BC - Mon, 6/20/11

TIDBIT:
In a hospital scene on Hot In Cleveland, they paged Dr. Bender, whom we often hear being paged at PVH Susan Lucci has played herself on the show several times, and she got another shoutout on the 6/22 show.

Does Greenlee have too much Fusion Gloppity-Goo in her hair or does she need a shampoo real bad?  PLEASE tell me that's not the new fashion!

Why would anyone care if a celebrity recommended that a notorious doctor who has committed numerous crimes and lost his license more than once be reinstated? As for the hospital, how can the liability the hospital takes on POSSIBLY be worth less than a celebrity's opinion? Even more than that, how can an INSURANCE COMPANY, whose only stake it in it is profit, allow it? For that matter, can just ANYBODY buy a hospital simply because they have the money? Wouldn't that have to have some sort of official approval? Erica is a convicted felon (more than once). Would she be ALLOWED to own a hospital? She's an addict and a baby-stealing, embezzling, constantly-on-trial celebrity.

At some point, there will be two Erica's in a room and her loved ones will have to decide which is which. So what can Erica ask them to ask her that only SHE would know? Maybe Jack will have to reveal that VERY special thing he likes her to do in the bedroom (you know, diaper him, burp him and sing him a lullaby), or possibly that doggie collar thing, given that he's such a lapdog.

I loved it that when David walked in and started to taunt Jake, Jake said:  "Hello, ASS!"  All things considered that must be soapspeak for "Hello, F**KFACE!"

Annnnnd here it comes ... Amanda and Jake start making out in the hotel room and then they have sex. Did anyone NOT see that coming from a light-year away? It's not quite grief sex, but certainly consolation sex (as JAR so eloquently described it). I hope they gave each other STDs.

Is Amanda still not using birth control? I didn't think so. Does she not have the slightest memory of what happened the LAST time she got pregnant? I didn't think so. And the last time she was pregnant JAR was one of the baby daddy candidates! And how do they plan to resolve this, given that the show is ending in September? Are they going to FF 20 years so we know how things turned out for everyone, or will they just leave it dangling?

Robin "Erica would NEVER use notecards to remember her speech" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 11/19/10

I'm about to start watching Friday's show. The Tivo description for it states "Griffin is introduced to Kendall". I can only assume that he'll be her grief sex partner for this go-around.

How far away is the island from civilization that the plane crashed at night, Greenlee called for help right away, but the Coast Guard didn't arrive until the next morning?

Not that I would mind for a second that Greenlee would be going to prison, but how is she supposed to "be there for Kendall, even if it's in handcuffs" if she's incarcerated? In what way is that "being there" for Kendall?

WTF is the MATTER with Amanda? Does her head have ANYTHING but air in it? Her husband obviously has a MAJOR problem with Griffin, so she invites Griffin to lunch with her to make up for Jake punching him? In what possible universe is this a "good" thing?

If the Coast Guard knows about Zach's plane going down, why hasn't anyone notified Kendall yet, even though enough time has gone by for Greenlee and Ryan to be immediately flown back to Pine Valley (via the Pine Valley Transporter, no doubt) from somewhere off the coast of California?

Robin "Kendall can't commence to have grief sex until she knows Zach is dead, after all" Coutellier

BC - Wed-Thu, 11/17-18/10

Ryan secretly recorded the sleazy guy admitting that David had him plant the vial, etc. Greenlee calls Jack to tell him what had happened and how Ryan cleverly recorded it. Jack: "Smart guy!" Really? I seriously doubt that the recording would be allowed in any court.

Kendall catches her breath about the time Zach's plane crashes (on the opposite coast). Annie asks if she's okay and Kendall says she's probably just excited -- she's got some big days ahead. Yeah, she should pencil in some grief sex as long as she's already doing seating charts.

Was Zach flying the plane? I ask because neither Ryan nor Greenlee seem to think about or care that someone besides Zach might have died in the plane crash.

Robin "Pilot: Helloooo??? Is anyone there??? What am I, chopped liver?" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 8/11/10

We all know that David has a marked inability to feel love in any healthy kind of way. Watching him now just makes my skin crawl. Seeing how Greenlee goes along with him, for the most part, for HER really puts a punctuation mark on it. She's acting like a captive who is trying to placate her captor in order to buy time, no matter HOW crazy he is or how ridiculous his expectations of her feelings are. She's also being somewhat robotic. It reminds me of cases where someone gets obsessed with someone and thinks their every move or word or eye movement is a secret message that is SHARED between them. If that delusion is threatened, the obsessive person will resort to violence in order to maintain it at all costs.

