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Jenn grabs the wheel and files a glowing dispatch from the Grand Princess — medallion magic, bottomless Plus-package drinks, and a ship so serene the biggest excitement is a debate about goat yoga. It's the most openly “we're seeing other cruise lines now” the show has ever been, delivered with love, a cane joke, and Gary in timeout.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Grand Princess trip report
Princess medallion system
Plus-package drinks
Ship demographic
“Cheating on Carnival”
Carnival clientele stigma
USA Today Reader's Choice
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Jenn sells the medallion — a hard pitch for Princess's frictionless boarding and drinks-anywhere service.
“I love their medallion system… I was on that ship at 1059 AM, dropped my stuff in my room, and done.”
- The demographic running joke — an older, kid-free sailing where the water slides make no sense.
“Their average [passenger] being 73 years old.”
- The goat-yoga tangent — a Pilates mention spirals into goat yoga (“the ship was fresh out of goats that week”), with Gary eventually banished to timeout for a risqué aside.
- The honest heartbreak — the season's transition gets real: no Blue Iguana breakfast burrito anywhere.
“I think we're officially seeing other cruise lines now.”
- The pointed clientele critique — on the “Walmart of cruising” label, and Princess pricing out cheaper than a comparable Carnival cruise.
“It's not the prices… it's their clientele.”
- Cold-open award news — Carnival earns top honors in USA Today's Reader's Choice Awards and the Carnival Spirit is named best Alaskan cruise — perfect timing for the crew's FRGC Alaska plans.
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- The “Kendall Fire” cold open — the recurring intro tag returns, this week over Trevor's audio-gremlin subplot and ever-present drink cups.
- Gary in timeout — banished mid-episode for a risqué goat-yoga aside — a fresh entry in the season's Gary-wrangling canon.
- The sip-counting contest — this week's Facebook winner is Carrie Jane with a guess of 12.
- Seeing other cruise lines — the group's drift toward Princess and MSC, from Amanda & Josh's MSC group cruise to Margaritaville at Sea, plus Jenn's cane bit.
- The breakfast-burrito countdown — officially retired but still invoked (“698 hours… breakfast burrito in my hand”); the sign-off swaps in “the best ships are friendships.”