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But Claire's made out of spun sugar, rainbows and unicorn farts and Kyle's constructed from hair gel, pomade and hemorrhoid cream, it'll never work.

I'm hoping that Lily is playing Victor and Nikki as hard as they're playing her, going up against Billy and at the same time, hoping to best Victor and Nikki and snatch the kill away from them after they take down Billy. I'm hoping against hope that she's not such a naif as to believe Victor, or Nikki, will actually give her interests any real weight, in spite of all of their tin-plated, phony laments over Katherine and Neil. She should also remember quite well the many times Victor crapped all over Neil. I know it's unlikely to work out this way, considering the storylines Josh Griffith has given us so far, but I hope that with Lily, this time, still waters are running deep. It's been suggested that she and Billy are in this together, but I can't see that. Billy is just too idiotic and ego driven and for him to be able to play this through to the end without messing it up would be too big a rewrite for the character to be anywhere near believable. Marchetti Z is going to be big hit, isn't it? Just as big as Jaboutiques turned out to be. Lauren, Chloe, Summer and Sally are less a Dream Team and more a Nightmare Alley. I'd be fine if somehow Connor managed to get both his parents admitted to a facility against their will, as long as that facility was far, far away, and for a long, long time. Adam and Chelsea are almost as played out as Victor and Nikki are.

He has his own space, small, but it works for him.

I wish I knew what batteries Y&R were using, because they're obviously the best on the market. Otherwise, how could Chatty Cathy aka Chelsea keep up her endlessly manic tearful over-explaining, hysterical begging and continual emotional manipulation at red-eyed, snot-nosed woe-is-me Billy? There scenes together are both affecting my hearing and giving me a far too up-close and personal view of nasal congestion. Watch out, Genoa City. Sooner rather than later Billy's nasal blockage is going to blow and unless the fire department is equipped with industrial-sized Afrin, the town will be toast. Remember when Lucy first came to town, how charming she was? I thought she was the best teen character in longer than I can remember. Back then, I was also happy to see Daniel, the only voice of semi-reason within reach of Phyllis's family. Show sure upended that, didn't it? A Romalotti-free town sounds pretty wonderful right about now, IMO. Listening to those dual plague pustules known as Victor and Nikki dining on baby parts marinated in bile, while droning on with their syrupy declarations of "what Katherine would have wanted" was maybe the worst scene of the day, possibly the week. I didn't think it could get worse, but Josh Griffith managed to do just that when he had Nikki - you know, the one who blathers constantly about how she "misses" her dear friend Katherine - then use those memories to try and manipulate Lily. Gosh oh golly gee, Nikki is such a dear, isn't she? It's an achievement of sorts to be a worse character than Victor or Billy, even just for a day, but Nikki managed it. This sure has been a fun week, hasn't it?

Normal men get stopped at the Genoa City limits and are turned back.

There's absolutely nothing that could make me feel any sympathy for this version of Billy, but what the hell did he expect with Chelsea? Back two Billy's ago, when Burgess Jenkins (who we affectionately referred to as Dirty Tan Sofa played the part), that Billy dumped Chelsea at their wedding ceremony because he'd discovered she'd cheated on him with Adam who was currently masquerading as Gabriel Bingham. So, was it that infidelity, or when she drugged him up and raped him on Victor's orders that made him think that this time things would be different? I know Adam is a lying dirtbag but Billy will always be the crud you just can't ever get off your shoe.

You should have seen what they had to use when Billy Abbott needed to have oxygen tubes. No cement got poured THAT day in Genoa City.

You're right, there's no biological connection, but Jill always treated Lily's kids as if they were her grandchildren and continued to do so even after the truth came out. She was shown with Lily's kids way more than we ever saw her with ButtBiscuit's offspring.

Sooooooo......yesterday.....yes...ter..day.....what happened, again? Oh yeah, Abe had his shirt untucked and was on automatic chuckle. He might need to get his chuckler examined, though, starting to sound like he needs a new fan belt. Greg Rikaart once again proved that comedy is not his forte, with valuable assistance from Diedre Hall. If only there had been a third in their scenes other than Kate, perhaps a woodchipper? I think Stephanie also embarrassed herself, OllieBenAlex continued with his eerily accurate impression of a ventriloquist's dummy and Bonnie made me wish somebody in Salem was still burying people alive. I can't remember, was Gabi still in screech mode yesterday?

