On East Enders in the UK, Michelle has a baby daughter (Vicky) out of wedlock by Sharon’s adoptive father, Den. Michelle and baby Vicky bugger off to America and nothing is seen of them until, years later, Vicky arrives back in Albert Square.
Vicky, of course, has a strong American accent until a couple of months and many adventures later, when Vicky and Sharon go away for a weekend. When they arrive back at Albert Square Vicky has completely lost her American accent and speaks like a true east ender. When some one mentions this change of accent to Vicky, she admits that Sharon took her away for the weekend to “learn me to speak proper”.
I can only imagine that the poor actress who plays Vicky was finding the American accent a bit of a strain, poor love!
Back in the late 1980s the soap Santa Barbara tried some innovative plot lines for its time. Sometimes they worked, sometimes not. One that actually kind of worked, was one in which Cruz and Eden were honeymooning in Europe and walked through a magic mirror.
This took them back in time. And in the past the ran into Eden’s parent’s honeymoon and - oops! - Cruz and Eden accidentally got Eden’s newly wed parents so pissed off at each other that they might break up and therefore Eden would never be born! :eek:
Luckily they did these oddball episodes with a bit of tongue-and-cheek goofiness. So that plot was actually kind of fun.
Can’t remember the one’s that didn’t work out s well, though I remember there were a few “zany” storylines that tanked.
Oh and… er, I never realy watched soaps. But Santa Barbara was on right before some sci-fi show that I did watch, so I got hooked by default.
And I think that Alexis Davis on GH cited a court case that involved Vicki on OLTL as precedent when she was working through her own “multiple personalities” (that she was faking, but still…)
Oh god, that reminds me! WHen Alexis pretened to be her dead sister, Kristina, to kill Luis Alcazar, and then she pretended to be a male butler named Dobson so she could be close to her daughter who was taken away from her for being an unfit mother (see: Pretending to be Kristina and murdering a man).
why so little mention of passions? that show is just pure nonsense. I can’t even start to start to think of the dumbest plot line they are all so purely insaine.
I keep starting to write something… and then something dumber comes up!
like once a charactor got their head cut off, and then had to go to the hospital… and their body ran around and caused trouble.
or the time they went to warlock island… and whatever the heck stupid stuff happened there.
or the time alister had to go through OZ to deliverance… and then a big giant snake came.
Well I agree with most of the above mentioned, especial ANYTHING involving Reva on “Guiding Light”, it is difficult for me to contemplate that GL even started off as a ‘christian’ show.
I am suprised Nobody mentioned the Five Faces of Kristen DiMera on DOOL (I think it was five, I sorta lost count after a while). Really silly storyline, but I have to admit I loved it simply because I couldn’t get enough of Eileen Davidson and she did look like she was having oodles of fun.
Oddly the one soap I cannot think of anything weird happening is "The Bold and the Beautiful. It is just all sex and more sex in B&B. I guess its half hour format really to short for bizarre stuff to happen (excluding return from the dead stuff, which is pretty stock-standard these days for soap operas, and anyway the last two return from the deaths - Bobbie and Taylor, you could see happening a mile away - their actual ‘deaths’ where kepted vague enough for you to realise this would happen once the actress decided her non-B&B career has failed and comes crawling back to the producers.
I saw this for the first time in December 2003, and while I easily miss stuff with no regrets…I don’t get a lot of channels, and if I’m home on a weekday, I tend to let it sit on the NBC channel so I pay vague attention.
Right now we have Sheridan Crane: Sheridan’s father doesn’t want her to be with Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (but I have no idea why), so he conspired with Beth to have Sheridan kidnapped, her baby taken (now being raised by Beth as Beth and Luis’ kid) and then when Sheridan was convinced that Beth’s baby was hers (duh), her father had her put in the hospital and her memories of Luis ‘erased’. Yeah, ok.
Precious the monkey/ape/whatever the animal is: lives with Beth and her mother. Apparently in love with Luis and every once in a while has these fantasies about him. Pretty amusing - if these happen, they’re generally the high point of the show.
Charity (I have no idea which family she fits into, but she lives next door to the old witch lady that owlofcreamcheese mentioned) who is apparently a “force of good” or something and made a deal with death to save a baby that her boyfriend had with another girl. Only now she’s not supposed to be with her boyfriend at all. Oh, and the girl who had her boyfriend’s baby is working in a fish canning(?) factory to support them, because Alistair has set it up so that none of the Lopez-Fitzgeralds (except Antonio, married to Sheridan) can get work in town.
I don’t believe I know this much detail about this show. I should go shoot the television now.
Well, I recall watching some B&B in Finland in the late 90’s, and there was a storyline where Taylor supposedly died, except she was actually in some Arab prince’s harem, and Ridge and Brooke got married (for the 3rd time?) and they went to honeymoon at this same prince’s palace… don’t remember all the details, but I recall thinking “my god, this is so stupid”. I’ve never been able to watch soap operas because it seems that every two or three years, all the characters forget who’s married to or related to whom and they all pair up in really odd combinations.
