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Not surprising...the revival just was not good. It felt stale and empty and just not exciting at all. It seemed like they were filming in someone's backyard. They really could've benefited from larger scale outdoor sets, and having a live audience (I know...probably filmed during the height of Covid) would have helped a lot. I'd have filmed at night with lots of fire effects and such. Also, the host Cristela did not feel like a good fit...way too low-key. And they should've kept the original series' music, if possible...that was iconic to the show. The generic jungle theme music they used for the reboot just underscored how blah it was. I tried to stick with it, but I probably let the last 5 or 6 episodes stack up on my DVR, and eventually I deleted them all without watching.

Why would Nancy ask Belle if she and EJ were dating? She knows perfectly well who Belle is and that she's married to Shawn. My car's name is Duke, Jr. That's all the thoughts I can manage today.

I thought I knew, or at least had heard of just about every game show from the decade or so before I was born, but when BUZZR started airing this, I was like "What?? A game show called Whew!? I'd never heard of this in my life. I was working from home a lot during this time and usually had BUZZR on in the background in the afternoon while I worked, so this show kind of 'interrupted' my routine. Gotta say, I disliked it immensely. Something about the cartoony 70s images along with the weird color pallet of the big board and the odd set design just really didn't sit well with my eyes. An admittedly weird series of reasons for not liking a show, but there it is, lol.

And they didn't need to! I always liked it better when the houses were more modest in design/decor. They actually looked like houses that 7 strangers/friends would all rent together while starting out their young adult lives. It made the show feel all the more real. To me, the real shift started with the Seattle pier. My favorite was and still is the San Fran house on Lombard Street, Agreed. I don't need to see drama or past conflicts confronted or whatever they feel will drive ratings. I just like to see people reunite and have fun together catching up and reminiscing after so many years apart. The London crew may have been boring, but I still liked them and would love to see what they're all up to now.

So it seems like we've had rumors or speculation about a Homecoming for most of the early seasons except for this one. Has there been no chatter about getting the London gang back together? Or have I overlooked it in some thread or another?

Ha, thanks. I've never seen The Princess Bride, even though by all rights it should be part of my childhood movie nostalgia collection (my friends give me grief for never having watched it), so that flew right over my head.

Did I miss the explanation of why Kevin was doing that weird voice in his toast/speech? I don't always give this show my full attention but have been wondering what that was all about since the first time they showed it.

Brandon Beemer has been on Days of Our Lives off and on for years. That's how he really talks. Never thought that he resembled Rob Lowe one way or the other, but could kind of see it in this episode.

The Challenge has been going on since around 1999. Started off as MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge where they pitted alumni from both shows against each other in various competitions in a Real World type setting. Actually I think the first season was a bunch of Real Worlders doing a Road Rules-type format, which then morphed into real world vs road rules contestants. After several seasons in that format, they brought in some 'fresh meat' players who hadn't been on either show but had likely auditioned for them at some point and were rejected. Then they brought in players from other MTV shows like Are You the One and Ex on the Beach ((around this time it turned into just The Challenge). Then they started bringing in players from shows like BB and Survivor, and then they started casting people from international versions of all these shows just in the last few years. They put them all in a big compound and let them squabble, fight, hook-up, and politic amongst all the elimination challenges, and there is LOTS of drama. Usually they do two or three seasons a year, it seems.

Oh lord. I'm about 15 minutes away from OLG and I've thought about going to eat there many times, but have never pulled the trigger. After watching that, ain't no way in hell I'm going near that place. Forget a 2 or 3 hour wait, I wouldn't eat at a place that seems to be run so loosey-goosey and has such unprofessional staff. The thing is, the restaurant is already downtown, so it's not like he has to go far! I love Kandi, but I think sometimes she is TOO loyal to people who are supposedly 'loyal' to her. Shawndreca (sp?) is ridiculous. If I were in charge, she'd have been gone long time ago. Umpteen complaints about her and Kandi is hesitant to let her go just because she's been there from the beginning? I understand help is in scarce supply right now, but I wouldn't keep someone on staff with that much entitlement no matter how long they'd been there. Yes, girl, Phillip is your new boss, so what he says goes. You don't run this ship. Phillip may be uptight, but seems he and Shardo are the only ones there trying to be professional. I did like Domu'nique (that spelling tho). She seemed fun and kinda sweet...for now. I'm sure this exposure will get the restaurant even more patronage, but it sure isn't painting it in a great light, IMO.

