Kids aren’t the only ones that need schooling, you know. With Brad Bell, we need our own classes on how to watch the Bold and the Beautiful. So take notes.

1. ARROGANT. Ridge Forrester. Arrogant. Did you get a load of how he’s making everything about HIM? “I almost killed Dad. I pushed Donna too hard. I don’t know what I’d do without Dad.” I..I…I…I. All I saw was a whiner who only saw the bad things he did AFTER he’s had to sit around the house doing NOTHING because he got fired and nearly tried to kill his own father. After the years of leading Brooke on, then mistreating Taylor, then tonguing his own daughter/sister, then the horrible way he treated both Brooke AND Taylor when Tay came back from the dead, THEN the‘misunderstanding’ of Brooke and now the little voices he heard in his own head telling him to kill Eric? Did you notice that Thorne went OFF and had to be physically pulled away from Owen while Ridge sort of just waltzed over and didn’t even get his shirt wrinkled? Is there any doubt why Ridge Forrester is one of the most despised characters on daytime??? I think the man must collect his own short and curlies out of the shower so he can put them in a scrapbook to his greatness. Oh wait, Brooke does that now, doesn’t she.
2. BIMBO. Can there be any doubt now that Donna is indeed a bimbo that wasn’t in love with Eric? Out of her own mouth last week we heard that yes, Donna knew it was all about sex and lust with her and Eric, and that it was only until Eric refused to back off even after hearing Donna pretending she was a sex addict to run him off that she decided hey, he was worth keeping! I am more convinced than ever that Donna doesn’t and never has been in love with Eric, it’s more of a power and sex thing and the way he coddles and protects her, something her daddy never did. Bring on her and Owen, I can’t see Donna and Eric lasting much longer, especially seeing the real love between Stephanie and Eric.
3. CLUELESS. Brooke is truly clueless, isn’t she?? She so wanted to keep making excuses for her pathetic sister that she refused to see what everything was pointing at, DONNA involved in Eric’s poisoning. YES, we know that it wasn’t Donna, but all the fingers pointed that way. Brooke is so totally wrapped up in being Ridge’s head cheerleader and knob polisher that she is no longer a woman in her own right. How about the fact that she admits Ridge doesn’t spend time with the kids, neither does she?? ‘Take them to camp tomorrow, I have to be at work’. HELLO??? What, the boss can’t take off a few hours to run her own children to camp?? Ridge and Brooke are totally RIDICULOUS as parents. I totally feel for poor Hope and RJ.
4. DUMB. Donna is truly dumb. If she knows SHE didn’t poison Eric and that the signs point to Owen, then why is she taking up for him?? Obviously we’re going to see a huge passionate scene with them. Gag me, quickly.
5. ECONOMICS. Let me ask you a stupid question….If over 90% of your viewers absolutely HATE two people together, WHY keep them there????? Scan the message boards. Read the magazines. Practically NOBODY likes Nick and Bridget together, or Nick and Katie together. Brick had a HUGE following, Ticky had a large following and was actually married for a year with a beautiful friendship. While I absolutely adore Ashley Jones and think she’s a marvelous actress, she is pushing hard for people to accept Nicket, that it’s some kind of love story and that Nick and Bridget have ‘found’ their way back to each other and it’s going to work. HUH??? Nick is OBVIOUSLY in love with Katie, he was just asking Bridget’s own mother to climb into bed with him a month or so ago, and Bridget even knew it. This is a LOVE STORY??? Ashley, I love ya darlin’, but Nicket ISN’T WORKING and it’s not going to. Nobody buys into Nick wanting to be with Bridget after the huge love story of Bricky and Tick. I realize Bridget doesn’t have any other man on the show she CAN have a love affair with right now, but that’s no reason to hang on to one of the most disgusting couples on daytime TV.
6. FUN. Yep, the show is actually getting FUN! I totally enjoyed watching Stephanie come in and kick butt. I adored watching Pam get that psycho look in her eyes. I even liked watching Nick and Katie fawn all over each other googling over the new baby knowing Bridget is going to be crushed and Nick get his butt jumped.
7. GOOGLE. Leave it to Bridget, Dr. Google, to be the one that busts open Eric’s poisoning and calls the police. What is she going to discover next, a cure for cancer??? Let’s see, she’s an OB/GYN expert, a heart specialist, an ER God, and looks like the only doctor in the hospital actually working. She must get tired from all that running around. I wonder if the hospital has a mural of her in the hallway somewhere………
8. HUNK. Shirtless Rick. I certainly hope there’s more down the pipelines for Rick to do other than parade around shirtless. While that’s enough for me, Kyle IS a fantastic actor and I’d love to see him in a real story.
9. IDIOT. Nick. Nidiot. Sneaking in the hospital in glasses and a hat, then obviously showing signs of being in love with Katie. I love me some Nick, always have, but ever since his son was born, he turned Neanderthal, and concentrated his support and love to his son, not the mother, Taylor. What’s best for THE BOY. Somebody needs to smack the idiot upside his head and remind him that Jack HAS a mother, he didn’t need to marry Bridget to give him one.  
10. JUST DESSERTS. Felicia thankfully isn’t whining about her job like Prince GottaLoveMe Ridge is. She got her just desserts when she tried to set up Donna by being fired. She took it like a woman. Ridge is a whining sot.
