Fabulous episode... Great tension. Loved me some Nikki/Paul, Adam/Victor, Victor/Nikki, Murphy/Katherine, Jana/Gloria/Kevin/Daniel/Jeff/Amber... it was all very well handled. On a shallow note, MTS, and The Graz just looked amazing--Daniel's new haircut looks great on him. The kiss between Kay and Murphy was very sweet... I hope their romance continues, and that Murphy is taken to the Chancellor Estate, where he has to deal with the rich life. Great cliffhangers, with Jana falling down, yelling in agony, while the last scene was extremely tense--that music--and Frantz was very impressive, as she begged Kevin to let her out....

OMG OMG OMG. Sorry to go OT in this thread....

But I thought I was the only geek!

In 1982, I think, Carol Burnett was supposed to be on AMC as the mother of the new character, Melanie. (She later went on to marry Chuck). I floved Carol Burnett (just went to see her stage show, recently), so the marriage of two faves was unmissable.

But I had school.

I had one of those clunky old "portable" cassette players. I convinced my stay-at-home mom to turn on the cassette at 1 pm and audio-record.

Imagine my shock when I got home and it was some other voice! (Dancer Gwen Verdon. Carol's husband at the time, Joe Hamilton, had just had a serious heart attack...so she skipped the AMC gig to tend to him. Shortly after, he divorced her and married a Price is Right model).

I first played with the audiotape and soaps in the summer of 1981 or 1982. I -- you guessed it -- made a compendium of ALL the soap themes. The Doctors. Edge of Night. Search for Tomorrow. The Guiding Light had that tinkly theme through leaves. One Life to Live still had that sunrise theme. General Hospital, of course, had the ambulance, and AMC had the bible. I even got the theme of Another Life...that Christian soap.

You would be embarrassed for me to know how often, and how long, I listened to that distorted thing. (My cassette recorder was positioned at the end of the tinny TV speaker...no high quality audio here).

What a blessing to see that all these themes are mostly on Youtube now (since WOST is all but gone, sob). It instantly evokes a pleasant feeling in me. If I'm down or distracted, a little "classic theme hit" on Youtube instantly straightens me out.

I wish I could tie this back to Y&R...but I can't. Apologies...

Don't worry about it. People can just scroll past if they are not interested.

I mean, really, we had to sit through countless "oh yeah? Well, Davetta's a better Lily than Christel!!" "Oh yeah? Well, Tammin's a better Colleen than Adrianne!!" "oh yeah? Well, Phyllis is a better Mrs. Nick Newman than Sharon!!" stinking up the weekly threads. The least people can do is give us a couple of posts' leeway to talk about opening soap credits!

And don't apologise for the casette-taping fan in you. I totally geeked out on my TV Themes casette tapes, wore them down to ribbon strips. This was in the days before I could convince my parents that investing in a VCR was SoTotallyImportant and would AbsolutelyPositivelyNOT interfere with my schoolwork.

We were kids using our imagination and werewithall to capture something constantly changing -- a daily serial, a weekly TV show -- and hold on to it. All we had to hand was a casette recorder or an old VHS tape and we did what we had to, LOL. In the days before video capture software, YouTube and wmv files.

P.S.: I got my mom to tape Days' Justin & Adrienne's wedding in Greece on my casette player. I got 15 minutes of far-away mumbling (presumably the church service!) and then the whirr of my mom's vaccuum cleaner as she started cleaning the dining room.

Edited March 23, 200916 yr by Cat

This is totally off topic...but...

I agree that soap credits USED TO be part of the experience (all credits were part of the experience). As they have gone away, of course, it has strangely diminished the shows. For example, I still love ER...and I really miss those innervating operning credits.

I miss the ER opening credits SO MUCH! I haven't seen the show in the same light since they got rid of the credits!

Completely off-topic, but Mark I agree. By the way, if you saw the March 12th episode with Clooney, they played Doug and Carol's theme, one of my favorites, at the very end of the episode. A perfect end to a perfect episode.

It was such a perfect episode...although the final one hasn't aired yet, I almost wish that had been the last one...

Another person bemoaning the passing of ER's great opening credits? Thank you!

Thank You! Indeed!!!

I always felt Buffy's theme was pretty important. Definitely indicative of what the whole show was about.

Now, I haven't seen today's episode nor do I know when Joshua Morrow gets back from filming but I cannot wait to see Phyllis and Sharon really get at it. Let's see Sharon physically breakdown, please!!!!

I really wish I knew that the writers had something planned for Devon finding out about Neil and Tyra. From last week's showdown at the coffee house, it looks like they're completely done with him. What a shame.

And I hate to see it but Christel's really stepped up her game. Not to where she should be as lead but so much better than she was over the last few... forever. I hope we see more of this from her. This statement is late but I really enjoyed her toe-to-toe with Chloe at the hospital a few weeks ago. Way to go, Christel.

I really wish I knew that the writers had something planned for Devon finding out about Neil and Tyra. From last week's showdown at the coffee house, it looks like they're completely done with him. What a shame.

It really isn't surprising at all. They always do this with the Winters. I feel almost as if their storyline is a part of a completely different show. The only good thing about it was Devon's reaction (which lasted a few minutes) and mostly feeling sorry for Karen. Everything else, also including Karen, is just boring.

The ER credits! :wub:

I used to tape the soap themes too... I have tons of themes from telenovelas, greek soap operas and Y&R and B&B!

It really isn't surprising at all. They always do this with the Winters. I feel almost as if their storyline is a part of a completely different show. The only good thing about it was Devon's reaction (which lasted a few minutes) and mostly feeling sorry for Karen. Everything else, also including Karen, is just boring.

