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Yep. I quit Parenthood too.

Still love the show! Yeah, this was a almost-too happy episode but I like how the go through the ebs and flows of life. It all seems pretty damned real to me. I missed Max this week though!

I thought this was funny considering how ppkers seem to hate Crosby.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood ... parenthood

Yeah, a different point of view for me at least.

Oh, I also HATE Ray Ramono. He has grown on me a bit but still...

Oh well he's vegan and dating Kristin Bell. Still looks like a rat.

aw, not this ppk'er! i like crosby and i heart dax. baby mama cinched it for me.

I think he's hot. Just saying.

I totally didn't buy the Drew storyline. I feel like the abortion thing and then them completely not talking to each other would be much more traumatic and not that easily resolved. And I was scratching my head over his girlfriend's family . . . how could her parents not have noticed her sulking around like she was? She was practically dead inside . . . they would have to never see her to not know about her being all upset about being pregnant. And Drew's excuse that he was just stressed out about school . . . I feel like if Sarah was a more astute mom, she would have picked up on the fact that it had to be more serious than that.

How do we know that Jasmine and Crosby's 2nd will be a "throwaway baby?" I feel like, for them, it could be a really important piece of storyline. Crosby has never raised a baby before, because he didn't meet Jabbar (sp?) until he was five. It could be something that would really test their marriage, and something that could show maturation in Crosby as a dad. (I know he's a screw up, but I can't help but love his character.)

I do agree that it was a cop out though that they barely even mentioned Nora this season. And also kind of a cop out that they could just ignore Haddie for most of the season by just saying that she went to college.

Man, it must really suck to be Sarah. She can't hold onto a job or a man for more than a season.
I'm glad Ray Romano is leaving though. Something about his character was kind of creepy, at least to me. I didn't like him and Sarah.

i don't know that they'll just throw away this baby. jasmine and crosby's storylines always seem more realistic than some of the other bravemen's. they usually follow through with their drama. i think the reason nora disappeared is because nothing that happens to kristina really ever has any consequences. oh no, max's aide quit! oh well, kristina can actually handle max on her own. oh no, unexpected baby when they have no money and have to send a kid to college! oh well, i guess they actually have enough money to make no sacrifices. oh no, kristina gets a job right after having a baby! oh well, she'll never work again after those few weeks. oh no, kristina has cancer! she gets a little nauseous and smokes some weed while looking like a sexy conehead. oh no, kristina almost dies! just kidding, she's fine. and now the cancer's gone for forever, and we probably won't hear about it again. i can't imagine what they'll put her through next season.

I don't think healthy shows have a January season Finale... They wrapped up all the storylines for the most part, and they didn't end on a cliffhanger. I'm thinking this show is toast.

I definitely think the baby will be a throwaway baby. I think even Jabbar has been kind of throwaway. The kids in this show are really only there when they can play into a melodramatic storyline (Drew and the abortion, Haddie and the ex-con boyfriend, etc.). The only real exception I think is Max because all of Max's life is melodramatic, but even he disappears for episodes at a time. And Jabbar is there more often, but he seems to require almost no care and he's there more when he can highlight a problem for the adults (Crosby and his MIL fighting as a recurrent example, Crosby and Dr. Boyfriend competing for Jabbar's love, etc.). Nora has been so incredibly throwaway because babies are kind of boring for TV. They don't have sex, do drugs, make bad life choices, etc. Even the most interesting child character of the season, Adoption Boy, was barely present and quickly "fixed" without his presence changing anything in any real way. I can't really think of a way for Crosby and Jasmine's baby to turn out except as a wedge that makes them divorce because anything else would be totally boring.

Weirdly, the only show that seems to be doing a good job dealing with the unending labor of childcare is Shameless (baby Hymie), and they're unfortunately dealing with it by abusing the kid.

The thing is that I think there is so much humor in parenting, and its such a wasted opportunity!

Among my favorite, favorite, favorite moments of the season has been the ones where Victor is so frustrated by maths and ends up studying so hard and still fails and he is so upset until Julia points out the ones he got right that he wouldn't have known how to do up to recently. So good. The kid that plays Victor is gorgeous, but he also telegraphs emotion so well, just using his face and body, that shy smile and hairflick when he was adopted was so much more evocative than Zeke''s whole spiel. I wish they'd done more with him feeling the loss of his bio-mom and rejection of Julia, because it gave two very fine actors a chance to shine in a subtle way.

Instead the show gave us an entire episode of how Adam made his sexy conehead cancer patient wife feel sexy in a hotel room episode. YAAAAAAWN.

The show should just be called adult siblings making bad life choices.

And can I say just how much I hated that Kristina went in to the PTA and got the vending machine back after Max threw a tizzy and threatened to go to another school.

Also, speaking of throw-aways, where is their dog? It could have been such a great exploration of the responsibility of having a pet, but instead the dog and Nora are probably hanging out in a basement with Jabbar, Drew and Camille (Bonnie Bedelia is too good to be wasted on this show - she needs more story arcs!).