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Liveblogging "As the World Turns": We oughtta be in pictures

After yesterday's bed-hopping, tummy-bumping shenanigans, Luke and Noah are back to being utterly serious about the whole "sham wedding to throw off immigration and drive Casey to climb a bell tower with a high-powered rifle" thing. So the boys decide to do what any enterprising gay boys would do in this situation: put on a show!

Yes, Nuke decide that the answer to their problems is to make a movie about their situation ... and to help them out, I've taken the time to throw together a poster that they're more than welcome to use.

Will Ameera be game for this project? Will Casey be camera-shy? Will Andie MacDowell ever forgive me for replacing her head with Sharkie?

Click through the jump and refresh to find out as it happens! 

Lights ... camera ... inaction!

2:55PM EDT: Austin From Days just said "Deal ... or no deal?" Is that on this network?

Preview time! Uh-oh - Ameera kisses Noah. Sheesh. Casey tells Luke that Ameera isn't interested in him because she's scrambling Noah's eggs. Or wait ... I think I messed that up ... Anyway, nice to see the gay boys can kiss as long as they don't kiss each other. See you next week...

2:53PM EDT: Holden comes home and finds that Lily has wandered away from her box for a minute, and pounced on it like a raptor stealing an egg from a stegosaurus nest. Lily catches him in the act. He tells her that he thinks they should put the box "in the attic ... with the 14 other children we keep up there."

Noah tries to talk Ameera into coming out of the bedroom but she won't budge, and the boys realize that something terrible must have happened to her after her mother died. Um ... yathink? 

Luke gets huffy and leaves. Noah goes into the bedroom and tells Ameera that if she doesn't want to do the film anymore that's fine. She says it's just difficult remembering but if it will help convince the ICE that their marriage is real, she'll do it. He puts his arm around her, and of course Luke sees them through the window.

Hey wait, I have it figured out: LUKE is an ICE agent!!!!

Nah, that's way too interesting. Hey, can anyone explain to me how sitting in the living room with a camera is going to convince ICE that Nameera are a real married couple? Or are the kids planning on getting their movie into Sundance and flying the agents out to Park City to see it?

2:43PM EDT: Wait, what's COPD? I have no idea, but this lady and the fibromyalga woman should totally go out and get drunk together.

Luke's getting really into this whole project. He says he wants to interview Ameera about her life in Iraq and Noah gets all excited about it being like a reality show. Ameera suggests Luke just make something up instead and holds a card with "I AM NERVOUS ABOUT TALKING ABOUT MY BACKGROUND BECAUSE I AM HIDING SOMETHING" written in Sharpie above her head. Noah goes to get the camera. 

With Ameera on camera, Luke asks her what life was like in St. Olaf. She falters but then starts telling about how there's no running water and little food where she is from. She again tells Noah that she had a better life than many because of Perv's cash donations. She gets teary-eyed when she talke about what happened after her mother died, and she eventually runs off into the bedroom.  

 

2:35PM EDT: Noah apologizes to Luke for freaking out and says he's just jumpy. Ameera brings them coffee but Noah declines. Okay, there's definitely something wrong with him. Luke tells Noah about his plans for making a movie. Noah's all, "About what?" and Luke's all, "Us!"

Meanwhile, Lily and Quaker Oats Lady have an OMGOMGOMG Gilmore Girls moment at the farm, and Holden and MP2.0 share the flipside over at Maddie Alley. 

Back to Noah: "Are you out of your mind?" Luke says that they can make a bicultural love story about the story that they're trying to project, not their real situation, in order to throw off ICE. Noah's all, "who'd want to see a movie like that" and Ameera's all "ME ME MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEEEEEEE!" 

 

2:25PM EDT: Lily suggests to Luke that he come up with a school project to make an excuse to spend time with Noah. 

Back at the Love Shack, Noah is still playing Educating Rita with Ameera. Back in Saint Olaf, men don't do dishes, apparently. Um ... ditto for my apartment. Luke comes in with his good news but Noah instantly snaps, "What are you doing here?!" 

Henry is trying to convince Austin From Days to get worked up in a lather about the meeting of the Obstacles, but he's keeping a level head. Oh, he just snapped.

Love Shack: Noah goes out onto the porch to see if ICE is hiding in the birdbath. He tells Luke that he can't just barge in and Luke says he most certainly can. He asks if Noah is going to listen to his idea or not.

Quaker Oats Lady has a pretty hot freak-out on MP2.0. Hell hath no fury like a woman recently drowned in oatmeal, nearly killed by a puppet, and brushed off by the ex-husband she got drunk and slept with.

The Obstacle's Obstacle is pretty dreamy, no? 

2:15PM EDT: Austin's still shirtless, and Henry comes in to tattle on the Two Obstacles, and screams at Austin to put a shirt on. Shut up, Pepperkakor! 

