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Unfortunately, @carolineg, that's all I know. You know, when you think about it, the NBC soaps are the ones that always generated the most spinoff talks in the media. You never heard about ABC being as desperate to spinoff AMC or GH (although, they would eventually, with PC) or CBS being desperate to spin off Y&R or B&B. But NBC? As soon as DAYS or AW or even THE DOCTORS was doing even slightly well in the ratings, it was "Let's see who we can spin off from this show!". It's crazy.

I agree. Oh, please, he probably complained about having too many lines on "Out of This World," too. I agree. Me neither!

I remember that there even was talk of spinning off Calliope (or Calliope & Eugene) onto their own "comic soap," which would have been disastrous, IMO. If anything, I would have spun them onto a primetime sitcom, which would have been a real first for daytime, lol.

Another actor might have played Mac Cory either as an old, greedy letch or a domineering tyrant.

My guess is that P&G had decided that GL's locale needed to be returned to the midwest in order to appeal more to viewers who lived in middle America. After all, the only reason why the show's locale had been changed to Selby Flats, CA, in the first place was because production itself had been relocated to CA for a period of time in the '40's. Otherwise, GL's locale might have remained Five Points forever. I can see the sign now: "Welcome to Selby Flats - Ugly Name, Beautiful Town!".

Or...that the audiences still are out there and still want their stories and entertainment; and that maybe the way to make daytime TV relevant again is to promote the soaps again and not just drop them for yet another hour of "Today" or "Good Morning America."

Not gonna happen.

I'm not sure about the last one (pairing Jason with Liz) but I'm down for the other two. They could say that Jason had his memories restored by a surgeon who operated on him after that cave-in and found scar tissue on his brain that had been affecting his memory and personality; and that Jason has been living away from Port Charles under an assumed name, due to the guilt and shame he has felt over his association with Sonny and alienation from his family. Then, down the road, Jason decides to go back to school and become a paramedic (with his education largely funded by Sonny, of course, lol).

You halfway expect that to be like the joke wall on "Laugh-In." (Monaco: "Is that another one of those chicken jokes?") You and I know very well that it was all she could do not to stab Frank Grillo in the head repeatedly when they worked together on GL.

Walter Addison, as we would find out, was actually a deacon at his church, who had never been with a prostitute before, but who used the encounter with Nikki as a means of staging his own death, on account of his business associate framing him for embezzlement, lol.

Whenever I think of Barry Cutler, I think of when he played a "burnout" who was at some "wild party" at Willona's apartment on "Good Times."

Think about it: you try and go about your day - mowing the lawn, playing with the kids, whatever - but fans and tourists keep stopping by, wanting to take selfies in front of "Abby Ewing's house." If ever a community needed to be gated....

Which is appropriate, since the last time either character was even a little bit interesting was before The WB shut down.

It must suck to live in that cul-de-sac, lol.

Depending on what you read or who you talk to, the rest of the FM cast either welcomed Jaleel/Urkel, as his addition lifted the show's ratings; or they resented him, because he took the focus away from the others (and from Jaimee Foxworth/Judy in particular) and allowed the show's producers to take what had been a fairly grounded family show and turn it into a very broad and silly one. JW himself has talked in the past about how Reginald VelJohnson and Jo Marie Payton took him to task for agreeing to play "Myrtle Urkel," saying that it reinforced stereotypes about putting black men in women's clothes as a way of emasculating them and making them less threatening to white audiences. If what he said is true, then the people to take up the issue with were the producers, not a 12-13 year old kid.

Recently, I watched an episode of "Dark Side of Comedy" on VICE that featured the BTS issues at "Family Matters." Specifically, it covered the troubles that Jaimee Foxworth (a.k.a. "Judy Winslow") and her mother encountered with TPTB as Jaimee's role on the show was reduced and then erased altogether. It broke my heart to hear their story. The thing is, those producers were used to ignoring or dropping characters from shows. (See: Chuck Cunningham). But they didn't understand that FM wasn't just another show, especially not to African-Americans. I don't think they understood why viewers and even cast members like Jo Marie Payton (OG Harriette Winslow) would be upset about a little black girl who is simply forgotten by her own family members with no explanation whatsoever. At the very least, they could have explained on-air that Judy went to live with extended relatives out-of-town so she could attend a private school or something.

Take this with a grain of salt, but one story that I have heard is that Agnes Nixon (or whoever was HW at the time) deliberately stopped referring to "Selby Flats" in the scripts for a period of time, or making any other references as to the show's locale. Then, when the writers began mentioning the name of the town again, it just became "Springfield," as if GL always had been set there, with no explanation. I agree, @SoapDope.

The same lord who apparently said, "Tattoo sleeve? Yeah, why not?".

C'mon, it's his own damn fault that he looks the way he does. I guess Steve Burton doesn't believe in vaccines OR in sunscreen. A headline that reads "JANE ELLIOT AND NANCY LEE GRAHN SAY 'ADIOS' TO GH!" would be great right about now. I know it won't happen, but it still would be great.

Listen, I'd be thrilled if Danielle von Zerneck were to come back, lol! As long as it wasn't Steve [!@#$%^&*] Burton!

Don't be shocked if/when...

I think Bob Guza said as much once upon a time, but I never believed him, lol. I mean, even if that was/is the plan, it's only because - say it with me now - STEVE. BURTON. CAN'T. ACT.

I agree. Frank Valentini believes this will bring up the ratings, but he has no clue at all. Seriously, couldn't Jane Elliot work on another soap? Does she have to keep working on GH in order to keep her SAG-AFTRA health insurance? Hell, I'll even suffer through B&B with her in the cast if that's her only consideration.

With all apologies to Roger Ebert: I hate Jason Morgan*. Hate hate hate hate hate Jason Morgan. Hate him. I hate the people who created him, and I hate every simpering stupid vacant audience member who adores him, too. (*And I ain't too hot about Steve Burton either!) I agree. Jason should have retrieved those past memories and gone through an entire redemption arc a long [!@#$%^&*] time ago. But good luck convincing Steve Burton to play that!