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I would take Felix over Brad any day and twice on Sunday. I remain unable to fathom Lucas hitting town and being obsessively attracted to...that.

Now I'm going to constantly hear Charlie Brown's voice saying "I got a string," whenever Katie is on screen. I know Rick is upset and all, but how is he not smelling the entitled grasping that is wafting off Maya? I can smell it through my TV, and he can't get a whiff when she's sitting on his lap droning on about "us" and "we"?

Then she wouldn't be a soap character. Seriously, though, I love how Dr. O is ready to give the patient a boot because he A) made fun of her, and B) is friendly with the nurse she doesn't like, and somehow Liz is just the worst for pushing back on that. I'd pay good money for Ron to kill off the whole O clan in one swoop. Sorry, Nathan, I know it's not your fault, but your family fucking sucks, and I'm beyond sick of every single thing about them. I blame myself for firing up this episode while I eat dinner. Nothing is worse than having food in your mouth and looking up to that freeze frame of the Moobster, in all his moob-y glory. Nothing.

It was damn considerate of Carly to make sure that the hideous necklace he gave her was always aimed just so to capture the video. I'm thinking that the sex tape is just to publicly embarrass Carly before he goes in for the kill with the AJ stuff.

I'm not saying necessarily that it worked for everyone, but I think that was their intention. It's just too coincidental, especially when we know that at least one cast member is defending Che. And I agree, there's a difference between being inappropriate as a joke and just being an ass. I remember in college, my roommate and I used to get crap from some of the other girls on our floor because we liked Andrew Dice Clay. And, yes, some of his jokes were too far, but they were always that - jokes. I have a completely inappropriate sense of humor, so it takes a lot to piss me off or offend me.

God I loved that whole Vickerman premiere. I honestly don't think Ron will pull off that level of awesomeness anymore. On that note, I sincerely doubt that the reveal that Sonny shot AJ and that he and Carly have been tainting their son's furniture will be nearly as amazing as I could hope for.

Add in that he knows Maya has been trying to come between him and Caroline for a while now, and she's the one who spilled the beans in front of his everyone at FC instead of giving him the courtesy of talking to him privately. Even if he was inclined to screw someone else to feel better, you'd think he'd pick someone who had no part in the pain he was in at the moment.

Well, no, I don't think that any of those were "about" Che, so much as the show may have been trying to go with some controversial sketches (and the monologue) to try to make some kind of point - that comedy is sometimes inappropriate and not "PC" (for lack of a better term). it seems coincidental to me that they went for it on a lot of fronts the same week that there was this big deal over his social media posts.

I have to wonder if Chris did a monologue that some might find uncomfortable/inappropriate or too dark precisely because of the Michael Che controversy. Hell, I think the ISIS/Shark Tank bit might have been part of that, too.

I was so utterly disappointed by Morgan buying Sonny's shit and deciding that poor Sonny has suffered so much. I so want tomorrow to reveal that he was getting his payback on Sonny. "Yes, of course I'll keep your secret. There, there, father, you poor misunderstood thing." Then he hightails it over to the wedding and busts in and beats Franco to the punch of spilling all to Michael (and the rest of the assembled crowd). On an unrelated note, while I do really like this Joss actress (she kicked ass through all of Friday's episode), Ron really needs to drop the whole corn thing. It is so gross that he's taken some message board snark on a previous young actress and incorporated it into a running gag with a new actress bringing that snark to life. He's such a child. I mean, whenever Spencer is eventually aged up, will he have the new actor jokingly speak in a put on lisp several times a year for shits and giggles? Not to mention, Ron never knows when enough is enough. He couldn't just do the gag one time on one Halloween. He has to go overboard and then overboard some more. He's such an ass.

MSt is really awful. Just...awful. That "Ava. Ava. Ava." So bad. Sonny in full stutterbarking jazzhands glory levels of bad. I'd advise burning the couch, but I can't imagine what those fumes would put out into the world. Well, yeah, if Ms. Pac-Man was being played by a toddler who's also eating an ice cream cone and trying to tell Daddy about the doggy he saw in the park today. Over the past decade, Liz has been single FAR more often than she's been with a man. She's practically celibate by soap standards. Is Lucas Carly's maid of honor? I want to like Lucas, but between his closeness to Carly and his choice in men? It's hard. Real hard.

