Getting to Genoa You All Over Again: Y&R Daily Chat

[boes]

1 hour ago, Js Nana said:

But I thought the blood sample had been placed in some kind of metal box in the ambulance prior to the accident, because if it hadn't been placed in some kind of a protective container, wouldn't it have been destroyed in the fire?

Law and Order, Show is not.  It's barely a Deputy Dawg cartoon at this point.   Police procedure is probably as exact and correct as Victor's business and colostomy care is.

[Js Nana]

5 hours ago, Waldo13 said:

Can someone please tell me how Bowie is a Chancellor?  His last name is Chancellor but he doesn’t have any Chancellor DNA. Bowie’s DNA is not even truly Newman/Winters. 

Poor Dominic's complicated family tree:

A Newman (Miller) & an Abbott (Davis) by virture of his biological mother, Abby, being the daughter of Ashley (legally Abbott, but bio-father Brent Davis) and Victor Newman (Parents: Albert & Cora Miller) 

A Hamilton & a McCall (Hendricks) by virture of his biological father, Devon, being the son of Yolanda Hamilton and Tucker McCall (Hendricks; his bio-father is Arthur Hendricks and his bio-mother is Katherine (nee Shepherd) Chancellor)

So, biologically, Dominic is a Miller-Davis-Hendricks-Hamilton, but formally, he is a Newman-Abbott-McCall-Hamilton - the only tie he has to the Chancellor family is that his paternal Great-Grandmother, Katherine,was married to Philip Chancellor II,  but Arthur Hendricks, and not Katherine's husband, is his paternal Great-Grandfather; Philip Chancellor II is Philip "Chance" Chancellor IVs paternal grandfather, but Jill Foster, not Katherine Chancellor, is his paternal grandmother, so Chance and Dominic are not in any way biologically related.

One other thing, am I the only one to notice that "Victor" has some kind of growth on his lower lip?

[Waldo13]

9 hours ago, Js Nana said:

But I thought the blood sample had been placed in some kind of metal box in the ambulance prior to the accident, because if it hadn't been placed in some kind of a protective container, wouldn't it have been destroyed in the fire?

Here is another white lie by the monkeys with a keyboard. If the fire was hot enough to make Crispy and the driver also crispy, the blood sample, even if it in a vial in a metal container, the blood sample would be destroyed by the heat of the fire.  There are two ways that the blood sample could survive.  Is very unlikely that the vial was in a fireproof container or the vial was never in the fire but placed there after the fire was put out by the EMT. 

[MsMalin]

16 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Check out my side part, Vik!"

I don't know what it is about the side part but it amuses me.

[MollyB]

21 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Seems to me Christine should have to recuse herself from this one and hand it off to an ADA.

When I worked for the DA's office in CA, we had a big ole stamp that said CONFLICT that was stamped in red on the front of the file and listed the people who could not handle that file/case because they knew or had a personal relationship with the defendant.  Anyone, judges down to even a lowly specialist such as myself, had to declare a conflict so the case wouldn't get compromised in appeal.

As to Christine suddenly becoming the DA.  I would think that if a DA was stepping down, the Assistant DA would take over until another could be elected.  She wasn't working in the DA's office, was she?  I thought she was doing private practice.

[gingerella]

10 hours ago, Js Nana said:

One other thing, am I the only one to notice that "Victor" has some kind of growth on his lower lip?

Well kids, that's what you get after a lifetime of mumbling and #yougotthats...

[MollyB]

19 hours ago, Js Nana said:

But wouldn't the vial have a label pasted on it that identified the patient the blood was drawn from, the date and time the blood was drawn, and name the EMT who drew the blood, and be sealed in a plastic bag that had a label pasted on it that provided the same information?

Why would they take blood in the ambulance?  The hospital couldn't be that far away.  Oh, right, they took the scenic route through a nature preserve.

 

11 hours ago, Js Nana said:

But I thought the blood sample had been placed in some kind of metal box in the ambulance prior to the accident, because if it hadn't been placed in some kind of a protective container, wouldn't it have been destroyed in the fire?

Just in case there was going to be a fiery accident?  Pshaw.

 

17 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Have you been tested for STUPVID-19?

=dead=  (and I am showing up at my funeral...)

 

16 hours ago, Waldo13 said:

Sharon should never wear her hair pulled back. It makes her Botox treatments more obvious.

Agreed.  It also brings out her ears which were giving me an Elvin/Lord of the Rings vibe.

[Bunnyto4]

17 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Sally: Nate. I don’t feel so good.

Nate: You need some new streaming options? Because I’m not a doctor anymore.

Sally: Something might be wrong with my baby. As an incubator, special maintenance is occasionally required. 

********

Adam: The usual.

Sharon: Say what?

Adam: I’m trying to order coffee.

Sharon: I can’t seem to focus. After what happened, I just want to rent some confetti cannons, dance and try out some cartwheel. But… I’m worried that society will judge me.

Adam: Something happened? After the party, I went home and sniffed Scrubbin’ Bubbles to cleanse the image of Nick feeling up Sally.

Sharon: There’s no easy way to say this without smiling. Phyllis is dead.

Adam: No kidding. Got any of that vanilla biscotti today?

*******

Chance: There’s something weird about this whole Phyllis case that rubs me the wrong way. I just can’t put my finger on it. Especially my thumb, which is currently up my ass.

Abby: Chance, can I speak to you? I’ve got a lot of dumb shit to say.

Chance: That’s right up my alley.

******

Victoria: I’m worried about Nick. He diddles anything that moves when he’s grieving. He’ll also tap inanimate objects if the pain is deep enough.

Nikki: Charm school was completely wasted on him.

Victoria: Summer must be devastated. I’ll really need to conserve my energy so I can pretend to care.

Nikki: She is quite composed, as a lady of fine breeding should be. Naturally, I assume she’s on the very cusp of derangement and am quite proud of her for stifling any unseemly histrionics.

Victoria: So I don’t have to visit her today?

Nikki: It would be best if you waited. Jack had a circle of salt placed around the manse. I fear it would do great harm to your and your father’s kind.

Victor: Life is for the living. And the undead. Did you extract any information from Tucker?

Victoria: No. He wouldn’t share the name of his turtleneck supplier.

