Week 21, Part II
Mike: "Mom ... Is this the way it's gonna be all the time, you being sarcastic because my dad just bought a mansion and he's gonna have stables an indoor-outdoor swimming pool, and he's gonna buy scuba gear for me, for me to practice? Are you gonna say no to all that?"
-- This line cracked me up. It's Mike's version of Navin Johnson's letter home.
Mike's Parentage: It's nice of GH to spare part of a day, Wednesday, for Chris, Judith, David, Mark, and Shelley. Actually, thanks to Buzz Gets Brained, Chris and Shelley get to appear in Thursday's episode, too. Anyway, Derek, Lorena, and Mike return from Atlantic City, and Lorena manages to keep Mike from immediately getting resettled. There's so much that needs to be done at Derek and Lorena's new place.
Over at GH, Derek shuts Amanda down when she mentions his illegitimate son. "My son. Period ..." Amanda's not okay with Lorena marrying into the Barringtons, and I wish I was versed enough in Port Charles to get an idea of how the next nearly 20 years played out offscreen among Amanda, Derek, Lorena, Mike, and Alison's family. I have a similar curiosity about the Port Charles Quartermaines vs. the Southampton Quartermaines, but at least that one will be explored in 1987.
I looked ahead and saw that Monica and Lorena will have at least one more head-to-head before the latter is gone for good. Before that, Monica lets anyone who will listen (Amanda, Rick, and Bobbie) know that she disavows Lorena.
Back at the Webbers', Ginny babysits Robin. Unless I'm wrong, this marks the first and possibly last time that Kimberly McCullough and David Mendenhall will share screen time together. I bring it up for two reasons. A while back, I imagined what would have happened if GH hadn't over-SORASed A.J. and instead had him fight with Mike over Robin, as a redo of Alan/Monica/Rick. The second thing is that back when Jeff was around, Mike claimed Anna was best friends with Rick and Ginny. That line seemed odd then, and it seems odd now. I guess it would have happened thanks to Anna being close to Buzz.
Anyway, the clock's ticking for all of the players in this storyline. Lorena's got less than three weeks left, Mike won't be that far behind her, Derek's gone by Labor Day, and Rick & Ginny are out around Thanksgiving.
Buzz Gets Brained: Rick and Tony notice that Buzz seems to be dependent on his painkillers. Jimmy Lee, then Buzz, are defensive over this. Jimmy Lee also lets Lorena know that Derek was tricked into buying his new mansion, and that he (JL) is still single. There's no mention this week of Sandy. If I had to estimate, this all took up maybe a fifth of Thursday's episode.
Spare thoughts:
-- There's a little bit of Hospital Happenings this week. Like I mentioned earlier, Tuesday's episode includes Bryan taking heat from an offscreen Steve over the incident of Lucy being caught getting a call from Kevin. Rewatching the scene, I also see that Bryan referred to himself as a doctor, which I think was a typo or a continuity error. Either that, or Bryan has a doctorate in social work. I still think Bryan should be the hospital administrator, leading board meetings with the likes of Edward and Amanda. Speaking of Edward, he wraps up the HH portion on Wednesday by complaining about the Laurelton-related, barely a staff shortage.
-- I got a kick out of that slightly modified Pepsi can Mike's drinking from, and an even bigger one from Robin mentioning how Anna and Filomena would take her to Fire Island. Atlantic City pales in comparison!
I'll wrap things up in a little bit with Sean Swindles the Quartermaines.
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