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I thought Kristina had more or less implied to Sonny's face that he was just as abusive as if he'd hit a woman (which Sonny insisted he would NEVER do!). I loved that.

What a great idea for a topic! I first learned about concepts like shareholders and stocks and board meetings from watching Y&R as a kid (when they actually showed the business stuff onscreen!). It certainly isn't discussed regularly on television and I wouldn't have heard about it IRL. I feel like I also know a lot of dates of actual historical events because of researching preemptions.

I suspect another reason GH doesn't show old classics is they haven't been properly digitized. On the rare occasion they show them (I believe they reran Sonny and Jason marathons during the pandemic) IIRC they were still in SD. The quality was barely better than YouTube rips. CBS has its archives nicely digitized in HD already. Then you add the extra work of the music rights and actor residuals and why bother.

Yeah, they look insane ranting and raving that he's Matt Clark and him saying he's not and he's clearly correct. If he looks like Matt why can't they call the police?

That's a very sweet story ❤️ My grandmother would always declare "she's a bitch!" when Brooke would come on screen. My grandfather would say that Brooke was a "good actress" which meant she cried a lot and was pretty.

So funny, I used to love that show.

Always on TV, either DVRed from cable or a USB stick for classic soaps. I only watch short clips on the computer or phone. Almost never live. It's pretty rare that I will watch something the same day. I like to watch before reading the threads (except Y&R, nothing ever happens so I can't really get spoiled), so I'm often dozens of pages behind. I try to keep up with BTG because it's a new soap and I want to participate in the discussions, but the random preemptions have been a turnoff. What changed the most over the years is my attention span! I remember I used to FF more, now I almost never do, I'll just start browsing the internet and let it run. I only watch classic soaps when I'm in the mindset where I can pay close attention, as if I were watching a classic movie. The modern soaps are more for background. GH holds my attention best. Y&R and B&B are for when I have things to do or just went to veg out and scroll the net. BTG is somewhere in between.

This being Y&R, I expect literally an hour of them standing alone at Society, talking.

He sent her flowers (not the ones she was allergic to in sitcom-style hijinks).

If Paul has to have this offscreen parallel life, I wish they would write in that Lynn Bassett flew to Portugal to take care of him, he finally realized he loved her and now they're married. It is honestly hilarious that they just left him in Portugal, where he traveled to visit Heather for her job and she has since moved back to Genoa City and isn't even alive anymore.

I remember chatter about Bell developing a soap but I'd been assuming/hoping it was a daytime soap. As for Michael Damian, with his soap background I'm surprised he hasn't been the one to reboot old soaps into Hallmark movies, it's the perfect way to test the waters without a big commitment.

Oh, I didn't realize they were made to be larger.

Ok, so there is a weird glitch with the smiley faces. If I go the menu and select it, it looks fine and comes out like this 🙂 If I just type a colon and a closed parentheses, there's a little pop up that comes up to select the smiley icon. If I don't select it, I just get the text like this :) If I do select it, the smiley comes out huge, like this

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I feel like it was confirmed they never slept together, but I don't remember how. I guess Phyllis must have admitted it since no one else could possibly know. Yeah, that's a miss for LLB, unless she's referring to Danny divorcing her by cryptic letter instead of talking to her when he learned Phyllis was claiming pregnancy.