Victor: Damn him. What about McCall Unlimited?

Victoria: Eh. I’ve lost interest.

Victor: I haven’t. I still own this company.

Victoria: I’m CEO. 

Victor: Because I handed you that chair. This is about Adam, not business. Why do you resist my efforts to reunite the family and force you to share your toys?

Victoria: I’ve got approximately 10 fucks left to give and Adam’s name ain’t on any of them.

Victor: It used to be fun to make you kids fight for my approval. Chess isn’t fulfilling when you can’t control your pawns.

Victoria: Buy it and give it to Adam. Just not under the Newman umbrella.

Victor: I want Adam to have his own accomplishments.

Victoria: Giving him a company isn’t an ‘Adam’ accomplishment. It’s rank nepotism. Coddling. Spoiling him. Oh god, I just heard myself.

*******

Abby: I’ll beat around the bush and take a painfully circuitous route to my point.

Chance: I expect nothing less.

Abby: Devon asked me and Dom to move in with him. I wanted to make sure you were cool with it.

Chance: You’re asking my opinion? WTF?

Abby: I thought it would be respectful to stop freeloading off your family and shack up with the guy I cheated on you with. I’m pretty sure Nina would like me to leave, if the real estate brochures she’s wallpapered my room with are any indication.

Chance: She also bought a neon Get the Fuck Out sign today, so I’d get to steppin’..

Abby: You can move back in. It’s your birthright.

Chance: Genoa City isn’t an aristocracy. It’s just a house.

Abby: How basic. Anyhoo, I’ll leave Dom’s stuff there for when he comes to visit. Hopefully he hasn’t inherited my tendency to forget his non-biological parent.

*******

Devon: Thanks for the coffee, Lily.

Lily: Not coffee, Devon. The cappuccino of compromise.

Devon: Right. How’s Daniel? 

Lily: He kept talking about all the ways Phyllis could have been saved. When he got to the asbestos helicopter, I knew he was delirious with fatigue..

Devon: Speaking of flammable stuff, let’s keep talking about Chancellor Winters.

Lily: I’m super nervous that we’ll start fighting again. What happens when your habit of crackling empty water bottles drives me to a psychotic break?

Devon: We just won’t let it happen. I’m telling you, that night in the lounge has changed my perspective. That picture of Dad, his favorite music playing, all those silver dresses reminding me of the briefcase of righteous justice…

Lily: It was like he was right there, telling us to knock it the fuck off.

********

Nate: I thought you looked different at the gala. I just assumed it was the red-assed baboon on your arm.

Sally: I haven’t told a lot of people. I figure my skin tight outfits will do the talking.

Nate: So what’s bothering you?

Sally: My brain has turned into a pudding like substance. I get a little nauseous and feel some fluttery weirdness in my stomach. I’m so confused.

Nate: This is after you eat, right? Maybe after you’ve eaten too much?

Sally: Well… four waffles, an omelette, toast, french toast, three cinnamon rolls, maple brown sugar ice cream, sausage and pepper pizza, onion rings, pork rinds and a Snickers.

Nate: Well, I can’t ethically diagnose you, but I’m comfortable declaring that you’ve lost anywhere from 25 to 45 IQ points. Babies don’t stay still for nine months.

Sally: Oh, I get it! When I eat, so does the baby. If eating energizes me, it affects the baby the same way! Yay!

Nate: I’ll offer you three bits of advice. Chamomile tea is great for nausea. Eat frequent, but smaller meals. Finally, and again, I can’t diagnose you, but new studies indicate stupid is contagious. You need to dress in full hazmat around Nick.

Sally: Your bedside manner is wonderful.

******

Adam: Phyllis. Gone in the blink of an eye.

Sharon: I wonder where that deer is now. Hopefully he’s being feted by his fellow Cervidae.

Adam: How’s Nick?

Sharon: Well, he’s pretty torn up. I was with him while the news rolled in. He got teary-eyed and blew his nose into my new clutch. I haven’t heard from him since.

Adam: He’ll be in touch. He has no concept of how gross it is to dump his toxic emo shit about Phyllis on you. Speaking of toxic assholes, I’ve been summoned.

*******

Devon: Losing people really puts shit into perspective, you know? Pretty original observation on my part, amirite.

Lily: It really does bring the cliches to the forefront. People will be talking like sympathy cards for at least a week.

Devon: Loss is hard. We’ve been through it. Neil, Hilary… the hole in your heart never quite goes away.

Lily: That second one was totally my bad.

Devon: I’ve invited Abby to move in. It’s what Neil would have wanted.

*******

Adam: Here I am, Lucy. Hold the football nice and steady.

Victor: You heard about Phyllis?

Adam: Yep. My fuck bank is overdrawn.

Victor: Your sister has decided to shitcan the McCall acquisition.

Adam: Override her.

Victor: She is the CEO, k? Undermining her would be bad.

Adam: Fire her ass.

Victor: We don’t go through her for McCall, alright? We go around her. She’s the size of a blade of grass, so it will take five seconds at most.

Adam: The football. You moved it. No. No, you dropkicked me through the goalposts of fate. You like Victoria more than me.

Victor: I resent you all equally.

Adam: Right. Well, Nick has my lady and Victoria has my career. Why don’t you give my car and Harvard degree to Abby?

Victor: Who?

********

Sharon: I saw Abby talking and you standing there with your eyes glazed over. Is everything okay?

Chance: I don’t know. Abby’s moving into Devon’s place with Dominic. She inexplicably wanted to run it past me instead of just getting the fuck out of the house.

Sharon: So… you’re free. Free to let go of the anger and resentment I mean.

Chance: it might be a while before I get the image of Devon motorboating my wife off my retinas.

Sharon: I understand. I once caught Nick and Phyllis wearing banana costumes. If I may be completely full of shit for a minute, the loss of Rey and now the sudden passing of Phyllis really emphasizes how life is too short to hold grudges. Let it all go. Embrace your freedom.

Chance: I feel like I should be paying you for this therapy session. That was sarcasm, by the way.

********

Sally: Oh, Adam. Where are you hurrying off to?

Adam: Nowhere. Everywhere. I dunno.

Sally: I’m just here for tea. Nate told me all about it. It involves pouring hot water over this funny little bag with a string.

