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It was nice of Liam to pop by to fawn over Steffy and her marriage, a marriage so perfect and full of love that it will undoubtedly redefine the institution for centuries to come.

Finn must have the memory of a goldfish to not realize how shit goes down when he offers Steffy a truth she doesn’t want to hear. Maybe she’ll move in with mom and dad and grandpa so the crybaby collective can mix in caterwauling about Finn in between Logan roasts. 

10 hours ago, KerleyQ said:

I predict he still lets Poppy get into his head, though, and he'll just tell Steffy that Luna is missing, not that Luna is her stepdaughter

I’m leaning this way too.

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Phyllis is obviously hiding in Billy’s left nostril, hoping he doesn’t sneeze and blow her cover. I will say that it’s bold of show to presume anyone gives a damn where the velociraptor is. Summer telling Chance that looking for her mother would go a long way to making up for Daniel’s arrest was the high test Newman entitlement bullshit nobody needed or asked for. That’s not how any of this works, you dope.

Damien should try a different approach. Lily has done the international tour of putzes from Wisconsin to Australia and just isn’t having it anymore. He must be one smitten kitten to make a beeline for his mother just because Lily thought he should.

Holden becomes less appealing with every thirsty encounter. Bud, Audra told you she’s with Nate; back off. 

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8 hours ago, boes said:

Billy's finest three minutes.

The fact that he went three minutes would make it Billy’s finest hour, so to speak.

Summer sort of has Chance, but you have to understand that she sees Claire and Kyle sharing that smoking hot sibling chemistry while also dating and… well, it makes her yearn for how things used to be with Kyle back in the day.

If I may correct Victor, Summer’s marriage imploded because she chose being an accessory to her mother’s crimes over her husband. Poor Victor, all alone in his shadowy raunch, plotting revenge and unable to get his lackey on the phone. Imagine if he devoted his golden (platinum? titanium?) years to not being a dick. Maybe his raunch would be filled with light and love and all that Hallmark bullshit instead of dour faced visitors lining up to kiss the ring and GTFO.

Speaking of undeserved ass kissing, Michael’s at it again. He has no rhyme or reason for his loyalty to Victor and can’t explain it in any way that makes sense. I guess there’s the father figure thing, but Michael’s seen what Victor does to his own kids. If Michael hates the Jabot plan so much, he shouldn’t do it. Warn Jack. Sabotage it. It’s not like Victor won’t turn on him for some made up reason eventually.

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I truly appreciate how there’s room in most episodes for someone to fawn over Steffy. Whether it be her mother offering compliments in a beige monotone or her hand puppet husband, Steffy always has someone polishing her apple. The problem is that the apple is actually a cow flop and now all these other characters are covered in shit.

But, hey, Steffy’s father excels at ruining characters, so she’s a chip off the ol’ turd monolith. I’m sure Brooke’s dignity is around somewhere; the hobo she’s so hot for probably stole it and hid it in his favorite train car. How cold, arrogant, degrading and cruel does Ridge have to be to snap Brooke out of this? There’s nothing romantic about watching a woman throw her daughter under the bus for a misogynist oil slick. That bindle toting bozo had the gall to bring up Thomas, his child abusing, murdering stalker son, as part of Hope’s pattern of ruining men? Nah, man. Ridge and Taylor created both the monsters that have tried to ruin Hope’s life. Hilarious that Ridge can imagine Hope terrorizing FC employees. By hilarious, I mean fuck off. The moon doesn’t have enough square footage to handle the enormity of his projection.

The high powered fragrance inventor has nothing better to do than tattletale to Steffy that daddy was talking to Brooke behind closed doors? God, Steffy, stop answering Daphne’s calls with “bonjour”, you pretentious fool.

It just blows my mind that Brooke and Carter are doing a good job, having success and have the chance to succeed even more, but they’d give it up for a vulgar clod who insults them to their face and says even worse things behind their back. Ridge continually escalates his vitriol against Hope. I wouldn’t let him on company grounds, but I’m not hobo-curious like Brooke and Carter.

Truer words were never spoken than when Finn declared that Steffy deserved to know the truth about Luna. Also wanted to give him props for the excellent photoshop of the Nozawa women all happy and smiling together.

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Do the show runners know that Victor comes off as a straight up psychopath? Stop trying to gild the cow flop with the frequent lie that he took a bullet for his family. We all saw what happened. The Lord of the Underworld will decide when the Abbotts have suffered enough? Is that so? Maybe Traci should decide that and repossess her daughter’s property.

