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Ohh good, I can't wait! :) Interesting! I can't wait to see who it is :) @P.J. LOL - you never disappoint with your hatred for **** :) I'm not sure I'm ready to see how bad he can get.... as you know, so far, I think he's a great guy and I really like him. I know that can't last forever though, so maybe one day I'll join in your feelings about him haha.

Ok I surprisingly found Britt and Brad fun yesterday... not knowing them from the past, I didn't mind them at all. Brad was calmer than the day before, thankfully. I thought it was funny neither could pay the bill and I'm curious how they get out of that today haha. Although it was SUPER lazy of the writers to just sweep aside the fact she didn't let him know she was alive after all this time... like he got over it for a second and then they laughed it off? Ridiculous, but I get it.

I came in here to say this and you said it perfectly! I feel the same way :) I also really enjoy seeing a former "friend" of Hayley and Randy's past... she's interesting and I hope she stays around a bit. They need to watch her...

Ahh interesting about Amy Carlson! Thank you. Still very curious why Beth E. needed a temp replacement, especially right before Phillip/Harley's wedding. Interesting, I'll have to go back and see if they used Denny... it didn't sound like it to me, but maybe I missed it. So sad to hear that about the Towers. I get needing to modernize and keep up with the times, but the Towers was so grand and special to me. I thought it was a stretch too, but they said Vanessa had the power to make WSPR decisions while Dinah (who owned/ran it at the time) was in the hospital. Seemed convenient, like you said, a plot point. I love the Stalker storyline too! It's entertaining and using a ton of characters. Agree on lost opportunity with Ross/Vanessa during this time.

