MollyB

Friday Questions: What is with all the backpacks? I get that Cleve and Hairy need to take their research tools with them but what were Johnny and Katie carrying for their brief outing in the park? Could it be a change of clothes, survival kits, their required summer reading books? Certainly not for snacks, since they left the CL with lemonade and then hoofed it off for the conveniently located ice cream. Was it a foreshadow of Baby On Board when Chelz commented about Johnny getting two new siblings in one year? Guess what's coming next year, Johnny! [bonus points for twins] Is it just me or did Katie look as if she just came from a horror-movie set where she played a woman whose head was implanted on a life-size doll's body? The skirt on Audra: Does that house all the imps and demons for Grampire? Johnny does seem as if he's a nice kid, but is it necessary for him to always make punny jokes at his parents? Billy's banter and Vic's oh-you-scallywag conversations are putting me in a diabetic coma. What is the deal with Sharon and her tearful moments? Is it her meds? Menopause? Her only way to emote now? Where is this going with Lucy? Is she going to kidnap Faith or do a Single White Female on her? If this is only for the drama of her finding out about Daniel's part in Cassie's death, it's not worth the effort.

unless she (or her 'lawyer') contacts Tara in prison and spills how shitty a father/person Kyle is being. Then perhaps convince Tara to exercise her parental rights and get a judge to grant Summer some kind of custody in view of the fact Summer has been acting as his mother for several years. At least until she (Tara) gets out of prison. How long is a prison sentence for embezzling from your own company, anyhow? Shouldn't she be up for parole by now? Jeremy Stark served less time. And Phylth, the confessed murderer, served absolutely none.

Victoria wasn't married to Cole when Cleve was born. She could have put any name she wanted on the birth certificate and she also could have left blank the father's name. My question is why not go the full monty and change her name to Eve WhatEverHerName was on the birth certificate?

fixed that for you see above Weren't Vic and Cole divorced at the time? What name was put on the birth certificate? If it was Eve Newman then she could take that name legitimately.

Ya done killed me....good one. Next we'll have an Apache dance at the concert by Alan and Traci. And maybe some powdered wigs and high heels on the male attendees. Throw in a guillotine and I'm sure we're in Paree.

Just to get Monday rolling here, what if Chance sues for custody of Dom as well? He has as much biological connection as Summer has to Harrison. Then they could all move out to the 'burbs near Mariah/Tess and their kids could all play together and intermarry later on. Bonus points if it's right down the street from Victoria's newly rebuilt FKB home.

And now the award for Worst Fucking Advice Ever: (envelope, please...) Victor Newman!!!! aka The Old Bat from Hell.

yes. We had a little foreshadow of that at the beginning of this travesty of a story from Adam but it went nowhere.

It amazes me that they both get pissy while they are carrying out their plan. Didn't they talk this over first? (note: I didn't see it so maybe that happened off camera). When Devon didn't jump right in for the split up, which was the logical move that Billy would have expected, Lily gets defensive! Then Lily questions whether he really wants to go thru with The Plan. WTF? Then Devon questions Lily's loyalty when he sees her and Billy cozy and clinking glasses, which also was the logical move re the plan. If they can't trust each other now, how the fck are they going to run a company together? I'm ready to hand the whole mess over to Nate.

What custody agreement? When did Tara give up her parental rights? (Details, JG, we can't have everything happen off screen.) I appreciate the role of stepmom that Summer has and I think she should still be in the kid's life, but she is not his mom! And she shouldn't be using her relationship with Hairyson to interfere in the Audra/Kyle relationship. Or to get sympathy from anyone who will listen about the loss of her 'son'.

And she didn't bring up the other accident that happened? Ya know, the one that killed her older sister. Because Lucy's daddy partied and was drinking? Hmmm. How do these companies survive with the stupidity of their executives? Do the underlings have a second set of books and another office complex that does the real work?

and they are planning to stay in GC? That sucks, because this is going to be a whole summer of them sad sacking it about not being able to get jobs. And then teaming up with someone (Mamie? Phylth?) to take down CW. blerg. My first thought when she said she couldn't get a job was try working as a traffic cone. Of course, she may have just come from doing her 'community service' as a traffic cone. But the writer seems to be waving a Shick reunion, too. I don't think I can do another two cougars fighting over an over-the-hill lothario story. Spare me the sex scenes, please. And this leaves me retching as well.

