The GCEh?C: Canadian Episodes (Spoilers for Non-Canadians)

[crowsworks]

in case you all missed it - Y&R survey

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[valleycliffe]

thank you to zoie 1 at soc for today's cdn recap

https://boards.soapcentral.com/forum/daytime-drama-series-soap-operas/the-young-and-the-restless/2070130-monday-canadian-tuesday-us

[gingerella]

Mia is a (fucking) pig. There, I said it.

Edited January 22, 2019 by gingerella
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[Kemper]

11 hours ago, gingerella said:

Mia is a (fucking) pig. There, I said it.

That is an insult to pigs everywhere.  

[NinjaPenguins]

I nominate Nick for Pig of the Day actually. He takes seriously Jack’s words about Phyllis framing Victor and still sexes her up. Gross. I was amused at his list of suspects, though. Like that guy could even come up with a list of letters in his name, and show is treating him like some kind of Columbo. Somewhere, a dark horse is missing its ass.

Mia still sucks though.

[Toomuchsoap]

On ‎1‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 11:58 PM, bannana said:

But yes, I cannot wait till Cane outs his Summer boink.

Does he even know about it? I'm not sure Phyllis even told Nick about this. I don't believe she did. I think this is just Phyl's and Summer's shared secret.

13 hours ago, gingerella said:

Mia is a (fucking) pig. There, I said it.

I think she's more bovine than porcine.

[gingerella]

2 hours ago, Toomuchsoap said:

15 hours ago, gingerella said:

Mia is a (fucking) pig. There, I said it.

 

I think she's more bovine than porcine.

TMS, methinks you're splitting cloven hooved hairs...You say bovine, I say porcine, let's get this old nag off.

[boes]

14 minutes ago, gingerella said:

TMS, methinks you're splitting cloven hooved hairs...You say bovine, I say porcine, let's get this old nag off.

HAhaha!!!  Gingerella, that is perfection!

[bannana]

2 hours ago, Toomuchsoap said:

Does he even know about it? I'm not sure Phyllis even told Nick about this. I don't believe she did. I think this is just Phyl's and Summer's shared secret.

I think she's more bovine than porcine.

 

On ‎2019‎-‎01‎-‎19 at 12:41 AM, bannana said:

Oh no, my bad.  That is speculation on my part.

@Toomuchsoap, I posted that was spec on my part, sorry to create confusion.  

[Toomuchsoap]

3 hours ago, gingerella said:

TMS, methinks you're splitting cloven hooved hairs...You say bovine, I say porcine, let's get this old nag off.

Good point. Time to send her to the knackers.

[valleycliffe]

thank you to rubythroat for today's cdn recap

https://boards.soapcentral.com/forum/daytime-drama-series-soap-operas/the-young-and-the-restless/2073257-canadian-spoiler-tues-u-s-wednesday

[NinjaPenguins]

Were Mia and Phyllis separated at birth? 

[jewel21]

God Mia sucks. And how she was brazenly hitting up Devon to use the club as the location for her wedding? No shame. No class. Go back to Miami, Chica, and take your husband with you. 

[crowsworks]

13 hours ago, gingerella said:

TMS, methinks you're splitting cloven hooved hairs...You say bovine, 

 

Rey would dump her but he needs the milk.

I was thinking pouter pigeon... but pigeons are more likeable.

Yeah, Mia. Artuuuro is settling for rich, blond, model looking, rich Abby? 

[bannana]

There is really nothing else to say except that this show is so boring.  Even when they have what are supposed to be big reveals or twists, they fall flat.  I don't know how the writers et al can make a soap this boring and stay on the air.

[bc1795]

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Mia still sucks though.

Oh, who know??

[peacheslatour]

10 hours ago, bannana said:

There is really nothing else to say except that this show is so boring.  Even when they have what are supposed to be big reveals or twists, they fall flat.  I don't know how the writers et al can make a soap this boring and stay on the air.

It seems they don't have a clue about how to build momentum, get viewers emotionally invested and give any kind of emotional payoff if there is investment.