There's an instagram account I follow that is devoted to posting clips of entire classic storylines from the 80s and 90s. I started watching in '97, so I missed a lot of good stuff. I'd heard and read about a lot of these stories but never got to see them until now. I haven't been following too long, but I've seen Marlena in the pit, the Pawn, the island plane crash, and bits and pieces of others. They tend to jump from one story clip to another, and I don't always have time to keep up. They just wrapped up the Greece storyline a month or so ago and I wish I'd been able to watch them all....I think it ended up being something like 50 clips posted over several months. One day when I have time I want to finish watching that, along with Kate's Secret Past. Anyway, they aren't re-runs, but seems to work just as well!

Same here. At least with Mikey. I felt the same way about being repulsed by him but also not being able to resist him. If I were one of the managers he was interviewing with at the beginning, I probably would've given him a shot. Simon played him so earnestly and I think I've always had a soft spot for guys like that. But the movie's simply very compelling in and of itself. I could never live in or wouldn't even ever really want to visit a town like Texas City, but I found myself drawn into that atmosphere. Like the movie made me feel like I knew what it was like to grow up there. I really enjoyed it. Oh there certainly was...

I just watched this, and...I dunno. I basically enjoyed it, but I found some of the initial exposition and some of the reactions to realizing what was happening to be pretty clunky. Like one second Phoebe was saying she didn't believe in ghosts, and then she was just calmly all "yes i realize that" when Podcast said her grandad was a Ghostbuster and she seemed to work out pretty quickly that ghost grandad was helping her out down in the basement...like I said, the reactions just didn't ring true to me. Nobody was freaking the fuck out? Also, I find it really hard to believe that little remote control car could keep up with Ecto 1...that thing must've been supercharged, lol. Also also, once Phoebe had Muncher caught in the stream, wouldn't it have been easier to stop the car at that point to trap him? Maybe he was pulling them along? I know, I'm overthinking, lol. It was a fun scene, though. Speaking of Muncher, he was kinda cute but I was hoping for a Slimer cameo. And was nobody else inside that Walmart? Other random questions: If it was June as Lucky noted, why were they in school? Did I miss a line about a summer session? Was Ivo Shandor a ghost too? If so, how did Gozer just tear him in half like that (and why waste JK Simmons in a 2-second role)? Bokeem Woodbine also seemed shoe-horned in. I'd expect a meatier role for him. I liked how Keymaster Grooberson breaking Egon's set up and all the ghosts being released into town called back to the first movie when they escaped the containment chamber when the EPA idiot shut it down, but I didn't think that scene was done nearly as well as the original. I still get goosebumps hearing "Magic" (I always called it the 'Freeze' song when I was a kid cuz I thought that's what they were saying as the scene starts) when the ghosts are cut loose in NYC. It felt so eerie in the first film. This time it was a kind of flat for me and I wanted to see more of the ghosts freaking out the residents. BTW, was the diner ghost the same as the taxi ghost from the first movie? All that said, I did like the back half and I cheered when Ray, Winston, and Peter showed up. I cheesy smiled during that whole encounter. In the last end-credits scene, was that flashback convo between Janine and Egon a deleted scene from the first movie? It's been a while since I've seen it, but I didn't remember any of that. And what was Winston's business that he built? I couldn't really figure out the point of that scene with him and Janine (and is she still with Louis??)

I don't know about Colin and Christie, but I heard Heather and Eve did something like this in season 3, which is why Andrew and Dennis couldn't get a flight to London in time. Also, how old is that interview? Teams haven't booked their own flights in years, it seems.

