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January 30, 200817 yr

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And Where were SONNY AND BRENDA?????

I know, right? I was a huge Sonny and Brenda fan back in the day, and they were definitely the biggest soap supercouple of the '90s.

I mean, Ryan and Victoria from Y&R? Loved them both, but a supercouple they were not.

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And Where were SONNY AND BRENDA?????

No thanks. I could not stomach these two together, plus I found Sonny verbally and emotionally abusive with her, especially during the wire scene. He looked like he was about to punch her face in if you ask me. Then her crawling after him like a dog was just embarrassing. I liked Sonny outside of Brenda with the mob stuff from 1993-1997 when I watched but, with Brenda, I just did not care for the guy.

The only Sonny/Brenda moment I liked was when he dumped her dumbass at the altar

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Luke and Noah a supercouple?

Just becuase your daytime's only gay couple, it doesn't make you a supercouple since you've been together for like 5 [!@#$%^&*] minutes....

As much as I love Luke and Noah by no means are they a supercouple. They havent done anything to earn the honor. When I think of supercouples on ATWT....names that come to mind are Bob and Kim, Lily and Holden, Carly and Jack.

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Tad/Dixie :wub:

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I'm certainly biased but Erica and Jackson would be a much more logical choice than Erica and Dimitri IMO. Susan and Walt are both still on the show and Erica was with Jack for years before Dimitri, during Dimitri and now still years later long after Dimitri.

Some of these other choices baffle me as well.

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Add me to one of those who don't understand why Luke and Noah are on that list. They've barely even been together, and--granted I've seen less than 10 scenes with them--they've not done too much compelling stuff, imo.

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I'm shocked that an Edge Of Night couple is recognized, yet Mac & Rachel from Another World are missing.

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And Where were SONNY AND BRENDA?????

i know right? this lis FAILS baised on that alone.

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Tad/Dixie

AMC was so stupid to kill off half of a long-established and popular supercouple (considering they are in short supply). It's the one year anniversary of Dixie eating poisoned peanut butter and banana pancakes :rolleyes: and I will never forgive them for it until they fix the story I waited two decades to see (i.e., Kate, Tad AND Live Dixie).

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AMC was so stupid to kill off half of a long-established and popular supercouple (considering they are in short supply). It's the one year anniversary of Dixie eating poisoned peanut butter and banana pancakes and I will never forgive them for it until they fix the story I waited two decades to see (i.e., Kate, Tad AND Live Dixie).

Agreed. Tad and Dixie were probably my favorite supercouple. And I still cannot fathom how killing off one half of that couple- the gorgeous, talented Cady McClain- was ever carried out. That was a monumentally stupid decision.

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Stupid lame list. Where were Nikki and Victor, Katherine and Jill, Ridge and Brooke or at least Brooke and Stephanie.

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No Cruz & Eden? Blasphemy!

All in all, it's a pretty lame list. Victoria & Ryan, but no Victor & Nikki? Whatever. I guess it's nice that EW still supports the soaps every now & then.

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Anything and everything that made Erica and Dimitri special went out the window the day he told her that it was fine their baby was gone, they could just adopt. [!@#$%^&*] bastard. I do think they had supercouple status before that last time around. Anything after Dimtri saw Erica in bed with Jonathon Kinder and then went and banged Maria is pure [!@#$%^&*]. Blech.

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No Greg and Jenny from AMC?

No Steve and Alice from the continuing story of ANOTHER WORLD?

No Victor and Nikki or Snapper and Chris from Y&R?

No Travis and Liza from SEARCH?

No Sky and Raven from EDGE?

No CRUZ & friggin' EDEN from SB?

And what in the hell are David and Donna from 90210 doing in the ranking? :angry:

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Ha! I thought of you when he showed up.
It only took him 7 months to run out of money. He and Jacinda really need a class on budgeting blackmail gains.
Yeah, I get your point. It's a shame both these stories are happening at the same time. It makes Lulu look like a weird helicopter mom that won't let her kids do anything even if she has valid reasons. The show has written Lulu poorly and tried to make her the heavy in almost every situation since her return so it's not surprising.

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True, I remember in the beginning that Bea had a much harder edge (and was shown sucking back beers with Floyd). You could understand a little bit why Nola was embarrased by her origins. Later, it was more like she was unreasonable in her disdain for her family. It is a shame they lost their edge.

By DeeVee · 1 minute ago1 min
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It's kind of throughout the entirety when he talks about manliness (and comparing himself to that of Bill Cosby), etc., and how he tried portraying Ted's love for his wife, and how manliness is what needed to be shown. It was multiple comments kind of equalling why he left the role. The 'host' of that 'interview' kept jumping from one point to another point. It was all over the place.

