Boogie Chillen, S01E17, C4P1 (Mon, 5-20-13)

So. How long before David and Angie have sex?

JAR has AMAZING muscle tone for having been in a coma for 5 years. I find it hard to believe he can even sit up, let along WALK, even with help.

Oh please! Celia wants to be virginal, yet she wears THAT to bed (with Pete lying on top of the covers and her under the covers)? I'm not saying she should be wearing a granny gown (too much easy access, in any case), but a flimsy gown that barely covers her ass is pushing it.

BCT has relatively white teeth for the kind of life he's lived. Funny -- he never struck me as someone who flosses and brushes on a regular basis. In fact, I'd expect his teeth to be somewhat on the greenish brown side. I think his teeth WERE kind of dingy back in the day (before bleaching became so commonplace, so I guess I can chalk his pearly whites now up to dentures (or Clorox).

TAN/OT: I knew a girl in high school (circa 1972) who had the whitest teeth I had ever seen. I complimented her on them and she rolled her eyes and confided to me that she had used Ajax cleanser (which I think had bleach in it) on her teeth. It had removed most of the enamel, resulting in cavities in every single tooth! She had already been beautiful and popular before she did that (I couldn't believe she was even TALKING to me or that she was so nice), so I was stunned that she felt she needed to do something so drastic. It definitely made her more human in my eyes. It also was a remembered lesson to not ever use cleanser or household bleach on my teeth.

Robin "we've all done stupid things, especially when we were teenagers" Coutellier

Boogie Chillen, S01E11, C3P1 (Mon, 5-13-13)

Whoa, Zach was getting pretty handsy with Bianca's knee and thigh in his empathy over Miranda's social problems.

How could Jesse have brought the FBI in to help find the kidnapped Cassie without the FBI contacting Angie?

Griff tells Dixie that JAR is suffering from retrograde amnesia and that what causes that kind of amnesia can also cause dramatic personality changes. Soooo, does this mean he might NOT be an asshole?

Poor AJ. He decides to give his father a chance and goes to see him. He looks so hopeful and even bashful seeing his father awake. JAR clearly doesn't know who AJis and treats him like a stranger; AJ looks crushed. AJ is not a little kid anymore, so it's kind of understandable that JAR might not recognize him right away. OR is JAR pretending in order to avoid responsibility for shooting and killing Marissa? Still, it be pretty hard for ANY parent not to at least give a micro-tell upon seeing one's own child.

Robin "when news gets around that JAR is awake, I think he can expect a visit from Bianca" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 9/23/11

LOVED JAR's snarky comment that maybe Babe and Uncle Stewart in heaven can throw down cows and paintbrushes. The thought of falling cows is daunting, but if one fell on JAR, I would be okay with that

Stuart has been in a limbo/coma for at least a couple of years, he was JUST brought out of it and he's coming home TONIGHT? Puh-lease! He's still looking around trying to figure things out!

Winifred! When did SHE start working for them again?

I thought David was still in custody. Just because he temporarily got out to save Stuart doesn't mean that he should be able to roam the town again.

I DID like the Rhett Butler moment for Jack. He's walked out on her before, though, and he always comes back, so it didn't have quite the impact it probably could have had.

I'm surprised that Hayley did not return this week. I'm fine with Maturdo not returning, though.

Oh THAT SUCKS! They end the show, not just the episode, but a 41-year, 5-day-a-week show with a single gunshot and jump to black? That's IT? We didn't even get to see Stuart come home!

JAR was the one with the gun. As far as we know, no one else had a gun. He probably shot at Bianca and/or Marissa, but it could have been someone else or it could have HIT someone else (like Stuart coming home). Or he could have committed suicide. Or it could simply have gone off accidentally while he was waving it around.

We are supposed to watch the Prospect Park version of AMC when and IF it goes onto the internet at some point in the future. What if that falls through? What about people who don't have high-speed internet who won't be able to watch the PP version? A cliffhanger, by definition, is something that WILL BE CONTINUED. That was the official end of AMC as we know it, so to fire a shot into a crowded party and just go to black was a slap in the face to the fans! 

What a disappointing way to end the show!

