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Liveblogging "As the World Turns": Holden the family together

 

Yes, today's a big day for Luke and Noah, because Holden is moving out of the farm! Wait ... sorry, did I say "big day" for our beloved gay couple? I meant "non event". Yes, Luke is back to play sounding board to his parents' marital woes yet again (he popped up yesterday to do the same thing), which by today have apparently escalated to the point where Holden says, "No more grievin', I'm leavin'!"

Aside from worrying that this will cut down significantly on the chances of seeing Holden in his post-shower towel-swathed glory, the only thing that this development really means is that there's one less reason for Luke and Noah to get down and dirty at the farm.

Actually, before we get started, make sure to check out the newer, gayer ATWT bumper I posted in this week's BGWE column. Watch ... Repeat ... Discuss.

As for today, click on through the jump and refresh often to follow the action, as it happens!

We are family... 

2:55PM EDT: Allison asks Emily how they got the disease, and she tells her they were poisoned, and she asks who hates her that much. Um ... who doesn't?

Butters is awake again and he wants to see Emily, so they drag her in. They undo his restraints and she collapses on his hospital bed in her gown. This is as romantic as a nursing home key party.

Holden booty-calls Quaker Oats Lady and she hangs up on him. Meanwhile, the hospital has been quarantined. Hot!

Detective Clarice Starling figures out that Decker is killing everyone. Oakdale's finest! Meanwhile, Decker is bribing Mrs. Kardashian to help him escape in return for the antidote.

Preview Time!: No Nuke. Surprise! 

2:49PM EDT: Lily and Quaker Oats Lady have a bad-wife-and-mother-off and QAL finally pushes Lily over the edge and she very nearly throws her out by her hair.

Ooooh Butters looks cute all feverish and restrained! He has a mini spaz attack and blacks out again.

Whoever this Rick Decker guy is, he's apparently been taking Speak Like Kelsey Grammer correspondence courses in prison.

2:41PM EDT: Emily just said "The perfume made me crazy!" Considering it was called "Sweet Vengeance", she's lucky it didn't turn her into Ms. 45

Over at the Lily Pad, Luke answers the door and it's Quaker Oats Lady. He's all, "we didn't order any whores" and she's all, "it's not delivery, it's Digiorno". He leaves and when QAL tries to convince Gilded Lily that she and Holden are over, she replies with the best "Liar!" since Jan Hooks tried to use club soda to get that wine out of the carpeting in the Compulsion by Calvin Kleen commercial.

QAL calls GL the "biggest hypocrite she has ever known." Ain't that the whore calling the whore "whore"!

2:32PM EDT: Oop! Pull up to the bumper!

2:30PM EDT: Okay, some guy who looks like a Maytag repairman calls Mrs. Kardashian from a pay phone and says that he's Rick Decker. Okay, here's where I almost wish I knew more about the show than I do, because I have no idea who he is. But apparently he's the poisoner?

2:28PM EDT: Meg tries to strangle the Ice Truck Killer with her restraint but falls apart in tears before she has a chance. It's okay, honey. It's driving us crazy, too. She starts chewing her nails and curls up in a ball. Someone cue "Come to My Window".

Oop! She just pulled a grade-A escape by pushing over ITK and upsetting a tray of hospital food. Run free, crazy lady!

Back at the Lily Pad, Gilded Lily basically tells Luke to butt out. Wait, what is that on his shirt? Is it a slug? A banana? Oh, sorry - they're still talking.

Meanwhile, Holden calls the hotel to book a room "for a while" ... wait, this isn't his wife's hotel, is it? Maybe not the best idea. And Gramma Emma pays a visit to Quaker Oats Lady and asks her to go to Lily and explain that her oatmeal is cold for Holden now. She begs, even.

Meanwhile, Dr. Hotprechaun gets all House and explains to Not-As-Dashing how the toxin is passed, and notes that Butters and Emily may have passed it to one another by having sex. Well at least Luke and Noah are safe, then! Please tell me this is going to get all 28 Days Later soon and they'll have to dispatch Meg with a machete.

Leave me alone, Meg!!!

2:17PM EDT: Quaker Oats Lady defends Gilded Lily's reaction to Holden, who says that when he thinks about what this is doing to Luke and the girls it breaks his heart.

Gilded Lily gets home to the Lily Pad and Luke is there on her chaise waiting to hear the good news that his folks are getting back together. Psych!

Over at the hospital, Hotprechaun is alternately out cold and furious. His mom takes his clothes away from him (atta girl!) and when she drops his watch the truth comes out that she didn't buy it for him ... and they don't know who did. Meanwhile, Mrs. Kardashian points out that she lent Meg a necklace. She's talking to Ice Truck Killer when Sophie the Mealy Ghost appears again and tries to get her to bludgeon him with the IV stand.

Okay, what's up with the generic thrash metal that they're playing over all of Meg's scenes? This isn't the X-Games, people!

2:08PM EDT: Is it just me, or is that Secret commercial girl who walks around terrorizing people with her armpits just lke every crazy ex-girlfriend your roommate had in college?

Cheryl Ladd has heartburn?!?! Somebody start a charity!! And the fact that she has to follow an animated flame who talks like a Staten Island plumber really isn't very glamourous, is it?

Oh, and Hotprechaun figured out that they're all being poisoned. Atta boy!

