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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 231717" data-attributes="member: 22">Celebration (KNOTS, 10 Feb 83) v Cement the Relationship (KNOTS, 14 May 87)Celebration is powered by a succession of angry confrontations: Laura telling Richard to move out, Richard throwing Ciji out, Ciji refusing to let Abby in, Val barging in on Ciji  ... the cumulative effect is of a community tearing itself apart.In a rare moment of calm, Karen and Lilimae dispense contrary advice to Val. Karen, somewhat smugly, counsels her to let go of her feelings for Gary. “Only cowards dwell in the past ... Your anger is such a waste!” “Where we come from, anger is better than helplessness any day of the week,” argues Lilimae. She urges Val to hold onto her anger, to “lash out at somebody if you have to.” Ironically, both women’s words of wisdom come back to bite them in the cul-de-sac. When Diana informs her that she plans to move to New York with Chip, Karen discovers that letting go is easier said than done. And when Val takes her mama's advice and lashes out in anger, it’s at Lilimae herself for disconnecting the phone line before a drunk and barely coherent Gary can tell Val where he is. Then she lashes out again, physically this time, at Ciji, who winds up dead.While Celebration focuses on the day leading up to the discovery of a body (KNOTS LANDING: FIRE WALK WITH ME, if you will), Cement the Relationship is about the night immediately following the discovery of a body. Aside from being dead, Ciji and Peter Hollister have much in common. Both are valuable pieces of property (or “pieces of meat,” as Abby would put it)  and both are romantically and/or sexually entangled with at least three other characters (Ciji with Chip, Gary and Laura; Peter with Paige, Abby and Olivia). Just as Jeff Munson looks around Ciji's empty apartment after she fails to show up for her engagement at Daniel’s, so Greg looks around Peter's after he fails to show up at all.While Abby is frantically searching for Gary in Celebration, she’s frantically trying to hide Peter in Cement. In the former, she turns to Mack for help — you can tell they don’t know each other too well at this point because she uses her full name to identify herself over the phone. In the latter, she’s such a bag of nerves as the Mackenzies arrive for dinner at Lotus Point to celebrate Eric's graduation (while Peter’s corpse is stashed in the DJ booth) that she uncharacteristically ends up hugging him. It's one of several laugh-out-loud moments in the ep.Whereas Gary is a drunken mess at the centre of the drama in Celebration, by Cement he has become a safe haven, sufficiently removed from the drama for a traumatised Olivia to turn to him in her hour of need. But like the drunken Gary who called Val four years earlier, she is not in a position to explain what has happened or what she needs. When she runs off, Jill patiently encourages Gary to go after her. “Well, at least it’s not Val,” she sighs. No, Jill, that’ll be next season’s cliff-hanger.For Val, it’s all about missing husbands and phone calls. In Celebration, she is driven to near distraction after receiving a call from Gary asking for her help, but without telling her where he is. In Cement the Relationship, she sits quietly by the phone, waiting for a call from Ben she knows will never come.Both episodes end similarly, with the ocean and the concrete yielding their secrets, as a would-be pop star washes up on the shore and a settling crack appears in the children’s playground.And the winner is ... CelebrationBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]lWTDR6ztcnQ[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?