Adam: …

Sally: If you’re not too busy going nowhere, I wouldn’t mind someone joining me on this beverage adventure.

Adam: Sure. How’s old fuckface?

Sally: Heartbroken. Depressed. Constipated.

Adam: Jealous?

Sally: No. They share a child. That creates an unbreakable bond. Summer is basically Gorilla Glue.

Adam: Nate turned you on to tea, huh? I think my sister would like to sample his teabags.

Sally: My tum tum felt funny.

Adam: Are you alright? Is it afternoon sickness? Yo, are you still taking those pre-natal vitamins? Why am I asking stuff that is none of my fucking business?

Sally: You do seem sore about something.

Adam: I thought I was moving towards something positive, a light at the end of the tunnel. Turns out it was Dad driving a train.

Sally: Wait. You thought something positive could come from Victor? Could Nate be right? Have you been tested for STUPVID-19?

Adam: He chose Victoria over me. Again. The crazy thing is that I thought he might choose me.

Sally: You don’t need Victor or McCall Unlimited. You only need yourself. You’re good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it people like you.

Adam: You always know the right thing to say. It would mean so much more if you didn’t blow the same smoke up Nick’s backside.

*******

Victoria: Please come in.

Nate: I’m excited to get balls deep in quarterly reports.

Victoria: I was very impressed with you and that chick rushing to help Phyllis after she fainted. It was… stimulating watching you play doctor.

Nate: Elena keeps asking herself if there was more she could have done. Me? I don’t give a damn.

Victoria: Speaking of putting things out of their misery, McCall is off the table. It’s just not a good investment for Newman.

Nate: Your instincts are always 1000% right. Now Devon can buy it if he wants.

Victoria: Everyone wins. May I share something off the record and a bit naughty?

Nate: I’m honored to be included in your inner circle.

Victoria: I’d love for you to be very, very deep in my circle. I lied to my father. I stopped pursuing McCall Unlimited purely to kick Adam in the jimmies. I’m really pleased with myself for coming up with the ultimate cock block.

Nate: Fucking over your family is the ultimate high.

********

Abby: I’m moving in.

Devon: Wonderful.

Abby: Chance blessed our union.

Devon: For real?

Abby: His mom rented me a U-Haul. Sounds like a thumbs up to me.

Devon: I love you.

Abby: What a coincidence. I love you too. Can we turn the photo of Neil face down when we do it though?

💀

[One Tough Cookie]

OK @NinjaPenguins that was worth getting up for {confession, I just came back from brunch and I'm a little buzzed}.  Lost for words! I just wanna know HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DO IT?

RE: chain if command:  There is absolutely no way that blood would be admissible  in ANY  court of law anywhere other than GC.  In this case, however, it will be the linchpin that will cause Diane to be arrested and indicted.'

OOOfff-Sharon between that pulled back hair and the extensions and immobile face-shame on you. yeah, I peaked a bit b/c a figured Chance may have a story line.

So I depending on all of you to give me a heads up when the epi features Chance.  I'm still recording but don't intend to watch unless he's on.

[Kemper]

4 hours ago, MollyB said:

Why would they take blood in the ambulance?  The hospital couldn't be that far away.  Oh, right, they took the scenic route through a nature preserve.

 

Just in case there was going to be a fiery accident?  Pshaw.

 

=dead=  (and I am showing up at my funeral...)

 

Agreed.  It also brings out her ears which were giving me an Elvin/Lord of the Rings vibe.

Yes, those ears. I think she even commented on them herself. Putting her with Chance is another ill conceived idea. There are men, right now, in her age group. Ashland was; Tucker is; Stark is; Nick; please, no Adam; Jack may be available if they kill off Diane or succeed in driving her out of town. It should be time to bring what’s his name back (but not played by Steve Burton) or reincarnate Ray. She may be vapid but she is still way way better than Michelle S. 

[One Tough Cookie]

18 hours ago, Js Nana said:

Actually, it's attacks by ultra-fascists that disrupt the ability of people to put on, and attend, drag shows - fight back is the only way to handle a bunch like that.

I have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH DRAG SHOWS. I just don't think they are appropriate in school.

[gingerella]

6 hours ago, MollyB said:

Why would they take blood in the ambulance?  The hospital couldn't be that far away.  Oh, right, they took the scenic route through a nature preserve.

That's SOP when you go to the Porkie Pig School of Emergency Medical Technicians, and your ambulance company is the ACME Ambulance Company, owned by Wyle E.Coyote...*mmmbeepbeep*

[One Tough Cookie]

1 hour ago, gingerella said:

That's SOP when you go to the Porkie Pig School of Emergency Medical Technicians

OMG--again I just plotz!

[Js Nana]

3 hours ago, One Tough Cookie said:

I just don't think they are appropriate in school.

Don't think there've been any drag shows at of my of the schools my grandchildren attend, but the only complaint I'd have if they did put one on would be if I wasn't invited.

[Js Nana]

5 hours ago, Kemper said:

It should be time to bring what’s his name back (but not played by Steve Burton)

OK, so I had to do a bit of googling to find out that Steve Burton played Dylan McAvoy, who was discovered to be the child of Nikki Newman and Paul Williams, was married to Chelsea and then Sharon and the last anyone saw of him was as he was leaving town to go into the witness protection program forever because of some guy named Luther Fisk.

[Js Nana]

10 hours ago, MollyB said:

Just in case there was going to be a fiery accident?

Aaaaah, yuh, because the "fiery accident" was planned as part of the Phylis is dead ruse, and so was drawing blood from Phyllis so as to have some biological material to use in identifying her and to "doctor" the sample so that it would look like she'd been poisoned - these are things that can happen in Soap Opera Land.

Did anybody else notice that there was some kind of growth or something showing on Eric Braeden'slower lip on Friday - 'cause I don't think I imagined it.

[MsMalin]

Well, since the medic is skipping town, he won't be able to testify in court so there's that.

[MollyB]

10 hours ago, Js Nana said:

and so was drawing blood from Phyllis so as to have some biological material to use in identifying her and to "doctor" the sample so that it would look like she'd been poisoned

I didn't know ambulances had a 'black box' that survives everything.🤨

And speaking of chain of custody:  what happened to Phylth's mask that was so carefully retrieved and wrapped in a not-dirty napkin (cause there was no food) by Chance and probably had been sprayed with whatever knocked her out. 

