Why Are Soap Operas STILL On The Air?
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2017
- You've probably seen them while channel surfing. Daytime soap operas - a genre of a bygone era, yet a few series (like George Romero zombies) still stagger on. Ask any soap fan, and they'll tell you: the medium is dying. Will the daytime soap manage to survive into the next decade?
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My mom said this happened on One Life to Live: A rich woman named Dorian meets a young woman living on the streets and starts to feel motherly toward her, eventually asking the young wonan to move in. One day a guy confronts the young woman and says " I recognize you from Las Vegas and I'm going to tell Dorian what you did in Vegas." The young woman kills the guy to stop him. Two or three other people recognize her from Vegas, threaten to tell Dorian and she kills them. When her murders are revealed and Dorian asks her "What did you do in Vegas??! And the woman screams "I WAS A WAITRESS! !!!,
Strange right? I could see if she was a hooker or a former stripper but a waitress?!? OMG LOL
I think this beats mine out and I have a woman dressing as a giant Raggedy Ann doll.
Are soap opra's usually this funny? I laughed my ass off at that.
That sounds like the greatest show ever!
Oh my God that is hilarious. I at least expected her to a stripper or a hooker. Good on them for being so out of left field. Not so good that the implication that being a waitress is so shameful you have to kill people to hide it. :)
My mom told me, on one of her shows, an older rich lady took in a homeless young woman and it just happened (totally by chance) the girl was a daughter she gave up for adoption years before. Even beyond the random chance od all that, as old as the rich lady was and the age of the young woman she would've had to have been pretty old when she had the kid. :)
A mexican soap opera: A poor but honest girl falls in love with a handsome, rich and good guy. Then she's kidnapped, gets sued, sent to jail, proven innocent then hit by a car, becomes paralytic, gets cured then goes blind, gets cured then gets amnesia, the evil bad woman hits her with a car and she recovers her memory, then her best friend betrays her and she becomes crazy, gets cured then her kid is kidnapped, then she saves him herself, then she drowns, then she fights with her boyfriend, goes find a new love but he turns out to be evil so she has a stalker now... In the end the bad guys go to jail, the protagonists get married and the poor but honest girl discovers she's the long lost kidnapped daughter of the richest people in town, and they live happily ever after.
How could you say it's badly written, you know how much creativity you need to keep new bad things happening every day?
No getting struck by lighting
Still sounds better than American Soaps
oh man, I cried with laughter reading this
Yikes.
All this and more also happens in Korean soaps, but at least THEY end after a 100 or so episodes.
@@useraccount333 IKR? Korean soaps are sometimes so over-the-top it's laughable, like the infamous korean Kimchi Slap.
If anyone only watched korean soaps to learn about korean people and culture, they whould probably think koreans cried every time they got bad news, announced their intire phone conversation out loud (e.g WHAT? MY GRANDMOTHER'S DEAD? I'M THE ONLY HEIR SO I RECIEVE 500000000 DOLLARS? OKAY, I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!!!!!) and has really big, clean houses that looks like nobody has touched it, let alone lives in it. However, they get a lot of love within korea, so they just keep airing.
Soap operas, where you can find more unexplainable resurrections than in DnD.
Nerd
Their social life consists of talking to people still, unlike yours apparently.
@@maxseaii1159 you are a sad person
Man everyone who's commented on this is so mean. You enjoy your hobbies. Personally I found the joke very funny.
Oh yeah. Soap Opera deaths are usually left ambiguous or so.
"Let it die, Let it die, Let it shrivel up and die"
But i say let it grow
TheOneEyedDog
C’mon! Who’s with me, huh?
I can get that louder for the people in the back?!
sadly its a like an annoying fungus that won't go away
@@taylorslade8080 YOU GREEDY DIRTBAG!
One time, a soap opera villain shook a box of Frosted Flakes and shouted "THEY'RE GRRRREAT" at another character.
Yep.
Wow. Just... just wow.
Fascist Whale Imagine if that wasn't product placement
Fascist Whale interesting
Frosted Flakes, the #1 choice of the clinically insane!
Fascist Whale What show did that happen in?
Craziest moment in a soap opera for me was when Dr. Drake Ramoray died from falling down an elevator shaft. But then came back almost 5 years later after a brain transplant on Days of our Lives. Absolute insanity.
finally
Joshua Hale i didn't think that show was real - i thought it only existed in friends
was all I was thinking through the whole video
Wow, thanks for spoiling that!
Joshua Hale lol
You missed the most important reason soaps are dying. From the 1950s to the 1990s there were only a handful of networks at one time 3. People had no choice but to watch. Today there are literally 100s of channels to pick from and on top of that, networks that specialize in material. It also explains why there are fewer recognizable stars today outside of movies.
Michael Brennan There were 12 soaps in 1990, 11 soaps in 1998, 9 soaps in 2000, 8 soaps in 2004, 7 in 2008, 6 in 2010, and 4 since 2012.
The cancellation of Port Charles in June 2003 marked the start of a major decline in soap opera ratings. The digital television transition in 2009 accelerated that decline.
100s of channels and nothing to watch.
The major point in soap operas was in 1970 where there were 19 soaps on television some of the bigger titles include:
_As the world turns, The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow, _*_The_*_ guiding light, Another World, Days of out Lives, General Hospital, All My Children,_ and _Dark Shadows_
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 😔
Lol We actually had quite a few channels in the 80’s and 90’s, plus the addition of tapes (beta and vhs) and satellite tv.
Also, you could just not watch. We had radio for music and so forth.
if i had to describe every soap opera ever in 2 words:
dramatic slapping
Just like my Japanese anime.
just like Indonesian soap operas
Sleeping with your spouse's friend or an in law.
@@NIN10DOXD i think thats just porn
Weekly!
I say let it die. Everything has natural life-span. Besides it will just be back in a week anyway cause that soap opera was in-fact it's evil half brother from the Congo, while the real American soap was recovering from amnesia in a Turkish hospital.
Mese Ktet "Let it die, let it die, let it SHRIVEL UP AND....'cmon whose with me, eh?"
Y O U G R E E D Y D I R T B A G!!!!
Sounds like metal gear to me
Because metal gear is the best soap opera
Let in die Let it die Let it shrivel up and die!
