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Couldn't they have brought IR on board as a new character -- and maybe hooked him up with poor, neglected, gorgeous Ivy? Perhaps as someone she knew from back home, so he could've used his natural accent? Oy, this show. I'm finding it harder and harder to stick with it. The chuckles I get from you folks is the only reason I stay at this point.

Is it just me or does it look like PF would be showing the Full Monty if not for the Austin Powers-esque arm placement of DD in that photo?!

Oh, man. I was hoping my inkling was wrong but with these writers the worst case scenario always seems to be their choice du jour. Crud.

I just had a horrible thought. Are they randomly floating Katie in Eric's orbit today because they plan on going THERE? Since we seem to agree they're chem-testing Quinn and Ridge, could they be doing the same with Eric and the only female Logan he hasn't already banged? I mean, what other storyline possibilities do they have in place for her? None. (Of course, decent writers would come up with a million better options -- but we're talking about THESE crap writers.) I already felt sick to my stomach today and I just made it worse.

Well, that does it. After today's craptacular show, I'm just going to read CountryGirl's hilarious recaps from now on and save myself 30 minutes of gouging my eyes out. That was just painful.

Is it wrong to want to punch a fictional kid and his greaseball dad? I'm starting to dislike every character on this show. :\

"I'm still (technically) your wife (at least on paper)!! Mrs. Steffy Spencer (hey, I just realized I won't have to change my driver's license or social security card when I marry Liam! Again!)!!! Isn't that enough?!!" THAT was the response to Wyatt's question about whether their marriage was over? The look on Wyatt's face mirrored my own. And yet somehow he found a scintilla of hope in it...meaning we'll be groundhogging this conversation and the chat with his mom at least a dozen more times. Oy. Please let it stop.

And yet this is a case were there actually IS an attempted robbery and manipulation taking place, with Steffy as the perp and Eric's family soon entering the fray! Those two could mope and fret about it ad nauseam like Steffy and Liam (and Hope back in the day), but thankfully they're holding their ground and not allowing it to happen. They're being adults. I guess some could see Steffy's blackmail/ultimatum as Quinn's comeuppance at last -- a taste of her own medicine after everything she's done to AND for Wyatt -- but if that's what show is going for, it isn't working for me. JMW just isn't pulling off her end. She's not the least bit sympathetic. Not one iota. She's the one coming off as unhinged, not Quinn. At any rate, I shouldn't be cheering on wackadoo Quinn (especially so soon after the horrifically creepy, best forgotten Captive Cabin storyline) but I am.

Steffy's rantings about the horrible things Quinn has done to her really feels like the writers took a red pen to some old scripts, replaced Hope's name with Steffy's and shrugged their shoulders -- "hey, Ed Begley says recycling is good!" I got tired of Hope screeching about it, but at least it made sense. And Steffy's quivering, shaking, righteous anger was cracking me up. There were enough moments in one episode to single-handedly justify resurrecting The Soup.

So...was that it for the blackmail story? It sure arose quickly and ended abruptly (like everything else on this show). And what an "edge-of-your-seat" Friday cliffhanger. Oh no! Was the scheming doctor flattened by a delivery truck? Tune in Monday to find out! :| Do we care? What was the point of this whole sidebar, aside from letting Katie in on the secret for whatever reason? Surely Brooke could've just blurted it out in her presence and saved everyone the trouble.

So how long is it going to take Liam and Quinn to pack that cabin for their big move to wherevs? Gee whiz! I mean, Liam should basically be luggage-free and Quinn didn't actually live there (right?) so her belongings should be minimal. Yet in the time they've been packing, Wyatt courted Steffy, proposed, threw together a beach wedding and got married. I mean, I know that whole "romance" moved at lightning speed, but why the heck is this one going at a snail's pace?! And it's the same conversation every day...sadly making me long for basically any other storyline even though they're just as bad. Sigh.

I know this show likes to put couples on warp speed, but what the HECK, Brooke and Bill! An old school, slow burn build-up to it might've worked. If we saw them working together for weeks or months, fighting the attraction, eventually giving in to it could've been (slightly) more palatable. But literally her FIRST DAY on the job, they both have balloon ride flashbacks and then BOOM -- we're right back to last year's scripts. Again. Repeat ad nauseam. I watched Days of our Lives during the super couples era, and I swear it took Patch and Kayla a full year to even kiss for the first time. By the time they did, you were on the edge of your seat and so invested in them your heart actually swelled two sizes like the Grinch watching it happen. It was romantic. I don't even know what to call today's supposed romances. Do they think we don't have the attention span to wait for the big moments or is it just too old fashioned?

A kissing-cousins scenario between Ivy and Thomas is nothing to this writing team...the same folks who thought it was cool for Thomas to chase his kinda-step-sister, Hope. As Anna Yolei pointed out, they nearly went *there* with Bridget and Ridge. They had Thomas and Steffy calling their grandpa "Eric" when he was dating their mother to downplay the family connection. Siblings and cousins routinely go after the same conquest. Thomas + Ivy is just another squicky day in Bell-Air. As much as I hate the thought of another triangle, I can't help but cheer that guys are finally taking notice of Ivy. Sheesh, she's a knockout -- she SHOULD have men slobbering after her! It's just too bad some of the current crop are related to her. :\

Not only that, the baby conversation went from 0-60 in a matter of minutes. From Maya tentatively broaching the baby subject to Rick saying he'd be ok with adoption to what about a surrogate to how'd you like my college-age sister to carry it to actually putting said teen sister on the spot by asking her out of the blue. Wow, you guys really put some thought into this important decision!

Knowing B&B's penchant for after-school special/social topics, I'm going to guess Ridge was in Paris getting treatment for testicular cancer and that's why he can't have kids. It would at least partially explain why he missed his own mother's funeral and would add an angsty angle to the story.