 

1 hour ago, MsMalin said:

Well, since the medic is skipping town, he won't be able to testify in court so there's that.

Isn't anybody going to get suspicious when the medic is suddenly gone and the two Doe bodies are noticed in the morgue? Anybody?  

[Waldo13]

13 hours ago, Js Nana said:

Aaaaah, yuh, because the "fiery accident" was planned as part of the Phylis is dead ruse, and so was drawing blood from Phyllis so as to have some biological material to use in identifying her and to "doctor" the sample so that it would look like she'd been poisoned - these are things that can happen in Soap Opera Land.

Did anybody else notice that there was some kind of growth or something showing on Eric Braeden'slower lip on Friday - 'cause I don't think I imagined it.

What’s on Victor’s lower lip was from something that he was eating, at Society, with Nikki. When Victor was talking to Adam earlier at Society, it wasn’t there. 
 

Where is Kevin when you need him to find footage of the accident.  He was able to find a camera to see Victor’s security drive Locke’s car which was on a more secluded road than would be on a road to Memorial. Does the monkeys with a keyboard think we are no astute enough to be able to find pictures of Memorial and the GCAC to know that they are both in the city proper. 

[Waldo13]

This pure speculation on my part but I would bet the farm that since Crispy is missing, she was will be skulking around GC to hear what people are saying about her.  No matter what disguise Crispy wears, even if she wears a wig, dark sunglasses and floppy hat, her teeth, nose, and mouth will give her away. Crispy would have to disguise herself using a Mission Impossible type mask.  
 

I give it a week to ten days, Crispy will give herself away. 

[Js Nana]

On 4/8/2023 at 12:45 PM, MollyB said:

we had a big ole stamp that said CONFLICT

When I was working as an administrative assitant, we had these big stamps that were about 3X5 that would say "FORWARD TO" and had lines with check boxes where you would write in the names of those who were supposed to read the document and who was the next one to pass it along to.

8 hours ago, Waldo13 said:

When Victor was talking to Adam earlier at Society, it wasn’t there.

Thanks, Waldo, of course that part went right past me

[Js Nana]

11 hours ago, MollyB said:

Isn't anybody going to get suspicious when the medic is suddenly gone and the two Doe bodies are noticed in the morgue? Anybody?

It does seem like a shaky house of cards that JS and Phyllis have constructed, but then, when has logic ever played a part in the writing for this show - or maybe they've written it so that Phyllis is either found out, or outs herself, before the case gets handed off to the DA, and the producers will keep milking the "suspense" because the events of one week can be stretched out over a month on this show.

[PatsyandEddie]

12 hours ago, Waldo13 said:
 

I give it a week to ten days, Crispy will give herself away. 

Waldo, I rarely disagree with you but here I must. I can’t see Phyll taking that long. She won’t be able to contain herself longer than a few days at most.  I can see her now skulking about town,  eavesdropping in floppy hats and baaaaad wigs. Her big mouth will give it away. 

[Sake614]

I’m done. I can watch the show on paramount+ if it’s worth it, but I just can’t with this whole Phyllis garbage. I’ll stick around here to read everyone’s snark, and especially @NinjaPenguins recaps. Because they’re far more interesting than anything JG could dream up.

wake me if anything interesting happens…

[Julyolo]

Am I the only viewer having difficulty reconciling Ashley's frequent reminders of emotional and financial independence, while she sits and listens to Tucker ramble on? He sounds at best like a sociopath, at his worst like a pimp, "Oh, baby, imma gonna do everything for you: party, jewelry, house, revenge." Her saying he needs "more  work" to prove himself, is just a shout out to him to spend more time grooming her for whatever he eventually has in mind. I guess Summer and Danny forgot Phyllis brought Stark to town solely for the purpose of hurting Diane? Their mom played silly games, she won silly prizes. She had singlehandedly dismantled every part of her life (work, possessions, relationships) to the point one could argue if she really had died, it could have been called an extended suicide. I fully expect to see Phyllis rising out of her faked ashes during a memorial service at where else? The Grand Phoenix.

Edited April 10, 2023 by Julyolo

[NinjaPenguins]

Jack: Hey, Nick. It’s Jack. You repeatedly fucked me over when it came to Phyllis, but I’m a better person than you, so give me a call if you need to talk. Asshole.

Ashley: Oh, so you can care about other people instead of just Diane.

Jack: Really? We’re doing this today?

Ashley: Phyllis is dead. I’m taking up the torch of Diane obsession.

*********

Tucker: This the pariah lounge?

Diane: Get bent.

Tucker: You’re the best opportunity to shit stir I’ve come across all day.

*******

Billy: Ah, the air smells of grief. 10 million cubic liters of mourning, if my capacious nostrils can be trusted.

Sharon: That’s funny. I don’t remember ordering any buttbiscotti.

Billy: How are you holding up?

Sharon: Fine. It’s not entirely satisfying throwing confetti around at home with the curtains drawn, but I have to consider the feelings of others.

Billy: That’s one way to live. Got any therapist’s advice for grief that doesn’t sound like a dollar store sympathy card?

Sharon: Oh that’s right. You’re probably sad that your fuck buddy kicked off. Well, there is a Phyllis sized hole in our lives, like she was the Kool-Aid man crashing through our reality.

Billy: Everything is less colorful now. It’s like the color blue doesn’t exist anymore. Unless her veneers survived the wreck.

********

Summer: I need flowers to match my mother’s personality. Yes, a dozen pitcher plants will be fine. Hangs up. Flowers are done. Now onto the programs.

Kyle: Can I do something? Pleeease. C’mon.

Summer: Go find a hat. I need to do this alone.

Kyle: How I used to long to hear you say that. I even bought a top hat just in case. Sigh. What about Daniel? Shouldn’t he be included?

Summer: No. His creative abilities are wildly overrated.

*******

Jack: We’re not having this conversation today of all days.

Ashley: I’m afraid what happened to Phyllis will happen to you!

Jack: Stark really isn’t my type.

Ashley: After the hell Diane put us all through, you keep forcing her into our company, our home and now our family.

