Hey, if we ever get this revamped version of DS on the air there is one thing I want to see: when Vicki arrives in Collinsport, I want Carolyn to greet her and say at her snottiest best, "Welcome to the C.M. , bitch!"

Barnabas: Six Feet Under
Elizabeth: Make Room for Daddy
Paul: How I Met Your Mother
Carolyn: Meet My Folks
Roger: Oprah's Big Give
David: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Quentin: Ugly Betty
Vick: Get Smart
Chris and Sabrina: Beauty and the Beast
Willie: Benson
Nicholas: Highway to Heaven
Sheriff Patterson: Columbo
Harry, Mike and Steve (from episode #2): So You Think You Can Dance
Dr. Lang: Marcus Weby, M.D.
Angelique: The Dating Game
Laura: One Life to Live
Eve: What Not to Wear
Mrs. Johnson: America's Next Top Model
Harry Johnson: Date My Mom

The reason why I selected Prison Break as Elizabeth's favorite show is because she was a prisoner in her own home for 18 years (or was it less? more?). I thought that would be a more delicate choice than OZ, though maybe Liz would have enjoyed all the full frontal male nudity on OZ!

I like Occasional Wife for Laura!
 

Barnabas: I've Got a Secret
Elizabeth: Prison Break
Roger: Keeping Up with Kardashians
Carolyn: Gossip Girl
Vicki: What's Happening!!/Supernanny/Nanny 911
David: Dennis the Menace
Quentin: The Girls Next Door/Swingtown/The West Wing
Maggie (in her waitressing days): Alice
Vicki/Maggie: Rescue Me
Willie: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Sam: Win, Lose or Draw
Joe: Sponge Bob SquarePants
Laura: You Are There
Sheriff Patterson: Unsolved Mysteries
Sabrina: The Dog Whisperer
The Todds: Antiques Roadshow
Dr. Lang: Dr. 90210
Adam: Extreme Makeover
Eve: Nip/Tuck
Nicholas (his "guilty pleasure"): Seventh Heaven
Julia: My Life on the D-List
Mrs. Johnson: Hazel/Top Chef

"If I Only Had a Brain" - I think of Victoria Winters
"If I Only Had a Heart" - I think of Angelique
"If I Only Had the Nerve" - I think of Willie Loomis
 

I always thought it would have been interesting if Julia learned some witchcraft herself and decided to take Angelique on!

Someone was asking who would make a good Rev. Trask. I think Michael Emerson - Ben on LOST - would be fantastic in the role!

After a "sabbatical" of several years, I started watching AS THE WORLD TURNS again (mostly due to the gay storyline) and I have been shocked by the program's deterioration in every department from the production values to the quality of the writing. The series has became plot driven rather than character driven, so you watch actors, some of whom have played their roles for decades, struggle with their performances as their characters do and say things that are, well, out of character. You are lucky if you see some of the seasoned veteran performers more than once a month while inexperienced newcomers, probably hired because of their pecs or tushes, are seen practically in every other episode. There are fewer sets - half the characters on the show live in the same farmhouse which must be bigger than Collinwood at this point! - and many scenes are obviously shot in the stairwell of the studio. As for the gay storyline - don't get me started. The straight characters are always tearing each others clothes off and tumbling into bed while the two gay young men have only been allowed one passionate kiss in six months - when they leaned into each other for a kiss during a holiday episode, the camera "discreetly" panned over to some mistletoe. Now the boys keep discussing their "first time" - no one can convince me that two young gay men, filled with hormones and horniness, haven't progressed from hugs and kisses! I am convinced that poor writing and skinflint producers will continue to drive viewers away and ratings will keep dropping. There needs to be some "thinking outside the box" in the soap genre today!