29 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I wish it was JUST a snore. For some reason, several times when an episode of GL I hadn't seen popped up in my YouTube TL, it would invariably have a scene of RR in bed with Tangie, Claire, whoever. And each time, I'm thinking, "Does algorithm REALLY think I want to see this?"

I got a laugh out of this.

Now that you mention it, Claire was one of the women I thought Ron had a little more pep with, although I don't know if I believe Alan would have been interested in her. Maybe if Ed had been around and Alan had wanted to needle him.

9 hours ago, Spoon said:

Why didn't the show utilize PFS when they briefly had her? Was it a clash with Kobe or did Kobe come in with Long in a 2-for-1 deal from Texas? I always admired FPS skill at building family units over at GH and Days and integrating them into the canvas.

8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

She left before Kobe came along. I think L Virginia Browne was the interim headwriter. I wonder if FPS just clashed as she did at other shows, or was blamed for ratings slipping.

Douglas Marland was last credited October 1982, then came Pat Falken Smith and later L. Virginia Browne. February 1983 was the EP change from Allen Potter to Gail Kobe, and the HW change from L. Virginia Browne to Richard Culliton and Pamela Long.

Lol, I got Claire and Alan in bed on my YT feed the other day. Sign that it was time to clear watch history.

Now I'm afraid to look at my utube feed. Eek. It's bad enough I'll see a bunch of **** crap suggested because I watch Vanessa's glory days.

Double post

Edited Thursday at 02:26 PM1 day by P.J.

8 minutes ago, P.J. said:

Now I'm afraid to look at my utube feed. Eek. It's bad enough I'll see a bunch of **** crap suggested because I watch Vanessa's glory days.

Just embrace it like a warm hug. ❤️

Finally able to jump back into my GL watch after the long Easter weekend. It feels good!

1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

Just embrace it like a warm hug. ❤️

Finally able to jump back into my GL watch after the long Easter weekend. It feels good!

Well, there's other warm stuff I choose not to embrace. LOL. which reminds me Lent's over, I can embrace my inner snark and piss and moan about **** with impunity!! cackle

1 hour ago, P.J. said:

Well, there's other warm stuff I choose not to embrace. LOL. which reminds me Lent's over, I can embrace my inner snark and piss and moan about **** with impunity!! cackle

LOL - I almost forgot about your **** Lent thing... I commend you for a job well done. And I'll prepare myself for the snark Although I feel like I haven't seen much of Vanessa or Matt in the last month or so of my current watch (boo!).

15 hours ago, kalbir said:

Douglas Marland was last credited October 1982, then came Pat Falken Smith and later L. Virginia Browne. February 1983 was the EP change from Allen Potter to Gail Kobe, and the HW change from L. Virginia Browne to Richard Culliton and Pamela Long.

I was watching a couple of the late 1982 episodes on the German channel. What I really like that PFS did was have Alan go back to being Alan. They were setting up bringing back Phillip and Rick (who was still Freddie). Phillip got into trouble at his private school. Justin thought he had handled it, then Alan sneaks behind Justin's back and goes to talk to the headmaster and bribes him so he can lessen Phillip's punishment. Then he's telling Hope he wants to go back to the mansion for the holidays and pretending it's ONLY for holidays, because God forbid they squeeze Phillip into their cute little cottage.

And Hope is like, "Oh, but I love our little house and I'm used to it."

Honey, you ain't never going back to that house.

At the same time he's being super attentive and promising to buy her beautiful jewels for Christmas, etc.

PFS got rid of all that redemption, "I'm going to wear sackcloth and ashes forever to atone for my sins" crap. He was back to lying to Hope, placating her with promises of beautiful gifts, lying to Justin, using his money to manipulate and get what he wants.

I REALLY wish PFS had stayed, because instead having Alan decide out of the blue to treat Hope like she was some stranger who broke into his house, she was setting up all these little fissures and cracks that would eventually make marriage collapse. That would have been a good story.

I don't know what she pitched to the network/sponsor but seems to me this would have been an ideal time to bring back Rita. I liked that Long gave a decent storyline to Trish, but it was really difficult to buy that Alan was ready to replace Hope with someone so much like her. Pretty blonds who were rather passive and had daddy issues, both alcoholics--they could have been twins.

16 hours ago, Spoon said:

Lol, I got Claire and Alan in bed on my YT feed the other day. Sign that it was time to clear watch history.

The algorithm hates us! 😂

3 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

LOL - I almost forgot about your **** Lent thing... I commend you for a job well done. And I'll prepare myself for the snark Although I feel like I haven't seen much of Vanessa or Matt in the last month or so of my current watch (boo!).

Vanessa has story coming. The parasite is along for the ride, I imagine

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Paul Raven

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

This is great! Thanks for posting This is exactly where I am in my watch - June 1999, and I think Hayley is doing a great job. LOL at her husband previously playing a cop with the Harley character on GL.

Edited 10 hours ago10 hr by alwaysAMC

17 hours ago, P.J. said:

Vanessa has story coming. The parasite is along for the ride, I imagine

Can't wait! ;)

I’m up to June 07, 1999.

As Abby is recovering post-operation, she and Rick urge Reva/Josh to go on their honeymoon now that she is through her surgery. They agree and leave her bedside, but Reva goes to the doctor to start her hypnotherapy first. Meanwhile, Abby has a nightmare that she’s been discharged and everyone is happy, but she still can’t hear anything. During Reva’s session, the doctor asks her what happened between the time she drove off the cliff and then arrived in Goshen, and she says she sees a wall and a locked door that she can’t go in. The doctor tells her to unlock the door and she finally does, but she freaks out at what she sees (we don’t see it), and says she can’t go in. She begs the doctor not to make her go in, so the doctor ends the session and tells Reva her mind definitely doesn’t want her to remember the repressed memories.