Jack: Phyllis was a huge part of this family. You can’t even hold your vitriol in until after her ashes have cooled. She was your co-conspirator, spending her last days relentlessly attacking the woman I love. It’s sad that you’d keep her campaign of malice going.

Ashley: I will turn this around on you and make you the bad guy.

Jack: Get a life!

Ashley: This is my life! Undermining you!

********

Summer: Stop making me waste my energy telling you to fuck off.

Kyle: I’m just trying to help. Lean on my tall hair.

Summer: Don’t you see? I owe my mom for the way I held her responsible for her own destructive actions. She needed me to give her a free pass and I failed her.

Kyle: So you guys fought. You always made up. Phyllis knew you loved her.

Summer: How do you know? Her maternal instincts were hit or miss.

Kyle: Maybe you should talk to Sharon.

Summer: Sharon? Sharon hates my mother for some inexplicable reason.

Kyle: Oh, oh. I know this one! Call on me!

Summer: I won’t be brainwashed into thinking my mother’s death was a wild series of coincidences. The evening took a dark turn when Diane tried to strangle her and ended with a deer assassin taking mom out.

Kyle: What are you saying? That my mom hired a killer deer? That she trained a deer to lure that ambulance off the road?

Summer: I can’t talk to you when you’re irrational like this.

********

Billy: I bet you’re thinking about Rey.

Sharon: Since Chelsea’s not around, I figured I could have his memory to myself. It’s actually been a year since he died.

Billy: He was a good dude. Widowhood struck Chelsea really hard.

Sharon: Sometimes I wake up and roll over, thinking I’ll see him there next to me. In our bed. The bed we shared as husband and wife. There’s a message he left me that I can’t bring myself to delete. “Sharon, I gave Noah the talk again. It’s hard to tell over the phone, but I think he knows what goes where now.”

Billy: Good talk. But I can’t leave until I awkwardly touch your shoulder.

*******

Summer: Hey, Daniel. How are you?

Daniel: Everything hurts.

Summer: Yeah. It hurts to talk. It hurts to hear Kyle talk.

Daniel: I couldn’t sleep. Ended up drawing Mom.

Summer: This is amazing. It’s going right on the program.

Daniel: Like that? I can improve it. Maybe erase the horns and handlebar mustache.

Summer: It’s perfect. Look, I’m sorry I’ve been hogging this memorial thing. I just feel so guilty for reacting in a natural, emotionally functional way to Mom’s bullshit.

Daniel: I get why you need to do this alone. I would be completely useless anyway. I’m still having that vague, unspecified problem that torpedoed my thing with Heather.

Summer: Oh yeah. The problem.

Daniel: Don’t worry. We’ll give our mother the send off she deserves. And then I’ll give Jeremy Stark what he deserves.

Summer: Oh my god! I thought it was just me! Does anyone have a whiteboard and some dry erase markers? Jeremy’s and Diane’s scheme will soon be exposed!

*******

Billy: What’s her problem?

Jack: She’s a lawnmower who thinks Diane’s ass is made of grass.

Billy: You know what they say, gas, grass or ass, no one rides for free.

Jack: Phyllis is dead and all Ashley can do is bitch about my fiancee. This is a woman who was an important part of this family for years.

Billy: Ah, Phyllis. She was hell on wheels and a freak between the sheets. She was fiery and intense and surprisingly agile inside an elevator. I’ll miss her.

Jack: You’re a real piece of shit.

Billy: I just got back from the rumor mill and word around town is that Diane might be feeling some heat from the cops.

Jack: Does this rumor mill have a name?

Billy: No, but it has a location - nestled in the posterior quadrant of my skinny jeans.

Jack: Only a criminal like Jeremy Stark with an axe to grind would make such ridiculous allegations. This guy who mysteriously married Phyllis, a woman he didn’t even know, is just deflecting.

Billy: It’s not just Stark, but whatevs.

Jack: Don’t tell me you’re stupid enough to believe Diane orchestrated this tragedy.

Billy: Of course not. Just letting you know that the grapevine is making wine. God, I’m clever.

Jack: I’m even more determined to make Diane my wife now. Never let it be said that Jack Abbott didn’t double and triple down on his romantic mistakes.

Billy: I almost forgot. I actually stopped by to take your emotional temperature.

Jack: Weird how it always feels like you’re doing it rectally.

********

Sharon: Is Summer okay? She blew past me with her middle finger in the air.

Kyle: I don’t know what the fuck to do. All I did was suggest she get professional help because she believes my mother used a remote controlled robot deer to play chicken with her mom’s ambulance.

Sharon: Would it help if I shared some boilerplate codswallop from Grief 101?

Kyle: Deploying bouffant of cliche absorption.

*********

Ashley: I’m angry and my ego is hungry.

Tucker: Come in. I’ve had a mildly entertaining day. Let’s see if I can’t debase myself for your affections.

Ashley: Everything is so amusing to you. You’re just so flip and detached.

Tucker: Precisely. But if you share your problem, maybe I can match your snotty indignation.

Ashley: Jack is blind!

Tucker: Did he look directly into Phyllis’ teeth?

Ashley: Not like that. He’s still romancing Diane. So much for your plan to announce our fake engagement and upstage those two idiots. Everyone is focused on Phyllis. Rightly so, of course.

Tucker: You’re looking at this all wrong. Once Jack is done trying to jump in the hole and surf Phyllis’ casket, he’ll be playing hero to poor, persecuted Diane. The absolute fuck you that is our engagement will stick right in his craw. And then you’ll fall in love with me.

Ashley: How do you figure?

Tucker: Prolonged exposure to Tucker McCall often results in sexytimes and happiness. You’re not immune.

Ashley: You still have a lot of work to do.

Tucker: I’m a hard worker. I’ll build you a house, buy you a ring and talk mad shit to Jack and Diane. You can’t even imagine how awesome life will be.

Ashley: Cool story, bro.

********

Kyle: Mom! Uh, you haven’t been talking to any deer lately, have you?

Diane: Nooo. What would we even discuss?

Kyle: Conspiracy to commit murder? Sorry, I’m just upset about Summer. She’s making all these crazy accusations and I can’t seem to talk her down.

Diane: Don’t worry about it. I’m not even mad at her. She just lost her mother and I’m an easy target. It’s like being mad at a rabid squirrel for biting you.

