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Mrs. Krabappel is married to Ned Flanders now? A lot has happened in the last 15 years.

WRONG PROFESSION!

The wife is being headhunted by a recruiter that wants her to take a job in Anchorage, Alaska. Ooof. Thank gawd she's got something else to keep her from even giving that any serious thought. Although being able to watch Miami Heat games at 4pm AKST(!!!) and NFL games at 9am would soften the blow slightly. I did a ton of traveling earlier this year. The longest stretch was May to June. May 22nd - Flew to Charlotte (worked) May 27th - Flew home May 30th - Flew to Baltimore (worked) June 3rd - Flew from Baltimore to St. Louis (stayed with family) June 6th - Drove to Kansas City for rehearsal dinner June 7th - Got married June 9th - Flew to Denver for honeymoon (stayed in Vail) June 14th - Stayed a night in Denver June 15th - Flew back to Houston We were home for all of two weeks before our lease in Houston ran out and we moved out. We stayed in a hotel in Houston for a week, then a hotel in Austin for a week. I flew to St. Louis for work, and then met my wife in Kansas City for the next week. Then we flew back down to San Antonio, where we stayed for the following week, before driving up to Kansas City. We have been here ever since. Our trip schedule is kind of up in the air right now, depending on what job my wife ends up going with. I know that we're tentatively scheduled to go to Cedar Point in May for my birthday. The middle of the week, while the kids are still in school, is the absolute best time to go there. Something I learned from when we lived in Cleveland way back when.

I'm sure it'll look swell on someone's mantel next to their signed CM Punk 400+ day Championship reign plaque and replica World Title belt.

No. (pulls out a postmodern chair and takes a seat) Brie can't turn on Bryan in the WWE Universe because they are a real couple on a fake reality show together. Brie being out to check on Bryan furthers the Total Divas storyline of Brie and Bryan being together in real life, while also allowing WWE to wink at the audience who either knows they are a real couple and/or watches Total Divas. Bryan proposed to Brie while Total Divas cameras were rolling, so their storyline on the upcoming fake reality show's season is going to involve them being together. Randy Orton attacking Daniel Bryan on RAW allows Brie Bella to cry on WWE cameras, and then cry on Total Divas cameras. My viewing habits more closely resemble that of a female viewer's (reality shows, etc), so I for one am very excited by this development, and am still pissed that Stephanie turned on Kurt.

The only negative side to that is the show at its absolute most was watched by 6 million people, so roughly about 3-4 million people just ruined the entire experience of Breaking Bad for themselves because they just had to see how a show they had never watched before ended. Well, live, that's true. Doesn't take VOD, etc into account. Wonder how many people bought episodes on iTunes, Amazon, etc over the previous two months, caught up on DVR, or watched ondemand I watched the whole series in about ten days. I'm sort of glad I did too. All of the commercials and hash tag crap, during the last episode, sort of took me out of the story a little bit. I always love the summer (or, I used to before networks started running staggering shows year-round) because the majority of shows would go off the air at the same time. Following shows at a scheduled time each week feels like homework - even with DVR. I'm starting to break the habit the more I travel for work, and especially now that the wife and I are in a housing limbo with no DVR or good cable to speak of. For the last year or so I've just saved up entire seasons to watch, and knocked them out whenever I have pockets of free time. The binge-watching phenomenon, in general, is amazing. Whenever there are 'off' weeks of a show I only have to wait as long as it takes me to watch the next episode to forget about it. 'Mad Men' is one of my favorite shows and knocking out half the season in one sitting makes me love it even more. It also hooks me on shows more than if I were to follow them in their normal format. I probably wouldn't have stuck with 'Veep' if I had to watch it 25 minutes at a time each week, but I had the entire first season recorded for a while before I finally started it. I knocked that show out immediately once I got going. I still remember knocking out the first four seasons of '24' in less than two weeks before the fifth season premiered. This was back in 2006, and I did it with Netflix DISCS and rushing to Blockbuster when I couldn't wait for the next disc to arrive. That feels like the Stone Age compared to now. I wish I had known then that someday it would have been possible to watch every show like that.

We just need to make it through one more week... Week 6. Jacksonville AT Denver. Largest point spread in NFL history in play. I'm getting the shakes. Just have to get by the snake pit that is Week 5. I'm trying to talk myself into taking the Rams. THE RAMS!

The Jags are going to help a lot of people out in survival pools. The Eagles would be pretty much done for the year, if not for how awful the NFC/NFC East is this year.

Why would this show introduce a plot point (Walt leaves the money for his kids via threatening Gray Matter) that wasn't going to come true? Mike tried and failed multiple times to leave money for his granddaughter. Walt found a way around that. Accept it.

They still would have taken Darko.

