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You're exactly right! Marcy left GL in August 1995, just after being kidnapped by Brent Lawrence and then testifying at Alan's trial. Marcy then went to AMC later that fall, which gave amazing drama and of course the Tad/Dixie/Liza triangle that we always needed. Not to derail the GL thread, but this was one of her return promos:

Love to hear this! Marj was a national treasure. Even if she wasn't exactly right for a role, she just always made me laugh or be enthralled by her. I also imagine she was probably just a fun person to be around in real life. While we'd never know what her path at B&B would have been, I'm just glad she decided on GL and it bombed... because she immediately went back to AMC and that return was fantastic and well-timed!

LOL - that was cute. It's things like this that really make me love the actors and characters even more.

Just seeing this... I'll say, for many many months, I've had a slow lag/refresh problem most days. I'm just used to it now so I'll wait or just close the tab out and open the website again to help it along. I just always keep SON up in my Safari tabs, so maybe that's why since it's constantly on? I use a Mac. But strangely, when I use my work computer which is Windows-based with Internet Explorer, I don't have any lagging issues.

I’m up to April 03, 1998. Holly tells Ross everything that happened with Roger, Fletcher and Meg and he consoles her. Ross finds out that Fletcher withdrew half the money in their account and flew to London. Holly rushes to the airport and tries to find the overseas passenger lists, but she gets arrested. Hart is there too, randomly, and helps Holly and gets arrested with her. In a surprise move, Ben gets them off with no charges during their court hearing, which worries Ross/Blake as they’re suspicious. Blake goes to Ben’s place looking for the tape. He arrives and plays cat and mouse until he finally reveals where the tape is. He continues his ultimatum, either sleep with him or he destroys the tape. If she sleeps with him, he’ll let her be the heroine and ‘find’ the tape. She decides to go through with it and undresses and allows him to kiss her. She keeps reminding him that her body is here, but her mind is totally out of it and she isn’t enjoying it. She even questions if this is rape. They continue, but Ben stops them before they go all the way and claims it truly is blackmail and wouldn’t be right (jerk!). He wants her to want it, so he doesn’t give her the tape. Later, Blake tells Holly everything about Ben and how she can’t shake these weird feelings she has for Ben. Blake goes to Ben to tell him she’s leaving town for a while, but they continue to flirt and Ben can’t quit her, so he gives her the tape to stay in town. Later, Ross wants to take Blake to France for 2 weeks, but finds a tape in Blake’s bag. She covers by saying it was delivered while she was gone, so Ross plays it and realizes it’s the courtroom tape he’s been looking for. He is confused why Ben would hand it over and presses Blake about the truth, but she keeps denying knowing anything. He calls Rick to give him the good news that they will start the process of getting Abby out of prison. Meanwhile, Abby is now in prison and having a hard time being deaf because the inmates and guards don’t understand and are mean to her. Her new cellmate is Selena Davis, who happens to actually be friendly to her. Jesse continues his ruse by pretending to be ‘Carlos’ at Michelle’s blind facility. They get closer and teach each other Spanish and English (it’s super cute). Michelle trips over a chair and falls, and Jesse rushes to help her. She stands up and can start to see fuzzy shadows! Beth keeps asking Harley/Phillip to stop looking for Carl. As Beth gets into an elevator, Carl walks in and reveals he’s in Springfield, which shocks Beth. He’s aggressive and threatening and mad that she told people about him. Later, he confronts her again at the hospital with Lillian. Lillian and Beth have some great scenes where she tells Lillian the truth about everything, and they’re worried that Carl will go after Harley since she’s investigating him. That night at the diner, Carl gets to Harley in the alleyway and spooks her. He tells her that Beth told him that Harley is on him, so Harley is now upset with Beth for putting her in danger. But Harley steps up to Carl and tells him to F off basically and he leaves. At the Spaulding mansion, Lizzie screams because she see Carl outside her window, so Phillip finds him outside, they get into a fight, and Alan arrives. Alan helps subdue him while Phillip runs to the police, but we find out Alan hired Carl and they’re working together (of course, Alan sucks). Although Alan/Carl get into it and Alan tells him to never come back to SF, so that’s good. Beth and Lillian are distraught. Dinah is over Rob because he’s spending her money and doing nothing she wants. Another day later and Reva’s clone is now a mouthy, defiant pre-teen (and very annoying). This is weird watching Josh feed her information and make her more like Reva. Reva demands time