Mitch

That reunion was just what I needed during this crazy time in the world. Though I can' t could have gone all my life without hearing about Helen Wagner running around in her underwear!!!!

Yea, its too bad they sold the rights to CBS so they could buy the RKO studio to set up shop there. Those Arnaz kids would have been billionaires! But again, who knows if the show would have been so huge in syndication to this day if CBS didn't own it and able to make money of it. Which leads me to ATWT..I don't think there was anyway to make money off of it or GL so CBS would not have been that interested. Also, remember, the clone was Babs Bloom's idea and the show really started tanking the more the net got involved.

I had the hots for Deas Tom back in high school...I will forever be embarrassed that I thought a younger Buzz Cooper was hot!

As an Buzz hater I felt he was always OTT. I can't blame this on Zimmer when we had to sit through Buzz on top of the diner chewing what scenery wasn't on fire..though agreed, Buzz did really go into over drive with the windmill arms during his Zimmer time. There was interview Deas did where he said Bruce Barry told him to tone it down, and from that day on he didn't really get into it. Oh...poor baby! I do think part of it was that Buzz was HIS character and more ripe for going over the top then Tom, a legacy character, nice guy lawyer from the midwest. Plus, I don't see Wagner, Fulton, Hastings, etc putting up with his screen hogging. I can't even imagine him in a scene with BevAlex and the looks of annoyance she would have had.

Damn, Deas was so good in this..what happened to make him chew the scenery and for me to detest Buzz?? Colin is great too...the producers made a huge chance in recasting both of them. This Dee is snooze inducing.

I never knew why they didn't just write Frank out at that point...he was so popular,? Frankie D was such a great actor.? What is wrong with writing popular couples out when one leaves..if the shows were so geared towards super couples instead of writing "characters" who happen to be in a relationship...both should go. The Eleni recast was bland and Frank as a character faded into the woodwork. Post Long Curlee writers and producers, especially Rauch, never got that Reva was never a sex goddess, she was a passionate women with an unapologetic earthy sexuality and had a good heart but made really bad choices, Reva's main problem was that men (mostly Josh) just saw the sex part and not that she was real whole person. She was not the Sex Godess that all men fell for as Rauch made her.

I love the courtroom scene, and Lisa looking like she thinks she is in a 1940s Joan Crawford movie! I love that Elle and Bob are there to just looked shocked and mumble to the person next to them..though the thunder was annoying as hell and should have been left out. Lucinda should have been there to ground that in Lisa's face.."You thought it was me..and it was the maid, that he was DIDDLING on the side!" I wish Marland would have kept Lisa's McColl family..it was fun.

Your right...I remember the promos..."Lisa's back and she is in the middle of MURDER!" with Eileen's dramatic close up of disovering Whit dead...(though how she could tell the difference...)I didn't think of that until later. Weren't they going to kill Lisa instead of Whit and that is why Fulton came back??? (or so she says...) Why would you kill Lisa and keep the boring Toupe with Dentures as we used to call him on?

Yes, that was the house she lived in with Nick, which was kind of weird..but they totally remolded the house and this being Marland, he wrote that in. Was this after Whit was killed. Lisa is kind of cold to poor Jay who had his mother be revealed to be a murderer. I keep imaging how Fulton would play these scene. God crying Craig! I know there was a market for it but he was such a wuss crying all the time....

I love watching the Bauer boys as action guys LOL.. Was this what Rauch was trying to copy when he had Matt and Josh try to scale that San Crud wall to "save" Reva??? Mike was always kind of sanctimonious..(would have loved him and BevAlex together...when he would discover her shenanigans "Were you just blackmailing Reva"?) Alex "Uh, no she was trying to share a recipe of hers, but as I have not developed a taste for skunk I had to pass." ) but Ed, he just looks like someone you want to eat some of his home made lasagna with in the Bauer kitchen and not let the night end there. Marland would sniff at that and say "Chubby Chaser!" : )

That promo would have made me watch even if I had no clue what GL was. And I might say Ed was looking very DILFY in this commercial, something PS never was..Marland was a dumbass for that. I only watched a little of the Doctors before class and Zimmer was a site...its too bad she had to be REVA all the time..she played conflicted bad girl great..

I liked that Lisa was acting "kooky" to disarm people, including that guy who she bribed...(I love it, thats a Alexandra Spauling move right there.) I think it was wrong for Marland to take away her family...it was cool that she finally had one of her own to meddle with. But really Lisa, that mansion is uglier then hell! I never understood why no one questioned how Betsy came back with not only a new face but an actually brain! HA...interviews with the cast say that Santos Artega was the opposite of Pa Hughes and always had younger women and married one. Now THAT would have gotten Oakdale riled up

Lisa had a lot of fun stuff to do during this time, right after Fulton's return and Whit was killed off. She got to scheme against Lucy, investigate the murder, fall in love with Bob again, meddle in her children, step children and various young people living at the mansions life, etc. The show was sloppy and all over the place at this time but fun...(Betsy's hair made her look 45.) Also, Lisa was about to call Lucy a bitch in that line about the dog.

