Attention, "Days of our Lives Fans"

Is anyone else a little disturbed by the return of MacDonald Carey? The man's been dead for nearly a decade... isn't thirty years on the same soap opera enough, now they can't let the poor guy rest in peace?

At first, they were just trotting out some old video on the Christmas shows. After all, his TV "wive" is still alive, and still on the show. But now they've made him an actual subplot.

I'm sure this is James E. Reilly's doing. He's recently returned to the show. Reilly's was the head writer during some of the show's more whacked-out periods... Remeber when Marlena was possessed by the devil? When Carly was buried alive? Reilly was the mastermind behind both of those freakshows. Both times, the show's ratings soared, but also lost tens of thousands of its loyal viewers.

Reilly's also fired one of my favorite actors on the show, Matthew Ashford (Jack Deveraux). Reilly also fired him during his first stint as head writer. And he's not the only one getting the ax. How about firing the longest-running African-American character in television history?