An Israeli soap opera that was interrupted by an actual rocket attack, and they kept filming, all the actors just stared out the window.
source and what soap opera show?
MoshedZ please send link
Pretty sure this is a joke, but this doesn't sound too far-fetched to be true.
Link, or it didn't happened
so you're not gonna provide a link to a clip or an article or something?
Telenovelas resemble soap operas in many ways except in one major difference: they actually do have a clear plot and a definite ending. But I cannot say that I'm a huge fan of either.
They have started to take off here in South Africa. In the last ten years or so they have overtaken soapies.
I was looking through the comments to see if someone had commented on this. Also, they are not multi-camera.
They usually stick to one story when that story ends the shows over, unless you're an anthology you'll go on forever
Yeah they do have better stories. What holds it back? Glacial pacing and plot contrivances.
Telenovelas for young girls basically all have the same plot, but it's changed just enough everytime so that it can be considered a "new" story.
It usually goes something like this:
Girl moves to a new school
She falls in love with some guy
Despite being the best person ever, he is somehow the boyfriend of the "popular girl"
He leaves her for the protagonist.
Drama ensues
Somehow the popular girl gets absolutely trashed by life in some way or the other
They live happily ever after
And once it ends, a year later or less a new one of these comes out which repeats the cycle.
I was so into Guiding Light when I was like 11. I watched it with my grandma. I remember my favorite character Reva “died” and her husband was so heartbroken that he had her cloned.
They accelerated her age and she was nothing like Reva. Then we find out that Reva is ALIVE but stranded on a desert island, and I’m pretty sure she had amnesia. She comes back and there’s a fight over her man. I can’t remember how it happened but I think her and the clone became friends
I had to look this up to see if this was true because I forgot American soaps are like this. British soaps have an unwritten rule that it all has to be somewhat grounded in a veneer of reality so you can have natural disasters, serial killers and tragic accidents but clones, resurrections, aliens and magic are forbidden.
That’s the fun of it I remember reva even though it wasn’t one of my soaps we were days of our lives another world 🌎 and Santa Barbra people oh and of course I I had to watch Luke and Laura
"The stories are structured to last forever". So soap operas are basically Shonen Jump anime?
Yes, actually. They both use the serial format.
one piece. over 800 episodes. all i have to say.
Superhero comics too
Space Cadet the creator says that it only cover around 60% of the story
Superhero comics have the problem of Spectral Creep and I think it is getting harder and harder for anything to be even remotely relatable while new fans are turned away by the deficit of backstory they have to dig through just to make sense of it.
Days of Our Lives - Julie was pregnant, passed out, Doug tried to call, no answer.. she regained consciousness, crawled to phone, picked up receiver and promptly passed out again. Doug called back, line was busy...she awoke again, put receiver back on hook and passed out again, Doug called again, no answer. This went on through an entire episode until Doug thought something was wrong and headed over there. Bear in mind this was in the 70's and my babysitter watched it. :)
LMFAO!!
on the other hand all the stuff on Days with Stefano was legendary good gods that guy was crazy good...well evil but you know what I mean
like I think his best bit was in the 90's? when he had resurfaced after a long absence and he played the part of being crippled or something like that? yet egging on Roman who was really a brainwashed John just to get a reaction....then John later on shacking up with some chick, I forget the name then come to find out she was Stefano's agent or daughter or something....show was nuts like that but man anything with Stefano pulling the strings was epic
I also liked the Dimera twins, Cassie & Rex, more Cassie though, actress was super cute and I saw her in another movie, The Man From Earth, she didn't say a lot in it but she made the best observation.....it's a Jerome Bixby story about a cave man who lives to modern day and recounts his life to his friends
anyways IDK some of the soaps even days have some messed up plots, the baby plots to keep lovers schtick is a particularly bad one....
I know we cheated on each other but I love you and I'm having your baby.....
Almost sad to say....but...There was a spin off of Another World that was only on for a couple of years. It was called Texas. There was an actress on this that played Dr. Courtney Marshall. You will know her by her real life ex-husband David Hasselhoff. Her name was Catherine Hickland, she was beautiful...well my story is, I went to the hospital with a boy name, had a girl and named her Courtney after this character. Oh to be young again..lol I do remember the characters you speak of, that darn babysitter had me hooked for years... :) Even though there were plenty of eye roll moments, I still watched..
+Debby My mom *still* watches & *enjoys* Days of Our Lives (as of the time of my comment).
Debby It's funny because that's exactly how people tell it.
darthXreven
Hope and Billy in the mid nineties was insane. My high school girlfriend got me into it.
So far, this channel has made me care about the traffic patterns of a town in Missouri, the ineffective and dangerous design of the American mail truck, and now daytime television.
This must be a sign of the apocalypse
No. You are becoming "woke"! Pretty cool huh?
I kind of want to see your math behind that Mars trip segment.
xd
Me too.
Yeah
Gregory McKenzie Around 7 months there, and 7 or 8 months back, that is if Earth and Mars are optimally orbiting, which he was most likely assuming, that’s around 15 months, or around 450 days, around 200 full days left, somehow the math does actually check out.
I remember watching a dutch soap where one of the main characters was taken hostage by his stalker. and then the stalker held a speech about toast... i wish i was kidding.
**clinks glass** I'd like to make a toast....
KINGFAIL oh god 'goeie tijden slechte tijden' is the worst thing ever next to my son.
What? Lol.
Waar is de mol?
Northern Sailor it’s “Wie is de Mol” and it isn’t a soap opera
I guess people just don't want to drop the soap...
lololol
pun of the day. take my thumbs up.
hello there.
sup?
Isn't prison rape so funny guys? I just love rape! It's the best! HAHAHA
Anybody remember when Dr. Drake Ramoray fell down an elevator shaft in Days of Our Lives?
He was the best character lol
I love how three comments in a row were this 😂
Actually was Friends and was a parody
This also reminds me of when Brooke Logan fell off the Eiffel Tower in B&B 🤣
The Young and the Sudless
General Hospital Sanitizer
Bars of our Lives
Guiding Soap
As The Soap Foams
Soapy Passions
All My Soapsuds
Another Bar of Soap
One Sud to Use
Dark Soapsuds
The Soap and the Beautiful
“As the Soap Foams” 😭😭😭
I got an ad for soap on this video.