Robin "I think I'll pretend I didn't see that last part" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 9/7/11

Is Thorsten Kaye losing his voice? It's always somewhat raspy, but he seems to be deliberately keeping his voice down so as not to strain it.  Or maybe it was because he and David were in the middle of a police station and discussing the fact that Zach probably has Griff (or Griff's body) stashed at the warehouse Ryan tried to break into. OTOH, being in a police station or other place where it would be "bad" if someone overheard them never stopped anyone else from talking normally (or even loudly) in the police station or anywhere else in PV.

Awww, how sweet! Sam came back to PV to suck Opal's pillows! He's still a cutie, too!

Wow, Angie's eyes look GREAT considering she just had surgery on them! It's a nice touch that she's not wearing any eye makeup.

Robin "LOVED Verla's 'hidden' wailing" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 8/24/11

Amanda gets sprung from the hospital the day after (possibly 2 days after) a hysterectomy and she goes to a party?  Un-f**king-believable!

Dixie announces that she's going for a swim and adds that the doctor calls it "hydrotherapy". What doctor? When did she go see a doctor? Wasn't the doctor remotely curious about the fact that she's returned from the DEAD? You'd think there would be government agents around her ala E.T.

Robin "guess she got over that whole NO-DOCTORS/NO HOSPITALS thing" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 8/15/11

Tad goes to PVH, holds up Cara's housekey and asks Cara why she moved out. She didn't move out; she left her key there with the PURPOSE of leaving, but I don't think she took so much as her purse with her, so in my book she hasn't moved out yet. In fact, she's barely been at work for more than a few minutes. BTW, WTF is up with a KEY? No one ever locks their doors in PV!

David says Zach has an infection and he needs antibiotics pumped into him. Let me get this straight: David routinely invents his own drugs, brings multiple people back from the dead, keeps them alive, yet in some sort of twilight sleep for YEARS on end while they are hidden away from the rest of the world, yet he doesn't have any antibiotics at his facilities? BOGUS!

Oh look! They threw us a bone by having Erica not only EAT something, but she eat a special sugary pastry and enjoyed it immensely. Can the G-Word be far behind?

Is Ryan's microphone not synced up with the other ones? Every time he talks he blasts me out of my chair, but if I turn it down enough to normal his volume, I can barely hear Kendall or Greenlee (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

Wow, Dixie has made remarkable strides since she got out of Oakhaven.

Robin "I just KNOW she's going to be singing 'You Are My Sunshine' to JAR in the final show" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 8/9/11

Uh, so no one responded after Zach had a seizure at the end of Monday's show? Nice. The next thing we know, Greenlee is waking up near him and checking his pulse, glad that he's not still having seizures.

Hey Jesse, get your paws OFF of Kendall's stuff. Do you have a warrant? I didn't think so, so put the glass down and keep your lipstick comments to yourself!

I guess Dixie forgot that she saw "Kate" when she died. Or that she helped Colby keep  "Kate" safe in the bathroom during the fiasco at Angie and Jesse's wedding reception, or that she welcomed her Uncle Palmer to heaven, and never mind that she showed up to help Tad live their entire lives out together in his mind (I'll give that one to the writers and have it be Tad's imagination). Hmm, maybe David IS a god; there certainly seems to be a revolving door in and out of the afterlife, and he's the one with the key.Who's been cutting and styling Dixie's hair?

Kathy wants to know if she can call all her friends and tell them that her Mommy is back. Krystal immediately answers (with Dixie standing right there): "I don't see why not." Really? It's not UP to Krystal. How about the fact that everyone knows Dixie died and the National Intruder might show up on their doorstep at any second, not to mention David Hayward, who was sniffing around only a short while ago. How about the fact that JAR hasn't been told yet? How about the fact that once Kathy tells her friends, all their moms will show up on the doorstep with pies, cakes and photo/video-capable phones? It'll go viral on PVTube within minutes! How about the fact that Tad hasn't been able to tell his WIFE yet? Nope, no reason in the world for Kathy not to tell all her friends right this second.

