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Was channel surfing this morning and happened to land on a 2009 episode of Ghost Whisperer which had both Amelia Heinle and her husband Thad Luckenbill as guest stars. This would've been after she joined Y&R and after she and Thad got married. GW was a CBS show so I guess TPTB were keeping it in the family, so to speak. AH looked great I thought. She seemed to have a bit more weight on her and wasn't so bony. Also, apparently she and Thad are still married? I thought they had divorced around about the time he last appeared on Y&R. Nope, according to the googles and Wikipedia they're still together, at least on paper.

JAJ has tightened up his Biden impression. Much less Nicholas Cage in it this time. Jake's opening monologue was okay. I didn't realize it had been 15 years since he'd hosted. Wow. Raw-dogging it in a Starbucks bathroom. 😲 All that cat medical equipment cracked me up. The cat will have a motorized stair-climbing chair, lol. Wonder if Willow was booked to appear on SNL before her dad lost his marbles at the Oscars? Did she tweet anything stupid like her brother did right afterward? Unlike him she seems to have some actual talent. Good on her. Darn, I was hoping Jake would address what Taylor Swift did the last time she hosted. He could've done his own music video which lasted 11 minutes. But, I suppose it was a better look for him not to be petty about her mercenary sense of moral superiority. (Meanwhile, his new movie Ambulance which opened this weekend appears to be a flop. Oh well.)

To be filed under "AYFKMWTS?" From Soaps.com Young & Restless Alum Daniel Goddard Gets Lily/Cane Fans Excited With Two Simple Words Per the article AFAIC, this news is also to be filed under "Oh Hail Nah" and "Kill Me Now." Who asked for that idiot to be brought back to Y&R? Cane's return to GC is still speculation and it's possible DG has been hired on another soap which is not Y&R. <fingers crossed>

Vegan buttermilk chicken. Bleh. Can you put an RV on a riverboat? Without it sinking to the bottom of the river? 🤔 Jack asked Ruby why she shaved her legs by the pool if she didn't want the family all up in her and Earl's business. Guess poor Jack has seen some stuff he should not have. 😲 It would seem that the Mixed-ish version of Alicia never happened. (Nothing against Tika but her being cast as young Alicia was flabbergasting IMO.) Seems to me the Johnsons could live on Bow's salary for the next ten years or so, and put most of Dre's paycheck in savings or in relatively non-risky investments. Dre might have to cut back on his shoe collecting but oh well. I think Black-ish is making the same mistake The Cosby Show made, that is, forgetting who their primary audience is. I doubt most of the people who watch this show can afford Rolls Royce vehicles or spend $15k on a pair of sneakers. (In 1986, Claire Huxtable paid over $10k for a painting at an auction. For many people in 2022 that's a lot of money for a discretionary purchase but in the mid-80s it could seem unthinkable for the average middle class or poor person. I remember finding it offensive at the time.) But perhaps the luxury item product placement is what the Black-ish producers had to do to pay the stars' Season 8 salaries.

Are recorders reused among multiple students or are they disposable? I didn't understand why Janine said she was going to collect them. What's an octopus teacher? Yo, Melissa. Most certainly, sugar does not belong in grits. You couldn't sit by me either with that b.s. 😏 Yeah, watching Black-ish for eight seasons has pretty much inured me to product placement. That show has redefined "blatant," especially now in its final season. I think what may have changed in recent years is that businesses now commonly pay production companies to have their goods appear on TV shows. In the past a show would have to pay the business in order to avoid trademark infringement. I'm always surprised when I see an actual Google logo or an Apple device on a fictional TV show because I think those must be two of the most expensive to get permission to use unless they are instead paying for product placement.