Kyle: Can deer get rabies? I saw on Law & Order ZOO once this deer faked rabies to beat a murder rap. Turned out he’d been vaccinated where the vet couldn’t spot the needle mark.

Diane: I’ll never stop apologizing for abandoning you. You clearly needed more guidance than one parent could provide.

Kyle: I put a wig on a hockey stick and called it Mom. Maybe I can find a couple of lemons and superglue ‘em to a broom for Summer.

********

Daniel: I can’t attack Jeremy personally. I’d catch his hands like they were chicken pox. No, I’ve got to be savvy about this. I’ve narrowed my targets down to three of the top velour storage warehouses in the midwest. I’ve got a book of matches and nothing to lose.

Summer: It’s not just Stark though. He and Diane clearly worked together to recruit a deer to take out my mother. I suspect Stark began with a plan to merely give mom Lyme disease.

Daniel: How does the marriage fit in?

Summer: Isn’t it obvious? As her husband, Jeremy would have the access to make Mom’s tick disappear, thereby making it impossible for animal control to trace it back to the deer.

Daniel: But how could Jeremy and Diane be sure Mom and the deer would get near each other?

Summer: I’ve thought about that. I think the deer was meant to be a wedding present from Diane. Diane, though, lost her shit that night at the gala. She went rogue. A tick bite was too slow. Mom was going to expose her devious scheme to marry Jack and spend time with Kyle.

Daniel: Diane lost her shit? Did I miss something?

Summer: Jack and Kyle and I walked in on Diane wringing Mom’s neck. She was screaming that she’d kill her. Yes, that night, I believe Diane quickly made a detour to the deer’s suite before rejoining the party. Diane gave him the map Jeremy drew of the ambulance’s route and told him to do his thing.

Daniel: I’m confused. Why did Mom pass out?

Summer: Our hatred and resentment poisoned her. Diane knew that Phyllis would pitch a fit when she and Jack announced their engagement and that we’d react by scolding her.

Daniel: Diabolical! Or should I say deer-abolical? Diane used us as weapons against our own mother!

Summer: Our mom was in that ambulance with a shattered heart. But it was the deer who ended the ride. All Diane would have to do is offer it a bag of apples and our mother’s life was expendable.

Daniel: Now Jeremy is accusing Diane because she double deer-crossed him. 

Summer: Kyle thinks I’m crazy.

Daniel: How can we make sure the world sees the truth?

Summer: Leave that to me.

 

Edited April 10, 2023 by NinjaPenguins

[Chatty Cake]

Summer is such a brat! Poor Kyle obviously lowered his bouffant in show of mourning. He’s also offering to help her plan the stupid memorial for her asshole mom and she is snapping at him about his mother? Oh hell no. He needs to tell her to get her shit together or he is done.

HOW DARE Scummer blow off Sharon Rosales? Sharon has been nothing but nice to her snotty bratty ass through the years. Her disgusting mom stole Nick from Sharon yet Sharon still has been decent to this scumbag.

You would think Stupor Girl would have had a tiny bit of decency and call her brother about the memorial. But no, idiot girl just thinks about herself. 

Ashley also needs to shut up. The town asshole just died, you’d think people would be a little jovial.

Why the hell is Billy crying? My god, he banged Summer, he didn’t care one iota about Phyllis when their affair ended. 

[Waldo13]

More Crispy platitudes 🤢🤢🤮🤮. Just waiting for the day they find out Crispy is alive. Crow tastes very good with Fava Beans and a nice Chianti.  

Ashley hasn’t Crispy cause you more grief and pain than Diane?  Hasn’t Crispy caused everyone more grief and pain over the 10 years Diane was gone.  For that matter Ashley, you have caused Jack a lot of grief and pain. Even right now with ranting about Diane. Ashley sound a lot like Crispy in her quest to save Jack from Diane but mainly himself. 

Tucker is at the GCAC because the Grand Albatross is being renovated. Doesn’t he mean fumigated for rodents, lice, bed bugs, and roaches.  

Summer Summer Summer ❄️❄️❄️. It’s not how you treated Crispy when she needed you most but how she treated you when you needed her to be a rational human being. 

Ashley maybe money can’t by love but it certainly can destroy it. It’s like rich or poor, it’s nice to have money 😉.  

Nice try but no cigar Summer on your conspiracy theory. Your mom was the one who brought Stark to town not Summer also doesn’t know that it was her mother who started the fight and tried to keep Diane from leaving the room.  

 

[Joimiaroxeu]

Why would Diane be sitting alone in the GCAC? Shouldn't she at home comforting Jack?

This kindler, gentler, wise old sage version of Billy is not working for me. Feh.

Oh Summer, putting on an extravagant memorial service for your mommy won't change her problematic history. You need to take a chill pill or five.

Wait, what? Did Ashley suggest to Jack that Diane might kill him? Wow. That was harsh.

Kyle, are you nuts? Sharon is one of the last people Summer should talk to about her grief. Summer only exists because Phyllis had an affair with Sharon's husband. Right after Sharon had lost her first child. Yeesh.😒

"Chaotic but electric, fiery and brilliant." JG must be sitting with a thesaurus to come up with more and more ways to say how swell Phyllis is. I'm thinking he might want to use Urban Dictionary instead.

Tucker told Ashley the Gutted Pancake is bring renovated. Guess we'll see how many others switch over to the GCAC. At least half the characters have been living at the GP and there could be quite an exodus.

What was up with that weird zipper on Ashley's top? It was as if it had been sewn in by a drunk person who only had one eye open.

Summer said the memorial for Phyllis will be exactly what Phyllis deserves. AFAIC that can only mean instead of tossing dirt on the casket at the gravesite, everyone will throw a handful of fresh poop.

If Ashley does remarry Tucker she better have an airtight prenup. Just sayin".

Edited April 10, 2023 by Joimiaroxeu

[MsMalin]

Geez Ashley stfu! What did Diane do since her return that was so bad? Please remind me because Ashley has now taken Phyllis'  place with the over the top hysteria.

2 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Summer: I need flowers to match my mother’s personality. Yes, a dozen pitcher plants will be fine. Hangs up. Flowers are done. Now onto the programs.

