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From: yarnot@babbage.ecs.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Oct.20, 1994
Date: 21 Oct 1994 05:35:37 GMT

Today was Couples Day in good ol' PC.  The action focussed on 4
couples, and there was talk of a fifth.  Of the 4 we actually saw,
2 are great, 2 are yawners.  I leave it as an exercise to the reader
to determine which are which.

SONNY/BRENDA
Brenda comes knocking at Sonny's apartment with her sleeves over her
hands (I guess this is the style, but it bugs me, OK?)  L&B Records is
falling apart, Ned has to be "the dumbest man on the face of the earth."
She tells Sonny about the fake accident and he thinks it's nearly as funny
as I did, but Brenda is near hysteria about how awful it all is.  Sonny asks
her if she doesn't think "Lois is doing her version of the same game" and
Brenda's feminist principles, her love of Lois, her love of Sonny, and
her love of money all war while she tries to explain herself.  Miguel and
Lily are so happy!  Sonny then speaks the (SCARY!!!!) LINE OF THE DAY:
"How do we get Ned and Lois to be more like Miguel and Lily?"
Sonny wants to "get the two of them together, get out of the way, and
let the magic happen."  Brenda points out that Miguel may be happy, but he's
not singing about it.  Hey, he just did a CD, let him rest.  Brenda gets
upset about Sonny thinking about Lily, so she wants to know more about him.
Sonny: "You're trying to find ways to make me more like Miguel."
Then, whether to shut Brenda up, or to prove he's closer to my age than to
hers (hey, *I*ll take him, except Roo would likely carve me into fish food!)
he starts to list (people he's like?  People he knew?) "Jimmy Hoffa.  Al
Capone. Gandhi [excuse me??]. The Beetles.  Popeye the Sailor Man."
Brenda is upset and has magically changed into a bathrobe and Nothing
Else.  So she heads to the shower.  Sonny comes in.  [Excuse me while I
hyperventilate here]  "You want to know who I am?  Allow me to introduce
myself."

The doorbell rings.  [NOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Sonny says "Save my place, OK?" and goes to see who it is.  It's Ned.

LOIS/NED
Lois is at the STOMP! concert with AJ, but she's standing on park
benches trying to see what became of Ned.  Who is "being kidnapped"
and funny as heck about handing over his wallet, his watch, his
ransom, but really draws the line when they threaten "the family
jewels."  The actors (who spend half the scene looking like they are
trying to remember their next line) warn Ned to "remember how to
treat people."  Lois appears, to gloat.  Ned is mad, nay furious.
"It's not the same thing!!"  Ha.  Lois announces she's nowhere near
even.  "*I* haven't slept with anyone else.... yet."  Ned can't believe
she would believe Katherine [neither could I, in fact, though why not?]
Ned has had enough of Lois spouting off about "honesty" and does what
he honestly feels like doing, pushes Lois into the fountain.
Lois threatens divorce and Ned says there is no divorce, quoting Gloria.
"DON'T quote my mother to me!"  AJ has something inane to say and
gets the line... "SHUT UP, AJ!"  Lois goes, soggily, home.

FELICIA/MAC
Felicia and Robin are eating ice cream (getting needed calcium to the
Frisco-Bump)  when Mac comes in.  Felicia apologizes for (cover your
eyes, Art Chick) possibly being hormonal the other night.  She also
is less than delighted when Mac reveals that he doesn't lie awake
nights pining for her.  Friendship is all well and good, but she
really wants a grand passion.  When she leaves, Mac has a headache,
and why not?  He's hallucinating STOMP! in his kitchen!  [I've had
days like this.  But I gotta say, if STOMP! ever comes this way, this
is one granny who will be going to the concert.  I loved them!!]
Robin comes back, she needs help with her ethics homework.  I figured
she was working up to 'fessing up about the skunk, but it didn't happen.
Mac claims it's not his field, there are some cosy niece-uncle scenes,
Robin mispronounces "Kant" and brings up nurture vs. nature, and comes
up with the wowser "absolutes are OK, as long as they're flexible."
Mac says he would pay to watch her think.  After that line, *I* would
pay to watch the writers think!!! Then, of course, Mac blows it all.
"Do you talk to Stone like this?"  Huge fight.  Robin ends up with "I love
you too, and I also love Stone."  Mac still has this STOMP!-size headache.

MIGUEL/LILY
Leelee gets the bathroom first.
Leelee left her robe in the bathroom.
Miguel borrows toothpaste from Leelee.  No, he didn't really need it, he's
really horny.  Leelee says goodnight.
Jan hunts up the comment line number and calls long distance through the
Koz commercial, to say the actors playing actors playing kidnappers were
a lot more believable.  Jan was willing to give Miguel a chance, but no
longer.

TEASERS: (Well, only one, since I wrote Mac's STOMP! and whatever-it-
was Miguel was doing)  Ned wants a concert.  "use me, abuse me,
throw me on a tour bus, a talk show, whatever."  Brenda's wise to this,
it's a way to court Lois... but it will work!  Sonny says "we'll
sell you harder than you've ever been sold before."  Later, he's
smiling and singing "we're in the money.."
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