John O'Brennan how fitting
John O'Brennan The irony.
John O'Brennan I got an ad for Destiny 2. Not that anyone cares, because holy shit. People want to hear about which ad I got like they want to hear my personal opinion on popular shows--not at all.
Looking at you, guy who writes three paragraphs about why he's unsubscribing from a channel when we all know he'll be back in two days and even if he left forever it would CHANGE NOTHING, and the only reason he's writing all this at all is because his mama told him he was special.
Damn, that got pretty fucking meta.
i got a weak attempt at gamestop trying to convince their consumers to come back, so a cringey gamestop ad
it was about a phone printing money at a hostpital and the people acting the money as a baby.
This sounds like Supernatural “then they die then they come back then they get amnesia then they blow up”
haha, funny because Jensen Ackles actually started off on a Soap. Don't think his character died and came back to life though.
Supernatural became a soap lmao. I quit watching it.
@@aggressivelyamerican1551 Yeah, I used to really love it............but it has just lost its magic. It should have ended years ago. We could have had great memories of a great show that lasted just long enough to have a great build-up with a fantastic bittersweet ending. But nooooooooo lets just keep milking that cow until it shrivels up.
@@Scarletcroft Or if they didn't bring the whole spiritual thing into it. If they coulda just kept riding around the country killing monsters and saying their typical one liners it could've been great. Albeit they were probably running out of mythical creatures to kill.
It should have ended with season 5 too be honest. Even it mean Sam stuck in hell forever.
There is one daytime soap that I wish was still on the air, The Edge Of Night. It feels more like a detective mystery, adventure soap . It had characters named Raven, Draper and Preacher.
It should be called a true "serial"... Kellogg's was once ID'd as a sponsor.
EON was awesome! A crime serial soap.
Keep them. The ridiculous plots may be offputting to people, but the reason they still have an audience is that people appreciate the history of the soap and characters. At the end of the day, people like to watch their fav soap character, and the small settings in all the soaps give a nice sense of community. It's like seeing old friends every day sorta. I agree they must evolve if they want to last tho. One thing they could do is cut the time to half an hour and up the quality a bit more instead
i have to say i enjoyed Soaps more when they were just about 20-25 minutes a day like B&B.. i mean there were thoughts about giving B&B another half hour.. i think if they would've given the bold 30 more minutes the show would be cancelled by now.. writers were more creative when they were limited :(
Another world at one point was stretched to 90 minutes for a time but that failed cause in reality *Who wants to watch a 90 minute soap opera?*
let them die
Half an hour episodes are the standard for soap operas in other countries, and it works for them. So yeah, cut the episodes by half the time. See how it goes.
The stupidest thing I've seen in soap operas? A woman trying to murder another woman and not leave a trace by hiding a snake in her car so that she would crash. And it worked.
The car even did like 2 barrel rolls while flying in the air
Maybe the snake took the wheel.
i mean whats so wrong with this one?
Honestly, if you wanted to kill someone, you could think of more practical or more guaranteed ways than this, couldn't you? I forgot to mention that the woman survived the crash afterwards.
Wasn't that in "Never Say Never Again"? And after the crash, Fatima Blush took the snake back out and drove away.
No no it was in Brazil
Reply to this comment and I'll be able to send you a link later
The stupidest moment I've seen in a soap opera was in this Turkish show, some dude jumped off of a 100m building and somehow he didn't die. Even my mom said it was stupid which saying a lot considering she's watching soap operas on a daily basis...
Oh dearI think I have that series in Greek translation
ilyriandevil as an Albanian whose family is living in America, Turkish soaps are all the rage here too... my mom watches them when she does housework all the time
Was he bungee jumping or did he have a parachute? Some guy jumped off a bridge with a parachute and broke both his legs it takes time for those things to open so didn't slow him as much as planned.
ilyriandevil yep im from macedonia we suffer from the same shit. they should ban them.
the Turks never stop expanding lol. it is all the rage in most Arab countries too
I'd say the entire run of Dark Shadows, which was on Netflix for a long time is about the craziest thing I've seen on a soap. It's about a vampire, a werewolf, a witch and a crazy family. It ended 125 years before it began in a parallel universe. It's probably the only soap to go from TV back to audio, resurrected by Big Finish. It fell on its face many times but creativity was encouraged and embraced.
Here in Chile there were usually 2 soap operas per year. The biggest tv networks would have 2 main cast "teams" and they would alternate: one production each. During the "golden era" of tv, soap operas were set in different parts of the country, showing different cultures and ways of life (north, south, countryside, fishermen, people from the circus, etc) and most of the time production value was REALLY good. All characters had an arc, there were beautiful landscapes and unforgettable characters that people still remember 20 years later. We miss those times 😔
A ton of those soaps have been on/were on for decades with so many devoted followers who watch daily to this day, especially older folk... I've always wondered how many times the same plots have been recycled over and over again... like, how many love triangles can one show have over the years? lol
Ronald Maya My Nanny (great grandma) would kick me off the TV as a kid to watch her stories. She would watch Days of our Lives everyday.
LET IT DIE. I saw a woman get her head slammed into a photocopier by another woman, then that other woman starts the photocopier...
Search on UA-cam: Ika-6 na Utos: Ingudngod ang maharot!
You don't need to understand Filipino. Just skip mid way and be amazed.
Holy crap I would watch THE HECK out of that show!
Kill it if you have to.
Are you kidding, that's amazing
I daresay the writer was working through a few issues...?!
I think the appeal in these structured-to-go-on-forever shows lies somewhere in their habit-forming familiarity to the audience. It's not about narrative or story, so something entirely different is going on here, and I think it's worth studying in depth. Not all art is about communicating ideas, sometimes it's about provoking a familiar feeling, or building a long-term relationship between audience and character. I think it's easy to write off soap operas if you judge them by the same standards as other literary screen work, but they aren't trying to achieve the same goals. They have an entirely different relationship with their audience. Very few "primetime" shows that don't go on for a long time (and there are exceptions), are able to achieve many years worth of investment in a character. Soap operas operate on high stakes, because for the audience, the investment in a character can go on for decades. This is fascinating to me.