Remember, like, when Michael had dignity and self-respect? Pepperidge Farm remembers. He immediately gets dressed down by Victor upon entering the raunch, but still keeps his ass seated and decides to be complicit in the next legally dubious round of bullshit. That’s the well-earned reward for being so loyal to one narcissist that you agree to risk being murdered by another one. As if Michael couldn’t easily ply his trade elsewhere instead of toiling in Satan’s suck factory.

Summer was certainly looking at Kyle like he was a tasty morsel as he stood at the bar. Somebody was starving for tall glass of newly expired milk, amirite? Wonder if Kyle will catch a clue that Victor is up to something, or will the clue get stuck in his pompadour as it sails over his head? See, Claire, a leopard can’t change its spots. But you could have and should have.

Daniel and Summer could have benefited from a clue that not everyone uses their mother as shorthand for petty, jealous and obsessive. Good luck at your new job, Daniel, and keep that sense of humor intact for when Phyllis torches the whole thing trying to get in Billy’s pants.

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Wow. Now Brooke is thiiisss close to blaming her daughter for “the coup.” Stay classy.

It must be hell at Forrester Creations under Carter’s brutal corporate regime. Why wouldn’t morale be low with all the success and dignity and stuff? No hobos washing their junk in the janitor’s closet sink and no two minute Logan hates? Who can work under such conditions?

Ridge, buddy, companies change hands all the time, even companies named after people. You ain’t special. Hope was dropping truth bombs all over you, but, luckily for you, you’re armored in your own arrogance.

Did Steffy call Hope a seditious traitor? Seriously? Fuck off. She and her parents are unwatchable. 

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Victor and Nikki are, unsurprisingly, awful as usual. Condescending to Lily, lording their win over her and pretending she’s the unreasonable one for not fawning at their feet is some next level entitled asshole behavior. All Lily wants as a peace offering is dirt on Damien? Hopefully once she gets it, she thanks Victor and tells him to get bent.

There is more chemistry between Billy’s nostrils than between Claire and Kyle. Maybe Claire should stop pushing grandpa on Kyle like she’s trying to introduce him to meth. As much as I hate giving Kyle credit for anything, he has vastly more experience with Victor’s terrorizing of the Abbott family than her ass does. Claire’s “I have a family now” shtick is going to become the next Victor’s orphanage story, isn’t it?

Don’t turn thirsty now, Holden. 

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Ha ha, look at what an asshole Hope is, actually celebrating the company’s success! Like, who does that? Carter needs to apologize ASAP for doing a good job and treating employees with respect. Douche. Honest to fuck, who reads this drivel and approves it? Do they live on planet Earth?

I know there’s an audience somewhere for misogynist bullies and abusive hobos, but there’s also an audience eager to watch these toxic knobs get their comeuppance. Apparently the show is going all in on blaming Hope for everything, so the latter audience can suck it.

Brooke still chasing Ridge after the way he attacked her daughter has ruined her. 

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17 hours ago, boes said:

Higher education to the Newmans means auditing a few night classes at Baraboo Clown College and not even completing those.  

And yes, I DID get a glimpse at Nick's resume.  He majored in Squirting corsage therapy and timing his farts to a flugelhorn. 

I see we’re disregarding Nick’s rigorous post-graduate studies. He is a proud alumnus of DUH, THE Douchebro University (The ‘h’ is silent and purely cosmetic). In fact, he was the star knucklehead for the DUH Garbage Apes pocket pool team, shattering school records for most cranks yanked per match. Don’t ask to see the trophy.

In the world of academics, it’s publish or perish, and our Mr. Newman burned the midnight oil and a shipping container’s volume in crayons producing the kind of research that landed him in the C suite of his father’s company. His work appears in such influential journals as Flatulent Academic Research Theories, Petroleum Coiffure Processing, Monogamy Only Restrains Our Nature and Opting Out of Protected Sex.

While Nick did not bring the typical set of skills to the corporate world, like simple math, reading for comprehension and business etiquette, his ability to lob sulphuric tush torpedoes has turned the tide of negations in Newman Enterprises favor. It’s hard to resist the pungent persuasion when the office door is locked from the outside.

Y’all need to come correct on shaming this man’s non traditional education.

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9 hours ago, surfgirl said:

The squirming around on the couch like she accidentally on purpose sat on a vibrator

I have been slain. Bring surfgirl to justice!

