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Hahaha it was really was, definitely a white person wrote that! I think I remember @DRW50 and Khan tearing the “fancy dress ball” line to shreds.

I wasn’t sure where to post this after coming across it, but here is the casting call Y&R put out for Sophia: Y&R Casting New Role A casting call has gone out for a new denizen of Genoa City, and it's described as a "fun, breakout role." The working name of the character is "Simone" and here are the details: She should be an ample-figured African-American female in her mid-30s. She will be sharp, sassy and bold, street-smart and unafraid of confrontation. She wears her emotions on her sleeve and does not suffer fools gladly. She dresses like she is going to a ball. She loves herself and knows she is "all that." The role is contract and will start around late-April.

Oh I completely understand haha I’m trying to rationalize whoever is picking these eps myself. Especially with that ‘05 Sheila episode they aired out of all the Sheila episodes they could have aired. 🙄 Agreed 100%.

Odd. I wonder if it’s because it is not too far from the distant past and from a time when many (but not all) still considered the show as decent/fair so they call it “classic”. Then again we should be thankful Thudley isn’t picking Y&R’s classics.

That’s a great assessment. LOL I can’t even imagine Bev with Deas at all, it would have been beneath. LOL I do remember that! At least it took some time for Buzz & Reva to finally consummate their marriage. But yes it was ridiculous three men wanted Reva. One of the worst moments was when Alan bought Reva that hideous looking futuristic space age self cleaning house or whatever that later burned down. I personally found it decent, a tad on the generic side and I felt like it was more suited for some lifestyle news show instead but it worked at the time.

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Still want a Best of Jill or a Christmas in July week, but very doubtful either of those will happen. Today’s 2001 episode is so far another great episode from the era with more of Jill on a rampage with the Billy & Mac drama front and center. Christopher Douglas’ Sean looks like he was about to bust out of that sweater and glasses 😄. Olivia is a sanctimonious hypocrite towards Malcolm.

@DRW50 I had just seen your comments about poor Jean Carol. I remember one of the mags at the time (I want to say it was SPW but it might have been SOU) in praising the Marion Crane story wrote something along the lines of "It's spectacular fun to see they've let Marion go around killing off everyone who wants out of their contract!" Sheesh! Only regret that Brent/Marion didn't off Tangie for her exit immediately soon as he back to town. You didn't miss much, Buzz being the show diva at the time had been the first one to find Amish Reva. They later became close with Buzz trying to save Reva from Alan. Later on she married Buzz as a means to let Josh move on with Annie and helped Buzz fight Alan against the destruction of 5th Street but Reva never really loved Buzz more than a friend. Once there was a clear path of reconciliation for Josh & Reva and with Jenna's return they separated. The marriage lasted less than a year and was rarely mentioned much afterward aside from Clone Reva flirting with Buzz.

For whatever the reason, John Conboy considered sprucing up his new show’s opening a priority. Conboy touted the show's new opening "wanted to capture the essence of the classic Knots Landing theme from the 80’s," but of course whoever produced it was too lazy/cheap to get it right or whatever ideal opening they had in mind. I’m aware that one of the people involved in creating the opening threw a hissy fit of sorts after seeing it dissected on the old WOST message boards. (Of course, if you really worked hard, should you be bragging about how easy it is to change the opening by going on to your hard drive?) I definitely agree with you on the lighthouse or some form of light should at least be seen in GL's openings, just like the hourglass on Days or the globe on ATWT(it was a bit jarring not seeing it in space from 2002-09 though). Worst GL opening was that 2007 destiny BS IMO.

I don’t believe it has been, the only 2000 episode I’ve remember seeing repeated before was Billy&Mac being named King & Queen at prom for in like 2001 or something. Hearst was great in the role but I can see him being considered too old for it. I like the idea of him coming on a new Jabot or Newman executive though, he would have nailed it after his Alan-Michael days. I know the show was disappointed in seeing him go and had kept stretching it with his ghostly appearances.

Y&R August 2000-Ho boy Russell Lawrence was lousy as Carter/Matt. Y&R should never have hired someone best known for Power Rangers lol, thankfully we’d have Hearst step in shortly afterward. Larry’s return was fun though. Phyllis had only been back less than a month at this point. The Billy/Mac romance was great stuff and if probably planned it would still be a central focus on the show today. Thanks for destroying it Y&R.

The amount of contradictory and whiplash interviews Corday gave between 1999-2006 I hope the soap journalists received hazard pay for their time interviewing him. During those years, Days tried to be all things--love stories, family stories, teen stories, social issues, crime stories, murder mysteries, evil twins, cheap stunts, and the kind of bizarre plot twists that seem uniquely Days. It was a foolish to mix all these ingredients AND expect it to work. Corday wanted an everysoap--he got a mess. I remember witnessing the pitiful attempt to redefine the John/Hope subsex and subsequent subspawn, as complex family drama.(At least the denouement for the final revelations for that story were very good.) If anybody was in need of a public neutering, it was Ken Corday. Corday defended Reilly’s style through the boom period of the mid-90’s. Then, he tried to out-Reilly Reilly with dumb gimmicks like the Princess Gina mess. Then, after a disastrous attempt to fuse Reilly’s outrageousness with more traditional soap story, Corday decided that the most radical thing to do would be to return Days to its’ roots. Ken Corday blamed everything on accomplice Tom Langan, fired him, and brought staff writers Peter Brash and Paula Cwikly to the fore. It seemed to be working, with the duo routinely making silk purses out of sow’s ears like Sami Scams Austin part 12, and the Hope/Lexie baby switch madness. So, what happened? Muttering something about budget expenses, Corday axed Cwikly/Brash and promoted Dena Higley, who basically wrote non-events like the Salem earthquake and mystery goop. The ratings dropped faster than a politician’s trousers, putting DAYS in a weak position when it was time to enter contract renewal talks with NBC. NBC wanted ratings up, budgets slashed, and James E. Reilly back as Head Writer. The alternatives? Go to another outlet that would probably want even more changes, or simply go off the air. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Corday chose to just lay there, and let NBC have their way and watched while Reilly makes a mockery of all the lofty ideals Corday was spouting.