Also, I think this vid unfairly singles out soap operas as designed to sell products when most media content outside of high art circles is designed to sell, or at the very least quickly gets devoured by moneyed interests and thoroughly monetized.
I watched General Hospital from April 1 1963 the first episode,
until about 2000. I still put it on once and awhile for old times sake. And because it is less offensive than the stuff on television today. It was always on when I came home from school.
The one thing I have always found interesting is that unlike the grocery store gossip rags, that slander movie stars on a regular basis, I never saw any scandal about any soap star. Ever! I guess those papers figured that soap stars were not interesting enough to gossip about.
Soaps to me were a way to have a one hour break before I had to make dinner. They were a good thing for us in our generation.
You understand the appeal of soaps, unlike the idiot that made this video.
4:07 That “Oh boy!” in sync with the video is one of the best things I have ever seen.
okay but I love how you fight for both sides, you prove that soap operas can be boring and low quality, and they’re meant for advertising and passing time, but you also prove that soap operas work very hard to do what they do and we should at least appreciate their efforts. this and many other videos of yours are so well constructed and informative (and, rather witty) and I absolutely adore it. keep up the great work!
I saw a guy get his hand cut off once. By his father, I think.
Milius. Genghis Khan. 2017 I really, REALLY hope you're talking about a soap opera.
I think I saw that, too. Didn't the dad have breathing problems, or something?
austinmcconnell Yeah. There's gotta be a way to shoot an opera in space. A star opera if you will. Wait... Wait... Nah, let's go with that.
So they'd be selling stars?
Matthew McClain I didn't anticipate I'd get this far. Everybody abandon ship!
The craziest soap opera moment I’ve ever seen was…
The ending
Lies.
When was that
@@samuel-wankenobi Episode 12,372 part 3, duh
holy crap dude
Howe hoffsteader marriage to Hopes fiancé
My mom used to watch soap operas all the time. The two that I know of that she really liked both involved Vampires. Dark Shadows, and Port Charles. All I remember from Port Charles is that the vampire was struck with a stake, but somehow became immune to it. I forget his exact words, but he was like "Well. Guess I'm immune to the steak now..." This sticks out to be for some weird reason.
You should watch soap operas here in the Philippines. Hahaha. They use water guns as weapons. Nurses in serious scene don't know how to perform CPR. And may more. :D
lol!!!!!!!!!
To be fair, you're taking the water gun scene out of context. As far as I know, it was used to disguise it as a real weapon/flamethrower. You can't bring flamethrowers in malls, for crying out loud. Now, the downside for that is we don't exactly know how the water gun spews out the fire since they didn't exactly unscrew how it works, so now it's a meme.
The CPR is just straight up awful. I understand they don't want to break the actor's ribs, but they didn't even TRY to make it convincing.
@@FrizzleLamb is there a clip of this scene?
The Rich Man Daughter was hella coaster ride.
Neil Fordan this sounds hilarious!!
Craziest thing: I'm British, so our Soaps are very different. Our soaps air during prime time and are less glamorous than American soaps. They're meant to be normal, working-class people struggling with normal, working-class situations. The craziest moment I've seen was from a Soap called EastEnders; which is based in a fictional part of East London. A woman called Heather, who was the comic relief, was giving birth to a baby. She was driven to a hospital in an Ice cream van that 3 pensioners stole from a chain-smoking and volatile alcoholic woman, who was in a relationship with the area's local gangster, Phil. One pensioner went with Heather, and supported her; sang George Michael with her in the delivery room (Heather was a big fan of the artist, and named her son after him), while the other two pensioners sat in the van, drinking vodka they found, eating ice cream and sweets, while Phil and the woman; Shirley, found the two women (one of the women being Phil's mother). It turns out that Heather's baby daddy was a 19 year old boy who shagged her out of pity after she was humiliated at a night club. And that was one half hour episode.
Ben Attwood that sounds fucking awesome
Ben Attwood I remember an episode of Screenwipe USA where Charlie Brooker showed a episode of EastEnders to a selected American audience - and they preferred it to their own soap operas for looking more grounded and down-to-earth...
That sounds really fun!
@@menteabiertaplus Does your country offer BritBox?
Ben Attwood I was so confused by his hatred of soaps because I’m used to British ones, that actually deal with contemporary issues and seem quite down to earth - glad to see I’m not the only one that spotted a difference!
Women watched soap operas when I was a kid because evening TV was just news and sitcoms back then. If you wanted drama, you watched soap operas. Now we have dramas aplenty on tv. Good dramas. Big budget dramas. Period dramas, supernatural dramas, sci-fi dramas... It's a golden age of drama and it's all extremely re-watchable because you notice something new every time.
But most of all? On-demand streaming is what's killing soap operas. On-demand streaming makes the hours fly by and forget to switch off the Netflix. You're 15 minutes late to the show and now nothing makes sense....Unlike Keeping up with the Kardashians, which is on-demand AND all the characters are celebrities.
Plus, we're living in very dramatic times full of anxiety and big emotions and tragedies. Comfort TV isn't "Wow, I can't believe that this beautiful wealthy woman is cheating on her husband with the husband's lawyer who is only doing it because he wants revenge on the husband"-- that's a news headline that we can expect any day now.
yeh you can watch it and then not watch it and still pick up the story fairly well. I knew people who recorded in the day while at work or school so a lot were pushed back for after school so women could watch with kids after picking up kids from school. in Australia in 70s and 80s you had a time slot of mostly day soaps in the morning , the less popular ones and then after noon the more popular ones and more aggressive advertising, especially when the kids started watching it as well. and then there was a different evening formular of soap like 2 or 4 part story but it would keep going like Dallas and Dynasty etc. I personally like the soaps and see them as education grounds cuz I gave up on Days of Our Lives at college and university but by then they were doing witchcraft, possession and Holi gams etc that turns out they were somewhat real and futuristic, the holograms were seen in star wars earlier but to ad them to soaps was interesting stuff. I am not into B& B much but see bits occasionally because that one they put on just before the news for the old folks nursing homes and now the kids loved it for some time. I would like to see new soaps really around other places. Ground Breaking ones in Australia were NO96 and The Young Doctors and The Sullivans. among others. its like Mills and Boon most of it is dialogue but it works. I liked Falcon Crest and a few others that didn't last long. I wonder where they got all the lines and story themes from. Suggest a soap The CRiNGWORTHS ABOUT A FAMILY WHO MAKE SOAP PRODUCTS. OR radio show set in 1950s .