Different strokes. For me, they're literally the only good thing about this crapfest. (Because we all know that Sonny and Carly getting busted isn't going to end up being nearly as satisfying as one could hope.) I'm going to be pissed when Liz just gets tossed aside (and probably a little dose of extra character assassination) to prop JaSam...again. BH and BM are adorable together.

Maya "I'll go upstairs so you and your father can talk." I feared she was going to be changing into his mother's lingerie while she was up there. Maybe she was looking for a jewelry box? And, yes, Maya's sheer terror at Rick's "screw Forrester, I don't want my Dad's guilt job!" was hilarious. But, really, it will be "ours," Maya? You've had exactly one night of revenge sex with the guy when he was drunk. Slow down, little red corvette.

Here's what I really want to know - if you've lived in Port Charles for more than, say, 5 minutes, how do you even show up for the Carly/Franco wedding? And if you do show up, how do you not show up in a bulletproof vest? Everyone living in that town should have both a formal and a casual vest.

I think that's a sign that Caroline's betrayal hurt more. Not only is Caroline his wife, as opposed to his girlfriend, but this was with Ridge, who is, in his eyes, the single worst person his wife could have strayed with.

Now, now, let's not sully the good name of Doofenshmirtz. Even at his doofiest, he's still a million times more competent than Sonny could ever be. Although now that you bring it up, I'd love it if Franco kept putting a hat on and off in his hotel room, and it confused Shawn. "Hey, you, guy in the hat, have you seen where Franco went? He was just here!"

Maya should cut out the middleman and just go throw herself at Eric. Not that I want to see Eric/Maya, but, I mean, if you're going to go all out to become Lady of the Forrester Manor, then go for the man himself. And how much fun would it be to watch Stephanie's picture launch itself off the wall and knock Maya out?

Well, now, that's not entirely true. I mean, the roof could fall in on them (right after Dante gets called away from dinner for some PCPD emergency).

Agreed. It was one of the most repulsive storylines in recent memory - the love of Nik's life is raped by his doppelganger, she doesn't get over that rape quickly enough for his liking (because he has needs, dammit!), so he starts screwing Sonny's sister. I honestly think this one made him look worse than the Niz grossness. And that's saying a lot. I just don't get why Tyler has such a hard on for that story/character.

And can you just imagine the conversation of her explaining to Michael that he doesn't need to be Franco's best man to make her happy? "Honey, I'm already cheating on Franco by boning your father. We've actually done it on your couch. This wedding doesn't mean much to me, so if you want to I don't dislike Olivia or anything, but part of me thinks it would be hilarious if Shawn somehow manages to shoot her instead of Franco again.

They could do a whole "special episode" where, at the start, we see a close up slow-mo shot of the bullet leaving the gun, and then we get an hour of various scenes around town, interspersed with slow-mo shots of the bullet moving through the air, until, at the end of the episode, it crashes through the window into one of the day's scenes.

I agree that it's inappropriate to comment on one couple's performance when critiquing another couple. It's disrespectful to both couples. I wouldn't mind the Len-sub judges rotating on one condition - that those judges come from a pool of pros who aren't on that season. I'd love to see them rotate in people like Louis, Anna, Jonathon, etc, on Len's off weeks.

