Franko

Much appreciation for the tag, @victoria foxton. When I get a free moment, I'll be sure to watch. (What can I say? Too many long nights at Soapsuds' Cellar.

If I remember correctly, Shenanigans became Alice's Restaurant No. 1 around 1991 or so and was phased out soon after, I'm guessing because the Brady Pub became the new casual dining hangout set. Tuscany became Alice's Restaraunt No. 2 (the country-western bar) sometime during Reilly 2.0. I remember Tuscany being phased in around 1999 or so (and was clearly established by the time of the John-Roman-Brady catfight), after years of The Penthouse Grille, which had succeeded Wings as the upscale dining hangout set.

I think it was a little of both. I've been reading gossip columns from 1993-94, which she and Burt dominated for a long time. By the spring, they appeared much less often. This. Very much this. This *shocked* young Franko. Celebrities vs. critics? What kind of nonsense was that?https://ew.com/article/2001/11/30/yes-dear-riding-hate-wave-success/

Oh, if only Teri had gotten a chance to appear on, say, Murphy Brown in its heyday rather than Women of the House ... That movie was also supposedly responsible for Jon Lovitz not getting to come back to SNL, since at the time, Lorne Michaels didn't let castmembers be gone for outside projects. Not helped by the fact that she was playing the antagonist. I'd love to hear your commentary. Not the first time that the Sugarbakerverse made light of this. They did the same thing in the episode where they had a crappy wilderness vacation and ended up in the Georgia backcountry.

YES! Is anyone well-versed enough in '90s trash to ID all those clips at the end? It looks like they came from a whole bunch of made for TV movies (most of which aired on USA, apparently). At one point, I thought they were all made for the show, which would have really been expensive/pointless.

Only for the curious, "Women in Film." On a side note, it's interesting -- to me, anyway -- that Teri Garr and Julie Hagerty's paths briefly crossed with "Women of the House." Both ladies flopped in a 1991 sitcom ("Good and Evil" for Teri, "Princesses" for Julie), then Teri played opposite Shelley Long for round two of "Good Advice," then there was "Women" and then Julie did one more sitcom, "Reunited" on UPN. Just thinking about it, it seems like either or both ladies should have tried TV sooner and maybe would have had better luck.

Late to the thread, as usual, but I think you need to take your act on the road, @Vee, complete with a stirring finale.

DON CRAIG: "Oh, sure, Marie, I'd be glad to mail a few things for you ..."

Late to the discussion on Alice and how generation differences are written and portrayed and I'd like to say that anyone in modern TV who doesn't want to touch this stuff is a fool. It's so relatable, whether you only approach it with one-two shades ("Oh, Grandma's so old-fashioned, isn't that hilarious/overbearing?") or a whole bunch ("Oh, Grandma has some regrets about how things went down in her day, or just can't quite feel like a part of today's world, and I don't quite have the skill or patience to get her there, which frustrates me, so I'm going to get mad easily.")

The Witness Stand, an exhibit where visitors can re-enact their favorite courtroom confessions or make up their own.

And that sentiment never really goes away. I can remember family members commenting on it when I was a boy.

It not only fell by the wayside, it was buried under debris by the time of "Nolaerobics." The video quality makes it look like these women (and Louie) are sweating to the point of dehydration:

Ultimately, the recognition from the Academy has to matter. Fan-voted stuff doesn't count. It's got to come from Academy voters and it's got to be in big categories (picture, acting, director, maybe even screenplay). It's not like there hasn't been precedence: the Oscars have spanned the transitions from the studio system to New Hollywood to Miramax to the IP era. I suspect that, similar to politics, the shift won't happen overnight and there's going to be resistance from those who benefit from the status quo.

The clip that first comes to mind when I think of Monica's claims is when she and Rick were at the waterfront and Alan was on his way to kill them. Side note: Rick and Monica's afterglow music is "I Write the Songs"?

Sad but true. I'll concede that my thoughts are naive, but I have to believe that there are (enough? a growing amount of?) people out there who don't buy the bull. Again, naive as hell, but it's what I've got. *makes rueful promise to draw up the map when I find this Xanadu*

I'll double down on this: I think it was Biden's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" moment.

Going back to substances and '80s GH, I still need to read Ann Marcus' Whistling Girl, but I remember the TV Guide blurb for it saying that she talked about an actress who was on the show in 1988 (and still on in 1999) departing to go to rehab. The most likely (but still alleged) candidate would be Kristina, who was off from September '88 through January '89.

Eh, they were neighbors at the brownstone and Tony was Kevin, Patrick and Bobbie's colleague. That's close enough for me. If Terry had asked, say, Celia Quartermaine to be a bridesmaid, that would have been a stretch. I wish I still had my copy of Love, Honor and Cherish to look up GH wedding parties.

She does have an air of "We're doing this? Welp, okay ..." Plus Katherine Delafield, although she started as a pianist. That Terry is one nutty dame.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you could easily remake Revenge of the Nerds as a gritty drama about young sociopaths with little changes to the script. Older ones, too. John Goodman's comments about justifying vandalism to the tri-Lambda house "in the eyes of my God, my father and my coach" is straight-up hate speech.

I think it was the episode where Brenda took a bath and fantasized about almost all of the available men in town (Ned, Sonny, Jagger and Jason). Great minds. I just referred to the bathtub fantasy. That's one of my earliest and most vivid soap memories. It helps that VM reminded me of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. (Tell me you're a millennial without telling me your a millennial ...)

Okay, maybe that's a little cruel, me. Ned could also have done okay on the NYC cabaret circuit (your Carlyles, Joe's Pub's, etc.)

For better or for worse, it is cool that Labine wasn't married to any one outcome, that she could adapt based on how things were going. Agreed to all of the above. The rock or pop charts would have had no use for Ned BITD. At best, he'd be playing Atlantic City.

A.J./Brenda lasted from the tail end of 1993 into 1994, after Julia left Port Charles. Brenda and Ned also faked a relationship to make A.J. jealous. By February, Brenda moved onto Sonny.

Yup, the Jason/Karen/Jagger triangle (and eventually quadrangle with Brenda) was 1992-93. Double-checking the summaries, but I don't think A.J. was involved with that storyline. He was too preocupied with Nikki. ETA: A.J. wasn't directly involved with the story, but he didn't like Karen for hurting Jason and because she was part of the conspiracy to keep in him the dark about Alan bribing Nikki to leave Port Charles.