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I thought his wife was Filipino? I could be wrong, though.

@Donna L. Bridges You get to love them both (oocities.org) I can find the transcript of the scene, but not that actual scene. I know it's on you tube I just don't want to go through full episodes lol.

Probably. I don't think Johnny connects any dots easily. It was just funny the way CB delivered the dialogue. Like, wait? People are racist still in 2024? I had no idea lol *shruggy shoulders** I love you babe and that's all that matters...

There is a wonderful scene with Marlena and Abe at the end of the Mexico saga. I don't know dates exactly so I am not sure where you are at in context. But Marlena tells Abe "you get to love them both and I can't". It's a great scene and gives a lot of weight to Marlena's friendship with Abe and also plants the seeds of the affair.

I don't really hate the idea of Johnny being a cop either. I just also liked the idea of him being a film maker too. Johnny seems a bit dim to be a cop. Not like Rafe is a Mensa member or anything, but Johnny is pretty much entirely clueless. It almost sounded like today was the first time he figured out he and Chanel were an interracial couple.

Love that idea! I think there is real potential for Johnny as a director/film maker, but the show has done 0 with it. And he has just loafed around for a year or so unemployed. They should tie his projects in with offscreen Will. Johnny will probably just become a cop or something at this point though.

Yeah, I just found some of the conversation odd. Not in the overall affect or anything, but just some of the dialogue. Like, hey, one time 30 years ago Marlena had an affair with a man she's still married to! Scandalous! Just like us lol! If Eric didn't feel the need to tell his wife about that then Nicole probably shouldn't have either. Marlena for the most part has been very gracious to Nicole. Just me being nitpicky because I did like their scenes in general.

Intimidating, sure? But I don't think it's Nicole's place to tell Sloan about Marlena's affair. I am sure Marlena wouldn't mention the time Nicole kidnapped her granddaughter or anything lol. No threesome. Johnny hasn't even attempted to work or made a mention of a movie for years, so I am glad it was said today.

Today's episode was a little on the nose and preachy, but I think the sentiment was there and the show had good intentions. I still enjoyed it. I had to lol at Rafe's story about writing a check. That seems to be the normal check writing process? It's been a minute since I wrote a check, but I always had to put my phone number on it and show ID? I really liked Nicole/Sloan. I am sure Marlena really enjoys Nicole spilling her personal business like that lol. And I have to disagree. Marlena is of course perfect.😂 I don't know what to make of the Chad/Leo/Everett scenes. They were weird, but I didn't mind them. And I am so glad Johnny realized today that he is dating a black woman and also has no life goals. The writers really leaned into the fact Johnny is kind of a clueless bro.

I liked Hogestyn too. He doesn't get much credit, but I wanted to echo that sentiment. I love Drake, but I can easily say Ben is the better actor in the family lol. Although it doesn't seem like he acts anymore.

I thought the tribute was very nice too! Again, you did had to suspend disbelief, but it was a very creative choice to find the original BJ actress and she was wonderful. I like the idea of

I just find it very random and very mean. It never built into animosity or anger. One day Alex just started being awful to Justin. None of this is Justin's fault at all. I mean, he might not be the best lawyer, but this all feels out of nowhere. I just keep wondering what the hell is wrong with Alex.

Did I really miss something? I don't get why Alex is so mean to Justin. Alex is a jerk, but I have no idea why he would turn on his father, you know the man that actually raised him, like this.

I loved the 35th anniversary special! I was going to link it in the 60th thread, but I was having trouble finding the full episode or even anything other than Sonny/Brenda/Jax segments in good quality. I know it exists somewhere or did at one time.

Jason/Brenda didn't bother me much at all, but nothing really happened. If things did happen it probably would have. At that point we were also unclear how over Robin was about the romance. And since it's all hypothetical there's no way to really judge it. I would assume the baby story would have played Sonny/Brenda as endgame and Jason would at very best be a bump in the road. It was so cheesy. They should have had Jason just drive through the Q mansion on his motorcycle like he did back in the day lol.

I loved Molly Burnett as Maxie. Lois/Sonny might be pretty unpopular, but I don't find out of the realm of possibility. I would certainly hate it. I don't think it's in Lois's character, but who knows? We don't have any idea the status of her friendship to Brenda, Ned married her best friend and she didn't care, she's already dated a mobster (Alcazar), Brooklyn is close to Sonny, etc. A lot of the reasons she wouldn't do it don't really exist anymore. People loved Jason/Brenda as a potential pairing and that was even worse because it was both Robin and Sonny's bff's.

The strange thing is I can only remember those print ads for the younger crowd like Nik, Lucky, Liz, and maybe Gia for GH at least? I can't remember if Carly, Sonny, and Jason had ones. I am sure they did, but in my 10 minute google search I could only find JY's Lucky, which is obviously going to be awful lol. The color scheme is so off. I thought maybe they were going for bright gold and black, but it was certainly a flaming yellow lol. I think they look so silly now, but I was a little into them back then not going to lie. The stupid print ads not the weird bumpers.

Oh, okay. I remember the horror movie stuff a little bit. I thought it might be connected to that but I didn't recall that story amounting to much or even a promo. I guess it makes sense with Lawrence's arrival.

Yikes! That's actually really dark.

It's kind of funny because they were so focused on the computer effects they didn't actual promote anything but Drake Hogestyn's chest lol. The one thing I will say about Days is they really tried to promote Genie. They probably should have worked on the character of Diana more, but they wanted everyone to know she was coming. I believe this is one of the ads @Khan was talking about last night. Thanks for the info! The 1990 ad was dark too, so I had trouble seeing what was going on and who was involved. It looked more interesting than I am sure it actually was.

Lol at that Genie/Drake ad. It doesn't age well, but I actually wonder if it was cool at the time. @FrankoWhat story was the 1990 ad promoting? I can't remember this at all.

Oh, yeah these are better. I still think yellow is a strange choice. Now, I actually don't know which ones @Khan was referring to because my mind went to the mostly yellow ones and those print ads.

Even though I think Ava sucks, Tamara Braun is a real champ for acting against that. I wonder if she just laughed it off or seriously contemplated all her previous life choices when she first read the script of Ava vs a Life-sized Teddy Bear.

There is an actual Passions thread on here in the Cancelled Soap section, just FYI. Some were better than others. It was the color scheme and the large singular picture of the character/actor next to 3 or 4 smaller images of the same picture in different colors that was just weird. I know there is a name for that technique so I should just show a picture lol. Liz is actually one of the better ones, but it was the only bumper I could easily find.

Steve driving an ambulance through GH would not have made it better.