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2 hours ago, j swift said:

@Maxim I made a banner just for you

I’m dying laughing right now

20 minutes ago, janea4old said:

You mean Blade/Ashley/Rick?  Yes that was my thought, too.

Silly autocorrect But yes…the other theory I saw is Alan is just gaslighting Ashley and is really Rick Bladeson with plastic surgery in the flesh given JG penchant of visiting old villains this past year.

Y&R spoilers for Tuesday June 4 based on the Canadian episode has Alan the psychiatrist telling Ashley that he has an evil twin brother who’s been impersonating the psychiatrist and may have been responsible for causing DID…

Lord is Josh Griffith trying to do a reimagining of the Blade/Ashley/Rick story?

10 hours ago, John said:

Lorraine Broderick

Days Of Our Lives Oct  15, 1999-November 10,1999

Introduced teen Belle, Phillip & Shawn.

Did not mesh with the EP's.

Was replaced by Tom Langan who was also  Co-EP

This was the first one I immediately thought of as well. It’s weird because for whatever reason she got strangely blamed by some for stuff for already ongoing stories like Subsex, Bo the Mime, Princess Gina, botching a Kate/Nicholas/Billie triangle etc. I guess Corday and Langan just threw her under the bus at the time when Days was unraveling fast.

Of course the Langan era of Days was…something else to put it politely lol…

I know Jessica Klein’s disastrous ATWT stint was mentioned already but basically ATWT was a revolving door there 1996-1998:

February 1996 – December 1996

Stephen  Black and Henry Stern

December 1996 – May 1997 Stephen Demorest, Mel Brez and Addie Walsh

May 1997 – October 1997 Jessica Klein

October-December 1997Stephen Demorest, Mel Brez and Addie Walsh

December 1997– February 1998

Addie Walsh

What a mess.

Also Victor Miller and Michael Conforti only wrote for GL October 1996-February 1997 as they cleaned up McTavish’s mess but were soon replaced by B&E.

Thanks @janea4old for the detailed summary as well!! Haha some of it becomes a blur over time, especially when I use to FF anything Kevin and Chloe there. And some details like where Esther is a receptionist is at I forgot myself lol.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

Someone today asked me if Esther is still a maid. I assume she isn't, but I have not watched Y&R very much in a number of years (and years). 

(I know Esther barely appears anyway)

Who lives in the Chancellor mansion now? Does anyone?

Esther is wealthy from Katherine’s money but hasn’t been a maid in years after she quit in 2015 after Colin sexually harassed her. She mainly works in Crimson Lights and has some job at Fenmore’s. 
 

Devon and Abby live at the Chancellor mansion nowadays and I think Chance does occasionally or something. 

From Soap Opera News, here's the same old same old first week of June for B&B:

The Bold and the Beautiful B&B Spoilers June 3 – 7, 2024. The upcoming week will feature a series of intense moments and much more.

Monday, June 3, 2024 – Episode #9285

Brooke and Hope fight to keep the Hope for the Future line alive; Li attempts to halt Bill and Luna’s paternity test.

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 – Episode #9286

Ridge makes a final decision between Steffy and Hope; Deacon gives Tom a substantial gift for saving Sheila’s life; Katie learns from R.J. that Bill might be Luna’s father.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 – Episode #9287

Ridge makes a surprising offer to Brooke; Hope vows that Steffy will not get rid of the Logans; the identity of Luna’s father is revealed.

Thursday, June 6, 2024 – Episode #9288

Li gives Katie a cryptic warning about Poppy; Steffy clarifies her perspective when Finn defends Hope.

Friday, June 7 2024 – Episode #9289

Hope finds herself in an unexpected situation.

Here we go into June...will it be the dog days of summer for Y&R? Lol here's the first week from Soap Opera News:

Monday, June 3, 2024 – Episode #12883

Victor expresses concern about Adam, Audra and Tucker play cat and mouse, and Chloe works to repair her rift with Sally.

Tuesday June 4, 2024 – Episode #128884

Victor confronts Cole about his betrayal, Claire starts a new chapter, and Traci and Ashley learns a shocking secret.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 – Episode #12885

Sally interrupts a moment between Adam and Chelsea, Lily loses patience with Billy, and Mamie stands her ground with Nate.

Thursday, June 6, 2024 – Episode #12886

Ashley’s trip in Paris takes an unexpected turn.

Friday, June 7 2024 – Episode #12887

Ashley makes a shocking discovery , while Tucker takes matters into his own hands.

HIn a perfect world an irate Hope would end up taking her entire design collection without warning off to Sally, to which Sally is pleased by and plots with Hope and Eric III against Forrester along with Dino’s aid as Spectra experiences a fantastic quarter while Forrester falls flat.

Except Sally is on Y&R these days and B&B ignores the rest therefore Thudley can go [!@#$%^&*] himself lol

Okay onto today’s episode 5/29…

So Jill is sick/having possible heart failure….? Yeesh. I sincerely hope this isn’t JG’s answer to Thudley’s “Eric is dying” story over on B&B last fall. 