By Liberty City · 2 minutes ago2 min
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He never discusses exiting BTG. He talks about how BTG opened doors for his career but nothing about his exit at all. And the interviewer doesn't ask at all.

The issue is his description of his self-described "manliness", and how he thought women viewers respond to that ... but all of that is alongside the homophobia he expresses.

Some text-based soap websites have typed up and posted their summaries of this interview, in which they state that he says he'd never portray a gay character because his portrayal wouldn't be believable to the viewers, and that it would be better if gay actors got such roles. People hurriedly reading those unclear summaries might buy that as a support of gay actors and representation. But it's not that at all!
If you watch the video, there's more * emotion * in how he says that, making it obvious that he's homophobic.

By janea4old · 3 minutes ago3 min
BTG: History, Behind the Scenes Articles & Photos

Is there a time stamp for when he talks about exiting BTG? I skimmed but couldn't find it.

By BoldRestless · 14 minutes ago14 min
BTG: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Marland would totally fit into that because his main strengths was complicate and complex plotlines with characters sometimes taking a backseat (His Guiding Light was worlds different in subtle ways to his predecessors the Dobon's (husband and wife team).
Bill Bell on Y & R also was very much into plot with character sometimes taking a backseat... and also he had a trusted co-head writer by the name of Kay Alden that did flesh out the characters (i.e Victor Newman, Jack Abbott, etc).
Brad Bell has no business being a writer... but he's actually in the plot realm and not the character realm.

Perfect example was the Doug/Vanessa/Joey story that had both of them slowly becoming ensnared in Joey's web with Joey using their addictions (gambling for Doug and Sex for Vanessa) to his advantage. Doug's 'death' with his son coming to investigate were the last episodes of Guza's stint and all of a sudden the son was sent back to school and Vanessa is now becoming pathetic without the cunning glint in her eyes that we saw in the first 150 episodes or so).
The Hayley bombshell was a great way swan song for Guza's stint. but the aftereffects have been a bit lackluster with Hayley since episode 151 with her making such careless mistakes (no way would she be eyeing Jacob's brother in plain sight, nor talking to Randy in public, nor being overly insistent on Bill drinking a special tea, etc)... and now this random chick that came out of nowhere.

By Soaplovers · 17 minutes ago17 min
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

I never really thought of the similarity. You're right, they are very similar early on.
Early Bobbie is also similar to what we know of Charlotte Bauer.
Beyond GL and GH being such different soaps, and the huge popularity of Luke, I think the biggest difference between the siblings is how quickly the show pivoted Nola away from a seedier world. Even after Bobbie was "redeemed" (which took much longer than Nola's redemption), her past was never truly gone.
Marland's choice to make the Reardons so nice outside of Nola also meant there was less backstory to mine compared to the Spencers. You had Ruby, who was kind, but also razor-sharp, a reminder of where they'd come from. Nola had Bea, who was the stock sweetie pie mother.
By 1982, Nola was moving away from most of the foundation of the character, and there wasn't very much left by the time Lisa Brown quit the show.
They could have brought some of that hard edge back in her second run, but it just never worked out, due to terrible, terrible writing from start to finish.

By DRW50 · 24 minutes ago24 min
Y&R: Old Articles

You’re welcome!
Hahaha Bell’s words on Kurt Costner has always explained everything I need to know. I’m sure Bell was very familiar with McCloskey’s previous work and in his head it might have worked, but between Bell’s admitted struggles and McCloskey being saddled with a lackluster terrible recast it was all DOA.
To this day I still believe TLW deserved that Emmy wayyyyy more than Stafford.

By soapfan770 · 30 minutes ago30 min
DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

I had to laugh a bit when Amanda was rubbing perfume on her cleavage. I guess she wanted to smell nice in case Chris wanted to motorboat.
Mary Frann was also in the Tang ad with Florence Henderson. Polly Holiday (from Alice) was in the Mon in the Stove Top ad.

By SoapDope78 · 32 minutes ago32 min
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-- Ted gifted Shanice an electronic bird feeder? This guy has no game. None.
-- The hard right turn moving Leslie away from Ted and towards Marcel makes no sense to me. This just feels like another dropped storyline in a sea of dropped storylines. She was OBSESSED with Ted and now doesn't even mention him.
-- BTW, is Allison gone? Or will we return to her around May and hear some people say "Oh, these writers are so clever!"
-- Is Greg Vaughan going to recur the same way Cady McClain recurs? Because if that's the case, there was no sense signing him.
-- Still waiting for someone to explain Eva's complete outfit and jewelry change from one scene to the next.
-- It's sure looking like Bob Guza's departure is a big loss.

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