outside, so Josh takes her to the park. While swinging her, Cassie/Marah walk up shocked and ask who this girl is. Josh said he’s doing a friend a favor, so Cassie introduces herself and the girl says her name is Reva LOL. Josh tells Cassie that Michael works for a foster home and he’s just babysitting, which Cassie isn’t buying. Cassie tells Josh that she thinks that is Reva’s secret daughter, which Josh says isn’t true. Marah and the clone don’t get along at all and start fighting. I’m surprised no one is talking about Annie and wondering where she must be since they know she escaped prison, hmm. The next day, the clone Reva has run away and Josh finds her in a rowdy bar dancing with men. She’s older now, probably late teen/early 20s, and she’s enjoying being the popular girl with all the attention. (This is the same actress that will later play Michelle Bauer, replacing Budig). She now wants to dance again with Josh like they did as kids at Cross Creek, making up stories of their past that he doesn’t remember, which shocks Josh. He picks her up and hauls her out of the bar back home. I don’t understand why the clone isn’t wondering why she’s aging so quickly and looking different every other day. It’s not like the brain restarts each day. You’d think the clone would be freaking out about all of this. Anyway, they’re back at Michael’s and she’s calling him a geek (LOL) and Josh mean, and she just wants beer and pizza instead of cookies and milk, and the guys are definitely having a hard time controlling the clone. She then flirts with “Bud”, good grief haha. She forces Josh to take her shopping and of course she wants a red dress (eye roll). While they’re out, Cassie and Billy visit Michael to get answers, with Billy really strong-arming him. Josh calls Michael from the dress shop and Michael says he has company and to not come over. Later, Cassie dials *69 and realizes it’s a dress shop and now thinks Josh is having an affair. The next day, Cassie/Billy confront Josh again at Lewis Oil and he’s adamant he’s not having an affair. Meanwhile, the clone locks Michael in a bedroom (he’s so weak in this storyline), and she goes to Lewis Oil and says hi to Cassie haha. She tells her they met in the park (when she was younger), but Cassie of course doesn’t recognize her. She then says she loves Josh and Cassie realizes this is the girl he’s having an affair with. Josh hears them screaming at each other and he rushes her out and back home to Michael’s. Josh finally sits the clone down and explains what happened to the real Reva and who the clone is. Of course she’s pissed off about the whole thing and thinks she’s a freak. Later, Michael finally tells Cassie that he’s been working on a rapid age project and the two Reva girls she saw were the same person, which she doesn’t believe at all. Josh tells the clone he doesn’t want her to age anymore and to just enjoy life at her own pace, but she wants to get older because she loves him. Just as she says she loves him and hugs him, Cassie is at the door and hears it and goes off on them for being together and cheating on Reva. The clone is feisty towards Cassie and threatens to beat her up LOL. Josh finally just tells Cassie the truth about everything and she’s very sad, but thinks it’s disgusting and runs off as the clone takes more of her aging serum so she and Josh can be the same age and together. The clone now wants to have sex with Josh, and he declines her, but she pulls him into a kiss. He stops it and later, Cassie says she’ll play along only because she wants to protect Marah/Shayne. Dinah sees Cassie/Josh together and starts to assume they’re having an affair. Ok now the clone wants to go to Genoa City because a soap opera, Y&R, is based there and she wants to meet Mrs. Chancellor, but Cassie/Josh tell her it’s not real and just a soap opera that Billy and Wanda used to watch on their lunch break LOL. Josh has to tell her not everything you see on TV is real. I wonder why they added that in there - publicity for Y&R or because they got so much backlash on this story not being realistic? Meanwhile, the real Reva is walking around the deserted island screaming for help, threatening fish and eating coconuts LOL. Oh, now she’s having blurry visions of a man picking her up, which she realizes with her hurt leg, she couldn’t have gotten from the shore to where she is now. Now a man on the island is watching her from a distance. She’s made a little shelter and screaming out that she’s a SURVIVOR. Really makes you wonder if the producers of Survivor got the idea from GL haha. Why is her voice so southern twang now on the island? So ridiculous haha. Now she’s skinny dipping at night and the man finally reveals himself and tells her to get out. He’s a handsome, hunky shirtless man, how lucky. Josh who? LOL… But she won’t shut up and he gets annoyed by her, so he walks away. She finds him fishing the next day and he handles her well, although she annoys him haha. She finally tries to be nice and get to know him, but he’s very guarded other than saying he came on a boat and sunk it, so he’s been a recluse on the island awhile now.

