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Was anyone else annoyed by how they threw Jaleesa and Col. Taylor together? That relationship was so forced, the character of Jaleesa should have just disappeared after Season 3 when she graduated.

Even thought it rated higher than the Cosby Show, i think a large portion of their audience was watching the Cosby Show and when it went so did those viewers.

Yes, Lena was the Jada Pinkett character.

Did they ever explain what happened to Marissa Tomei's character Maggie? She just disappeared after the Lisa Bonet season.

I knew Aretha sung it but I put Patti for some reason LOL.

The show did seem to be too preachy in the last 2 years or so IMO. It was still entertaining, but I felt like every episode dealt with a social issue.

I looked at the ratings and it was a nice top 5 mainstay for most of its run, but just collapsed in Season 6, does anyone think it is because they lost The Cosby Show as a lead in and was moved to 8pm to kick off Must See TV? I think more of it had to do with how much the show had changed by Season 6.

What about those new crop of characters, that were to be the next generation? I loved Gina and Charmaine, but could NOT stand Lena, Dorian, and Terel.

How long did it last on Nick at Nite?

What was everyone's favorite theme?

The Season 1 version with the sort of country-blues ring to it.

The Season 2-5 version sung by Patti LaBelle.

Or the Season 6 remix with Boyz II Men.

Well I just re-discovered this awesome show, after learning about its reruns on TV One.

This show was awesome. I loved all seasons except for the Lisa Bonet season. She could NOT carry a show. My fave characters were Whitley, Dwayne, Ron, Kim, Freddie, Mr. Gaines, Jaleesa, and Gina.

What are some of you guys' favorite episodes and pairings?

My pairings:

Whitley and Dwayne

Freddie and Ron

Kim and Ron

Jaleesa and Walter

Most of my fave episodes are from Season5/6: The episode where Gina was being abused by her boyfriend, the episode where Tupac guest starred, the Mammy episode where Kim did that fabulous performance at the end, all of the episodes of the Dwayne/Whitley/Byron triangle, and also the one where Gina posted the DIGIT HO sign on Charmaine's back. LOL

I wish they had released Seasons 2-6 on DVD, but Season 1 did so horribly they cancelled all future releases.

I'll post more memories of this fanatastic show later.

I wonder if they were considering going there but changed their minds because they were planning to give Kim Zimmer a dual role, first with Cassie (which Zimmer thankfully nixed) and then with Dolly.

Ew. Cassie played by Kim Zimmer?

Does anyone know what Aubrey Dollar has been up to? She was my fave Marina.

I was reading an article a little while ago where David Kreizman basically put killing off Richard in the same category as killing off Maureen. He seems to think they were equally big mistakes

LMAO.

Kreizman is delusional.

Where is that clip at? lol. I do remember this. He did it, then Mike on ATWT did it. They had planned more too but then JJ/Superbowl happened...

So this was a P&G thing?

Trying to break new ground in daytime by showing bare asses? LOL.

Aw man that sucks.

Another recast I loved was Natalie Zea as Gwen. She was MUCH better than Liza Huber IMO.

Does anyone why they got Bradley Cole back to play Jefferey?

Was there some sort of fan outrage of them killing Richard, so they decided to bring the actor back in a different role since Richard's heart was given to Rick?

Daniel Cosgrove was the source of the bare bottom sex scandal in 2004?

I always thought it was from a sex scene with Marah and Jefferey.

Didn't that lead to Conboy leaving GL?

Do you (or anyone else) remember that character Eden?

She was running an escort service, and I think some of her clients were victims of Ben Reade (when he was a serial killer ) and she was revealed to be Gus' sister.

Anyways, how did she exit? I really don't remember much about that.

I used to love those promos.

This was 2002 right?

I wish Deanna Wright had stayed in the role of Kay.

That girl was FIERCE.

Speaking of Blake and Ross, anyone remember that storyline when some woman became obsessed with Ross?

What was her name?

I guess this is old news but I was looking in the new Digest and Jerry ver Dorn said that he had the scripts for his return as Ross, he would basically speak as a ghost to Ed and then to Blake. But ABC wouldn't let him appear. He said he lives near where they filmed the weddings in the last episodes so he was out there on a boat watching them.

Damn you Frons!

I was a Blake & Ross fanboy.

Dear GL fans who do you think was the most fierce GL character

IMO Edmund, Alan, Reva [except her pod period] and Roger were fierce.

Roger of course or Beverly's Alexandra.

Those were the days.

Can't believe that it's been a year since notice of GL's cancellation was sent out.

Yep.

I refused to believe at first considering the day the news arrived.

It was actually. Tabitha's Thanksgiving dinner party in 2004 was one of Passions' finest post-Timmy moments and included all the over the top soapiness and camp Passions should have been. Tabitha was hosting the dinner and invited everyone just to "accidentally" let it slip that the Wheelers were really Martin and Katherine. Chaos ensured afterward.

I think I remember this.

Didn't Luis then proceed to fight Martin?

Yes Tabitha was hosting Thanksgiving dinner at her house and had a giant turkey piñata much like the one "Cassie's butchered body" was in at the Thanksgiving carnival. The piñata appeared to be dripping blood much to everyone's horror. It fell down and red gloop splattered all over the place. What had thought to have been blood turned out to be cranberry sauce!

LOL! That's pretty funny.

If you take out how bad they screwed over history... was the Maryanne Caruthers stuff that bad of a storyline? Granted, I hadn't watched anything GL pre-1991 when I saw it, so I had no idea that they were screwing up and rewriting things. I was purely entertained, and loved the whole aspect of the woman haunting Marina, Marah, and Michelle. It did get kind of wacky once Reva and Harley took over that storyline, just like they took over everything in GL's last decade.

I absolutely love this show. I just recently got into it, and now I'm addicted.

I was thinking today that this show should have been pitched to FOX. I think that FOX could have been interested in developing a soap in the late 90's, and this was a perfect match. Aaron Spelling created this show right? He gave FOX 90210 and Melrose Place, I'm sure they would have been interested. Since FOX always had lower ratings then NBC at this point, I think they would have been okay with the show in at least the 2.0-2.5 range. On top of that FOX probably would have tried to push this show in an afternoon timeslot like 3pm or 4pm, unlike NBC who let affiliates run it at 9am or 2am at night. This show most likely wouldn't be on now, but I think they could have lasted longer on FOX.

Was anyone here a fan of Joan Collins as Alexandra? I loved her stint, I heard she left/got fired because she couldn't remember her lines. Is that true?

^ What did he mock? Cassie's "death"?