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Was it the one where the audience was literally telling Penny not to shoplift, lol?

Shelly Altman? I'M KIDDING! When you're on "The 'Cock," any publicity helps!

The storyline in the Dial commercial that @Wendy posted upthread plays almost exactly like something you might've seen on Bill Bell's DAYS: the bridesmaid is upset because she's not the bride (who is likely marrying the man that the bridesmaid has been in love with forever), but thanks to a bouquet toss and a piece of cake handed to her across a crowded table (not to mention, a little Dial soap), she just might be embarking on a romance of a lifetime with a tall, handsome stranger who is literally sweeping her off her feet.

I'm serious! I thought that POS magazine went out of business years ago, lol!

Playgirl is still around??

You might've, but it would've been so tongue-in-cheek and tasteless that you'd end up wishing he hadn't bothered.

Not good enough! You could offer me the Hope Diamond and all the gold in Scrooge McDuck's vault and I'd still pass! Life is too damn short.

Whatever it is that's keeping Deidre and Suzanne apart on-screen and off-, I wish the two would find a way to overcome it. There have been so many times when it didn't make sense for Maggie and Marlena not to be in the same scene.

I agree. These days, if I'm not watching Frndly TV, which carries a lot of OTA channels that I would otherwise need an antenna for, I'm watching PlutoTV, FreeVee or Tubi. Many streamers that you have to pay to use just don't appeal to me at all.

Why me specifically? You're not trying to pitch me to take her place at B&B, are you? If you are, then I'm through talking to you again, lol!

She's definitely on her way back to GH!!

So many great photos and memories. Thanks for posting, @vetsoapfan!

Justus Ward?

I agree! In those cases, I feel like whoever owns those properties would be better off just doing VOD releases.

I'm actually okay with killing off characters under certain circumstances. I mean, people do die; it's an unfortunate fact of life. But what I can't tolerate (aside from bringing people back from the dead after we've seen them die on-screen) is how their deaths are usually forgotten in almost record time. I say, if you're gonna kill off a major character, make it count. Allow it to impact the other characters' lives in such ways that they are never truly the same afterward.

I'm gonna go rogue on all y'all and suggest that DAYS phase out all the families, including the Hortons and Marlena's, and introduce a brand-new family that doesn't have the decades of ridiculous baggage that all DAYS families carry.

Here's how I would describe S7 of KNOTS: imagine what happens when a nice kid who's into art and theatre decides to start taking HGH so he can join the football team and finally impress his emotionally distant father.

Perhaps, they did, but I also think that Friday night just was the wrong night for that kind of show. I mean, I get the counter-programming strategy, but I also think NBC needed to take into account the typical viewing habits of most young adults during that period. True, ABC's younger-skewing TGIF lineup had been successful in the past, but I think that was because the majority of their audience were families and pre-teens who were allowed to stay up later on Fridays because it wasn't a "school night." The kind of audience that a show like RT needed - teenagers, college-aged kids, young adults in their 20's and 30's - aren't gonna be home as often on Friday nights as families and little ones.

I agree. With some notable exceptions - such as "Murder, She Wrote," which finally got its' own "channel" on PlutoTV! - streaming services and OTA channels can overlook a lot of great shows from the '70's, '80's and even '90's. My recent experience has been that it's either the "newer" stuff that's offered (and by "newer," I'm talking about shows from the '00's and '10's) or it's whatever is still viewable from the '50's and '60's.* And that's just from the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC)! Once you include early FOX, UPN, The WB and early cable and first-run syndicated shows, the pickings get even slimmer. That's why I encourage others now to hold onto their DVD's and Blu-rays of their favorite series and, if possible, purchase or re-purchase them wherever they can, because even if there's a chance that a "Picket Fences" or a "Northern Exposure" were to pop up again on another streamer or OTA channel, it won't last forever there either. There are so many past shows out there, waiting to be viewed again, but these streamers and others have only so much "space" for them all. *Recently, I've been reminded all over again how many frigging western shows they made BITD, lol.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I want y'all to give a good, ol'-fashioned Salem welcome to this young man who's gonna take the country music world by storm! Mr. Johnny Lee DiMera!"

That's what I'm saying! But, apparently, I'm the biggest [!@#$%^&*] of all time, because I happen to think a nice guy who is pulling down a paycheck is in fact all wrong for the role and should be released from his contract ASAP.

At this point, I think that's the only way you could revive the Hortons. Addie, Alice, Bill, Laura, Mickey, Tom and (presumably) Tommy all have passed away (and should remain deceased, IMO, because there's been more than enough resurrections on this lousy show). Steven Olsen could return, but I think it would have to be after you were to introduce his children and/or grandchildren and make them a vital and pivotal part of the show. Otherwise, there's no way to justify such a random return of a long-forgotten character. (Same goes for Sandy Horton, and whatever other offspring you could conjure up for Tommy Horton, whose post-Salem life remains shrouded in mystery). Marie is the only offspring of Tom and Alice's who is still alive, as is her daughter, Jessica; but unless Nick has a twin brother or other siblings out there, there's really no place anymore on the canvas for Nick's mother and grandmother. Fortunately, Hope, Jennifer, Lucas, Michael and several of their respective offspring remain alive. Next to dreaming up insta-Hortons, they're probably your best bet for reviving the Horton clan. Of course, even under the best of circumstances, some characters from that set would be easier to bring back than others. (I pity whichever HW is actually tasked with bringing back Jeremy, lol).

Who knows? If Frank Valentini takes a liking to him, he could wind up playing all those characters and more!

ICAM! I still believe P&G would have asked Douglas Marland to "rescue" AW at some point after 1993. ATWT was still great to watch when he died, but I think you could tell where he was getting restless, too. I still look at how he had changed his mind about who Carolyn Crawford's murderer should have been as a sign that something was wrong with him.

I wish she had stayed longer, too. There was an intelligence to her and to Rick Edelstein's work that I think was missing from most other HW's for that show. Her work could be entertaining and dramatic without resorting to melodrama.