Jurati's got quite a rack. Meanwhile, did we know Agnes could sing? I really liked her cover of Shadows of the Night. Data no! Not Jean-Luc! 😉 TMW you find out you're a clone. At least Soong hasn't been making copies of copies. That can't end well, lol. How much worse could it possibly get, Raffi? The Borg Queen roaming the streets of L.A., that's how much worse. Better hope she doesn't run into Ye. Per reddit:

Billy waxing philosophical. KMN. How is he an expert on healthy relationships if he's never had one? And why wasn't he using his little recording booth? Lol, Michael's long hair. He looked to me like the Upper Midwest version of famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence, minus 40 years and at least a foot in height. Gotta take back the trash I talked about Adam not having security on his notebook. But please, Ashland thought he could just sit down and guess Adam's password? In what universe is he also a l33t hacker? It is to laugh. I don't know how Lily puts up with Billy staying up in his ex-wife's business. His still having to co-parent his young children is one thing but Billy acts like he also has veto power over Victoria's relationships. Ehhh. 😐 So the Newmans are going to get Ashland out on a morals clause? I guess he didn't have someone vet that co-CEO contract he signed. But come on, "morals" is not a word that should ever come out of a Newman mouth unless the speaker is under the age of 12. Victor just sits back and basks in the sick pleasure of watching his kids vie to be his heir to the throne. Ugh. AFAIC the only winning move is not to play his game. Dark purple must be in for menswear right now. First Nate and Billy were wearing it this week and today Michael's trenchcoat was that color. Cool. Lily, you may love him but you should not feel completely secure when it comes to Billy. He talks a good game but he always wrecks things eventually. Always. It must be 8 or 9 o'clock in GC by now. Why were Ashland and Victoria getting ready to drink coffee on empty stomachs? They planning to hit the clubs later? Wow, Nick, way to try to guilt Adam into doing the right thing wrt the family's plan against Ashland. Have you met Adam before? Guilt is the least of his motivators. Hope that works out the way you intended. 🙄 Re the previews: Mariah and Tessa either didn't look at a calendar or they're not superstitious: May 13 lands on a Friday this year. Yikes. Either the wedding won't happen or if it does it'll be a disaster.

How long, oh lawd, how long is this day? Victoria is still in that dress. 🤬 Bio-based fabric. Okay, I didn't know that was a thing. Leave it to Chelsea to be a cutting-edge fashion designer. Sure. Only crazypants Chelsea would cheerfully refer to her almost killing an innocent man because she was jealous of his wife as a "bump in the road." Victor is lucky he didn't walk into the office and catch Adam and Sally in flagrante on the couch. Poor guy probably would've had a seizure. 😏 I just don't get Rey's agita about Sharon's kids. They're all grown except for Faith and she'll probably turn 18 within the next year or so. When he came along they already had their own lives to live. Plus there's the fact that their parents have both been married many times. They've learned not to invest too much in the step-parent du jour. Ease up, Rey. It's not about you. Does Adam know Rey is taking Connor to Chicago on an overnight trip? He might not approve of that, especially if Rey is going to drive them. Wow, I'm impressed at the way Victoria now has Ashland eating out of the palm of her hand. It'll be interesting to see how she's to planning to avoid returning to the marital bed. Perhaps she'll create a work emergency which requires her to pull an all-nighter. In. That. Dress. ☠ Oy, Victoria and her hourly summons to family meetings. How do the Newmans not feel like she's yanking their collective chain? Meanwhile, Abby is blissfully unaware of it all. 🎶Fah lah lah, lah lah!🎶 Not only did Adam not lock his office, he likely doesn't have a password on his computer either. Piece of cake for Ashland to plant some false evidence of Adam scheming against him. Unless COO "I stay in 5th gear" Sally walks in and catches him. Lol, Ashland bought gloves. He's about to do some serious super secret agent stuff to Adam's notebook and he's not going to leave any incriminating fingerprints. What a joke.

Yeah, in my SW market they've been showing the preempted episodes at 1:12 AM the next day. Not 1:15 AM or 1:10 AM, 1:12 AM. 🤯 I've just been watching on the CBS site. I wouldn't blame it all on the writers. At some point MS allegedly decided having her character paired with PB's made her look older. So then Phick happened and Phyllis became the permanent über-MILF (in her mind, anyway). Then we got GT Phyllis coupled with JT Billy, something I'm 100% confident would not have happened if MS hadn't left Y&R for a while. I agree though, the original Jack & Phyllis were fire, and one of my favorite couples.

