Darn

Agreed. It just sounds better. Jackée Harry (born Jacqueline Yvonne Harry) briefly went by simply Jackée in the 80s at the height of her stardom.

It's so bizarre to me how much ink they've given to a character the show has never seemed to value much. I'm pretty sure they've mentioned Chance more in his absence than in any of his stints on the show.

You neglected to mention that he's shirtless for much of the episode where he has actual dialogue. Throw the horndogs here a scrap.

The show at the time had a very Passions tone. The weird dialogue from Blair that you mentioned @FrenchBug82 was part of that. Every line has to hint to the plot or a secret, even if the person saying it has no idea what that secret is. Other than Live week the show never cared how Blair felt about the baby switch, it was all about Todd's antics and RH hamming it up. I also think they kept it light because what Todd did was monstrous and if they played it straight he'd be done for and you know the rapist was the most important character the last 15 years of the show.

Why is Maura West so shiny?

Looks like a showroom at an Italian furniture store. Re: the ratings somehow being stable. I remember @Dee telling me a good 15 years ago that Y&R would be the last soap standing and she was right, this show has some weird hold on people. Because it's pretty clear that everyone making it does not care. They're all so bored and just cashing a paycheck. More so than any of the other soaps. Like others have said, even when the show has been bad in the past at least it was actively bad. Now it's passively bad. They're just floating through space doing jackshit.

Whatever happened with Sharon's cancer? Is she cancer-free now?

I'm watching some 2000 episodes (Billy and Mac were everything to teenage me) and it is egregious that they dumped Y&R's show defining score. The soundtrack makes even the most mundane scenes enticing. And Y&R has a LOT of boring scenes where not a damn thing happens but the direction, lighting and score just draw you in. I'm halfway through an episode right now and all they've talked about, adults and teens, is the aftermath of a damn prom and I find it more interesting than the daily murder and mayhem that GH dishes out.

Well it can't be Sheila for the 4th time so I guess it's...*rummages through garbage* Deacon.

Jesus, MB and SB look like walking death.

The only castmembers from their era of OLTL to go onto stardom. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDJtW0piPk/

She's playing that semantics game celebrities love. They think as long as no cutting was involved it doesn't count. She's pretty clearly had work done.

I was thinking the same. The show is rather bloated with big name (but played out characters) 20/30/40 year vets. And vets who likely have not taken paycuts.

I never imagined Y&R would be the worst looking soap. Where is the budget going exactly? Because it's not being pumped into production. The contrast between Y&R and GH is stark. GH has huge, new sets. Y&R looks so cramped and sad in comparison.

Thank you! That sounds very stupid!

Posted this in the old thread... Can anyone give me a timeline of events regarding Mariah's pregnancy/kidnapping? Stitch kidnapped her to get Abby back? What? I don't understand this story at all.

I agree. The story fell apart as soon as Babe found out, what, a month into it? It didn't track, we barely knew her, had no reason to like her and she had almost no time to bond with the baby. It just made her look like a monster. I don't think the story lasted too long, I think it didn't last long enough. The problem was that it was on every single day. Nothing else was happening except people hiding this secret or finding out this secret. So as soon as Bianca found out the bottom fell out because they hadn't given us any other reason to tune in. Was the story really meant to be over by the end of summer 2004? Miranda and AJ were born in March, what's the point of a 3-4 month baby switch?

Can anyone give me a timeline of events regarding Mariah's pregnancy/kidnapping? Stitch kidnapped her to get Abby back? What? I don't understand this story at all.

I gotta ask, is Cynthia Watros okay? Or just had bad work? The area under her eyes is really distracting.

The industry is exploding with opportunities. Why stay on a soap that is incredibly time consuming (between the actual acting and new scripts you have to remember every day) with terrible material when you're young and hot and could be the 4th lead in a Amazon Prime original? Which would then result in a huge bump in instagram followers and endorsement deals. I don't know, it makes sense to me for both of them to leave. They know the show would take them back in a hearbeat so why not?

Why did you quote me?

Another example of how meaningless daytime is that one version of Kristen will be on this whatever this is and another version will be on daytime and absolutely nothing either version does will ultimately matter. I don't know how people who still watch stand how utterly meaningless every plot point is.

RIP to him. Dimitri and Edmund were the last great male leads the show produced and now they're both gone.

Stock footage of Paris really gets some people going.

Looks like a soap opera.