2:05PM EDT: Gilded Lily storms in on Holden and Quaker Oats Lady at the farm and says she never should have agreed to postpone the divorce. Meanwhile, Meg is getting all Girl, Interrupted as she's tied to a bed after trying to shoot Ice Truck Killer. Sophie's ghost appears to her again and tells her to finish what she started.

Meanwhile, Butters and Hotprechaun are in a room together, as both are suffering from the Drakkar Noir Virus or whatever the hell it is. Gentlemen, start your spongebath slashfic.

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  • snicks's picture

    that SECRET deodorant girl

    I think she might be wearing some Oakdale jewelry

    what the HELL is that thing on Luke's shirt? it looks like a petrified slice of pizza.

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    snicks's picture

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    The maytag repaiman?

    For shame, Brian. that's JEFF COLBY! since Jeff was poisoned by toxic paint on Dynasty, it's only natural he would know something about it.

    Metabaron's picture

    Boring.

    YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNN!!!

    Cancel ATWT NOW!!!

    keithbrooks's picture

    I have to know ... who does

    I have to know ... who does those cute little clip art pieces before the articles? They're so clever!
    springintoaction's picture

    From what I understand Brian is self-taught

    so unless I am told differently I am assuming that the writing and art-work is all Brian. I think that the kids here should encourage Brian to copyright the shark and include it hidden (a la Playboy) in the movie posters.

    Some people have made it big with kittens, who's to say that sharks can't be a winning formula?

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    keithbrooks's picture

    Oh, awesome! You never know,

    Oh, awesome! You never know, he could make it big with that! In the spirit of the Olympics, he should "go for the gold!"
    springintoaction's picture

    Meg with a machete and generic thrash metal . Thumbs Up ATWT

    Calling Dorothy Michaels!!!!! If you need to ask who she is you are Blayne to me.

    "My name is NOT Tootsie, or toots....it's Dorothy!!!"

    The show has gone off the deep end and again Nuke does not get to have any fun. While there is no doubt that this was as ridiculous as it gets, I laughed my ass off, especially with the young-skewing metal that the show has been playing to pick up those youngsters in the audience. All that the show needed today were zombies from the original Night of The Living Dead and a couple of "modern" Thriller-era yucking it in the hallway with Vincent Prince rapping in the background.

    10 stars!!!!!!!

    Casey got a hair cut while at Memorial. And he must have really knocked it down with his bride as he came away unscathed during their first post-ceremony romp. Casey you stud!!!

    Sofie trying to channel Linda Blair/meets one of the kids from Lord of the Flies. She was fun for a day or two saying all those fun big people nasty words, but someone kill that ghost.

    Meg finally getting a script that does not make me mini-puke.

    Shrek out-dumbing his bride Meg Ryan. Classic.

    A few seconds of making Margo look suspicious. Not too bad as she's been so loony enough to suggest that maybe she got an anniversary "Sweet Vengeance" gift package from Tom that we've not seen yet.

    The high school chemistry set serving as Memorial's lab.

    And for those of you who are new fans, you may not appreciate the cult/historical significance of bringing Dr. Michaels back in the fold. She not related to Dorothy Michaels (that we know of) but the actress is an ATWT a veteran who's seen half of Oakdale for therapy and extended nut house lock-ups. The show has been using so many day players as doctors, but the return of Drs. Schiller and Michael are as important to the show as Emma's shot gun. Kudos to Goutman for shelling a little cash for these actresses.

    While it's been obvious that Dr. Decker is the guilty party, at least the show has taken a week and a half to execute this early Halloween present.

    The part that makes me laugh the most is that the characters are not acting THAT much more odd than usual.

    Grade F, but rises to an A in the so bad it's good scale for me as at least the show is trying to look ridiculous instead of looking it without intent. Sweet Vengeance? Emily strikes me as a Chanel #5 gal, but maybe she got hooked on the patchouli during her days working for Cherie Love. I think that I may have been poisoned too.

    I hope that next week Dr. Not-So-Dashing (you are out doing self with the nicknames Brian - keep it up!) gets a little syringe prick (just like H.L. did when Ali went all Pulp Fiction on him a couple of days ago) and attacks nurse program administrator Brenda to keep the CrazySexyCool mess going. 

    Brian - Gotta love the early days of modern movie marketing as on top of your movie poster: From The Creators of Private Benjamin and Co-Starring the little girl from ET...... comes a movie that is not about the army or an alien. I LOVE the demon eyes on Fily & 20 something Luke holding a crayon :-) Can gays divorce their parents?

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    Maryann1970's picture

    I gotta say

    I gotta say spring, you make getting ready to watch atwt so much more uplifting, thanks for the run down, I laughed the whole way through it! Now I actually feel like watching atwt, and instead of pouting through the episode, I have a lot of laughing to look forward to, you are so awsome!
    dh8's picture

    Luke's t-shirt

    The banana-looking thing on Luke's shirt the past couple of days is a map of Nantucket!

     

    There once was a gay lad from Nantucket...

    springintoaction's picture

    Those nutty wardrobe people have been pretty consistent w/ Luke

    As we know, Luke wore ALL stripes for eons, then puked-on green duds that all the Oakdalians were wearing during the depression of 2007, and most recently t-shirts which have all been pointing towards Cape Cod. No overt Provincetown, MA references yet, just in case the AFA is watching.

    If the ratings continue to fall (they went down by 0.1 to a rating of 1.9), the producers can gay bait the AFA by making virgin Luke start wearing some "message" T-s from Bab's forgotten BRO collection. 

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