Boogie Chillen
January 23-24, 2001

I don't know if I was too distracted (I played FreeCell throughout both episodes) or if the shows were just THAT boring and predictable, but I really didn't see anything particularly interesting. Off the top of my head, the following uneventful and totally predictable events happened

• Tad punched David -- again.
  
  
• Gillian fainted -- most of us figured out the pregnancy/whose-baby-is-it angle the split-second there was any hint of romance with Jake that would form a triangle with Ryan.
  
  
• People keep wandering around the yacht on the slightest whim.
  
  
• Tad is scamming Leslie to get information about David.
  
  
• Greenlee snubbed everyone and managed to get Leo to succumb to her charms, at least to a degree.
  
  
• Laura keeps making bedroom-eyes at Leo, then whining about her unworthiness, then coming on to him again. Passive-aggressive little bitch.
  
• Ryan keeps calling Gillian "Princess" and they coo sweet nothings (and I DO mean NOTHINGS) to each other at every conceivable (and INconceivable) opportunity.
  
  
• Yet another live WAVE show has a sordid event. Why doesn't Hayley just give it up and rename it the Jerry Springer In Drag Show? And deciding at the drop of a heavily-scented scarf to do a LIVE one-hour show interviewing an author about how to handle guilt, without consulting anyone? Oh PUHLEASE!
  
  
• Derek pops even more blood vessels and continues to have frighteningly comical misfires of the nerves controlling his facial muscles while barging into Adam's house to try to get information -- his efforts are fruitless, as usual.

Nice touches:

• Junior threatening David about Dixie.
  
  
• Gordon in his gorilla suit -) Predictable He TOLD David he was going to turn state's evidence. For someone who is supposed to be REALLY smart, this guy is missing a couple of marbles in the common sense dept. (I like him, though -- I wonder if they'll eventually pair him up with Phil Lacy)
  
  
• I DO like it when Greenlee and Gillian tangle these days.
  
  
• Despite Greenlee's complete inability to comprehend and sustain any kind of relationship due to her utter lack of parental love and caring, I have to feel a little for her when Leo constantly brings up her father issues. Don't you HATE it when someone knows something (or THINK they know something) about your deepest insecurities, and then turns around and uses it against you?
  
  
• I really like seeing Hayley becoming Arlene. I get SOOOO tired of Hayley's whining and self-pity and her ever-in-peril sobriety. Like Arlene, she's INTERESTING to watch when she adopts the same mannerisms. Oh, and those WERE stunt legs we saw a couple of weeks before. They've only been Kelly Ripa's legs since about last Friday.

Robin "on the next AMC, Haylene rides the mechanical bull in a baby-doll nightie (both Haylene AND the bull wear the nighties)" Coutellier