Broderick

I keep thinking they're gonna kick Peaches out of her bed, wheel it up to the nurses station, and all take turns humping one another.

She occasionally likes to let Ted have a good look at her Attractive Ass. She's done this more than once. She ain't really moved on past her marriage, and that's why she's trying so hard to look as though she has.

And diamond earrings.

I agree 100%. The components are in place to create a broad-arc, Henry Slesar type mystery, that could affect a great number of characters. I'd been fully expecting Derek to become involved with Leslie's clinic, as that will put him in a position to get killed dead as a doornail protecting Ashley when the whole thing blows up. Sure enough, he's already been offered a job. So check that one off the list. I also predict the Eva/Kat rivalry will be a factor, as well as the Sexually Liberated Beautiful Nicole. Everything SEEMS to be lining-up for it. But I'm not sure I trust these "Lifetime Movie writers" to handle it effectively. (Producer Sheila Ducksworth freely admits that Slesar's Edge of Night was on her viewing list in the early 1980s.)

There's a lot of interesting things going on with Beautiful Nicole (that probably aren't going to end well). The writers seemed to be establishing a few days ago that Ted isn't over her yet, when he was making those sad eyes at her & Kial. Now that she's gone to bed with the Corpse-Like, Chemistry-Free Carlton and also with Kial, and now that she's dressing more provocatively and acting more sexually-liberated, it seems inevitable that one (or BOTH) of her "new boyfriends" will be involved in this Impaler storyline, and Ted will have to rescue her. That SEEMS to be where it's heading, and if so, I'm not sure I like the "moral lesson" of it all. If it works out that way, the "lesson" seems to be that if a dignified woman lets her hair down, she'll attract dangerous men & get her "comeuppance".

First time I remember seeing him --- and I believe it was his VERY first scene on the show --- was in February 1980 when he was hovering over Brock's desk like a vampire. Brock (foolishly) thought he had an open-and-shut case as the public defender of a teenage girl (Cathy Bruder) who had stolen a Rolls-Royce and gone joy riding. Brock's plan was to meet with the car's owner and convince him to prosecute Cathy Bruder as a juvenile rather than as an adult, which meant she'd get community service and nothing permanent on her criminal record. The owner of the car burst into Brock's office, and he was insistent he wanted to charge the girl as an adult; he was VERY spooky. While Victor's hardline position on the matter seemed a bit far-fetched and frivolous, Eric Braeden played the scenes quietly and formidably, and you could tell immediately that Brock was WAY in over his head with the guy. I remember instantly becoming interested in where the stolen car storyline was heading, even though on the surface it seemed like a "throwaway" story. It was because Eric Braeden immediately brought such formidable intensity and gravity into his (short-term) role as the owner of the car.

Dani did an EXCELLENT job of faking excitement. But if I were Andre, I'd be wondering if she sometimes fakes certain other things ☹️ I guess we can assume these shows were taped in early October of 2025, based on the "Missed Call -- Bill Hamilton -- Oct 2". And Bill evidently ain't terribly interested in Hayley if he can't spell her stupid name. At the end of today's show, Smitty looked a little bit EXCITED when Jacob revealed he'd be willing to step out of his comfort zone and try some things he hasn't done before.

That party a few years ago when Ashley yelled at Graham for taking advantage of Dina, and then Dina announced to the entire crowd that Ashley is Brent Davis's daughter --- wasn't that one also at the "new" Top of the Tower?

I think when they constructed the Athletic Club set, they pretty much just took what they wanted from the Gina's set, the Embers set, and the Top of the Tower set, added some new things, and called it a day. I've looked for some vestige of the Colonnade Room in the Athletic Club but can't find any. (Maybe Chancellor Park is built out of pieces of the Colonnade Room??)

Aw, I doubt that set was really 30 years old. When it transformed from Pierre's to the Allegro in about 1975, they might have used some of the same materials in the Allegro set that had been in the old Pierre's set, but it was basically a whole new set, with the doorways moved and the bar moved and a totally different layout. Same circa 1980, when it switched from being the Allegro to being Jonas's bar. Ditto for the 1982 switchover from Jonas's to Gina's. If you compare a 1973 photo of Pierre's and a 1985 of Gina's, it's pretty much impossible to recognize any vestige of Pierre's in Gina's. I'd guess the Gina's set was about 20 years old when it bit the dust (though I believe some of the same set materials were probably used in constructing the Athletic Club set after Gina's burned.) The salad bar was a big clumsy stainless steel contraption right in the middle of the floor. To get a "master shot", they had the camera out on the edge of the set like they'd always done. If they wanted to show someone walking through the door, they had to move the cameras around to the side of the salad bar. If they wanted to focus on a specific table, they had to move the cameras to the other side of the salad bar. It was a disastrous decision to put it where it was. It should've been against the rear wall, or on one of the side walls.

