For me, that highlights EXACTLY why crossovers (and references to other daytime shows) typically don't work.
I know a LOT of viewers look forward to things like that, but such machinations always strike me as awkward, clumsy, and intrusive.
So young Hayley pressed her face against Fenmore's windows, hoping for a Barbara Ryan original, from a show June had already assured us last year was pure fiction. Y&R was always TERRIBLE about doing stuff like that; on some episodes, they'd act like the Forrester family from "Bold & Beautiful" were real people who existed in their own orbit, and then suddenly Marge Controke would sit down to watch "her favorite daytime show", and we'd hear the B&B theme, as though B&B was fiction and had no bearing on Y&R.
Stuff like that completely takes me OUT of the show and reminds me of how amateurish daytime writing often is.
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