Nick and Phyllis are the most poorly developed, boring, and badly written "couple" on Y&R over the past 3 years. They worked as an affair, but not as a long term couple IMO. Phyllis used to be one of the most complicated and layered character, until they paired her with Nick and she became a little Mary Sue for the better part of 3 years to fit in with Nick. Phyllis doesn't fit in with the Newmans at all, she needs to leave that orbit.

Shick, as much as I'm not a big fan of theirs, has the history. Bill Bell poured his final years on the show into that couple, he clearly wanted them to be his future "mainstay" couple on the show. They might be "boring" but they have a complicated and rich history, something Phyllis and Nick don't have. If you want to blame anyone for ruining Nick and Phyllis, blame Lynn Marie Latham, who didn't care to develop them and used them very poorly for two years.

Nick and Phyllis do nothing for me, and I get the feeling most people want them together not because they like the couple, but because they're so Anti-Shick.

What have Nick and Phyllis done, besides the affair, that excites people? I'd like to know, I've seen no chemistry with those two characters in years and they have nothing for me to root for.

I'm sorry, I'd rather sit through a Shick reunion then watch two mismatched characters like Nick and Phyllis sit there and bitch and wine.

I can totally see your points, but both ways it's boring for me. I can't quite decide which couple is worse.

I wish they'd bring in a new love interest for Phyllis so that Nick and Sharon can be on the backburner where they belong.

trust me...IF and I do mean IF Nick and Sharon re-unite (funny we have not heard anything that says that!!), they will be on backburner for me, I will make phone calls, do some filing, go to the bathroom (something soap characters do not do!!) before I will sit and watch them dry paint....blah, blah, blah!