Worst Couple: Sonny and Carly! I was literally picking my tongue off the floor when I saw SOD’s Best & Worst issue named them as best couple. Best couple! On what planet? Surely, there’s got to be one couple on some soap somewhere that’s better than them, since they’re the bottom of the barrel. Fake tests of love that are rigged from the start. No chemistry. He kisses the love of his life, then claims he only did it to prove is wuv for Carly. She lies, cheats and betrays him constantly, putting everyone else ahead of him [especially his enemies] and claims she loves him to pieces. If this is the best couple, soaps are in bigger trouble than even I thought.

Most Ruined Couple: Dillon and Georgie. They were a breath of fresh air in a show mired in ugly. They had chemistry and plenty of story with the Quartermaines and Mac being against their relationship. So, what does GH do? They suddenly have Dillon worshipping at the altar of the great god, Jason, then have Faith try to force him to have sex. Now he seems [don’t know if he actually had sex with her] to have bedded Sage and betrayed Georgie in the process. Yet another ugly pairing. It’s like the scribes at GH are so ugly and twisted they can’t stand anything that isn’t as ugly as they are.

Best Potential New Couple: Sonny and Faith. They’ve got the chemistry. They can make you rewind and watch a nothing scene they’re in together over and over again. And there’s enough darkness and ugliness in it for the GH scribes to get their rocks off into the next decade. So, why aren’t they a couple? Why do they keep insisting that the rotting corpse known as Sonny/Carly is some supercouple and their premiere couple? Have these boobs ever seen the movie Bonnie and Clyde. Hello, you could have the living embodiment of it in Sonny and Faith. DUH!

Star of the Future: Alicia Minshew. I know the suits are trying to groom Rebecca Budig as the new big star of the future, but she can’t hold a candle to Minshew’s portrayal of Kendall. Budig comes off as hard and grating, while Minshew has a vulnerability
about her even when Kendall is at her worst. If they want to groom a younger actress to take over the mantle from Susan Lucci, they’re grooming the wrong actress.

Worst Friends: GH’s Jason and Sonny and AMC’s Fusion Girls. Yep, it’s a tie, although I could probably make a whole list of worst friends, since friendship isn’t done on ABC soaps, anymore. The Fusion gals give women a bad name. Their like a throwback to the female characters in that old movie, “The Women”, which show women as backstabbing bitches who’ll stab another woman in the back if it means obtaining a man. As for St. Jason, a real friend doesn’t constantly undermine and question every decision a friend makes. Who needs an enemy when you’ve got Jason for a friend.

Lamest Friendship: The Barbie Twins. Carly and Courtney are like Barbie and P.J. as they worship their own personal Ken doll, Jason. That’s all this friendship is based on. Their genuflecting to Ken. But watch how fast P.J. turns on her best bud, Barb, should Barb try to shag Ken.

Public Assistance For Hacks Award: ABC Daytime. We’re not talking about one or two hacks, everywhere you look, you’ve got a hack. It’s like ABC Daytime is a personal charity for the support and employment of hacks who couldn’t get a job if their lives depended on it. We’ve got Brian Frons, the King of all Idiots. Jill Farren Phelps, the Queen of Nepotism. As well as a host of court jesters who think they can write, but couldn’t out-write a chimpanzee. And it’s not just behind the scenes, now ABC is hiring a bunch of no-talent actors to proliferate daytime, as well, while they edge out talents actors playing characters viewers love.

Biggest Waste of Money: Kelly Monaco & the Maria/Aidan Remote. I understand Frons got into some bidding war for Monaco. He should have let the other guy win. She doesn’t work. Every story she’s involved with is ridiculous and a bad joke. The second big money waster was Frons sending the characters of Maria/Aidan on some expensive remote when no one even cared about this couple. If this remote was supposed to raise ratings, it accomplished just the opposite. It made ratings go down, instead of up.