Of course knowing JG all of this will probably be held offscreen, unless Hasselhoff is going make a surprise appearance again as Snapper since he was mentioned by name today. JG is terrible at these health illness stories yet keeps telling them. 
 

Ugh I was kind of hoping we’d never seen to Chloe again but honestly Sally is better off having Audra as a pal than an unsuccessful sociopath lol. Good riddance. 

Way to go Diane for finally speaking the truth about how nonsensical it is for Jack to be Nikki’s sponsor especially since Jack still drinks. 

2 hours ago, Khan said:

To me, it feels like Josh Griffith might not have expected CZ/Jordan to shake up the show as much as she did, so he keeps expanding her story by adding all these ridiculous twists and turns, not realizing that it's only going to hurt the character in the end.

Like everything JG does, he wrote the story totally backwards. May Sweeps would have been the perfect to reveal Jordan and Claire being the ones behind a series of strange happenings and sabotage to the Newmans after months of gaining their trust and ingraining themselves in GC society.

@YRfan23 I know you keep track of episode counts so I did notice Esther appeared briefly in the background at the Crimson Lights register in today 5/28’s scenes with Chelsea and Summer yet had no speaking role…a bit odd. As was Sharon’s 45 second scene with Chelsea.

Summer is now giving in to play nice with Claire and Sally…? A shame JG doesn’t seem to want us to see AL Summer’s claws out again. 

Didn’t Thudley just do the whole “outrageous online thing that goes viral” two years ago with Brooke and Deacon? I guess Steffy will now run to Liam like Ridge ran to Taylor

@kalbir and @Khan

Fun little article on MSW from the Guardian that just got published/posted the other day:

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/22/murder-she-wrote-episodes-where-to-watch-streaming-angela-lansbury

6 hours ago, dragonflies said:

@soapfan770if it comes from Facebook it's definitely fake. There was one that someone put on Facebook after Sh*tla was killed that said Steffy would be tried for her murder, found guilty and sentenced & then Finn and H*pe would kiss outside the courthouse

lol. Facebook soap fans are the true bottom of the barrell, they believe literally everything 

17 hours ago, Maxim said:

I don't think so. But it's in the league of Bradley Bell... Just pray toes are not involved.

Haha thanks both!! Even though it may sound truthful I figured I wouldn’t believe it until it happens…which I hope is never lol.

I definitely remember seeing that “spoiler” about Steffy being arrested for Sheila’s “murder”. I figure with all the recent nonsense at the show there’s probably folks fanning the flames ever more so then than usual.

1 hour ago, Antoyne said:

Damnit Cole, you just couldn’t mind your damn business

LOL personally I’m ready for it to end. Had it be written in reverse and had better plotting, it may have been an exciting May Sweeps as we would have just been finding out who Jordan and Claire are after months of committing various minor sabotage acts towards the Newmans without raising suspicions.

Due to end of the school year work (giving and grading final exams is worse than taking them lol) and got a bit behind @Taoboi but I was so happy to see Nate & Audra sharing scenes again from today’s episode that I caught. 

I didn't know where to share this as I've been avoiding watching this train wreck like the plague lately, but is there anything truth to the rumor going around that Finn and Hope are to have sex during an acupuncture session? Gross if that actually happens but I have yet to see that from any legit/verified source.

13 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Rena said she was told they couldn't write for Quinn(or didn't know what to write) but yet they have Sheila doing the same stupid things for 3 years now.

 

But they can't write for QUINN??? 

What is even worse is the same thing happened to Rick, Macy and Taylor….so I’m glad that Sofer, Eakes, Tylo, Allen, and Young all walked away for good and make Thudley look like the foolish idiot he is. 

On 5/10/2024 at 1:20 PM, YRfan23 said:

 I wonder when CL became not just a spot for all the teens on the show.

Early 2000’s once Nick and Sharon bought the place although even then it was a mix of the Glow crew (and of course the trio of Sierra, Lily, and Colleen) and outlier characters like Michael, Lauren, Paul, Christine etc. it usually stayed that way until the MAB era who of course had Jill, Nikki, and Katherine going there. 

5 hours ago, kalbir said:

Is Josh Griffith going to dust off The Hand that Rocks the Cradle for the Kyle/Summer/Claire storyline?

Lord I pray not. At least that movie was chilling; Griffith’s take on such a plot would be dreary and very unexciting….

5 hours ago, Taoboi said:

Smh. Lord...let's hope not. lol.

 

Though to be fair...as much as I like Claire, I feel she should always keep that edge that the actress is actually good at doing. 

I agree. Claire should be bit more rough around the edges for sure, but if she morphs into some Pollyanna who can do no wrong she might as well join Chelsea in her black hole oblivion. 
 

4 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

who has business qualifications, is going to work as aNanny?

 

It sure would be more interesting to see Claire continue to build a bond with Victoria by displaying her own business acumen to Victoria’s impressment than being the nanny who shacks up with Kyle.

1 hour ago, P.J. said:

 

WAIT---someone hired Ryan Brown AFTER GL? LAWD.

