# Am I the only one who Missed the SOAP train? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825 "2006-08-15T14:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/61 "2006-08-17T17:07:07Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Look, I can watch Samuel Jackson yell and kick ass for hours. They can have a movie called Samuel Jackson Yelling and Kicking Ass and I’d se it. [/QUOTE] I would pay to see this. Two or three times. Then buy it on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/62 "2006-08-17T19:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=Monstre] Heh – I haven’t been following the Snakes hype, so when I originally saw this thread title (not having opened it yet), I assumed it was about the 70s sitcom. [/QUOTE] Same here, to the point of reading Captain Amazing’s post in the same voice as the announcer. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/63 "2006-08-17T19:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=Weirddave] SOAP, not SoaP. [/QUOTE] What’s the difference? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/64 "2006-08-17T19:53:41Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] What’s the difference? [/QUOTE] [SOAP](http://imdb.com/title/tt0075584/) and [SoaP](http://imdb.com/title/tt0417148/) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/65 "2006-08-17T20:17:30Z")
Still not seeing the difference. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/66 "2006-08-17T20:28:39Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] [Here’s Samuel L. Jackson on the Daily Show](http://youtube.com/watch?v=PupI1HytQW4) talking about the movie (YouTube link). He and Jon Stewart seem to be firmly in the “giddy fanboy” camp (I think Sam’s almost as excited as the rest of its fans!). [/QUOTE] It’s probably hard to see in the clip, but Samuel L. Jackson puts his foot on Jon’s desk to show off his special pair of Vans sneakers with the movie’s logo on them. He’s his own biggest fan! Or at least, _Snakes_’s biggest fan. As for the difference between _Soap_ and _SoaP_- one’s a 1970s sitcom that poked fun at soap operas, and the other is an acronym for “Snakes on a Plane.” ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/67 "2006-08-18T00:32:55Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] [Here’s Samuel L. Jackson on the Daily Show](http://youtube.com/watch?v=PupI1HytQW4) talking about the movie (YouTube link). [/QUOTE] Thanks for the link! I caught about the last half of that when it aired … Just the half about killed me. “They wanted to make it _Pacific Air 121_. You know who’s in that movie? Meredith Baxter-Birney. I don’t see that movie. But you know who’s in _Snakes on a Plane_? **Samuel Fucking Jackson!!!**.” 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825/68 "2006-08-18T02:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] As for the difference between _Soap_ and _SoaP_- one’s a 1970s sitcom that poked fun at soap operas, and the other is an acronym for “Snakes on a Plane.” [/QUOTE] Which one is which? Don’t take this too seriously, folks. Remember, I’ve been joking about SoaP from the start. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one-who-missed-the-soap-train/368825.md?page=3)