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It's been storming all day here. Right when GH started, my DirecTV service started getting shaky. It's like even Mother Nature knows I should just stop watching this shit.

Maybe that's the real surprise - "hey, we got the characters back. You can just start calling Franco Todd now. Call Kiki whatever the hell you want to call her."

Am I the only one who snorted when he assured ME that he has "something good" for him to do? Because we all know that means it will blow extra hard.

I'm almost afraid to find out what he's back to do and who he'll be this time.

He's still just an apprentice there, though. If he was fully like his father, they would have done it on Rocco's changing table or something. Seriously, have the proper authorities disposed of Michael's old couch yet?

Watch, the resolution to this will be that it was an extended extra credit test for Kristina, and she failed. And then we'll just all never speak of it again.

Instead of a get a grip friend, NLG has a lose your grip bottle.

I can't. Is Grease really the hill she wants to die on? I mean, yeah, it's not very Women's Lib-oriented, by any means. But, come on, it's set in the 50's. And, I'm as progressive as anyone, but, as a child of the 70's, I will cut anyone who wants to come after Grease. It's not meant to be deep, NLG. The fact that it's being done as a live event on Fox should have clued you in there. Simmer down.

As long as Nany and Camilla are there with their SO's. Could you imagine the hot mess of John with his actual girlfriend surrounded by all of his Challenge girlfriends and their SO's?

Clearly they both like pasta. What are the odds?

They did go to no alternating once back to bloodlines, but, from what I remember of the start of the season, they were doing the switchoff when the bloodlines were teamed up. It was just that, if you were a male/female team, you were basically up for elimination every week, because the guy could be sent in on guys' day, and the girl could be sent in on girls' day. Those eliminations were always just one on one, so if it was girls' day, Cara Maria would have competed against a girl from another blood line. I believe this was the only time we've had both team members compete in the pit instead of a one on one competition.

That's how I remember it, too. She was perfectly willing to do whatever it took to get through, but, if Jay was going to just wimp out and not do his part, she wasn't going to eat or drink something completely gross just to have him go "nah, I'm not doing that," and drop out on her anyway. I remember TJ's disgust was pretty much aimed at Jay, because it was clear that Jenna was game, and Jay was the one willing to walk away from the money to avoid eating something gross. Not that I have room to judge Jay. I know, 100%, I would never be able to eat or drink some of the gross shit they have on these things. But, then again, I would never sign on to do one of these shows, and the "you'll almost certainly have to eat or drink something gross" factor is, alongside my complete aversion to famewhore-ing, one of the chief reasons. I would have loved the physical stuff, trivia day, and the (too infrequent) puzzles as a late teen/early 20's kid, but the gross stuff and having to deal with all the drama would have always been a deal breaker. I feel like tweeting a link to this tanagram puzzle app I have to Cara Maria and encouraging her to practice daily. There is almost always a tanagram puzzle at some point. They should all know that by now. It would really suck to spend the amount of time most of them spend on staying in shape for these things and have it fall apart because you can't do a simple puzzle. And now to the good stuff - John is gone! I had seen spoilers that he would be gone, but I was starting to fear they were wrong after last week's show. Since the eliminations had been going boy/girl/boy/girl, and last week was the boys, I feared we were stuck with his ass, since this would be a girl's elimination. And then we had Cory and Mitch seeming to agree with John that they needed to get rid of either Cara Maria or Jenna. Which brought so many questions. First, Cory's "everyone wants Cara Maria out," statement. Um, why is that, exactly? I mean, yeah, she and Jamie have done well this season, but it's a pretty ridiculous thing to say you want her out so badly as you're sitting there conspiring with the guy who will proudly tell you he's the "king" of the challenges, who almost always wins. Second, how dumb would you have to be to even for a moment entertain the idea that it would be better for you to ensure John sticks around while you get rid of either two girls or a guy/girl team, neither of which have remotely John's record? Although I would have died laughing if John's pitch to Cory/Mitch was "let's face it, I'm stuck with Vince. He's almost definitely going to crap out on me in any kind of final," to downplay the level of threat he poses. I will give John credit for not being a total asshole at being thrown in and in losing. It had to bug him that the person he's been trying to get rid of all along got his ass out of there. Although his response to the loss makes me wonder, once again, how much of the onscreen antagonism is genuine in a lot of the cast members. He seemed oddly proud of Cara Maria for someone who dislikes her so much. As for the pit itself, I know they put in the puzzle as kind of an equalizer, to balance out any gender mismatches, but how unfair would that pit have been if it had ended up being, say, John/Vince vs. Jenna/Breanna? Yes, the puzzle isn't gender biased, but either one of the girls having to smash the wall with a sledge hammer would have been at a huge disadvantage against the two guys. It kind of makes you wonder if they decide which pit to use once they know who will be going in, or if they're planned from the start.

She's the Liam this time around. I'm surprised she didn't gift Wyatt with all of her and Liam's stupid plastic parachute men.

Whether it's because of the baby thing or any other numerous reasons, I don't think Carly has the right to go off on anyone. Lightning should strike her down regularly.

I don't think we have to worry about MB winning. If anyone from GH takes it, it will be because the voters couldn't resist sending TG off into the sunset with one last Emmy.

He must have about six lives left anyway. Just put out some catnip and warm laundry on the back porch, and he'll show up eventually, Sonny.

That bugged the hell out of me.

"OK, son, first, make sure you have the proper size tarp..."

I think LeBron probably figured that, since Riley did it once, he'd do it again. And I don't buy the "LeBron was so surprised they fired Blatt" thing for even a second. He wanted Lue from the start, and he led the team's freezing out of Blatt to focus on Lue. If this surprised him, I assume he's also surprised when he goes out to dinner and the waiter brings him the exact entree he ordered. Everyone is just going out of their way to protect his reputation.

Unless I've blacked out on something, LeBron never won a ring with a mid-season coaching switch or with Pat Riley coaching. Spoelstra was the coach for LeBron's entire tenure in Miami, which is the only place LeBron's won a ring. I believe Riley took over the reigns for Wade's earlier win (I think the '05-'06 season), getting rid of Stan Van Gundy at some point during the regular season.

I'm with you on the visual charms of GV. Even when I was pissed at his Lucky, I couldn't totally hate him, especially when we had scenes of him with the kids.

If I'm remembering the timing right, I think they were actually headed to really doing a Jason/Liz pairing, but then they trashed that when Frons got his hard on for Jason/Courtney.

Is Jason reading to her from a gun magazine? I can't.

That last picture, between BH and GV, it's almost an unfair level of pretty. Which reminds me, I uber-loathed that scene of Liz saying that Nik was the first time she actually enjoyed sex (or some such shit). Please. We all saw how hot the Liz/Lucky honeymoon scenes were between BH and GV. And, honestly, before I eventually stabbed my eyes with a fork to stop seeing the Niz sex, Liz mostly looked like she was completely disgusted with herself and Nik. It was one of the reasons I just could not understand that story line. Also, GV's Lucky was always so ovary-achingly cute with those kids.

AJ and Courtney started out for the wrong reasons, on AJ's part, but he absolutely genuinely loved her by the end. They could have been really good (and I might not have grown to hate the character so much) if Frons hadn't caught sight of a 10 second interaction between Courtney and Jason and decreed that they were to be the network's new "it couple." Gag.