2:13PM EDT: QAL thinks that playing a little "hide the Chandler" with MP2.0 will make everything better, but he's not having it. TAKE NOTE, AMEERA!

Meanwhile, The Blonde Obstacle and the Blonde Obstacle Obstacle meet for coffee while Austin From Days lounges shirtless in bed, which is fine with me. 

Hey, it's Henry! He's still alive?  

Lily and Holden are talking about how things suck for Luke when he's finally found someone he loves, and Luke comes in. Kind of cute that they're so concerned. Luke explains everything to them and Lily tells him that they just have to find an excuse to be together. Atta girl!

Ameera (with her head-wrap back in place) is waiting on Noah hand and foot and he explains that that's not how things work in our country. Then he burns his bra. 

 

2:05PM EDT: Back at Pity Me Ranch the next morning, Lily is still looking at the box of things that Dusty sent her. Somebody get this girl some Lunesta! Luke comes downstairs and Lily asks if she can make him some breakfast. He huffily says he's not hungry. Quick Lily, toss him a Toaster Strudel!

Over at the Love Shack, Noah wakes up (shirtless) to find Ameera gone. He goes into the kitchen to find her there - scarfless! - with a homemade breakfast for him. Mmmm ... do I smell boiled bunny? My favorite!

Eeeeew, slow-mo sex scene between Quaker Oats Lady and Matthew Perry 2.0. Seriously, why should I have to suffer through this if the Old Lady from Dubuque is being spared Luke and Noah kissing? Yech. Oh - shirtless and tousled Austin From Days. Okay, all better.

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  • wolfi1976's picture

    Today's Sharkeera picture...

    ...is the best one yet!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

     

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    snicks's picture

    Ameera, you're not fooling anyone.

    anyone else get a "single white female" vibe from her? She's going to end up putting on a striped shirt and crawling under the covers with a drunken Noah.
    brian's picture

    definitely.

    Let's hope she doesn't wear heels!
    dkellergrl2001's picture

    I can see it now. The

    I can see it now.

    The Plot Device has cut and died her hair blonde and Noah's too clueless to realize that he's not in bed with Luke. LOLOLOL

    She's going to end up putting on a striped shirt and crawling under the covers with a drunken Noah.

    dannydc's picture

    Cardboard Noah Turning...

    O. K., no more than has transpired so far...

     Cardboard Noah wakes up and sees Ameera Bitch is not in the wedding bed. She has pulled a Denny's on him and has breakfast ready. Cardboard is ALL smiles and lovey-dovey that this Iraqi reject has the "Betty Crocker" knowledge down pat. I somehow foresee Cardboard turning back to his bisexual ways ala Maddie time. These stupid, ignorant writers are gonna do nothing more than alienate the audience further against Cardboard and this storyline will be slipping further into oblivion. Pineapple Princess Luke has to drop this loser like a bad habit, but he is such a wimp, it ain't never gonna happen.

    How much longer do we have to suffer thru this stupidity?????????????????

    snicks's picture

    The obstacle's obstacle

    he has a definite Eric Winter-ish quality.
    Anthony D. Langford's picture

    I Love....

    Your 'Green Card' poster. That is hilarious!
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    Anthony D. Langford's picture

    Luke....

    ... that is your dumbest idea yet. You're playing right into Ameera's hands! Of course she wants to see that movie... she wants to live it!
    kaydee252's picture

    It's like a horrible horrible dream

    " Let's make a movie about our lives"...blah blah blah

    It's getting worse everyday. Unfortunately until I can get some medicine for my train-wreck-tv-itis, a very serious disease, I can't help but watch this.

    Well at least Casey will be running the cameras.

    wolfi1976's picture

    Wow...

    ...and I somehow believed it couldn't go any further downhill from yesterday's episode. This is just insane.

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    maskbear55's picture

    It was a train wreck...now it's Krakatoa!!!

    It's just getting worse and worse....you can see the volcanic ash from miles away....Look out everyone....it's about to blow. 

    I watch the clips on YouTube...can't believe what I am seeing...and try to remember when ATWT was an interesting and well done show.  Seems like decades ago...maybe it was.

    I thought the Bush Administration had insulted the gay community but this storyline by TIIC at ATWT surpasses anything the Bush Administration tried to put into place. 

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    rschlem's picture

    The Love Nest



    When Luke and Noah first moved into Emma's Farm house, I said that they should have moved into Lucinda's pool house or where ever it was that Luke and Kevin got drunk that night. Well now that Noah has moved into another of Lucinda's cabin's, as soon as they get rid of Ameera, Luke can move in with him. Part of this story is a way to transport them into a house together. That will happen during sweeps week so that they can kiss, and then we can see them walk around the house the next morning wrapped in a sheet. And then we won't see them on the show for another 6 weeks, except when someone bumps into them at Java and asks how the honeymoon is going and they can blush. And then we won't seem them kiss again for another 9 months, if ever.