Later, Abby is back home and feeling well from the implant surgery and she surprises Rick by saying the doctor is ready to turn them on so she can start hearing. They get to the hospital and in a very sweet scene, we see Abby being able to hear her voice and Rick’s voice for the very first time! She freaks out and gets giddy with all the little noises she hears and it’s cute. He goes behind her so she can’t read his lips, and tells her in her ear that he loves her, which makes her so happy. Later that night, while they’re celebrating with beer, her implant stops working and she starts to freak out because she can’t hear anything and feels trapped.

The day of Susan’s big 13th birthday party is finally here and Harley and Beth clash as they decorate Millennium, but eventually get over it and apologize to each other. Jim, Cassie and Josh have a business meeting there, which Harley and Beth watch from a distance, and Josh asks Jim and Cassie to work together as business partners, which upsets Beth. Harley then gets a call from the school saying Susan never showed up, and Beth said she thought she had the day off for her birthday and she’s likely upstairs at Drew’s apartment with Max. Susan is indeed with Max and he reveals he lied about having a girlfriend. They bond over losing their mothers, and Susan is upset about not having her adopted mother alive during her birthday, which Harley overhears and then softens up. The actual party is rather boring, but a young Lea Michele (Glee, etc) is there as an extra/friend of Susan’s (6/03). Susan eventually sees Jim and Beth dancing/kissing and she gets angry, but Max tells her that’s what guys and girls do when they like each other. He then asks her to dance, which makes her night, and on her way out she gives him a quick peck on the lips. After the party, Harley starts to have random spasms/contractions periodically through the night. While Philip is out getting pizza, Harley has severe pains again and Susan notices and calls 911. Phillip rushes back home as the paramedics get ready to take her to the hospital. While at the hospital, Susan calls Jim just as he and Beth are about to have sex for the first time, and he rushes to the hospital. Dr. Sedgwick eventually says Harley has preeclampsia and she should be ok, but Susan cries to Phillip and tells him it’s all her fault. She thinks she’s to blame given that she originally didn’t want Harley to have the baby, but Phillip tells her that’s nonsense and he knew she would never hurt Harley or the baby. They hug as Jim/Beth arrive and Susan starts laying into Jim for being with Beth. Jim asks why she’s being this way considering she and Lizzie were trying to set them up before, and Susan says it’s gross watching Beth hang all over him at her party because her (dead) mother never would have done that.

Vicky and David get their one episode a month (eye-roll), with Vicky dressed to the nines, ready to go to a Spaulding charity event with David. David shows up, but he’s not dressed up and she gets angry with him for bailing on her. He then reveals he’s in pain because he was just badly bruised/bloodied while on police duty, so she apologizes and surveys the bruises after he takes his shirt off. She watches over him all night and he tells her about how proud he feels getting someone bad off the streets, which makes her finally accept that him being a cop will be ok. Meanwhile, Annie/Alan come home from the charity event, with Alan being mad that Vicky was a no-show. Annie starts to fight with him again about her living conditions and she breaks a glass in her hand. He wants to take her to the hospital, but she tells him to get the hell away from her and she leaves the mansion with a bloody hand. She gets to the hospital and runs into a crying Lizzie who tells Annie about Harley and her baby scare. Annie tells her she can come visit her anytime she’s overwhelmed, and then Beth shows up and takes Lizzie away.

Selena talks to Buzz about needing to find a new job since the diner is gone and she can’t work at Millennium with Drew anymore. He then surprises her by saying he just bought Company last week from Nola (offscreen) and she can work there. Meanwhile, Drew and Jesse continue to fight about Drew shutting Selena out of her life. She then brings up that Selena probably doesn’t even know who her father is because he was just a random, paid customer of hers. She thinks back to her book of johns and leaves to figure out who it might be. Thinking Selena left town, Drew goes to Selena’s to investigate and is shocked to see her. Drew tells her that she wants to know who her father is, and Selena said she narrowed it down to three guys back in the day, but that’s all she knows. Selena cries and says she’s done running, so Drew will have to just deal with her being around, but she promises to keep the secret for Max’s sake.

Pilar and Bill have a cute date, but Michelle interrupts and talks to Bill privately. They think back to the night of the shootout and Bill says he remembers the exact time when the shooting happened because he was looking at and fixing the clock on the mantle. Michelle says the time when Ben called Danny about the shooting happened 10 minutes before that, so they realize Carmen and Ben staged the whole thing. Michelle goes to the Santos mansion and sneaks in to take the clock because it shows the frozen time of the shooting, but Carmen/Ben/Danny all come back so she hides and listens in. Danny then calls in all these men of different mob families and proclaims that the Santos family is stepping out and will no longer contribute to illegal crimes, which shocks everyone. Carmen pulls him aside and scolds him for not including her in the decision, but she ultimately agrees and confirms it to be true with the other families. Michelle comes out of hiding when Danny is alone and thanks him for making this decision to help the two of them come together, but we then see Carmen tell Ben this is all an act and she would never give away everything she’s worked so hard for. One of the men in the families doesn’t believe it either and voices his concerns amongst the group without Carmen/Danny there.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by alwaysAMC