Episode Summary
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GUEST STAR
Ellyn SternHerself - Homeowner
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GUEST STAR
Richard EpcarHimself - Homeowner
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Tava Smiley
Host
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Stacey Dutton
Host
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Eric Stromer
Carpenter
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Peter Walsh
Regular Organizer
Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (1)
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When Peter says "Ellyn made huge strides in purging a ton of stuff," close-captioning reads "purchasing a ton."
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QUOTES (9)
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Richard: Everywhere you look, it's something new. It's fantastic.
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Peter: For $1000, a space that even James Bond himself would be blown away by.
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Eric: Joel, this begins Valance Mania. Valance Mania is sweeping the nation.
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Richard: Who has all these videotapes? Ellyn: We do. Ricahrd: We've got to be insane.
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Peter: You've done a terrible job, basically.
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Ellyn: Anything that's James Bond, you can toss.
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Tava: When was the last time you used the ab roller? Ellyn: Two days ago. Richard: Sell it.
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Richard: This is my office. This is where it all begins.
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Richard: My wife brought in all this garbage basically and she won't throw anything away. She's a packrat.
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NOTES (3)
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"Live and Let Go" is a reference to the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
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Clean Sweep on the Street: Peter Walsh talks with a little girl named Emma about how her playroom used to be cluttered. He praises her organizing skills after she says that she knows she has to have a place for everything.
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The yard sale prizes chosen for the homeowners in this episode were a portrait of Richard given to him from his Mom when he was 13 and favorite lamp of Ellyn's. Ellyn sold $91.50 worth of stuff, as opposed to Richard's $58 and kept her lamp.
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ALLUSIONS (3)
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Ricard: I just think you're the Simon Cowell of sorting, but that's okay. Peter: That's the first time I've heard that. Richard compares organizer Peter Walsh to harsh critic Simon Cowell, a judge on the popular shows American Idol and Pop Idol.
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Ellyn: It has been rather hard to use it. It has housed lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Ellyn quotes Dorothy from the The Wizard of Oz when discussing an unwieldy piece of exercise equipment.
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Tava: (holding up mirror) Who's the biggest keeper of them all? Richard: Ellyn. The wicked queen in Snow White addressed a talking mirror. She asked it "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" and then get upset when it responded that Snow White was.
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