Regarding Passions, though, it’s meant to be a soap opera parody (although to me, that whole phrase just seems extremely redundant), so they intentionally try to come up with the weirdest story lines they can.
You know, me either. The only thing I can think of even abnormal happening in Y&R is the Jeri Mathehey (sp?) cross-over after the second Survivor series.
Guess the Bells just don’t go for bizarre. Which I like.
And I agree, other then GL, CBS has the most normal soaps. Which I find refreshing.
Lsura, I’ve been watching Passions since day one, and yes I hate myself for it.
Alistair hates Sheridan because his wife died giving birth to Sheridan and he blames her. He has had her buried alive and blown up on a boat (along with Luis) If she can’t be dead, he just wants her unhappy. He’s also afraid if she gets with Luis that Luis will find out something at Crane HQ, I think he had Luis father killed. I don’t know why though.
Charity is Grace’s twin sister’s daughter. The sister was on at the first of the show, I don’t remember why Charity left home and went to Harmony though. I think she must have had a premonition. Puleeze.
I think this is the most ridiculous soap in the history of soaps, but it is so funny. Oh, for the people that watch AMC, the woman that plays Gwen is Erica’s daughter in real life.
Actually GH and PC were not only in the same universe but the same city and the same hospital. Somehow the two casts never interacted at all with each other except for the “Nurse’s Ball” shows. PC had a serial killer then the vampires yet not one mention of these happenings on GH.
My wife used to watch General Hospital and I used to pay enough attention to what was going on that it made me really want to write for the soaps. That would be fun. I could take some of the stories and “improve” them.
For instance, does anybody remember when Katherine Bell died? She fell off a balcony or something. Only she wasn’t really dead, and soon enough she was back on the show. Until about a year later when she fell off a balcony and died. Again! I loved it! The only problem was that she was dead for real this time. Which sucks because I thought it was going to become an annual event like the Nurses Ball.
OLTL’s time travel storyline took place in the late 1980s. And while it was indeed a ripoff, it was more derivitive of the movie “Back to the Future” than “Dark Shadows.” The main point of the wild west storyline had Clint meeting (among other lookalikes) the great-grandmother of his wife Viki, and ruining her engagement to Viki’s great-grandfather. Thereafter, Clint had to stay in the past and patch things up or else Viki (and subsequently their children) would never be born. This was made especially difficult when Viki’s great-grandmother fell in love with Clint! (sound familiar?)
Actually, given everything else that happened to Viki after the wild west story, it might have been better had Clint let Viki not be born. After Clint got back to the future, not only did Viki endure the humiliating “Eterna” storyline, but she sufferered a stroke; turned into her evil split personality “Niki” and shot a mobster’s son (becoming a target of mob vengeance for years afterward); she and Clint went through an acrimonious divorce; she remarried just in time to watch her new husband Sloan die of cancer; she was reunited with Megan - the daughter she’d forgotten about (just in time for Megan to die of lupus); discovered she’d been sexually abused by her father all through her childhood; lost her mind and spent a year flip-flopping between multiple personalities; got her longtime enemy Dorian charged with & found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death, only to learn that she herself - while changed into one of her alternate personalities - murdered her father! Dorian, needless to say, sought revenge - by seducing Viki’s son. All this, as well as a parade of illegitimate half-brothers and a sister parading into town in endless attempts to embezzle her, drive her crazy, steal her fortune, husbands, home, et. al. (And since I haven’t watched the show in ten years, I can’t say what other traumas she’s gone through since then!) Viki might’ve preferred to not have been born!
Not much to add since I barely recognize half the names of these shows, but didn’t General Hospital have a robot at one time?
Also, my wife tells me that there used to be a soap called Texas which featured a storyline involving an Aztec curse that turned people into mummies or something like that.
If you want a good laugh, you should do a necrology and list how everyone died and who they were related to. My friend and I had only ever seen the soap Santa Barbara. At the time, it had only been on a couple of seasons, but we did the necrology and it was hysterical. By the time we got to “Mary” who had the letter “C” fall off the sign of the “Capwell Hotel” and squash her dead, we were in hysterics.
Seamonkey , Charity came to town when her parents were killed in a tragic fire. And it’s not really AListair who’s causing the Lopez-Fitzgeralds to be unemployed, it’s Rebecca, seeking revenge on Theresa becasue she believes that Theresa caused Gwen to lose her baby daughter.
Aside: One question I always had about the whole Gwen pregancy thing: why did Gwen have to go all the way across the country to L.A. (where Theresa & co. had gone on vacation) to see a doctor about her complications? They don’t have any superb OB/GYNs on the east coast? Harvard medical school must really suck, then.
And why don’t we ever know what these people do for a living? Does anyone on this show have any useful skills? Didin’t Theresa used to work at Crane Industries? Alistair saved her from being executed: why isn’t he vouhing for her now? And why I am I taking this joke of a show this seriously?