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I never knew why they broke up Rick and Mindy so fast, again, of course, making Mindy the vain self involved girl(she had changed a bit from her old ways) so Rick jumps over to good ole down home Roxie... I still think Mindy this version) was Rick's best pairing, and besides being more conventionally cute.. Kurt was not that much different from Rick, and they could have had the same storyline(though I think Mindy, growing bored with having a med school husband, would become like a young ATWT Lisa and start spreading it around town...)  I know that Mark Lewis wanted time off and they just fired him, but really, Kurt story had ended.

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I watched Kurt and Mindy's wedding reception on YouTube a few years ago, for the first time since it first aired when I was a teen. When it first aired, all the shootings were shocking, because it wasn't the Guiding Light I knew. Watching it again a few years ago, it was worst than I remembered. Billy saying "must kill Kyle," as H.B. looked at him, dropping the gun, and no one paying attention to it, after shooting David, Suzanne (or Suzette) just happens to see the gun and shooting David to stop him from killing Kyle, and that couple giving Mindy the evil eye, the whole thing is so laughable and over the top

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I agree, OGMindy was his best pairing. Most of his other romances were with boring "saint" like characters. I thought he and CW had chem, but they moved CW up quickly.

LOL...yeah, Rick, Kurt, Johnny...all interchangable.

Infinity has not aged well, to say the least. Jordan Clarke did the lord's work delivering some of that dialogue with a straight face. 

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You forgot Larkin Malloy shouting "Brother, love ME..BROTHER" flaring nostrils, while extras run and the rest of the cast look on in shock...(embarrassment???) I was in college and the lounge erupted in laughter...and I would think we were the audience that it was aimed at.

It is sad that they didn't purse a Mindy/Rick pairing with her screwing it up and then they have an off/on like an ATWT Bob/Lisa. And yes...all of Rick's pairing were boring...Abby was better just because of the actress's charm and they had chemistry...but it would have been more fun a kind of slutty deaf Amish woman taking Rick for a ride!

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What!! I don't remember that part and I've seen the hilarious assassination clip many times. ("Must keel Kah-yul. Ah cain't kill muh brothah!" And Larry Gates howling away!)

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At the end of the trial?  About the 34 minute mark. 

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They might have circled back to Rick/Mindy if either KT or KS been on the show in the 00's. He  and KS also had chemistry (if not as much inherent charm) but they derailed that in Rick's neverending slavish devotion for Phillip.

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The kicker of all this insanity (Ross Marler: Stunt Queen!) is somehow the beauty shot over the end credits and theme where Kyle and Billy are still hugging, while even the DA and Ross are just shrugging like 'oh well! gg I guess' and shaking hands with the judge and calling the whole thing off right there. Incredible.

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I don't disagree---but it's not like they were the only producer/hw that made that mistake.

LOL...but I love golden-haired Ross taking his victory lap!! The court artist's sketch was a bit much. 

I imagine all the actors are celebrating the silly story is finally over. LOL. And at the very end I love that you can see Billy's got both Vanessa and Mindy in one of his bear hugs. 

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Her puppet??

It is hysterical and reminds me of the pan from Will and Uncle Phil to the father-son statue at the end of the Ben Vereen episode of Fresh Prince, lol.

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1985 is such a strange year for the show. An influx of uninspired characters (Calla, Jessie, Maeve, Suzette,Jackson), yet another random Spaulding (Simon), ridiculous stories (Infinity, Kyle’s parentage). The departures of Nola/Quint and Annabelle/ Tony leave a noticeable hole in the canvas.  

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