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A flashback reveals Walt giving Jesse his life savings to buy an RV so they can cook meth. Jesse takes the money and spends most of it partying with strippers with his drug dealing friends Skinny Pete and Combo. At dawn Jesse realizes he needs to buy the RV but has little money left. Combo takes the money Jesse has left for his payment then takes Jesse to a suburban home where they steal an old RV, with Jesse driving the stolen vehicle as they bust out of the driveway.

Skyler is starting to enjoy the upper class way of living Ted is introducing her to. Ted tells Skyler she can keep some of her things at his place as Skyler begins to feel uneasy about the affair. Jesse argues with his lawyer Saul over Walt getting half of his money for the meth he cooked for Gus. Saul is determined to bring Walt and Jesse together to negotiate a 10% payment to Walt for Jesse using his meth formula. Walt is torn about his marriage as Skyler continues with her affair. Walt’s family finds it difficult to sit together for a meal without uncomfortable silence. When the baby cries during dinner, Skyler asks Walt to take care of the baby and he is grateful to hold her. The next day Skyler discovers Walt has been sleeping next to the baby’s crib at night. While Skyler finishes showering at Ted’s place she notices how wonderful the heated floor feels and begins to crave a more luxurious lifestyle.

Hank and his wife Marie get in a fight over Hank’s resistance about telling her what is going on with him. Marie finds out Gomez has been promoted to the El Paso position Hank turned down. Hank is desperate to find the RV from the mini-mart ATM photo. Hank tracks down every one until none is left on the list.

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Homer has to visit the bank but food is not allowed there so he puts his candy apple in his pocket. The clerks think he has a gun and mistakenly think he’s holding up the bank. At trial the judge sentences Homer to 100 hours of community service (he thinks its worse than going to prison). During comunity service Homer begins to become friends with Chief Clancy Wiggum who is supervising the prisoners. Homer and Chief Wiggum begin a bromance of sorts, with Chief Wiggum very excited that he has a new friend and asking the other cops if Homer is watching him as Homer leaves community service that day.

Marge overhears Bart and Milhouse talk about a cool new transformer toy similar to a Pokemon-style trading card game, called Battle Balls. Marge misunderstands them and thinks the kids are talking about drugs. Bart and Milhouse are way into these new toys. Marge rummages through Bart’s room and Bart catches his mom searching for drugs. Bart shows his mom Battle Balls and Marge thinks the toy is super cool.

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Deadliest Catch is back for a sixth season on Discovery. There is something about this reality series that grabs you and hooks you. The show follows five Alaskan King Crabbing boats as they fish off the Bering sea doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Who would have thought watching crusty fishermen catching crab at sea would be so entertaining and riveting? The great narration by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs seals the deal with this series. I’ve been hooked for a couple of seasons now and have to say, the series is well worth watching.

During season four, Phil Harris, skipper of the ship Cornelia Marie, one of the ships featured on the show, became seriously ill during shooting. Captain Phil had a blood clot that went to his lungs while at sea, leaving him with a poor prognosis for the future. Captain Phil fought back while in the hospital to get back on his ship and was able to finish a number of the sixth season episodes before being hit by a massive stroke. Captain Phil survived another week or so, coming out of a coma long enough to spend time with his two sons who fished with him at sea. Captain Phil died February 9, 2010 of complications from a stroke. This season of Deadliest Catch is dedicated to him. Captain Phil was a favorite of the show’s audience and his dedication to fishing defined what a ship’s captain should be.

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The Maine episode starts in the dead of winter with interviews of locals of Maine, giving the audience a feel for the place. According to the locals there are two types of Mainers, civilized Maine are flatlanders while the farmland has woodmen Mainers. Tony is visiting Maine because his cameraman Zach is from Maine and well, Tony’s never been to Maine before and says “its under an hour to get here from New York”. Tony tells the audience that Portland, Maine is known as the foodiest city in the United States.

Tony and Zach head to J’s Oyster where the atmosphere is dark and pub-like with a loud crowd, known as a classic Maine place. J’s serves up Maine steamers and steamer clams are one of Tony’s favorites. Tony tells Zach steamer clams are “one of the greatest, truly American things ever, a taste of my childhood”. Tony and Zach wash down the clams with pints of beer. Zach tells Tony during their tour of Maine there will be chopping of wood and gathering of water. Tony is concerned about how wild and uncivilized areas of Maine are from Zach’s stories (shades of Deliverance) and says “Just tell me there’s no non-consentual sodomy and I’m with you”.

Street & Co. is a famous fish joint in Maine steps away from the water. Tony and Zach dine on shrimp, monkfish and cuttle fish (Tony says its sublime). Tony’s not too excited about another patrons pasta with clams, he thinks it doesn’t look so good.

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Jesse fills the tank of his RV and goes to the mini-mart to pay. Jesse realizes he doesn’t have enough money to pay for the gas and sweet talks the young cashier girl into accepting a package of meth instead for payment. A local law enforcement officer walks in the mini-mart. The girl hesitates in fear for a moment, then accepts the package from Jesse.

Mike visits Saul and plays a recording of Walt and Skyler fighting. In the recording Skyler admits Walt called her bluff on having him arrested but tells him “We are not married anymore.” Walt heads to Skyler’s workplace to confront Ted Beneke who is having an affair with Walt’s wife. Walt talks his way into the office then starts yelling at Ted, who is hiding in his office. Walt picks up a huge potted plant and tries to throw it through Ted’s glass office wall but it doesn’t work. Walt is carted off by three security guards as Skyler looks on, embarrassed by the situation. As Walt starts to get into his car, Mike drives up, pulls Walt into his car and drives off.

