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Those two Articulettes that Anita is always running away from. Sharon's the tall one. Tracy's the short one who only bows to Jesus.

Sharon & Tracy remind me of the Fox & the Cat from Pinocchio.

Nicole certainly didn't lavish much DuPraise on High Command Vernon & High Command Anita when she breezed in. Must be nice to work at Garland Memorial Hospital where your job duties mostly include faux flirting.

Anita was definitely ready to kick Smitty to the curb, if need be 😄 When Nicole stormed off into the night, Anita pretty much just shrugged it off. "There goes Nicole. Who needs her? Where's my Sweet Baby? I need to pat on him some more before I tuck him in for the night!"

"My name is Victoria Winters ..." that cute ALEXANDRA MOLTKE ISLES, who's about 78 now.

I've finally accepted the wisdom of Martin being the Dupree grandson instead of the son. When Nicole walked into the house at the end of Thursday's show and saw Anita & Vernon hovering all over him and patting on him, I laughed my butt off. You could tell how incensed Nicole was that her (overbearing) parents had pretty much taken over the parenting of her kid. Anita's lines were hilarious. "You can stay here as LONG as you want, baby. And bring the children!! They can stay here too!!" She acted like her world was complete, now that Sweet Baby was in her grandmotherly clutches. She never once suggested that he take his ass home where he belongs. "You're my HEART!" she cooed as she hugged him till she nearly strangled him. I think the (dark) humor of their entire relationship stems from the way they shoved Nicole & Ted aside and just took over Martin for themselves.

Two boys from "Dark Shadows" are still kicking -- Roger Davis and Jerry Lacy, who are in their late 80s now probably. Barbara Rodell (who was on about everything in the late 1960s & early 1970s) is still around, I think. Christina Crawford from "Secret Storm" 🤣

When I was a young kid, 25% of the girls in my homeroom class were named "Lisa". No exaggeration. I think it's difficult for people born after 1975 to understand the impact Eileen Fulton, the character she played, and that TV program had on the landscape of small town America in the 1960s & early 1970s.

I think they're intentionally portrayed that way, too. Nicole pretty much spat it out today when she basically said, "You're not parents; you're a Crime Syndicate of mobsters!" From Day One, they've tut-tutted that Dani is a little bit "volatile". But what they really seem to think is, "Nicole, dear, we're finding it MUCH easier to manipulate you and walk all over you, because you're so even-tempered." Anita & Vernon probably don't mean to be that way, but they are. And that's what makes them interesting instead of just a couple of sappy oldsters. They sometimes remind me of a rich version of Frank & Marie Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond", lol.

Hopefully, Smitty & Jacob will kiss & make up, lol. I think it's interesting that Vernon and Anita basically just took Sweet Baby away from Nicole & Ted and act like he's theirs since he's a politician. I've always thought he should've been written as their son, but honestly, the way it's being handled makes better sense from a dramatic standpoint. It reveals yet another "family flaw" hiding beneath the surface of a family that attempts to put on such a pretty facade. Odd man out probably, but I thought Anita & Nicole's scenes were extremely good.

I expect Vernon will tell her why. My guess is they didn't wanna compromise Nicole's integrity by making her an "accessory after the fact". (Nicole previewed that in her conversation with Vanessa in Thursday's show. "As the daughter of a senator and the mother of a congressman, I'm expected to act a certain way.") That also seemed to be Vernon's motivation in excluding Smitty. Vernon said something to the effect of, "We shouldn't have pressured you to leave Smitty out of this." To which Martin said, "Smitty wouldn't have gone along with this big cover-up." Vernon nodded and said, "And he would've been right." (I think this story has been very interesting in terms of "what would YOU do" in a situation like Martin & Vernon were in, and whom would you tell about it afterwards.)

Wednesday was the first time I saw the gun. I had to back-up, because at first I thought Martin had confiscated the pistol from the racists and was beating them with it. Then I realized he was using the tire iron. We never really saw what became of the gun. After watching that flashback a couple of times, I started wondering who's now got possession of it & if perhaps it's a stolen pistol in a database somewhere.

Have we been told what happened to the pistol they pulled on Vernon? I'm figuring the brother's corpse, the gun, Joey, and the possibility of another witness (or rural surveillance camera) could still blow this poorly kept secret up.