Craziest thing in a Soap Opera? Anything with Stefano Dimera from Days of Our Lives. Dude was basically a Bond villain with secret bases and submarines.
Us had to live Seohano he was my mom’s favorite
Soaps are always so excruciating to watch. Just turning off the TV and staring at my own reflection in the black screen would be more entertaining
Hot Cosby we watch Barney show instead the stupid purple dinosaur was better than those soap shows.
Alternative was tellatubbies.... this is why I no longer watch any tv, it's all online on my computer instead.
Hot Cosby honestly, i think you gotta be stoned to watch em. Im gunna try it sometime... If i remember this video ill let you know how it went.
*[Black Mirror intro plays]*
I've actually done that before...it sounds so depressing
Embrace in the bea- ugliness
A woman turns into a bad cgi fly. That's the craziest thing I have seen in a soap opera.
Yep.
What the fuck
@@freindmaker4473 I second this because what the fuck
@@freindmaker4473 😐😑😮😯😕😴😮
@@freindmaker4473 ujhn.hbm.
Now that I think of it, Soap Operas can possible be a gold mine for youtube poops and memes.
You're right.
My father used to call them “Mope Operas.” He also had alternate names: “The Shy and the Ugly”, “As Your Stomach Turns”, and “Guiding Blight.”
Don't forget "The Dumb and the Breastless".......
craziest soap opera moment was from days of our lives. i was like 8 and walked into the living room while it was on and i saw a girl sleep with a guy, wake up to realize that he's dead, proceed to cut open his chest, remove his heart, and squeeze it manually to keep it beating??? i don't think it worked in the end since the only other scene i remember was her breaking down in the bathroom while washing the blood off of her hands but damn, that traumatized me as a kid
The hell...?
that would have traumatized me as a fully functioning adult
Tf is up with american soap. Holy shit.
wtf?! whoa
Ahaha my Grandma ran a daycare in her house and would watch soaps on with subtitles during nap time.. I used to stay awake and watch them but I don't remember much as I never liked them.. glad I never saw that episode
And I thought Naruto had a lot of episodes
HAH! NARUTO?!
Look at ONE PIECE, with 831 episodes. Detective Conan has 900. Sazae-san has 7000+ and all of these shows are still ongoing, with no rebranding or change in title.
Neither is Naruto.
trashman dragon ball was cool at first, it’s stupid as fuck now though to be honest
Xavier Zara sazae san is pretty much a sitcom tho
Soaps are the filler in Naruto
in all seriousness, soap operas are a really under-appreciated art form, and the actors involved are some of the most hardworking on tv. soaps shoot year round, and actors have to memorize anywhere from sixty to one hundred pages per day. from an audience member's perspective, there's something really reliably comforting about watching your favorite characters grow up (sometimes in real time...kimberly mccullough has played robin scorpio on general hospital on and off from the time she was seven years old), have their own children, get caught up in corny, campy schemes, etc. it becomes like your own little tv family that's often watched by multiple generations. that's really unique, especially for a medium that started out as literally just advertisements for soap. sure the corny storylines about cheating and infidelity are always gonna be there, but soaps have also given audiences groundbreaking storylines about race, sexual orientation, the hiv/aids epidemic, and lots of other important issues for the times they were written in. as an on and off soap fan, the fact that this format is being dropped in favor of so many cheaper to produce reality shows is really disappointing to me. everyone loves primetime shows like grey's and htgawm without acknowledging that those are as much soap operas as the ones they deride and make fun of. i'm not saying soaps are masterpieces of television or anything, but they are a legitimate form of entertainment that i wish got a lot more respect.
Couldn't have said it any better. Your argument is lost on people like him. They will never understand what made soap operas so special. I had a hard time in middle school and soap operas were my saving grace. I'd rush home from school to my TV family and friends to escape from my miserable life and get caught up in their crazy lives. I don't watch soaps any longer but I still appreciate them. As you said, The Walking Dead, Grey's Anatomy and almost any other television show with a continuing storyline have soaps to thank for the format.
This is so perfectly said and even better than this god awful video. I bet this guy loves Star Wars or something which is such a soap opera in itself. Furthermore, he "to sell soap" and propped up the "product instead of story" thing. But, soaps actually SAVED this country during The Great Depression because they sold product during the day to EVERYONE who had a radio. Also, soaps stopped being about product first a long time ago...somewhere in the 70s in fact. Sure it was so very important to the fabric of the genre's beginnings. But, when their ratings were high enough, and paying for their network's sporting events and primetime lineups, they actually made it more about story because their worries went away with bigger ratings and they didn't have to advertise so much because so many people were watching.
Also, this guy should've done his research on what soaps have meant to people and TV. In the 1960s, Guiding Light did the FIRST uterine cancer story and cancer story for a main character in broadcast television. This made women fight to get better healthcare. And, then there was One Life To Live that brought awareness to child molestation via the character of Victoria Lord. Or when All My Children brought awareness to abortion when the character of Erica Kane had the first abortion on television.
Soap operas are embedded in the fabric of television.
I take it you didn't see the full video
I remember my mom used to watch these. They changed actors on General Hospital for Jason after killing him off temporarily, but eventually the old actor came back so they made it where the replacement was actually his long lost twin brother and they had their memories switched by some Russian doctor. Not to mention that the brother who thought he was him him even got his wife pregnant while he was gone. The funniest part in all this is that the OG actor is also Cloud in Final Fantasy VII which has an identity crisis of sorts in it's plot too.
Holy crap, a final fantasy reference in play!?
