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@brockreynolds (love that username) moving this over here to ask... what clip? Is this when Leslie was pregnant?

Bill will probably dangle Luna over a balcony for a while and then have a change of heart and agree she can't go to jail, she's PREGNANT!

They don't want to write anything. It is much easier to rely on couples from back in the day so you can just refer to that history without showing anything (Victoria/Cole, Cricket/Danny) or have them sit around giving speeches about their great love (Victor/Nikki) or else just make up a backstory between characters and just talk about it (Audra/Holden).

Kind of cheesy but cute. They are putting Cricket's wedding dress up for a vote on instagram starting on September 19: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/how-young-and-the-restless-fans-can-pick-crickets-wedding-dress/

Just put a wig on Thomas and call him Steffy.

We could also volunteer our time. Write breakdowns, be extras, and assemble sets for free!

I appreciate your work in writing it out. It's almost like Y&R is gaslighting us into thinking this is normal for a TV show (that's not quite the correct term but you get my drift). It's good having it in black and white.

I've been tracking along in my head and noticed GH typically beats Y&R's daily set usage before their opening credits (they'll get to 6 or 7), and an episode runs as high as 10 sets, so that beats Y&R's two week total. Unbelievable. I knew it was bad, but this is WILD.

I was half paying attention and then realized...that was the wedding? Believe me, I'm no shipper and don't care if they get married or not, but are they too lazy to even decorate the Forrester living room anymore? Is this going to be another "Carter forgot to file the papers, so they are not actually married," and then Ridge will declare it null and void when he sees Brooke talking to another man without his permission? And then run to Taylor? Are we supposed to believe these woman are chasing "marriage" to Ridge but the "marriage" is just this temporary situation that is, literally, not worth the paper that it's written on?

Very well said. Can't stand Katie. What was with that "you should always count on Ridge!" stuff. What?! I love how Brooke was literally just standing there, just existing, when Thomas felt the need to go lecture her about accepting Ridge and Taylor. While Taylor was arguing with Ridge how Brooke is manipulating him, Brooke is just sitting in her office (pathetically) waiting. They really should just lean in to Taylor being evil. Wasn't her Broken Heart Syndrome diagnosed by that fraud, Dr. Buckhingham? Didn't Taylor buy Steffy a baby on the black market? Instead of having Taylor lecturing Ridge about Brooke, they should have Taylor revealed to have paid off Dr. B.

Leslie might not be a sophisticated businesswoman but surely she didn't think someone in the middle of a high net worth divorce could just give a house away? And even if that meant the deal for the house across the street from Anita and Vernon fell through, won't she just try again? The ensuing scenes with Leslie and Eva were good but this was such a sloppy plot device. Chelsea being held in one static room, and the offscreen car crash, was giving a little Y&R. At least they all showed up at the hospital.

Is Ridge even considered a popular character? Who would possibly tune in for this?

Cannot strongly agree enough with these two posts (except, I'm sorry, I cannot agree with any praise of the Steffy actress' performance). The writing for this entire branch of the family is sick. And he did the same thing when he set her up with the CPS lie, not to mention lying about Hope's daughter being alive. And now I guess the direction the story is hinting at is because of his psychological problems, Ridge has to stay with Taylor, otherwise Thomas might get upset and he can't be held responsible for any violence that occurs, which will be either Hope or Brooke's fault for not giving him what he wants.

They did a Memorial Day party in 1997 and Cricket had a special episode in 1998 where she recalled her marriages to Danny and Paul. Not sure if there's others after that.

OMG, this is a perfect description of her, LMFAO. 🤣

Very interesting, thanks! I swear GH uses more than 4 sets just during one segment, and might use as many as 9 in an episode! B&B seems to use 3-4 per episode and that will probably improve with the new studio. So pathetic for Y&R.

But at least we got those Emmy worthy performances from Jess Walton and Tricia Cast at Chance's funeral!

That's clever. She asks him if he is upset because of his brother. 🤣

Deeply recurring, considering no police station set and never any action on screen. Someone will have to go to the coffee house and report on the cases! I can't remember who this guy is because Griffin, Nathan, and Chase were pretty much interchangeable.

In the same way people make the cast lists, it would be quite interesting if someone made monthly lists of the sets used on each soap, just to see how poorly Y&R really is doing. They might even lose to half-hour B&B.

That's precisely my point. If they had certain milestones plotted out to happen around the end of the year, and then suddenly lost two weeks of shows, they may have had to scramble to truncate stories. Unless they knew about the week-long preemptions and took them into account when writing the original scripts, but MJV seemed as confused as the rest of us last time.

The timing is of interest. We know they plan to celebrate Christmas so they had to align the episode with December 25. I thought BTG production didn't know about the first week of reruns, but they must have been informed this time, or else they would be way off. I wonder if they had to scramble when they found out. Could this explain some of the pacing issues?

How many unrated days does Nielsen give the soaps per year? I wonder if CBS is trying to save money by using them all on reruns so they can produce less episodes. Other soaps use them for holidays and partial preemption days.

I freaking knew this would happen. I won't be surprised if it happens again around Thanksgiving and Christmas. The CHCH thing could be as simple as Crave paid for exclusive rights to BTG across Canada and therefore CHCH can't air it anymore. It doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't doing well.

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