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I'm not sure of the exact date, but it was some day in August 1997, probably somewhere in near the middle. They weren't on very much during that month, so if you're looking and they're on, it's likely that episode if they're together

LOL! I'm on the fence with Jenna. She doesn't really irritate me, I can handle her and I mostly appreciate that she makes Buzz more tolerable. But, I also don't need her, and her return storyline wasn't overly interesting. It's watchable, but not must-see like some of the other storylines going on right now.

Another good episode. I just really love Budig and Rikaart's friendship. I also love that Budig is so fond of AMC. I really wish Marc had worn a different shirt...

I’m up to August 28, 1997. Matt finishes the house and has a housewarming party. This is definitely a ‘Field of Dreams’ storyline where “if you build it, they will come” (he expects Vanessa to come home now). Sadly, Vanessa never showed and all the guests end up leaving. As Matt is alone in the house at night, Vanessa finally shows up! They embrace, kiss forever, and he shows her the finished house. They both can’t believe it all, they’re overwhelmed and they recap everything. Then of course they have sex and the episode ends. Next morning, Vanessa confesses she was falling for a man online, and Matt tells her that was him and they laugh and kiss. Dinah comes over to check on Matt and she sees Vanessa and they have an emotional reunion. Next up is Bill who comes over and embraces Vanessa, which was sweet. Overnight, Matt has a nightmare that he loses Vanessa again which upsets him and he realizes how upset he is at Vanessa for pretending to be dead and hurting everyone. He makes her promise that she’ll never leave him again. The next day, Matt takes her to the diner and she gets to reunite with Nola, Jenna and Buzz. It’s clear that Jenna/Vanessa had a really strong friendship before, during Jenna’s first run on the show. Jenna is crying nonstop. Vanessa meets her son Cooper and strangely Vanessa STILL hasn’t mentioned or asked about Peter. So weird. Ok, finally the next night at Company for her party, Matt gives Vanessa a drawing that Peter made of his family, but it was very much a quick throwaway line, which is disappointing. Reva/Josh surprise Marah/Shane at Cross Creek with their own personal family “wedding”. They exchange vows and rings, but wasn’t ordained, just a family commitment it seems. Cute. Afterwards, Josh asks Reva to stay married this time, and she says only if he promises not to marry another nutcase because Sonni and Annie were enough trouble for their lifetime (a Sonni reference in 1997!). Billy’s parole officer is now allowing him to pursue any career he wants now, so he quits Buzz’s diner and asks for a job back at Lewis Oil. Jeffrey is now gone (went to prison), and Jenna is finally able to be happy with Buzz in Springfield. Because they worked so well together to bring Jeffrey down, Jenna and Harley decide to team up and start their own private eye business, but they continue to butt heads and clash. They have lunch with Reva and Josh and their first job is to help Reva find her sister. Alan and Annie travel to Chicago to find Cassie. Come to find out, Cassie is a stripper, who wears her mother’s brooch on her jacket in the strip club (LOL - so corny). I cannot believe Laura Wright’s introduction to this show was a (very long) strip tease on the pole! Wow. Her daughter Tammy is in a foster home, but we see Annie/Cassie visiting her and Tammy clearly loves her mom. Alan/Annie get her to commit to taking a job as a receptionist at Lewis Oil, with the goal to sabotage the president of Lewis Oil (Josh) and make his wife (Reva) miserable LOL. Ultimately, Alan gets her an interview as Billy’s secretary. On the morning that Cassie is off to interview, we see Billy, Josh and Reva at the newly renovated Lewis Oil offices. This set is huge, they even comment on how much room they have. Billy doesn’t want a secretary, but he interviews Cassie anyway and he keeps saying she reminds him of someone (duh, Reva haha). However, he tells her no thanks, and she leaves crying. Reva bumps into her and consoles her. Reva goes back to Billy and pressures him into giving her the job. Meanwhile, Cassie bumps into Josh in the hallway and immediately takes a liking to him, uh oh! Billy then brings her back, gives her the job and Reva invites her to Vanessa’s party at Company that night. Cassie first reports back to Alan/Annie and tells them she’s confused because Reva/Josh both seemed nice, which they hate to hear and try to convince her against that. Billy then picks up Cassie and takes her to Company, and Billy/Vanessa slowly hug as they see each other. They introduce Cassie to everyone, which seems so fast for a stranger. Billy, Josh and Reva keep telling Cassie to stay away from Alan/Annie when she asks questions about them, so you can tell Cassie is starting to wonder who she should trust. Cassie then bumps into Hart and you can tell she’s really into him and they start to flirt. Ohh, I could be into a Dinah/Cassie feud haha. Dinah/Hart need something to do anyway, they haven’t had their own storyline in a long time (except Dinah in Vanessa’s story). Meanwhile, for some reason, Amanda has a problem with Annie, and really wants to know what Alan/Annie are up to. Amanda sabotages her probation meeting by calling the probation office pretending to be Annie, getting her meetings rescheduled so Annie would miss them. Annie misses the meeting she didn’t know about and Frank