ALL: Soaps paying homage to classic moments by recreating them

[alwaysAMC]

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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[Maxim]

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[P.J.]

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. 

[YRfan23]

 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 6 hours ago by YRfan23

[BetterForgotten]

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 6 hours ago by BetterForgotten

[Paul Raven]

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.

[I Am A Swede]

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.

[DRW50]

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.

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

 

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 50 minutes ago by DRW50