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General Hospital Update for Thursday, 24-Dec-1998

Christmas Eve in Port Chuckles!!!
The curtain rises on Carly, Jason and Michael back at the PentHouse. Carly can't contain herself: she's so happy to be back in the money she can't stand it. Jason tells her not to get too comfortable, but the queen of "De-Nile" talks him into taking Michael to the GH Christmas Party. (Great move: after all, the 2 psychos who tried to take Michael this year will only be there, right??)
Speaking of the GH Christmas Party, Tony doesn't know when to quit when he's ahead; begging Monica to let him play Santa. Monica clues him in as to why letting a convicted child kidnapper play Santa wouldn't be a PR coup for the hospital when Tony demands to know who's replacing him: none other than Scrooge's right-hand man; Edward!!!
Meanwhile, Bobbie's already fuming that Tony's even allowed to breathe the same air she does and Jerry drags her away from ripping his head off, while Katherine and Amy wait for the guest of honor, Sax player Dave Koz. (Did you guys know he plays the GH theme?? Just a little trivia...) Jax is trying to get through his first Christmas without Brenda and drops by the party and Tony is being a bigger pain in Monica's toukas by asking when he's getting reinstated (huh??huh???) Alan shows up looking a liitle less seedy and Monica asks him to read the Christmas story to the kids again this year. (No big suprise).
In another room in the hospital, Felicia is wasting no time in smothering Mackie-pooh with love. Mackie and Georgie come in and are too cute.
Lucky and Liz exchange gifts in a really touching scene. Liz gives Lucky an original oil painting of his boxcar and Lucky gives her a ring. Liz is thrilled. While that's going on, Laura and Leslie Lu are at Windemere and are exchanging gifts.
Luke, behaving like a total jerk, goes to Alexis on his way out of town and drops the bombshell on her about Nicholas' paternity. Laura has 2 reasons for visiting Stefan tonight: to exchange gifts and to tip him off that Luke knows everything about Nicholas and will spill the beans shortly. They have got to tell Nicholas before that happens, she tells Stefan. He tells her that Nicholas will be pretty ticked off over this 18 year lie....
Lucky and Liz say that they love each other (they are SUCH a cute couple) and before the mush level gets too high in the room, Nick and Emily are knocking on the door. Emily and Liz exchange gifts and like typical guys, Nick and Lucky didn't get anything; but are saved by their women who shopped for them.
Meanwhile, back at the party. We see a bunch of mingling scenes and there's a scene where Audrey is missing Steve. (They didn't show a clip of him this year, too bad)Monica tells Lila that Alan's reading the Christmas Story and asks him to Christmas dinner at the mansion. He accepts.
The teens are enjoying their Christmas gifts. Nicky is wearing an ELQ baseball hat (love to see Eddie Q's face when he sees that!!) Emily loves the music box she got from Nicholas.
Dave Koz has arrived at the party and Amy is putting her tongue back in her mouth. Jason, Carly and Michael arrive just as Edward makes his entrance as Santa, which scares the you know what out of MichaeL!! Always said that kid had taste!!! Dave Koz's sax leads the kids to the party, and as Alan reads the Christmas Story; Luke shows up and says goodbye to Lucky and Bobbie. The episode ends with shots set to music of cast members opening gifts, etc.