David's not doing this to be mean (that we know of). He really seems to be doing it because he thinks he loves her and wants her to love him back at least as far as she did before he dropped the bomb on her. If she won't do it willingly, he'll MAKE her do it and she'll thank him for it later. This is NOT going to end well for David. I don't know if he'll be murdered (and then DI comes back as an identical relative), have a brain disorder, or be sent to Oakhaven for a while, but they CANNOT redeem him from this without something major. Female fans will NOT stand for it unless he pays and pays BIG. Domestic psychological abuse is something that a significant number of us have had to deal with and we

REALLY.
DON'T.
LIKE.
IT.

The writers might do well to keep that in mind.

So eBabe and Scott had grief sex (over the demise of their relationships).

Robin "NOW eBabe will find out she is pregnant" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 3/25/09

Kendall wakes up Ryan's bed and yammers on about their problems while Ryan lies there wishing she would shut up and leave. He's feeling bad for having sex with Kendall when he's still mourning for Greenlee. He SHOULD! Jesus, he's had sex in that bed with Kendall, then Greenlee, then Annie, then Greenlee, and then back to Kendall. I wonder if he's even changed the sheets yet.

Did you notice that almost EVERYONE stumbled over their lines today? I wonder what was going on.

Boy was that ever a fake kitten sound coming from the box! It was definitely a PERSON making kitten noises. Sheesh, you KNOW the economy is bad when they don't have enough money in the budget to spring for some kitten mewing sound effects that probably come on a CD with a few thousand other sound effects for $9.99.

Jesse arranged for he and Angie to take Little Adam in temporarily. Oh yeah, no bias THERE.

And how weird was it that Barry Shire, who went over to David's house to draw up papers to wrest custody of Little Adam from the Chandlers to David, went to the PVPD to spring Colby for bonking Krystal on the head so that Krystal couldn't stop JAR from taking off with Little Adam? Oh yeah, no bias THERE.

Greenlee "died" in the water. I wonder if she REALLY wants her ashes scattered in the water.

Ryan explains to Emma that Mittens and Greenlee are both still in Heaven and that's where they both have to stay. What he does NOT explain is why he put the lid back on the cardboard box and is still holding the terrified kitten prisoner in it. Then he sends Emma to take the kitten (still tightly encased in a cardboard box) to the neighbor so they can all ooh and ah over it (probably without ever taking it out of the box). So far, he's having Emma play hooky from school so they can spend a special day together and he's gone out IMMEDIATELY after she came home after spending the night with Corrina, then come home and sent her out again. Okay, so Zach is there and she probably shouldn't hear what they are going to say, but DAMN he's a lousy father! Does Ryan even know Emma's middle name?

Robin "they should name the kitten 'Manson', because he's never going to get out of his cage" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 3/24/09

I see Amanda and Jake are continuing to blabber at every possible opportunity about their super, super, SUPER-SECRET plans. What better place to talk about it than the ONE place David is almost SURE to be, lurking around every corner?

Frankie and Randi get married. That's nice. Not INTERESTING, but nice.

Are we REALLY supposed to be rooting for the true love of Kendall and Ryan? I mean REALLY? WTF are the writers smokin' that they think the majority of fans would go along with that?

The writers like to portray women as always following their hearts or their passions. Why can't they show them following their BRAINS once in a while?

Robin "Kendall needs to find a 12-step grief-sex support group" Coutellier

BC - Thu, 3/19/09

When Kendall walked behind Jack and put her hands on his shoulders to console him over Greenlee's death, how many of you wondered if she was going to have grief sex with HIM, too? Come on, I KNOW I wasn't the only one who had that flash through their minds

Jack said something about the deed to Greenlee's apt that he gave her. Huh? Greenlee bought that apt WAAAY before she ever knew Jack was her father. Did he pay it off and then present her with the deed?

How is it that JAR can keep a scowl on his face even when he's unconscious?

When Kendall said "My best friend is GONE!", was I the only one who, at first, heard her say "My bedspread is GONE!"? Shades of All My Luggage If I actually WATCH her say it, it's clear, but if I look away when she says it (reproducible), it sounds like bedspread. The whole bedspread thing and her angst over losing it might have something to do with her bad habit of having extra-marital sex whenever both parties are grief-stricken. Perhaps she should speak to Lysistrata Schwartz about it.

I think Tori is a figment of Annie's imagination, just like Annie having sex with Aidan in her room. Either that or she's a reporter.