[valleycliffe]

thank you to holly 99 at soc for today's cdn recap

https://boards.soapcentral.com/forum/daytime-drama-series-soap-operas/the-young-and-the-restless/2076048-wednesday-canadian-thursday-us

[peacheslatour]

What an anticlimactic wedding. No fireworks or drama? No altar confessions? Bleh.

[Diane M]

Mia and Rey got married by a priest in an athletic club.  Why not in a church?  Were the producers too cheap to have a church setting?

[miamama]

It’s a shame it took so long to fire Mal. He was breathtakingly incompetent. He literally doesn’t know how to be write (character, story), doesn’t understand pacing and plot development and how to introduce new characters onto a long running ensemble, and they had him in control of a show that airs 250 episodes a year.

[redfish]

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I felt like they were starting to rehab Billy, but this tattletale shit is straight up Buttbiscuit. What a baby.

This just reinforces how much a dick he is. When he feels betrayed he lashes out and other people are collateral damage for his revenge rampage like. having sex with Summer/telling Lily ( I'm not saying Summer was completely innocent but he did use her to get back at her mother.)  What's really weird is that after he did that sex revenge on Phyllis and then told Kyle that she was the worst person around he still has the gall to have a sit down and an honest talk to deal with his feelings. He does something really dickish without thinking about the fallout/consequences like if his one night stand with Summer, I wonder how forgiving/understanding Victoria will be.

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I felt like they were starting to rehab Billy, but this tattletale shit is straight up Buttbiscuit. What a baby.

This just reinforces how much a dick he is. When he feels betrayed he lashes out and other people are collateral damage for his revenge rampage like. having sex with Summer/telling Lily ( I'm not saying Summer was completely innocent but he did use her to get back at her mother.)  What's really weird is that after he did that sex revenge on Phyllis and then told Kyle that she was the worst person around he still has the gall to have a sit down and an honest talk to deal with his feelings. He does something really dickish without thinking about the fallout/consequences like if his one night stand with Summer, I wonder how forgiving/understanding Victoria will be.

[bc1795]

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Were the producers too cheap to have a church setting?

The church set now consists of  1 pew and 1 candle.  Mia wanted more.

 

What happened to all of the establishing shots?

[MollyB]

12 hours ago, redfish said:

his one night stand with Summer, I wonder how forgiving/understanding Victoria will be.

Especially since her indiscretion was a couple of kisses with a guy she doesn't even like. [and for the life of me, I can't figure how the writers came up with this idiocy. I must have missed the part where Vic is so lonely/horny/unfulfilled that she needed a hate kiss from the undead to make her feel more like a woman]  HE had sex with theloveofhislife's CHILD [don't care if she's an adult in age-mentally, she's twelve] just to get back at said theloveofhislife.  He rats Vic out for a misdemeanor while he's riding the felony pony.  What a prince!  I hope he falls in the same hole JT was in and can't get out.  And Nikki whacks him with the poker for good measure.

Speaking of the poker.  Why didn't Nikki whack Phyl a good one?  What the hell, Nikki never gets tried/convicted for her murders.  This could be self defense or, if Wodka is involved, diminished capacity.  Victoria:  "We're  going to need a bigger hole, mom."

[basiltherat]

Well, there's always Rexx Rugs!

[bannana]

Today was highly entertaining but for all the wrong reasons.

• Arturo actually continues with his proposal to Abby in the middle of the vow renewal, and Kyle suggests they have a double ceremony and just go ahead and get married right now!
• Mia has jewellery envy when Rey Rey gives her a delicate necklace as a wedding gift as she bitterly gazes at Abby's rock.
• Kerry tells Jack her big secret:  excessive parking violations!  I am not making this up.  But she clearly is.
• Phllyis rightly offended (I cannot believe I just typed that) at Nick's accusations and doubting her, so much so that she throws  a bunch of truths right back in his face, with the cherry on top being that the sainted Sharon lied to him when she was judging him at their non-wedding.  Whoops, now Nick has another person to go and confront.  Which he does in the previews for next week, it looks like he brings the Gang of Four together to be more expedient than running from house to house.  BTW, Phyllis had a nastier reference to Sharon with the "sainted" remark but I forgot it and I already deleted the ep.
• Cane demanding that Neil and Devon allow him to see his wife, and the two of them telling him to fuck off, saying Lily gets to decide.  Oh, and they also say he has always been a lying liar who lies and a loser.