LOL! Ya know, I really didn't like Buzz AT ALL in 1995-1996, but when Jenna came back, he got way more calm and likable throughout 1997-1998. It's like Deas was on something that made him so hyper and 'on' in the beginning, and then he took some much needed chill pills. I don't really mind him anymore, at least right now haha.

LOL - Oh Skunk, I remember him. He wasn't really developed, but I get what you're saying, she made more sense being paired to an outsider or 'bad boy' vs. the good/righteous boy Frank and Rick. Even when she pined over the newer Harts, it was more of a fantasy, but you can tell she belongs with someone more gritty/less perfect. Man I miss Bridget, she was great. Another one with an awful goodbye - just randomly out of the blue, good bye. GL wasn't great with sending characters off (in the 90s).

I've found this to be so weird too, as a contract player. I've watched her for 3 years now (March 1995-April 1998) and she's just a background diner waitress. She had one amazing scene when Nadine died, and then she finally got to play in a storyline when Jenna returned and they were bringing down Jeffrey for a couple weeks. Otherwise, she's barely been used in 3 years, which I find odd considering Eleni was a big character with Melina. They never gave Roszell a chance at all, from the beginning. She's not a bad actress, so I wish they gave her more. At least Frank's had something to do with his police academy and being town detective.

@alwaysAMC You are now irrevocably down the rabbit hole. 😂 Yeah, the story is insane, but it doesn't last that long, so there's that. Hahaha, I'm happy to know it doesn't last too long. I'm actually just finishing up April 1998 and it's been probably my least favorite month of GL since I started my watch in February 1995. Part of the problem is you have Reva on an island with a new character, but then you have Reva as a clone with Josh/Cassie/etc, so 2/3 of each episode all month is Reva. The only other big storyline going on is Beth/Harley/Phillip and the mystery of who killed Carl. Carl is a new character with no history, was only on like 4 episodes, he's a creep, and we're supposed to care about who killed him in the family? Just move on already... it's a bad merry-go-round. The only positive in the story is Lillian is featured and has something to do! LOL. But yeah, all the other stories/characters have been MIA in April, so it's been a grind getting through it. I'll post my April recaps later this weekend!

Was this the first time since the premiere episode seeing Derek shirtless? About time!

No need to apologize, I appreciate it! I saw the clip you sent too of Alan's secretary and noticed there are about ~30 parts, so one of these days soon, I'll try and watch those

I was afraid to say anything, but I noticed this too and was surprised.

Haha seriously! Just an odd choice for sure.

Bill sure can't keep his mind off Dani, they for sure will be together by the holidays haha. Naomi worries too much. Like Vanessa said, that was an odd choice to have drinks just after Doug's death, given how he died.

This was great, thanks @DRW50! Appreciate the details Carrie sounds like an interesting character, and I didn't even realize that was Jane!