comes over to arrest her. Annie is in jail and freaking out with her crazy cellmate. Annie assumes Reva did this to her. They explain to the judge that she wasn’t the one that made the call, so instead of putting her back in prison, they put her in the psych ward in the county jail LOL. Reva then visits her, pushing Annie to give her more information on her sister. Annie taunts Reva about it, so Reva takes Annie’s hand and puts it on her chest and pretends that Annie pushes her over a sofa (like Annie did to Reva over the stairwell). The doctors hold Annie while Reva screams for help LOL, which puts Annie in a worse situation at the psych ward. Sugar Hill thinks Dahlia is a distraction for Marcus and his potential, so she needs to go. Marcus thinks Sugar likes Dahlia, so he’s mad and jealous. Blah. Sugar keeps referencing a Drew Jacobs on the phone to someone, and it’s clear he doesn’t want her around. Sounds like another new character coming to me. Anyway, Dalia magically books a room at the Towers for them to finally have sex. This is odd because 1) she can’t afford a room there and 2) we’ve never heard them talk about sex or her being a virgin until now, out of the blue. Yep, Drew shows up to Marcus’s show at the Towers and it’s revealed that she had a romantic past with Sugar, but he wants her to leave. Drew’s dad is also a producer big wig who is there to assess Marcus during his show. Marcus is running late because his car breaks down, so Dahlia sings a song to keep the big wigs there before they storm out upset. They’re amazed by her performance and then Marcus shows, he plays his sax, and the big wigs are happy. Drew’s dad tells Dahlia she could be a big star and Sugar then offers Dahlia a contract. The label decided to go with her instead of Marcus. Dahlia pushes Sugar to give Marcus the deal instead, and ends up giving both of them a deal as a duo. Michelle has another vision with Maureen and talks to her about Jesse, which was sweet. Jesse/Michelle are both into each other now and Michelle continues to teach him how to read. Because of this, Michelle now changed her mind about college and wants to go to a local school vs. going to Maureen’s alma mater. This pisses Rick off big time and he confronts Jesse about it. Michelle has another vision of Maureen and she tells Michelle to do what makes her happy, and if that’s staying to explore her relationship with Jesse vs. going to her college, then that’s fine. Jesse’s dad keeps yelling at Rick and Michelle, and Rick/Lillian find medical records that prove Ed didn’t kill Jesse’s mother, but Jesse’s dad doesn’t believe it. Michelle takes Jesse to the lighthouse, which amazes him. There, they profess their love for each other, which makes her get over the memories she had of Zachary at the lighthouse. Which now this makes me wonder who owns the lighthouse now. Michelle mentioned her family does, so I guess Zachary restored it and just sold it back to Ed? They didn’t acknowledge that… Meanwhile, Abby goes to Point Lester to find Michelle and she’s attacked at Jesse’s home by one of his goon friends. He tries to rape her, but she screams, tries to knock him out, but he ends up knocking her out cold instead! Poor Abby. The police mention a woman screaming at an address that’s Jesse’s over the scanner system, which Rick and Lillian hear at the hospital. Rick takes off, thinking it might be Michelle in trouble. The goon wraps an unconscious Abby in a big carpet, the police arrive but they don’t see Abby and the goon leaves with the cop. Jesse then arrives, finds Abby and panics just as Rick walks in and sees him holding her. Rick assumes Jesse attacked her and takes her to the hospital and operates on her. After Rick and Michael operate on Abby, Rick gets the police to arrest Jesse. Michelle screams that Jesse was with her and he couldn’t have attacked Abby, but they cart him off anyway. Reva rushed to the hospital to see Abby, which I thought was great. That’s one relationship they haven’t forgotten or given up on, which I appreciate. Abby finally wakes up, but can’t remember details of the attack, and Reva has to tell her they have to run tests because she may have been raped (she wasn’t). She starts to have flashbacks and confirms it wasn’t Jesse, so he’s able to get out of jail. There is a scene where Reva tells Alan about Abby and he literally doesn’t care and keeps pushing his Annie agenda. Typical Alan, which is not endearing at all. He then pays off one of the psych ward employees to make life easier for Annie, but the employee allows Annie to take his hospital jacket and escape! Amanda tells Roger she wants a baby, blah. Mallet (off camera) calls Harley and tells her it’s officially over, he has a new girlfriend and they are giving up their shared apartment. She cries to Philip, all the while those two are having flashbacks of their ‘pretend’ sex and their feelings over it all. Clearly setting them up for a coupling here. Days later, Philip pushes Harley to find a new apartment and even brings her a dog (that looks just like Harold from AMC LOL). They end up having sex again, blah. Vanessa and Matt meet with a doctor who gives her a new test medication that will prolong her recovery and reduce any further symptoms from her disease. She takes a pill after feeling light-headed, which really gave me the suspicion she may start to get addicted to them, but we’ll see. Meanwhile, Dinah has fears that Vanessa’s disease is hereditary and she may face the same future. This prevents her from getting closer to Hart and living a future life with him and potential kids.

