Yes, even if what you’re doing is the same thing as Beyond the Gates‘ frisky Andre and Dani. We’ve got a brand-new edition of Soaps’

Burning Questions just waiting for you to take a scroll through the twists and turns that left us scratching our heads the week of January 19-23.

 

 

Why did Bold & Beautiful’s R.J., when talking to Electra, refer to Will as “Bill’s son” and act like he hardly knows him? They’re cousins, and their mothers are close. (Usually, anyway.) Also, why are we setting up a love triangle involving a guy going after his cousin’s girl, who is also his cousin? Only on Bold & Beautiful!

On a related note, Bold & Beautiful said that Will and R.J. met face-to-face for the first time in years this week. May we offer the show a little flashback to September 2024 and suggest that they actually met face-to-face for the first time in a little more than one year this week?

What normal person — let alone a teen like Days of Our Lives’ Ari — would say they took a “rideshare” as opposed to an Uber or Lyft?

Shouldn’t General Hospital’s Drew suddenly having a stroke right after Willow was acquitted have pinged everyone’s radar in Port Charles?

Why is Young & Restless’ Nick using only one crutch when he has a broken leg? More importantly, why is he using the one crutch on the same side as the broken leg rather than leaning on it on the other side to take the weight off the bad one?

Is Beyond the Gates’ Hayley being not only reckless but downright transparent, even telling Bill that she wants to take him home for some tea with her “special ingredient”? Sure, she said that ingredient was love, but still, not exactly discreet!

Bold & Beautiful’s Ridge & Co. didn’t have the money to keep Deke on and mentor him, but they have all kinds of funds to hire Dylan as an intern and put R.J. on the couture line?

Speaking of the penny-pinching at Bold & Beautiful’s Forrester Creations, didn’t Deke bring more to the table than the models who seem to do nothing but gawk at their co-workers and gossip?

Between the purple suit he wore to the christening and the infamous devil-red one, do you kinda wanna raid Johnny’s Days of Our Lives wardrobe?

Did you also think to yourself that one person who’d have hated Johnny’s lavender suit on Days of Our Lives would have been Bold & Beautiful‘s Bill, who once said son Wyatt looked like a grape in his purple suit?

How much does General Hospital attorney Alexis’ “Crap, I got a guilty client acquitted!” expression remind you of the face you make when you forget why you went from one room to another?

As Young & Restless characters were going on about how Nick would never recover if he killed someone, did you desperately want to remind them that he’d offed Ashland and gotten over it pretty instantaneously?

Anybody else laugh to themselves when the man who called Beyond the Gates’ Vanessa to accuse her of setting his wife up with a gigolo said he didn’t want to hear her “cock-and-bull story”?

X user Kaei (K) asked, in essence, WTH? “Bold & Beautiful’s R.J. doesn’t know Electra, he doesn’t really know Will. He is talking about the ‘crazy Luna’ stuff as if he wasn’t her boyfriend. Said he has been away for years. I’m so confused.”

X user Lisa Mitchell stated, “Bold & Beautiful’s Electra didn’t know that R.J. and Will are cousins. She knows that Katie is Will’s mom and Brooke is R.J.’s mom. They are sisters.” Dare we suggest that Electra just doesn’t understand what makes people cousins?

Which was more amusing — Beyond the Gates’ Dani trash-talking Jacob’s ability to tell a story or her naming him and Naomi “law and order”?

X user Meredith Nygma asked why “everyone [is] acting like Bold & Beautiful‘s Eric will drop dead if he so much as picks up a pen”? Maybe the patriarch’s pens are heavier than normal ones?

Yes, we get doctor/patient confidentiality, but Days of Our Lives’ Sophia once again proved in front of Dr. Gregory she was a threat to Holly. Shouldn’t she have an obligation to warn Holly… or at least the Salem PD? Sophia already managed to escape Bayview once (that they know about).

Was General Hospital‘s Drew channeling every parent who’s ever been in the grocery with a cranky kid when he emphatically told Nina, “Do not make a scene! Do not make a scene!”?

What was the point of putting Young & Restless’ Matt “on trial” in Sharon’s living room? Nick and Victor had already declared him guilty, and none of the “witnesses” were going to say anything that Matt (and we) didn’t already know.

Shouldn’t Beyond the Gates’ Carlton have known that Kial was Nicole’s date to WinterFest? Surely there would’ve been pictures in all the papers, and someone at the hospital probably would’ve mentioned it to him.

When did Bold & Beautiful‘s Will decide that he wanted to learn everything about the fashion business? Could it have been when he started dating a young woman who works at a fashion house?

How nice was it that Days of Our Lives’ Brady and Kristen both agreed they were a toxic couple? None of us believe that they’re actually over for good, but still… it was something.

Doesn’t General Hospital‘s Suzanne remind you of the kind of lovable B characters soaps used to feature a lot more often? She’s like Alfred Vanderpoole from All My Children, Polly Longworth from Ryan’s Hope or Wanda Hite on Guiding Light!

If Young & Restless’ Victoria didn’t want to be disturbed while working, maybe the worst possible place to do it was the patio at Crimson Lights, where everyone in town hangs out? Also, with Newman under attack, should she be using public, unprotected Wi-Fi to do her very important work?

If things don’t work out between Beyond the Gates’ Shanice and Ted — or between Kial and Nicole — would you be totally into the idea of the gossiping nurse and the handsome orthopedic surgeon hooking up? They had instant chemistry!

Bold & Beautiful is so obvious. Will and Electra have been sleeping together for months, and suddenly, now that R.J. and Dylan are on the scene, she’s worried that Ivy and the Forresters don’t approve, so she’s going to decline to go over there late at night. But guess who is there?

Has everyone else just about given up on Days of Our Lives’ Javi, too? His declaration that he wanted to be Leo’s husband more than anything would have worked a lot better if he wasn’t doing literally everything he could to not make that happen.

That said, given how much Young & Restless loves to do standalone episodes, wouldn’t it have made sense to turn the scenes in which all of Matt’s victims confronted him into one?