Days of Our Lives always has fun, sometimes obscure pop-culture references interspersed in the characters’ dialogue. In December 2022, an eagle-eyed fan on X, formerly Twitter, noticed a mention of the president of Salem’s city council as being Cass Winthrop. This was a nod to the Another World character of the same name. Stephen Schnetzer played Cass from 1982 until 1999 and recently reprised his DAYS role as Steven Olson. Now comes another reference to an old soap. And the fans were on top of it.
Lady Whistleblower’s Bank Gave It Away
On the January 7 episode of DAYS, Stephanie (Abigail Klein) implored Chad (Billy Flynn) to tell her the identity of the new Lady Whistleblower, whose articles are endangering the soap-within-a-soap called Body & Soul. Chad went on about privacy issues and admitted that the person submitted articles anonymously. However, Steph convincingly argued that the articles were hit pieces, not just opinions. And so Chad agreed to look into it.
Chad followed the money trail and discovered that the Spectator newspaper sent Lady Whistleblower payments to a bank in Rochester, New York, called the Spaulding-Lewis Bank. Upon hearing this reference, a fan took to X to write, “Spaulding-Lewis Bank & Trust? Do I sense a #GuidingLight reference? 😂 #Days.”
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Two Famous Families
On Guiding Light, one of the major families was the Spauldings. The head of the family was Alan Spaulding, played by various actors, but most notably, Chris Bernau, Daniel Pilon, and Ron Raines. Meanwhile, Elvera Roussel played Alan’s wife, Hope Bauer. They also had a son named Alan-Michael, who was portrayed by several actors, including General Hospital’s Rick Hearst from 1990 to 1996. Their adopted son was Philip Alexander, played by Grant Aleksander. He also appeared in All My Children as Alec and directed several episodes of As the World Turns.
The other family mentioned was the Lewis clan, which included Harlan Billy “HB” Lewis (Larry Gates), his son Billy (Jordan Clarke), and daughter Trish (Rebecca Hollen). There was another son named Josh Lewis. Soap superstar Robert Newman played him. The actor also portrayed Prescott on GH and appeared on Santa Barbara and The Young and the Restless, where he played a recast, Ashland Locke. Another happy, perceptive fan wrote on X, “ I’m assuming that was an intentional nod to #GuidingLight? 😊 #Days #DOOL #DaysofourLives.”
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