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And soooooo not in the Dobsons' wheelhouse.

And being replaced with Mr. Belvedere, lol. I have to hand it to them, though, for not trying to replace Villechaize with another little person (or, God help us, a person of color).

They should have offered Victoria Principal the moon and stars to return for the first DALLAS reunion movie. Fans would have tuned in just to see Bobby and Pam finally back together.

The addition of Pam (along with Charmaine, Lance and that brutha Pam was dating) was clearly TCS' attempt at drawing more "urban" viewers to the show after "Roseanne" and "The Simpsons" had chiseled away some of their audience.

Gary Tomlin, IMO, is a more palatable version of Frank Valentini or Ron Carlivati. He's just as much into camp and pretty young (male) thangs as they are, but it's not nearly as annoying with him, nor does he let it get in the way of telling the damn story.

I thought both reunion movies (and the KL reunion movie) stank, lol.

So, would Dr. Balsom have known that his wife was trans? Would that have explained why he brought her Natalie to raise? I'm seriously intrigued by this rumor for some reason, lol.

Trust me, you ain't missing much, lol.

"Hardy Boys" might have been the bigger hit, but I think "Nancy Drew" was slightly better.

ICAM. It seems like many of Aaron Spelling's most popular shows suffered the same kind of fate. You have PSM and "Dynasty," and Shannen Doherty and "90210" (and, I'd add, "Charmed"). But you also have Farrah Fawcett and "Charlie's Angels" and even Lauren Tewes and "The Love Boat." Heck, even "The Colbys" suffered after Barbara Stanwyck decided she had had enough, lol.

I think that happened for two reasons: 1) By 1988/89, the "Cosby kids" were getting older (and less adorable) and the show itself was becoming...how do I put this?...boring. It's great that Cosby wanted to avoid standard half-hour comedy tropes in order to capture realism in regards to family life, but there are episodes where literally nothing happens. Compare that to "A Different World," which was becoming more political by the episode, and would even come to out-perform TCS in the years to come. 2) Also, by 1988/89, America was coming down from the cocaine-and-greed-fueled Reagan years and realizing just how much the administration had crippled our country's middle and working classes. The Huxtables represented the kind of family many wished they had, but in 1988/89, the Conners represented the kind of family they actually were.

I think it had to do with the classic fear that Mason and Julia together would be boring. IMO, however, Mason and Julia probably were one of only two couples on soaps - with ATWT's Tom and Margo being the other - who could be just as interesting married as they would be NOT married.

Believe it or not, I really enjoyed "Anything But Love" and wish it were out on DVD or streaming. Even if they seemed to revamp that show at the start of every [!@#$%^&*] season, lol.

Here's one from Y&R: remember when Brad Carlton supposedly met his mother one day at some diner? It seemed like Bill Bell changed his mind and dropped it immediately. Years later, of course, Lynn Marie Latham would pick up the mystery of Brad's past with that hideous Nazi reliquary story.

I could see Elizabeth Korte writing out Ava and Nina in a Thelma and Louise-esque fashion, lol. And I don't think you're wrong about Ron Carlivati, Dan O'Connor and Chris Van Etten all being into camp and divas. Ron and Chris, in particular, act as if they're writing AbFab.

I don't doubt that at all. Fallon, like much of DYNASTY, had started out so promising: the rich, spoiled "daddy's little girl," who displayed more than a little of her father's ruthlessness, even to the point of brokering a marriage with the son of his business rival in order to help his company. By the time PSM had left, however, Fallon had become so watered down, she even was BFF's with Krystle, when theirs should've been a richly layered rivalry that lasted throughout the entire series.

LOL!! I guess I should get on the horn, then, and see whether WarnerMount (or some other network or streamer) would be interested in a show about a private investigator who lives at a naturist resort.

They could have made Jaleesa an academic advisor at Hillman. Instead, they had her start an employment agency, which presented the problem of islanding her even further from campus life.

They could just bring back Marco/Eloi down the road with the explanation that Dr. Rolf brought him back to life with that serum. Wait, am I getting my soaps mixed up again?

I definitely agree that the new characters weren't as interesting as the original ones. Gina, Lena and Charmaine were okay, but Dorian and Terrell were dullsville, lol. If I had been Debbie Allen or Susan Fales-Hill, I might've mixed it up a little, maybe even return to the original premise of a Caucasian student attending an HBCU. (Perhaps, a "bubba" from the deep South, who's had limited exposure to African-Americans, and whose roommate is a Black kid from some place like Camden, NJ). Or maybe even introduce an LGBTQ character into the mix (although, knowing Bill Cosby, he probably would've nipped that one in the bud right away). I think Freddie should come back as a federal judge.

Frankly, I don't think Trump believes half the [!@#$%^&*] he says. He just says it, because it's what his voters want to hear.

Yeah, IIRC, they just popped up on the season premiere and were like, "Yeah, we happened to be vacay'ing at the same place during the summer, and next thing we knew, we's married now!" Honestly, it sounded like one of those rash decisions you make when you've had too many of those drinks with the paper umbrellas in them. Even Anthony's wacky, spur-of-the-moment Vegas wedding to Sheryl Lee Ralph on "Designing Women" got more buildup, lol!

I suspect he did, too. (After all, we all know by now what he really thought of Gloria Monty, lol). Say what you will about him, but at least he had enough class not to badmouth his colleagues in public or in print.

It was. Neither did I. To me, it felt like one of those out-of-left-field creative moves to give Jaleesa and Colonel Taylor more story. Unfortunately, I think the marriage and the baby just diminished Jalessa even further, which was likely what prompted Dawnn Lewis to jump ship for "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper."

The thing I remember most from the first-run syndicated episodes? Sally Struthers' character's name: Marsha McMurray Shrimpton. That has to be one of the worst character names I've ever heard - and that's including every character that Chris Van Etten and his various co-HW's have named on GH.