I’m up to November 11, 1998. After hitting a few dead ends finding Selena’s daughter, Harley thinks they should look into the biological dad and see if that helps. Selena said she kept a book of her “John’s” back in the day, but thinks it’ll be of no use. She later meets with David and says there’s one guy she keeps thinking about. He was a young guy in college, with a scar on his face who used to get made fun of by his older frat brothers, so she felt sorry for him and always wondered what happened to him. Selena was the first woman he had sex with, and she thinks he would never forget his first time. So, they want to track him down. Meanwhile, Ben and Beth meet up and he briefly talks about his college days being in a frat and we later see a newspaper clipping about frat brothers caught up in a prostitution scandal and he privately says there’s so much about him that Beth doesn’t yet know. So I guess this means Ben is the father of Selena’s daughter - wow! Buzz and Alan butt heads over planning Harley/Phillip’s wedding - food, venue, etc. Alan wants a grand Spaulding wedding and Buzz wants a more modest, Greek-style wedding. Harley/Phillip are so annoyed at this point, they decide to elope. Dinah’s face injuries are bad and they’ll likely have to do plastic surgery. Given how distraught she is, Hart tells Sean he has to stay with her and can no longer be with Cassie. Hart meets up with Cassie and tells her, and she starts having pains and says it’s Braxton Hicks contractions, and angrily yells at him to leave her for Dinah and go to hell. Dinah, feeling ugly now, pushes Hart away because she doesn’t think he’ll want to live with a disfigured woman. She gives him annulment papers so they can end the marriage, which makes Hart sad. Matt made a minor comment about Vanessa working too much again with everything else going on with the family, and it struck a serious nerve with her. Later at the hospital, Beth confides in Matt about almost taking her life after Phillip chose Harley over her. Matt tells her to call him if she ever feels that way again and then they hug, which Lillian sees from a distance. I guess they really are going through with this Matt/Beth thing huh, ugh. So far, Matt hasn’t screwed up, but we’ll see… Dinah comes clean to Vanessa and tells her she started the fire. Vanessa walks out in disbelief and tells Matt, who calls Dinah a psychopath. Vanessa gets mad at him for not having any compassion, which he doesn’t like because he tries to remind her how many times Dinah has put herself in this situation and how awful she was to them and their relationship too. I have to agree with Matt here. Vanessa eventually apologizes, but says she can’t leave Dinah at this time. Matt then tells her that baby Maureen started crawling and Vanessa missed it because she’s putting Dinah first. Ross meets his lady friend attorney, Anita, at Millennium for a work dinner (which I didn’t realize they had food haha). Blake catches wind and heads there and happens to sit next to Anita, both not knowing who each person is, where Anita talks about having a long-time crush on this guy she’s meeting. Blake leaves to freshen up and comes back to see Ross kissing Anita’s cheek. Later, Blake tells Ross she’s no longer with Ben and won’t be, but that doesn’t help. Anita then shows up, Blake leaves, and Ross fires Anita as his lawyer so they can get closer. They end up having sex (blah). Mick gets out of jail because someone posted his bail and he finds Drew on the beach and threatens her. Michelle shows up and Mick starts to rough her up as well. AHH this is the final scene for Rebecca Budig as Michelle! I can’t believe I’ve now seen her entire 3-year run on GL (1995-1998). I love Budig and it was a joy to see her in this role. This is the big scene where one episode (11/04), Budig’s Michelle is fighting Mick and then the next episode (11/05), the new actress Bethany Joy Lenz takes over in the same scene. This is the actress who played the Reva clone in her young adult days earlier in 1998. A bit jarring to now think of her as Michelle and not the Reva clone. Of course I’m happy Budig left so she could join All My Children, but I don’t think that’s why she left GL. I’d love to know why she decided to leave before getting the AMC role. Anyway, I’ve seen this scene before on YouTube, but it’s nice to see it play out now that I know what’s going on. Drew hits Mick on the head with a rock, so he lets Michelle go and begins to rough up Drew, and Michelle then takes another rock and hits him on the head and he goes unconscious. This scene was shot with both Budig ending the episode hitting Mick and Lenz doing it again in the next episode. The girls freak out and go back to Millennium crying (where the announcer now says the part is being played by Joy Lenz - interesting, no Bethany). Jesse and Bill asks them what happened and they tell them everything. The police show up looking for Mick, and Drew tells Michelle to forget everything that happened. But later, the four of them go to the beach but can’t find Mick, which scares them because they know he’ll be after them, even angrier now. Later at the club, the radio announces a washed up body that was found, ID’ed as Mick Santo (not Santos, interesting they changed the last name later, or maybe the S is always silent?). The girls freak out that they killed him! Jesse tells everyone they need to stick to the story that the girls were at the club the entire time. Michelle is taking it really hard, but Drew tries to support her and I’m starting to actually like Drew now haha. I have a feeling with the Michelle recast, I might start changing my mind about Drew/Jesse/Michelle, ugh. The cops stop by again questioning them and mention Mick’s parents have sworn revenge, in blood, when they find the killer. Mick’s brother Danny then shows up the next day (11/12) asking the gang to help him find Mick’s killer. Annie sees Josh again, who doesn’t remember anything other than her telling him about Frank. She drugs him again and tells him to start liking Cassie, who will be so irresistible to him, which will drive Reva away. This storyline with the truth drug is fun, but it’s so unbelievable, similar to the clone storyline. Anyway, Cassie comes by, Annie leaves, and Josh starts telling Cassie she shouldn’t worry about Hart because she’s pretty and can get any guy she wants. He starts to massage her, which weirds her out and just before he goes in for a kiss, Reva comes home and interrupts him, all while Annie is watching from outside. Things are fine, but when Josh/Cassie get alone, the drug has worn off and Cassie accuses him of coming onto her which upsets her. He doesn’t know what she’s talking about and basically gaslights her into thinking she’s done something wrong sho she just apologizes and leaves, but Annie is upset that the drug didn’t work long enough. She drugs him again to reinforce that he needs to fall in love with Cassie. So he later goes to Cassie’s bedroom while she’s in bed and creeps her out by saying he’ll make her forget about Hart and she needs him. Cassie tells him to stay away from her and Tammy interrupts and asks why he’s there. Cassie takes her back to bed, Josh sees a picture of Reva, says he loves her and then snaps out of it. Cassie comes back and he acts like nothing happened again haha. He gaslights her again and says she’s imagining things and accusing him of doing something he didn’t do. He later tells Reva that Cassie is acting very strange. The next day, Cassie confides in Harley about the Josh thing, but she can’t believe it either. Ken is not doing well in jail, which upsets Holly. Holly, who is drunk, goes off on Frank telling him Ken needs to get out. Frank is convinced Ken is the stalker since they haven’t had any stalking incidents since he’s been in jail. Because Holly is drunk, Frank calls Blake to pick her up and they all go to her house to make sure she gets home safely. They enter the house to find it completely ransacked with a Jack and Jill nursery rhyme painted in red all over the wall! The rhyme says Holly fetched some scotch and left without her daughter, “some mother”. Yikes! She weirdly starts to get happy about it, claiming this means Ken can’t be the stalker. Frank thinks it’s odd now that the stalker hit someone twice (Holly), which is a change from their original motive. He starts to question Holly’s whereabouts that day and then calls out that she has red paint under her nails and declares that he thinks she did this, which Blake is incredulous over. Frank keeps grilling her and Holly finally admits to doing it so she could save Ken. Frank decides to drop it and let Holly go. Holly later asks Vanessa to not let this get out in the press, but Vanessa rather coldly tells her she can’t stop WSPR from running with the story. Holly begs her, as a friend, but Vanessa doesn’t help her. Matt doesn’t understand (and I don’t either) why Vanessa couldn’t just save her friend’s reputation, the woman that gave her daughter a kidney. This is yet another little thing that is clearly dividing Matt/Vanessa right now. Holly later shows Beth what she did to her house and tells her about Vanessa not helping her out. Matt shows up and he and Beth clean up Holly’s walls together. Matt tells her the story about finding Vanessa again through the chat room and how he built their dream house waiting for her to come back. Beth says that’s the most romantic thing she’s heard and would love to have a man treat her that way. Meanwhile, Vanessa confides in Jenna about her little problems recently with Matt and how he doesn’t want her working so much. Jenna assures her it’ll be ok and they’ll get on the same page again soon and she has nothing to worry about with Beth. Whoa, on 11/09, there is a new actress playing Harley (Amy Carlson). I looked it up and she seems to just be temporary, but I bet viewers back in the day were shocked - a new Michelle and a new Harley within a few days! I wonder why Beth Ehlers needed the break. Amy played her for a few episodes until Beth came back on the 11/17 episode.