LOL about a year later Y&R scooped him up as a recast for David Tom as Billy on Y&R. Now rumor has it the Ryan Brown/Kelly Kruger mis-pairing was the catalyst for the ridiculous Katherine is Jill’s mother retcon twist but I’ll save that for the Y&R threads. Brown lasted about a year on Y&R before show blew up Billy & Mac for shock value. 
 

Maybe GL took a page out of the the cousin thing?

1 hour ago, dc11786 said:

To clarify, my issue wasn't with Bomer's age, but rather the orbit of characters he was interacting with. Bill and Michelle represented a generation above Marah even though I don't think they were that far apart in real life. Due to aging, Michelle and Bill were played as older and, as such, it felt like Ben was younger even though Bill and Michelle were simply older. I don't remember a lot of Nancy St. Alban/Matt Bomer scenes prior to Cosgrove's arrival, but I wasn't watching with a lot of fidelity after the initial college story started. At one point, SoapNet aired "Ryan's Hope" in the 3pm timeslot and I was recording that over GL when I wasn't home because of track practice.

Gotcha understood, it’s funny you mentioning that as I was a young History teacher at the time I helped out my colleague often who was the track and field coach and I still remember both my 2004 and 2005 graduating students fondly I wasn’t fortunate to get SoapNet til 2003 

7 hours ago, dc11786 said:

I remember watching a scene in 2002 during the wedding festivities with Daniel Cosgrove, Nancy St. Alban, and Matt Bomer in a scene together as childhood friends and thinking this was odd. Though, I remember thinking Ben was being played too young as he had been involved in the Marah teen set when they went to college when he probably should have been a generation above. 

I loved the seduction story. It was dark and messed up, and it worked at deconstructing Tammy as a character. 

 

Matt Bomer was the perfect age for Ben Reade tbh, and I recall there was definitely tension about him hanging out with the younger ladies like Marah and especially Marina even prior to him going psycho. Marah’s whole college story was the most unrealistic college story I have ever seen written on any medium to begin with anyways.

I’m always glad Bomer had the last laugh in all that mess. 
 

I agree with you I liked the initial shock story of Johnathan and Tammy…I liked Johnathan better when he had another bad girl per se as his heavy like Dinah and Lizzie. I always kept waiting for the other shoe to drop on Johnathan and Tammy ie they weren’t related after all but it never happened, which was bad because even Passions gave a convoluted retcon to make Chad & Whitney not related after all LOL

@slick jones LOL at your response earlier has me still in tears about Cosgrove and Ryan Brown.

Ryan Brown’s Bill and Pilar Santos story I had blocked to the far depths of my GL memories. 
 

I do wonder who hired Ryan Brown as Billy on Y&R. Major yikes!  A Lucy Johnson mandate? 

30 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I didn't really care about their pairing, but I didn't object to Bill and Beth, probably because I never saw Cosgrove as the Bill I cared about anyway. That's also why the attempt at pairing up Bill and dullard Nancy St. Alban did not mean anything to me - that wasn't the Bill or Michelle anyone needed to see together.

I completely forgot about Beth/Bill til now, yuck.

I was fine with Cosgrove during his 1st run, and I remember SOD named him as Best Recast (while that putrid Marah actress was named as Worst Recast lol). That said the biggest issue I believe Cosgrove and St. Alban (subpar acting aside until her final year) had was they were both wayyy too old to be playing Bill and Michelle by at almost a decade and they looked it too. Yikes. What was the casting director thinking at the time. 
 

I also never understood how the rabid Manny fan base withstood St. Alban’s tenure either lol. Thank god there wasn’t social media back then besides message boards.

Yeah, I hate to be insensitive to JG’s personal life but what’s he’s written is nothing to be proud of at all. Depressing and boring especially with Connor being institutionalized. Who the hell writes that crud?

Meanwhile for next week from Soap Opera News:

The Young and the Restless Spoilers Monday, May 13, 2024 – Episode #12868

Christine and Danny start a new chapter, Devon and Nate strategize about an exit plan for Billy, and Adam comforts Chelsea.

Y&R Spoilers Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – Episode #12869

Lily receives shocking news from Jill, Daniel swallows his pride, and Audra questions Tucker’s loyalty.

Y&R Spoilers Wednesday, May 15, 2024 – Episode #12870

Ashley’s devise a dangerous plan, Sally finds herself at a crossroads, and Tucker proves himself to Devon.

Y&R Spoilers Thursday, May 16, 2024 – Episode #12871

Phyllis’ plan to support Daniel backfires, Audra makes a power move, and Abby’s loyalty is tested.

The Young and the Restless Spoilers Friday, May 17, 2024 – Episode #12872

Victor’s revenge plot against Jordan takes a dangerous turn, Nick confides in Phyllis, and Kyle vetoes Summer’s decision about Claire.

17 hours ago, Jeff said:

Ouch Y&R, I'm surprised.  GH too.  B&B down but holding steady.

Not too terribly surprised at Y&R mainly because this Jordan story is being super stretched out. Interesting but also same recycled plot for months now.