That would be so great if all the episodes are there! Thanks!

This is so great! But did I miss it... where exactly will it be available - on Paramount Plus? They already have many of the episodes over there, albeit random episodes are fully missing bc of the music stuff from what I understand. I wonder if this new release will include ALL episodes now?

I’m up to March 16, 1998. *Fletcher/Roger/Amanda all leave - ugh - thoughts at bottom. Michael and Josh get back to SF and Michael surprises Josh by bringing out a baby Reva clone LOL. How in the world can he make this baby in just 1 week’s time (Friday to Friday), which was really just like 2 days in SF time. Josh is dumbfounded, then upset and then a bit grossed out. Michael gives him a picture of the baby and Josh leaves. While alone with the baby clone, Michael feeds her growth serum (I can’t believe I’m typing this haha). Meanwhile, Cassie/Hart are at home and call about the travel log for the Lewis Oil jet and realize Josh flew to Florida in the last few days, which he didn’t tell them about, so they’re very concerned. Later, Josh comes home and compares the picture of the baby to a baby picture of Reva and he’s shocked they’re identical. Cassie comes into the room and finally grills him about what’s happening, to which Josh says Reva went to Florida because she got a message from a guy that met her a year or so ago after her car went off the bridge back in the day when she was presumed dead. Cassie seems to calm down a bit, but is still suspicious. In another room, Josh calls Michael and tells him he can’t do this anymore and he needs to give the baby up for adoption and let her live a life away from them. Michael says he can’t do that because the clone isn’t a baby anymore. Literally in less than a day, this clone went from a baby to a toddler LOL. Michael asks Josh to give it one more night and visit the clone in the morning. Meanwhile, Cassie finds the baby pictures of Reva and the clone and is more confused. The next morning, Josh calls Michael again and Cassie overhears him talking about putting a baby up for adoption. She confronts him about what he’s talking to Michael about and then asks about the baby pictures. She says they’re identical but one picture is old and the other is new. He tells her to stop worrying about things and he storms out, just as Hart comes in and Cassie says she’s scared. She starts to think maybe Reva had a child in Florida. LOL in the minutes it takes Josh to arrive at Michael’s, Reva went from being a toddler to 7 years old, all within the same episode. That growth serum works like magic LOL. This is actually ridiculous now, I didn’t realize the storyline would move this quickly and the clone would grow so quickly. I guess Zimmer is on her annual vacation during all this. Michael then encourages Josh to talk to the clone. The clone asks him to color with her, and then tells him she doesn’t even know her name, to which Josh then says “You’re Reva Shayne”. Then, next scene, we have a camera hovering over a deserted island and we see a washed up unconscious Reva floating on an airplane seat, washed up on shore LOL. Oh boy, this is half ridiculous and half exciting. Now Michael is using some hypnotic treatment with the clone and Josh is feeding her details of her family history, relationships, and preferences. This is so dumb haha. They do recreate some interesting flashbacks of Reva/Josh as kids first meeting. I didn’t realize they knew each other that long ago as kids. We see the first use of ‘Bud’ and ‘always’ in these flashbacks LOL. After Beth realizes Harley was investigating her in Arizona, she tells her that Carl used to beat her and she had to get away from him. Harley softens up after hearing this. Later that night, Beth then tells Phillip about Carl beating her and he gets upset about it and consoles her. She tells him Harley found out while investigating her, which also upsets him. Part of me wonders if Beth is using this as a tactic to divide them, she seems like she uses emotions to manipulate people. Phillip later yells at Harley and tells her about how Beth’s stepfather raped her when she was young, and so thanks to her, Beth is reliving all that. Harley says he now gets to be a white knight about it, to which Phillip calls her immature, and the merry-go-round continues with these two. Harley then hypothesizes that Carl was murdered, which Beth now overhears, and Phillip thinks she’s crazy. Abby’s hearing