February 11, 2004

Get your cwoffee in the sippy cups, girls, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

I was watching the Tuesday (yesterday) episode of the Glowering Inferno and utterly enjoyed it for the comic and puzzlement relief.  In honor of one of my favorite Eye on Soaps writers of the past, Tracey Warren, I'm calling this exploration of the Cataclysmic Event:

Miscellaneous Thoughts and Shallow Observations

You have to admire Jax's logic with Sam about how safe they are in the corner penthouse.  While the whole hotel (the whotel?) burns down beneath them, are they going to remain suspended in the air without taking a header into the rubble?  Particularly, you have to admire that Sammy was dumb enough to buy it.

When he said "corner penthouse," my movie-going brain immediately translated to "Ghostbusters" speak and thought, "Jax lives in the corner penthouse of Smoke Central.

That Jax can sure manage to get Mr Winky to work under some seriously stressful situations.  Most men would be more concerned with getting out of the burning building than in finding a place to stick their weenie.

Kudos to the best actors in this whole nutty conflagration.  Nancy Lee Grahn, Tamara Braun, Robin Christopher, Robyn Richards, Tony Geary and Lane Davies were all incredible.

I loved most of the interaction between Alexis and Carly yesterday.  I'm sure Alexis was regretting wearing mascara that day since the raccoon look got pretty out of hand.  I was agreeing with Carly that Alexis should "Quit yappin," especially after they got out of the elevator and suddenly she was rethinking that whole "spilling the guts" thing and was begging Carly not to tell Sonny the truth.  Loved the line in response to Carly saying Alexis thought she was better, "Not better, just smarter and classier."  This was followed closely by her "save the shoes" maneuver as she tossed the Gucci's out of the elevator, then got freaky about jumping 5 feet to safety.

Everything Skye and Luke did was fun.

I found Helena's insistence that Nikolas try the stairs to be uncharacteristically concerned for his well-being, which was nice to see, but bad, bad Helena for tricking with Emily's turkeynet (and letting her fingers fondle it in plain sight for a good half hour first).

Seeing Mac in all those bandages made me wonder if they are going to bring on a new actor or something.

When I first saw Emily in her call girl dress, my immediate thought was, "Why is Nikolas being so nice to Sage."  Then I saw it was Emily in her working clothes.

Tracy telling Edward, "I l.l.l..ove you" and Edward responding with an explanation of why he fears her was classic.  That could be John Ingle's parting scene and I'd be happy.

I laughed out loud at Brian and Jason encountering a small campfire in the stairwell and debating about whether or not to turn back. 

I laughed again when the old lady kept calling Courtney and "angel of mercy" as she tied the dog (the dog was well trained because Courtney just laid the leash on the banister) up and left it.  I pictured Brian and Jason coming by a few seconds later and wondering what evil, heartless bastard tied a poor helpless dog to a burning building.

When Carly was passed out on the floor, I pictured her getting up and saying, "Screw this, I'm on contract."

I noticed that Greg Vaughn is the first Lucky to even remotely look like he could be Tyler Christopher's brother.  I got a kick out of their "man hug," the "I'm so not gay" one where men hug really hard and fast and whack each other on the back while they do it.  As Bobcat Goldthwait said, "I'm huggin you, but I'm hittin you too."

When Lucky told Jason that Courtney had gone into the burning building to save a dog, did anyone hear Jason's voice say, "Stupid fuckin' Courtney" in their head?

I was completely enthralled by the commercial where they had a pile of pool balls on a sheet of Bounty and poured two pitchers of water through it.  The Beneful dog food commercial that came on afterward actually made ME hungry.  Then there was an Onstar commercial where the Onstar guy is on the phone and tells the woman that the car doors are now unlocked and we hear a crowd applaud.  Every time I see that, I have the funniest feeling that the woman is on the inside of the car.

If it weren't for cell phones, I think a lot of people would have died in the fire or at least not had anyone to talk to.

I loved when the guy asked Monica to check his child for smoke inhalation.  Did we ever find out if the child "tested positive?"

Line of the day goes to Cameron Lewis.  Luke:  "Have you lost your sense of direction?"  Cameron:  "Probably.  I've lost everything else."

It's definitely interesting from an entertainment point of view...

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