Favorite Lines of Dialogue Ever!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Yeah, and they seemed to be hinting at something between Ed and Eve even before Mo's death. I never understood the Ed/Eve pairing, but that's another thread.

BTW, Mo's entire funeral episode had some great pieces of dialogue. My has Patrick Mulcahey's work fallen (but I guess B&B can have that impact on the best of them, eh?). That episode won GL the writing Emmy in 1993, and they were robbed out of an Emmy for Drama Series that year (and in 1992).

She never really had that much to do anyway. LOL! I think the affair with Ed and the cancer that led to it was the juiciest material she's ever gotten in all her time with GL.

[Roman]

Dallas, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) - "Once you give up integrity, the rest is a piece of cake."

[Dan]

I always BAWL my f-ing eyes out whenever I watch the phone conversation between Ed and Bridget. Melissa Hayden was brilliant in that scene as well as the one at Maureen's grave later on when she confesses to the baby. "I wish I could have given him to you!"

Speaking of dialogue, some of my absolute favorite:

EXT: Outside the Bauer house.

Ross: It's starting to blow a bit.

Ed: Yeah, we're gonna get some snow.

Ross: Good night for a fire.

Ed: I don't like that she's outside.

Ross: Well, everything's outside. The house is outside. So are you even when you're in it. You just don't realize it.

Ed: That's the thing you know. The sense that there's no real you or, her in particular, it's no the going back into the ground. I mean, no one ever leaves it.

Ross: In airplanes you leave it.

Ross and Ed start laughing.

Ed: Am I getting just a bit morbid?

Ross: I just think we all have to remember, well like the priest was saying that we're just dust with a little bit of breath. Dust souflette, he said.

Ed: Oh Ross. What do I do now?

Ross: You're a survivor Edward. I read it in the newspaper. Survived by her husband, Dr. Edward Bauer. So you keep the breath going. I honestly think that's your job now. To show your daughter how survivors survive.

[brimike]

Damn.

Just... damn.

I choke up just seeing the words.

And Alvin, that Curlee quote is bloody brilliant. I'd never heard it before. I love it - and I think she was absolutely right.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

^God, I rewatch that episode over and over again. It's why I LOVE GL, and even though the show is an embarrassment today, the memories are enough to fuel my love and devotion for the show and that era specifically.

Mulcahey was brilliant with the dialogue. To me, GL above all other soaps is about community and hope, and that episode just signifies it all. No one did community and hope better than Curlee, and no GL HW since has done justice to those two concepts.

And yes, Melissa Hayden was fantastic as Bridget, and I'm glad she won an Emmy for her time on GL. I'm ALWAYS damn near tears when I rewatch those scenes between Nadine and Bridget and when Bridget visits Mo's grave.

[Dan]

You know. I don't think I'm necessarily in the minority on this, but I'm GLAD Maureen died when and how she did. Sure, she was a matriarch in the making and GL lost something from her death, but let's face it. Would the character have been valued by the likes of Esensten and Brown? Ellen Weston? David Kreizman? Or the rest of the garden-variety hacks since Curlee left? Nope. But Maureen went out with a brilliant writer who knew the character and could write tearjerkers like noone else. And even now, we still watch and re-watch. And everytime our gut gets ripped out. THAT is what soap is about.

[brimike]

You know, Dan - when you word it like that, how can I not agree with you? Maureen would have become the Kim Hughes (circa 2000-2009) of GL, and trotted out every so often just to play "mom" or give someone a "talking-down-to"... whether it was in character or not.

Maureen will always be preserved and remembered in a magnificent story of love, loss, and (like you both said so eloquently) left the viewer filled with a sense of hope and community. You really can't ask for a better legacy than that.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

One of my favourite scenes and dialogue exchange in Mo's funeral episode, other than the one you've listed, is the the end of the episode, that little monologue Ed says to Michelle. I also LOVED the Holly and Michelle scenes before it.

Rachel Miner is still my favourite Michelle.

I also love the use of the "Hold On To Love" background theme about 55 seconds in, and I know you do to, Dan. LOL!

Michelle: Why can't I remember?

Ed: Remember what?

Michelle: How could I be dreaming about mommy and just forget it two seconds later?

Ed: Oh honey, that's what dreams are. They're like little fireflies, glimmers, but you can't hold on. Oh sweetie.

Michelle: Does that mean I'm gonna forget mommy too?

Ed: No, you're not gonna forget her. I can't promise you too many things these days, but I can promise you that. Mommy's gonna stay with you forever, she'll be alive right here (Ed touches Michelle's heart), in your heart. They'll be times when you're not even aware of it, but she'll be reminding you to do things that would make her proud and you'll do them, do them without even thinking. 'Cause she's become apart of you. There's some people that you just don't have to work at remembering, they're just there - guardian angles, perched on your little shoulder.

[Dan]

You know me well lol.

But my favorite part of that scene is the last line. As Michelle sleeps soundly, Ed whispers "If there is a way to make this up to you I will find it. If it takes the rest of my life..."

[Y&RWorldTurner]

BEAUTIFULLY said Dan, and I agree with everything.

Just because we spent so much time on this GL era in this thread. I'll post the end credits from the episode where Mo died. I loved the montage, and of course the writing credits (LOL!).

[Khan]

In retrospect? Very odd choice of words.

[brimike]

:lol:

That's not the kind of references to history I hoped the GL Powers-That-Be would take advantage of.

[Khan]

Well, I'm sure whoever wrote that line did so not thinking that JvD would ever leave the show, or that Ross would die in a plane crash. Still, it's a little eerie.

[juppiter]

I loved that GL theme song in the 90s. One of the best soap themes ever IMO. I loved GL in the 90s period (even the clone story, honestly.)

[juniorz1]

Santa Barbara

Gina: Eden, what's going on?

Eden: Mason's getting married

Gina: And I'm Queen Victoria

Eden: But you're not Victoria Lane, and that's who Mason's marrying