Off the top of my head, here are some things that have happened while Dixie was gone that she may or may not be interested in hearing about:

• Tad found Kathy (check)
• Uncle Palmer died
• Myrtle died
• Julia died
• Babe died
• Stuart died
• Seabone Hunckle just died
• The Satin Slayer is Alexander Cambias, and he is behind bars
• Adam left town
• Erica got an impressive boob job (check)
• JAR married eBabe, Babe's twin sister
• eBabe adopted AJ
• There's a bench in the park named after Dixie
• eBabe and JAR got a divorce & a custody battle is a-brewin'
• Bianca got married
• Bianca had Zach's baby
• Bianca got divorced
• Kendall had another baby
• Cortlandt Manor burned down
• eBabe and Bianca are in love
• JAR is drinking again because he found out his ex-wife is/has become a lesbian
• Krystal bought BJs
• No one goes to the boathouse anymore
• Bianca and Cousin Caleb now live at Wildwind
• Cousin Caleb inherited Cortlandt Electronics
• Tad now has a green-card marriage
• Greenlee died
• Greenlee came back from the dead
• While Greenlee was dead, Ryan and Erica shacked up
• Tad has a grown son named Damon
• Jake married Amanda and they had a baby
• Kendall went to "prison"
• Kendall almost died several times
• Josh was shot by David
• Winifred left the Chandler mansion for good
• Adam married Annie, then divorced her
• Adam and Brooke are together again
• Kendall got a heart transplant via Josh's leftover heart
• Zach died
• JAR had leukemia
• Jamie is/still is in Africa or somewhere thereabouts
• Liza looks and dresses WAY differently than before, but she's still a bitch
• JAR had hepatitis after his bone marrow was illegally harvested
• Jesse was never dead (but see above)
• Lainie is presumably still in Paris
• David died, but was never really dead
• Angie and Jesse have a baby
• Del's Dixie kidney went kaput
• Del's Di kidney went kaput
• Del will probably show up looking for Dixie's OTHER kidney
• Tad's new wife is Jake's previous wife
• Ruth and Joe moved to Florida
• As far as we know, Will is STILL dead, but that could change

Robin "and JAR is STILL an asshole" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 8/5/11

Did you hear there was a fire at Oakhaven? No, actually, I did NOT because they jumped ahead and it happened off-screen between JaNut showing Erica the gasoline she had saved up in a shampoo bottle and Kendall and Bianca talking about the fire.

I really HATE the fact that they are showing T__ C___ commercials during AMC, but even more than that I hate that they are showing them as the last commercial before returning to AMC after a spate of commercials, so even if you FF, it's hard to miss at least part of it as you jockey to get to the beginning of the next segment of AMC. How UTTERLY disrespectful to longtime fans of AMC!

I just LOVE JaNut! It was GREAT when she reminded Kendall that she was her cellmate back in 1991 or 1992. Damn, that's about 20 years ago! Kendall had already been aged to her early twenties by then, which means the current Kendall should be in her early 40s. I'm not going to try to pin ages at this point, though, because trying to figure out the Erica/Kendall age timewarp is enough to give ANYONE a migraine.

So not only did Oakhaven burn, but it burned to the ground? That's some kind of fire!

Leo has BEEN in Bhutan or is GOING to be in Bhutan? Or are they in Bhutan NOW? WTF? I can see why David's legs would be cramped after the long drive from Pine Valley to Bhutan. I had to look up Bhutan, which, according to Wikipedia is described as: "officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China."

Hmm, Zach has a tan, too. That David sure knows how to treat his living corpses well! Can't have them looking wan, now can we?

I'm not even sure how I'm feeling about all this. On the one hand, this is GREAT STUFF! On the other hand, it's pretty far-fetched. But since they are going away ANYWAY, WTH? Might  as well pull out all the stops!

Robin "I hope the ending consists of the entire still-living cast, past & present, giving the finger to Brian Fronz" Coutellier

BC - Tue-Thu, 7/26-28/11

This is ridiculous! Cervical cancer doesn't develop in a matter of 2-3 weeks after exposure to HPV! If Amanda has cervical cancer as a complication of the HPV virus, then she's had the virus for a very long time and there's no way she got it from JAR  unless she got it from one of their earlier go-arounds.  Which means Jake was also regularly exposed to it prior to her "slip-up" with JAR.

Angie sends Maya in to change the baby so that she can talk to Jesse. After a brief discussion between Jesse and Angie, Maya returns to the room and says that the baby has been changed, they had a little play time and now the baby is asleep. A "little" playtime?  How about a nanosecond? Unless the playtime consisted of the baby flinging her own poop around the room while she was being changed, there definitely wasn't any time for play. There wasn't even any time for proper diaper-changing.

How did Dixie's clothes get changed? She was wearing all gray; when she woke up, she was wearing all brown.

Why would Jack need TAD'S help to find a way to legally get into Oakhaven to see Erica? JACK is the lawyer!

