Thursday, June 3, 2010

OLTL — Prelude to Bo and Nora's Wedding

Before I get into the latest happenings on OLTL, I wanted to share something interesting.

I forgot to mention a reference from "Step into the Light" — a review of the LOST Finale on the Entertainment Weekly website (EW.com) written by Doc Jenson. Maybe it was just coincidental, but I always find it significant whenever someone strings together the words "one life to live" in a sentence, regardless of what they are talking about. Here is the quote:

You only get one life to live, and the opportunity that the Sideways world provides is the chance to puzzle together and come to grips with the person you became while you lived it.
If you would like to read the article, it is from the section called "TOTALLY 'LOST'. Here is the link:  Step into the Light

So, back to our story (spoiler alert):  Bo and Nora are planning their second wedding for the anniversary of their first wedding, which was June 1.  The way the story seems to be progressing, there will be several days of lead up to the wedding. Everything that has happened on the show in the last two days was taking place on the morning of the wedding. Since the broadcast week was shortened by the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, the big "I dos" probably won't happen until next week.

So far, Nora has slipped in the bathroom and chipped a tooth and also poked herself in the eye, so she is wearing an eye patch. Before she even leaves Bo's apt. for her hair appt. she falls down and sprains her ankle and now she is on crutches.

When she gets to Foxy Roxy's, Roxy accidentally puts the wrong chemicals on Nora's hair and turns it bright green. Then in all the commotion, Roxy knocks the curling iron off the counter, it lands on the train of Nora's wedding dress, and the next thing you know—the wedding dress is on fire and completely incinerates.

Jessica is out looking for a dentist who will make a house call, Vickie and Gigi head out to find a replacement wedding dress and Roxy and Natalie stir up a remedy for the green hair. Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is a big storm coming, so the electricity went out in the downtown area, the stores had to close and Vickie and Gigi now have to come up with an alternate solution to buying another dress at Logan's.

Over at the church, a skunk has gotten in, destroyed all of the flower garlands and completely stunk up the place. Animal control is called in, but while Bo is attempting to help, he's in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets sprayed by the skunk. Then the skunk grabs Bo's tuxedo garment bag and makes a run for it.

Matthew is spraying the church with air freshener which causes an allergic reaction for the wedding singer and her throat swells up, so she won't be able to sing. John McBain is enlisted to find a replacement singer, so he heads over to Blair's. Blair is stunned to hear about the wedding, since she wasn't invited, but finally decides she will sing anyway. Rex takes Bo home and soaks him in tomato juice to try to get the skunk spray out. They start drinking Bloody Marys, so no telling how that is going to turn out.

There were a couple of side stories going on with Matthew, Dani and Destiny, but nothing that interesting. The brightest spot of the day was a surprise in the last minute of the show — one of our favorite characters is back!!

The writers are doing a great job of maximizing the hilarity, and since it IS a soap opera after all, everything will get cleaned up and straightened out, just in time. Bo and Nora excel at comedy and the writers definitely know their actors' strengths. Tune in tomorrow.

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