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[spoiler]Today's quote:
Ep #1204 (1841PT) - Possessed Melanie - 'They don't pay any attention to you, do they?--you TELL them what they MUST do, and then you die!'
From "#1203/1204: Robservations 12/11/03: Naive Fiancee"
Melanie comes in, laughing uproariously. Why aren't you ready for the funeral? Flora asks her daughter and she and Quentin stare at Melanie, shocked. Melanie goes over to the coffin, puts her hands on it and says, giggling, "They don't pay any attention to you, do they?--you tell them what they must do, and then you die!--but they don't have that lottery, oh, no, they're much too smart for that!" Melanie, please! begs Flora. Melanie continues, "It must go on, don't they realize that, the lottery must happen again!"She laughs, chillingly.
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I've picked one of my favorite 1841PT scenes to launch the "30 Days Of To Tell Or Not To Tell" sub-theme. No one played possessed better than Nancy Barrett, and the writers often imbued humor into those types of scenes for her. Perhaps no other scene is a better example of that than this one from Ep #1204. And it's quite obvious that NB had a field day playing it! And by contrast, the way Joan Bennett and David Selby played Flora and Quentin's horror at her behavior only makes what NB did as Possessed Melanie all the better...