I'd be surprised if Craig really is having an affair, cause that would be too easy. I'd guess he was talking to Joy and they're planning some super secret surprise for Nancy, or something like that. Speaking of which, did we really need like four scenes of the two of them in bed with Nancy basically over-apologizing repeatedly? So much filler.

I haven't gotten past this episode yet, but I'm so scared for Maya and her baby. I need both of them to come out of all this alive.

The car crash was probably a future scene that hasn't played out yet. As @lostsock said above me, the scene of them cleaning up in the bathroom was back to the present right after Helen's brains went bye-bye. Probably a weird editing decision to put an accident scene right before showing Marty and Wendy with unrelated bloody hair, since it apparently confused so many. I'd completely forgotten about Wendy having her brother killed. Last I remembered he'd driven off or something. If I hadn't watched the recap trailer, I'd have been really lost.

Did I miss something? Why was "Sarah" actually leaving the Salem Inn with her suitcase when she ran into Abigail? Why didn't Gwen just go back up to her room and take the mask off? It's not like she had an actual flight to catch.

Thank you for sharing - I love reading menus from restaurants shown on tv. Chris had the Godzilla Pork and Tammy had the Chucky's Inferno. I love cheeseburgers but try to keep it healthy with a lettuce bun and/or salad instead of fries. There were literally no healthy options at that place, except for lettuce instead of a bun, but that gets canceled out by all the junk they load on top. I probably would have gotten the Gremlin Sliders 😊 Am I going crazy, or is there no Chucky's Inferno on the menu anymore? I've read it like 5 times looking for it and I don't see it. The Jack Skellington Bones sound amazing.

I've always envisioned it to be less of an actual roof that encloses the space, but more of a glass or opaque-type canopy that that covers portions of the square, providing protection from the rain and wind and such but still somewhat vulnerable to the elements. But who knows anymore, lol.

What was with the scene of Eli hearing the babies crying and going to check on them with tense music playing, focusing on the baby monitor? Seemed like something bad was about to happen. Maybe we'll find out on Monday, but it was odd to not even get a hint that something was wrong unless I missed something. I know Eli said earlier that they should be asleep for the rest of the night, but hey, babies wake up and cry. Also didn't get the point of Susan's stomach ache and needing ER treatment, but: I guess that's a plausible enough explanation if that's the case.

That wasn't the Salem Inn, it was Julie's restaurant. But I agree the scene with Kate came out of nowhere and also went nowhere. Seemed like it was setting something up but Jack and Jen are leaving, so also felt unnecessarily shoe-horned in. I saw the episode, but was not paying attention to when Sami and Lucas left. Where did they go? Is Alison Sweeny's run wrapped up again, and this time Bryan Datillo is off for a while, too? I assume at least Lucas will be back when the other shoe finally drops.

Man, I am sad this season got interrupted by COVID because I felt like this episode was MILES better than most anything we saw last season. This felt to me more like old school TAR, even in terms of the pacing and editing. I didn’t love how they all started at home (no start line??) and there was no mad rush to the airport and jockeying for flights, but I’ll let it go because I mainly enjoyed the rest of it. I'll be interested to see what happens in the 're-start' episodes, given what we know about the changes that were made. Joining the rest of you in shaking my head over some racers not knowing 'bobby' and 'nosh' and who Boris Johnson is. And I really couldn't tell if that one team (Kim and Penn maybe) actually thought they were meeting him and the Queen. They seemed actually awestruck, but it could've been an act. Good cast so far, but the flight attendants seem like they'll be on my nerves before too long.

Chad did note that a week had gone by, so at least they addressed it. I actually can't think of many other times aside from the time jump that they acknowledged more than a day had gone by from the previous episode.

Yes, but as @tribeca noted above, her calling Leo "Mary" was a reference to 227. I don't think it had anything to do with gay guys calling each other Mary sometimes (which i also dislike). But in this case, it was just a nod to Jackee's 'Sandra' character from 227, and the funny way she would always say "Mary", who was played by Marla Gibbs (aka Paulina's mother on DAYS).