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This isn't exactly my ATWT era but I thought this was notable anyway. I never knew there was a slasher series put out via Verizon alongside the slasher story that aired in summer 2006. This channel found a DVD with a higher quality version of a few of the clips. They also link to the original channel which has the rest of the episodes. As the World Turns: The Slasher - Episode 10 (High-quality) As the World Turns: The Slasher - Episode 9 (High-quality) That channel has a number of '00s ATWT behind the scenes videos I never knew of. Here's one - some kind of spoof about Goutman. As The World Turns "What Happened to Guffman ATWT" Satire @P.J. I'm guessing you already knew about these, but here is a 24 parody featuring Maura and Michael, among others. As the World Turns "24" Parody - Episode 1

Ending on a shot of Perry Stephens' ass isn't the worst way to advertise your soap. ABC Network "Loving" Soap Opera Ad "Something's Happening" Commercial

Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle, GH) will be appearing in a film that has no reason to exist in 2025. 'General Hospital' Alum Chloe Lanier Stars in Lifetime's 'I Am Mary Jo Buttafuoco' - Michael Fairman TV Cam Gigandet and John Stamos: 'The Hunting Wives' Casts John Stamos in Season 2

I think P&G's turn toward ageism also hurt ATWT more than GL because ATWT's most vibrant characters were older. Marland having to weed out Barbara or Adam didn't make a big difference.

Bits but never the whole thing.

Now this is the oral history I want, not stuff like that one for Christmas is Connecticut where all I learned is the people who worked on that still hate Dyan Cannon.

I don't think Alice works outside of the book. The book has not only the unsettling illustrations but also a genuine sense of strangeness and anger which doesn't translate onscreen. The best adaptation I've seen of in live action is that Tom Petty video. This is likely why I got into FOX on Sunday nights. Sunday otherwise felt dead.

For a genre that is known for being about sex, I've never seen a soap that has made a threesome seem sexy. The closest may be the glimpses of Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, and that's a little disconcerting because the man having the threesome is the ex-husband from Kate & Allie.

Sally Struthers is channeling her anger toward Betty White.

I forgot they had a health club. Again, I just end up remembering GH (they seemed to be in on all the trends). Whenever I think of health club revamps on soaps I think of Acorn Antiques, which made fun of Crossroads doing this. (it's at about 42 minutes) Acorn Antiques - Omibus Edition

It is. That was one of the worst promos I've ever seen. Do you think we could have a story about Mark and Sarah learning they go to the same stylist?

Oh I know - Janice was doing a lot more than dancing with him. I just found the idea of that club of Mitch's driving her insane amusing. (I didn't even know Mitch and Alice had any involvement - they really did make a mess of her character) The Hostage could have been their Enough is Enough! A disco does suit Lisa more than a bookstore. A shame that by the time she opened up her own place it was mostly a more sedate affair - can't even remember if we got Lisa in a feather boa very often. Geez, Brad would have been there, wouldn't he? No wonder the disco shut down by the time he arrived. If there was ever a man in Oakdale ladies would be warned not to leave their drinks around...

I'll have to look for that. All I've seen of that disco/club is Tracy singing, and singing, and singing, which, nothing against Janice Lynde, probably helped drive Janice Frame into madness. I do understand why the soaps wanted to try to change with the times - which they should probably be doing more of these days - but there could have been so many other ways to do it.

True. If DAYS can afford her, why not. I think Kristina was best left to just showing up a few times a year and Lexi Ainsworth fans could get their best 2011 on.

Thanks. I can see why. Brook and Donn Swaby got to have much more fun than they ever did the rest of the time.

I wonder if DAYS would want Abby back while Cat is around. I could see her just going to recurring or popping up occasionally on GH and moving more into directing.

Michael and his ex (?) hooker girlfriend nearly !@#$%^&*]ed on Nina's desk.

I always forget about Erica's disco, although I shouldn't due to the iconic shot of her posing in the shower curtain dress. And of course there's GH, sadly famous for one reason only, beyond Richard Simmons.

I think Wired for Sound worked a little better, because by that point GL had a lot of characters I could see going to a disco/supper club, and the set didn't seem as claustrophobic. It's difficult for me to imagine ATWT characters in 1978 going to a disco. Melinda maybe...and Lisa if she was in the right mood, but who else? I suppose Jay might go to get some ass, but that's a whole other version of Oakdale we were not going to be seeing. Annie and Dee by this era would be more likely to drink some milk and tuck in at 8 PM than live their best life to Donna Summer and Sylvester.

Frank Valentini, 2024-2025.

Maybe you can reboot it now. The market seems to be there.

Apparently, this happens for approximately 25 million other Americans too!

Elizabeth getting eyelid mites, complete with Bill Bell-esque PSA dialogue, feels like the writers trolling fans who wanted her to have a storyline. At least it isn't as bad as Corrie years ago where they gave an actress that they were about to fire a nits storyline and she then had to go around with a shaved head that made her look like a Mad Max character.

Not always a bad thing - it is a soap after all - but I'm not too sure about that scene. Sorry if the earlier reference didn't make any sense, but here's Randy: Slim Jim ad with Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Thanks @Maxim That Todd and Marty scene is one I remember being mentioned quite a bit. I forgot Leanne is still there. A character who was surplus to requirements by this point. Ellen Bethea is a treasure. That scene with Asa and Blair is a great example of melodrama for the sake of melodrama. I shouldn't laugh, but Phil Carey sounds just like Macho Man Randy Savage. I kept expecting him to yell for Blair to "snap into a Slim Jim."