We'll probably see it like this for a few more days, and then POOF the fireplace will vanish and never be mentioned again 🤣

I knew someone backstage at Y&R in the early 2000s. The day the salad bar premiered, I emailed him and said, "Woops! I'm afraid y'all have messed-up badly with that salad bar. That thing is gonna haunt y'all for years to come." He said, "Don't worry, we already realize it. It was a mistake. It's being addressed." I pointed out, "If they suddenly take the salad bar down after making such a production out of installing it, it's gonna be accidentally comical." He said, "They're having meetings about how to best handle it." Wasn't long till Kevin Fisher locked Colleen Carlton in the freezer and set the restaurant on fire. Total loss. Action moved to the Athletic Club. 😅 They're CLEARLY having the same issue with Joey Armstrong's fireplace. The camera was BEHIND the thing for a while, with the flames in the foreground. Then the cameras were MOVED in front of the fireplace to capture the sofa without the flames. Then back again, with the flames in the shot. Then back again to the sofa. It requires time, money, and adjustments to the lighting each time they move those cameras within a set. That obviously ain't gonna be sustainable on a daily basis.

Regarding Joey Armstrong's strangely-placed fireplace -- I think that thing is going to prove a pain in the ass for the cameraman in the future. I don't predict the fireplace will last. I remember when the set designers on Y&R hauled-off and stuck a gigantically oversized (and ridiculous-looking) salad bar in the middle of the floor of Gina's Restaurant. The cameras couldn't move around the damn thing to view the tables and the characters who were dining. To solve the problem, the writers ended-up burning down the set entirely and creating the Genoa City Athletic Club to replace it. Joey's fireplace is likely heading toward the same fate.

Mary Williams croaked. During Dina Mergeron's final year, Dina set Nick Newman's nightclub on fire while suffering from Alzheimer's. Paul Williams told Jack she'd need to be booked for arson. Jack said, "Paul, you can't arrest my mother for this. If your own mother -- God rest her soul -- had done something like this, would you have arrested her?"

I'm guessing it'll be Carlton, since Beautiful Nicole slept with him. I'm thinking this might play-out at Leslie's New Clinic, giving Ted a chance to save the Beautiful Nicole before he saves Leslie (and making Nicole swoon that he prioritized her over his ex-concubine.) And as you've predicted, I'm thinking it will lead to a temporary truce between Kat & Eva. As well as some kind of turning point for Jacob & Naomi, and some kind of effect on Martin and Smitty.

The thought occurred to me today that the person who's most likely to be placed in danger at the climax of the plasma storyline is Nicole, and the person who's most likely to save her Beautiful Ass is Ted.

Kinda surprised Joey now has a house AND an office, while Vanessa (a Realtor) has neither.

Oh yeah, I expected Anita to lose her hair (or some of it), because that's an old soap staple when someone has breast cancer. But you'd kinda think if they're going to the effort of "educating" us about the BRCA gene, they'd also "educate" us a little bit about newer chemotherapy developments, especially since they explained about the infusion port and showed her first treatment on-screen. (I figured this was just an opportunity for Miss Tunie to ditch her wigs for a spell.)

I kinda thought with Anita's long flowing hair, she might opt for scalp-cooling from the get-go. The person I knew who was doing it went through a "hair cooling" process shortly before each chemo session and then wore a "cold cap" during the chemo infusions which kept the hair pretty much "frozen" during the infusion. There's also a long list of things you can't do -- not supposed to use any hair-coloring products, not supposed to curl it or iron it or any of that stuff. All I know is that it works.

I've recently learned there's an elaborate process of "scalp cooling" (freezing the hair) and using gels which keeps most chemo patients from losing their hair. A friend of mine opted for that and went through chemo without ever losing hair (except eyebrows). I had no idea the process even existed until last year.

When they attempt to construct an episode that doesn't feature any of their four "A-list" characters (Anita, Vernon, Dani, and Beautiful Nicole), it seems the energy level drops substantially and the episode drags. Just an observation.

Regarding the soap tropes, it would make sense for Dani and Big Bill to reconcile at some point if she's given valid reason to believe he's changed from his philandering ways. So far, she's got no reason to believe that. He hasn't even been married to Hayley for a year and already has a wandering eye.

The show hasn't had much luck so far casting interesting Caucasian actors in decent roles --- with the obvious exceptions of Smitty and Vanessa.

Sharon stole the show. "When Jesus is my portion, a constant friend is He. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches over me."

FOUR love scenes today -- gotta be a new record. (1) Ted & Shanice (2) Beautiful Nicole & that God-awful Chemistry-free Carlton Creature (3) Dani & Big Bill (4) Jacob & Smitty 🤣