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I was actually surprised Bow was the one to introduce spanking as the punishment -- you'd think coming from a hippie nudist family she'd be anti-spanking.

In his defense, he had been awake all night (assuming I'm thinking of the right moment).

I love that even knowing all the jokes in advance I still laughed out loud. Repeatedly. Boyle's lies are amazing. One of my biggest pet peeves is when characters, from sitcoms to Spider-Man, lie terribly. (Honestly it's the worst from superheroes - you live a lie, be good at it goddammit!)

I loved this episode. I was the kid hiding under the racks while my mom freaked (although I was much younger than Jack). I did find the conversation about corporeal punishment very interesting. There is a huge difference between defined physical punishment and random, unprovoked beatings. In my 20s I lived in a "developing" country, working as a teacher. Corporeal punishment had been banned in schools only a few years earlier (although they could still use physical punishments like hauling water, digging holes, or cutting the grass) but most teachers still did it and most parents did too. I was talking to my 6th graders one day and they all thought it should be allowed and expressed horrified shock that I had never been hit. On the one hand, it's sad that they hadn't been shown another way and couldn't conceive of moderating their own behaviour but for fear of a beating. On the other hand those kids were some of the best behaved children I've ever encountered and the adults who had received and were now doling out these punishments weren't crazy monsters. Back to the show: I love Dre and Bow's relationship. There are lots of great things about it but one aspect I love is that when she says something like "you don't want to be the bad guy" he doesn't bluster and defend, he's just like, "no, I don't."

I just watched this. I had already read most of this board and knew all the jokes to come but still laughed my ass off at the whole thing. The delivery is perfect all round. I have trouble watching this show sometimes because I'm terrible with people embarrassing themselves (The Talk nearly killed me) but I still love it.

Having worked around family court, I think you're being incredibly generous implying the fight is over the kids - vicious custody battles have more to do with fucking over the other parent and using any tools at your disposal to do it, even to the gross detriment of the health and welfare of your own children. [/OT]

The silverware scene was entirely too close to home.

I just got: Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan BWAH HA HA HA HA

If it's revealed at a later date that Benedict is, in fact, a douche and this is all bullshit I'm going to be so disappointed. (Sorry, I'm feeling a bit cynical at the moment.)

Why? I'm not too clear on what his job is now or if he has one but it would seem to me that he's the primary caregiver and she's the primary wage-earner. He would get custody and she would make support payments. Or at the very least they'd get shared custody. I see absolutely no reason he would imagine that he would lose custody entirely.

Well there goes hours of my life.

Who's the other kid? (I mean, I know there's Jack & Henry but only Henry is the RL kid, right?)

Fair enough, Costar. I really enjoyed early Hotch and Haley where they were a happy couple who understood and appreciated each other (and Hotch actually smiled on occasion) and I was annoyed when TPTB decided to make her the neglected wife who couldn't hack it out with the emotionally (and physically) distant husband. The added insult of putting an estranged Haley into witness protection and then killing her off so stupidly (as noted by ForeverAlone) and then having Hotch hand Jack over to his spinster aunt seemingly within hours of Haley's funeral may have soured my overall interpretation of events. TBH I kind of hated the whole Foyet thing as he became too much of the all-knowing, all-seeing villain, which is another peeve.

One of the things that has always bugged me about that storyline (beyond the fact that after basically causing his wife's death Hotch still didn't transfer out of the BAU or scale back his responsibilities in order to parent his own child) is that Foyet gave Hotch all the same injuries so why does Foyet need tonnes of meds and Hotch doesn't??

I feel like a) that might have been a too-quick turnaround for them and b) although the coverage is a separate thing, that's kind of a serious, downer subject to address, especially on a quick turnaround.

I'm intrigued by the contention that NCIS and any of its other incarnations was once "great". [/ot]

Well Doug is out but Rob is still on council. Fucking Ward 2, how dare you!

Yes, the sugar added by the manufacturer is the larger problem (unless you're eating sugar with a light dusting of oatmeal, in which case you may have a larger problem). The problem is processed foods -- any meal helper/timesaver/convenience item at the grocery store. So basically anything that's not on the outer circle of the store (assuming your local grocery follows the principle of veg, meat, and dairy along the edges). The only way to know what you're eating is to buy the basic elements of food and cook for yourself. But that's just sooooo much effort. (I'm not being sarcastic -- I can hardly remember the last time I cooked for myself without using some form of pre-prepared food item.) The Sexy John Oliver is hilarious and exceptionally disturbing.

Yeah... also that was ripped from our headlines so.... hard to forget.

The sugar piece was okay, although between Salt, Sugar, Fat and Fed Up! I've pretty much heard it all before. I have never seen a Circus Peanut before but they don't look like they could individually weigh 5 grams, let alone contain that much sugar. I do wonder how they prep their interview subjects.

It's on YouTube (all movie clips removed). It seems that Benedict is determined to remain publicly humble. And he's game for pretty much anything. I think BC took most of the time, although Graham did include Miranda and Timothy in the fun. I've only seen Miranda on GN but she is always a delightful guest. She does seem to have glammed up a bit from her previous appearance with Jack Whitehall and Adele. Timothy Spall is a tremendously strange-looking man but he seems quite nice. I would have liked to hear a lot more about his leukemia diagnosis. Also, when he first said "profundity" I totally heard "profanity" and was waiting for a rather different punchline. I do have to say that, however much one might dislike Russell Crowe for various reasons, I can't help but think he's making the right choice in refusing to ever have a waxwork made of him. I sort of wish BC had done the same. It's accuracy only makes it creepier. Oh, and I'm totes loving BC's current hairdo.

I actually really enjoyed JJ as an episode. Partly because the two unsubs were from Joan of Arcadia and I was delighted at the mini-reunion.

I think of that line daily... in reference to myself.

Clearly I'm not WASPy enough to see the purpose of a honeymoon crowd funding app - just put a cheque or cash in the card and deposit it in the convenient and attractive box provided by the bride and groom for that purpose.

I agree with the overall unprofessionalism of a prank war on a real crime but using the resources of the BAU and a city police force on a fake crime for a prank war seems infinitely worse.