I think my biggest problem with the judges' Derek love-fest is that they seem to focus so much of their comments on his "brilliance" and his choreography. And I'm not disputing that he's a great choreographer, but this is supposed to be about the stars learning to dance and their performances. And while their performances are obviously impacted by their pro's work, I prefer to see the feedback focus on the star more than the pro. Compliment the choreography, by all means, but every week doesn't need to be at least three judges expounding on the brilliance of Derek, sometimes to the exclusion of even commenting on his partner's performance. My problem with the way it was done this week was that Tom specifically said "we're not going to tell you if you're safe or in jeopardy until after you dance" (referring to the team dances). But, it ended up being "until after Derek's team dances." It was a shitty thing to pull on Alfonso's team. If I wasn't used to this show's general refusal to pull out anything lower, I would have been surprised he got as high as 5 from any of them. He quite literally did nothing out there but walk from spot to spot while Emma danced her heart out. This was Master P levels of phoning it in. If he's not interested in even trying out there, then he should bow out and let someone else stay who is genuinely trying to learn and perform. As for Derek's partners: Jennie was his first partner, and, even then, they had no idea she'd be so nervous. It's not like, coming into the season, anyone would have tabbed her as a "challenging" partner. And those two prosthetic legs? Came attached to a world class athlete who is still young and competing. The "plus size woman" was a performer to the core who came in from a show where musical numbers are, as I understand it (never having watched Glee) a regular thing in every episode. It's not like, in giving him a "plus sized woman" they gave him the mother from Honey Boo Boo. I can totally get Len's complaining about the "mucking about" if it wasn't a theme week that called for it, to some extent. But when you task the cast with a Halloween themed week like this, with the expectation on their shoulders that their performances are going to be a production, then it sucks to see the couples get called out for putting on that production. The problem is that these theme weeks aren't a special "treat" done once, maybe twice in a season, they're every single week. We can't just have a week where we just see them dance a couple of traditional latin and ballroom routines. It has to be frustrating to do what you're being asked to do and get criticized for it. Add in that the "mucking about" critique isn't remotely consistent. Most of the pros who have been around for multiple seasons have had performances with the dreaded "mucking about." Sometimes it's part of their concept or trying to incorporate the week's theme, sometimes it's to hide a partner's injury or limitations. And there's no rhyme or reason as to when it does or doesn't get called out. And, seriously, Michael needs to go home next week. I fear Lea might end up a surprise exit, though. Speaking of Lea, I think the judges did get in some insightful stuff with her last night. I think she puts a lot of pressure on herself because she has dance experience and she holds herself to a higher standard, but she's so focused on living up to that background that she's not loosening up and having fun with this. And it shows in that her performances are technically sound, but you can feel the discomfort wafting off of her as she dances, and that generally translates to a lot of viewers feeling a second hand discomfort, which doesn't lead them to run to their phones or computers to vote for her. I'd love to see her really lighten up and let go.

Agreed. I believe it's good for kids to see examples of a healthy relationship as they grow up. And with C&T especially, it's nice that they're just a normal couple who clearly love and like each other. They're not shown in that bad sitcom cliche of the overbearing, shrill wife and the browbeaten doofus husband (outside of the chicken episode).. I appreciate that so much.

Agreed. I think there's a vast difference between showing kids in the 12ish age range being "romantic" and showing their adult, married parents being romantic. Obviously the C&T romantic scenes should still be appropriate for a Disney Channel show, but there's nothing wrong with kids seeing parents being affectionate. I do agree that it's silly to never show teenagers kissing, because it's not realistic. And I hate the cop out of showing the lead up to a kiss, but panning away from (or having something block the view of) the kiss itself. Everyone knows that the couple in question is going to kiss, so what's the point? I think it would be a good compromise to limit the kissing to older teens (on shows where they have older teens, like Good Luck Charlie, where it was ridiculous that they didn't want to show Teddy kissing her boyfriend when she was old enough to drive, have a job, and have her own car), or just showing kids at this 12 year age kissing on the cheek. And, of course, they have to take into consideration when there are notable age gaps between the actors portraying the characters, even if the characters are supposed to be the same age. Kissing just seems like such an odd thing for DC to draw a line in the sand over. During one of the last seasons of Good Luck Charlie, we had Teddy get on a plane, without her parents' knowledge, to fly from Denver to the East coast to see her boyfriend, while on the plane, she struck up a conversation with, and accepted food from, a stranger (a guy old enough to be her father). And that is a character who was always a "good girl." So I can't comprehend how that was OK to show the kids, but Heaven forbid you see her kissing her boyfriend.