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This seems like some pretty serious stretching in order to criticize, considering that their religion has never once been brought up on camera, and there have been only 20 shows. 20 shows set In Waco, Texas. I prefer to just enjoy the thing for what it is. No more Home Goods trips, though, because that was painful.

A pre-sale home inspection is not required by law, although if there is a mortgage involved, the lender will require it. I'm not sure why the political dig. We're doing just fine down here, thank y'all very much. :)

This show sure does have Republicans pegged. We take hunting holidays together in order to gloat about 6 month old election results. The little wimmins like to go to the spa and talk about Obama's unemployment numbers. AND we like to purposefully bring up hot-trigger social issues like abortion with someone we know disagrees with us. Yep, that's us. And an hour of Alicia playing Halo. I think I can't stand to watch another minute of this show, ever.

If her own family weren't so obsessed with gazing into their own navels, this alone should have given up the plot. As Atticus would say, "it seemed rather obvious to me."

Once again we were deprived of the moment of a character learning dramatic news. Cora was informed that Mrs. Drewe had arrived, so she cancelled the walk in the garden to meet with her. I was looking forward to this. Instead, cut to Cora in her dressing room asking Violet and Rosamund how long they have known. It would have been so much more satisfying to see Cora's initial reaction - disbelief, putting the pieces of the puzzle together, what she said to Mrs. Drewe, etc. But no. Not on this show.

If someone tries to kill me, but fails, it "ends up just fine" but that doesn't mean I have to forgive them. Edith's Pamuk move was so wretched that in the modern would it would have ended their relationship. One of them would have moved two thousand miles away and never spoken to the other again. Mary doesn't have to let it go.

"I can't believe you would get a haircut the day after I've found out the man I loved is dead." (for two years) Probably the funniest line ever, and sums up horrible Edith quite nicely. She really tried to fuck up Mary's whole life with the Pamuk letter, and she deserves all Mary's scorn and then some.

I see Helen as having seduced Carol in a very predatory way. Carol had never even given any indication that she was interested in women. Helen did it to see if she could. And because she's the boss, and Carol is Carol, she could.

The clip show reminded me why I used to love this show like burning. A mechanical dog! "Were you barking or vomiting?"

I think the seeds were set for the demise of Helen and Carol. Helen can't stand it if one person knows she slept with Merc - "What does that SAY about me as a person?" and Carol had to remind her "Hello.... 5 years...". Helen's response..."Oh, but that's you..." There's a part of Helen that really despises Carol and views her as disposable. And why shouldn't she? Carol sleeps her bosses. That's what she does. It's not necessarily out of a desire to climb the ladder, but I think rather an inability to say no (especially to her superiors). Helen is using Carol and this won't end well.

Once, about 10 years ago when the "housewives" programs were getting popular and talked about, I happened across one on channel surfing with about 15 minutes left to go in the hour, so I thought I'd stop and see what it was all about. Let's just say that is 15 minutes that would have been better spent doing anything else, including picking lint out of my belly button. It was literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television. So having two of them on this season (and I guess it's the last season, judging from the airing delay and now the burnoff?) is kind of ruining my enjoyment of this show, which I freely admit is a guilty pleasure. I hate them both equally. Having said that, enough has been made about Kenya's fake "badonkadonk" that I just have to ask... is this a THING? Is it something people are making up, or did she really have some kind of surgery to make her BUTT larger? As Nina Garcia would say "no woman wants to look bigger in that area".

Finally caught up to this on my DVR. The editors certainly were Johnny-on-the-spot with the flashbacks to Dmitri's repeated looks. After Justin spoke the most ludicrous words I have ever heard, something to the effect of "I don't often show my feelings, I keep them bottled up inside," I would have liked to see flashbacks to every time he has cried. Because the dude cries more than Tammy Faye Baker. My predominant impression/memory of him over the two seasons he has appeared is of him weeping. I'm sure he's a nice person, and the way his fellow contestants treat him seems to be a testament to that. But a little self-awareness might do him some good.

I have a perhaps very egotistical view of that scene: I think the 4th wall was broken. We as viewers (and forum-dwellers) have been asking ever since Castro mysteriously exited the scene, why exactly is she still running? I think Diane asked for us, and I think the Kings stuck stupid words in Alicia's mouth, basically trying to shame us for even asking the question. Well, Kings, even if Alicia were a man, if the man said "I have to run for this office because the incumbent is so awful." and then the incumbent dropped out and no mention was ever made of it again, I would ask the same question. I think the emperor has no clothes. This show has great actors and slick production and very, very bad writing with occasional flares of adequacy and even entertainment. The number of dropped and abandoned plotlines over the series run is evidence enough of that.

I thought they had to change into tap shoes, as they could not have done the preceding section of the routine while wearing them.

Kalinda's glittery hoo-hoo. Again. Some more. Seriously, how many times have they gone to that well? I think someone on this show needs to get overit and just ask her out. I'm over it and I was over it the second time it happened.

I very rarely watch the winner's show, although I did catch a few Hearty Boys shows back in the day. This show is summer entertainment for me, and it pretty much ends there. Luca and Nicole were BO-ring. Lenny was not. That's why he won. The media doesn't care that he said and did some douchey things online, because he's a nobody. Paula Deen was a mega-star, even outside Food Network and her fall was EPIC. I don't care about Lenny. His winning is not the equivalent of my family dying of typhoid or the holocaust. It's just the outcome of a show I watch, and it was probably the correct one, given the contestants presented. The biggest problem seems to me that this show is not nearly as entertaining as it used to be. The challenges are weak. The contestants are weak. Something needs to change.

I'm not watching the Lenny video. I want to still like him. You can't make me. Lalalalalalalalalalalala. *runs away*

I haven't watched 30 Minute Meals in years and I don't watch talk shows, but WTH has happened to Rachel Ray's voice? She sounds like she's smoked 5 packs a day for the last 116 years. How does she host a "talk" show when she can barely squeeze out a noise? Loved the extra segment that I almost fast-forwarded through where Sarah was acting like the old, experienced sensei in the waiting room, telling everyone else exactly what to do and how to act. Cut to Lenny, "Why does she think I want to sound like HER?"

Time elapsed in demo before Christopher touched food: 1:45 (according to Alton, ad nauseum). Time elapsed in last week's episode before any contestant touched food: 60:00 Based on their own criteria, they're really fucking this thing up. I don't have more to add except to agree: Giada was a super nasty bitch, Alton's looks and mannerisms are starting to make me uncomfortable, and that "we are the triumvirate" thing WAS totally creepy and intense and weird. Weirder still when Butcher Babe was safe. This show used to be like a summer love affair for me, I looked forward to every episode and missed it all week long. Now... eh. Sad that they can't do better with what is apparently their most successful show.

Last night I watched the episode where Daphne's ex-fiancee shows up and so Daphne pretends that Niles is her husband in order to get out of their 5-year pact. Then they conscript Frasier to being the brother who is separated from his wife, Maris. Martin enters and decides to pretend to be a retired astronaut. Roz arrives and Frasier is hissing at her "You're Maris! You're Maris!" and when she spots the poor ex fiancee she hones in on him like a predator. "Hellooooo." Then Eddie comes in the room and when the ex fiancee asks his name no one knows what to say, before they all finally agree that his name is Eddie. I don't recall seeing this episode before, and I laughed until I think I broke something. Spot on, just everything.

Frasier, after discovering Niles in Lilith's hotel room: "Well we three have certainly analyzed the CRAP out of this situation!"