starts and they all talk about how the tape isn’t available and therefore Abby changes her plea to guilty, which Griffin sentences her to anywhere between 18 months and 5 years in prison. Ben confirms (lies) that he doesn’t have the tape, which Blake really doesn’t believe. She confronts Ben and Ben very smugly and flirtatiously says they should have dinner and dessert at his place and they can talk about the tape. He hands her keys and says ‘See ya later, alligator’. Amanda prepares to head West and says goodbye to Phillip, who says he’ll miss her. The night before Roger/Amanda leave SF, Roger goes to Holly’s house and once again asks if she wants him to stay. She says she loves Fletcher, but confesses that she can’t imagine a world where Roger isn’t around. Roger pulls her into a kiss and Fletcher, with Meg, walks up to the house and sees them kissing through the window. Fletcher walks away and tells Meg he will never let Roger be part of her life because he destroys everything he touches. Holly pulls out of the kiss and tells Roger to go, even though it won’t be easy for her, but that’s the best option for her family. It’s clearly hard for her to say this, she says sorry in the end, and they both say they wish the best for each other. Roger then says goodbye and walks out the door, as Holly cries into the couch. Wonderful scenes here, but again, just feels a little empty without Zaslow, sadly. The next morning, Fletcher comes home and confronts Holly about kissing Roger. She tries to convince him that she pulled away, but then tells him that her father introduced her to Roger, and given their past, there will always be a place in her heart for him. Later, Holly goes to Spaulding Mansion to find Roger, but she sees Roger and Amanda kissing and talking about just being married, which troubles her. They see her and she starts crying, but blames it on Abby’s hearing and her recovery from the kidney transplant. They take her home, Roger and Holly both say they’ll miss each other, they hug and Roger leaves Springfield. Holly cries into the couch and the Holly/Roger storyline is sadly forever over. One big complaint from me - where was Roger’s goodbye scene with most importantly Blake and less importantly Hart?!? Meanwhile, Fletcher leaves Holly a note at home, saying this is the hardest decision he’s ever made, he’s always loved her, but he needs to make Meg’s life a priority and is leaving Springfield with her. He asks her not to look for them. Ok WTF - this is Fletcher’s exit and he’s leaving his wife a note about him leaving and then Holly gets no say in where her baby daughter is going nor get to see/talk to her again? I can’t imagine Holly being ok with this. She’s lost Roger, Fletcher and Meg all on the same day, and she’s supposed to just be ok with this? I’m very curious to see where Holly goes from here, probably depression. I’m quite disappointed overall in Amanda’s exit (very lackluster - where was Alan?), and the fact they ousted Roger and Fletcher at the same time. You can tell the writers had zero interest in continuing with the Amanda/Roger story once Zaslow had to leave. They were barely used in the last 6-7 months, which is a shame if Amanda was picked to stay over Alex last year. I was never a big Fletcher fan, but he’s been around for a long time and having him leave, by taking Meg without telling Holly where they’re going, is pretty gross. It’s actually quite criminal to essentially kidnap Meg and never let her mother know where she is or how she’s doing.

Thanks for sharing, that's great! Who was Ross married to at this time? A schizophrenic with 3 personalities?? Goodness!

Dani: "He is every INCH a man." Goodness! 👀 Donnell is really holding his own against Joey, love to see it.

Oh I like Pamela too! LOL. She's quirky and different. I just wish we could see more of her, because like others have mentioned, it's odd she's not around or mentioned during certain events (Chelsea's kidnapping, Dani's insta-wedding, etc).

Yes!!! I was happy to see that acknowledged. Interesting how they used Doug's storyline to bring it together, but I liked it!

That is the Fred I think of too!

These are SO good! My favorites are Angie and Mary's.

Love to see it!! I've watched every season, every episode and still enjoy it haha. Totally agree that Rachel carried most of this season and I really didn't like the twist that got her out. I'm sure production was kicking themselves on that one haha. 100% a masterclass!