    Since ATWT seems to think there is something generally perverse about a gay love affair, I wouldn't put it past them to throw a little incest at Noah, I mean he's gay anyway and going to hell, so is his muslim half-sister. If she makes advances at him he will refuse it (to again prove he's gay as gay can be), and since he's guilty of the gay sin, his reputation can't be smeared further by the guilt of association to incest.

    Noah will refuse Ameera's advances but Luke will somehow get the wrong idea and become jealous.

    But Ameera will probably end up being the illegitimate daughter of one of the Colonels enlisted men and Mayer was protecting Ameera and her mother out of duty to the service. The soldier may have raped her mother but I doubt they would go that far, she perhaps tried to hide the affair. So, after Ameera is practically thrown out of the love nest, Colonel Mayer will save the day, and provide proof that Ameera indeed has rights to citizenship by way of her American father, whom only he can identify.

    It seems like Ameera will have been raped or punished by here own people, probably subjected to humilation by the relations who took her in after her mother died. The people in that part of the world can be very dank.

    dannydc's picture

    I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo done with this!

    O. K., I refuse to watch another episode of this asinine ATWT. All these many months with no kisses and just stupid, ignorant goo-goo eyes, love pats, forehead touching, etc., between Cardboard Noah and Pineapple Princess Luke and next week TPTB expect us to sit and watch Cardboard lock lips with Ameera Bitch?                                                                                                                       I'll bet the Snyderfork Ranch that I'm not the only one pissed that Cardboard and Sham Bride get to kiss next week. Well, that's it for me. I'll never watch another episode. Thank God there is Hollyoaks and that awesome Oliver and Christian German soap on YouTube. This is how you portray an authentic gay couple, ATWT! Before you lose your entire audience you built up from The Kiss last August, maybe you outta see how people with compassion and common sense do it! I'm no longer wasting good electric to sit thru this stupidity!
    wolfi1976's picture

    well... on the upside...

    ...christian and olli will be on FORBIDDEN LOVE both monday & tuesday. :-)

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    HenryZ's picture

    At least we get all this

    At least we get all this hilarious artwork from Brian. The show certainly does seem to be providing him with tons of material.


    But seriously, was a little part of Luke's brain paralyzed when the Toaster Streudel attacked him last fall? How could he think it would be anything but a horrible idea to make a movie about Noah and Ameera's "romance"? He wants to spend more time with NOAH, not more time with Noah AND Ameera. He should have come up with a project to film the histories of all the B&Bs in Illinois and take only Noah with him. I came up with that in two seconds without even trying! Dummy!


    And then I think a little part of MY brain got paralyzed when I saw Noah and Ameera kissing. You know when Luke said "bicultural love story" she heard "bisexual love story."

    Bountiful's picture

    ATWT needs to go slower

    By which I don't mean the physical relationship between Noah and Luke should go slower... that needs to speed up. What I mean is that they need to go slower with Ameera's homewrecking plans, while other things occupy our interest. I think making a movie together is a good step. It gives the characters something to focus on, and hopefully we'll get to see some real character interaction.

    I think Nuke is starting to get boring, but I hold out hope.

    BobbyBaby's picture

    I am beyond disgusted at this point

    I don't really give a flying f**k what the context of the kissing scene between Noah and Ameera is for next weeks' show.

    The mere fact that after 6 frakkin' months of spinelessly caving to pressure from the AFA and refusing to show ONE SINGLE Nuke kiss, to script a kiss for Noah and Ameera UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES is just a blatant slap in the face to Nuke fans. The writers' utter contempt for the fans is simply beyond belief. The fact that they would actually go there at this time...I wouldn't have believed even these brainless homophobes would go that far. I was aghast and shocked.

    Sorry, Nuke, it's time to walk away from this insulting garbage.

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    Psionycx's picture

    Second Class Audience

    It certainly does underline the not-so-subtle message that P&G seems to be trying to project that gays are too disgusting to depict kissing on TV doesn't?
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    HenryZ's picture

    Yeah... I just can't imagine

    Yeah... I just can't imagine how it won't come off as a blatant double standard.


    Even if it's just some fantasy of Ameera's, it's not like Luke and Noah were allowed to kiss in their Valentine's Day fantasy. Even if Ameera catches Noah unaware and plants one on him, or it's part of Luke's scripted "movie"it doesn't change the fact that under NO circumstances were Luke and Noah's lips allowed to touch in the last 200 days. Even if Luke and Noah miraculously kissed in the same episode, it doesn't change the fact that it took 200 days for it to happen, while Noah and Ameera are seen kissing after only a few weeks. And while in a sham relationship. There will be no quick pan to a house plant, or to their feet.


    The message, unfortunately, is that boy-girl kissing is OK to show, even under the most ridiculous or unsavory of circumstances, while boy-boy kissing is forbidden even in a committed relationship.

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