I expect either Nick or Viktor to give her a pat on the head and then push her out of the room to go tend to the poors. And Viktor is a real help when he justifies his ousting her at NM by fretting "what if she falls off the wagon?" Way to be supportive, you old coot. Maybe if you were a better person she wouldn't need to drink. Then he waddles over to Vicboria to shame his grandkids into accepting the psycho that got their home burned down. What a family!

I just finished reading the book and there is a scene when Rovinni meets with Tom and doesn't recognize him as the 'Dickie Greenleaf' that he interviewed after Freddie's murder. It comes nearer the end when Herbert Greenleaf comes to Rome to find his son. Tom pulls off the masquerade by putting on glasses, tearing a button off his coat to look shabby and generally acting shy and unsophisticated with the police. He also dims the lights and has lost the weight he put on (to be more like Dickie),

Missionary.

A valid point, Katie. Since Claire is an adult (dress code, notwithstanding) she could move out and live all by her self at the Raunch. Didn't she have a swell room up there with a walk-in closet and bath? I give the living arrangement three days before Katie runs away.

Well, Surfs, (may I call you Surfs?), from what I have learned from close observation of the existing CEOs, the function of any CEO is to: swan/lounge around the various (all three) watering holes/eateries of GC* and tell everyone you meet you are a CEO, spend time (in any location) discussing the threat of your company being taken over and guessing who might be doing that, plan to take over someone else's company by whatever nefarious means you can talk someone else into doing, keep a suite at the GCAC for 'business' meetings, and if you are a female CEO, show a lot of cleavage and/or shoulder. *and only Genoa City, the known industrial/financial/business capital of the entire world (fuck Paris).

^^this Also, not that I expected any reality in this scene, but why was the doctor standing there listening to Audra spew when his patient is writhing on the bed? Does emergency treatment not mean the same thing in Paris? And I've always wondered what "House Doctor" meant. Do all hotels have one? Do they live on the premises, just waiting for someone to fall ill? On the Love Boat I can understand, since he couldn't leave, but in a hotel? Probably just minutes away from an emergency room? Or don't they have emergency rooms in Paris? They have ambulances because we heard one when Martin splatted. Oh, joy. I get to play my favorite game of Spot the Room Changes. I usually focus on lamps, door placques and potted plants. I also hate that every room, apartment and bar has the 'French' furniture and long drapes so we don't forget where we are. I'm pretty sure there's an hotel with Scandinavian accourtements in Paree somewhere.

With Adam being ensconced at Newman Media (because he's a ruthless as Viktor...[?]) it sounds more as if Viktor wants to take everything away from Tucker, who may or may not still have his interests/company in media. And, no, I have no idea what Viktor has against Tucker, but none of this makes sense anyway.

As well he should. Ashley told him that she talked to him after the fight and he told her he couldn't have since he was out of the country before they ever got to Paris. A light bulb should have gone on in his brainpan that she may have been telling the truth (as she saw it) and put together the Martin connection, especially since the Real Ashley was so insistent that she saw him.

Same for Victoria who has been sporting a sweater all week and Viktor who has a zip-up sweater on. (I thought he had donned priest-wear because of the way the zipper pull hung in front.)

killed me dead, there, Artsda.lol🤣 Can't wait for the judge to tell her she has no custody boundries.

Oh, for fcuk's sake......

When he said just the two of them I was half expecting her to say "I don't think I can get a sitter on such short notice." Don't forget the bar set with the family size bottle of Wodka and his sippin' Tequila. Plus, saying how much you love your baby and how she is strong and will fight this thing is not a cure nor does it make up for ignoring her, although I would have loved to see Viktor attend a 'meeting' with her. I'm still in a quandry about why Cole and Michael are so concerned about staying in Grampire's good graces. I mean, that's the only leverage the old goat has? He hasn't threatened them with loss of body parts or bankruptcy? WTF? And Cole and Michael are actually discussing it! Instead of having a good laugh, tossing back a coupla scotches and going on with their own life, sans Viktor's vitriol.

It puzzles me what Viktor is threatening them with. I already pointed out that if he reveals their part in the Jordan Debacle, then he's outed, too. Usually a king/master of the world/mafia don does something nasty to the family of whomever he's coercing, but in this case that would be his family. So what is he holding over them? And...in a time (it's the 21st century, ya know) when everyone has a cell phone with a camera, why, oh, why didn't Cole or Michael or both take pictures of the dungeon, Jordan and/or record her and the wall building? At least Michael should know enough about leverage to do that.