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This evening's episode. Sheffer's second month and the show is already much more enjoyable than it was under Laiman. There's a lovely storyilne for Nancy but I don't remember if there's follow-through or not. I'll enjoy discovering it for a second time though. 

Each day this week, one of our leading ladies has received an invitation to David Stenbeck's funeral (tomorrow night's viewing) and THAT I'll never forget. 

Martha's Lily could drive me crazy sometimes but I think Sheffer was one of the few scribes who knew how to write her as an actual human being.

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Its too bad too, as Schultz actually woke up  and is quite good here. I just never understood why the David actor was considered a good actor.

Steve and Carol...when Betsy came along no one mentioned them again.

How was Karen connected to Eric? I thought she came on when David came back. Dano totally miscast as Cyntihia..a pharmacist, when I could see her as a fashion designer at Fashions,  trading barbs with Lisa and Babs.

The therapist is totally unprofessional...this was the begging of the culling of the spring summer newbies that came post Dobsons first run. Muscle Boy Rick, the asian doctor and his wife (may have already be gone) Hayley and her aunt (Dobsons creation) the sexy blonde nurse and this blond doctor guy, who is cute but what the hell was his storyline?) While the Dobsons started this, and were never good for ATWT, the show was a mess at this point, and when they came back they did make it better.  Still would like to know why they quit, or were fired and why they came back.

 

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You're welcome! I didn't tag anyone because I'm always afraid I'll miss someone.

I thought it had been up on YouTube before.

I love the episode. I remember seeing it when it originally aired.

It did very well ratings wise too.

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From Soapcentral (I did not realize Karen was meant to be a teenager when she arrived on the show...that makes her relationship with John even odder):

On her first day in Oakdale, Karen was looking for work and not having much success. She stopped in front of a store that seemed to be already closed, Fashions, Ltd., The door was open, but nobody seemed to answer when she called out. Karen then found a young man, passed out. Karen immediately called for help and him got to Memorial's ER in the nick of time where the angel dust was gotten out of his system. The man, Eric Hollister, though did end up in a coma for several weeks. During this time Karen celebrated her 18th birthday, but instead of a huge celebration, Karen opted to be a nurse to Eric during the time he was unconscious. When Eric finally, awoke, everyone erroneously assumed that he was a drug addict because of his overdose. The only person who stood by Eric through all of this was Karen. Eric found comfort in Karen's willing arms and they temporarily became lovers and moved in together. However, when Karen started to realize that Eric's heart belonged to Hayley, she released him from any obligations and told him their love affair was over.
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This was Hogan's best period, the early year or two and his most solid group of writers.  I recall a NYer article where he revealed that the network and/or P&G insisted that Corley and Demorest be replaced to add more women to the outline writing team.  Hogan also preferred 7 or 8 script writers which I always thought was a mistake. Too many cooks in the kitchen.  Courtney was definitely the script editor. I assume Beldner was outline writer along with Demorest and Corley.

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Agreed..I remember really liking his first year or two and agreeing that he brought new life to the show, but then it went all straight to the dumper and I lost interest...( I have no idea why, when GL was even worse, I stuck through it...) This had a higher energy but grounded.

Nice seeing the Hughes kitchen again (why they got rid of it I will never know, the Bauer kitchen stayed with only a few Bauers on hand...) and nice story for Nancy and I really liked this Chris Hughes..he was cute, his chemistry with Wagner was great..(of course he would be a Grandma's boy) I don't know why they got rid of him..I thought he was the best Chris (yea, I know not the greatest actor but he had charm and seemed like a Hughes...)

 

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