Liveblogging As the World Turns: You Raise Me Up Edition

Yes, ATWT, you raise me up so I could stand on mountains and walk on stormy seas and buy the world a Coke and ... stuff. But really, today's edition refers to the fact that Noah is helping Luke to get out of his wheelchair and, one would hope, eventually out of the kitchen. I mean honestly, this is starting to feel like a Sam Shepard play with tampon commercials...

In other Oakdale news, a new doctor has arrived in town and he's the best kind of doctor there is: the hot kind who takes his shirt off a lot. Before I knew he was a doctor he was just a hot guy on a bedroom set who kind of reminded me of a beefed-up leprechaun, so he's been dubbed Hotprechaun™. (Wear it with pride, hotstuff.) And he'll be keeping us company while Luke is doing his imaginary physical therapy and Noah is off feeling bad about himself or until, God forbid, we move past this storyline.

Click on through the jump and refresh to see if Luke will stay on his feet!

Start liftin'...

2:55PM EDT: Lily accepts that she's made horrible mistakes but doesn't think it's fair that Holden isn't even giving her a chance to make things right. I hope that they're having this argument in earshot of Luke, or it's a perfectly good guilt-spiral gone to waste! 

Preview Time! No Nuke, but we do get a glimpse of Hotprechaun™ and Austin From Days refers to Quaker Oats Lady's fake-tumor scam as "Operation Deathbed", so I might tune in anyway! Oh who am I kidding. We'll be back when our teens are back with more!

2:44PM EDT: Luke sits back down and when Noah says he did a great job Luke disagrees: "I did great!". He says that he's going to do even better tomorrow at physical therapy and that he'd better go to bed. But ... but what about the pond? Maybe a little celebratory how's-your-father? No?

No. He tells Noah to go home and says that he'll get ready for bed himself. Well that was anticlimactic! Lily says that this has been the best day ever, and Holden slaps the lollipop out of her mouth when he says that he's filing divorce papers. Oooooooh! Okay, that was climactic.

2:38PM EDT: Sophie, the mousy pregnant girl, has some hot babymama drama with Aaron (Hotprechaun™ in training) and Cole, who could easily be the missing O'Reily brother from Oz. I love that they're filming on location in NYC. It's like Woody Allen for pretty teenagers.

Lily tells Holden that she thought she knew him inside and out but that when Luke came out as gay he stunned her, and that the one thing that gives her comfort is that she knows that Luke has him no matter what. Aww!

Luke asks Noah if he wants to walk down to the pond, and then says that first he's got to stand!

And he stands! Lily and Holden see it through the window! Somewhere a thousand miles away, a perfect kitten spontaneously bursts into being!

2:25PM EDT: Lady Drumstick, J-Baby and Detective Clarice Starling have a hot confrontation in the town square. So Witches of Eastwick...

Luke tells Noah that at the beginning of the summer he thought that anything was possible, but now their future is a lot of closed doors, and that his chair won't even fit through the open ones. No, I didn't make that last part up, although I may as well have.

Noah leans down and says, "Snyder, you're full of it."

Lily and Holden sit in the diner that isn't Henry's and reminisce about five minutes ago when they did something good for their son. No pepperkaker for you!

Noah is still dropping science on Luke, and gets choked up when he tells him that while he'd rather be traveling Europe with him, he'd settle for a walk around Snyder Pond. (Um, tip to Noah: ix-nay on the alk-ways...) Noah tells Luke that he's wrong for trying to make him walk away from ... something that ... (eyes tear up) ... was he gonna say "love"? Luke tells him he knows what he means.

2:16PM EDT: It just occurred to me: Aaron, the bartender at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse who wears the green button-down and jaunty vest, has obviously switched outfits with the Hotprechaun™.

Speaking of which, where is our favorite pot o' gold?

Oh wow -- there are TWO Mrs. Kardashians, and they're fighting over a baby! It's like Siamese Fighting Fish eating their young!

Luke has wheeled into the kitchen, and Noah follows, tired of Luke trying to avoid the issues. Luke says that he doesn't want to have to tell Noah the hard things, like the fact that he can't go to the bathroom by himself. Noah counters that he wasn't able to tell Luke that he was gay, which for me is pretty much the same thing, too. Am I the only one who thinks they should just have some hot wheelchair sex and put this conversation to rest?

2:09PM EDT: A lot going on here: Mrs. Kardashian gets bum-rushed into a car, RoseAnne HecheKowski gets a present from The Blonde Girl Who Reminds Me of Haley Joel Osment, and Vitalis Man and Jordana Babymaker get body-checked by a Generic Thug in Maddie Alley (right outside the bookstore, of course), and it turns out the Thug stole NPJB's cell phone, on the orders of RH. I'm gonna need my slide-rule for this one...

2:04PM EDT: We pick up just where we left off. Luke is laying out the future for Noah, telling him that he has to accept that things might never get better. Noah gets frustrated, then says, "Stop -- that's not gonna work anymore." The pity-party is over!

Cut to Lily and Holden in the kitchen, eavesdropping and avoiding their own issues. Good to see things are back to normal. They tell the boys goodbye and leave Noah in charge.

Luke gets sassy again and Noah says "you're seriously ticking me off!" Luke, this guy's dad killed his mother and nailed you with a Toaster Strudel. Treat softly.