So apparently it's still the same day (March 25) in GC and LA because no one has changed clothes yet. Yeesh, Y&R's budget must be running on the rims. Today Diane mentioned how cute Kyle and Summer were together as kids. I've never understood it when people keep talk of those two being pals since childhood. Kyle is supposed to be like five years older than Summer. Unless Kyle had no kids his age to socialize with, I just don't see a boy wanting to hang out with a girl so much younger than him. That generally doesn't start happening at least until the girl reaches the age of consent, and then it's usually due to raging hormones. Okay, Ashley is already acting threatened by Allie before she's even met her. But WTF, she's shading Allie for possibly using nepotism as a career path? Pshht. At least Allie really is in John Abbott's bloodline. Yeah I said it, Miss Ashley. Come at me. 🤨 Lol, in the flashback, why was Jack sitting by the Abbott pool playing with baby Kyle while wearing dress pants, a shirt, and a tie? I don't get why Allie is still dealing with Diane. She knows Diane used Keemo's death to manipulate her and Jack. And that Diane's faked her own death for years. IMO Allie should be keeping maximum distance between herself and that nutbag. But I guess she now considers Diane a step-grandma of sorts since she's Kyle's mother. AFAIC, Phyllis looked so much better back when she had short hair and some baby fat on her. Meanwhile, based on those flashbacks, Diane has long chosen her a$$ over her face. Catherine Deneuve would approve. Today Ashley announced the theme of the latest Jack & Diane story arc: 80s hair band anthems FTW!

Actually (😉), it's Nate Natey Nate Nate Nate. Most posters have been shortening it for some reason. Per the vernacular there could also be, for example, Jack Jackie Jack Jack Jack, or Nik Nikki Nik Nik Nik.

The pretend barometric pressure kept the Newman jet from taking off. Gee, I hate when that happens. 🙄 And like the proverbial bad penny, Phyllis turns up in LA right where Jack is. Does she have a GPS tracker on his phone or something? "Finding out the person who professes to love you has been manipulating you and playing on your sympathies is the ultimate betrayal." Wow, apparently Sally has zero sense of irony. Or she has selective amnesia since that's pretty much what she did to Wyatt Spencer out in LA. Does Adam know about that? Oy, Victoria, you might want to think twice about drinking or eating anything Ashland hands to you. 🤮 Phyllis' hair looked nice today IMO. Victor doesn't think Ashland had his own people go over that co-CEO contract with a fine-toothed comb? If Ashland didn't he's not much of a business shark after all. Or so you thought, Phyllis. Or so we all thought. Ding dong, the witch named Diane Jenkins is not dead. Okay, smart move by Victoria to give Ashland the idea to point the finger at Adam on the whole faked illness scheme. If Ashland goes after Adam that could eliminate two problems for her at the same time. But I doubt Victor would let Ashland get away with it because he knows Adam didn't set Ashland up. And Ashland knows it too. I did not have Phyllis being the voice of reason wrt Diane on my Y&R bingo card for today. Maybe when Jack calms down he should listen to her. It's better to play offense versus defense when dealing with Diane. She's nucking futz. Heh, Ashland was looking at Victoria like, "Who ARE you?" The story she was weaving for him about Adam was beyond his wildest dreams and she was handing it to him on a silver platter. Someone at Jabot needs to be fired. Why would Ashley not have Kyle's phone number in Milan? Doesn't Ashley's fragrance company in Paris do business with Jabot? She likely talks to Kyle on a regular basis. Diane + social engineering = stupid. 🤨 Yeah, it's the beginning of your end, Ashland. Adam is nobody to mess with, especially when he's being falsely accused. And now he's got his corporate gun moll Sally by his side. Buckle up, buttercup. Surprise, biatch! Hey Diane, it's your worst enemy come to protect her man. You better brace for turbulence.

Oh Villanelle, she who hesitates is lost. Your delay made you hear something about Eve you probably wish you hadn't. Why was Eve so shocked when Villanelle killed Helene? (Over on reddit they seem to have interpreted Eve's reaction as passion versus shock. She was turned on. Ehhh.) How was Villanelle able to row like that with her wound? Yep, that's my take too. Mind-boggling. I just hope the ending is more like GoT and not like The Sopranos where we're left wondering if the main characters are alive or not. Or that it turns out to be a dream.