I enjoyed all the repartee and in-jokes about show/character history that were being flung right and left at the Oakhaven


David has very good color for someone who just had, as Griff put it "invasive abdominal surgery".

Robin "will Dixie see Janet &  remember she killed Will?" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 7/19/11

Maya keeps mentioning how Frankie's wife was able to get over losing her baby more quickly by taking care of another baby. Did Frankie ever mention that she found the other baby (Trevor) in an alley and decided to keep it without ever telling anyone in authority about it and acted like it was no big deal and he was a present to her from whatever higher powers that be? IOW, Randi lost touch with reality for a while there.

Every time Dixie comes back from the dead JAR is on a booze bender or an asshole bender (although it's hard to tell the latter from any other day in his life) or both.

Wait a second. Are they trying to hint that David rescued Zach from his plane crash and has HIM stashed away somewhere, too?

Brot said Maya was Hispanic. I didn't know that. I didn't really think about her ethnicity at all other than her not appearing to be black.

Presumably Dixie has been lying down for, what, 2-3 years now, maybe more? She sure has a lot of strength for someone who hasn't had any mobility for quite some time.

Robin "DAMN she has good genes" Coutellier

BC - Wed-Thu, 5/25-26/11

Why does Maya not want to wear a "summer uniform"?  JAR mentioned that they have them and she said she had thin bones and catches cold easily.  Both his question and her answer were way out of left field, so there has to be a purpose.  The thing that comes into my mind first is that maybe she has a history of cutting herself and doesn't want anyone to see scars or fresh cuts.

For being unconscious (or even asleep) while tied together, back-to-back with Marissa and sitting up on the floor, Bianca is holding her head relatively upright with remarkable ease and control.

Tad said it took 15 minutes for him to find a parking space to go into Krystal's.    No one EVER has trouble finding a parking space in Pine Valley.  In any case, most of the time they use the PV Transporter to simply dematerialize/materialize from one place to another.  It's the only explanation to account for how they get from one place to another not only within a couple of minutes, but within SECONDS.  Maybe they are all holograms. 

I WILL say, however, that at one point they had some stock footage they used of downtown PV, which was quite quaint, and there WAS bumper-to-bumper traffic on their narrow, 2-lane Main Street.  That was back in the late-70s/early-80s timeframe, I think.  And, of course, they later went through their downtown-PV-is-really-downtown-Manhattan phase where looking down from the roof of the Chandler building (as Leslie Coulson dangled from it) showed a six-lane boulevard, jam-packed with honking cars and buses -- at night.  BTW, Leslie not only survived the fall of MANY stories, she sneaked out of the Emergency Room when no one was looking, although she WAS somewhat shaky, stiff and limping.

Erica is surprised that the Valley Inn Dining Room is empty -- it's just for THEM!  Why would she be surprised (yes, I know it's Jane, not Erica); no one goes there anymore to eat or drink, and anyone who needs lodgings goes to the Yacht Club. 

Jane trying to pull herself together to handle Bianca at the hospital was kind of odd.  She kept telling herself "She's NOT your daughter, she's NOT your daughter..."  Did Jane lose a daughter, and does it have anything to do with Erica or someone close to Erica?  You would think she would be chanting to herself to BELIEVE Bianca was her daughter so that she could act in at least a semi-appropriate manner.

Ricky should have done his homework.  Kendall DOES have experience with guns.

Robin "she's had her hands on half the guns in town" Coutellier

AMC - Boogie Chillen, Moday - 5-16-11

See signature for links to Boogie Chillens on the web.

Why does Griff always sound like he's on the verge of crying? If he really WAS about to cry, how would we know?

Obviously the teenage boy at the ... whatever it is Griff is staying in ... is NOT Enzo or Max Santos.

Erica doesn't usually call Jack "Darling". Of course, we know that that is NOT Erica. Ooh, ooh! What if ... what if that's shortened to (don't blame me for the nightmares) DACK? Who called Jack Dack? That Kit Fisher Person (aka TKFP), that's who. TKFP is Jack's little sister. Erica always disdainfully referred to her that way, so we did, too. No, I'm not suggesting that TKFP is about to commit inc**t. I'm thinking along the lines of a FRIEND of TKFP who always had a crush on Jack from afar. Of course, that crush would have to go WAY back since TKFP was presumed drowned at sea at about 6 years old, but maybe it's someone who met him after TKFP came back into his life as an adult.