Aww, thank you! All good - I'm glad it's helpful and we appreciate having the Vault available 😀

I love this so much! I wish I was there haha.

This is exactly where my mind went... I remember some of us (which is perhaps not nice) thought he had a little sugar in his tank when we saw him on BTG. I guess he might hear that occasionally and he's working overtime to refute that.

Aww thanks - it's so sweet that in 2025, generations can still talk about soaps and how they brought family together. My grandma always watched AMC, OLTL, GH every day... and I just visited her in her assisted living house yesterday and I was shocked to see she was watching Y&R and B&B on Paramount Plus. She doesn't have Hulu so I'm assuming that's why she doesn't watch GH, but I was shocked and happy to see she still watched soaps today.

Oh gosh, I do not like this Brad character. Or maybe it's the actor. I don't mean to be rude, but his facial expressions are all over the place. I'm back home with family for Christmas and got my mom to watch with me... she couldn't believe Tracy Q was still on... and of course she loved seeing the AMC actors on there. I doubt she'll get hooked and watch after I leave, but it was a nice moment to watch a soap together again after 12 or so years.

I'd actually be really interested in seeing Jac with a different cast, and I'm curious about her son and husband ~10 years later. But I'm not sure the 20th OC season is the right time... nor would I want Gretchen back after her disastrous season, which by the looks of it, she'd be coming back as a friend along with Jen.

I think the Magarshack version would be what I prefer - thank you so much for the details! :) Ahh ok, thank you all for the info on this particular Lindsay info! Curious about the BTS info that put a quick end to this one.

Wait is this Lindsay Rappaport? I've only know the character played by Hickland. I'm afraid to admit, but I've never read Anna Karenina. @Maxim - you've got me itching to look into the book and read it!

LOL I think the same thing - my mind always goes to OLTL. 😂. But looks like it's changed now! I love the look, @Errol !

I'm glad they're sticking to Ned's health and acknowledging Tracy in this. I was afraid it would just be dropped altogether. Slower day today, for me.

Wow, in shock. RIP to a legend.

I totally agree re: Blake/Ross. Both men did essentially tell her to F off haha, but my guess is Ben will cave again and try to take care of her. We'll see, but yeah this story has officially gone too long for me. It seems like (hopefully) Kim got over whatever it was about Cynthia Watros, because it was really nice to see Kim cheer loudly for her when winning the Emmy. I think Cynthia even thanked Kim in her speech, and if someone wasn't treating me well and I had already left the show (like Watros did by then), I wouldn't be saying her name in my speech haha. Her dad died, so she got all his money (he was a 'famous' music producer).

The EastEnders gay bar thing is LOL! And sounds very similar to what I'm watching right now with Millennium. You're right with Dinah. I just got to the first scene where she's out of the hospital and wearing a scarf wrapped around her head, like Edie from Grey Garden'sl, trying to cover her face LOL. I'll have to go re-watch the scene with Hart and the door, because I didn't pick up on that surprisingly. Always love hearing your thoughts and insights!