Worst Redemption and Biggest Whiner Award: Ric Lansing. I’m no big fan of ATWT’s Hogan Sheffer, but at least he knows when he’s made a character jump the shark and gets rid of him. Instead of Kin Shriner getting the boot, the actor that should have got shown to the door was Rick Hearst. But then he’s a Phelps/Frons pet and Shriner isn’t, so we get rid of Scotty and get to keep Super Pervert Ric, instead. If they wanted to keep this loser around, they should have thought in advance and not had this perv do the things he’s done. And his justification for it all is that Sonny pushed his mama down the stairs while he was still hatching in her womb. I guess that was a womb with a view and he’s got a memory like an elephant to remember it all in such grand detail.

The You Took Ours, So We’ll Take Yours Award: Brian Frons. After Frons chased off some big ABC talent, and they went over to CBS were they got treated better,
Frons decided he’d bring some big CBS talent to ABC. He spent big bucks for them and to pay for them he got rid of some more big ABC talent. The end result is a bunch of CBS stars in really badly defined roles. Note to Mr. Frons. If ABC viewers wanted to watch CBS
actors, they’d watch CBS soaps. They watch ABC soaps to watch ABC actors. DUH!

The Foot In his Mouth Award: Brian Frons. With the amount of times Frons has stuck his foot in his mouth, he should have memorized the taste of shoe leather by now. Every time he opened his mouth to the soap press, in went his foot. What was his biggest blunder? Was it the justification for not having minorities working on the shows by pointing to actors that some viewers aren’t even aware are minorities as proof he’s not racist? Was it his comments that because Rick Hearst once won an Emmy that made his irredeemable character redeemable? Or was it his comments about the Marcy character not being pretty because she’s fat. Pick an interview and you’re likely to find some insulting remark coming out of this fool’s mouth.

It’s Hunting Season Award: Brian Frons. While Vermonters are going into the woods to hunt the elusive deer. They’ve killed so many they can barelyfind any to shoot. And others are rushing to New Jersey to bag themselves a b’ar to be just like Davy Crockett. Frons has declared it’s hunting season on any actor over 40. Especially women over 40, as he sharpens up his poison pen and gifts actors with pink slips. I only have this to say to Mr. Frons. You’re over 40, too, Mr. Frons, when do you get your pink slip?

That’s Really More Than I Want To Know Award: BrianFrons. Everything about the way Frons goes on about the Courtney character and Jason/Courtney is inappropriate. And it got even kinkier when he was talking about how he had a new character named after himself to compete for Courtney. If Frons was any other person than who he is, he’d be labeled a stalker. If he invites Ms. Willis to his office late one night, I suggest you tell him thanks but no thanks.

Most Presumptious Promo: AMC Is Giving Women What They Want. I’m sorry, no you’re not. Women don’t want to see a woman get down on her hands and knees to the guy who was gaslighting her and cheating on her and begging him not to take her kid away from her. They don’t want to see women running around in skimpy underwear. That’s what men want.

Stupidest Gimmick: Sexiest Man Contest. It was demeaning to every woman watching this show. It made it seem like all a woman wanted was a hot guy. Never mind if he has no brain or personality. What was worse, the type of men this contest was inspired to attract were the exact time of new male characters Frons brought to the show. The character of Carlos is the living embodiment of what is wrong with that.

Worst New Trend: Getting Rid Of A Soap’s Core Characters. A soap’s core characters are like the foundation of a house. You get rid of the foundation and the house comes tumbling down. And that’s what these idiots are doing to these soaps by doing what their doing. Replacing longtime and well-developed characters played by talented actors with vapid, badly developed characters played by some model who thinks because he/she can strike a pose when a photographer says cheese can act, is destroying soaps.

Most Fired Hack: Megan McTavish. Not that I needed to mention her name. Has there ever been anyone fired so many times, to constantly be rehired again. How many times has this woman been fired from AMC alone? I’ve lost count it’s been so many times. And yet they just keep rehiring again and again. She’s been fired from every current ABC soap, but AMC seems to be her nesting ground.

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