Madison looks FABULOUS for someone who just crashed her car, went into premature labor and then had a cesarian section and just woke up from it.

Faux Erica (Ferica?) luxuriates in Erica's bed and marvels at how "classy" it is. I don't think her being awestruck by it was so much that it was expensive and sumptuous as it was that it was ERICA'S. As it was pointed out, if she can afford all the elaborate things she's done so far, she can certainly afford expensive furniture and linens. She wants the THE LIFE.

Robin "and Darling Jack" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 3/22/11

Does everyone in Pine Valley ONLY look at Pine Valley-centric things on the internet?  Does EVERYONE know about EVERY video that "goes viral"?  There are millions of things to see on the internet, yet every time anyone in PV puts anything up, regardless of the site, seemingly everyone in town (except the computer-phobic ones like Caleb) has seen it.  And Liza knows better than to go back to the place where she humiliated herself, yet she goes anyway, and wearing a tight, one-shouldered top, at that.  What time of day is it?  Is that what she wore to work as the DA?  I've made some questionable fashion choices in my working days, but I was a lot younger and I wasn't the DA.

Will Miranda Google her name and find out that she was switched at birth with AJ, JAR was her "father", a woman named after a pig was her "mother", JAR fought giving her up even when he knew she was not his biological child, and he pushed her mother over a balcony (not to mention that she was a product of rape and her mother killed her biological father and her Auntie Kendall stood trial for it)?  Of course, some of those details could get lost in all the links that would come up mentioning Erica Kane, Kendall Hart and Bianca Montgomery and involving the keywords murder, rape, trial, kidnapping, embezzlement, prison, escape, marriage, drug addiction, unabortion, divorce, coma and serial killer, along with assorted everyday keywords such as perfume, eyeliner, supermodel and fashion.

I became curious after writing the above paragraph, so I went to Wikipedia and googled some characters.  Bingo!  There are Wikipedia links for:

Bianca Montgomery
Kendall Hart
Erica Kane
Jackson Montgomery
Travis Montgomery
Barbara_Montgomery
Adam Chandler
JAR Chandler
AJ Chandler (aka Adam Chandler III)
Babe Carey
Richard Fields
Children Of All My Children
and many more, I'm sure

Reese was building a house in Paris for Bianca before they got married.  Who will get the house in the divorce settlement?

Look, there are Bianca and eBabe in the same scene.  Nope, still can't tell them apart at first glance.  Even their hair color is similar.

There were 8 candles  on AJ and Miranda's birthday cake.  AJ was six last year when he decided he wanted to be called AJ.  So is one of the candles "one to grow on"?  Once again, poor little rich boy AJ has a dismal party consisting of his parents, Miranda and Miranda's mom.  That's it.  So not only does he not have a lot of kids at the party, he has to SHARE the cake and attention with a GIRL!  And vice-versa for Miranda.  Where is Gabrielle?  She IS Miranda's sister, after all.

Erica and Caleb talk about getting a younger celebrity to draw in a younger customer base for Cortlandt Electronics.  Colby comes in bragging about her video blog fanbase and it's practically a done deal.  Cortlandt is a well-established multi-billion dollar corporation.  Can't they afford to get a REAL celebrity? 

Then Erica nudges Caleb to hire Asher to head up the project.  Yeah, because Asher not only knows everything there is to know about computers, but he has lots of management experience (consisting of stalking, corporate espionage, planting viruses, hitting people over the head and being an overall henchman for Cortlandt's arch-enemy).  Plus he has a semi-romantic involvement with their new spokesperson, who is currently a hot mess.  What could possibly go wrong?  (For one thing, I doubt either Colby or Asher even know their own social security numbers, although I suspect Asher knows a lot of OTHER people's social security numbers.)

Well, now we have the answer on the adoption issue -- Reese DID legally adopt both Gabrielle and Miranda, and now she is going for full custody of both children.

Hey, JAR.  Time to give your henchman a raise to keep him on your side.  Oops, too late.  Said henchman has decided that his nefarious workdays are a thing of the past.

Erica one-ups (or one-downs, as the case may be) Liza's one-shoulder top by wearing a one-shoulder, OFF-the-shoulder dress, thus baring both shoulders.  Is it a subliminal display of power between two rivals?