Today was highly entertaining but for all the wrong reasons.

• Arturo actually continues with his proposal to Abby in the middle of the vow renewal, and Kyle suggests they have a double ceremony and just go ahead and get married right now!
• Mia has jewellery envy when Rey Rey gives her a delicate necklace as a wedding gift as she bitterly gazes at Abby's rock.
• Kerry tells Jack her big secret:  excessive parking violations!  I am not making this up.  But she clearly is.
• Phllyis rightly offended (I cannot believe I just typed that) at Nick's accusations and doubting her, so much so that she throws  a bunch of truths right back in his face, with the cherry on top being that the sainted Sharon lied to him when she was judging him at their non-wedding.  Whoops, now Nick has another person to go and confront.  Which he does in the previews for next week, it looks like he brings the Gang of Four together to be more expedient than running from house to house.  BTW, Phyllis had a nastier reference to Sharon with the "sainted" remark but I forgot it and I already deleted the ep.
• Cane demanding that Neil and Devon allow him to see his wife, and the two of them telling him to fuck off, saying Lily gets to decide.  Oh, and they also say he has always been a lying liar who lies and a loser.

[redfish]

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Phllyis rightly offended (I cannot believe I just typed that) at Nick's accusations and doubting her, so much so that she throws  a bunch of truths right back in his face, with the cherry on top being that the sainted Sharon lied to him when she was judging him at their non-wedding.  Whoops, now Nick has another person to go and confront.  Which he does in the previews for next week, it looks like he brings the Gang of Four together to be more expedient than running from house to house.  BTW, Phyllis had a nastier reference to Sharon with the "sainted" remark but I forgot it and I already deleted the ep.

Phyllis referred to Sharon as a dishrag.

Ironic, Sharon thought by ratting out Phyllis to Nicki she never thought this could blow up in her face as well. She's either delusional that she won't get too much trouble for her connection with JT if it ever came out or that stupid that it never occurred to her how trouble she's in. And for a woman who recently got her degree (?) in psychology she doesn't seem to know how to de-escalate a heated up situation between Nicki and Phyllis. No, she had to add more trouble to the situation. Plus Nicki is really annoying me with her self-righteousness.

[Capricasix]

What was Sharon’s connection to JT? And what was Phyllis talking about when she said that Sharon lied to Nick at their non-wedding?

[Anna Yolei]

2 hours ago, Capricasix said:

What was Sharon’s connection to JT? And what was Phyllis talking about when she said that Sharon lied to Nick at their non-wedding?

I don't think she had one, besides being there when Nikki offed him. I don't think he was ever officially her brother in law because she'd divorced Nick by then.

The only lie I can think of is her not telling Nick about JT which she was gonna spill before she found out about his kitchen boink.

[bannana]

19 minutes ago, Anna Yolei said:

I don't think she had one, besides being there when Nikki offed him. I don't think he was ever officially her brother in law because she'd divorced Nick by then.

The only lie I can think of is her not telling Nick about JT which she was gonna spill before she found out about his kitchen boink.

Yes, that is exactly it.  They were all worried pre wedding that Sharon was going to tell Nick.  Then, mid-ceremony, Nick got outted for the Phyllis boink.  Of course, Sharon was outraged at his behaviour and his lying.  But she did have her own lie.  Not quite like the Phyllis boink lie, but still a lie.  I believe that was the viper's point.

Oh, and I just remembered. She referred to herself as Red, as in, she referred to herself in the third person.  Hah.

[crowsworks]

On 1/23/2019 at 5:50 PM, peacheslatour said:

What an anticlimactic wedding. No fireworks or drama? No altar confessions? Bleh.

No Shootings?!? No groom's babymamma in and delivering on the wedding gown? No Big bouquet?

