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Anonymous wrote: I never have trouble following the show, but I was really confused with the timeline this week.

One was the whole thing with that older couple – it seemed like they were the ones that Rebecca had contacted about buying the house, but then they actually gave them the crockpot. That was really confusing.

Also, I am really confused about who is or isn't in the house… I just now went back and saw the scenes for next week, which I didn't see on the first watch, so I guess everyone was. For some reason I did not think that throughout the season so I have been very confused

Kevin isn't in the house. He's at a party in the woods with Sophie.

Kate also went to a party - I don't remember her coming home.

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Anonymous wrote:So he dies because of a crock pot!? My eyes are rolling so hard.

The crock pot industry is not going to be happy about this development

Crock Pot actually put out a statement!

http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/24/crock-pot-defends-slowcookers-this-is-us-fire/

Washington Post did an entire article about this too. I personally think that the fire should've been started by faulty wiring in the house, a curling iron, the dryer... really anything other than a crockpot. It's totally ridiculous- crockpots are very safe.

The old guy that gave them the crock pot in 1980 said that it had already been used to cook many family meals. Given his & his wife's apparent ages, that makes me think that the crock pot was probably supposed to have been from the 1950s or '60s. Maybe the ones from back then weren't as safe?

Nvm, thanks to the crock pot's twitter accoint, I just realized that I was misremembering what the old guy said. Apparently the crock pot was only 2 years old when he gave it to the Pearsons. What couple with no kids still at home buys a new crock pot???

What? Such a strange question! Crock pots are great for any sized family, even those without kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike the new Randall housing project storyline, dumb.

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Seriously dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:So he dies because of a crock pot!? My eyes are rolling so hard.

The crock pot industry is not going to be happy about this development

Crock Pot actually put out a statement!

http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/24/crock-pot-defends-slowcookers-this-is-us-fire/

I am appalled at the fans who were piling on Crock Pot to defend the FICTIONAL faulty Crock Pot in the show. Wow. Some people really do think they live inside these TV shows.

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Anonymous wrote: I never have trouble following the show, but I was really confused with the timeline this week.

One was the whole thing with that older couple – it seemed like they were the ones that Rebecca had contacted about buying the house, but then they actually gave them the crockpot. That was really confusing.

Also, I am really confused about who is or isn't in the house… I just now went back and saw the scenes for next week, which I didn't see on the first watch, so I guess everyone was. For some reason I did not think that throughout the season so I have been very confused

Kevin isn't in the house. He's at a party in the woods with Sophie.

Anonymous wrote:I dislike the new Randall housing project storyline, dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:I love reading all of these theories, but I guarantee those writers are gonna pull out something unbelievable and shocking. We just have to wait for it.

PP mention of the necklace + titanic was interesting! Weren't the dog tags from his brother? The brother seriously has to come back into the picture at some point.

I assumed the brother was KIA.

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Whatever, I think it is fun to speculate because I love these characters.

Of course . Fanfictioning holiday schedules seems like a stretch, but it's a popular drama show about a family. Their mom married their dad's good friend after he died. Since he has kids too and his ex was friends with the mom it's not a stretch to wonder where his kids fit in and how the marriage may have affected them. It definitely hits home for those whose parents remarried someone with kids. Sometimes step-sibs get along as one big family and other times they have absolutely no relationship especially if they are older.

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I don't get why some posters (who are themselves posting on thread devoted to discussing a fictional family!) find this so hard to grasp.

No one here finds that "hard to grasp." I think we're all invested in these characters. But the PPs trying to piece together who spends the holidays where and with whom, etc. are taking it a little too far. It's extremely odd to worry about the minutiae of a show like that.

It's even more odd that posters such as yourself can't just skip over posts like that & move on instead of writing pages & pages worth of posts about how odd/boring you find them. You've turned what was a few lines about a fictional families holiday plans into a 5 (or whatever) page long tangent about how odd some of you find those few lines!

Yes, some posters are focusing on the minutiae of a show a bit too much but you are focusing on the minitiae of a message board about a show WAY too much. If the former is odd, the latter is downright bizzarre.