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I’m so sorry that no one could celebrate the successful launch of the jewelry line. It just ain’t a party without a vulgar hobo on the scene. You have to give it to Carter; nothing says Valentine’s Day like asking your girlfriend to apologize to her tormentors. Idiot.

I have to echo the confusion about what exactly Brooke was trying to say to Carter about not having someone he loves with him on Valentine’s Day. What exactly is going on here? Is there a threesome on the horizon or something? That was some idiotic dialogue.

Why is Daphne watching the jewelry launch with the Forrester clown collective? Is her character actually an alien learning to use her new human body, ‘cause that’s the vibe I’m getting.

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Now I know what ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag looks like in soap form. Talk about mailing it in for the holidays.

Adam’s subconscious is one greedy sumbitch. He dreams that Chelsea, in some of her, uh, finest Valentine’s Day schmatta and Sally both want a piece of him. Get over yourself, sir. Adam and Chelsea have all the sexual and romantic chemistry of a goldfish fucking a pineapple ring.

Sharon is dreaming about Nick, but never gets to the part of the fantasy where she falls short of his lofty standards and he treats her like hot garbage.

I thought Phyllis’ dream would have her clutching Billy in her talons and flying him to her mountaintop aerie to commit unspeakable acts against him, so her sequence was pretty tame.

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Why is so much time spent on Phyllis’ perspective and listening to her caw caw about it to whoever will listen? She’s obnoxious, selfish and childish, and I think we all can safely guess what kind of crazy thoughts are ping ponging around in her head. Billy shouldn’t have called her to begin with, but he definitely should have hung up when she told him something he’d already said could wait a few days. Nick should have walked away at her first wisecrack, not gone to get a drink with her. Stop indulging the egomaniac.

The way I remember Nate’s earlier interactions with Amy, fwiw, is that Amy said she never told Jackson or Damien the truth about Damien’s paternity. She wanted to tell him now so he’d have family when she was gone. Whether any of it is true, I don’t know, but that’s my recollection. And, damn, Damien sure liked what he saw when he almost ran into Lily.

I’m sure whatever secret is shared between Audra and Holden will be a huge letdown, as are most of JG’s stories. Or maybe we’ll never know what happened, like when Ian came back to life in the ambulance. It was cruel to tease us with a Tucker mention.

Billy never learns, despite getting all that oxygen to his brain from the deluxe intake vents on his face. 

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Daphne LePew was slinking and slouching and making weird faces BUT with very little accent. Carter, while thinking about what she said, should be processing why she said it. Talk about overstepping boundaries. I wasn’t aware that launching a special fragrance required one to imitate a cartoon skunk on the daily in the executive office. The business world is a mystery.

I could be sick every time Steffy crows about Operation Carter Walton. I suppose she thinks every man is just a hand puppet for their lady, but the operation is insulting to the man she claims to respect. He has no agency, no independent thoughts and is just an object to be manipulated. Oh, and Steffy was going to pimp out her so-called friend for her own benefit. Also gross. If Daphne is such a great pal and talent, why hasn’t Steffy had Forrester do business with her before? Could it be that Steffy has all the vision and creativity of a broccoli floret?

Brooke. I mean… what else can be said? Imagine giving up a plum position where you can make a positive difference and see people treated with respect, including your own daughter. Turning the company back over to the self-righteous assholes who created such a toxic, miserable environment and never tried anything new, throwing your daughter to the wolves who called her a bitch and a slut… and for what, exactly? Ditch peen? Ridge probably calls out his own name in bed. Why would you ever want a man who hates your kids but expects you to kiss his rotten, disrespectful kids’ asses?

This show is going all in on blaming women for everything wrong that happens, unless that woman is Steffy. 

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Does Nick just stalk Sharon all day, waiting to intervene if someone gives her attitude? I like Sharon more than most, but perhaps a retail transaction isn’t the best time/place to apologize. Read a room and don’t insist on performing your redemption tour to unreceptive audiences. Might I also add that I have no earthly idea why Sharon gives two dumpster fucks about Phyllis forgiving her? No one should care what Phyllis thinks, especially Sharon.

Speaking of that narcissistic pterodactyl, to have Daniel sit there and praise her parenting was sick making. I know he’s a schmuck, but one is moved to ask: was Phyllis there for you when she pretended to be dead? Did she have your back when she told Summer she was still alive but not you? Why would Phyllis let you be seen with her in that dress if she truly cared?

Claire and Summer shading each other over Kyle was… something. Ladies, do better. Want better.

Please, show, please do not make me endure Philly again. Don’t even hint at it. Billy was actually entertaining me by not answering her repeated phone calls. He almost seems like a human being with Sally. 

