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Once, on "Hotel Malibu," an Abby-like vixen, played by Romy Walthall, used (I think) a laundry basket to remove the body of an older gentlemen, played by Robert Ridgely, who (again, I think) had passed away while the two were having sex. IIRC, another character asked her where she got the idea for the laundry basket, and she said she saw Abby do the same thing on "Knots Landing." I thought that was a pretty clever nod, lol.

I just hated that Cassie and Rob Coronal couldn't work things out, lol. Same. As someone whose memories of OLTL go all the way back to '81 or so, I didn't think Bo and Cassie's pairing made sense. But, Michael Malone needed a damsel-in-distress for his inappropriate "A Place in the Sun" homage with Alex at Loon Lake (or wherever), so....

I wanted a story that tied up the loose end that was Ted Orsini. Even if it was some silly plot about Ted kidnapping Tad and taking over his identity, it was better than leaving him to wander those woods forever. (I'm not saying I enjoyed Ted; I just hate loose ends, lol.)

Thanks for the updates, @Toups. It breaks my heart to see what's unfolding in Canada.

Knowing Frank Valentini, he'll just bring back Wes Ramsey later as Peter's twin brother, Porter.

I'll never forget his first run as Mitch Laurence on OLTL. Mitch was probably the most venal character, male or female, ever to appear on a soap. I mean, there was absolutely nothing redeeming about him from the get-go. Yet, with Born in the role, Mitch was also the sexiest irredeemable villain, and the most thrilling to watch. Born, as Mitch, made being an evil s.o.b. look like so much fun; and his chemistry w/ Andrea Evans' Tina was SO scorching that I think some writer (Michael Logan?) said it was the closest soaps ever came to being like an X-rated movie. To this day, I recall a scene where the two had sex on a bed covered with money, and the thing is...? I'm not sure that even happened, but it's something I can see so clearly in my mind's eye that I'd be surprised if it didn't.

IMO, many young people watched the show, too, if only because they looked at Jessica Fletcher as being like the parent, grandparent, aunt or teacher they had or wished they had. Like I said upthread, Jessica was never judgmental. She was always curious about people and willing to try new things (as long as they didn't involve getting behind the wheel of a car, lol). They really should have called that show "Dumb As a Rock." The cast was totally wasted.

Are you sure we can't Jennifer Finnigan to play nuSarah instead?

God, I miss Roscoe Born. That man oozed sex. Agree. If anything, I wish Miss Wyman had been around to play Ann Douglas. No offense to Betty White OR her fans, but I think JW would have knocked it out of the park even further in scenes w/ Flannery.

Hogan Sheffer wasn't writing for AMC, because God is real.

They'd do it even now with no money, because Gloria Monty would insist upon it.

She might've been. Wasn't she still "Executive Head Writer" at that point? I remember Tad and Ted shared memories of someone (Ray?) wearing a gold watch on his wrist and locking them in a trunk of a car, so I assumed that the two men were related somehow. But those and other clues just didn't seem to add up to anything in the end. It's sort of like that other story about Janet hiring a Will lookalike to terrorize Dixie or something. Megan McTavish, still in her first run as HW at AMC, would come up with these bizarre ideas that were tough to explain. I'd blame that on Brian Frons' trademark interference and James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten's trademark shallowness.

That's what I'm saying!

Ted Orsini's backstory was so damn confusing. Were they trying to say he was Ray Gardner's son/Tad's twin brother, whom Ray abandoned in the same way he'd abandoned Tad as a child?

As I've mentioned in the past, there really were plans to do more with Brandon's second family; however, P&G nixed those plans for obvious reasons.

Okay, you don't have to bring up the clone, even I couldn't get behind that mess, lol!

Say what you will about Gloria Monty, but if she were handling this storyline, you KNOW you'd get some exciting scenes on location.

Didn't James dress up as a clown at some point? I could swear I saw him in full clown regalia one afternoon and thought, "Okay, even the most mediocre HW'ers that ATWT had back in the '80's would NEVER have done THAT to James Stenbeck!"

This (and so, so much more).

Yeah, leave it to Ron Carlivati to drive an already bad thing even further into the ground. (And I'm a James Read fan.)

Neither did Peter Bergman.

They might as well. The demographics they DO want gave up on network TV a long time ago.

I actually liked those stories -- but, you know, to each their own.

You know, there was a time when even a non-fan like myself wouldn't have thought Y&R's music sucked. But the times, they are a-changin'.

Absolutely agree!