4 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Over top and embarrassing at a funeral? Probably Iris at Mac's funeral on AW.

 

One story I had always expected to fall apart but never did was Brad in a cage on Y&R. The entire scenario was definitely absurd but it never descended into camp at all, aside from Jack's quip about Lisa being a "a pile of hair". 

 

 

 

 

 LOL.....Yes that line about a pile of hair was hilarious. You know that Terry Lester probably ad libbed that. What scenes I saw of Vanessa Prentiss funeral on Y&R. Tom Ligon as Lucas went a little over the top by throwing open his mothers casket and screaming at Lorie "look what you did to my mother". 

On 4/14/2018 at 10:58 AM, juppiter said:

Karen’s Pollyanna speech on Knots Landing. It’s the television equivalent of sucking on a lemon. I want to crawl into a hole and die when I hear it. 

 

It's so painfully self-aware it just makes me cringe. I was hoping Gary would tell her to STFU. 

Any time we'd get the "JR wins again" smirking/chuckling scenes on Dallas. I just can't ever take them. 

ATWT- Those scenes of Holden braying at Lily and Dusty, presumably making love in Dusty's cottage.  They were supposed to look like Heathcliff on the moor (which was likely supposed to evoke some type of 80s version of Wuthering Heights vs. Stanley Kowalski of Streetcar) but it was over the top and cheesy.

 

First of all, Jon Hensley just didn't have the range to pull those scenes off , second those clips that played out over Holden's constant yelling were not really happening, they were playing out in the recesses of Holden's mind, robbing the scenes of any true power, yet it took awhile for this to become clear since the sequence was so muddled.  In the end it was an unnecessary scene since Holden really could've stayed at home and drove himself crazy imagining Dusty and Lily's lovemaking.  

 

I wanted someone in the area to open their window and yell "Whoever's screaming at this time of night, shut the hell up or I'm calling the cops!"

Edited April 16, 20187 yr by DramatistDreamer

3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

ATWT- Those scenes of Holden braying at Lily and Dusty, presumably making love in Dusty's cottage.  They were supposed to look like Heathcliff on the moor (which was likely supposed to evoke some type of 80s version of Wuthering Heights vs. Stanley Kowalski of Streetcar) but it was over the top and cheesy.

 

First of all, Jon Hensley just didn't have the range to pull those scenes off ,

 

Don't recall those scenes specifically, but Lord, did JH serve up a LOT of cheese early in his career. Who can forget the scene in a thunderstorm where he rips off his shirt and yells as lightening dramatically arcs behind him...?

13 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Any time we'd get the "JR wins again" smirking/chuckling scenes on Dallas. I just can't ever take them. 

 

Yes.....He did it from the very first episode when he tried to set up Pam with Ray. He had that line where he smirked " I underestimated the new Mrs. Ewing.....Well I surely won't do that again". 

Y&R.....Michael and Lauren's Wedding..............

Edited April 17, 20187 yr by BellCuore

58 minutes ago, BellCuore said:

Y&R.....Michael and Lauren's Wedding..............

 

It was pretty decent the first time it aired given the mess of the show going on at the time and was Jim Houghton's last hurrah for the show. But, as the possibly the most repeated episode Y&R episode ever (CBS re-aired it at least five times between 2006-2010!) it didn't age well, complete with the silly "Sheila disguised as Brenda" scene to boot.