Is Angie going to stay blind?  The strain of childbirth or the surge of hormones might magically fix her eyes.  Hey, it's Pine Valley -- it could happen!  In fact, maybe someone should just bonk her on the head and it will clear it right up, like slapping the side of a TV set in the olden days used to work when the horizontal hold ceased to hold.  She'd never see it coming, after all


Jack pulled some strings and now he and Erica can have that special vacation that she wanted; the one that has been booked for 2 years and they couldn't get previously.  Erica is thrilled.  Something tells me there's a prospective honeymoon couple on their FIRST wedding who is now bitterly disappointed that their own pre-booked dream honeymoon vacation has been scuttled at the last minute.

Robin "well, my goodness I'm wordy today" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 2/8/11

Kendall's mighty energetic considering she just had a stent inserted into her aorta (under a local anesthetic, at that) in a wrecked ambulance.

They put an oxygen mask on Kendall (once she stopped fighting it). Wouldn't that have been helpful when Dr. Hunky was operating on her?

Kendall is STILL in the wrecked (and not particularly sterile) ambulance, yet Jack and Bianca both leave for unimportant things (Jack to get food at Krystal's and Bianca to go home and reassure the boys that Kendall is okay). Hello? Kendall just had her AORTA operated on in iffy circumstances after a rollover crash! You'd think they would want to hang around to make sure she's REALLY okay now.

Why is Cara's butterfly bandage only near one edge of her wound, and why isn't it actually holding the wound together? If anything, it's holding the skin APART.

OT/TAN: Well, I have to save I was moved by a commercial. It was about "intense feminine itch". The voiceover sounds very understanding as it assures the woman that it KNOWS that's the LAST place you want your itch cream to fail (which oddly implies that there ARE circumstances during which you WOULD want your itch cream to fail) . The poor woman who is being bedeviled by intense feminine itching is a bride being prepped for the ceremony, and she looks very apprehensive and worried.

After some product info from the voiceover, the bride subsequently looks very happy, itch-free and confident as she and her new husband descend the stairs while people toss flower petals at them. Obviously she took the voiceover's advice and used Vagisil for her intense feminine itching. That's all well and good, but the poor woman still has something of a feminine problem on her HONEYMOON, doesn't she? I feel bad for her. I hope the newlyweds plan to use protection until she can see a doctor, because whatever is causing it in the first place might be communicable.



Robin "did she have pre-wedding jitters or pre-wedding jitterBUGS?" Coutellier

BC - Tue-Wed, 2/1-2/11

If David is so weak, why is he standing in his cell? He said he was sedated, which made him weak, but he wasn't standing up before now anyway, for MONTHS (that we know of).

Why would the South Philly police dept hire Natalia without any references?

Soooo, I guess Natalia won't be around much anymore, if at all. At least she finally got laid first.

I thought Scott was broke and could only afford hot dogs from a stand in the park. Now he's going to go downstairs to Fusion to get some mac and cheese for Madison's cravings. Something tells me that ConFusion is NOT cheap -- it probably costs $8 for a cup of coffee. Scott did say it was Happy Hour and they had free food, but it seems unlikely that mac and cheese would be part of that free food.

At Confusion, the guys toast to Ryan before he takes "the big plunge" into married life ... again. It occurred to me that of the four guys, Tad, Jake, Ryan and Frankie, only Frankie has had only one marriage (that we know of). Considering that they have about 14-15 marriages between them ALREADY, somehow, the phrase "taking the plunge" seems like overkill in that particular circle of friends (except for Frankie). One of the ex-wives, Gillian, was married to both Ryan and Jake. Then Scott joins in. He's been married to Annie, one of Ryan's ex's. Jake has also had sex with Greenlee. "Stepping into" might be a more appropriate term than "taking the plunge". In fact, "stepping into" might be more appropriate on a number of levels.

Looks like Scott and Frankie were just passers-by to the core of Ryan, Tad and Jake. I was wondering why Frankie was there "toasting", considering his obvious anger and disgust with Ryan because of his treatment of Madison.

I'll say it again -- for someone who's been in a coma for several months and could barely stay sitting up mere hours before, David is quite energetic and strong.

I was expecting Scott to take Madison to yet another room at the Yacht Club, despite his dire financial straits, so I was pleasantly surprised when he took her to his messy, furnished room.