Robin "Quick, Annie! Wish Aidan into the cornfield!" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 3/18/09

Ho hum. Another day, another bout of grief sex. Alicia Minshew probably said "Oh, for God's sake, not AGAIN!" when she saw the script. Did Kendall even call the nanny and let her know she wouldn't be home all night? Where was Emma? How many woman is Emma going to wake up to finding in Daddy's bed, at the breakfast table, or worse, in front of the fireplace? Hmmm, they actually DID go to bed instead of on the floor in front of the fireplace. Maybe that was a concession to Kendall's recent coma and surgery (not to mention her bony body).

Uh, since when is a person who wants custody allowed to be in the other person's house when a search warrant it being carried out? It's not like the child is THERE at the moment, so David should NOT have been included in ANY way. If nothing else he could have PLANTED something to be found by the police. Then Jesse and his crew go off to do the search and leave JAR and David together in the foyer. Oh yeah, THAT'S a good idea. TOTALLY bogus! AFAIC, if anything "bad" were to happen in that foyer while those two are there, the PVPD could be sued for bringing David into the house and leaving him unescorted.

I thought Amanda and Jake were going to make very, VERY sure that there would be NO WAY anyone would find out her secret THIS time -- so why are they yakking about it in a house that is brimming over with people?

Did Aidan just tell Zach "I have an update on Wyan"? Who is he now, Elmer Fudd?

How can JAR not answering the phone be obstruction? I mean, if the law REALLY wants to know if Adam was the one calling, they have to go through LEGAL channels and get a court order to get the phone tapped. Jesse ordering him to answer it or he'll be charged with obstruction was LAUGHABLE.

Why is "Greenlee's body" at PVH? Wasn't she found up in the water near Connecticut? Kendall says the body was in the river. She wasn't listening, was she?

Kendall was in the hospital corridor with Ryan, Zach and Aidan. She's had sex with all three of them, and grief sex, while still married to Zach, with the other two. This has such an ICK FACTOR written all over it! Okay, so Ryan missed the gathering by seconds, but still ...

Even after EVERYTHING that has happened, there are STILL decanters in the Chandler living room. WTF??? If they REALLY want to retain custody of Little Adam (not to mention help keep JAR sober), you'd think the FIRST thing they would do is get rid of the booze -- the FIRST thing!

Oh look, there's David lurking around and planting something NOW. Well, he's probably spiking the contents of the decanters, but that's STILL planting something.

Robin "RIP Natasha Richardson" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 3/17/09

Did I hear that right? Do we FINALLY know the reason why Aidan has been SOOOO interested in Annie? Zach said: "Take Ryan down, THEN we'll deal with Annie." Well, I guess that's not REALLY a reason. Zach may be setting things up to help her or he may be setting things up to hurt her, or maybe he could care less about that situation except that Aidan is going to help him take Ryan down and wants Zach to help with Annie (one way or the other) in return.

As much as I like Petey, he seems kind of amoral. He'll help Adam bring down Babe's perfume by physically hurting people, he lets Opal have a bad reaction (yeah, he feels bad about it, but not enough to come clean so that she even KNOWS she drank something that is CLEARLY causing an allergic reaction), nor does he come clean when Greenlee has a reaction to it. Then he sides with Aidan to take down Ryan simply because Aidan paid him some money so he can take Colby on dates now that he has become poor. He's pretty wishy-washy. As lovable, funny and endearing as Petey is, how are we supposed to view his lack of values? He WAS a conniving little kid during the Nanny Kendall days, so it's not necessarily out-of-character, especially since we haven't really seen much of him over the years to even figure out WHAT kind of character he has.

Frankly, I was thinking they would eventually debut the adult Petey as a super-conniving (not to mention very smart) adult who DELIBERATELY caused a lot of havoc, just for fun and to get his own way. OR they could have debuted him as someone who outgrew that. The very nerdy young man who seems to take his cues from older adult men in his life (and from Colby), who cares about people one minute but not the next doesn't really gel ... with anything. You just KNOW he'll team up with David at some point to concoct some potion or other. As I said, he's seems very likeable. Maybe he's a conscienceless sociopath and the next serial killer to hit the canvas. His obsession with Colby could be just that -- an obsession.

Annnnnndddd ... here comes the grief sex. Again. And you KNOW that's not even Greenlee that was in the morgue. How do we know that? Because it's a soap and they aren't going to wait for results. Even if Ryan HAD looked under the cover, the body would have been WAAAY too bloated and decomposed to have been Greenlee. Given the competence of pretty much ANY given "professional" on the show, I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse was a MAN and the staff didn't notice because of all the decomp, hungry fishies, etc.

Robin "are we going to be re-subjected to Kendall whipping out a pregnancy test box at every conceivable moment -- again?" Coutellier