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How absolutely touching it was to hear, yet again, how deeply in love with Steffy her husband is. Accompanied by stirring inspirational background music and beige noise emitted from her mother’s piehole, Steffy once again marveled at all the things Finn does for her, how devoted he is to her and his revolutionary discovery that the sun rises and sets on her ass. Lest she experience a moment of humility, her parents were there to assure Steffy that her flatulence surpassed Daphne Rose’s fragrances in beauty. Taylor decides to address Steffy’s asshole in a cage trauma months later, because plot convenience.

It pains me to say this, but if Bill could shut the fuck up, that would be swell. No one would understand why Luna is in his house because the show has yet to offer a valid explanation. And, really, who died and made him the arbiter of what proper parenting is? Why is he so trusting of a double murderer? I’m not feeling a lot of remorse coming from Luna. When Bill mentions remorse, yes, she turns on the waterworks and gives her “I’m so horrible” speech. Big deal. That stupid little story about her Finn dream was exceedingly cringe.

 

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16 hours ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

Uh, so after Vicky & Nick correctly confronted Vic on his awfulness & forgetfulness of his past actions & he stumbled away with a screaming rant . . . did those 2 really give him an “aw, that’s our daddy & ain’t he adorable” look?  Seriously, Show, WTF?

Indeed they did! That’s just Victor being Victor, y’all. If you can’t see the charm in having your child arrested on phony charges at her wedding, then I guess you didn’t grow up in a toxic, dysfunctional, gilded manure pile ruled by an evil dung beetle. Like holy shit, people, the Newmans are such damaged, broken weirdos who have normalized decades of abuse and misery that it still manages to shock me. Victor’s hatred and jealousy of the Abbotts is clearly more important to him than his precious family, but the family is still willing to line up for whatever crumbs of “affection” he has left over for them.

Also, having Victor forbid a romance between Kyle and Claire doesn’t do a damn thing to create chemistry between them or get me to root for them. Valiant effort though. I lied. It’s a shit effort worthy of a hack.

Can’t Harrison just act like a kid? Why does the precocious have to be cranked up to 11 all the time? He always says just the right thing at the right time. It’s like Connor with his random delivery of OCD PSAs. Just act like normal kids. We can handle it.

Damien sure is cheerful.

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Well, isn’t this nice? Instead of implying it, we have two dicks straight up blaming Poppy for Luna murdering two men. I mean, I expect that sort of bullshit from someone under Steffy’s thumb, but Deacon really disappointed me. Oh, if only Luna had known Finn or Tom, she’d be a perfect little angel! It’s weird how so many other children of single parents don’t commit multiple homicides.

The highlight of the episode had to be when Finn declared Poppy had taken advantage of him. Has it even been a week since Finn described that night very differently? Awful writing. Just awful.

Speaking of awful, Steffy blew off Finn’s big secret to go smug it up at work and, even more hilariously, drop by the Forrester mansion in the hopes she’d catch her parents making out. I’m not one to kink shame, but I could make an exception here. 

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4 hours ago, Denize said:

I think NinjaPenguins was saying RealDamian could be Phyllis' new love interest

Yes indeed. If Real Damian isn’t too busy competing in a stick measuring contest with Devon. Who has the longest titanium rod wedged betwixt their butt cheeks? Stay tuned!

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I kinda like Fake Damian. 
 

7 hours ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

Wow, Real Damian is a hostile, angry, unpleasant little creep, ain’t he?

So what I’m hearing is… we’ve found a new love interest for Phyllis?

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Genoa City Blowhole

NEWS EXCLUSIVE! Abbott Communications to launch

A daring new media enterprise is threatening to disrupt the market under the leadership of raconteur and renaissance man Billy Abbott. Don’t let the bland company name fool you; Abbott Communications will absolutely upset the dominant paradigm in the realms of media and technology. Billy Abbott has already assembled his dream team through savvy recruiting and merciless browbeating peppered with buzzwords.

Phyllis Summers is a dynamic, energetic force of nature akin to the star of the documentary Cocaine Bear. Her computer skills will be invaluable to the startup, but she brings more to the table than that. “She’s a carbon based life form who believes in me,” Abbott explained. “That is worth its weight in gold.”

