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LOL! Oh, FFS. I thought we were past the days of Danny Romalotti, the Singing Aqua-Net Can.

He and Stephen likely were arguing about politics.

IMO, "Frasier" represents the end of the era of four-camera, half-hour comedies that were made for intelligent adults who appreciated being treated as if they had actual brains. It's also the last sitcom I can recall that seemed to value story and character development over just plain jokes, an affliction that has come to infect the genre overall in the years since.

AFAIC, "Annie Hall" remains the best romantic comedy ever made; and that's 100% due to Keaton herself. With that one performance, she set a new template for all female comedic leads to follow - someone who could be funny, even quirky, without sacrificing her femininity - and every lady who has appeared in a rom-com since then owes her an enormous debt. She most certainly will be missed.

I thought I was the only one who felt that way about that scene, lol!

I can't imagine it either. Jim could feel guilty all he wanted; the fact remained that he had blackmailed underaged Laura into pornography. That's just a bridge too far in my book. Sadly, I think the next time AMC tried to give Brooke a new beau, it was with the dude who had killed her little girl years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Proof positive that they had no freaking clue what to do anymore with Brooke.

I have to admit that that opening was much better than the one it replaced. Not only did the visuals look cheap and hokey, but the theme song seemed to be the world's longest run-on sentence with no damn point whatsoever.

I still crack up whenever I see "Silk Press Sheila" mentioned in these threads. You know you've done something right when your audience nicknames one or more of your characters almost right away, lol.

Now, that's the DAYS I wish were still around. Simple, and yet very human.

If we've said it once, we've said it a million times: if not for MSW and Angela Lansbury, CBS would've been TOAST.

Oy.

In retrospect, I don't blame Linda Gottlieb for wanting to bring OLTL, and daytime itself, into the 1990's, because the audience simply had become more sophisticated by that point. To me, however, she always came across in interviews and such as one who never appreciated soap operas as an artform - who, in fact, hated everything about the genre, and the show she was hired to work on in particular. I mean, compare Gottlieb to Wendy Riche, whom most of us had never heard of before she took over GH, but who came in and got almost right away how important it was to respect daytime and its' audience; who admitted that her show was not in great shape when she came aboard, but who didn't go out of her way to denigrate it to its' most loyal fans; and who, at the very least, appeared to respect the genre's conventions while still recognizing the need to contemporize.

Ah, yes. The soap opera opening that taught us that a man with a cute butt and a smile will only break your heart in the end.

Poor Ben.

I agree. I think that's true of most of this genre's greats: Marland, Bill Bell, Agnes Nixon, even Henry Slesar, who spent most of his time writing crime stories, but who knew how to do them so they were motivated by characters and not by plot.

I just want to express how much I appreciate your posting these updates, @janea4old, and hope you are doing what you need to in the name of self-care.

Not until BTG reunites Darnell and Debbi and recreates the No 1. Greatest Supercouple in Soap Opera History!!!

You're not alone in your thinking, lol. The two sets are just so similar.

If and when I break into "the industry," I am so keeping my ass off social media, lol.

I think it's because he no longer entertains thoughts of being the next action star or has a Christian fundamentalist wife breathing her hypocritical air down his neck.

EB: "I'll be DAMNED if I take a pay cut!"

LOL!!

Keep in mind, I haven't been watching everyday. But, what I've seen so far? It's okay. It's still coming together, but the potential is there. I'm just like Douglas Marland, though. I need some (more) characters and families on the show who are have-nots. Soaps are nothing without characters who are all about the come up (@All My Shadows).

I wonder if it has less to do with how much money Y&R has and more to do with how that money's being spent. Like, where are the current production team's priorities? Is every available dollar being put up on screen? If not, then where else are the funds going? And does it really have more to do with taste levels than anything else?

Wow. You KNOW a soap is bare bones when they're buying wigs from Especially Yours.