36 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

 

Olivia is a classic soap heroine in every way, and it’s sickening bc she should be 30 years deep into drama on the show’s current canvas. She should be the matriarch that AMC made Angie at the end and online.

She should absolutely be a matriarch and have lead story for this whole time. 

10 hours ago, trainman said:

Back to the 1981 episode, here's what happened with Vanessa not long afterwards.  I've never seen the full sequence before, so it was nice to stumble upon this...

 

https://youtu.be/e5kjCsHx5fE

This was incredible.  I cannot imagine how exciting this was to watch when it aired originally.

 

I did not always enjoy JLB as Laura on DAYS.  But she is great as Lorie.

I’m annoyed Nathan’s exit story had him become the villain in the story. I can understand what lead to the affair after all the stress Olivia & Nathan went through, the hatred and disgust with the HIV scare was well warranted but kidnapping was out of character. Why didn’t Nathan just leave town for a couple years with maybe a couple pop up visits in between?
 

Funny when the show brought back Lazarre-White in 2000 at least Olivia met Nathan in heaven. 

Edited July 2, 20205 yr by soapfan770

28 minutes ago, Forever8 said:

I happened to come across this 3 minute promo of The Young And The Restless from 1996.

 

Great find, thank you! Love the "dirty stinker" scenes which are from New Year's Eve 12/30/81. Seems like in Sharon's early years, they were setting her up to be a schemer trying to steal the Newman fortune but eventually dropped that as they focused on the Cassie story.

I forgot that Miles and Margaret were guests at the wedding, I’m glad to see them again. 

17 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

 

It's kind of disappointing. It's a repeat after all and it was posted online. If they reair it again it's taking away an episode from us. It's not like that one is so great that it must air on TV.

 

I actually like next week's picks, except for the 2019.

 

@mikelyons I uploaded the last 4 classics in the vault https://bit.ly/2A3Bnhv created by @ChickenNuggetz92 along with a bunch of episodes from 1999 (the "I Will Crush You" week). Hoping more people will post stuff there. You don't need an account to do so and you can open the link in incognito mode.

 

The B&B vault seems to be far more active than the Y&R. Sadly I just noticed BobTV who was posting a ton of soaps on YT (used to be genoacityguy) got his account terminated. I wish I knew how to get in touch with him. This is the worst YT has been in a while and the vault provides a good backup.

Many thanks!!!

I'm enjoying the friendships over the last couple of episodes (Nina/Christine, bachelorette party). I actually don't find LLB/Christine that insufferable here. Still miss Heather Tom. Losing some of these great actors really exposed Y&R's weak writing. For instance, even with some of the bad writing, I think Heather Tom, Tonya Lee Williams, Victoria Rowell, and Alex Donnnelly would've elevated the material (see: Sperm gate). The actors who have come in their place haven't been able too, with the exception of Michel Morgan when she played Hillary. 

 

Oh, and I loved seeing Sandra Nelson again. My favourite Phyllis.

 

Also, Joshua Morrow is a stud. Damn. He's aged very well

Edited July 2, 20205 yr by StepBack

2 hours ago, StepBack said:

I'm enjoying the friendships over the last couple of episodes (Nina/Christine, bachelorette party). I actually don't find LLB/Christine that insufferable here. Still miss Heather Tom. Losing some of these great actors really exposed Y&R's weak writing. For instance, even with some of the bad writing, I think Heather Tom, Tonya Lee Williams, Victoria Rowell, and Alex Donnnelly would've elevated the material (see: Sperm gate). The actors who have come in their place haven't been able too, with the exception of Michel Morgan when she played Hillary. 

 

Oh, and I loved seeing Sandra Nelson again. My favourite Phyllis.

 

Also, Joshua Morrow is a stud. Damn. He's aged very well

True. I think Y&R cast so well for the longest time. Even if Conboy was focused on beautiful people, he still managed to find some great actors and ones that fit the roles well. This seemed to be the case through the Bell years and even through Alden's initial solo run. When the writing was weak you still had dynamic actors who knew their characters so well, you could follow them through anything. As much as I dislike late 94 to late 97 I can still watch those episodes because of the actors.

In the episode that won little Camryn Grimes an Emmy, little Cassie testified in court, and the judge awarded official foster care custody of Cassie to Nick and Sharon, with the possibility to legally adopt her in 6 months if all goes well. From July 19, 1999.

That was supposed to air July 26, 2020 in US (but many couldn't see it due to coronavirus press conference).

 

A new classic is July 27, 1999 

which airs on Mon July 6, 2020 US (Fri July 3 CDN).
The Newmans have a party to celebrate that Nick and Sharon were awarded custody of Cassie. This party epi originally aired several episodes after the other one.

 

So ...  I went into the archives of "rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs" to see if there were any comments about the Newman celebration party episode.

 

I found these comments ... So cool to read it now ...

 

From one poster:
7/28/99
Now that Cassie's two year front burner story is over, what will happen to Camryn Grimes? Scares me.

 

Reply from another poster:

7/29/99
Me too! Camryn Grimes is wonderful; IMHO the best thing about Y&R! You know the writers don't like anybody to be happy for TOO long, so maybe there will be a problem with the final adoption. I don't want to see Cassie unhappy, but it's better than not seeing her at all! Camryn Grimes should have won the Younger Actress Emmy!

Edited July 3, 20205 yr by janea4old

Where can I see Nathan's exit story? 

Gawd, Keith Hamilton Cobb was hot. Tall and built like a brick sh!thouse.

That yellow hair on Heather Tom. I can’t get over that. At least she was a more formidable Phyllis opponent than AH.

Edited July 3, 20205 yr by Faulkner

41 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Gawd, Keith Hamilton Cobb was hot. Tall and built like a brick sh!thouse.

A what?!?! I just looked it up, and I swear I've never heard that phrase before in my life 

I was watching here and there during this time period, and I thought KHC was hot, and I was in to the whole "just me and my horses meditating on the ranch" backstory, but then everything had to center on that damned orchid, then later, wasn't there a bunch of heavy/weird sht with gang members and a samurai sword!?

It's starting to come back to me - who was that hot little number who played the main thug that had killed Damon's son?

Edited July 3, 20205 yr by All My Shadows

Keith Hamilton Cobb was another epic fail attempt to replace Shemar. Clones can't beat the original.

9 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

A what?!?!

Ha. Just an old saying meaning “stacked” or “strapping.” I guess it’s a reference to old outhouses.

6 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Keith Hamilton Cobb was another epic fail attempt to replace Shemar. Clones can't beat the original.

Definitely not helped by that mess of a character. 

Interesting seeing a Nikki/Dru interaction, even more comical that they didn't get along. Dru seemed different from before she left. 2000s Dru had a bougie streak, was more campy--but still awesome. I always thought Dru and Malcom's personalities were a better mix together (laid back and earthy) as with Neil and Olivia (square and conservative).

 

Paul and Chris might be boring together but this was no doubt one of the best weeks episode wise. Everything pre 2005, and alot of cool moments like Sharon's party and Christine's bachelorette party. 

Edited July 3, 20205 yr by ironlion

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

Gawd, Keith Hamilton Cobb was hot. Tall and built like a brick sh!thouse.

 

Built like a Brick Sh!thouse
Originally "built like a brick outhouse" this term meant any project that was appealingly overdone or a level of quality that was better than was necessary.
(from definition #3 at urbandictionary)

 

I didn't care for his Y&R character.

 

I liked KHC on the sci-fi series Andromeda. (The series was kind of bad but he did okay).

Edited July 3, 20205 yr by janea4old