I love when soaps do this, and while I don't watch B&B, that's cool what they did there.

This may not truly count, but I'm going to throw out AMC's Dixie singing "You Are My Sunshine" to JR as a child and then again to her grandchild, Little Adam.  I couldn't find the first original version, but this montage captures it perfectly.  I was so obsessed with Dixie/Tad and their whole love affair in the 90s.  Truly heartbreaking, emotional stuff.

 

2 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

I love when soaps do this, and while I don't watch B&B, that's cool what they did there.

This may not truly count, but I'm going to throw out AMC's Dixie singing "You Are My Sunshine" to JR as a child and then again to her grandchild, Little Adam.  I couldn't find the first original version, but this montage captures it perfectly.  I was so obsessed with Dixie/Tad and their whole love affair in the 90s.  Truly heartbreaking, emotional stuff.

 

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11 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

I think it was meant to be the same fountain.

As I loathe Jon, I couldn't even hazard a guess about when it happened. And maybe it's supposed to be, but the original fountain was at Billy and Vanessa's. I'm not sure where Jon's was. 

4 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Y&R's opening scene featured Brad Eliot, played by Tom Hallick, hitchhiking a ride into Genoa City:

When Gina Togoni debuted as Phyllis, she hitchhiked to Genoa City on a truck driven by... Tom Hallick. 

 

What's 36 years between appearances? Tom Hallick, an original cast member of The Young and the Restless, is returning to the CBS soap but not as Brad Eliot, the heartthrob neurosurgeon turned news reporter he played from 1973 to '78. Instead, on Sept. 26, Hallick will be seen as a kindly truck driver who helps an on-the-lam Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) find her way back to Genoa City. The setup is a trippy homage to the premiere episode of Y&R — in fact, the soap's very first scene — which had Brad getting a lift from a truck driver heading to GC.

"They found the same kind of truck and dug out the old script — only now I have the truck driver's dialogue and Gina has mine," Hallick tells TV Guide Magazine. "It was weird recreating the scene that way, but really pretty wonderful."

It wasn't exactly old-home week. "Y&R still shoots at CBS on Stage 43 and they gave me Jeanne Cooper's old dressing room, so that much was familiar, but so much time has passed that the cast and the crew were all new to me," says Hallick, who left Y&R even before the show's longest-running vets, Doug Davidson (Paul) and Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki), came onboard.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/exclusive-tom-hallick-returns-young-restless-134700476.html

 

 I also remember that same episode/week they gave Mariah, Sally Mcguire's iconic line from the first episode, about "what a drag it is to be stuck in a place like GC, and how she feels so Restless"....

Edited April 26Apr 26 by YRfan23

59 minutes ago, Alan said:

On Coronation Street, Elsie's exit scene was the character walking down the street, remembering some of her iconic lines as the walked past her and her neighbors' homes. The lines were re-recorded by Pat Phoenix. For a show that never used flashbacks this was a very affecting scene. 27 years later, the same concept was used with Liz, this time using audio from past episodes. This was great too, but Liz came back just a couple years later, while Elsie was gone for good after her exit.

 

That exit never seemed right for Liz to me (granted, she had left before and came back again to your point).

In addition to Elsie's exit, it was also a rip off of Julie Goodyear's/Bet's iconic 1995 exit, but with none of the heart and bittersweet emotion of either exit, IMO. 

Edited April 26Apr 26 by BetterForgotten

I always thought that Y&R recreation was wasted on introducing  a Phyllis recast. They should have saved it up for the 40th or 50th and tied it into a more momentous event.

6 hours ago, Alan said:

On Coronation Street, Elsie's exit scene was the character walking down the street, remembering some of her iconic lines as the walked past her and her neighbors' homes. The lines were re-recorded by Pat Phoenix. For a show that never used flashbacks this was a very affecting scene. 27 years later, the same concept was used with Liz, this time using audio from past episodes. This was great too, but Liz came back just a couple years later, while Elsie was gone for good after her exit.

To close the circle, at the end of the 10,000th episode, we see Rita walking around Rovers with audio flashbacks of lots of iconic characters in a kind of homage to both Elsie and Liz's exits. Luckily this wasn't Rita's exit episode and she is still with us!

 

That was undoubtedly inspired by the last scenes from "Upstairs, Downstairs" when Rose (Jean Marsh) walked around the now empty house (which had been sold) remembering people and events from the past.

5 hours ago, BetterForgotten said:

That exit never seemed right for Liz to me (granted, she had left before and came back again to your point).

In addition to Elsie's exit, it was also a rip off of Julie Goodyear's/Bet's iconic 1995 exit, but with none of the heart and bittersweet emotion of either exit, IMO. 

I treasure Bet, but that doesn't quite work for me either. The part where she is standing in front of the cab and giving a bit of an inspirational speech is a little too much like Elsie, a little too self-conscious, and I get the sense Julie doesn't believe in it. The moment in the pub where she is leaving, and looks at herself in the mirror, the, "Easy when you know how," is much stronger. 

Everything about Liz's exit, and Liz's last decade on the show, is a failure.

23 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

That was undoubtedly inspired by the last scenes from "Upstairs, Downstairs" when Rose (Jean Marsh) walked around the now empty house (which had been sold) remembering people and events from the past.

Knots Landing did this when Valene moved back into her old home in season 13. It's well done there.

 

6 hours ago, Alan said:

 

Thanks. I couldn't stand that. 

Few shows lodge inside their own asses the way EE does. It's not great.

I also hate all the trumpet references with Sonia. They had her blowing trumpets in her last scene. Just sad. She blew more trumpets than she had storylines. 

Edited April 26Apr 26 by DRW50

@MaximHere are the 3 video clips. The dates they represent are from March 1992 & Sept/Oct 2023.

https://youtu.be/BxBYJXyTwTk
https://youtu.be/8XeXImw_7KA
https://youtu.be/10FsVJjTun4

10 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

I love when soaps do this, and while I don't watch B&B, that's cool what they did there.

This may not truly count, but I'm going to throw out AMC's Dixie singing "You Are My Sunshine" to JR as a child and then again to her grandchild, Little Adam.  I couldn't find the first original version, but this montage captures it perfectly.  I was so obsessed with Dixie/Tad and their whole love affair in the 90s.  Truly heartbreaking, emotional stuff.

 

9 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

Thank you!!!  ♥️  This was so great.  I'm also still trying to find the very first one when JR was a child.  But this is so great, even if Dixie's hair wasn't in that moment hahah.  She definitely had the most hair styles of any soap actress I think.

21 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

Thank you!!!  ♥️  This was so great.  I'm also still trying to find the very first one when JR was a child.  But this is so great, even if Dixie's hair wasn't in that moment hahah.  She definitely had the most hair styles of any soap actress I think.

Is that Ghost Dixie?

19 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Is that Ghost Dixie?

It was - IIRC, JR had cancer or needed some sort of transplant to survive, but he visited Dixie and Stuart in heaven.  

8 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

It was - IIRC, JR had cancer or needed some sort of transplant to survive, but he visited Dixie and Stuart in heaven.  

Thanks!! 

2 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

@MaximHere are the 3 video clips. The dates they represent are from March 1992 & Sept/Oct 2023.

https://youtu.be/BxBYJXyTwTk
https://youtu.be/8XeXImw_7KA
https://youtu.be/10FsVJjTun4

You are amazing! WOW! Thank you a million!