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Contents 1 Show Decline 2 Cleanup? 3 "Ran around the world" 4 Lonie Anderson 5 Melrose as inspiration for other shows 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Melrose place opening title.jpg 7 Merge from Jake Hanson (Melrose Place)

[edit] Show Decline

The comment "As the seventh and final season began, Matt was killed in a car accident on the way to dinner at Kyle's supper club. The loss of yet another original cast member in such a short period of time upset the show's devoted cult of fans and lead to the program's downward spiral" This isnt correct, the show was already in a downward spiral because of the loss of many characters in season 5 - Kimberly, Jane, Alison, Jake, Sydney etc What happened to the comment which said "the loss of many characters in such a short period of time stunned the show's fans and lead to the show's decline etc?"

[edit] Cleanup?

Okay, I cleaned up this article, eliminating redundant storyline descriptions and editing a bit for grammar. I also pulled out a few storylines, like Sydney joining a cult and Jane's fashion design woes. Editorially speaking, these were not the storylines or moments that were popular or talked about. (Possible exception: Jane and Sydney killing Richard and the hand.) Moments that burned themselves on the cultural consciousness include the wedding dress cat fight, the wig and scar, the building blowing up, Amanda's cattiness, Allison's wedding day sexual abuse memory, maybe her drinking too, Kimberly stealing Jo's baby, Jo killing Reed.

What in the article warrants a cleanup? No article is perfect, but I don't think there are any huge flaws. If someone is going to put a cleanup I think the least they can do is tell us what they object to in the article so that we can make the changes. The only thing I might suggest is to put some title bars for different eras of the show, so everything doesn't run together. Otherwise it seems alright. --JamesB3 04:42, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Ran around the world"

"In the United States, Melrose Place appeared on the Fox network, and ran around the world."

Now am I just tired, or is that sentence hilarious? Hammerite 21:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

It is pretty bad. I've noticed it before but couldn't quite stomach attempting to fix it... Asa01 07:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lonie Anderson

I remember that Lonie Anderson was on a couple of episodes. I forget her characters name, but Anderson's character was making advances on Jack Wagner's character to try and influence him so that Wagner's character would help Anderson's characters daughter win a beauty pagent type competition. Mr. C.C. 04:28, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Melrose as inspiration for other shows

The section that states "the show's popularity led to a rash of similar nighttime serials about sexy, powerful women, such as Models, Inc., Savannah, Pacific Palisades, Central Park West and Sex And The City" almost makes it sound as if Melrose invented the primetime soap opera! Although I can appreciate that the show was probably the most entertaining of all the 90s soaps, we really should accept that Melrose was basically just a younger version of Knots Landing - which also had a variety of "sexy, powerful women". Furthermore, suggesting that Melrose led to Sex & The City is quite ridiculous as SATC isn't even a soap opera and the two series are worlds apart. 79.69.2.88 11:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Melrose place opening title.jpg

Image:Melrose place opening title.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Merge from Jake Hanson (Melrose Place)

Jake Hanson (Melrose Place) was proposed in December 2007 to be merged here. If the content is to be merged, it must be sourced and cleaned up. Otherwise, the page will be redirected here. • Gene93k (talk) 18:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)