It's gotta be the cheese curds. Or, as Nikki calls them, the fromage en grains she uses on those extra frisky nights with Victor. Beats the hell out of the brussels sprouts he usually insists on. As they say, "We'll always have Genoa City". Such a soupfixycayted family, aren't they?

The only thing I can think of that isn't public knowledge is that he had a one night stand with Summer when he was with Phyllis. Pretty sleazy but it's not a business story though none of these "business" storylines are either.

Never have I ever......but yep, I'm Team Phyllis when it comes to Victor. I can't stand Phyllis but after what he did to her, I'll always back her up in going after that POS of a man. After replacing Jack with the doppelganger, having Phyllis unknowningly raped on a regular basis all because of another of his sociopathic spats with Jack, Victor should get the fuck out of her way EVERY time he sees her coming, say nothing but "I'm sorry" and grovel for the subhuman way he treated her. Phyllis is horrid in pretty much every way but there's never been and never will be any excuse for what he put her through, and absolutely no acceptable excuse for anyone, ever, forgiving or even tolerating what he did, especially her asshole daughter Summer and her buttscratching ex-husband Dickolas. That Summer still has anything to do with him is pretty damn close to unforgivable, too. Defending Phyllis isn't something I ever do but with Victor? Hell yeah.

I don't think he'd ever deliberately be this kind to the viewers. I suspect he's offscreen for a medical reason. Getting his head extracted from his own ass can be a complicated procedure.

It's all so tedious. Every day, the same crap, especially with the Nose that Knows. Yesterday we had to listen to Billy get all snarky and defensive because Jack didn't wax eloquent about how brilliant his buttbiscuitian ideas are but today, again, as always, he steamrolls Sally - as he would have anyone else - with his endless blathering about worming every freaking detail out of Chelsea and Adam and everyone else to satisfy his curiosity. God forbid anyone do anything like that to him, though. And there sat Sally, within reach of numerous steak knifes......she could have done us and all of Dairy Land itself an enormous favor but instead...... Gah! If only someone would just flog that swizzle stick of a man with a sockful of pennies and be done with it. If there is anything sadder or creepier than family time with Adam, Chelsea and Connor, I don't know what it would be. If Christian ever does find out he's Adam's kid and Connor's brother, he'll be locking himself in the garage.

No, he didn't. Neither did Victor mention it when Summer begged him to belch his displeasure at Kyle about not rolling over for her custody lawsuit. I think poor little Summer is going to be pretty shocked when she finds out that her Gwampaw Gollum is the sole reason Kyle is working with Audra to begin with, and that he'd rather keep using Kyle as part of his revenge plot against Jack than grant Summer her custody wish. She'd do better to ask him for a car. I call b.s. on Cleve changing her last name to Newman, dissing her dad in favor of those Newman Beverly Hillbilly wannabes. What a suck up. If she wanted to take Victor's true last name then she should find out what his last name was when he was called Jabba the Hut. Nikki's so excited to make Chancellor over in her own image! I just bet that tassels are involved somehow....... Katherine would be so proud - not.

Me too. Especially Nikki. She was Katherine's "best" friend the same way Kevin, Amber and every other stray that wandered into Kay's orbit was. If she was around today and saw how high, and how often Nikki stuck her nose in the air she'd be giving her a well deserved swat with a newspaper.

Idiots, particularly cute ones, can be momentarily charming when they're young. Most of our fondly remembered romantic disasters from our younger years are based on characters with that particular deficiency. But folks like that becoming increasingly less charming and more repulsive the older they get, with the bad behavior just becoming repetitive and predictable and a little bit more sordid with the passage of time. Right now, Billy Abbott has all the freshness and charm of a barnacle on the bottom of Joboat, that unidentifable thing you accidentally walk in and is now stuck in the treads of your shoe. Billy Abbott is becoming Victor Newman, with the same lack of charm and appallingly self-centered appreciation. He's the guy who comes up with the name of his company before he has any idea what the company is going to produce, the guy who names his future kids before he has a wife, plans his house before he's got a dime in the bank. Whatever illness Jill has must have gone to her brain for her to hand things over to Son # 2. Besides, if he wanted to honor Jill's legacy, then shouldn't the name be Fenmore-Foster-Reynolds-Chancellor-Brooks-Thurston-Abbott-Sterling-Abbott-Atkinson/Chancellor? Put that in your blowholes and smoke it, Billy. I hope Lily folds him and his stick legs up like a Jenga puzzle and mails him to Mongolia. And stuffs Phyllis in the box so has something to munch on while in the mail.

