected by that and by how much they've grown and learned from him. I guess the same can be said by the other teachers. Except Morton. *gag* Oh, and the students being as fed up as the adults with Morton talking about his ex-ex-wife cracked me up. When Jacob looks up how to become a charter school, Barbara reads the screen and says, "Make an account? Never mind." Loved all the different groups coming in to support and advocate for the teachers and Ava. Mr. Johnson saying, "How many damn doors do we have in this gym?" was exactly what I was thinking. I actually teared up when Ava's dad spoke to her. I hope they reconcile soon. I didn't realize that there are two Crystals, or at least Crystal and Krystal.

When the woman started playing the ukulele and singing, I knew the song sounded familiar. I was happily surprised when Will said it was Last Dance. And then, like you said, what a pleasure when he hallucinated dancing to Donna Summer. That whole sequence was so much fun. I'd love to see the cast talking about filming it. I loved when Angie was trying to rescue him, and as they reached their hands toward each other, when Will touched her finger he said, "Boop!" I didn't think about that. Maybe the reasoning was to keep her from chewing on something hard, but that couldn't avoided by keeping hard treats away from her. Seems they could have come up with some minor injury, like cutting -- just barely! -- her paw on something. Maybe Mr Peanutbutter from BoJack Horseman. I thought this was a very good ep. Robin Weigert was excellent. I didn't realize Faith didn't know the details about what happened with Jeremy before Will made him a CI. I find that far-fetched. No to Angie and Will restarting a romantic relationship. And I don't like seeing jealous Seth. Does anyone know who did Betty's English voice?

Doh! I never even thought of that. Makes sense.

Someone else here pointed out that the OD and the death could be two separate events. She OD'd but survived. She died however long later. And again my hypothesis is that because she was a drunk and a drug addict and sleeping around, Jim had left her (and their two daughters). She was pregnant with Rick. Jim apparently didn't know this. She hated him. She badmouthed him. She didn't want to tell Rick that his dad had left her, so she made up the story about him being murdered. It's likely she called the murderer Jim Hollinger to get Rick to hate him as much as she did.

Doesn't Mike White have a habit (or theme) of showing rich people getting away with wrong-doing? Of course Tim and his family are not getting a completely happy ending because of his financial malfeasance. But Tim seemed to achieve some measure of contentment or acceptance of his situation at the very end. It would have been ironic if he was responsible for the death of the one family member he wanted to spare. But that wouldn't fit with the theme of the rich having a happy ending. I was thinking the other day that if the Ratliffe story were a movie, it could be quite good, even with the repeated scenes of Tim imagining suicide and murder. Maybe one problem in this season was that we'd see Tim with his depression, fantasizing about suicide/murder, then we go to the plots about the three friends, Gaitok/Mook, Rick/Chelsea, Belinda... and then back to exactly where we left Tim. Rinse, repeat. I'm not sure why exactly, but in a movie (which would be 2 hours or so), it would be tolerable and even suspenseful to see Tim going thru his hell while his family is unaware of it and are going thru their lives. Really. I saw them as two shy kids finding each other and, yes, being awkward. To me it was clear they liked each other. When Pornchai proposed starting a spa business together, maybe Belinda didn't react enthusiastically because neither one of them had enough money for it. Maybe she was hesitant to commit to going into business with someone because of her experience with Tonya. I didn't think it had anything to do with Pornchai himself. But when she got the 5 mil, she wanted to relax and enjoy it for a while. Pornchai was discarded. I don't know if she'll eventually start a spa on her own. I read in a link posted here that he's supposed to go back to satirizing the rich like he did in S1. I think that's a good idea.

I would think that cismen don't have an advantage over ciswomen in billiards. It doesn't take strength or even a longer reach, right? So how could Fox goons find an argument that it's unfair for trans women to compete against cismen?

I've seen Luenell before, maybe on this show. And since I saw Borat (years ago) I must have seen her there, but don't really remember her, kinda sorta. I think there was another show or movie I saw her in. Anyway, not the best player. Rob Riggle was a bit disappointing. It bugs me when clue-givers don't start with a specific point of reference. Like with Tug-of-War, first say that it's a game, a game where you use a big rope, and then do the miming. Maybe his partner wouldn't have gotten it anyway, but that's just an example of the type of sloppy clue-giving that frustrates me. Rob doing allergy was poor also. "This is a condition some people have that makes them sick. Pollen, peanuts, dander." Not that it mattered, but gorillas aren't monkeys. For 'Things with Dollar Signs,' Rob answered dollar bills. And that was accepted? Geez. But that was a tough category. I'd say price tags, American money. I'd want to say something about those bags of stolen money in cartoons. Just "Cartoon bags of money"? Things You Dig was tough. I did think about hipster slang, like Can you dig it? But I don't know how you'd phrase that or even if it would work. Sometimes I think it's best if you list things without long pauses. "A hole, a grave, a trench." Fortune Fenster, or whatever, wasn't too good. Rachel Dratch is awesome. Jillian was just about giving me a heart attack. She was smart but also the definition of hyper, particularly when she was doing the Mystery 7. For Things You Buy Online, could you say, "Stuff from Amazon?" Probably, because when Jillian mentioned Etsy, that wasn't buzzed.

That was pretty funny when she grabbed the donut before running off.