For someone who just wants to "heal and rest and spend time with my kids", Kendall sure has foisted them off on other people a LOT. As usual, during a life and death situation, Kendall chooses to be stupid, obstinate and heedless of consequences. And now she's either going to have surgery and/or die and, at the very least, be in the hospital for a while or the afterlife for good. How many times have her children been without their mother for extended periods of time? She's always either in the hospital, in jail, on the lam, at work or running around butting into other people's business.

Robin "and STILL looking mighty perky, all things considered" Coutellier

BC - Thu-Fri, 4/20-21/10

Amanda apparently thinks Jake and Angie plan to have her committed (for no reason whatsoever). Maybe she IS crazy, because it's hard to fathom that kind of STUPID.

Jack tells Greenlee that he's used to being at odds with Erica, but he'll never get used to seeing Greenlee unhappy. He's in for a bumpy ride then, because Greenlee is rarely happy.

I know people recover quickly in Pine Valley, but how is it that Greenlee is now JOGGING given that she had such major spinal cord injury not so long ago? I can see where she would be exercising, but jogging, especially on cement, would be very hard on the back.

What is that THING Erica is wearing? It is NOT flattering and it's much too babydollish for her to be wearing. She MIGHT get away with it if it were a little longer and in the form of a dress, or possibly even with black pants, but the white-on-white combination just doesn't work. I'm wondering if Baby Jane Hudson met up with the Good Humor Man and that outfit was the result.

Scott and Annie seem to think that since Palmer died, the revolutionary product he and Scott were working on now belongs to Scott (because he stole it). Scott, himself, SAID that Palmer was bankrolling a team that was working on it. Uh, wouldn't the people on that TEAM know that it was Palmer's product?

What the hell time is it in Pine Valley? Everyone is at the Fusion office in full force (the sometimes there but mostly NOT there office staff to answer the usually silent but now ringing-off-the-hook phones). It's certainly daylight out. Erica is on a plane that has to make an emergency landing (wouldn't a missing fuel pump keep it from taking off in the first place?), JAR just got out of his morning shower, and Madison is working at the casino. WTF? What kind of hours does she HAVE? I thought she worked for Greenlee during the day and for Ryan in the evening.

Robin "what does she DO at the casino?" Coutellier

BC - Mon-Thu, 4/5-8/10

WTF? Liza tells David that Greenlee's testimony, along with the fact that Kendall was the one who caused the accident, pretty much GUARANTEES that he'll be acquitted. On what grounds? It makes NO SENSE.

Another pet peeve of mine is how patients lie in bed at PVH. Damon is sitting practically straight up in bed as Jake examines him and tells him he might have some broken ribs. Most doctors who examine someone for internal injuries don't have the patients sitting up while doing so, but unless someone is on an operating table, no patient in PVH is ever lying down relatively flat. They can have a broken back and they're STILL cranked up into a nearly sitting position, usually with lots of pillows behind them, too. I don't understand how these people sleep without blocking their airways from head-drooping.

When it was revealed that Brooke was in the other car in the accident, how many of you flashed back to the accident where Arlene was driving drunk and crashed into Brooke, trapping Brooke in her car? Brooke then went into labor with Jamie. Arlene, in the meantime, made Hayley agree to say that SHE was the one driving.

Didn't Brooke already have her spleen removed somewhere along the line (possibly as a result of that accident when she went into labor)?

JAR asks Annie if she's calling Lacy's to send over even MORE dresses (for her to choose to wear in front of Congress). Lacy's is supposed to be like Macy's. Wouldn't Annie have designer dresses sent from much higher-end stores?

Okay, I'll bite. Which Disney/ABC character does the crab represent? You KNOW they have a commercial interest in it because they zoomed in on it when Colby gave it to Damon. They did not, however, zoom in on the Teddy Bear she got for Brooke. Did the crab have to do with The Little Mermaid?

Brooke is still unconscious after her surgery. So why isn't she in a Recovery Room?

JAR criticizes Colby and snottily states that she is dating someone who hasn't even graduated from high school. I can imagine that thousands of people watching the show promptly told JAR: "YOU'VE never graduated from high school!"

Unanswered Question: Do Randi or Madison ever have to call Maintenance and tell them that a toilet in the ladies room on the top floor at Fusion is backed up and overflowing?

Brooke laughs when Jamie and Laura join in with a videoconference. She just had her spleen removed the night before -- wouldn't it HURT to laugh?

Wow, Adam/David Canary REALLY needs a haircut.

