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I really wish I had seen all this. I only started watching the day after Susan got exposed at the Elvis wedding. I had no clue what was happening, but I was completely hooked, by Eileen's performances especially. I've always wanted to find the time to sit down and watch all the build up that led to Susan's fake teeth going flying into Vivian's (I think) glass, lol.

Thanks!

If it's been announced somewhere, i don't think there's any need to tag it. I know it hasn't happened on show yet, but I thought the public had not yet been made aware. Is there a link to the casting news?

I think Leo's plenty attractive, lol. I don't know why he likes to wear grandpa cardigans, though. I really want to like Leo because I like Greg R. I loved him when he first started and was trying to set up Sonny for sexual harassment or whatever that story was. But then they turned him into a constant quip-quoting cartoon and he just hasn't been enjoyable since. IMO of course, lest I get accused of speaking for everyone ;)

Was this already known? Seems like a spoiler to me and should be tagged as such unless I missed an announcement.

Yeah, several characters have mentioned "2025" when referencing the new year, so safe to say we are back to current time, lol. So assuming Kerry is Lady W (and we've basically been shown that he is), he must not be very bright to fall for Leo's trap. Because it's not at ALL suspicious that a new column comes out spoiling a story that he was just told about five minutes earlier in the presence of someone else who was recently accused of being the new Lady W. I know the column explained it as hacking into his email, but still...c'mon dude.

Glad I'm not the only one wondering about the door challenge. I was half-paying attention to the rules and wondered if I'd missed an explanation where they were told they could not try the doors in order, or just say "we're going in the 2nd door from the left, etc."

At the beginning of the episode in the assembly, all the teachers were complaining about needing more help. So were there other volunteers assisting the other teachers that we just didn't see? Or is our gang so special that they were the only ones to get them? That's the only thing that bugged me about this episode, lol. I've watched several episodes of Sunny - mostly on planes when I travel for work - and have always found it to be pretty funny, so I didn't have an issue with the crossover. But I honestly didn't know or wasn't paying attention to the fact that the show was still airing new episodes. It's been on forever, hasn't it?

I'm watching this right now as my movie to usher in the new year. Haven't seen it in years, but it's one of my all time favorites. The opening elevator sequence is just fantastic. The one thing I really didn't like was once they finally got everyone off the bus, Jack and Annie make their escape, then everyone watches the bus for a minute as it slows down. I wish they hadn't had the bus run into the plane at the exact same time the bomb went off. I thought it would've been more effective if the bus had exploded without hitting the plane....the passengers watching having a realization of "oh shit, there really WAS a bomb. We really DID almost all die". As it was, it almost seems ambiguous as to whether the bus exploded because of the bomb or because of it hitting the plane, and I doubt that was the intention. Anyway, small nitpick in an otherwise great movie.

The writing/dialogue were weird to me in today's episode. It all felt very disjointed and stilted. Anyway, I was surprised to hear the mention of Tamara today. She’s basically been forgotten ever since the reveal that Paulina was Lani’s real mom. Funny, because at the beginning of the ep when Lani and Eli came out, I thought to myself poor Tamara just gets no love anymore from the daughter she raised. I was thinking I’d love for them to bring her back on for a bit with a grudge about never hearing from or getting to see Lani and the kids, and developing a bit of a feud with Paulina over Lani. Also, totally don’t remember the twins being born on Christmas Day. BTW, if Lani and Eli were in town, why didn’t they go to the Horton ornament hanging? Scheduling conflict for the actors, I'm sure, but seems weird there wasn't some kind of excuse mentioned for their absence yesterday. Is there some running gag about Roman not getting to play Santa that I’m forgetting? They mentioned last time he was supposed to do it, Steve stole the costume, but I don't remember that. And now he gets an allergic reaction from the suit and has to back out. Abe was a good fill-in Santa, though. The chuckling worked well for him here! So they really are turning Rachel into a little psychopath aren’t they? The pet snake thing was so random unless they're feeding into that idea. What kid her age has a pet snake?? And wanting to hide its sheddings in Harold's bed? Gleefully asking for dead rats to feed it? And now we find out she’s behind the texts to Ava? Do not let this child near the cutlery.

Great points, and I generally agree with just about everything. Except: I liked Connie. I thought for an unskilled actress, she did a pretty good job of portraying a combination of dangerous wackjob/quirky but harmless annoyance. I kind of enjoyed that whole storyline. I agree JPL is not a good Philip, but as a very UO...I've never minded Brandon Beemer's Shawn. In fact I quite like him. Yeah he's never had much to work with in terms of writing/storyline, but I like him as Shawn D. I'd like to see him front and center in a storyline outside of Belle. Body and Soul, and Paulina the Radioactive Mayor definitely were the worst storylines of the year for me. Will be SO glad when the BS storyline ends. Didn't outright hate the Konstantin story, but I greatly disliked the actor's portrayal of him, especially that god-awful accent.

I don't even remember Johnny and Chanel's wedding. Wasn't it in the hospital when Paulina was sick/thought she had cancer? EDIT: Yes, it was. I commented before I read the link, haha.

I was confused on the logistics of this challenge, too. CGI'ing out ropes to hoist the car back up doesn't seem feasible to me, and I doubt the same car could take repeated plunges without sustaining any damage. But if they didn't use 10 different cars, I have no idea how they did this. Also, all the players were wearing shoes when they went over the cliff, but they all showed up barefoot on the beach after completing the swim. Did they give them additional time to take their shoes/helmets off after they got in the water, or was the time spent on that included in their total time?

Ava's father was drugging her, not Shawn Sr. I don't really remember what all that was about, though.

Did show specifically say only a day had gone by? I was assuming a time jump had taken place. Marlena saying she saw Julie briefly yesterday didn't have to be referring to the time we saw her visit Julie with the other Horton women (and Paulina) on Thanksgiving day. A week could've gone by, during which arrangements were made, people flew in, and Marlena made another trip to Julie's to check on her.