Somebody should put Ariel's mother on a slow boat to China.

Thankfully for Alex this time her attempts to take an embarrassing picture of her sibling didn't end with her phone crushed under a car of a "vandalizer"…

I'm guessing it was probably Jay's conversation with DeDe that caused him to rethink things.

I've been wrong many, many, many times in my life, but rarely have I been so glad to be wrong as I was about these 2 episodes. I went in thinking the whole wedding was going to end up being one gigantic cluster (in fact on another board I even used the words "Moldavian Massacre" to describe the trainwreck potential)…

If there's still a potential Claire pregnancy story on the table I can see her wanting to spend more time with Luke regardless of what's going on that day, between 1) having another child bringing out her maternal instincts to more deeply bond with her children, and 2) to soften any possible hurt that Luke might feel…

I thought wildfires were more of an early autumn event out there - mid-May seems atypical (though not impossible, of course).

Depending on how Part 2 goes, sharks might still be more fitting (even though the pond is freshwater)…

I'll wait for Part 2 to pass final judgement on this episode, but boy could their timing have been any worse to have a wildfire interrupt the wedding (given what's going on in So. Cal right now)?

Well there is Alex's senior year for a potential overriding event for next season, but a Dunphy pregnancy would likely put that on the back burner, at least until late in the season.

If I were a character on this show I'd probably be seen even less often as Alex - picture Alex as a 51 year old man, about 15% less smart and 50% less focused and still living with Phil and Claire. I'd be lucky if I got one line a week.

He probably is (he was listening to a Carly Simon song from 1977 last week) - I'm sure Duran Duran would have played a lot of their classic songs at a concert in addition to the newer tunes (BTW, I didn't mean to slight their 1993 work in my previous comment - "Come Undone" is the strongest song they've made, even if…

They had a bit of a revival ("Ordinary World", "Come Undone") around 1993 - that would put a concert tour right around the point Haley was conceived.

I've given up figuring out the reviewer - I swear except maybe once I've "zigged" every time he's "zagged", and vice versa.

Had the first two-thirds of this episode been as strong as the last third, it would have given "Under Pressure" a dogfight for episode of the season. Instead, what we got was an episode similar to "Three Dinners" in that the stories were disappointing (until the blowups), but better in that an emotional scene was…

If they want to keep Alex at home (or at least in the SoCal area), California Institute of Technology (MIT's rival) is in Pasadena – that's close enough that they can have Alex come home once in a while or have story lines on campus.

OK, you know that's not what I meant but I still got a kick out of it…

Sometimes it's as if the writers got together after “Under Pressure” and said “OK, we've given Alex her 15 minutes in the spotlight, we can go back to just making her part of the scenery again and not worry about developing her character…”

Re-record "Under Pressure" when it comes back on.

So, I guess with the wedding on the horizon, we're back to "treading water until then" mode? It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't groundbreaking either. The tag scene with Stella was by far the best part of the episode.

Claire and Jay (too busy trying to win a closet contract) I'll give you - the other ones I'm not so sure - when they weren't having issues they seemed happy to be there.