How about Venus Fly Traps?

Your recap is stellar today.

[One Tough Cookie]

On 4/9/2023 at 2:21 PM, Waldo13 said:

Where is Kevin when you need him to find footage of the accident.

???Kevin????

[One Tough Cookie]

4 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Kyle: I put a wig on a hockey stick and called it Mom. Maybe I can find a couple of lemons and superglue ‘em to a broom for Summer.

I'm on life support........................

[boes]

Every time Ashley starts ragging on Jack about Diane, or anything else, all he has to do is turn to her and say "Victor".  If she has any perspective or internal honesty at all, considering the crap he's pulled with her assistance and/or blessing, she'd crochet her lips shut.

I usually enjoy Ashley and Tucker's emotional S/M relationship banter but it felt out of place with everything else that went on today.

I think it's time to call in Ghost Hunters and see if they can't free the coffee shop from the ghostly inhabitant who seems tied to the place.  You know, the one with flowing blonde hair and protuberant ears that various people have heard whispering unsolicited psychiatric advice in their ears.  Today she was seen talking to another spirit, an odiferous one shaped like a giant nose an then later, to one shaped vaguely like a boffant hairdo on a swizzle stick.   The entire coffee shop was full of the undead today, at least, brainwise.

Oh!  Hi, Sharon!

So, according to Summer and Daniel, Diane doublecrossed Stark who then doubledared Phyllis, who then doubled down on her meds while Stark double bubbled as Diane double dipped and then double dang doodle a deer hit 'em?

I hope she puts that in the memorial program.

Speaking of the Phyllis Memorial, will the lead song be Patsy Cline's "Crazy"?  I still want balloon animals.

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by boes

[CountryGirl]

Line of the day goes to Tucker, to Ashley (who commented about returning to him like a bad habit): “Okay, well, let’s be bad then.”

Runner up was Nostrils, waxing not poetically about his former sister-in-law and one-time lover, including such adjectives as “fiery,” which my ears heard as “diarrhea.” It was then that I realized I’d heard wrong as he could never be that astute. 

[Joimiaroxeu]

Quote

Nostrils, waxing not poetically about his former sister-in-law and one-time lover

Yeah, and it's gotten annoying IMO.

Billy has had three scenes so far in which he's delivered mini-euloges for Phyllis. First to Chelsea, then to Sharon, and finally to Jack. What's that all about?

But as long as deifying Phyllis seems to be Billy's assignment, I want to see him say something to Lily too. Lily was a much bigger part of his life than Phyllis ever was, and Lily should be the one to tell Billy to STFU.

Edited April 11, 2023 by Joimiaroxeu

[One Tough Cookie]

4 hours ago, boes said:

Speaking of the Phyllis Memorial, will the lead song be Patsy Cline's "Crazy"?  I still want balloon animal

Every freaking time i turn on my computer, I almost piss myself!

[Js Nana]

9 hours ago, One Tough Cookie said:

On 4/9/2023 at 2:21 PM, Waldo13 said:

Where is Kevin when you need him to find footage of the accident.

???Kevin????

Could "Kevin" be the generic name for the tech support guys they have on all the police procedurals now, the ones who can locate in a picture taken from an earth-bound telescope a needle that was left by an astronaut on the surface of the moon 50 years ago?

[Js Nana]

On 4/7/2023 at 8:30 PM, babyhouseman said:

I miss summer teen stories.

Do you mean stories about teenagers in the summer, or do you mean stories about when Summer was a teenager?

[Js Nana]

10 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Why would Diane be sitting alone in the GCAC? Shouldn't she at home comforting Jack?

She needs somewhere away from Jack while she plots how she's going to eliminate everyone who stands in the way of her son taking the throne at Jabot, but only as a figurehead, because she'll be the real brains of the outfit. 

10 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Wait, what? Did Ashley suggest to Jack that Diane might kill him? 

Well, that's what she saw when she looked into her crystal ball.

10 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

What was up with that weird zipper on Ashley's top? It was as if it had been sewn in by a drunk person who only had one eye open.

Must be by her favorite designer.

[AManfred]

Regarding the return of the GCAC:

When I started watching YR 13 years ago, the GCAC was my least favorite set. It looked outdated and stuffy. When I realized it had been phased out a couple years ago in favor of newer sets, I was okay with it (I love the Society set, especially at Christmastime).

When the GCAC reappeared for the celebration, I thought it was a nice touch and that it may be used only for the event. However, it looks like it may be staying, and wouldn't you know it, I am pleased. Is it age and maturity that has made me realize it actually has a seasoned comfort to it? Or nostalgia for past storylines and characters?

Either way, welcome back, GCAC. Glad to see you again.

Edited April 11, 2023 by AManfred
clarity

[Waldo13]

11 hours ago, Js Nana said:

Could "Kevin" be the generic name for the tech support guys they have on all the police procedurals now, the ones who can locate in a picture taken from an earth-bound telescope a needle that was left by an astronaut on the surface of the moon 50 years ago?

It’s Kevin Fisher who works for the GCPD. Kevin was the one who found the video where Victor’s security guy drove Locke’s rental car that Locke was found dead behind the wheel. 

Kevin found the one camera in a rural area so wouldn’t you think he would find many cameras, in a more public area, to see the ambulance accident was staged.  One other thing, I don’t remember Chance asking the EMT why the driver took the “scenic” route to the hospital. 

Edited April 11, 2023 by Waldo13

[Joimiaroxeu]

Better check your local TV listings, my fellow Y&R fans. In the western time zones Y&R and B&B may be preempted today and tomorrow (April 11 and 12). CBS will be airing European football league games.

Not sure yet whether the preempted episodes will still be available online at CBS.com/Paramount+. In my SW market, Y&R will be broadcasted overnight on the local channel at 2:42AM. Not 2:40AM. Not 2:45AM. 2:42AM. I can't.