Anybrowser? I loved that site, it was always my go to there 1996-2000ish especially for the huge GL section Cari had. Unfortunately I think most of the daily recaps have completely disappeared off the web for good as time has gone but it still is a valuable site 20+ years later that I hope we never lose especially for GL and Loving.

The episode of Evan's exit with Justine threatening him remains one of the bizarrest things I ever watched on the show. Unfortunately the scene I remember of Justine pulling a letter opener on a speechless Evan isn't around, but Eric Scott Woods later played the demonic boyfriend Piper in a couple early episodes of Charmed so it there is that.

This always intrigues me, mainly because Brian Frons refuses to give any interviews in the same fashion Goutman for ATWT yet since they're college professors nowadays no one even bothers to mention that in era in workshops.

This makes me sad, because it just still feels like yesterday I would be posting on a web forum whenever GL had a good episode or a story I liked even back in 2006. I still remembered Taggart’s story plans got tossed by the wayside or repurposed like Gus being the son of Alan & Rita or Reva’s stalker. Kriezman & Wheeler has good ideas but couldn’t execute them at all, especially once Wheeler became emotionally unmoored it was downhill. However I do appreciate they really did wrap up GL so I’ve blocked out the 07-08 crapola and shoddyness.

Thanks. Apparently the actor was the last Paul on ATWT before Kavovit took over: http://pgpclassicsoaps.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-are-they-now-damion-scheller.html

Definitely an odd Alex recast but she does feel regal here. I was trying to find that old temp recast thread to no avail(must be dropped off to archived parts of SON somewhere). Interesting to see for sure. That kid, that is Johnathan Brooks? Never seen him before but recognized the name from the closing credits. I remember back in the WOST days someone called it Quint & Nola's "Cousin Oliver/Billy Napoli" moment. How the heck did Quint & Nola end up with him? Did he live with them until their exit?

This sums it up pretty nicely. Plus Lily and Connor had a fun little feud of sorts that I enjoyed watching during those years as well.

Weird KOIN was still not airing B&B even by 1999! I wonder if another station had picked it up at some point in the 90s (kind of like how the occasional Fox/UPN/Indy station in some markets picked up pre-empted soaps over the years). Weirder is that for the old PrimeStar satellite company, they actually used KOIN for their CBS West Coast Feed(they used WUSA in DC for the East Coast Feed), so I surmise PrimeStar subscribers could only rely on WUSA to watch B&B then. (I had some family in WV who used PrimeStar I remember seeing KOIN on there but I never really watched it much when I visited them to find out their whole schedule, wish I had now.)

In addition to Detective Webber(did he even have a romance?) there was a fine looking, decently acted Detective Gil Wallace who befriended the Winters family and briefly dated Tyra but the show discarded before he was further developed. Similar later to what the show did with Alex Chavez.

Hahaha! The first tried with that Wesley guy and even had Olivia get engaged. Then of course Damon had potential and pushed around in the beginning but by year’s end he burnt through the story fast so they gave him that odd backstory for a D-plot on the show. Finally they managed to snag Shemar back which was good except the writing wasn’t and somehow they (very foolishly) let Malcolm & Olivia just fizzle out by fall of ‘05. Just terrible.

MB Lily came back at a time when then show had Glynnis O'Connor as Margo, Ned & Debbie Simon taking over, misuse of Royce, Hutch/Roseanna/Evan being front and fore center when none of that set the show on fire lol somehow ATWT still managed be #5 for the overall season rank.

To quote a Jump the Shark moment on the now long defunct Jump The Shark website on their section for ATWT: 😄 Now of course that was that poster's opinion but their was a general consensus that Rattray wasn''t good in the role. Granted looking back I will say at least for Rattray's first year and half we definitely saw Lily mature and Rattray play in storylines not suited for Byrne's Lily (add to the fact that Rattray was five years older than Byrne in real life) I have to say it wasn't all bad and even I remember liking her Lily with Sean & Colin. However, the Holden story did indeed go off the rails, and the amount of whining and crying Rattray's Lily did in the second half of 1992 was unforgivable...only Martha Byrne could have gotten away with all of that, which is why she was well welcomed back in 1993. Lily was best with Damien and both Dusty Donovan's. Holden became such a dud but at least Jon Hensley held in there and always did his best.

I forgot that Miles and Margaret were guests at the wedding, I’m glad to see them again.