On 1/23/2019 at 5:50 PM, peacheslatour said:

What an anticlimactic wedding. No fireworks or drama? No altar confessions? Bleh.

No Shootings?!? No groom's babymamma in and delivering on the wedding gown? No Big bouquet?

[NinjaPenguins]

Good lord, next week is going to be chock full of Banana Butt self-righteously throwing his Nicken McNuggets at the Gang of Four, isn’t it? I bet they’ve never had their life choices mansplained to them in a series of grunts and belches before.

[valleycliffe]

37 minutes ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Good lord, next week is going to be chock full of Banana Butt self-righteously throwing his Nicken McNuggets at the Gang of Four, isn’t it? I bet they’ve never had their life choices mansplained to them in a series of grunts and belches before.

i think he will mainly be throwing his poop at sharon for not telling him about her involvement in the coven cover up.

i mean, he always does treat sharon with more anger than anyone else.  he is a prime example of a jackhole.

[peacheslatour]

9 minutes ago, valleycliffe said:

i think he will mainly be throwing his poop at sharon for not telling him about her involvement in the coven cover up.

i mean, he always does treat sharon with more anger than anyone else.  he is a prime example of a jackhole.

Victor is as evil as a bag of scorpions but even he had the insight to point this out to Banana Breath. He always expects more of Sharon and lets Phyllis off the hook for shit ten times as bad as anything Sharon has ever done.

[Anna Yolei]

6 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Good lord, next week is going to be chock full of Banana Butt self-righteously throwing his Nicken McNuggets at the Gang of Four, isn’t it? I bet they’ve never had their life choices mansplained to them in a series of grunts and belches before.

Didn't Billy throw Adam off a cliff once? I know we were all sick of Adam by then (at least I was) , but he's not above murder himself, justified anger or not.

[NinjaPenguins]

I don’t remember a cliff, but Billy did take Adam for that long ride in the country after discovering he ran over Delia. I was talking about Nick being a self-righteous ass though. 

[bannana]

16 minutes ago, Anna Yolei said:

Didn't Billy throw Adam off a cliff once? I know we were all sick of Adam by then (at least I was) , but he's not above murder himself, justified anger or not.

Billy intentionally shot Adam just before they had the accident that made Adam sink and go missing for a pretty long time.

[Diane M]

I never got sick of Adam, as played by the wonderful Michael Muhney.  Bring him back!

[bannana]

Some pretty funny things happened today.

