Y&R: Old Articles

[YRfan23]

Lol, most days at work all I think about are soaps!  I always do an inventory list in my head of what episodes of Classic Y&R we have so far, how much of the episode we have, and what is still missing from certain years…lol I just get bored easily 

[BoldRestless]

Hah, once I was driving around my neighborhood, and only a couple of blocks from my house I saw a man jogging in a Y&R shirt! I swear I almost pulled over. 

 

Pretty sure Victor realized it after she'd been shot. There are scenes of him in the hospital reminiscing about Nikki with some early 80s scenes.

[yrfan1983]

Ha! Could that have been me...?? 

That's so funny that Victor remembers his love for Nikki, while she is in the hospital bed, b/c that's exactly what happened in winter '92 as she was recovering from the back surgery and her addiction... he kept having visions of her, which were kinda awkward as they seemed to lean a bit "Victoria's Secret"/almost pornographic...

[Bundy1965]

Now I am rewatching the german episodes from 1986. Victor wants a divorce from Nikki for months now. But Casey told him Nikki is ill in will be dying, so Victor is in love with Nikki again. The same pattern.

I'm really often thinking about the stories of Y&R.

At the moment I hate Kay. Oh she was so in love with Phillip, but as I know was she drinking for years and sleeping with other men. Yes, that was a very big love.

Jill is so a bad person, but Dina is so a good person. Dina had an affair  which resulted in Ashley. She left a husband with 3 children without speaking first to John. Then she tried to kill the father of Ashley. But Kay thinks Dina is good for John and Jill is the devil.

Edited August 19, 2022 by Bundy1965

[will81]

Even up to around Jan or Feb 98, Nikki and Victor were not on good terms. After Nikki learned Diane wanted a baby and Victor wasn't really interested. Nikki turned up at a party Diane and Victor had thrown (it was some big deal but I can't remember what it was) and announced she and Joshua were planning to start a family, sticking it to Diane and ruining her party. Victor was furious with her. The shooting happened only a few weeks later and Victor was suddenly in love with her again. 

[YRfan23]

Yeah, Katherine/Dina’s friendship was a little bizarre at times. All 3 women aren’t too different from one another, but I guess if Dina had tried to steal Phillip from Katherine, she would have made it her mission to make Dina’s life as miserable as she did Jill’s. That always seems to be a double standard with Katherine where unless she’s wronged by somebody like she felt she was with Jill all those years, she can commiserate with woman who have actually done far worse and left their family behinds like Dina, because Katherine was also that bored and unhappy wealthy society wife for all those years too.

 

 

[yrfan1983]

i feel like by Dec '91, Katherine saw how Dina could be shady... lying about her fake illness being the reason she stayed away for so many years. But by Jan '96, Katherine was happy to summon Dina back to Genoa City...

Edited August 20, 2022 by yrfan1983

[YRfan23]

Yes, Katherine didn’t seem that impressed with Dina for lying about her illness, haha. I could be wrong but they don’t seem to really mention that in 1996, so I guess naturally Katherine wouldn’t bring that up either? 

[yrfan1983]

Ok, I dug through the SOC yearly recaps to figure out what happened to Victor and Nikki’s ’98 remarriage…

•    Summer ’98 – Diane reveals she is still legally married to Victor. Somehow this is resolved and V&N resume their marriage
•    Spring ’99 – they are separated when Victor is kidnapped. Victor bonds with Ramona and Nikki reconnects with Brad
•    Summer and fall ’99 – V&N’s relationship deteriorates as Victor won’t have his vasectomy reversed to have another child with Nikki, and later she is betrayed to find out about his sperm sample. Brad tries to lure Nikki away and Ramona continues to lurk around.
•    2000 – Nikki separates from Brad, and is still married to Victor but their relationship is shaky. He is betrayed by Nikki bailing out Jabot from bankruptcy. I assume their divorce is processed sometime late 2000?
•    2001 – not much V&N romance, they are occupied with other stories
•    Spring ’02 – V&N reconnect, and Victor goes on his journey of self-discovery, revisiting his prior loves
•    Sept ’02 – V&N remarry again. I won’t dig through the archives to figure out when they next divorce, but I know by 2005, Nikki is dating Bobby. Oh yea and Victor kissing Sharon in ’03 prob didn’t help matters.

[Bundy1965]

And in 1986 Kay is trying to steal Philip - Jill's son.

[Sapounopera]

What was the point of the Audrey North character? They hired Constance Towers for... that? 

Did something happen backstage?

[j swift]

 

Two classic Y&R tiktoks come to mind when reading this

1. Jill and Dina, with Dina really trying to stick it to Jill

And 2 a great scene of Liz Foster finally throwing it back at Kay.  I always remember Liz as being a rather put-upon somewhat weak woman, so it always pleases me when she speaks her mind. 

But, for pete's sake Liz, don't let Kay drive you anywhere!

 

Edited August 21, 2022 by j swift

[Joseph]

Well It was the Robert Kay's Driver who would take her lol

[YRfan23]

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[j swift]

I often wonder if part of the CBS daytime marketing campaign was to create obtuse taglines so that they stuck in the audience's head.

I mean what the heck is a Y&R minute?

30 years later, I'm still trying to figure out how in the heat of the day, there's a different kind of fire?

And what lyrical genius thought it was enticing to remind us that in the heat of the day, it's hot?

Edited August 21, 2022 by j swift