Remembering Lucas

Note: I didn't expect a feed today because of special coverage NBC will air this afternoon for the Olympics. As it turned out, there was a feed, so I dutifully began typing up today's post. Not that DOOL repeats itself much, but I was almost to the first break before I realized they were feeding exactly the same episode they fed Friday! I have no idea why they would do this, unless it would be to give people the satisfaction of seeing Melanie shot again. Anyway, there was a feed, but I guess we should say it didn't count.

As far as I know, this is the only time during the 2010 Winter Olympics that NBC will preempt DOOL, so during that time the show and Prevuze will continue as usual.

Since there was no (new) feed, we have taken today to remember Lucas, who will be leaving the show for good this week (meaning he'll be off the show until the producers decide they can make a big splash and increase ratings by bringing him back). So without further folderol, let's travel down memory lane...

What can you say about Lucas Desmond Roberts Horton as he departs Salem? Lucas Horton... unlucky in love... prankster royale... quick of mouth and slow of mind... A fixture on Days Of Our Lives since 1993, we hardly knew ye, Lucas. Well, that's not exactly true. Fact is, we knew ye a little too well.

When you look up "schmuck" in the dictionary, all you see is a picture of poor Lucas. Take, for example his relationship with Nicole Walker. She loved him so much it only took five million bucks to get her to marry him. Or consider the case of Carrie Brady. His young love, Lucas finally snagged her as he approached middle age and within a couple weeks after the wedding Carrie was so taken with him she was doing the rooftop rumba butt nekkid with none other than Lucas' own brother. And Chloe, who left him practically as fast for her perverted octopus of a doctor.

But then there was Sami. Sami Brady... his broken-bed, couch-sex, underwear racing soul mate, who married him and vowed to be with him through thick and thin, through all the days of their lives. Until, that is, she left him to marry her rapist* so he wouldn't get ticked off.

*OK, rapist, non-rapist, guy who forced her to have sex, guy who said he was sorry for it and that made it OK, the guy who accidentally had sex with her, it was really a passionate night of true love... whatever you want to call it, we're not here to debate that.

With four marriages under his belt and yet to celebrate a first anniversary, I guess there is one thing you can say about Lucas. He must have the sex appeal of a slug crawling through a salt mine.

Lucas Horton... the guy who had a schedule for disowning his mother, who's brain never had a thought that didn't somehow work its way to his tongue, who had less of an ability to stay employed than he did to stay married... well, the guy had one talent for sure. As a practical joker, Lucas had no equal. Some say he actually invented the "dog poo in the burning sack" trick and in his career has made use of fire extinguishers, paint cans and rumor has it he keeps a box of saran wrap in the bathroom.

And then there was his trademark. Lucas has landed more sucker-punches than jobs for sure. If Lucas Horton hasn't landed a sucker-punch on your face, you haven't been to Salem. And that goes for the guys, too.

But, hey, Lucas, we kid because we care — Not to mention we also kid because most of it is true. So how do we pay homage to this major character (and, lets face it, if Lucas was anything he was definitely a character) who now leaves the show? Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So here it is, our "50,000 word" photo essay remembering Lucas through the years...

PREVUZE ADVISOR Dear Prevuze: In your opinion, do the words "doofus" and "Lucas" rhyme? If so, do you think there is something to it, or is it just a coincidence? Stupefied in Salem * * * Dear Stupe: Wow. We never thought of that before. Let's just try it out and see if it works... There once was a young man named Lucas Who behaved like a flaming doofus Wives, he had three* Soon a bachelor he'll be 'Cause his brains are in his tucas. Gosh, it seems to work for us, so we'd have to say they do rhyme. And we don't believe in coincidences. -P *First appeared in Prevuze Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Oh, Lucas we are so going to miss you. You have provided Prevuze with so much material and now there is certain to be a void. But we understand. You have to leave. Duty calls. Out there somewhere... another town needs a village idiot.

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