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"Are you two planning to have sex tonight?" "Why do you ask?" "Because, if you are, could you do it after 'Matlock'? I just *love* Kathy Bates!"

Well, it can't be my dream storyline - an interracial, same-sex marriage - because that's on the show already (...right?).

I agree. Getting married off to Abby is pretty much a sign that TPTB have reached a dead end with your character. Just ask Connor Floyd.

I never get tired of that promo. It made even CAPITOL look good.

Aaaaaaaand another poster gets added to my Ignore List. Let me guess: Denzel's making a cameo appearance? No! Wait! I take back that guess! It's Beyonce, isn't it? She's making a cameo! That's it, right?

If that happens, then that would mean only one thing: Gary Tomlin is GH's new EP.

"When I heard about how Agnes Nixon almost lost her bible for AMC, I said to myself: 'Shelly? Gurl, whatever you do, keep yo' s**t locked up tight!'" Well, what do you expect from a show that seemed to change co-hosts whenever they cut to commercial?

LOL!! God love Megan McTavish!!

I remember some were complaining about how cartoonish he and his story were, but I was like, "C'mon, the man's literally been locked inside of a freezer for almost 20 years! What were you expecting? 'The Cherry Orchard'?" And I wasn't even a fan; but, for once, the level of his performance matched the ridiculousness of the story perfectly.

Probably because they're so exhausted from having to juggle so many characters in their heads.

Even Joe and Rhoda faced this same dilemma back in the '70's. In their case, however, it wasn't so much that they weren't as interesting anymore as it was that the producers' hands were tied by Standards and Practices over what kinds of stories they could write for a modern, married couple, especially on a half-hour series that aired during the so-called "family hour." So, what happens? Joe and Rhoda get divorced, and "Rhoda" almost immediately goes down the tubes, as the show now has no premise upon which to hook their stories. Anyways. That's one reason why writers hold off on marrying off their characters for as long as possible.

Black Agnes is looking down on those people with a tremendous smile on her face.

I still keep up with GH, too, but because there's so very little about the show that I find useful these days, I imagine it'll be very easy for me to jump ship, lol.

I agree. Especially about the upscale demos. Someone (forget who) once said that not a lot of people watched "St. Elsewhere," but that those who did often had highly disposable incomes.

Abe: "Well, did you tell Ms. Slezak that her check would be in tomorrow's mail?"

Question for longtime Y&R fans who might know: what were the sets like when the show premiered in '73? Were there a lot of 'em? How lavish-looking were they? Because, I can imagine there was mostly the Brooks' living room/foyer, the Fosters' living room, Pierre's restaurant, and later Katherine's foyer and living room.

I still laugh whenever I hear or see the name "Polly Prentice," lol.

Exactly. ABC couldn't have AW or Felicia Gallant, but they could have whatever they had with Linda Dano, throw in someone who worked with her on AW and who had ABC soap ties as well, and then cross their fingers and hope for the best. ICAM!!

Where's Bonnie Franklin when you need her?

LOL!! I, too, remember someone saying that CBS had hired Abbi based on Y&R's reputation without realizing until after the fact how little she had had to do with the show's success. And that, yes, her feet STANK, lol!

At this point, I would LOVE for Cody and Sasha to be exposed as con artists (with an axe to grind against the Scorpios) who have somehow conned Holly, Mac and Robert into thinking they are their respective, long-lost children. Anything to end that madness. Oh, and Willow faked her cancer. I want that to be exposed, too, lol.

Well, for starters, I would have had Tom Cudahy relocate to Corinth with his wife, attorney Livia Frye Cudahy, with Livia opening a new law practice there, and eventually becoming District Attorney. (Ideally, they would've relocated after gaining custody of Jamal, but I can't remember whether LOVING had morphed into THE CITY by that point, so maybe not, lol.) Tom was an entrepreneur, owning and managing a restaurant (The Goalpost), followed by a health club, so I could see him doing the same in Corinth. As a matter of fact, since Corinth was supposed to be a "college town," he could've opened or taken over a coffeehouse/performance venue located not far from AU, while, at the same time, working in some capacity with the university's football program, since Tom was also a former professional football player. Derek and Mimi Frye would make appearances from time to time, since, after all, they were related to Livia - and I would hope that, while all this is happening, Angie and Frankie Hubbard are getting established in Corinth as well. Terrence Frye would have to be on the show at some point, and maybe involved a love triangle with Frankie and an African-American or even Caucasian female. (A white girl torn between two black men? Oh, I can just hear the viewer complaints now, lol!) But one story I'd REALLY want to tell would involve Tom's ne'er-do-well brother, Sean, who comes to Corinth at a low point in his life, almost immediately sets his sights on someone like Trisha (or some female on the show with money) and learns that, thanks to a long-ago one night stand, he's got a long-lost son or daughter running around Corinth!

Of all the shitty retcons I've had to witness in my years as a soaps fan, retconning Ava Jerome into being Delia's long-lost daughter - at a point in Delia's life when that would have been impossible - had to be among the shittiest. (At least when Douglas Marland gave his characters long-lost offspring, he did the freaking math, lol).

Basically, yeah. I mean, you could argue that Dimitri was a more Gothic character - what, with the castle, and the secret, comatose wife that was straight outta Bronte - but he definitely took over Jeremy's function as the dashing romantic hero who always comes to the ladies' aid.

In a way, it does, since - thanks to Rae, Skye, Angela Shapiro, Brian Frons, Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati - AMC, THE CITY, GH, LOVING, OLTL, PC and RH are all slices of the same, super-soap pie. If anything, all this "synergy" between the different ABC soaps spoiled my admiration for RC and Linda Dano, which had been pretty strong for years. By the time Dano left OLTL and Christopher left GH, I was SO relieved, lol. Which is why I'm like, "Nah, I'm good with not seeing Skye or even SORAS-ed Lila Rae again."