I think the russian doctor you're talking about is Leslie Obrecht (I think).
the ONLY THING i will forgive british soap operas for is that they do draw attention to a huge range of serious issues, especially mental health issues. its partly because they run out of ideas and need to cover everything, but they've delved into things like parkinsons disease, anorexia, depression, suicide, grief, MS, child grooming, cancer, bullying, dementia and so much more. health education (mental or physical) is really important, so i don't really care where people get it because i'm sure that seeing this issues on TV has and does help people all the time. they are shit though. boy, are they shit.
likeastarbaby Like on Footballers' Wives one character had a baby that was born a hermaphrodite. And then they had that plot about one of the up and coming players being in the closet and how he had to deal with public scrutiny when he was outed. That show was shit, but I couldn't help but love it.
Aussies lap up British soaps and in return British audiences kept Neighbours alive in its early days.
I think the only reason that I have heard is that Neighbours is still going is because of the Brits. If they went by Aussie audience then it would of being canceled years ago. But then again watching Home and Away and Neighbours is better than watching A Current Affair.
The US soap operas all seem to have stories based on the rich or supernatural plots. Meanwhile British soaps are all about middle class-working-class people.
Yeah thats more or less the same with Australian soaps (Neighbours and Home and Away). I guess thats why Neighbours does well in the UK.
William Phillips : In addition, British soap operas have actors that look like the rest of us.
Ironically shameless is an American drama that plays like a soap and it does better than every daytime drama. Which was a spinoff of a British drama of the same name. The British soap system is superior to the American one.
I thought that the only soap opera dealing with the occult was Passions. In it there was a witch named Tabitha I think and a boy named Timmy. The show is now cancelled and the little person who played Timmy passed away.
Dark Shadows was all vampires, and Sci Fi time travel and aliens abound. Oh and in Days of our Lives Marlena was literally possessed by Satan...
I grew up watching All My Children, and I really had a difficult time when they decided to cancel it. I literally watched that show for 24 years.
It's too bad that great programming has been replaced with low budget, and easy to produce reality television garbage.
id say that television today is significantly better quality than older tv-shows
@@Nathan-em2kr same
That show had a special place for you but in no way was that good programming
@@evanwhite2680 it was good progamming.. maybe some storylines were dragging, boring or not anyones taste that doesn't mean it was bad.. I mean what shows/programmes do you like? i don't even get why SOAP OPERA HATERS are enjoying hanging all day on UA-cam to search for soap opera videos lmao
Weirdest one was on an Australian Soap called "Sons and Daughters" from the mid 1980's. One character left Australia to escape a murder charge, for a murder she didn't commit. While there, she had plastic surgery to change the way she looked. She came back as a new (but old) character, played by someone completely different (the plastic surgery story line was used to cover up the fact that the very popular actress playing the role had quit). In a further twist, the original person playing the character came back later as the original character's long lost twin sister. Except of course, they no longer looked like twins.
I've always considered professional wrestling as a soap opera....they rehash storylines and you can stop watching for a long time and come back and it's still the same shit....sure the faces might change but they just drop new faces into rehashed storylines
That's the reason I quit watching.
mike humm But they also have the wrestling aspect. Which can be QUITE entertaining.
If a soap character suddenly and out of nowhere RKO'd a bad guy holding someone hostage through a table I'd watch that shit.
thats because it is a soap, just aimed at men, the characters even have to stay in character when not on the stage or on camera.
wwe is not the only wrestling that exists you know
You forgot to mention how the soaps influenced prime time TV programming.
I'm not talking about the prime time soaps like Dallas and Dynasty, but the "serious" dramatic series beginning with 1980s series like Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law where story arcs and interlocking narratives, standard stuff from the soaps, became prominent elements. In that sense, the Daytime Soap is dying, but their influence has permanently etched into prime time.
Teen Titans Go is the animated equivalent of a soap opera.
Omg get over Teen Titans go already.
That’s doesn’t make sense. Ttg is a comedy and it doesn’t take itself seriously at all. Soap operas are dramas that try to be serious.
Not really.
The production cycle, content, audience and style are completly different
I guess the most ironic part is that one episode of the early season where the Titans decided to find Silky before Starfire found out he's missing.
Guess what? Silky went to the Mexican borders and ended up entered the Hispanic soap opera storyline. I guess TTG wasn't so bad after all since the 1st season before everything dropped.
Bruh.
The craziest!? Oh boy, it belongs to one scene that can be summarize in this:
"¿¡QUÉ HACES BESANDO A LA LISIADAAAAAAAAA!?
You need more subscribers, like seriously, this is channel is criminally underrated.
Harambe Harambe at this point he probably makes more than people with 10x the subs. Since his content seems to be advertiser friendly.
He'll only get more subscribers if people share his videos. He's got plenty of content that is, as you say, criminally underrated. Only way to help him out is to link to him and get friends to watch his stuff and share it, too.
Subscriber count doesn't mean anything. It just shows that people hit a button that says "subscribe", although; I do get what you're trying to say here.
Harambe Harambe I agree
Well he actually only had like 10k a couple of months ago, so the channel is definitely growing
The other day while my mom was watching Days of Our Lives, I asked her how often it was on. As soon as she said “five days a week, an hour a day,” I immediately understood why it was so bad. Considering how often just single movies or prime time shows have bad writing, it’d be impossible to work on that kind of a pace and have anything resembling a good coherent plot.
"Stay at home moms are getting fewer and fewer"
* laughs in 2020 *
There are still stay at home moms......who are mainly on welfare.
@@P00katubeand that is who soaps are appealing to now and targeting. If they attracted straight males they'd be better off.
One thing I remember when I was really into days of our lives with my mom, is that there was a baby switch storyline… basically these 2 girls were pregnant with the same guy, and one of them lost the baby, so in an attempt to keep the guy who’s baby she just miscarried, she went to a teen mom to secretly adopt her baby and play it off as her own. Sadly, she wasn’t happy that the baby wasn’t really the father’s, so instead, she swapped the baby with the baby that was carried to full term by the other baby mommy, and kept it a secret. But then the baby that was swapped died (the one that was carried to full term (I think? It was a long time ago, it might’ve actually been the adopted baby now that I think about it…)), and it was later revealed that the baby was swapped and… yeah some scenes are kinda jumbled in my mind because I don’t remember which baby is which because they basically played musical chairs with them…
Also it should be worth noting that shows like Desperate Housewives, Greys Anatomy, Scandal, etc are in many ways soap operas, taking the core ingredients and spicing them up with the higher production values and wider story options that their prime time slots and lower episode counts allow for.
