UncleChuck

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would have liked to see that Diogenes waiting with Phil! Also, Diogenes was such a rebel that he not only slept/lived in his big urn, but often walked about stark naked and urinated in the street. Now that would have made a memorable TAR greeter!

I was surprised when they jumped into their convertibles and both racers got into the front seat, side-by-side with no camera/sound crew tagging along. Is this the first time the racers have been in a car with no crew? I have watched every season, but my memory of past events is very sketchy

I don't like to make judgments based on body shape/size, but Chris Kattan is very odd looking. He looks like a cartoon.

So Nancy must be at least 19 by now, and Ryan's death certificate (dated in 2019) said that he was born in 1984, and he was 35 years old. Ryan was no more than 16/17 when Nancy was born, so probably 15 when he and Lucy did the deed. Dang. he was just a kid!

I am also a good map reader and used that skill on several jobs back in the day. I usually only got lost when I tried to rely on directions given to me by others. Once in Colorado, I was directed by a shop owner to "turn right at the First Baptist Church" and so I did. Nearly an hour later, the road turned into a path only goats could follow so I circled back to try again. Back to the shop owner who was very surprised that I had turned RIGHT onto that small road--he then explained that I was supposed to turn LEFT onto the the paved highway when I got "right" to that church and he figured no one would go down that private dirt road. Another helpful citizen wrote the directions on paper-- go 25 miles past the schoolhouse, and so I did. Another dead end! Turns out he wrote 25 when he meant 2.5. So I trust my maps before I trust strangers with their wonky directions.

I had to chuckle when Jane referred to Leroy Jethro Gibbs (and Tony) as the guy with the military haircut and his snarky sidekick.

Surprised that Knight took Kasie to that third-rate gun range for her target practice and gun tryout. Don't the federal agents have access to a proper gun range with safety protocols? That place was so DANGEROUS! Shooting at cast-iron skillets just hanging on a wire is an invitation to ricochets in any direction, and what gun safety lessons can you learn if you are shooting at human dummies in a car? The thing that really bothered me was when I noticed that one of the "targets" was a human mannequin standing near the top of a hill. Any bullet that went cleanly through it, and any rogue bullets that missed would go sailing off over the hill towards a stand of trees and who-knows-what else might be in the line of fire!!! An outdoor firing range must be designed so that all rounds that pass through the targets, or miss the targets, impact safely in a dirt background with absolutely no chance to go flying off into space... Especially since that gun dealer commented earlier that he would never use that range because the owner had no safety rules in place--even allowed a grenade to be exploded just because a customer wanted to do it.

Both have a beard.

I don't think he does have those skills. I remember when he thought he was smart enough to "fix" the refrigerator and only managed to take it completely apart and scattered all over the floor, but he had NO CLUE how to get it back together. He also has no respect for the engineers who actually can build and repair things. Sheldon is a genius with facts and theoretical math and physics, but has no "hands on" talent. ...Unless it has something to do with his trains...

TPTB have ONE main goal, to produce an entire summer's worth of variety entertainment and they certainly want to be certain that the end of the summer has plenty of variety remaining. The goal is NOT to have a legitimate contest with ironclad rules about amateurs or experience, but just to fill two hours with entertainment. Some performers are worthy of continuing to the live shows but don't have enough different material to do something different every week to keep advancing, so TPTB arrange one of the judges to give them a Golden Buzzer. Quick change lady can only change outfits a limited number of times. There was also a chorus of nurses and hospital workers that got the GB and I have a feeling that TPTB organized that one also because it was probably very difficult for the hospital to arrange all of their schedules to allow for travel. Two or three times to arrange the schedules is easier than four or five.

I wondered if this might be a set-up for the NCIS:Hawaii spinoff, but the lead for that new series has already been set and it is not Katrina Law. Also, according to IMDB, the back story for Agent Jessica Knight is that she has a husband and family and the husband takes care of the home while she is out saving the world, so unless they change the backstory, if she joins the mothership she will not be cast as a love interest to Jimmy or Torres or anybody.

I am amused that Ed Begley Jr. has gone full circle in his career. As a young intern on St. Elsewhere, he struggled without success to suck up to the old curmudgeon surgeon and now he has reached the point where he is playing the old curmudgeon. Missy must be growing every week. I have noticed that lately she is either seated or lying down in every scene, and even when she is seated on the bed or a couch, she is slouched down to hide her height.

It seems like it is more that the show makes her NOT a prickly asshole just once in awhile.

I know. I had to pause the episode on the DVR, then go online to figure out what I had missed and when... Then I learned that I had not missed anything so I could go back and resume watching the episode.

So Deeks is going to attend FLETC? The training center for federal agents surely has a pretty strict discipline, dress and grooming code of standards. Will Shaggy's stupid hair survive the academy?

Might have been funny if those painters had been painting over the original neutral gray/green with orange, and someone at NIS would have commented "Is that wall really going to be ORANGE???"

Wait! There's a night shift? How many times have we seen our intrepid crew working all hours of the day and NIGHT with never even one mention of "Let's go home and get some sleep. The night crew will get this" Or when have we ever seen agents from the night shift getting off work as McGee, Bishop and the rest show up in the morning?

Was this episode shown out of its original order? Last week Nell came back to NCIS as a favor to Hetty to supervise just the one very special mission with the Russian plane. Now this week she appears again, at one point siting in Hetty's desk, with absolutely no explanation as to why she is still there. I don't mind because I like Nell, but what the heck is going on?

All of the teams accepted the barrage of flung pies with laughter and good spirits (one even stopped to lick some of the delicious filling before finishing)--and no one dropped their own pies. Everyone had a great attitude--except Michelle and Victoria. As the two sisters were getting splashed with whipped cream one of them whined: "they hit my face! they hit my faaaaaace!!"

The filming was for a travel and leisure segment on the website "Naked News". They film a daily news show from Toronto with additional features such as "Naked on the Street" and naked sports challenges. Those women spend most of their working day nude or semi-nude and even walk around in their offices/studio in the buff, so cavorting naked on the yacht is just another work day for them. "Naked News" experimented a few years ago to have naked male newsreaders, but it was unsuccessful. Apparently equal opportunity nudity is NOT what sells subscriptions to the website. Mr. Skin also sponsors a weekly feature about Naked at the Movies on NN, but I was not aware that he seems to be the Naked News boss as well.

Looked to me like Nicole was still pissed that Janelle got the comic as the blond bombshell and she was trying to make a statement that SHE was THE blondest bombshell!

Here comes "Mr. Pectacular"!!

The Rhino clue showing the state of Missouri with a crown above it confused me for a minute. At first I thought it might be some reference to the Kansas City Royals, but then I found out that Barry Zito is married to a former Miss Missouri. BINGO!

I suspect that one of the producers approaches every contestant to give them instructions for the big reveal. I read somewhere where there is usually a non-televised gap between the naming of the loser and the reveal so that the contestant can get hair and make-up ready for tv. There is no reason to be in full make-up under the mask unless it is coming off. The contestant might also need assistance from someone who knows how to unlatch all of the locks that keep a huge head from flying off during the performance. I think TPTB just televised this producer intervention because Will Arnett did a fake voice-over commentary that they decided to incorporate into the episode.

I once lived in north central Missouri and I would never in a million years have called it "out west". Also for what it's worth--there is no North Central Missouri University.