Most of y'all are WAY more understanding than I am. If MY spouse came home one day after an aborted press conference in a soul food restaurant & revealed she'd killed a dude with a tire iron beside the highway two years ago (and beat yet another guy till he required facial reconstruction) and placed my teenage son & (elderly) daughter in perpetual danger and never got around to mentioning it to me, her ass would be spending the foreseeable future with Grandma & Grandpa too. From Smitty's point of view, he's got no reason to believe Martin has been honest with him about anything that's happened since 2023. STD's? Affairs? Embezzlement? For all Smitty knows, Martin's got a whole STASH of additional secrets he ain't got around to divulging yet. Today's episode was well-written (in my opinion), but I wish they'd have given Smitty a line like, "What else have you keeping from me, or lying to me about?" to drive the point home.

Especially when she's got Zucchini & Onions as her featured side dish!

I figured he was a goner merely because of his last name (Kane). Once it became clear Billy Flynn would be playing CANE Ashby, it seemed pretty obvious the "other Kane" (Damian) was out the door, lol. You never they never intended to have two Canes/Kanes.

I wish the director would tell him to "underplay" his scenes rather than what he's attempting to do (reaching for something he simply isn't capable of conveying effectively).

She didn't even pop her brakes, lol. But that's the way the Duprees roll, so maybe it's our first shot of character development. I wouldn't have even made Martin a Congressman yet, if they'd asked my input. I would've started him out in the state legislature, where President Obama was circa 1997-2004. There would've been a lot more room for growth in his character (and in his career) if he were a rising young state rep or state senator from a prominent family who is harboring a secret that could potentially derail him before he ever even has a chance to run for Congress. Also, I can't shake the feeling that it was a mistake to make him Anita & Vernon's grandson. I think the story would be served better if he were their youngest child, the "pampered baby" with a pair of older sisters. I saw that opportunity as a "miss" on Day 1, and I still see it that way. I'm not bothered by much of the Articulettes backstory, except as someone said above, their success should've been more understated. There was no need to make Anita an all-out Diana Ross. It would've been just as effective (and more believable & relatable) to have the band be a minor Motown act from the early 1970s.

Yes, she was. And when she left, it was about finished for me. Despite the widespread perception that it was "JR's show", for some of us who'd watched from the beginning, it was the story of Bobby & Pam. When she left and made it clear she wouldn't be back, what a fizzle for the rest of the series.

There's probably nothing "nefarious" about the break. It's a new show, ain't performing too spectacularly in the ratings as far as I can tell, and the network likely feels there are thousands of viewers out there who'd be willing to sample it, if they could watch the initial "set-up" of the show. I can only speak for myself, but I watched the first episode in February, saw a lot of potential in the show but was very disappointed in the actual execution (too much clumsy, cringe-worthy dialogue, not enough music to "smooth" out the clunky speeches, too much lavish "Du Praise" heaped on the core family, and such a plethora of characters fired at the viewer at such a rapid pace). I skipped the rest of the initial week, but have half-ass followed it ever since. For viewers like me (and those who missed the first week entirely), this is probably a good opportunity to get reacclimated with who's who, which kids are Nichole's and which kids are Dani's, and who that 30-year-old lady is living with Smitty and Martin. lol

When Colby Chester had a mustache, he looked SHOCKINGLY similar to Tyrone Jackson's whitewashed alter ego Robert Tyrone.

After Jacob Young finished his last stint on B&B as Rick Forrester, I felt sure Y&R would ask him to come play a slightly de-SORASed Phillip Chancellor III, especially since they'd finally found themselves a decent Chance in Conner Floyd. But Y&R always does the opposite of what I think might work.

So Cane is now a decade YOUNGER than Billy Abbott. But a few years ago, Jill was fooled into believing Cane was the same age as her son who grew up, had a baby, and "died" long before Billy was ever conceived. Wow.

Yep, when Kim was bonked over the head during the harrowing tornado, she was in love with that grinning, happy, big-haired Dan who looked as though he belonged on The Brady Bunch. (Reilly) By the time she finally regained her memory fully and shook herself free of John Dixon (didn't she get pregnant with Andy during all of this?), she was stuck with that sad-eyed, grouchier Dan who'd been Dan several years earlier (Colenback). The Bolivia trip was probably the switchover.

Gracias!