This is fascinating and the kind of insight I wanted LOL. Thank you! So she had no idea she was going to be Annie and replacing Cynthia Watros until after 2 weeks of being there, very interesting. She was taken aback realizing she was replacing an Emmy award winning actress and it made her nervous, but she said ok, I'm going to play this character as crazy as I can, more than you ever expected (which now I'm excited to see). She said Kim Zimmer didn't like her from the jump. She was never warm to her and never liked her while she was there, and still doesn't today. Now I want to know Kim's side LOL. She said Beth Ehlers was so gracious and friendly to her. I love to hear that.

Ohh I'll have to find that Locher Room interview LOL! Yes, all unbelievable stuff, especially this truth drug they're using that instantly takes effect when you rub it on their skin 😂 But I have to say, I'm entertained. I like how the Annie/Teri thing weaves into the Nursery Rhyme Stalker story. It's a huge umbrella story that involves most of the cast which is exciting. I've already noticed the coin not lasting. So random, it makes me wonder if they had more plans with Vicky and her past there. So how was the audience reaction live... did people already know Teri was Annie or was this a huge shocker? I can't remember how bad spoilers were back then. I do like the Millennium set and I'm finally starting to enjoy the Drew character (her intro was bad and the original storyline for her seemed to have dropped, as with Dahlia/Marcus). I think they need to figure out what to do with Millennium though. They have this big new set, but why is Ross conducting business meetings and why are some people now meeting there for dinner... it's a nightclub, let it be that. They don't need to make the older adults go just to be in a new spot.

