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The only way that conversation could make sense is if Maya believed that Nicole never knew she was her mother (so their parents raised her as theirs and never told anyone), and Nicole came across the information somehow herself (or Mom or Dad got drunk and spilled one night or something). But, still, you'd think that Nicole revealing that she knows would lead to some kind of conversation about it, not just Maya acting like a scared bunny and Nicole smugly posturing. I didn't before, but now I kind of want Brooke to end up back with Bill. It would serve Katie right at this point. God she annoys me. What would she do then? Go after Deacon?

This, to me, is the worst part of all of it. Like I said before, if these kids get hurt, their education should still be covered and their medical bills should be covered. They're getting hurt in the process of making a lot of money for the school. Make it so that their scholarship moves out of the sports department (since I know there are typically limits to how many scholarships each team can give), so it frees up a scholarship for another player, but this should be, basically, an insurance situation, where the school has a policy that kicks in and covers the scholarship and medical costs.

"This is Shawn's job, have him kill Julian." Pause. They both start cracking up. I was going to say the same thing. He probably does the catwalk strut to the bathroom, too.

Oh, Jake, I know you don't have your Jason memories, but, if you did, you'd remember that, to Sonny, everything is personal. You working for Julian. Michael bonding with AJ. The local CVS running out of his favorite hair grease. The maid (or Duke?) not cleaing up the slivers of broken bar ware quickly enough. All personal.

I had to laugh during Sam's conversation with Julian about Jason. "We were so good together, even through our worst times...like when he threatened to kill me after I watched an unbalanced woman kidnap his baby and sent some thugs to menace Liz, their baby and her other son."

Did I hear Sonny say that Sam was "the widow of one of my closest friends"? Has Jason been posthumously demoted from BFF? Duke's taken that slot now?

And in return, the leagues scratch the schools' backs, with things like the NBA requiring players to be out of high school for one full year before they can be eligible for the draft. So, essentially, even if someone is ready and able to play in the league, they are required to play at college for one season - risking potential career-ending (or altering) injuries, their draft stock dropping, etc, along with putting off earning a living at their job for a year. Add in that, like Jalen Rose's story last night, some of these kids come from very poor families, where it is a legit concern that their family might not financially survive, or they really want to get their family out of crime-ridden neighborhoods, and it's absurd that these kids can't make a single dollar off their talent while their coach is paid a king's ransom and their schools (and the NCAA in general) are making money hand over fist off of their talent. And then, if they do, God forbid, get that career-ending injury in that required one year of college play? Well, sucks to be them. Thanks for all that money you made us, now get out. There should absolutely be some sort of disability fund built into all schools' athletic departments. And if a student athlete suffers an injury that makes them unable to play, they aren't just shunted off and forgotten. They should be able to get the education their initial scholarship promised. And their medical bills should be covered. They suffered that injury in the act of earning a mega crap-ton of money for the school, so the school should be responsible for covering that injury. On a side note, when this issue first started heating up, Kyle Long (Bears player, and son of Howie Long) was tweeting his support for the students to get paid. People ripped into him for it, saying he had no say in the matter, because he wasn't a stereotypical "poor college student," having grown up the son of an NFL player. Because he didn't go to school and play on the field with plenty of kids who weren't as fortunate as he was and see what life was like for them? Or he didn't deserve to be compensated for the work he did for the school on the field because he happened to be born into a well off family? I really don't understand the general public/fans being against these kids getting paid (and covered for injuries). I mean, I understand why the schools don't want to do it - they're greedy bastards who have higher financial gain if they aren't sharing that pie with the kids. Fans should be pressuring the shit out of schools to change this. Seriously, I'm just astounded that schools get away with this shit. "Oh, we can't possibly afford to pay those kids. Where would we get the money?" and "We'd like to announce the signing of our new head coach to a $40 million dollar contract." It reminds me of an old Dilbert strip that my husband and I still quote every now and then - in a meeting, they first talk about how there won't be raises because the company hasn't made enough of a profit, then the next item is announcing new executive bonuses. The exec turns to his secretary and says "you were supposed to put the United Way update in between those two items."

Oh, agreed. Old actor sucked but had chemistry. GMc sucks with no chemistry. And the character just sucks period. Ideally, one of Shawn's errant shots would manage to go through both him and Duke.

I know the show thinks that GMc is the better choice for the role because he's a "name" soap actor and all, but the original actor had way more chemistry with Finola. (Not that I wanted to see them as a pairing anyway, but there is just nothing there with GMc and FH). Don't feel too bad for wishing him dead. I mean, by my calculations, if he bites it now, he'd still have 6 more lives left.

It might take him a while. Duke's got, what, 7 lives left?

