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Stu Collins

posted 11 years ago by sparklninja
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So I stumbled upon Judging Amy by accident on Up. At first, I assumed it was some religious show, but after watching a few minutes, I was hooked. Unfortunately, this is the only way I've seen it, so I know I've missed a lot of important things since they skip around so much. So forgive me if what I'm saying is wrong haha. Stu is the guy who is in the hospital because he had an almost fatal heart attack, right? And she later dates him, gets engaged to him and leaves him at the altar? That's all the same guy, right? Because when they're at the hospital, she says she tried to call his family and he has none, his mom is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. But then later when they're engaged, I thought she meets his mom and they don't get along. Am I making this up? haha, if not, it's quite the plot hole! Is there anything else important that I'm missing by watching it on this channel??

[–] SataiDelen 11 years ago

Yes, that is the same guy. As to the plot hole? *shrugs* Shows do things like that all the time. Frasier, Golden Girls, etc. CONSTANTLY changed characters' backgrounds to suit the writers' needs at the time.

[–] budikavlan 11 years ago

Back when the show was in its original run on CBS, there was a website completely devoted to the show. It had a lively message board that producers occasionally participated on. And when that blooper happened, we asked about it. One of the writers answered the question--she said it was simply a case of the writers (and others who worked on the episode) forgetting that earlier episode when Stu's mom had Alzheimers. Stu had appeared on at least one episode each season, and they generally followed a developing story thread, but each time he came back there were different writers, and in some cases different people running the show. When they finally did the story with Amy leaving him at the altar, it was a case of an entirely new showrunner who wanted to radically alter the show, with the whole new storyline about David and his dead wife (which IMO virtually ruined the show). Then, when others decided that was a bad direction, they fired that showrunner and dumped David and his storyline rather abruptly.

[–] sparklninja 11 years ago

Interesting, thank you for the info!

[–] SataiDelen 11 years ago

Interesting. I actually liked David. I thought he was a good fit for Amy.

Although, today with the wedding episode being shown, I realized that Amy is a man hopper. I mean, she seemed to jump from man to man whenever a new one came along who showed interest in her, even if she was already involved with someone.

I used to have a friend like that, and it was really pathetic to watch. We'll call her Jenny. Her track record with guys was to meet one, go out with him, meet his friends, get engaged to him, then at the last minute, get involved with one of his friends and end the engagement. So now she's with guy number two, gets engaged to him, and quite near the wedding date, dumps him to go out with one of his friends. So, now she's with guy three. She goes out with him, gets engaged to him, then dumps him for one of his friends. They go out, they get engaged, and then she dumped him to return to guy number three. She gets re-engaged to him, actually makes it to the alter and marries him.

Now, I'm not kidding, she starts having a breakdown FOUR HOURS after the wedding, crying to her best friends about how she's made a huge mistake, and wants to get a divorce/have the wedding annulled. The groom, meanwhile, literally begs her to give their marriage a chance. So she reluctantly does so, and two to four years down the road or so, comes home and tells her husband that she's met someone she works with, and wants a divorce. Numbnuts doesn't want to let her go, so he begs her to stay, and she then tells him, "Fine, I'll stay, but I want an open relationship." Stupidly, he agrees.

Not far down the road from this, she is at a holiday gathering with some of her friends and her husband, and just blurts out, "Hey, I'm seeing this guy, and we've been going out for a while, and I really love him, and oh, guess what? I'm pregnant! Isn't it great?!" To which, the husband walks off to another room of the house in humiliation and embarrassment, and everyone else is just left sitting there, with an, "Ummmmm...." and looks of shock on their faces, and naturally they have no clue what to do or say.

Now, except for the marrying someone and demanding an open relationship with another guy while remaining married to the first one, I looked at Amy today, standing in her wedding dress, about to get married, and already having doubts, and in walks David, and because I've already watched the show repeatedly, I thought, "OK, and here's the next guy waiting in the wings for her." Yeah, I know that at this point they don't know they're going to start dating, but she's getting married, and the next guy is already there! So yeah, this is why I compare her to the girl mentioned above. They both seem to go through guys like Kleenex.