I swear, someone has to go completely bonkers for that to be even remotely interesting. Like OLTL bonkers LOL.

OMG.

I also love how Jess Walton still flips back her head even though she doesn't have the luscious mane she had. It's so, "I'm the HBIC and I'll flip my phantom mane out of my face any time I damn-well please!"

Edited March 23, 200916 yr by rhythmchyc

I used to tape the soap themes too... I have tons of themes from telenovelas, greek soap operas and Y&R and B&B!

I just have so many that it's too funny... we all have a geek buried inside of us, don't we? I also have various scenes from telenovelas when either the villain dies at the end or some action going on; and now I can't imagine why I watched that.

I swear, someone has to go completely bonkers for that to be even remotely interesting. Like OLTL bonkers LOL.

The writers need to do something about it, pronto. The problem is that they've fixed almost everything else, but this keeps being put aside.

Don't worry about it. People can just scroll past if they are not interested.

I mean, really, we had to sit through countless "oh yeah? Well, Davetta's a better Lily than Christel!!" "Oh yeah? Well, Tammin's a better Colleen than Adrianne!!" "oh yeah? Well, Phyllis is a better Mrs. Nick Newman than Sharon!!" stinking up the weekly threads. The least people can do is give us a couple of posts' leeway to talk about opening soap credits!

And don't apologise for the casette-taping fan in you. I totally geeked out on my TV Themes casette tapes, wore them down to ribbon strips. This was in the days before I could convince my parents that investing in a VCR was SoTotallyImportant and would AbsolutelyPositivelyNOT interfere with my schoolwork.

We were kids using our imagination and werewithall to capture something constantly changing -- a daily serial, a weekly TV show -- and hold on to it. All we had to hand was a casette recorder or an old VHS tape and we did what we had to, LOL. In the days before video capture software, YouTube and wmv files.

P.S.: I got my mom to tape Days' Justin & Adrienne's wedding in Greece on my casette player. I got 15 minutes of far-away mumbling (presumably the church service!) and then the whirr of my mom's vaccuum cleaner as she started cleaning the dining room.

Perfect story! Esp. the vacuum cleaner. That could have happened in my house.

Y&R is the reason I got my first VCR. In Toronto, it used to air at 4:30 pm on CHCH TV 11. Then Channel 11 lost the license to Global TV Network (where it resides to this day). Channel 11 decided to "kill" the show, by now airing same-day shows (not day-ahead) at 12:30 pm (simulcast with the US broadcast). As a graduating senior/college-bound boy, that was UNACCEPTABLE. So I spent $384 hard earned cash (that was a LOT...a LOT) to buy a Sears VCR with a CORDED remoted control (Beta...I always guess wrong in the format wars). And thus, my "time shifting" life began.

My folks thought I was nuts to be so crazy about a soap opera. Well...I still am 26 years later.

OldOld Ambulance zooming past the gates of GH. Dynasty.Early 90210. Dallas

Edited March 23, 200916 yr by S&BFanForLife

Adam: Uh... it's a... landscape? No, no, there's a figure there. Uh, is it... Zapato?

Victor: That's a sketch of Sabrina.

Adam: I can't believe I just said that.

:lol:

It probably shouldn't have been funny, but it was.

Adam: Uh... it's a... landscape? No, no, there's a figure there. Uh, is it... Zapato?

Victor: That's a sketch of Sabrina.

Adam: I can't believe I just said that.

:lol:

It probably shouldn't have been funny, but it was.

I laughed at that too.

I used to tape my favorite opening credits from the TV using this dinky casette player when I was little.

Sometimes we're just too much alike.

But on to the show: Monday was great and I seriously missed it after the short week.... Can't say that of any other daytime or primetime programme at the moment.

Murphy & Kay are just adorable, the Kevin story is simply brilliant, Nikki & Vic lashing out at each was divine and for once Stripperella did fight back with valid points.

And as I thought they might be really done with Jeff & Glo this time around the writers gave them some new dimension. We'll see how this plays out. Same goes for Jana where MarkH's huntch could turn out to be correct in the end - who knows? Isn't it great that the show makes us involved as viewers, curious as to what is to come? And you can actually look forward to such developments because they aren't made for shock and awe. What a novel concept.

Randomn fact of the day: Daniel & Michael had SERIOUS chemistry when they were looking for Kevin. It was most definitely not intended but I found it just too funny.

Just because I get bored (see my avatar), I don't disagree.

But why is this so important? If it saved $$, I'd be happy with a title card and a few notes of Nadia... (or better yet, IMO, the porny sax). Most days, the opening credits is something I FF through. Am I alone?

I'd prefer they save the money from updating the credits and use it to pay Tracey Bregman to appear in at least one episode of this Kevin story. She has now appeared in just two episodes in five weeks. I was quite excited as a Lauren fan that they did mention her car today.

I guess they only have money to pay one recurring character in this Kevin story and of course the writers wisely chose Jeffrey because as we know he has always been close to Kevin while Lauren is just the sister in law.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind them updating the credits, but if they can't afford to pay good recurring actors to be in scenes they belong in with their family, then I would rather have them spend money on the actors.

Maybe Jana is pregnant and the tumor comes back so she refuses treatment for the sake of the child. Very angsty and if I am really lucky they may just allow Lauren to visit Jana in the hospital.

Edited March 23, 200916 yr by lmfan

Ok the whole Kevin storyline sucks! I am so disappointed in this storyline. I hope it ends soon.