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Port Charles Update for Monday, 5-Apr-1999

Bienvenue gentlemen & ladies, PCO posters, & all those lurky PCOians everywhere!!!!!

Welcome to this very special edition of a Gracie Update.........GRACIE'S WEEKEND UPDATE PART II !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As most of you know, I had the pleasure of updating Friday's PC as well.

*Sigh*


What a precious waste of air time *that* was.


Well it seems as though my curse has been SEMI-lifted, as for the very first time ever in the history of Gracie Updatedom, I have NOT had to sit through another Frank/Courtney scene, which, IMO are getting a bit old, AND, Ellen & Sebby where nowhere to be seen! Plus I got to update people I have never ever updated before!!!!!

I did however, have to watch the Magic Dress plot point unfold some more, & once again, my dear sweet Dr. Chris was MIA.


*big sigh*



Anyway, on with today's update. :-)


On today's show:

~ "Crab Louis"

~ " Kevin Will Help Us" or "Fast Times at Ferncliffe High"

~ "You Can't Fight a Bully by Being a Bully" or "Chipped Beef on Toast"

~ "My Three Sons" or "Moral Compasses"

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CRAB LOUIS



Eve is on the phone with D.V. She wants to meet him at the PC Grille.

He suggests that she wear "the red dress" she used to wear. But alas, young Eve is no longer in posession of such a dress. She hasn't been for quite some time.


She burned it.


Eve says it's not "that kind of meeting" anyway, lies to Kevin about going to GH to do some catch up work, & off she goes, right through that door.


Whoosh.


Just like that.


At the PC Grille, D.V. is throwing a himself a nice little fit because Crab Louis is *not on the menu*!!

Well this is just not acceptable.The cook does not know how to make it, & our dear friend David is not allowed to show him, as guests are not allowed in the kitchen.


D.V. has a solution!


Ever the thinker, he mentions something about buying the hotel & showing the chef how to prepare Crab Louis (an old fav of his & Eve's) since *surely* an *owner* would have kitchen priviliges, he then would fire both the chef & that particular waiter that had the honor of witnessing his tantrum.


D.V. is so smart.


Eve wants to know *why* Bordiso is sabatoging Scott & Lucy.

"Are you doing this to my friends because they *are*......my friends?" she asks.

Lucy is Eve's friend now?

Gee, you skip ONE episode because Chris wasn't in it...............

Anyway, D.V. refutes, saying that The Serena Line is "...stepping on my new collection..."

He did not know that Eve was in good ol' Port Chuck, but he does not mind in the least.

D.V. mentions that there is a "whole story" regarding him & Eve, & there is nothing she can do to change it.

A horrid pronounciation of the phrase "compredez-vous" & D.V. taking Eve's hand, the only point of which being so that Scott, who has just arrived to uhh--"have words" with everybody's favorite fashion guru, will see it, & this sees the close of "Crab Louis."


Thank God.


This guy scares me.

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"Kevin Will Help Us" or "Fast Times at Ferncliffe High"


Just after Eve left the lighthouse to meet with Bordiso, Kevin gets a call from everyone's favorite nut-- none other than Juile Devlin......Marcia Cooper......................whatever.


She wants Kevin to come over to the loony bin NOW & talk to her. She wants his help.

When Kevin arrives, he & Julie's doctor chat for a bit. She tells him that Julie has been pretending to be pregnant.

Kevin comments that, "It's not unheard of for a female mental patient to fake a pregnancy."


How 'bout a female mental patient faking a fake pregnancy?


Or a male mental patient faking a fake pregnancy?


Just wondering.


Kevin opens the door to see Julie, happily munching on her lunch.

As I look at my screen, I note that Ms. Devlin/Cooper has some sort of mystery meat & veggies on her plate, plus some cherry pie.


They certainly keep their wackos well-fed at Ferncliffe.


Kevin & Jule begin to talk, & it quickly becomes apparant that TPTB are *still* trying to force-feed us, their loyal viewers, this "Julie didn't know what she was doing when she killed all those people, TRUST US." storyline.

Can *you* say "cop-out"?


Ah..........LML lives on after all.

The highlight of today's ep happens right now, Julie says to Kevin, "...I'm locked in here & I'm not crazy."


ROTFLMAO


Jules asks Kevy to treat her so that she can be declared competant to stand trial . She is willing to risk capital punishment to get out of there.

She wonders aloud what would have happend, had Kevin never written General Homicide. She, in essence, tells him that he has to help her, he "owes her that much".


I am doing my little "No she did NOT just blame Kevin" dance.


Very scary.


Kevin leaves, he doesn't know if sh'e a crazy person pretending to be sane, or vice-versa. He talks to her doctor about this.


Meanwhile, Marcia is talking to her baby again. *.......And she *just* told Kevin that if she said a six month old fetus was talking to her, then she really *would* be crazy.............*

I rest my case.

Julie says to her baby, "We're going to have to be careful with Dr. Collins.....he's *very* observant & very clever...............but then---so am I."

The look on her face is *priceless*.

If you didn't see it, I feel for you, I *truly* do.


We see a close-up of Julie's hands around her stomach, & I notice her manicure.


Gee, seems if you're nuts, *Ferncliffe* is the place to be.............

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"You Can't Fight a Bully by Being a Bully" or "Chipped Beef on Toast"


Scott hasn't been doing his community service, part of his obstruction of justice sentence.

Lee comes to the firehouse to tell him just that.

Serena comes home & is on the verge of tears because "...Barbera Faulkland said Serena Dresses are made by cheaters & why did they have to call it Serena anyway?"

Scott assures her they named the line after her because she is magical.


OH!


So *that's* how those stupid magic dresses got their special powers!


My girl Serena is going to call her boy Neil & they are going to get that Barbera girl.

YEAH!!!! You go Serena!!!!

But Scott spoils our fun, not-to-mention Serena's, by telling her "You can't fight a bully by being a bully."


Words to live by.


He asks if she wants him to make her some chipped beef on toast, she says she can do it herself.


Also words to live by.


Scott has until the end of the month to get his community service *done*, or he could face a year in jail.

He runs out after D.V. anyway, leaving things unresolved.

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"My Three Sons" or "Moral Compasses"


Okay, so this scene was about Scott, & obviously, Scott is *not* Lee's three sons. But I couldn't think of a snazzy title for this scene.

Besides, Gail & Lee discuss how Scott USED to be, pre-Dominique, & how he is NOW, post-Dominique.

That's two sons right there.


I'm sure the other will turn up somewhere.


That rhymed.


Lee wonders if Scott is "slipping back" to the old Scott---the BAD Scott--- beacuse of him. Because he used to be an alcoholic & was hardly ever there for his son. He says that Scott has lost his moral compass---or he dropped it somewhere, I forget.

I am wondering, "Just what is this moral compass thing & where can *I* get one?"


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And that, ladies & gentlemen, is today's episode in a nutshell.


Or not.


Anyway, hope it made you smile at least.


:-)


Updater Gracie

co-second best updater with Gil, as voted by PCO, next to Val......who may have cheated..............


Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight.
Lead me out on the moonlit floor.
Lift your open hand.
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance,
silver moon's sparkling.
So kiss me.


And so it goes.