Wow..I forgot how "pretty" Frank was back in the day. He played a good normal guy but they never figured out he couldn't do the angst or angry young man thing. I remember he and Mindy being kinda sexy together..much better then annoying Rusty. I wonder how Maeve would have worked with RR's Alan. In the later years I would have killed off Matt and had Van in the Alex role..asserting her power at Spaulding.

I always thought that of Jonathon on GL...he always seemed that he would be up to be with anyone, but not for fun but for sick kicks and power over them...kind of Reva's sexual ID turned inside out. Holden would have been great as that also but soaps always had to do a boring gay storyline like Lily's kid where everyone is so bland.

LOL..that was because it was located at the bend of the river, but yea, it was weird..they didn't say, "I'm stopping by Reva's house to blackmail her.." it was..."I drove past REVABEND...and saw Alan's limo parked outside!!!" It was like it was Southfork or something. They had to get rid of the Lewis house as it was falling apart. That set had been around since the early 90s as Van and Billy's house and they didn't have the money (the show) to maintain it.

I wish some writer would of thrown in some Easter Eggs, and have Roger be behind a new residential developement called "Selby Flats" (so Alex could steal Khan's line "Sound like skid row!") or when Philiip had his really stupid plan to knock down Company (did we ever know how he just acquired the mortgage) and rename 7th street Five Points... And Victoria Foxton..you stole my heart with that gif of Chelsea being electrocuted when touching the mic...if only that happened each time...

Agree on all the points people made on this topic, but I grew up in a town in Central Illinois and too international companies ADM and Staley's (well, parent company Tate & Lyle) were based there. (its such a weird town that Warren Buffet's son lives there and is now the unpaid Sheriff) So its not totally weird but those businesses are related to farm and agriculture, not Lewis Oil (why the f*ck did that move to Springfield) and God knows what Spaulding or Walsh Enterprises actually produced. I can even see a media company in the 80s being situated in a midwest town in the center of the country..but they needed to explain that ( "Darling this is a burg, but the cost of living is so low we don't have to pay as much and I have easy access to all my stations in the country.") What I hated was all the Yachts (uh, a yacht on a lake in a landlocked town???) and international flights coming in and out.

I keep expecting Lucinda to rush in the room.."AMBROSE!" Wow, Marj on Capitol, not screeching or stuttering! RIP Marj!

As an avowed Buzz hater..I actually liked him when he first came on as he was supposed to be a cheesy con man who looked like he kind of smelled. I remember a scene of his working at Lewis and he is fake talking on a phone and Van comes in, and quietly goes over and plugs the phone back in..."I think you may hear better now." Then they made him a heart throb, gosh darn it, just a misunderstood guy and he when full on suckage! LOL.. I remember when she was on, wasnt she supposed to be an intern at Spaulding...(with that big ass head of hair!!!)

I see Amanda in the likeness of BevAlex...smart, savy, ruthless when needed...but with a heart. Battling the boys for dominance by pitting Phillip and AM at each other. Phillip trying to step into Alan's shoes and finding its not easy to be the Spaulding patriarch. and Alex taking Phillip's side against AM and Amanda and AM having his Bauer side finally coming out and being conflicted with the whole thing. A Harley recast who wasnt whiney and shrill, I don't think I would recognize her..

The Grady kill is hilarious..I wonder if its on You Tube? Remember when Wheeler was trying to make Grady the new Jonathon...but even Jon was not that hideous or have a death on him? She was going around telling people that the "New Viewers," love him. Oh Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, there were no NEW viewers! A take down of a sane Phillip would have been great with Blake and Dinah actually joining forces. It would of course end with the reveal that Ross was alive...but what great fall out. The end result would be something like Kyle comes back with Dinah and Blake and takes over Spaulding, the stress kills Alan (for real and for good)and in the surprise being that Amanda is really pulling the strings with her lover Kyle come in and take it all out from under them...setting up Phillip, Alan Michael and Amanda fighting with Alex acting as the Dowager Countess, referring and making smart remarks. Of course, they would need a budget for that, I would not want to see the Spauldings squabbling at the Peapack Baseball Diamond. And no, God no, no more Harley!

Yes, I think that Crazed Phillip story line should have been treated just like the clone and jumping through paintings, never to be mentioned again. Its too bad though, it had as always potential, but for some reason Wheeler wanted to turn Phillip into James Stenbeck and have both he and Rick have hands in killing Ross????

Agreed..they could have made her Mini Reva but the actress came across as so sweet and happy and not in a Jessie kind of way, she still had spunk. Agreed her acting wasnt the greatest but you could tell she took it seriously and she got better. Sometimes in TV and soaps, an actor's warmth and personality can make up for a lot.

Mel had potential when she showed she had fire...like when she was opposed to Phillip. That was actually good to have a Bauer and Rick's partner not cowed by Phillip and they should have kept that up...not them fighting up Mel never taking Phillips [!@#$%^&*] and calling him on it and calling Beth out to. She didn't know the Four M's and Abby just saw the good in everyone so she would be different. I like the Bauer Matrirarch being a black woman who was strong and good and with a career. I just dont think the actress and MOL had a zilch of chemistry with each other. But ulitmately Rick and Mindy (KT) would have been my go to for next Bauer Couple. Loved them.