Daniel Romalotti is best known for launching the Omega Sphere gaming platform, which currently lags behind Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, Steam and your mom’s basement in total users and downloads. His game “Princess Luisa” was voted “Best Thing to Download on Your Worst Enemy’s Computer” by the Technology Journalism Association, beating out X and a number of malware programs. When asked about the opportunity to work for an innovator like Abbott, Romalotti said “I’m just waiting for him to do something stupid, like launch a cryptocurrency called Nosecoin. Then I’ll be out the door.”

Lest anyone think Abbott Communications is a fly by night flash in the pan, the venture is backed by cosmetics titan Jack Abbott, whose naive belief that his younger brother can’t possibly screw up again has inspired Billy to new heights. The co-CEO of Jabot was quite pleased by the business plan for AC. “Did you say he was hiring Phyllis? *&$$#$&& that mother&&**(( in the $#@@$&!” 

Asked to describe his game changing new media company, Billy Abbott offered this: “We’re human, we’re cutting edge, we think outside the box. We have integrity. We’re relentless in the pursuit of excellence. We’re Newman Media without the rabies and bad haircuts. But this isn’t about Newman. It’s about me, until it becomes about Phyllis. Don’t worry, folks. We’re folding the Blowhole into the Abbott media empire. For old time’s sake, here’s some advice: prepare to be dazzled.”

 

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17 hours ago, KerleyQ said:

They really are going to set up the story that Poppy is at fault for Luna's crime spree, aren't they? Of all the ways they could have played all of this, that's what they decided on?  

This show hates women, absolutely hates them. To be fair, I’ve started to hate it back. Two of the main characters we’re supposed to view as protagonists, Ridge and Steffy, are as despicable as it gets. We get scene after scene of their insufferable smugness and self-righteousness, with a dose of Steffy’s profoundly unhealthy parent trapping fixation thrown in. Then you have the double murderer swanning about the Spencer estate in sweater pants, playing hide and seek with Bill’s unknowing sons. The writers are going to major mileage out of Luna having near misses with Liam and Will, as if I tune in for a daytime version of Three’s Company.

Most disappointing today was Brooke giving two unwashed fucks about Ridge and worse yet, being so hot to give anything back to Steffy. Have some damn self respect. It’s not particularly entertaining to watch a woman repeatedly go out of her way to be treated like trash by an ogre who is all up in his feels about betraaaayyyal. 

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I can’t decide which is worse - Steffy’s hateful smugness paired with the medieval idea that without Hope’s sinful lady parts leading him astray, Carter would still be the family yes man OR whatever the hell Daphne LePew thinks she’s doing. Is there a word that combines douche chills with secondhand embarrassment but also turns both sensations up to 11? I recommend naming that feeling “daphne.” Zende, make yourself useful and fall for the Nose. We’ll see how loyal your cousin is to you when you interfere with her plans.

I get that Finn is experiencing intense emotions, ones that haven’t been pre approved by his keeper. He’s probably forgotten how to handle feelings and thoughts that are strictly his own. Still, I was hella uncomfortable with his last bout of temper and stepping into Poppy’s space. 

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Daphne referred to herself in the third person. I can’t.

Zende needs to see someone about his convenient plot amnesia. He acts like he never heard Brooke’s plan. It also seems  like he’s doing well creatively without the threat of his line being cut looming over him. Buy a clue, bud.

Well, Finn has Covid. Kind of late in the game for a topical, socially relevant story, but whatever.

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No one holds a candle to Daphne LePew when it comes to triggering secondhand embarrassment or sending douche chills up my spine. This is how a perfume powerhouse acts? All she does is repeat whatever Carter says in her whispery waif voice while invading his personal space. Her scenes are more like workplace sexual harassment videos as opposed to the steamy seduction we’re supposed to be buying. Please, stop this fool storyline and let us never speak of it again.

I feel like Luna just tells Bill whatever she thinks he wants to hear. OMG!!! She mentioned Steffy, the true victim in all this madness if you ignore she’s still alive. What a breakthrough! Luna is not striking me as all that remorseful when she spends most of her screen time whining about retconned bad parenting. Also, what the hell does Bill even know about rehabbing a double murderer? The clever cover story given to Luna’s prison visitors is “I can’t tell you shit”? That will certainly stifle Poppy’s curiosity!

Steffy, shut your dirty little mouth. Do you forget where your grandpa’s funding came from? Those were some mighty fine bootstraps he pulled himself up with. Are we supposed to see Hope as some sort of villain as she describes a healthy, functional workplace that doesn’t run on spite? As someone who has unfortunately landed in a couple of toxic workplace situations, let me assure the writers that there are zero Forrester employees who would welcome Steffy’s poisonous leadership style back.