• Apparently GC has different time zones in it.  Because at the Rosales honeymoon suite, it was morning, and Mia was pretending to have a hangover to cover for her lousy mood, while Rey Rey was telling her he was taking the day off to continue their honeymoon.  But in the rest of GC it appeared to be late afternoon as everyone talked about their plans to attend an engagement party for Abby and Arturo at the manse.  More on that in a bit.
• Nick has summoned the Gang of Four to his tacky house (which is not the same as his former tack-y house) to confront them and get to the truth!  Sharon is pissed to find out that both Drinki and Phyllis turned on her.  She defends herself.  And she learns that Phyllis never tossed the murder weapon into the lake.  Then for some unknown reason they all tell Nick the entire story complete with flashbacks, of what happened with JT.  Kill me now. At the end, Nick says in no way can they tell Prick about Sharon and Phyllis' involvement.  Nick knows everything now including about Mariah and Tessa.  He and Vic have to leave to go to the engagement party and support their sis.  That leaves Phyllis, Sharon and Drinki to snipe at each other while speculating that someone must have known everything all along and has been watching their every move.
• Abby drags Arturo to Prick's house to tell him about the engagement.  Prick pulls out an already prepared handy dandy prenup, which pisses Abby off, but Arturo signs it cause all he wants is Abby's love.  Later Prick is reading about King Arthur to some unknown kid who turns out to be Johnnie.  And then Prick notices that other strange kid Katie is missing.  He finds her in the hallway of the newly recreated Ranch-house set talking to her invisible friend.  Prick walks her to her bedroom.  Meanwhile, Johnnie was left sitting on the sofa where he was told to stay while Prick looked for Katie.  This is obviously going to lead to something bad.
• Jack is very excited to be hosting the surprise engagement party for Abby.  Billy convinces him to invite Kerry, but Jack is reticent because he doesn't really believe her story about the parking infractions.  He finally calls her and she is delighted and says she will be there.  The guests begin to arrive.  Lola is working so she cannot make it, but Kyle is there, Billy, Vic and Nick, Kerry, and finally Rey Rey and Mia. For some reason Mia really didn't want to come which seems out of character for her.  And her so-called hangover is history as she starts to swill copious amounts of red wine.  Abby is thrilled that Jack is throwing this engagement party, not so thrilled that Mia is in her face.  In the dining room they all start with making lovely comments about Abby, including Vic who admits she has been a bitch to her sister, but tells her that she loves her.  Everyone else speaks, including Rey Rey who talks about their rotten father who left them, but says nice things about his bro.  Mia is getting sloppy drunk.  She decides to speak and says a bunch of crazy shit about how rich the Abbotts and Newmans are but they are no different than them, and drones on saying things on the cusp of being completely rude, talking about Abby's poor makeup choices, how all families have secrets, blah blah.  Then Rey Rey physically drags her out of there after everyone is suitably embarrassed for her.  During all of this Kerry is pretty much MIA on her phone in the living room, irking Jack.  Abby is not happy about Mia's performance and tells Arturo he better talk to her or she will.  Jack is in the dining room alone with Kerry's purse and decides to check it out and finds the syringe.  He has that concerned look he always gets.
• Back at their love nest Mia insists that Abby is going to break Arturo's heart.   Now, I am not getting Mia's game here.  I thought her entire agenda was to get in with the rich and fabulous of GC.  With Arturo marrying Abby, that gives her an automatic entry to that world.  And if she is really so in lust with Arturo that she just doesn't want Abby to have him, then why the hell did she do the vow renewal thing.  In this way she does remind me of Hilary who was also very inconsistent in her actions as related to her wants and needs.

[PatsyandEddie]

Mia just wants attention. Rey pays her more than he should. She thinks all the men need to be in lust with her. Sound like a certain redhead to anyone else?

[deirdra]

It was nice that Kerry puts a cap over the needle of her syringe, but how does she avoid the plunger being plunged when something in her purse pushes on it?  Normally syringes are kept in their sterile wrappers and loaded from a vial immediately before sticking it into a person or pet.  I've used preloaded syringes (w/no needles) for oral medication for my pet, but these are kept upright in a box (so the plungers cannot be plunged) not thrown in a purse with a wallet, phone, etc.

[MollyB]

20 minutes ago, bannana said:

that someone must have known everything all along and has been watching their every move.

Didn't we see camera views in the Raunch when Nikki confessed to Victor that support this theory? This makes me wonder if the cameras in Vic's house were discovered/taken down before the murder.  If they were on then, there would be some evidence that the "murder" was justified.

24 minutes ago, bannana said:

Abby drags Arturo to Prick's house to tell him about the engagement. 

she freaking accepted?  what a maroon!

[bannana]

1 minute ago, MollyB said:

Didn't we see camera views in the Raunch when Nikki confessed to Victor that support this theory? This makes me wonder if the cameras in Vic's house were discovered/taken down before the murder.  If they were on then, there would be some evidence that the "murder" was justified.

That would be super creepy if Prick had a camera in Vic's bedroom, but then again, it is Prick.

[boes]

5 minutes ago, MollyB said:

she freaking accepted?  what a maroon!

That's Abby.   She says "yes" before the question is even asked.  She was all hot for that last guy, the porn king/human trafficer before his pilot light was even lit.

3 minutes ago, bannana said:

That would be super creepy if Prick had a camera in Vic's bedroom, but then again, it is Prick.

Yep.  Knowing Victor he's set it up as Pay Per View.

Edited January 25, 2019 by boes

[Artsda]

Sharon says "I wanted to tell you"

Then one of the others, I think Phyllis aid "we all did!" Did I hear that right? On what planet was that? Nobody wanted to tell him but Sharon.