I do too. First time for me seeing this actress and she's really good, such a breath of fresh air. Chad hasn't looked this alive since the last time he saw Sonny. I'd rather she not be Abigail, too, but maybe she'll bring a different energy to the character if she is. I agree, Jack's been looks great this go around, and this time he's not such an annoying mess like he was before he left. Dialed back and toned down Jack is so much better IMO. I liked the post wedding scenes with Fiona and liked Fiona with Brady. Guess I just plain like Fiona. Holly, on the other hand, can fall off the Smith Island Ferry never to be found again and I'd be fine with it. She was undressing Old Teen Tate like she was opening a wrapped chicken. The storyline with those two is unintentionally pretty funny and I don't mean that in a good way.

If Ron C. was still writing then I'd expect them to be in town to help Roman and Kate celebrate their new baby.

"The world needs to be put on notice. Abbott Chancellor means business". Grandiose much, oh Bully the Abbott, Master of his Domain. His manspreading is bad enough but now he's going to mentally moon the world?? Billy Buddy, oh Buttbiscuit of my heart, the world doesn't even know what the hell Abbott Chancellor does or even that it exists. That rattling sound you hear is Billy's ego rolling around in the numbskull that passes for his noggin. Oh no!! Chelsea had a spoon crisis! But, Connor came through it just fine, cheerios and all. I was worried there for a moment that Chelz was going to come down with another case of the heaves but lucky for her, that was reserved for yet another of the worlds best mothers, Summer. The only person Audra might care less for than Harrison is Kyle. The last thing she wants is to be in the same building as Lil' Hausenpheffer, much less in his life. She's got enough on her hands trying to deal with the bouffanted toddler Victor saddled her with, she doesn't want or need another. I know that Adam and Chelsea deeply regret their 3 minute egg incident, but I don't think anyone regrets it more than those of us who have to hear about it every day. I ff'd the scenes of Michael with Victor. I can't watch him humiliate himself for a job he doesn't need from the sentient cowpie of a person one more time. It's going to take a lot of Glissade plug-ins to check the stench of these storylines and characters. Right now, each and every one of them is just one more overcooked brussels sprout.

Gosh, Sunshine, another of your loving critiques of other viewers. What a joy to have someone to point out the error of our ways.

Me too!

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I don't know what, if anything is or was wrong, but he just looks so diminished from what he looked liked some months ago. I hope he's okay.

So Connor gets home from the hospital and the first thing Chelsea does the next day is overreact and panic while he's trying to tell them about bad moment? No wonder the kid has problems with sky-is-falling Chelsea's constant breathless emotions. She's the one who could use a brownie, maybe a whole pan of them stuffed into her mouth every time she opens it. I hope Sally gets herself a slingshot and aims it exactly where it will hurt the most when Adam blurts out the truth about his night with Chelsea. Not a bad idea if she loans that slingshot to Lily so she can use it the next time Billy spreads his legs and does another monologue about how "everyone" is waiting for him to fail. Nothing like being utterly self-centered and grandiose at the same time. Billy is such a pain in the ass, flat as it is. Most people, William, don't think about you at all, unless they've just been frightened by a possessed ventriloquist's dummy or know that those nasal caverns are the twin entrances to the HellMouth. Speaking of HellMouth, Summer and Kyle seem to be neck and neck in that contest. Maybe Harrison didn't have food poisoning, maybe he's just sick of the two of them. Claire had an odd, Aunt Jordan look today, watching those two fight. Summer might not want to go worm hunting with her and Harrison, or Claire just might decide to settle the custody question on her own.