11. KISS. After Kiss. After Kiss. After Kiss. That’s all we see anymore with Brooke and Ridge, thankfully. No talk of wedding. No talk of marriage. Obviously Brad Bell has something in the works to break them up again. Good. They’re boring. Like Ridge and Ronn Moss have both said, Brooke and Ridge had nothing but sex in common.
12. LOVE. WHERE IS IT???? Anyone want to point out WHERE in the show you see a couple really in love? Where you see ANYONE actually showing real love for their mate/significant other/opposite sex? Bridget’s in obsession, Brooke’s a pecker cozy, Katie’s in MotherLand, Taylor’s in SupportVille, Rick’s in WhiteKnightHood, Nick is in REPRODUCTION CITY, Ridge is in SuckUpToMeLand, and Felicia/Thorne have nobody. The only one I’ve seen even show true love lately is Stephanie, for Eric. HELLO?? WRITERS?? Passion? Romance? LOVE? Did those three little words skip your minds in exchange for PLOY, PLOT DEVICE and ENRAGEMENT???
13. MARCUS. Yep, the show is starting to focus more on Marcus and I for one like it. I admit at first I wasn’t too thrilled with Texas Battle, his acting wasn’t all that and I think it’s because he was uncomfortable with his surroundings and the part he had to play. He’s changed quite nicely and he’s made the part of Marcus more his own and not someone else’s idea of who he needs to be. Run with it, Tex, put your own OOMPH in it. I adore Marcus and Steffy together.
14. NICK. In a preDIKament. Got one chick preggies and married the other one because he wanted a live-in mommy. Nick is in Daddy mode. No other excuse for it. Someone needs to change it quick. He has no backbone anymore and being used by the Logan women.
15. OBSESSED. Week after week, we keep seeing just how obsessed Brooke and Bridget are with their man du’Decade. Bridget is obviously blind to what’s around her, Brooke has been for over 30 years and it’s quite sickening now to see just how hard and fast Brooke hits her knees to lick up Ridge’s sweat and feed his poor pathetic ego. I want the old Brooke back. The strong one. The manipulative one. The crafty one. The spirited one. Not this podBrooke that is on the show for no other reason than to worship Ridge. I also hope that once the Kickette Baby is exposed, Bridget dumps Nick faster than Nick turned to Brooke when Taylor walked out on him.
16. PUPPY LOVE. Aren’t Marcus and Steffy CUTE? Certainly they’re not Romeo and Juliet, or strong passionate couple like Tridge was in the beginning, but they may grow. Right now I see two 18 year olds experiencing love for the first time and it’s adorable.
17. QUEEN. Stephanie. Back. Is there a need to say more? <<SWOON>>
18. RUN. See above, Donna. Owen. Brooke. THINK about it. Can’t wait!
19. SHERLOCK. As in Holmes. What, nobody else anywhere thought Eric might have been poisoned but MARCUS??? Stephanie should have been all over that.
20. THORNE. At least we got to see a few scenes of him. Why are they wasting such a great looking guy AND a talented actor?????
21. UNBELIEVABLE. Why isn’t Carl and Bridget explored? What, only good looking guys on the show get girls? Why doesn’t a writer somewhere figure out that nerdy, softhearted guys need loving too? Carl and Bridget would make such an adorable couple. He obviously worships the ground she walks on.
22. VERIFIABLE. That’s Pam. WOW, is she fun to watch! The show needed a great sinister-type person and we haven’t had that since Sheila. I adore watching her plot against Donna. I’m beginning to think Pam may have poisoned Eric mistakenly trying to get to Donna.
23. WARDROBE. Hello, wardrobe? Are you guys, like, ASLEEP over there, just waking up long enough to yank something off the wire coat hangers to shove on these ladies? The horrible outfit Brooke wore, I couldn’t figure out if it was on inside out or just like that because they ran out of material. Bridget’s puppies were hanging out all over the place, and HELLO, WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR goes to a patient’s room, even family’s, looking like a street walker??? Felicia is dressed like a rebel because she IS one. Brooke and Bridget are dressed far too ridiculously lately.
24. XEROX. That’s right. XEROX. This Bridget/Nick thing is nothing but a carbon copy of Brooke/Ridge. Like mother, like daughter. I’ll be glad when it ends, unless Ashley Jones is correct when she states that people need to just get used to them together because they’re so right for each other, in that case I’ll need a huge supply of barf bags. What we’re seeing on our screens is Nick only with Bridget because he wants a mommy for widdle Jack. He’s obviously wanting to be elsewhere.
25. YAHOO! STEPHANIE’S ON A ROLL! Did I mention that already? I know, I know, I did. But I LOVE IT!!!! I hope she steamrolls over people.
26. ZILLION. Have we heard the zillionth time yet about how special Brooke and Ridge are to each other? <<EYE ROLL>> Oh well, they’re a great couple, she worships the ground he walks on, so does he.

There’s our ABC’s for Bold, boys and girls. Now that school’s about back in, let’s hope they start steering back to more mature story lines, like maybe Brooke and Taylor, Stephanie, maybe back to what the show was so popular for in the first place, FASHION? I’d love to see a beautiful fashion show, dang.

Here’s some funnies for you…

I got a question for you….a few weeks ago I asked if Nick would be better off with Brooke or Taylor, and it was a near tie with barely any mention of Bridget or Katie. Knowing that Katie is a VERY UNPOPULAR character, what do you think it would take for you to start warming up to her? What kind of storyline would you enjoy seeing involving Katie? (AND BE NICE!!!!)

Until next week, I’m off to play with my Bold and Beautiful ball.

Megs