Once Upon a Time is 100% a soap opera, complete with recycling storylines, recast characters, characters that are disposable and no actual ending.
Oregon Johnson wwe is pretty much a soap opera as well.
Oregon Johnson yes they're considered nighttime soap operas. Nighttime soaps were MASSIVE in the 80s with shows like Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest etc. people were obsessed with them and the cliffhangers back in the 80s.
the difference with WWE or Wrestling in general is the fact people actually do get injured at times doing their job, travel a whole hell of a lot, and a good chunk of it is not even seen on TV.
+Sam Osler Hell yeah they where big events like on Dallas where everyone glued to the TV wondering who shot J.R. or waiting for the next Dynasty cat fight. Also don't forget the 90's shows like 90210 bought in a big female Teenage audience, or Melrose Place that got a good chunk of the 20's and 30's female audience(my ex step mother was crazy for that one).
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL
zbombz123 ikr this channel is so underrated
I used to work on a 7pm medical soap here in New Zealand. Episodes had a six week turnaround from filming to broadcast and the main floor of this fictional, multi-story hospital was simply redressed for each scene, with, for example, double doors to a ward being replaced with a blank wall rolled in to make it look like a different floor. The main reception desk would be redressed to look like the nurses' station by simply removing the top third and having some trays for forms and pencil holders scattered on it. Accent colours, signs and floor numbers on the walls would also get changed. For exterior shots (often used in the credits), they simply used an outside view of the rear of the studio complex with a couple of extra floors added artificially in post production.
Sorry, Shortland Street viewers, it really is all "smoke and mirrors"!
That one episode of Days of Our Lives where Dr. Ramore steps into an elevator shaft. That was pretty wild, man.
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Wasn't somebody buried alive for, like, *months* on that show?
I didn’t know days of our lives was a real thing I just thought it was from friends
Ok it was not an episode of DAYS, u nicumpoop
I remember one time some woman who was apparently an avid soap opera watcher, Who apparently who was so engrossed into this junk, that one day she came into my church and requested us pray for a character on there, the character mind you not the actor the character,
That...makes me kind of sad, actually :( I hope life deals her a better hand and some more exciting shit soon
that is so hilarious hahaha, like sitcom-stuff hilarious
joshua witt
Did other people at church take her seriously?
RaymondHng not any that I know of
That is sad and if I was there I would go to hell for laughing
Craziest thing I've seen on a soap opera was at the end of a General Hospital episode where some crazy old lady was holding a baby in her arms and sitting on the edge of a building. Just before the episode ended she said, "If I can't have this baby... then NO ONE CAN!!"
Heather webber? Lol didn't just before that scene she assaulted a women and laced her with a near fatal dose of lsd that had her believing she could see into the future.
Austin: Your grandma's loved watching soap operas
My grandparents in a gulag in Siberia: Whats soap?
Personally I'd watch a soap over reality TV any day.
I'd watch a literal bar of soap over reality TV any day.
@kristian rikardsen Why would they hip hop you?
@@novameowww my parents only watch them and i never was able to convince them to get netflix
18,000 hours? That's 18 full school years. You could literally (and I don't mean figuratively) skip every grade from first grade to senior year watching Guiding Light and you'd still have 6 school years worth of content left.
Sounds like a bachelors and a masters to me.
And even school is more entertaining
Soaps don't have a bad story...
They have virtually no story.
Or rather: The trials and tribulations of a particular group of families whose lives intertwined with one another in a small town (or big city) that they all live in.
Or too many storylines to keep up with.
@@melissacooper4282 There's an easy way to follow storylines in soaps.
Most daytime dramas tend to have frontburner stories, or Story A, and minor ones that complements the former, Story B.
Story A features most of the show's majaor players for most days of the week, while Story B features at least one major character from Story A, and a few minor characters connected to that character.
So here's an example: On Days of our Lives, the ongoing Story A at the moment is Abigail and Chad recovering from months of manipulation from Gabi, who was on a revenge trip after Abigail's mental health episode got the latter unable to bear another child, among other things.
Abby's Story B involves her and her family after learning that her dad was alive (he was presumed dead after a gas explosion caused a building her family was in to collapse). Her husband Chad, meanwhile, is involved with corporate drama between him and his family's former rivals, the Kiriakises.
As both the actors playing Chad and Abigail are leaving the show early this year, their Story A is now winding down to its resolution, with Abby's Story B becoming front and center in its place. Chad's Story B will become Story A as the Kiriakis family tries to deal with the blackmail placed on them by a relatively new yet menacing character named Leo.
But why did you had to cheat on your own brother to write this comment. *Dramatic stare*. Curse you !
Or too much story.
Here in Britain there is a radio soap opera known as The Archers, it's been running since 1951, make of that what you will. A _radio_ soap running for nearly seven decades. An episode run time is less than a quarter of an hour, but still.
Well, prime-time soaps like Gray's Anatomy might have more fleshed out characters and plots, but they are just fancier daytime soap operas.
Yeah, they're just soap operas that produce fewer episodes in their entire runs (or at least close to) than dayime soaps do in a year.
Craziest thing? Anything from "Passions" remember "Passions", it had Witches, Hermaphrodites killers, and people getting naked all the time in the most PG-13 way, it was all a bunch of bullshit, I think As the World Turns had something similar with a Friday the 13th like arc, man, the summer of 06/07 was goddamn boring for me.
Oh eah, my mom to this day watches Corranation Street, she's part of the problem.
GenerationWest HOLY SHIT! My aunt used to watch this. One time I walked into the room after she had to go to work before the show was on. There was a motherfucking evil clown with a dilinger. Yeah. Oh, and a good clown. God damn, that shit was just so wtf I left the room immediately.
GenerationWest my best friend and I used to watch Passions in junior high school.... That show was so messed up we had to give up cause it got too crazy, the only reason why it even had an audience is because it took the timeslot of a relatively good soap that got canceled and it tried to trick us in the beginning by being normal...
My mom also still watches coronation st to this day, in Canada they air all of the episodes a second time on the weekends so that if you missed an episode that week you can catch up. They've been doing it for years to make up for those who work during the day, even my uncle is hooked on that show.
