This one joke conceit dominated the night.
The awards were handed out by guest presenters, and the announcement of each winner was preceded by a video clip, viewed on an overhead screen, that featured the nominated show or person.
The clips were saturated with melodrama. Hunter King's character in "The Young and the Restless" was shown by her mother's hospital bed.
"I love you, Mom," she said.
The heart rate monitor made a high-pitched "flat-line" beep.
"Mom? Mom? Mom, can you hear me?" she screamed.
The flat-line beep continued.
"Mom, you can't, you cannot leave me. Do you hear me? Please!"
Chloe Lanier from "General Hospital" was shown sitting naked in a bed. Her chest was covered with a comforter. She was talking to a man standing on the other side of the room.
"Please," she implored him, "you cannot tell Carly about any of this. I do not want her to look at me differently." She began to cry. "Please, I am begging you. You cannot tell her!" She slammed her fist on the mattress.
Lexi Ainsworth from "General Hospital" was up for outstanding younger actress, and in her clip her character asked her father, played by Maurice Benard, if he could accept having "a gay daughter," and he said, "Of course, no question," which given the current political climate is better than the alternative.
In the best game show category there were clips of Steve Harvey on "Family Feud" singing and dancing with a tambourine and a man screaming and jumping up and down on "The Price Is Right" as "$25,000" was displayed in large, red characters. The man fell to his knees and hugged the game show host.
At one point in the Emmy show, Lopez stopped and looked upward. "I'm sorry there seems to be a bit of commotion on the balcony," he said. "Fans are " wait a minute. Sheryl? What are you doing?"
The camera showed Underwood standing in the balcony.
"Follow me!" she said.
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