[Julyolo]

Not terribly surprised to see Nikki has managed to get her nose ratcheted back up into the ozone so soon. Whoever, or what ever wrote today's episode and the ones since the day Phyllis supposedly turned into a "XXXtra Flaming Hot Cheeto" on her ill-fated ambulance ride, forgot one of the soap operas' genre all important tropes. One of her kids needs to be wandering, around incoherently ranting, they don't really think that she's dead......that connection still feels open. Then we could get scenes of Billy, Chelsea, and Sharon gently helping this person they have identified as delusional, but isn't. IMO I sense Phyllis will go to her own memorial service and "out" Stark. Diane and Phyllis will both bond from their fear of Stark,while under Jack's protection. Stark will rampage around GC like a truffle seeking hog, until he's intercepted by Chance, after he kills Diane. Seriously, there would be no way Chance would ever be permitted to proactively prevent or solve a GC crime, is there?

[Chatty Cake]

LMAO a at Jeremy and his justice for Phyllis bullshit. How is he even allowed to hang out while Chase is supposedly looking for evidence?
How about justice for viewers, kill Phyllis Summers for real!

[Js Nana]

4 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Better check your local TV listings, my fellow Y&R fans. In the western time zones Y&R and B&B may be preempted today and tomorrow (April 11 and 12). CBS will be airing European football league games.

I kind of panicked yesterday when I checked today's listings, but Y&R is on from 12:30-1:30 here in the east, and the UEFA games don't start until 2:00.

[Js Nana]

On 4/9/2023 at 12:22 AM, Js Nana said:

Aaaaah, yuh, because the "fiery accident" was planned

Light dawns on Marblehead, finally - why would they put the vial of blood in the ambulance that they're going to set on fire, Ms. Septuagenarian.

[gingerella]

35 minutes ago, Js Nana said:

I kind of panicked yesterday when I checked today's listings, but Y&R is on from 12:30-1:30 here in the east, and the UEFA games don't start until 2:00.

I love how I bitch about Show but then also bitch when Show is pre-empted. 🤪

[Waldo13]

Saint Crispy 😇 has been poisoned. Mind blown🤯.  High levels of strychnine are found but, how long was in Crispy’s system.  According to Chance, Crispy had a high dose of strychnine in her system but a high dose mainly would take effect in 15 to 30 minutes.  Crispy had enough time to rant and rave and would have already been dead before being transported to the hospital. It’s my belief that the EMT added to much strychnine to the blood sample to show high levels of poison. One last thing, high levels of strychnine would cause muscle spasms. 

Summer Summer Summer ❄️❄️❄️, playing detective and putting the blame more on Diane than Stark. That comes from the brainwashing effect that Crispy had on her simple minded daughter.  Is Chance that much of a schmuck sharing with Summer that Crispy was poison?  Does he really expect Summer not to follow up on that information?  Summer, I got news for you, Diane couldn’t have poisoned Crispy because there was plenty of time that passed before Crispy’s collapse. 

WTF, Lauren, glorifying Crispy to Christine who personally felt Crispy’s wrath. I’m sure that Lauren knew that Crispy tried to kill Christine and Paul. Speaking about Paul, we have another long time character unceremoniously sent to Portugal. At least he got sent to a beautiful country. 

It’s quite obvious that Cruella’s 💩 doesn’t stink because it’s beneath her to 💩 at all.  Cruella is capable of pissing because she uses her piss to mark her territory.  Cruella I’m quite sure that you despise Adam a hell of a lot more than Adam despises you. Your despise for Adam began when he came to GC. 

Maybe just maybe Chance redeemed himself by confronting Stark about killing Crispy and framing Diane.  Stark is a 🐂💩 artist extraordinaire. We know he’s full of 💩 and I hope Chance is seeing through it. By the way, Summer talked about seeing who is sad at the memorial but Chance in confronting Stark, you don’t see any sadness that Crispy is dead.  Now Chance finds strychnine in Crispy’s room and calls to see where it came from. The only thing that is left is for it to be traced somehow someway back to Diane.  

Please monkeys with a keyboard can I get some corned beef, sauerkraut, and thousand island dressing, on grilled rye bread, with my Swiss cheese.

[MsMalin]

15 minutes ago, Waldo13 said:

Summer, I got news for you, Diane couldn’t have poisoned Crispy because there was plenty of time that passed before Crispy’s collapse. 

Also, how could Diane have poisoned her? Its not like they were having drinks together.

[Chatty Cake]

42 minutes ago, Waldo13 said:

Saint Crispy 😇 has been poisoned. Mind blown🤯.  High levels of strychnine are found but, how long was in Crispy’s system.  According to Chance, Crispy had a high dose of strychnine in her system but a high dose mainly would take effect in 15 to 30 minutes.  Crispy had enough time to rant and rave and would have already been dead before being transported to the hospital. It’s my belief that the EMT added to much strychnine to the blood sample to show high levels of poison. One last thing, high levels of strychnine would cause muscle spasms. 

Summer Summer Summer ❄️❄️❄️, playing detective and putting the blame more on Diane than Stark. That comes from the brainwashing effect that Crispy had on her simple minded daughter.  Is Chance that much of a schmuck sharing with Summer that Crispy was poison?  Does he really expect Summer not to follow up on that information?  Summer, I got news for you, Diane couldn’t have poisoned Crispy because there was plenty of time that passed before Crispy’s collapse. 

WTF, Lauren, glorifying Crispy to Christine who personally felt Crispy’s wrath. I’m sure that Lauren knew that Crispy tried to kill Christine and Paul. Speaking about Paul, we have another long time character unceremoniously sent to Portugal. At least he got sent to a beautiful country. 

It’s quite obvious that Cruella’s 💩 doesn’t stink because it’s beneath her to 💩 at all.  Cruella is capable of pissing because she uses her piss to mark her territory.  Cruella I’m quite sure that you despise Adam a hell of a lot more than Adam despises you. Your despise for Adam began when he came to GC. 

Maybe just maybe Chance redeemed himself by confronting Stark about killing Crispy and framing Diane.  Stark is a 🐂💩 artist extraordinaire. We know he’s full of 💩 and I hope Chance is seeing through it. By the way, Summer talked about seeing who is sad at the memorial but Chance in confronting Stark, you don’t see any sadness that Crispy is dead.  Now Chance finds strychnine in Crispy’s room and calls to see where it came from. The only thing that is left is for it to be traced somehow someway back to Diane.  

Please monkeys with a keyboard can I get some corned beef, sauerkraut, and thousand island dressing, on grilled rye bread, with my Swiss cheese.

I love your latest name for Phyllis!