Guess Show is trying to set a new record for the longest day. Victoria has been wearing that dress since March 25, according to Worn on TV. Billy and Nate must've called each other last night to coordinate their outfits. They were both wearing deep purple. Smoke! On the water! A fire in the sky! Does Adam not have any staff besides Sally? Seems problematic to me for his COO to be learning on the job especially now that the job just got way bigger. Given the recent history of that penthouse, I can't believe the first thing Nate and Elena didn't do was get rid of all the furniture and everything else. Wonder if they even had it cleaned before they moved in? Ugh. Chelsea told Sally she really hopes Adam has found what he's looking for. Sally probably thought Chelsea was referring to her. Yeah, no, Sally. Ashland has been bouncing all over town trying to cover his hiney. (Does he know Michael Baldwin is alive and back in GC?) Meanwhile, Adam has laser-like focus since his eye is on the prize, i.e., the permanent helm of the Newman empire and status as Daddy's favorite. You're overmatched, Ash. Nothing can defeat the desperation of Victor's kids to top each other. Victoria finally admitted she has a plan to deal with Ashland. But does she? Because going away alone with him--out of the country--seems like a spectacularly risky move to me. Victor's crack security team might be too busy hitting the pipe to protect her at a critical moment. And then Ashland went back to the office AGAIN. That guy better be driving an EV with all the short trip miles he's been running up today. Now Rey is "dating" Chelsea's kid. Heaven help him if Connor realizes he got handed off to Rey since both of his parents decided they had more important things to do. Victoria looked a bit unsure there at the end. Hmmm. Hope she knows what she's doing.

Chuck's office looks like a 70s flashback, and not in a good way. Was that secretary actually using an IBM Selectric? (On reddit they called it the set from Mad Men. 🥳) Mike Money. Let them eat scones, huh, Prince? Wonder how much the Chivas Brothers paid for that Chivas Regal 25 product placement? Maybe Kate put a bug in the label or something, ha ha. Mother Husker. Who says that? Ugh, Prince performs earnestness. Wow, such an amazing amount of shade thrown over fake milk. Taylor and Philip are both too precious with their virtue-signaling IMO. (I'm almost ready to take bets on those two having a drunken ONS.) Are Dave and Chuck still working together against Prince? I didn't understand why she called Chuck as soon as Prince left her office. A few weeks ago Prince handed out brand new Nike shoes to the staff. But now he claims he has a problem doing business with the Chinese because of child labor? Boy, bye. 🙄 So the spumors were true, Prince is running for POTUS. "I Like Mike"? Yeah, and I like vomit. A better choice for the end credits song might've been Born to Run but maybe it was too costly to get the rights. And maybe it would've been too on-the-nose. Countdown until Prince is getting #metoo'd when all the flings like Rian come out of the woodwork. I think his affected squeaky clean persona will have a hard time flying above it, even with his open marriage wife by his side.

I liked Jerrod's opening monologue, though he seemed a little nervous to me. Is My Brain Okay probably hit scary close for a lot of people. Yikes. Loved Pete's video, so on point. I really want to watch The Irishman but that running time feels like a part-time job. Pretty much everything on my Netflix watchlist is at least 2.5 hours. It's baffling. 1970s rainbow bush. That skit was so wrong! I was crying from laughing so hard. Did they actually use Chris Rock's voice in the Oscars sketch? I don't know why but it surprised me. One of those onesies said "Holland Taylor can hit me with a truck." What does that mean?

Just got around to watching this. I had heard it was somewhat enraging until the last few minutes so I sort of expected Marla to get some kind of comeuppance. I was okay with her dying but ditto comments upthread, that still left the two other main villains unpunished. Meh. It was funny to me how much suspension of disbelief this movie required. Marla was practically like an over-the-top James Bond villain. And, half the movie I kept wondering why they cast Rosamund Pike instead Sarah Paulson, lol. Some enterprising person in Hollywood needs to get those two in a movie together.

