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Occasionally we’ll order<\/strong> pizza or Mexican food for dinner and have a picnic in the living room while we watch something on the DVR. Most often it’s one of our many hours of recorded “Minute to Win It” episodes, because…well, because it’s a cool show.<\/p>\n

It’s also a very dramatic show. The other night it went to a commercial break with the host, Guy Fieri, promising that the upcoming segment featured such-and-such contestants taking on “a challenge you will NEVER forget.”<\/p>\n

Our son frowned at the TV, then looked at us.<\/p>\n

“They say that every time,” he said. “But I’ve forgotten pretty much all of it.”<\/p>\n

You’re not fooling us, TV game show producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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