"Toothbrush Rape" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/tonya-cooley-real-world-lawsuit-rape_n_2011953.html That's basically the reason why they're off. They don't make enough money from the Challenges for it to be worth the trouble it could open them up to in court. Evan works in Canadian television and Kenny does all of those online and other MTv hosting gigs. Hopefully their t-shirt and bobblehead empire will carry them through for the next ten years.

Wes was on the Grantland/Right Reasons podcast. He gives an overview of some of the backstage happenings with the Challenge, but nothing too in depth. He thinks that the show should be geared more toward athletics, since there are now so many athletes on MTv's roster (he names Casey, Big Easy, Knight and Preston as people who have no right doing anything athletic). Said most of the daily challenges were too easy, and that the finale was the easiest one he's been a part of (he's done four). He mostly stays in touch with the males from the Austin cast and B-RAD. Thinks Johnny/Evan/Kenny are idiots - the latter two only created an issue with him because it got them so much more camera time. I thought it was interesting how MTv edited the body bag portion of the finale. Apparently each team had to move 30 bags, instead of 20, and when they finished they had to bring all 30 back to the starting point. He said it took at least two hours to complete that leg.

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!

But does it include travel? She's got to be flown in. Business Class. That's right - Business Class.

The clothing thing is pretty easily explainable: MTv mainly casts white trash. That's basically the answer for every show - from Teen Mom(s) to Challenge competitors, Jersey Shore guidos and Catfish'd MO-RANS. It's the worst possible representation of society at every turn. Even their "upscale" shows like 'Laguna Beach' and 'The Hills' featured a lot of trashy people, scumbags and/or drug addicts. It's a different network, but if you watch a few episodes of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' you'll see that family is also basically just a bunch of trashy weirdos with a lot of money and Kanye West's phone number. You have to be a particular brand of crazy to want to be on these shows. You also have to lack the discernible talent required to succeed as an actor, but still have the overwhelming ego necessary to believe that you're interesting enough to be followed by cameras. It's glorious television.

Knight and Frank were in THE HOT SEAT, with Emily/Cara. The topic was Twitter beefs. Knight was being really weird. He wouldn't look at Frank and kept rambling about what a POS Frank is, for what Frank said to Jemmye. It wasn't clear as to if Frank said something derogatory about her on Twitter, or if it was what Frank said on the show to her. Either way, Knight appeared to be drunk off of his ass or it was staged*, because after his insults to Frank didn't land (YOU'RE A WAITER! No, I'm a grad student) - he stood up, and did that open-handed push/slap thing to Frank's face, which they are now allowed to do and not get booted off of the show. Knight got carted off by security and was not seen again. Frank stormed off, but came back a few segments later looking like he had been crying. It was a great nostalgia moment - very reminiscent of late-90's Jerry Springer. The subsequent Frank/Jemmye interactions were weird. To me, it came off like she was extremely pissed about it, but Frank kept saying "we're past it and we're fine now." Something was said, as the credits were starting to roll, but there were too many people talking at once for me to figure out what it was. According to Jemmye's Twitter she's accepted Frank's apology and moved on. She also inferred that some people were on some kind of drugs last night. I assume she's referring to Knight, and likely CT. Those kids, live, is not a good idea. Sounds better in theory than in practice. *That open-handed slap the only reason I think it could have possibly been staged - I don't know why he wouldn't have just decked the guy. Frank wasn't covering up, he pretty much just sat there and took it until Wes and security jumped in to stop it.

In my lifetime I have witnessed: *5 New York Yankees World Series wins *4 LeBron James wins (2 NBA Finals; 2 Olympics) *2 Wes Challenge wins As soon as I saw that Johnny (aka: 'Bananas'; aka: 'CT's Backpack'; aka: 'Beer Gut') and 'Prone-to-Melting-Down' Frank made the final, I knew victory was at-hand. Loved the flashback to the original Duel (YOU'RE DONE! YOU'RE DONE!).

Every time I've been to a matinee and no one else was there.

I texted my dad to either take Indy over Jacksonville or Denver over Philadelphia. I'll let him be the one to choose if he wants to take the gimme against my team. I couldn't have picked a better year to not have DirecTV. Oh, wait, last season probably would have been the year. Giants/Chiefs is a frightening prospect. Anyone who chooses that game has ice water in their veins. Back to my 'Breaking Bad' quarantine.

What is Sliced Bread #2?

Worse than Walt killing Jesse. Everybody can laugh now, but this board has A LOT of threads and a lot of people in those threads talking about TV shows they're starting to get into; book series they're starting to read, and movies they're interested in seeing. Notes are being taken. Lives will be ruined. See you all in a couple of weeks.

Batista is free to stop making Non-Fast & the Furious Vin Diesel movies at any time and come reclaim the throne.