While between DAYS OF OUR LIVES' Lucas coming home and catching EJ and Sami in the sack and Jesse and Angie's wedding on ALL MY CHILDREN, it has been a pretty entertaining soap week, I think it's safe to say that the biggest drama was on prime time: that's right, AMERICAN IDOL! Much like the other 90+ million voters in the country, my eyes were fixed to FOX and the double whammy of the AI finale and results shows. Move over Y&R's David Chow and OLTL's David Vickers, it was all about David Cook and David Archuleta. I rocked out to ZZ Top and George Michael and was part of the collective breath held when Ryan Seacrest opened that shiny gold envelope. So, if you think I love GENERAL HOSPITAL's Sebastian Roché, mutiply that by a hundred and you'll get the level of my admiration for David Cook right now.

Finola Hughes's (Anna, GH) last-minute decision to not play the role of Sabrina's mom Zara on Y&R has the soap frantically searching for a replacement. Here, I present five, very viable candidates.

Now that Alistair has been shot on PASSIONS, I hope he's really and truly dead this time.

The season finale of GOSSIP GIRL began with Lily waking up in Rufus' bed on the day of her wedding to Bart. Chuck woke up (fully dressed) in Blair's bed, much to her horror. Serena discovered that Georgina had spent the night at Dan's place. She flipped out and confessed the whole "I thought I killed some guy and you'd hate me so it was better you thought I slept with two strange men" thing. Bart and Lily had a coded conversation about revisiting "things" they loved when they were young — and how they should be let things — old buildings or old boyfriends — go.