Mike delivers Walt to Saul’s office and Saul tells Walt “Consider this an intervention”. Walt starts screaming at Saul asking him if he bugged his house. When Saul admits he had Mike bug Walt’s house, Walt fires him and Saul tells Walt he is shutting down the website so there is no more money laundering for Walt’s business. Mike removes the bugging equipment from Walt’s house as Walt watches. “You know, Walter,” Mike says, “sometimes it doesn’t hurt to have someone watching your back.” As Mike drives off a a chalk drawing of a scythe is seen near his tires, no doubt another warning from the Cousins.

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Mr. Burns expects his entire power plant workforce to put on a 4th of July BBQ extravaganza for him so he can enjoy the holiday while his workers slave away for him. Homer, Lenny and Carl are tired of working on the holiday and sneak into Mr. Burns wine cellar. They get drunk and destroy some of Mr. Burns precious items stored away and make a big dent in his wine collection. When Mr. Burns calls the police to come to investigate the problem the police find a famous stolen painting hanging in Burn’s wine cellar and arrest him, sending him to jail.

Lisa wants to share her excitement about her ant farm with Bart, who isn’t too interested at first. Bart sticks a whole pop-tart into the ant farm and Lisa is upset. The ant farm breaks by accident and one lone ant is saved. Lisa creates a new ant farm for her one ant and warns Bart to stay away from it.

Mr. Burns assistant Smithers takes over the business and tries to be nice to the workers. Homer, Lenny and Carl take advantage of Smithers until he overhears them making fun of his gullible nature. Smithers decides to be just like Mr. Burns only worse and Homer, Lenny and Carl begin to wish Mr. Burns would come back.

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Fox has lost out in negotiations with Conan O’Brien, who signed a deal with Time Warner-owned cable network TBS to start a late night show beginning in November 2010. Fox wanted O’Brien but there were limitations to their offer, including less money, no chance for O’Brien to own his own show and difficulties convincing affiliates to change their lucrative rerun schedules. TBS and O’Brien began negotiations over the last week with TBS offering O’Brien the chance to own his own show along with an eight-figure compensation package, larger than any of his previous compensation packages. The show will be based in Los Angeles and is expected to air four nights a week. George Lopez is the current late night talk show guy with his show Lopez Tonight on TBS and will be moving from 11:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight to accommodate O’Brien’s new show schedule. Lopez was supportive of O’Brien’s move and said “I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in,” he said. “It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.” The starting time of 11:00 p.m will also give O’Brien a head start on capturing the late night audience of Leno and Letterman.

The news of the late night deal was announced today as O’Brien starts his nationwide live comedy tour in Eugene, Oregon. O’Brien commented on the news in his typical comic style: “In three months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable, my plan is working perfectly.”

The opportunity to own his own show should give O’Brien the kind of job security that David Letterman, who owns his late night show, has on CBS. Considering how well other hosts are doing on cable (Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are prime examples), its no wonder O’Brien went for this sweet deal.

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Tony stands in his Chef whites in his old haunts, Les Halles restaurant in New York. Tony tells the audience this show is about basic techniques in cooking. He realized there are many people who simply don’t know how to cook the basic foods we all love. Tony’s list of basics you need to be able to cook:

• Basic knife skills
• How to cook a lobster
• How to cook an omlet
• How to make a tomato red sauce
• How to grill a steak
• How to roast a chicken
• How to cook a hamburger
• How to make a stew

Tony has invited a number of famous chefs to help him show the audience how to cook these simple items. Tony starts off with making stew, Boeuf Bourguignon in fact. Tony shows the audience how to properly cut an onion without dismembering yourself. To start the stew, Tony shows how you curl your fingers and thumb back when dicing an onion, cutting in slices top to bottom, then a slice across the onion and then slicing across the bulk of the onion to create dices of onion. Simple enough with practice. Tony says of cutting yourself when using a knife is “the knowledge that you’re an idiot”. Tony continues the stew by cooking the onions until they are translucent.

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A flashback to Hank’s DEA informant’s early demise at a seedy Mexican cantina sets the scene for Hank’s continued fear of facing his return to the El Paso office of the DEA. Mike the undercover detective phones Gus to report Walt is still alive and guesses that Saul Goodman doesn’t need to know about the episode.

Skyler comes home to find Walt in the house. Calling him on his cell phone she insists he leave. Walt tells Skyler this is his house too and refuses to leave. Skyler threatens to call the police and Walt tells her to go ahead, calmly grading papers as she fumes. Skyler calls the police then sits waiting for them to arrive. Walt Jr. arrives home and is thrilled to see his dad. The police knock on the door and ask Skyler what the problem is and Skyler can’t bring herself to tell them about Walt’s illegal activities, telling them he broke into the house and won’t leave. The police go down the list of things that would cause an offense and nothing applies to Walt. He takes care of the baby and tells the police he has not been the most attentive husband lately. The police suggest counseling and leave the house. Walt Jr. yells at his mother for calling the police on his dad. Walt tells Walt Jr. not to blame his mother. Skyler is furious and tells Walt sarcastically “welcome home” as she closes the bedroom door.

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