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The portrait ostensibly given to John Abbott as a wedding present from Dina is of a woman dressed & coiffed like Marie Antoinette. Perhaps one of John's ancestors ... or Dina's? An odd choice.

Did Diane move the fireplace to a different wall? (Who would do such a time-consuming and structurally complex thing unnecessarily?). I thought it was on the wall next to the archway by the front door, not on the wall next to the closed door nearer the couch. I need before and after pictures! Didn't Sharon when she lived there have a similar storyline which ended up with no demonstrable change besides new drapes. Getting rid of 50 years of dust and cobwebs and some fresh paint may have been all it took to brighten the place up. I too liked it as a tribute to Dina since the room seemed like a reminder of how the house looked before she left the family. There is something comforting about the house you grew up in or grandma's house staying relatively unchanged. But normally the kids move out and decorate their own homes in the style they prefer to live in today.

It was a trend in the 1990s(?), mostly by mall rats who were trying to look sportif like marathon runners or Tour de France cyclists who wear them to keep wrists warm and protect knuckles from road debris kicked up by other racers. They do make arms look longer & thinner and cover up sun damage and protruding veins.

It was a timber farm before they bought it, so they may already have the right to continue even if it does not fit Janelle's dream.

When touching her face with those thumbhole sleeves/palms, all I can think about is how many dirty doorknobs, toilets, hand shakes etc. have they come in contact with. What I don't understand is why every person he comes in contact with doesn't ask Holden why he is still in town.

The best idea would be to keep the timber farm as a timber farm and just build a house and a vegetable garden on a small part of it, for starters. After Coyote Pass I'm surprised they chose another property with no water or electricity. That is why they got it for "cheap".

Does CBS still run polls asking viewers what they want to see (or not see) on Y&R? I would not have voted for all she show money going for new, odd hairdos for Nikki every day, or endless boring scripts of people sitting around talking about things we aren't interested in?

I don't recall it happening to Chance, but it definitely happened with Adam Newman, who was in Billy's car when he crashed it while blaming Adam for Delia's death. Adam disappeared (assumed dead after being swept away by a river, like Dru, Malcolm, Jordan...). He tore off his plastic surgery bandages and came back to GC played by Justin Hartley, at first calling himself Gabriel Bingham, taking the identity of another assumed-dead person, the grandson of a rich elderly GC woman.

My theory is that they can only afford one camera person and one boom mic so it is easier to have everyone sitting down. Hopefully this means fewer car and plane crash storylines.

Thankfully he doesn't call her "Pumpkin" while referring to Ashley as "My Beauty" like his father.

A neighbouring lot of the same size is for sale for $425K, but that lot is serviced with utilities. And Kody thinks they saved a lot by buying raw land ... yes, but they miss out on higher profits when it is sold!

And a white board facing the public entrance, for all to see their clues. Although once they draped a bedsheet over it when they noticed someone snooping.

I'm half expecting Ian & Jordan to break him out of jail.

Chance barely has any lines and just looks like a deer in the headlights or a confused dimwit. I assumed he was just going through the motions for a short contract stint, but he is back in the intro shots.

After 30 years of loud & over-the-top acting, Michelle Stafford's Phyllis' skills are finally put to use to advance and finally wrap up a storyline!

I remember the ads and thought Shelly Hack looked fantastic in them, but I knew I never could look that cool and breezy so never wore Charlie.

My sister had an implant after she lost a molar to an abscess. To fill the hole in her jaw to have something to screw the implant into, they took a tiny piece of one of her own ribs (instead of a cadaver bone) to grind up and stuff in the hole. Then it took a couple of months for that to become part of her jawbone. Then the implant was added.

I'm starting to hope that she is "Aristotle Dumas" or is at least working with "AD". If she takes Victor's job offer, she could demolish NE from the inside and Y&R might become interesting again.

They should have put R&K's names on one big and one small lot and M&J's names on the other big and small lots. That way M&J could move ahead with a sale and split the proceeds 50/50 and get on with their lives. K&R could keep their land forever for all I care.

~20 years ago my mother had to change her bank deposit information for her SS checks and we helped her. Since her mother had died when Mom was 3, when it came to her mother's maiden name, we knew how to pronounce it but it took two tries to spell it the way the SS office records spelled it (incorrectly actually based on my genealogy research). They still let us change it over the phone. We would have hauled her into a SS office, but in the middle of a blizzard we were glad we didn't have to, but it would have been really easy to do if we were scammers or greedy kids or grandkids with access to her mail.

I've also wondered if Amy could be in on it since she started the whole mystery brother SL. I checked to see if her father Frank Lewis overlapped with Victor and he did (1982-1985), so I wondered if she was seeking retribution for something. Frank was the GC Police Commissioner & Paul’s father’s boss. Frank was critically wounded while on duty and in a coma; he came out of it only to have a heart attack and slip back into it. After Frank had recovered, Paul also worked for the GCPD. In 1985, Frank moved to San Diego. He later suffered a stroke. But I cannot remember if Frank's injury had anything to do with Victor Newman. The Dumas name attached to the Monte Cristo company name seemed like a set-up from the beginning. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas père, tells the story of an unjustly incarcerated man who escapes to find revenge. Victor is probably responsible for several people being unjustly incarcerated. Who could it be? I'd assumed that the ship that Victor had blown up when trying to kill Jackabbott was Peruvian, but perhaps it was flying under a Greek flag, like 'Aristotle'.

Phyllis is old enough to be Sally's mother; 'Billy' was only 3 when 'Daniel' was born. Y&R should change its name to Middle-aged and Ready-for-a-nap, especially with the boring dialog.

The mystery woman was hanging up coats & memorizing who to give them back to as they left. She also served a tray or two of hor d'oeuvres. Miguel 2.0? or a temp hire?

I've always liked pterodactyls, but it would have been more likely for Phyllis to find mastodon bones when the hole for the hotel across the street was dug - in Wisconsin.

They got married on Wednesday, November 13, 2034, Y&R's 13,000th episode (I had to look it up because I wasn't sure if I had imagined the unmemorable occasion). A few family members stood around listening to Victor talk in his livingroom; it didn't look or seem like a wedding. They immediately left town & Abby was taken off contract, and we rarely see Devon. So no flashbacks either.