Michele Soap Writer

Finally a Victor and Nikki wedding but honestly I would have rather seen their first wedding. This wedding was just meh. Ashley's hair was cringe. Also what always made me cringe about Ashley is how she is always pining for Victor. WHY she ever loved him more than once I can't even comprehend. But yea throughout all the years of Ashley and all the actresses who played her, it didnt matter which actress was playing her at the time.....every time that Ashley was fawning all over Victor always makes my stomach turn. I dont mind Nikki loving him but for some reason him and Ashley always rubs me the wrong way. Also Heather Thom looks awful as a full fledged blonde. Highlights look fine on her but total platinum blonde is terrible on her

Does anyone know how many times Victor and Nikki have been married to each other? If I were to take a guess I'm going to say 5 times lol

17 hours ago, will81 said:

Does no one else remember Dennis Haysbert as the Senator who becomes President on 24??????

 

What is all this Allstate business, haha

 

ETA: I have seen the Allstate commercials, just to be clear. I just figured he had a much more prominent role in 24

I love Allstate commericals too! I love Dennis's voice. Sexy as hell!

7 hours ago, mango said:

 

Not unpopular in my books. I'd put that on a sandwich board if I could. It would be easy to buy Heather Tom's Victoria as the CEO of Newman.

I think I have the unpopular opinion. I cant stand Heather Thom I think she is a horrible actress I have never liked her and I find her obnoxious lol. I like Amelia. I wouldnt say I love Amelia, but I like her. I think she makes a likable Victoria. I never liked Victoria when HT played her. I didnt even love to hate her, I just hated her lol

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

Alex was so regal as Diane; Sandra was great as Phyllis, she’s the same age as Stafford so I don’t find her old and she brought her own fierceness to the role. Her and Michael were so much fun together. 
 

Jill and Katherine are definitely tHe highlight of the episode loved how their feud was heating back up again at this time. 

Oh wow, they are the same age? She just feels older in some way. Not that she has aged skin, but yet she just looks and feels older

I feel like for the most part this week they picked TERRIBLE Victor and Nikki episodes. Not any of their weddings? Hell they can do an entire week of each Victor/Nikki wedding. surely they have married each other at least 5 times?

34 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

She was so bland and looked too old for the part. She was a totally different character.

I think she made a good phyllis but I do agree with you that she did look too old for the part

Even back in 98 I never liked the giant collared white blouse look on Christine! LMAO!

18 minutes ago, kalbir said:

 

That pretty much covers it. For whatever reason Y&R isn't exactly known for discovering breakout talent and launching primetime/film careers.

 

Worst recast ever. The nepotism made awful even worse.

 

I liked her as Ashley. Honestly I have liked every actress who has played Ashley. I dont know what it is about Diane but yuck! Dont see what makes her appealing to Victor or Jack. This Phyllis wasn't bad. Not as good as MS but she wasn't bad

2 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Sheila is so glamorous here too!

 

Scott was  indeed mediocre, Lauren deserved so much better. Barton did decent  years later on Sunset Beach but they did killed his character off just as he became interesting.

Holy Sh-------!!!!!!! He was on Sunset Beach!!!!!! Holy cow! I think at the time when I watched SB I didnt even realize it was the same guy that played Scott!!!!!!!

1 minute ago, Faulkner said:

Peter Barton is the blandest bland who ever blanded.

 

Sheila repeating “God I love you so much” is chilling. Those are the private moments I miss from Y&R. 

I didn’t want to jinx it by asking, “Will we get a full episode?” But here’s Governor Murphy,

I know, I gave up about 2 weeks ago about their ever being a single day that Y&R is NOT interrupted by the two aholes Gov Murphy and Mayor Kinney

Looks like there are several Brenda fans here!

4 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

My favorite Ashley

 

 

Mine too!

1 minute ago, YRBB said:

Again, most of y'all aren't familiar enough with Eileen Davidson's Ashley to have a favorite Ashley LMAO  But she was beautiful and sweet and a very capable recast.

I've watched the show through all the Ashley's and I honestly liked all of them including the one after Brenda (I dont know her name) Eileen is good but I like Brenda just a little more. So I like seeing her in these old episodes

Does anyone else like this Brenda woman who played Ashley? ( I forget her last name) I honestly always liked her a little better than Eileen

I dont remember Victor and Cassandra ever being a thing! Is there any woman on this show he did not bang at some point? lol. I think women just like his voice because in the looks department he is just ok

16 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

I didn’t realize this was from August 1 1987, the height of their triangle made TV Guide:

 

OMG THEIR HAIR!!!!!!!! LMFAO

16 hours ago, mikelyons said:

Nina was a wonderful, fully rounded, complex, and interesting Bell creation who changed and evolved over time, but never lost her edge (like Heather Tom's Victoria). She is missed!! 

