Snaporaz

Is this emergency trip for CK's maternity leave? I don't know how far along she is. Tucker's nebulous plans for Jabot and CW have been going on for what seems like forever, and they haven't progressed at all. Meanwhile, the Claire-Aunt Jordan story moved at warp speed. I noticed in the credits that JG is no longer the sole writer. That has to be an improvement, right? Right??

I still don't get the relevance of the music. Despite the countless times people have thrown Nikki's stripper past in her face, she has never been ashamed of it. Quite the opposite, actually. And I'm pretty sure she didn't have a drinking problem at that time. So why is the music "breaking" her? Could Jordan have been one of her rival dancers at The Bayou? Happy St. Nicholas Day, Preverts! Let's all toast Nick on his onomastico with a nanner smoothie! 🍌🦍

⬆️ I didn't understand the significance of that music on the phone call. Was it another obscure reference, like the Victorian doll? I'm no lawyer and laws may vary from state to state, but an HR person once told me that employers are not permitted to give negative references. The most you could do is decline to give a reference,so Nate could sue both Victor and Nikki for defamation for what they just said to Devon.

Oh my gods, Hope, what the...? I don't usually comment on hair or clothes, but that hair? Those clothes? She looks like she's on her way to a Moms4Liberty book-burning. I thought Eric would get some miracle cure from Finn or Bridget or even freaking Sheila, but all of those This Was Your Life flashbacks are making it look like Eric really is at the end.

Yeah, so much potential here for a really great story, and JG effs it up AGAIN. It's over before it gets started. Yes, Aunt Jordan is still out there somewhere, but so are Stitch and his loon of a son. If Claire isn't Baby Eve, then what was the point of this?

⬆️ I think Daisy abandoned Lucy at a church or something, and the woman who found her sold her to Rose DeVille's daughter Primrose DeVille (carrying on the family baby broker bizniss!), who sold her to Billy as a gift for Victoria.

If you count Sharon as a Newman, you could add Mariah to the list (although Mariah was stolen before Sharon met the Newmans). Sheila only stole the one, but she's a multi-tasking psycho when it comes to criming. Yay! I voted for useless Nick and he won! I wonder if Christian will even notice? When Nick had Jordan in the headlock, he really had that lower-primate posture going on.🦍

If loving Claire and Aunt Jordan is wrong, I don't want to be right. I hope they throw Victor in the basement and feed him rats. Karma has been a-comin' for that slippery weasel for years now. It's about time he was held accountable for some damn thing. So I guess Jordan took newborn Claire and swapped her for a stillborn baby? I'm a little confused about the animosity towards Cole, though. I wish these two could stick around and be treated to a ticker-tape parade in GC, but I know we can't have nice things.

I know they're sappy, but I was looking forward to the Thanksgiving episode where they go around the table and say something nice about the person sitting to their left. This was disappointing. Happy Thanksgiving to all of youse!

⬆️⬆️⬆️When did Devon and Abby get married? I daydream a lot and must have missed it. I can't figure out what the plan is for when all the Newmans get to the lake house? And now Cole is there, so how are Claire and Aunt Jordan going to corral all of them? Tomorrow's show should be a good long-weekend cliffhanger. I would normally agree with you, but Victor and his enabler Nikki are such loathsome trash that they have this coming. At least Claire is giving Nikki top shelf vodka when all she deserves is Mad Dog 20/20. Nikki is at her best when she's drunk. She and Neil were like Genoa City's version of those two hecklers who sat in the balcony on the Muppet Show.

I don't think it was ever established that the affair with the doctor resulted in a pregnancy. We just assumed it did because Li's story was so vague. All Li said was that the doctor's wife learned of the affair and the doctor blamed Li instead of his own lack of self-control, and Li lost her job.

Cole's reported return may have nothing at all to do with Claire. Cole got around, so he could hook up with his newly-single ex Victoria, or his newly-single ex Ashley, or his chronically-single ex Nina, giving her something else to do besides play mother hen to Chance. I doubt he's here to woo his stuck-in-abusive-relationship ex Nikki, though.

If the speculation is true and Claire is Victoria's and Cole's (not-dead) daughter Eve, then I guess Great-Aunt Jordan would be the sister of Cole's mother Eve or his father Rick, both of whom were bat-crap crazy. Eve and Rick both tried to kill Victor and/or Nikki multiple times. I've always been kind of lukewarm towards Nikki, but I haven't been able to stand her recently. So I thought the vodka IV was a hilarious twist and almost forgave Josh for all the tripe he's been giving us lately.

While I like these theories, they would mean that Claire should be about 10-15 years older than Summer. Although age seems to be a very fluid thing on this show, so I guess anything is possible.

I'm rooting for her, too! I hate these held-against-their-will stories so much, but I don't mind this one so far and I find myself cheering on the captor. Nice twist, Josh, although I doubt that was your intention. Claire neglected to call the Newmans inbred trash, so I can only give her an 8.75 out of 10. It was a great speech all the same! I would be all for a Claire/Ian Ward connection as long as Ray Wise is Ian Ward.🙏

I love this Zero Fucks-giving version of Hope! But she was looking all wistful when Liam said he still loves her and always will. Don't fall for it, Hope! He literally just said those exact same words to Steffy.

Yes, Nick, you were the very soul of a loyal son when you turned your father into the feds for his commercial bribery scheme. Ughh, I'm so sick of this putz. Why didn't Claire take him instead. Christian never would have noticed he was missing.

Oh my gods, did that jarhead Nick actually say that Adam has never shown any brotherly loyalty? You have got to be kidneying me!

Why is Nick considered trustworthy when he embezzled millions in real estate assets from NE to create Dark Horse not that long ago? I think Joshie needs some flashbacks to refresh his memory more than we do. I get the nagging feeling that Aunt Jordan will look remarkably like Nikki. Not a spoiler, I know nothing. But we haven't had a doppelgänger in six or seven years, so we're due. A baby swap is probably scheduled for early 2025.

Oh my gods, who really cares that Chloe wants to leave a job she's had for about three weeks? When Victor was laying his dumb trap for Nate and asked him for help, Nate suggested exactly what he ended up carrying out and Victor agreed to it. And since when is NE flailing? I thought it was the most successfulest global conglomerate that ever globally conglomerated under Victoria's leadership. Sheesh, all these stories that go nowhere. Can we at least get Chance in a hospital gown with the straps undone? Please Joshie, give us something to distract us from your incompetence.

Ok, I know I'm a dense himbo, but I'm so confused! Is Victor faking? Or is he faking the faking, or is he faking that he faked the faking? Does anyone have some Advil? I have to agree that it didn't seem like Nate had any nefarious intentions, although he did straight-up lie to Victor about his discretion, and Victoria knew he was lying.

🤣 Faith's bully was named Jordan. Could she be Aunt Jordan, if Aunt Jordan is one of those aunts who is 20 years younger than their nieces and nephews because their dad was some horny old codger who knocked up his secretary late in his life? Or does Josh have no memory of anything he wrote two years ago?

Maybe she could do a podcast.

All of this! I'm about the same age as LLB, so I was way too invested in all of the Cricket/Nina/Phillip stories. And Cricket's unwaivering disdain for Phyllis makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Can someone refresh my memory regarding who was driving the car that hit Cricket? I can't remember if it was drunk Nikki with sober Neil taking the blame, or the other way around. And did the actual guilty drunk ever fess up, or is it still a secret?

I was thinking about "The Serpent of Names" and what a ridiculous title that is for a children's book, especially one that Nick would like. I'm pretty sure he's still working his way through the Dick, Jane, and Spot series, hoping to one day move up and find out what Curious George will do with all those bananas.