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It's also amazing that a show about the fashion industry in Los Angeles has no gay characters. But didn't Quinn talk $Bill into letting Wyatt be designated a Spencer? I never understood what that was all about.

What was the point of the restraining order if they were going to stop the pregnancy before Quinn even knew about it? Too little, too late. Also, shouldn't an uninvolved third party be serving the order?

I thought it was worse than buffoonery. It was really irresponsible to show Liam doing what he did, IMO. But, I guess that was cheaper than paying for a couple of day players to act as EMTs.

It's pretty much guaranteed that she will. I just hope he doesn't end up sleeping with her. Yeah, I think no matter what he does now, her career in the diplomatic service is over. I echo comments above and wonder what she ever saw in him. I guess his being so weak made it easier for her to park him in a corner while she forged ahead with her own climb up the ladder?

I'm just gonna go on the record now as guessing Tobias is a corporate spy for Newman. He was way too enthusiastic to be working on some new date rape perfume. I predict Ashley's new perfume is going to end up the same way as Gloria's face cream...being sued in court. Um, yeah, I'll bet Joe will take one look at that ring and make a remark so biting people three counties over will wince and say, "Ouch, what was that?"

That was a most excellent cliffhanger. Not sure I like this business of Murphy creating his own mind-controlled zombies though. That doesn't make him much different than a vampire and I hated when True Blood came up with these zombie vampire things. How about we stick with one type of supernatural being, huh?

Nah, Maya should not be wearing Brooke's clothes without Brooke's permission. That's tacky and nasty. I'm surprised Rick is okay with it because his sidepiece wearing his mommy's lingerie seems oddly sort of Oedipal.

That surprises me for several reasons but whatever, so much for the rumors that . Yeah, it's hard to believe that she has just slipped back into bed with Rick like nothing happened. That's disgusting. At the very least we should see/have seen a scene where she considers the significance and has some doubt. Heck, she should insist that Rick get STD-tested first.

ICAM. There are some sitcoms where that would have looked corny but here it was smooth as silk.

So I guess the whole point of Maya being at the shower was so Crinoline could spend the whole party rolling her eyes and then start back with the "Myrna" stuff. I'm not Team Maya but it's looking like maybe I'm not going to be able to root for either of them. Clearly the premature baby shower was intended to be an on-screen going away party but do TPTB rightly assume that the audience knows KM is leaving? Because if not, I thought it was kinda creepy when they rolled in that expensive stroller for a woman who isn't even out of her first trimester yet. I just don't see even rich Beverly HIlls women taunting fate like that so it makes no sense unless they're setting up a ridiculously tragic ending for Hope's pregnancy.

Isn't Johnny at Chelsea's place? Princess Victoria doesn't even bother to thank Chelsea (or Anita) for babysitting. I guess Johnny doesn't rate now that Victoria has a Billy Abbott baby of her very own. But with Maureen disappearing again how will Stitch prove that he didn't really kill his father? Does dry drunk Nikki realize what she just did or is she also on the Victoria&Billy4Evah bandwagon?

Not necessarily. TK's character's hottest romance on AMC began with a woman who was pregnant with another guy's kid. He could make it work if they write it right. Her carrying Ridge's brother's baby would add a certain ick factor though (IMO) if Caroline and Ridge finally surrender to their passion while she's pregnant. I'm sorry, I know what this means but my mind keeps going to a yuckier place. Ugh, the words "cake" and "diaper" should not be placed next to each other. That could be interesting since Aly can go psycho at the drop of a hat. I just hope it wouldn't turn out to be a "the girl who puts out versus the virgin in love" storyline.

Maya's getting a sister. I guess they're fleshing out the character a bit? The actress who'll be playing the sister is 18 so she's a little young for most of the B&B guys like Wyatt and Liam and Oliver, I think. It'll be interesting to see how they work her in.

This.

Joshua Morrow is the guest on the latest episode of Aisha Tyler's podcast, Girl on Guy. (Likely NSFW due to "adult" language.) FYI, Aisha is one of the hosts on the CBS show The Talk so this has the fine hand of several corporate PR flacks all over it (IMO). I could see several people from the Y&R cast being interviewed on GOG but JM would be one of the last. Excuse me while I go over here and try to stop my eyes from rolling.

Oh, that invokes some unfortunate imagery...

Brava! Heh, those rocks crack me up. They look like leftovers from the original Star Trek TV show. I keep waiting for some space alien woman with green skin, purple hair, and a silver lamé catsuit to jump out.

