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I hated that cringey music too. The rest was okay.

Maybe Brady will vote "Present" effectively keeping it a tie. My theory on the night E.J. was shot: I think Johnny came by with a gun and had an argument with his father. Rachel heard it, and tried to get them to stop. I'm not sure how, but she managed to get a gun and pointed it at Johnny as a warning. Somehow, E.J. got in front of him, and when the gun went off accidentally, he got shot. Johnny's guilt feelings are over the fact that he left a little girl to process her trauma and to him, that proves he's just like his father.

FWIW, they cut out a scene at the beginning with the nuns and midwives at recreation. Joyce wonders where Nancy and Colette are since they have to prepare for the wedding. Trixie says she's probably using her as an example since she had everything planned to the last detail and you know how that went. Sr. Veronica says Trixie;s wedding was very nice in the end. Phyllis observes that it's too bad Trixie won't be at Nancy's wedding; after all, she had been a bridesmaid at Trixie's. Trixie says she is going to be a bridesmaid at Matthew's partner's wedding. She says there will be 14 in sugared almond shades with a pure lace trim, and she couldn't decline the honor. To which Joyce points out that's the problem with living on two sides of the ocean: you can't be two places at once.

Kevin reminds me of Matthew Broderick.

Another one late to the party who loved the show. I know Ron was based partly on Jerry Lanning, whom Gwen supposedly met when he played Joe Hardy to her Lola in an entertainment for the McGovern campaign. Interestingly enough, he did play Joe Hardy in a 1967 TV movie version of "Damn Yankees" which starred Phil Silvers as Mr. Applegate and Lee Remick as Lola. Linda Lavin played Gloria. There was very little dancing because, for the most part, they put in Monty Python-type animation whenever there was supposed to be dancing. You can find it on YouTube.

I'm not sure, and of course, the rules are different in soapland, but I think if someone is put into a medically induced coma, they have to be taken out of it. They don't just wake up naturally. Every time I see a shirtless pic of the guy who plays Xander, I always think of the old Groucho Marx quote about why he didn't see "Samson and Delilah:" I never go to movies where the man's t*ts are bigger than the woman's."

"Karen" is indeed a great book. Fun Fact: The Killileas were friends with John Kerr who was a prominent New York theater critic and his wife Jean who was a best selling author in her own right.

The problem with "let's see if we can have EJ brought up on charges" is that this isn't about getting justice for the victim. It's about getting revenge because they blame him for the adoption falling through.

I'm going to push back a bit on the idea the parents were evil. They seemed genuinely sad about leaving their baby and somewhat ashamed. I have a question for anyone who lived in the UK at the time: In one of the deleted scenes we see Nerys cleaning up after the children and she has white baby dolls. Nothing wrong with that, but did they have black baby dolls in the UK then? I don't mean golliwogs or Barbie type dolls. I mean regular old baby dolls.

Here are the deleted scenes: CTM 14.3 Right after Joyce visits Nerys, we go over to a scene of Shelagh teaching a relaxation class with Mrs. Lasley in attendance. Right after we see the nuns and midwives at tea, we go to Rosalind and Joyce in their room. Rosalind says she feels bad because the nuns didn't get a pay rise and she wants to get them a gift but she knows they couldn't accept it. She asks Joyce what she plans to do with her money and she says she just wants to look at it. She also tells Rosalind not to feel bad about getting a raise because they worked hard and they earned it. They cut a scene of Mr. Lasley pacing and Miss Higgins asking him if he'd like to sit down and not wear a hole in her carpet. He says he's okay. They cut out a scene of Joyce visiting Nerys who is suspicious that she's checking up on her. Joyce says she's brought orange juice and milk tokens. The children are sitting at a table drawing and Joyce says they look good and that Nerys is obviously using the cream on their rashes. Nerys thanks her for all her help, and Joyce says she can speak to her health visitor, but Nerys says there's no need. They cut out a scene of Sister Julienne bringing a cup of tea to Trixie who is working on her address to the Board of Health. She tells her that so far she's just introduced herself and pointed out she's not a nun which Sister Julienne says should be obvious. Trixie says she can't make any mistakes and that she wants to go through the statistics from 1969 backwards. They cut out a bit when Joyce and Rosalind walked in the street. It's Rosalind suggesting they use part of their wage increase to go see "The Italian Job" at the cinema. They cut out a scene that starts out with Rosalind walking by Cyril's church and looking sad. She picks up Nigel and sees Violet who tells her that Fred was supposed to feed him but Heaven only knows where he is. She then asks Rosalind about the baby and Rosalind says she's doing very well after her operation but they still don't know what's going to happen to her.

Don't forget "Abie's Irish Rose" was for many years one of the most popular plays in New York.

Who knows that Harry is her grandson? I know both Nurse Crane and Roger's mother do, but does anyone else? After all, he called her "Grandma" in private, not in public.

To be fair to Sophia, even if they go down the "Aaron is the real father" route, I believe she honestly thinks Tate is the father.

No, she isn't. She's behaving like someone who plans to keep her baby and have a relationship with the baby's father.

My VPN was being wonky, so I didn't get a chance to do a deleted scene thing, but I remember there was part of a scene cut out between Joyce and Trixie where she tells Trixie she has a letter from America. Trixie opens it up, reads it, smiles, and tells Joyce that Matthew has sent her a lock of Jonty's hair. She says she must miss him terribly, and she says she does. Anyway, I think that helped inspire Trixie to take some of Arlene's baby's hair to give to her.