1 hour ago, P.J. said:

B) it's not just me? It's not that people didn't gather and celebrate, it's that you never have that big moment of everyone gathered at a table . You never knew who'd host it that year.

Granted, I've only seen 3 Thanksgivings so far, but I felt the same... the only one coming to mind was 1997 when Meta led the Bauer's to jail to have Thanksgiving dinner with Abby. I can't really remember anything special from 1995 or 1996, and my notes don't have much.

4 hours ago, P.J. said:

A) who is Chuckie? The only Chuckie I knew was Lisa's son on ATWT

Another "Who's Chuckie?" that evokes sadness. LOL.

1 hour ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

Another "Who's Chuckie?" that evokes sadness. LOL.

I read somewhere that Chuckie's death upset so many viewers that some named their babies after him. So people cared. 😁

3 hours ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

Another "Who's Chuckie?" that evokes sadness. LOL.

You get the feeling Irna really didn't like Chucks. Lol

1 hour ago, P.J. said:

You get the feeling Irna really didn't like Chucks. Lol

Ha! Yeah, except that it was another writer that killed of Chuckie Shea. I always thought it was dangerous to be named Jennifer on ATWT. Jennifer Ryan gets killed off, Emily and Paul's baby Jennifer (named after Jennifer Ryan) gets killed off and Jennifer Munson, also named after Jennifer Ryan, gets killed off.

10 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

Granted, I've only seen 3 Thanksgivings so far, but I felt the same... the only one coming to mind was 1997 when Meta led the Bauer's to jail to have Thanksgiving dinner with Abby. I can't really remember anything special from 1995 or 1996, and my notes don't have much.

Did Meta mention at the time that she too was in jail. They had forgotten so much history at that time but apprently it was a big deal that they even had a contest for the audience to vote if Meta was guilty or not. Did Meta have step kids they could have brought back...wasnt there a pain in the asss Robin who married Mike Bauer?

5 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

Did Meta mention at the time that she too was in jail. They had forgotten so much history at that time but apprently it was a big deal that they even had a contest for the audience to vote if Meta was guilty or not. Did Meta have step kids they could have brought back...wasnt there a pain in the asss Robin who married Mike Bauer?

Robin threw herself in front of a car around 1966 or 1967. They'd wiped out everyone around Meta, but they had never mentioned the husband she left Springfield with in the early '70s - they could have easily adopted a child.

When Meta married Joe Roberts he had 2 children. Kathy who was Robin's mother and Joey who was written out in the mid 50's.

So Meta could have had 'grand children' through Joey.

Or they could have done rewrite whereby Bruce Banning found out he had a child and there were grandchildren through that.