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by Todd Brown
May 2, 2009

Thank God that whole chipmunk thing is finally over. It was just baffling from start to finish. Kind of like the writers got high and watched Donnie Darko too many times. And the way Kevin just sort of woke up in the rubber room surrounded by his friends and family, I half expected him to say "But it wasn't a dream, it was a place. And you and you and you . . . and YOU were there!" I get that this storyline was meant to fill up Greg Rikart's Emmy reel this year, so I hope the judges can appreciate the fact that he was able to dialog with a guy wearing a giant chipmunk head without ever once cracking up. That alone makes him deserve the award.

Looks like Ashley is headed straight for crazy town to take Kevin's place. Wonder if she'll wind up in the same rubber room. They don't put straight jackets on Abbotts, do they? They should make an exception for Ashley. She's already playing with less than a full deck if she thinks she's not some mindless puppet that can be manipulated by Victor. Seems to me she's been pretty easily manipulated already with nothing more than a tape recording of a crying baby and an ugly stone statue that, for the life of me, I can't figure out how anyone would recognize as being a likeness of Sabrina. Least of all Ashley and Abby, neither of whom ever even met Sabrina and whose only knowledge of what she looks like is based on a line drawing done by Daniel. I watched every damn episode with Sabrina in it and I couldn't have told you who that statue was supposed to be of for a million bucks.

I get that Ashley is mad at Gloria but blaming Gloria for the downfall of her "career" and the ruination of Jabot? I think that's going a bit too far, don't you? What's Ashley's excuse for all the other times her career was in tatters and Jabot was on the verge of bankruptcy? History has shown that to be more or less the status quo since long before Gloria ever hit the sunny shores of Genoa City a mere three or four years ago. And hypocrisy doesn't even begin to describe Ashley's attitude as she smugly lectured Gloria about how she ruined Jabot while she lives with and sleeps with the very man who has made it his life's work to do the very same thing. When the hell did Victor ever pay for ruining Jabot? Oh that's right, he got a little slap on the wrist and had to build a rec center for underprivileged kids, a place that was quickly forgotten about. Do you suppose if Gloria builds a nice playground for orphans everyone will bow down and call her a hero too?

God, the irony that Estella could tell Victor the "former Mrs. Newman" had been by that day without Victor having to ask "Which one?" Yeah, I get that it's probably not Hope, although the way ghosts stick around in this town it's not out of the question, and it's not likely to be Julia either. But couldn't it have been Diane? Or Leanna? You can't throw around phrases like "Your former spouse" in this town and expect somebody to know who you're talking about.

Looks like Neil's world is crashing down around him, especially the way everyone keeps rubbing it in that he's all alone now. First Lily tells him she's engaged then he walks in on JT and Victoria making out in the board room. This could turn out to be an effective running gag called "Let's drive Neil insane." Say, for example, he pulls into a parking lot and runs into Noah and Eden making out in their car, then goes into the club and sees Nick and Sharon kissing, then goes up to the bar and sees Gloria and Jeffrey pawing each other, then gets a table next to Katherine and Murphy making googly eyes at each other. He'll be drinking again before you know it.

Neil quit Newman because he's always going to be second banana, so why did he go straight Katherine to be number 2 for someone else? He's no more a Chancellor than he is a Newman. Does he think Katherine's going to leave him the company in her will? Surely he recognizes that eventually Katherine and Jill will reconcile, and there's always Brock and Mackenzie. Seems to me he's lower down on the food chain at Chancellor Industries than he was at Newman.

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