It would be hilarious to find out that the real reason KA left the show was because she found out Kiki was going to sleep with Sonny and that was just a bridge too far for her.

They could all totally hang out (and be patronizing douchenozzles to their sisters).

Well, we can only take his word for it. And since Sonny said numerous times that the only reason he wasn't killing her while she was pregnant was because it was possibly his kid (never mind that the other option was that it was his grandchild), I'm going to have to take him at his word that, yes, he would have killed her ass if that wasn't his spawn she was incubating.

I'd be genuinely surprised to find out that they really, truly did not hook up in the exile house. When there was that little mid-commercial break clip of her talking about how their "strategy" was to tell everyone how miserable the exile house was, all I could think through the whole thing was "and we did it on every single surface of that sucker." She is so pathetic over him. If I wasn't so disgusted with her, I'd have major second hand embarrassment for her.

This. I kind of wish BM had been cast as Lucky, because he and Becky do have a nice little chemistry. But I know that, as per usual, they're just going to use Liz as a speed bump to Jason getting with someone else. And her character will probably be trashed some along the way to make it clear that she's the "loser."

"Eh, well, I guess we can put him opposite Shawn."

This isn't the original Floating Rib. This was Jake's, a dive bar, and after Luke ran over Jake (Liz and Lucky's son), I believe he was the one who got the bar re-named.

That would be my ideal team at this point - Sarah/Leroy. At this point, since I can't deal with Jordan or Nia, I'd cackle with glee if we ended up with a Jay/Jenna win.

After Johnny and Nany's smug "we'll send you a postcard!" comments as Wes and Theresa were leaving, I hope that the very first thing Theresa does when she gets pulled back into the final is send their asses a "having a great time, glad you're not here!" post card.

Oh the conversation where they try to explain "proper nouns" to Morgan.

I just rewatched. I was a little off in my initial impression of the results, but it's still a little shady. TJ clearly says that they have to transfer ropes at the same time as their partner. However, Johnny is on rope 3 and already moved at least partially down when Nany is still death gripping on to rope 2. Also, the rewatch gave me another "shut the hell up, Nany!" moment. When they're getting ready to step out there and she says how they fought their way back and now if they do well, they'll be in the final "and I think we deserve that." Seriously. Shut up.

I thought Bananas fell on the second? I thought that the couples had to move on to each rope together (until one of them fell), so I didn't see how he could have been on the 3rd when Nany was still death gripping onto the first. Like I said, the whole thing was confusing.

I'm sure he knows. He's probably already had his goons order up a lovely baby gift to be delivered to the Q mansion. Is there somewhere I can place money on "Morgan tries to join mob war, shoots self in foot"? Because I'm feeling lucky.

I wanted to hug Sarah when she said Bananas and Nany. And Johnny's pleading and then the talking head about how callous Sarah was? Bitch please. You flat out told Sarah that getting rid of the strongest competitors was the way to ensure a win. She took a page right from your book. Jordan, however, is a dumbass. Now you're BFF's with Bananas and so indignant at the thought of sending him in? Shut the hell up. Do you want to win or do you want to sit there in second or third place and slap Johnny on the back while he takes home another first? Dumbass. I think I might officially hate Nany more than Johnny now. That "sucks to suck" while Wes was laid out on the ground and nobody knew if he had a head or neck injury? What a fucking bitch. As Sarah pointed out numerous times last night, this is a game. Are you that caught up in the game (and the complete gall Wes had to dare to send your ass into an elimination) that you would seriously celebrate someone being potentially seriously injured? Head and neck injuries are no joke. And when even "I hate quitters" TJ is saying "maybe you should pack it in, it's not worth it," then maybe something might really be wrong with the guy? Seriously, fuck off, Nany. During the show, Bananas tweeted (and Nany dutifully retweeted) that Wes was never hurt and it was just some strategy. OK, two things - first, and you know this how? Second, even if that did turn out to be true, you had zero way of knowing that at the time, and Nany clearly thought he was hurt when she was celebrating. So, again, fuck off. After they won the dome, and Leroy was saying how great his partner is and thanking her, I was waiting for a pause and then "but, seriously, could you dial down the crazy?" I totally did not get the rules of the whole rope challenge or how they determined who was in what place. It seemed like Bananas and Nany got credit for how far Nany got on her own after he fell, but Leroy and Nia didn't get any credit for Leroy actually getting farther than anyone else, because Nia fell early. Of course, I wonder if the rules/scoring were intentionally vague to allow them wiggle room to declare whatever outcome they wanted.

Count me in as wondering if they were going to go in a Brooke/Wyatt direction today. There was just something weird about their scenes today. It would definitely be no Quinn/Liam (yes, I still want to see it).