That was my take too until recent developments with Maya. I'm not convinced the writers were intending Caroline's disdaining treatment of Maya to be racist but the subtext was certainly there, IMO, just based on the optics of the situation. This show has an abundance of blonde women, most of whom are held in some kind of exalted status. One of the most exalted of them (whose arrival was like a modernized version of Botticelli's painting, The Birth of Venus) repeatedly, deliberately, and publicly took cruel and demeaning shots at the show's sole Black female character. On the surface, IMO it looked at least partially racial even if it wasn't intended to be. Futhermore, one of the two Black male characters also did little more than dump on Maya, as if that was to make what Caroline was doing okay. IMO, all it did was make Carter resemble a certain Black male stereotype which openly and bitterly hates on Black women at the expense of women of other races. Not sure if there were any Black writers on staff then but I should think they would've known how wrong that could look. For whatever reason, the writers/TPTB seem to have seen the error of their ways. Carter still criticizes Maya but it's with a lighter touch. She's allowed to explain her motivation--delusional though it may be--and she's no longer positioned as a either a weak victim or a mindless villain. They've evened up (IMO) the score between Caroline and Maya and now I think it makes more sense for Caroline to be calling her out. (But Caroline needs to avoid the "Myrna" stuff. I think that definitely looks borderline racist for largely historical reasons.)

People who don't really care about the pregnancy and are trying to jinx it? I was surprised when she was running around telling everybody before she'd even seen a doctor to confirm it and am still surprised she hasn't called one of her famous press conferences to announce it.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

IIRC, didn't Nick sleep with Diane before Victor married her the second time? I thought Victor married her again in order to pull her away from Nick. He dangled some jewelry and new clothes in front of her and she didn't give Nick much of a second thought until Victor was clearly--and literally--throwing her out. (Which is why it was such a bizarre moment later when she basically sold Kyle to Victor even though Jack--his father--was still alive and in his life.) As far as Amy is concerned, I wasn't watching when that happened but the impression I got during Nick's special episode is that she was to show part of a developing pattern with him. He'd seduce one woman and once he had her, he'd feel comfortable keeping her in a holding pattern while he went after someone else. Then he'd dump her or she'd dump him but either way, he'd comfortably move on with the new person while the original woman/girl was left wondering WTF happened. His experience with Diane didn't fit pattern mainly because Victor stepped in and "overruled" him. Yep, he's like the Michael Bay of soaps. He just likes to blow shite up in as insane ways as possible. Y'all are not going to believe the fcukery that will transpire under Pratt's reign of terror.

To clarify, I never said I believed it. What I do believe is that a not-insignificant number of other people seem to think it's true and have confirmed that it's also their experience. This show might be able to put the kibosh on the matter. Or not.

I agree. So far the show has skated above the slapstick "LOLBLKPPL!" line that many Black-centric comedies have tended to sink below. However, I read discussion somewhere--it may have been here--that this show was probably going to run out of "Black-ish" things to build shows on. So, if they happen to need an idea I wouldn't mind seeing the leg-shaving thing addressed even if it may largely be a myth or mostly an older-generation notion. An easy scenario could be that Dre goes to shave one day, finds his razor is unexpectedly dull, and it turns out that one of the ladies in the house used it without warning him. That might be a good show to bring Jennifer Lawrence back for since her character seems the one mostly likely to drop an unexpectedly casual cultural reference. I'm wasn't either but googling brings up many articles and blog posts which mention the issue and they aren't all in the 2010 time-frame.

My first time hearing it was back in 2010 when actress/comedienne Mo'Nique showed up at the Golden Globes wearing sheer hose over clearly unshaven legs. It was not a pretty sight. During the media storm that blew up afterward, the New York Times jumped into the fray. A certain Black woman blogger on political and cultural issues was quoted in the NYT article asserting that Black women were/are specifically taught not to shave their legs because it was/is considered something that "White people do". This is a sentiment that I remember being surprised to see repeated by posters on more than one forum. Apparently it is "a thing" but maybe one that doesn't come into public view very often. I've still never seen an explanation of why this belief would've developed to begin with. That's why I suggested it for Black-ish.

Gwyneth has on occasion hung around with Beyoncé because of her husband Chris Martin's collabo with Jay Z. I wonder if that's where she picked up on "kitchen". I'd like to see the show touch on the "Black women don't shave their legs" thing. (And by "thing" I mean something alleged as a general fact which probably isn't.)