You can see Gloria Monty injecting some Hitchcockian touches into the sequence.  I find them too distracting.

Edited June 17, 20187 yr by Khan

25 minutes ago, Khan said:

You can see Gloria Monty injecting some Hitchcockian touches into the sequence.  I find them too distracting.

They couldn't do that sort of thing two years prior and I'm not sure they can do it now, 38 years later.

On 6/15/2018 at 4:54 PM, titan1978 said:

That medicine room is an iconic set for folks that watched the earliest days of the show.  My grandmother often talked about stories or scenes that involved the medicine room.  Even my dad, who caught a show here or there as a kid but wasn’t really invested used to tease my sister and I about our GH habits and ask if Jesse was still crying in the pill room in the 1980’s when we watched it as kids.

 

I loved that little room and used to enjoy visiting it on a regular basis. TGL had the Bauer kitchen, DAYS had the Horton living room, and GH had that medicine room. Some sets just made the soaps feel like home.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

You can see Gloria Monty injecting some Hitchcockian touches into the sequence.  I find them too distracting.

I think it ratchets up the tension all the way up the stairs.  She often said her mix was a little bit of Hitchcock, a little bit of Capra, and a dash of humor.  The Hitchcock references are really high in this scene for sure.

It was like the entire cast was standing in a line to distract Alan. Probably one or two would have been enough...

It'd been funny, though, if that procession, for lack of a better word, had included characters that viewers hadn't seen in ages.  ("Hey, it's us, Howie and Jane Dawson, just stoppin' by to congratulate you on the baby, and to keep this insane suspense going!")

Edited June 18, 20187 yr by Khan

8 minutes ago, Khan said:

It'd been funny, though, if that procession, for lack of a better word, had included characters that viewers hadn't seen in ages.  ("Hey, it's us, Howie and Jane Dawson, just stoppin' by to congratulate you on the baby, and to keep this insane suspense going!")

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

It'd been funny, though, if that procession, for lack of a better word, had included characters that viewers hadn't seen in ages.  ("Hey, it's us, Howie and Jane Dawson, just stoppin' by to congratulate you on the baby, and to keep this insane suspense going!")

Speaking of that, who all can we name?

1. Random socialite.

2. Amy

3. Stella

4. Tommy Hardy

5. Jeremy

6. ? (Diana?)

7. Howard Lansing

8. Luke

9. Ruby (note Mitch and Susan throwing discretion to the wind)

10. Bobbie

11. Jessie and Dan

12. Audrey and Steve

13. Claudia and Bryan

14. Laura and Scotty

15. Tracy and her champagne

2 minutes ago, Franko said:

Speaking of that, who all can we name?

1. Random socialite.

2. Amy

3. Stella

4. Tommy Hardy

5. Jeremy

6. ? (Diana?)

7. Howard Lansing

8. Luke

9. Ruby (note Mitch and Susan throwing discretion to the wind)

10. Bobbie

11. Jessie and Dan

12. Audrey and Steve

13. Claudia and Bryan

14. Laura and Scotty

15. Tracy and her champagne

 

I guess the gardener was too busy to offer his congrats as well.  ("These leaves ain't gonna rake themselves!")

Edited June 18, 20187 yr by Khan

Alan makes it to the top of the stairs and there's a whole bunch of happy maids.

4 minutes ago, Franko said:

Alan makes it to the top of the stairs and there's a whole bunch of happy maids.

 

Not to mention, the mayor, the governor, both U.S. senators, the president AND the First Lady, and the starting lineup from the New York Giants.

 

(They were all on their way back from the can.)

4 hours ago, Khan said:

You can see Gloria Monty injecting some Hitchcockian touches into the sequence.  

 

All they needed was a flock of birds and it would have been perfect!! 😂😂😂😂😂

3 hours ago, titan1978 said:

I think it ratchets up the tension all the way up the stairs.  She often said her mix was a little bit of Hitchcock, a little bit of Capra, and a dash of humor.  The Hitchcock references are really high in this scene for sure.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, nobody wants a nursery with a huge a skylight, that room is where they should have put Jimmy Lee so he could work on his tan.

25 minutes ago, j swift said:

Also, as I mentioned earlier, nobody wants a nursery with a huge a skylight, that room is where they should have put Jimmy Lee so he could work on his tan.

 

This was Pat Falken Smith's writing (with much' 'input' from Gloria I'm sure).

Was this one of the first stories where a villianous character got away with a crime ?

Alan was planning murder, but he certainly was not charged. Was he made to suffer in any way?

 

John Kelly Genovese critiqued this storyline in Afternoon TV and wasn't happy in that the viewer wasn't sure who they should be rooting for...

Maybe that was deliberate, in that each character had their point of view or was it just muddled?

 

Anyway, it seemed the harbinger of things to come in the 80's and beyond, where characters routinely were not punished for their crimes.