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by Brent Kellogg
Brent's morning coffee courtesy of Speeder & Earls, Burlington, VT.

September 17, 2008

Because some folks are asking about who Marge Cotrooke is, lets go to the videotape for this special daze report. It was nearly the end of 1989 when Gina Roma's ex-con husband got out of prison and returned to Genoa City. He wasted no time rounding up a couple of con artists named Robert and Shirley Haskell to interview for the job of Katherine Chancellor's maid as Nina Webster had just hired Ether Valentine away. Ether was/is, so good at what she does it takes two people to replace her and so, before Ether had a change of heart, Katherine hired the Haskell's.

Hanging out at an out-of-the-way diner, Clint Radison met red-headed waitress Marge and was taken with how much she looked like Katherine. Conveniently, Marge had no relatives in the city. Clint figured she'd make the perfect patsy to help him steal the Chancellor fortune and so Marge dyed her hair blonde, replaced her gold tooth, learned to walk and talk like Katherine almost overnight, and presto Marge was Katherine. Oh sure, Marge wondered if she'd gotten in over her head, but it was too late. Marge had already made some major scarifies. She'd quit smoking and gave up drinking beer. Besides her share of the fortune, Marge had hoped to get her hooks into "sexy Rexy" Rex Sterling who had just married Katherine.

Robert's first attempt to chloroform Katherine and make the switch with Marge failed when, conveniently, Katherine had an appendicitis attack. To keep up with the ruse, Marge had her appendix removed and then the next kidnapping attempt got complicated when Ether found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Snatched along with Katherine, with Ether out of the way too, Marge got busy with her act. So bizarre was it that Rex, Gina, and Jill Abbott thought sure Katherine had reverted to her old, drunken ways. They spied her with a younger man and the drinking prompted Rex to ask what had happened to Katherine.

Meanwhile, the real Katherine and Ether had been taken to a deserted cabin (ain't they all?) where Clint's pal Morey and Lil held them captive.

By 1990, Marge had scored with Rex in the bedroom. The lights apparently off, Rex didn't know one vagina from the next, but Katherine's lawyer, Mitchell Sherman, her son Brock Reynolds, and Jill were thinking there was something not meeting the eye when it came to the old woman in the shoe. Katherine seemed to be having memory problems, she sold Chancellor Industries to the first bidder, put the Chancellor Mausoleum on the market, and spent countless hours with Clint.

Worried, Marge moved out of Rex's bed and he eventually spied her partying with Robert and Shirley. Thinking Katherine had gone back to her old ways and was smoking too, Rex left Katherine and went back to Jill who had originally paid him to woe Katherine. He filed for divorce, but because he'd signed a prenuptial agreement, there was nothing to gain but $1 as a result of the marriage having dissolved. Aware that Rex got nothing out of Katherine, Jill reluctantly accepted when Rex proposed to her.

Things were further complicated when back at the cabin, Ether learned she was pregnant the result of a one-night stand with "Tiny" the plumber who plugged her drain good. Because they were just the most caring captors, Lil took Ether to the hospital. As convulsion would have it, Ether ran into Brock there, whispered in his ear that Katherine was in a bit of a spot, and lo it was just then that Ether and Katherine figured out someone was impersonating Katherine.

It was easy for Brock to get Marge to confess, but not so simple that Brock could merely call the cops. Concocting his own plan, Brock got Marge to go to the cabin where she faked a "brawl" with Katherine and - we don't make crap like this up - switched clothes with her so that Katherine could escape.

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