[valleycliffe]

14 hours ago, Artsda said:

Sharon says "I wanted to tell you"

Then one of the others, I think Phyllis aid "we all did!" Did I hear that right? On what planet was that? Nobody wanted to tell him but Sharon.

but he will believe phyl.  and be mad at sharon..

before the "hit job" writing for sharon she had bigger balls than nick..give as good as she got and walk away with her head held high..

[pearlite]

17 hours ago, bannana said:

Some pretty funny things happened today.

• Mia is getting sloppy drunk.  She decides to speak and says a bunch of crazy shit about how rich the Abbotts and Newmans are but they are no different than them, and drones on saying things on the cusp of being completely rude, talking about Abby's poor makeup choices, how all families have secrets, blah blah.  Then Rey Rey physically drags her out of there after everyone is suitably embarrassed for her.  During all of this Kerry is pretty much MIA on her phone in the living room, irking Jack.  Abby is not happy about Mia's performance and tells Arturo he better talk to her or she will.  Jack is in the dining room alone with Kerry's purse and decides to check it out and finds the syringe.  He has that concerned look he always gets.
• Back at their love nest Mia insists that Abby is going to break Arturo's heart.   Now, I am not getting Mia's game here.  I thought her entire agenda was to get in with the rich and fabulous of GC.  With Arturo marrying Abby, that gives her an automatic entry to that world.  And if she is really so in lust with Arturo that she just doesn't want Abby to have him, then why the hell did she do the vow renewal thing.  In this way she does remind me of Hilary who was also very inconsistent in her actions as related to her wants and needs.

Thanks, Bannana! I've missed your recaps!

A lot of days I just zone out or in the boes-approved manner, hit the FF hard. So I forget what went on.

At least something went on yesterday. Small mercies.

Speaking of things that are not small, Victor was actually nicely turned out: black sweater with white collar and cuffs. Then he turned sideways to the camera. And the Shatner/Braeden gut, even cloaked in minimizing black, revealed itself. 3/4 profile is your friend, Victor.

Yeah, I didn't know who those kids were either. Is the new Rancho Victoro kind of like The Outlook hotel, where kids sit in hallways talking to imaginary friends? Should we get the new little girl some hotwheels, so she can scoot up and down the halls? Will Victor start grinning into doorways saying "Heeeere's Victor"?

Speaking of things shining, it was nice to see the improvement in the props area on the Abbott dining table! That gawdawful blue table runner was finally gone! Real flowers, including some freesia! Whole lotta china and crystal!

Then someone let Mia out.

[bannana]

5 hours ago, pearlite said:

Thanks, Bannana! I've missed your recaps!

A lot of days I just zone out or in the boes-approved manner, hit the FF hard. So I forget what went on.

At least something went on yesterday. Small mercies.

Speaking of things that are not small, Victor was actually nicely turned out: black sweater with white collar and cuffs. Then he turned sideways to the camera. And the Shatner/Braeden gut, even cloaked in minimizing black, revealed itself. 3/4 profile is your friend, Victor.

Yeah, I didn't know who those kids were either. Is the new Rancho Victoro kind of like The Outlook hotel, where kids sit in hallways talking to imaginary friends? Should we get the new little girl some hotwheels, so she can scoot up and down the halls? Will Victor start grinning into doorways saying "Heeeere's Victor"?

Speaking of things shining, it was nice to see the improvement in the props area on the Abbott dining table! That gawdawful blue table runner was finally gone! Real flowers, including some freesia! Whole lotta china and crystal!

Then someone let Mia out.

Mia kept waving around those crystal wine glasses, I was so sure she was going to break something or many things.  Damn, missed opportunity for more awkwardness.

[Artsda]

Good for Sharon for calling out Nick on him treating her differently than all the others. He proved her point by practically blaming her for his cheating then going straight home and just having make up sex with Phyllis as opposed to holding her responsible for anything. 

[bannana]

5 hours ago, Artsda said:

Good for Sharon for calling out Nick on him treating her differently than all the others. He proved her point by practically blaming her for his cheating then going straight home and just having make up sex with Phyllis as opposed to holding her responsible for anything. 

Yeah, that was pretty disgusting. Ugh.