I know! I miss Nina!!!!! I loved when her and Jill would be catty with each other. Loved her and Ryan together

isnt this supposed to be Nikki and Victor week? So 15 minutes into this episode before Nikki even appears and she is married to JACK right now, not Victor. Who was in charge of picking episodes for these theme weeks?

18 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Great to see Terry Lester as Jack. Cricket was such a boring and annoying character. Two gay men in Danny and Phillip fighting for Cricket yawn.They should've been a couple. Phillip buying an engagement ring was laughable.

LMAO!!!!!! Omg you have me laughing so hard. RIGHT???!!!!! They did seem more like they should be the couple

On 5/3/2020 at 1:25 AM, ranger1rg said:

What’s with all the EWWWW comments? I don’t remember it being so strange when it happened. 

I dont know her and Paul just never seemed like they would be together to me. Victor yes, Jack yes but Paul? I dont know why but its weird to me Paul and Nicky

3 minutes ago, Darn said:

 

Ashley's been pregnant by Victor 3 times, once in the 80s which she aborted, again with Abby and then again in the 2000s. This show likes to act like it didn't happen but Adam dressed up as Victor's dead wife while gaslighting Ashley, which resulted in her falling down the Newman Ranch staircase and miscarrying.

thank you for the explanation!

in this episode they said that Ashley is pregnant with Victor's baby...but that's not Abby, right? Cause I think I remember Abby being born several years earlier. Another pairing I never liked: Victor and Ashley

watching the end of today's classic episode. WAIIITTTTT, Nicky and Paul were together???!!! Yet another example of EWWWWWW!!!!!

9 minutes ago, juppiter said:

What is the matter with them? Nobody wants to see episodes from the past 15 years. Zzzzzzzzz

I dont mind because I didnt watch the show during this time period but I'm thinking there were better Katherine episodes they could have picked. But only having to pick 5 episodes, that has to be hard

16 hours ago, Darn said:

Sharon being both Victor and Jack's ex-wife is disgusting. I wasn't watching when she married Victor. Nick should consider that unforgivable. WHY did she marry Victor? Was it an actual marriage? Did they *shudder* have sex?

Her and Victor were married???!!!!!!!! YIKES!!!! Ewwwww!!!!

The first flashback episode with Neil in it!!!!

I kind of feel like Soaps should not pair every character with every other character who is not their sibling at some point.....just because. Maybe not break up couples as often? Or bring in more new characters if needed to avoid all the characters having at some point been married to every other character who was not their sibling. It's not only unrealistic, but just downright gross. I mean if one character had herpes, rest assured all of them would! LMAO!

I vaguely remember the Victor sperm story lol. I cant imagine Jack and Sharon married. I dont know why. It seems like nearly every character ends up sleeping with or married to every other character of the opposite sex at some point in time. I hate that because its rare in real life that people get married and divorced that many times. I know it's a soap but I prefer great stories with more semblance of realism lol

I dont know how you guys remember specific head writers and who was the writer when and what their material was. I pay no attention to who the writers are even if I did I wouldnt remember them much a few years later and what they wrote and if it was good or not, lol.

Wow today's classic episode! LMAO!!! I knew they were going to start throwing the cake at each other! I didnt watch Y&R at that time so I am so confused on the whole Brock and Jill thing. So Katherine only gave birth once so it was either Brock or Jill? They were born on the same day? I love soaps but sometimes these ridiculous and contrived plots are way too much! Ewww I dont like that Billy! He was terrible! Poor Chloe but its obvious he doesnt want to marry her why is she going along with it? Love her 20's style dress, though!

6 hours ago, pdm1974 said:

I'm still super pissed they killed off Colleen. The character needed a recast, but it was still filled with so much possibility. And, it's just so sad they killed off Tracey's one child.

How was she killed off? I didn't know that they killed Brad off. I always liked Brad. I cant watch Don D as Bill on B&B. He's always Brad and only Brad for me!

1 minute ago, yrfan1983 said:

Also you might be thinking of the first time Christine/Cricket was raped, which was the summer of '89 by this guy Derek. This was pre-Michael

Damn how many times has she been raped?

20 minutes ago, mikelyons said:

Does anyone have today's episode of Y&R (4/28/2020)? Newsom interrupted after the first half of the show just as I was super invested... *sigh* I'm thisclose to calling his office to ask them to interrupt The Talk or Dr. Phil. 

I don't understand why they don't have these press conferences during the 12 oclock news so they dont interrupt whatever tv show is on.

1 minute ago, FrenchFan said:

Michael harassed Christine in 1992-93. He was released from jail in 1997.

I thought Michael actually raped her?

1 minute ago, yrfan1983 said:

No, it's Paul and Christine... they had an "encounter" in 2002 that the show refused to outright call rape. They would say things like "Christine didn't say yes"

Whoa.......I don't really remember that but I'm not going to remember everything lol