Hey, I loved 1995 so I'm sure I'll be ok

Ahhh ok! Yes, I just found the scene again and listened. You're right, he did say Kat. But he said "‘finally got a hold of Hamp and he’s doing a world tour with Kat. She just graduated..." So the "Kat She" sounded like Catch unless you force yourself to hear Kat haha. Thanks for the info! Not to sound like a broken record, but see, I need to go back and watch 93-94 so I can see her and more of Hamp (and Bridget/David!)

Ahh could be, I'll have to go replay it and listen again. If Kat, who would that have been? You're right, but I think what bugs me about this in particular is that Hamp never really 'left'. He was just very slowly phased out without a mention - no exit, no acknowledgement, no closure. And then the actor passed very soon after his last appearance (not 1-5 years later). Had he had a goodbye/exit scene or storyline, then I totally agree on that point.

Oh wow - I guess it's the (no) mustache throwing me off haha.

OC: What an interesting turn of events! So it looks like Gretchen and Jen have teamed up to lie, but because Katie is getting the brunt of the hate/blame, she's turning on Gretchen/Jen to expose them! I don't love Katie, but I'm happy to see her turn a bit here. Gretchen/Jen better watch it... Tamra seems to have been redeemed!

Ohh I love the Chelsea kidnapping cliffhanger! That's some good soap opera. BTG hasn't done this year - having someone be tied up and missing. I can't wait for next week! Also LOL at Bill carrying Leslie out of Anita/Vernon's house next week.

LOL now Leslie put an offer on the house across the street from Anita/Vernon 😂 I love her so much.

LOL yes! Such a delicious scene.

I always love a good Leslie/Eva vs. Kat fight! This is going to be good. Leslie looked so devilish when she turned around and Kat told her she doesn't below there. I'm so here for it!

I agree, I love how close they are as cousins.

Of course the first thing Leslie did was become a member of the country club LOL.

I don't know what's considered really young, but I always thought Dixie (AMC) was a young grandma.

Another question. HB just died in storyline in Sept 1997, and Billy mentioned he ‘finally got a hold of Hamp and he’s doing a world tour with Catch’. While I'm very happy they acknowledged him, I'm a little miffed they didn't consider doing a tribute for him considering the actor had already passed. But, anyone know who Catch is? Did Hamp have a son or maybe just a band member we knew on-screen?

Ahh ok - that makes me happier about it Thank you!!!

Question! I'm watching September 3, 1997 and Michelle has another vision of Maureen, but this time she's talking to Ed. But, this isn't Peter Simon. Did this actor ever play Ed before Simon, or did they just get a random to play the part? If the later, that's a bit disappointing and I'm surprised they couldn't convince Simon to come on for a day, assuming he still lived in NYC at the time.

Me too! Had to go 5 days without watching GL. Can't complain though, so grateful the Vault is there for us It allowed me to catch up on Young Sheldon anyway (I freaking love that show haha).

Whether I'm supposed to like Bill or not, I like him a lot and I agree, I loved him putting the Dupree's in their place and demanding respect today. I've acquired the taste and I like her too! I thought these same two thoughts. I also LOL'ed that her first (paper) $1M paycheck came to her, delivered, randomly at OG's.

Ohhh I didn't realize that was a link - thank you all!

Ohh how are you guys watching London? I'd love to watch!

LOL all good - I was like, hmmm...

Curious, who are these guys?