Robin "he's starting to look like Tom Mesereau (a well-known, shaggy lawyer)" Coutellier

BC - Mon, 1/18/10

This INSTANT redeeming of Madison is a little hard to swallow. Oh, I buy that she's TRYING to change, but people do not change like that overnight. I also find it annoying that AMC fell back on the tried and true method of redemption by violence towards a woman, be it rape, beating, attempted murder or all three. Yes, Madison WAS starting to see the light before it came out that her father was beating her, but he was beating her all along, we just didn't KNOW about it.

I cracked up when Erica earnestly told Ryan that women wipe their makeup off at the end of the day and just wash it down the sink. OH PUH-LEEZE! Have we EVER seen Erica take her makeup off? Have we ever seen ANY woman on a soap take her makeup off to go to bed? No, the only time they do that is when somone is near DEATH after surgery, and even then, they often look more than a little made up. Greenlee's been wearing full makeup and she's been in a COMA for almost a YEAR! Skye looked FABULOUS while in a coma. The one she was in when she first came back to town via Dr. Kinder, that is. She's been in other comas.

Jake had some nerve telling JAR how nasty he was to Amanda when Amanda tried to get him to think the baby was his! Excuse me? This from the man was nasty to her and who called her a whore for no reason WHATSOEVER after he dumped her for Taylor? STFU, Jake! I can accept this great love he and Amanda have for each other now, but they shouldn't pretend that Jake was always a good guy with her because he WASN'T.

Robin "fans have LONG memories" Coutellier

BC - Mon-Thu, 1/11-14/10

Who's been dying Greenlee's hair while she was in a coma? It's considerably darker than it was before. Maybe we can chalk it up to the effects of the coma.

I'm pretty sure that when you are put under general anesthesia you do NOT dream. I know *I* never did. One second you're counting backwards and the next it's LIGHTS OUT. Makeup on the patient is usually considered taboo in surgery, too.

It's 8:30 am and Amanda and Jake are still asleep? Now you KNOW it's a soap, because there's no WAY Trevor slept that long. NO. WAY.

It always cracked me up that Fusion has posters of the main players on their walls all the time, but it PARTICULARLY cracks me up that they are now ALL of Erica. Not only that, but they are all the SAME poster of Erica. It's like she's Saddam Hussein or something, requiring monuments and images in her likeness everywhere she turns -- or ELSE. Do you think that if Randi gets pissed off enough about not being made Erica's assistant assistant she'll take off a stiletto heel and hammer on one of the posters with it?

To check to see if Greenlee feels anything after the surgery, David sticks a SAFETY PIN into her foot (not puncturing, but enough to hurt a feeling person). What, he doesn't have any sharp medical instrument he could use? Given the type of surgery she had, you would think they would have something there that was specially FOR that, something unlike a tracing wheel (for you sewing types out that).

Speaking of Greenlee, as usual, she is being a totally unrealistic bitch. She won't cooperate with ANYTHING. Her bloodwork shows she's not ready for surgery, but she insists. It's like the next DAY after surgery (if that) and she's demanding that they check to see if she has any feeling in her feet, despite being told that the nerve pathways have to grow back and HEAL. She gives no thought whatsoever to whether or not her impatience might UNDO whatever good was done by the surgery.

Robin "she's an ungrateful little bitch" Coutellier

BC - Mon-Wed, 12/21-23/09

How many men have we seen give Kendall a bath? She must be a dirty, Dirty, DIRTY girl!

Did you ever think you would hear Opal say, in response to the idea of her son and Liza romantically linked: "That's my boy!"? Apparently Tad never thought he would hear that, either.

I was astonished to hear Kendall actually say "Maybe we're trespassing." ROTFLMAO! No one on a soap ever worries about breaking into people's cabins, homes, etc., so to hear someone actually wonder if they might be trespassing when they walk into a CHURCH is hilarious!

That's a pretty skinny Christmas tree Ryan has. You'd think a rich guy like him could afford a wider tree.

OMG -- are they actually going to wipe the Chuck Pratt slate CLEAN? Talk about a Christmas wish come true! Like the last couple of years never happened! Oh DAMN! False alarm!

And there's Greenlee. Gee, what a surprise. She's in FANTASTIC shape for someone who's been in a coma for, what about 10 months now?

Robin "Merry Christmas, Everyone!" Coutellier