I’m up to November 03, 1998. *Halloween 1998 was very entertaining! Jesse now wants to move into the apartment above Millennium, which Michelle is against. They tour the unit and love it, but it’s across the hall from Drew’s apartment. Michelle finally caves and allows them to get the apartment once she sees how much he wants it. But later, Drew pays off the landlord to cancel his check and decline them as tenants, which is weird. Not sure what she has planned here. Leading up to her Christmas wedding, Harley picks out her wedding dress with Jenna, Selena and Cassie’s help. She then asks them all to be her bridesmaids. After, Phillip sees Harley in her dress and tells her how beautiful she is, which was sweet. Later, she tells Lizzie she wants her to be in the wedding along with all the other children (Rocky, Cooper, etc). Ross has changed his tune yet again and wants to proceed with full custody of the boys. He meets with his lawyer team, with one being a girl he taught long ago in law school. She admits having a crush on him before, which she thought was appropriate to tell him now that he’s seeking a divorce (how professional haha). Elsewhere, Ben continues to feel miffed by Blake and tells her to rot in hell when she asks if he’ll help her with Ross’s custody battle (oh Blake…). Vicky gets David to help her investigate the cursed coin. She tells him the curse says ‘The holder of the coin will have no love’. On Halloween night, Alan has a private funeral for Annie alone, with that dead body in a casket and a huge painting of Annie looking over it. He recites his wedding vows again and Phillip then arrives to support him. Buzz tells Frank he has a premonition that something bad is about to happen, which they refer to Nadine and her psychic abilities here where she envisioned her own death. Buzz doesn’t believe Ken is the stalker. Reva/Josh host a party at their house on Halloween night and David is first to arrive, who tells Reva/Josh how interested Vicky is in the coin. He tells them the coin is missing from the trash can and Marah then comes by and shows them the same cursed coin that Tammy just found next to a framed photo of Reva/Josh! Reva decides to laugh it off as other people show up to the party, including Teri, Harley/Phillip, Buzz/Jenna/Frank, Rick/Abby, Michelle/Jesse, Cassie/Sean, Vicky. Reva makes an announcement that while the night isn’t a celebration of Annie being dead, it’s essentially a good riddance and goodbye, with others cheering and making comments. Michelle tells Rick about moving into an apartment with Jesse and he says over his dead body! Just before the party, we see Teri put some of the experimental truth drug from the police station in her purse. At the party, Frank and Teri talk about how well they work together with Harley/Phillip, just as Eleni surprises everyone and arrives back from Greece. Hart shows up to sign some work papers with Josh and sees Sean/Cassie together which makes him jealous. Sean tells him it’s clear that Hart/Cassie both want each other and just man up and make it happen. Jesse then announces that everyone is invited to the after party at Millennium and many leave for the club. Teri then pulls Josh aside and asks if they can talk privately about how Frank is making her uncomfortable by flirting too much and touching her inappropriately (what?!?). When they’re alone upstairs, Josh says that’s odd, not believing that Frank would do that. We see Teri get out the truth serum and she’s able to rub it on the back of his neck as he’s trying to get them back to the party. The drug starts taking effect and she assertively tells him to sit down, which he abides. This is when it’s revealed that Teri may be a villain, hiding her real identity. The creepy nursery rhyme background music plays, inferring she is the stalker. She then tells him he’ll only remember the parts of their conversation she wants him to remember. She then says her name isn’t really Teri DeMarco! She says it’s fitting for Halloween, to take her mask off and reveal her true self. She then puts up a cutout face of Watros’ Annie face, removes it and says she’s Annie! Wow, how exciting this reveal was (even if far-fetched)! I need to understand how she looks/sounds different to the point no one knows her; how she has a past in Detroit, etc. I’m guessing she just stole the real Teri’s identity - maybe the dead body from the boat. I want to know if they tried to get Cynthia Watros back and she said no and changed the Teri character to fit Annie, or was Teri brought in from the beginning as the new Annie? A calm, drugged Josh says it can’t be true because she doesn’t look like Annie. Teri says it’s a wonder what cosmetic surgery can do to someone (oh boy). She reveals she stole a body out of the morgue to put on the boat that exploded. She made the real Teri have an accident and now she’s in a coma somewhere. She damaged her vocal cords to sound different (LOL), and now she plans to take over Reva’s life. What she has planned for Reva is much worse than death! She then asks Josh if he ever truly loved her and would have spent the rest of his life with her if Reva never came back… and he says Yes. She gets ecstatic and says if he could love her like that once, he can do it again. She then tells Josh he can’t tell Reva anything about what she’s said, and he can only confide in Annie now. He can only listen to her and reminds him that they only talked about Frank and how inappropriate he is with her. She tells him that Reva will start to annoy him tonight and he’ll slowly fall in love with Annie again. Josh resists and says no, and Annie freaks out about the drug not working. Reva, searching for Josh, walks in and the drug seems to be working as Josh is quietly assertive with her, saying they were having a private conversation. Reva gets suspect, so Annie tells her about Frank kissing her, which is what she was talking to Josh about. Annie then leaves and Reva questions Josh about being so short with her. He is grumpy and finds her annoying, so the drug seems to have worked, and Reva is so confused about why he’s acting the way he is. When the drug finally wears off, he apologizes and says he’s not sure why he was acting that way, and they kiss and make up. Annie goes to her own gravesite with white roses and Alan arrives asking her why she’s there with Annie’s favorite flowers. Annie says she wishes she knew Annie because she’s intrigued by her. Alan says she reminds him of Annie in a way and then leaves. Alone, she says she wishes she could love Alan, but Josh will forever be her one true love. Knowing that Hart went to the Lewis house where Cassie was, Dinah purposefully starts a fire at Hart’s place to lure Hart back (she is certifiable at this point). She then calls the police for help while staying in bed (she took more blood pressure pills so she’s not healthy again). The fire gets out of hand and she panics, while Hart gets a call about the fire and he and Sean run to the house. The guys and firefighters arrive and save Dinah, but she has minor burns and is rushed to the hospital. They bandaged half her face and she freaks thinking she’s been disfigured. At the Halloween party at Millennium, Drew is stressed out and in a bad mood. Selena tells her she needs to leave for LA for a couple weeks to follow up on a lead about her daughter, which angers Drew even more since they just opened and she wants time off. Drew tells her no and if she leaves, she’ll be fired. Drew later sees Mick selling drugs to a customer, so she privately calls the cops. They arrive and arrest Mick and he threatens her saying she’ll pay for it. Meanwhile, Michelle changes her mind and tells Jesse she can’t move in with him. Jesse gets upset and believes Bill has been pressuring her against it, so he confronts him angrily. Jesse then impulsively proposes to Michelle, but apologies soon after for being so quick. He explains that he just loves her and wants whatever she wants. I wish Michelle would just give in to Jesse and stop second guessing things!

Oh that's right, I keep forgetting that Michael's real dad is AJ. Thank you! 😃

I've been meaning to ask this for awhile, but what's the relationship like between Michael and BLQ? I tried to find information on this GH site I use, but it doesn't seem like they're related or have been in a relationship. Since Michael isn't a Q, I've been wondering why he's at the house often (like during the Ronnie story or in today's episode).

I just watched the eyelid mites thing and that was so random LOL. It was such weird filler for a single episode.

I've gotten used to it too and like it generally. LOVE seeing 5 topics per forum in the front page, but agree that the forum pictures are too big. Thanks as always, Errol! We appreciate you and SON!