So Love didn't swing hard enough at Gil. It would've been so much easier for her and Joe to cover up his murder if Gil had died to begin with, lol. A cabal of soulless bulemic moms. Yep, that's Sherry and her crew! But aren't the police going to be able to tell Gil's body had been moved? Or have I been watching too many criminal investigation shows?

Gotta give Josh G., the MWTs, and TPTB credit for generating tons of discussion about the show due to the "resurrection" of Diane. I doubt even Dru's return would be such a hot topic. (Well, except for the part where certain viewers would be blaming Devon for it. 🙄) Hee! Adam, Billy, Chance, and Devon are uncharted territory for her now. Get at it, Diane! 😉

Oy, thanks for the heads up. I haven't even seen this episode. <i'm so confused>

Why would a spy claim to be a nationality whose language he wasn't fluent in? Young Konstantin was not smart if he was so easily made by Young Carolyn . Was Villanelle's father the guy who fell into the lake? It would seem Villanelle's clothing is meant to be part of her cover, a distraction. Konstantin is training Pam the same way, or trying to. She doesn't really have the height or the physique for couture fashions. I was expecting Villanelle to snap Konstantin's neck after their big hug. Looked like he was too. When they do the Russell Wilson biopic (🙄) he really should insist they get the guy playing Yusuf to portray him. The resemblance is uncanny to me, though Robert Gilbert is clearly much taller than Wilson.

It's the Kyle who was on the show mostly during Maura West's tenure, between late 2010 and sometime in 2011. The young actor was Garrett Ryan. He also appeared during a brief return of Susan Walters as Diane in early 2010. So, I don't think those scenes we saw today were recreated but were the ones which originally aired in 2010. PB has just seems to have aged extremely well.

That 2001 date would make Kyle 21 or so. But he'd already finished graduate school when the MM version of Kyle arrived in 2018 so he must be in his late 20s at best now. On the show they've already said Allie is 24. Meanwhile, Michael Mealor (Kyle) and Kelsey Wang (Allie) are both 29, if the googles are correct. (And it's already been announced that MM is returning as Kyle so no deSORASing.) And Allie's future boyfriend (spumored) Noah Newman is said to be 24 now--according to the googles--so maybe that's why they have KW playing younger than she actually is. SORASing and deSORASing on soaps defy the space/time continuum.

Don't care what the joke was. Seth MacFarlane should not have used that innocent child to throw shade at a known Hollywood playboy, especially not as she was sitting front and center with her mother. I think probably what he really wanted to do was make a joke about her name but was warned it would look racist. At least Jada was old enough to defend herself even if she chose not to.

Oh Phyllis. You have no idea what Jack's dealing with. The tectonic plates of his life have massively shifted and there's an earthquake looming. Why would Deacon help Diane fake her death? I don't recall their being pals. Wait a minute, hadn't Diane given Victor guardianship of Kyle at some point? Today Jack and Diane pretty much glossed over that. Gee, wonder why, lol? So Diane knows about Harrison. Hmmm. "Ciao, Not Dead Grandma!" Ah, the old engagement ring in the champagne glass routine. Also known as the precursor to needing the Heimlich Maneuver. Why was that ever a thing? Diane, don't get it twisted. You only brought Kyle into this world by accident. If things had gone as planned you'd be the proud mama of little Victor Jr. Wow, Phyllis, you were lowkey victim-blaming and I bet you'll be doing a quick reverse on that sentiment real soon. Jack's amazingly generous heart had nothing to do with what his vampire ex just pulled. Even as a baby Kyle had the Abbott hair, ha ha. Great casting. Yeah, it's kind of weird how close Kyle and Allie are in age. They'll be more like siblings than uncle and niece. Allie certainly has brightened up. IMO the actress and PB had wonderful chemistry today. Poor Kyle. Even he doesn't deserve what's coming. What an actual nightmare. Now watch, he'll need a kidney and only Diane will be a match. 🙄 Re the previews, does Phyllis teleport to LA or is this the longest day in the history of humankind?