I used to get home from Primary School and my grandmother would always be watching Passions and then Bold and the Beautiful. Passion had that all in black Queen Witch and there was some little ventriloquist dummy little kid thing that came to life as a boy called Timmy or someone. I remember, even as a 12 year old, thinking "Wow, what is going on in this show for this to be happening?"
Yoo, I remember Passions as a kid. That shit was so stupid but it was still entertaining somehow. I remember at one point the shit got so ridiculous that they had a witch baby that spoke by a thought bubble popping up with words in it
Ha, I went to elementary school with someone who was in Passions: "Miguel" on from '99 to '05. It was the silliest show!
The weirdest thing I've seen on a soap opera is we're the kids turn into adults within a week
accidence HELL YES!
"We are the kids turn into adults within a week"? What does that even mean
HulluHili Kahi You know what it means Grammar Nazi.
No soup for you!
My mum watch's this show where the main couple celebrates their 1 year anniversary (8 years real time ) and the the 8 years old kid (his age mentioned hundreds of times) was shown to be 13 like in an episode the next month which is still wrong
My mom used to be a stay at home mom.
Every midday of my childhood that I was home I use to hear the sweet sound of violins from The Young And The Restless opening.
When I was a little kid I used to watch a lot of novelas with my mom. My favorite was “donde está eliza?” or “where is Eliza?” the whole novela was based around trying to find out where this girl, Eliza, was, I don’t remember the exact number of episodes but I remember it ran for awhile. Before Eliza disappeared she was messed with by other girls and like once they pushed her off some stairs and she lost her memories and became blind. I know it doesn’t sound funny but picture a soap opera actor acting blind and reading fake Braille. Anyways, at the end we find out Eliza was captured by her uncle and tied up in his backyard and like nobody had found her all this time??? I mean, it had been like 10 years in the story?? Greatest novela ever.
Reality Shows are the new soaps.
Lost Age Comics reality shows are so 2012... it's all about binge-watchable superheroes now...
They're really notl
12DAMDO Don't trash talk my Incredibles.
EctoplasmPhantom i didn't trash talk, like at all... i said nothing negative... just pointing out the facts of main stream media:
reality shows are so 2012 (jersey shore, geordie shore, nanny 911, honey booboo... they're all passé)
binge-watchable superheroes are in (arrow, flash, daredevil, black lightning... they're all in at the moment)
12DAMDO It's more in turnover rate though. Super hero shows are still made like primetime tv.
Because foreign soaps have themes and endings and the American soaps keep going and going and going. . . . . .
There are even periodical soap operas in Latin America. There's one scene that still makes me laugh to this day... The main character is shunned by her neighbors so she becomes a prostitute to support herself and her slaves. She becomes so rich, she hires someone to make dresses for her neighbors who have shunned her, and asks the dress maker to make the same dresses for her slaves. Come Sunday, she and her slaves walk in front of the women, her slaves wearing the same dresses the neighbors were showing off. Such an expensive way to insult people who have wronged you, but so funny to watch. 😋
Sadly in my country the soap operas are just the exact same thing like in America. Thousand of episodes, airing everyday (yes! 7 day a week) on prime time for years. Even if it ends, the replacement will be the same thing with same actors and actresses, just with different title.
Sq Fath indian?
deltA Emreald No, Indonesia. But Indian soap opera like Uttaran airing in our TV station, just before prime time, when Indonesian soap opera play on TV. Well, the basic story still the same despite from another country...
Don't act like it's any better. It's shit with a bit of glitter on it.
In Australia there’s a soap opera called “home and away” that’s been airing since my dad was a kid. According to him it used to be about a family who owned a caravan park. Now it’s about some teenagers who want to run away to kiss or something. Also, it airs, like, at least an episode a day. Wow.
2:49 So true. My great grandmother was a big fan of soap operas, especially The Young and the Restless.
Anyway, much of the reason why soap operas are declining in the ratings is because there aren't as many women who stay at home anymore. Most women nowadays work outside the home, whether by choice or by necessity, which means they generally aren't home when these shows are on TV. Why the networks haven't caught up with the times and started putting them on streaming, prime time, etc. is beyond me.
I remember sitting with my grandma and watching one and seeing a really poorly written scene as this character learns he has a murderous twin
Dude 1: “So we know you didn’t murder them”
Dude 2: “who did it then”
Dude 1: “Well...when you were born the doctors were confused after you came”
Dude 2: “why?”
Dude 1: “After your birth your mother was still having contractions”
Dude 2: “what do you mean?
Dude 1: “you have a twin, your twin committed those murders.”
Can’t make this shit up people
wOw 10/10 detective work right there
"Can’t make this shit up people"
Obviously you can.
You know what also still exists? Actual SOAP OPERA MAGAZINES. I usually see them at the market near checkout, right next to the trashy tabloids. Although I've never actually seen anyone buy one, skim through the pages or even talk about them while waiting in line. They're just...there. Talk about a dying medium dedicated to ANOTHER dying medium.
Not that I would know but I would think anyone who wanted up to date news on Soap Opera's could just go online.
Exactly. Which is why I think it's weird that they are still being sold on newsstands.
My thoughts exactly. At times when I'm shopping for groceries and I go to the checkout line, I think to myself,"They still print these?"
omg my mom used to buy these! To try to keep up with the stories when she started working and couldn't always catch them. They had them out before getting everything online was easy and older women that used to be die hard about soaps aren't the most tech savvy. God this brought back memories lol
Tyburn109 Same here. I see those whenever I go to Rite Aid. I skim through the pages sometimes and I get bored immediately.
The craziest thing I've ever seen in a soap? Pretty much every episode of the delirious Passions (1999-2007). Too many examples to go into but trust me when I say that it was insane enough to hook people who were not otherwise into soaps. And though it predated Passions by more than three decades, the original run of Dark Shadows had more than its fair share of madness. A soap where the protagonist was a centuries-old vampire? Need I say more?
I would like to bring in the concept of a "kiloepisode" - which would be 1000 episodes. Few shows would reach this dubious designation.
I know I'm late, but I second this.
Holy shit! The Walking Dead is a soap opera!!
Dean P Yes, it is, and almost as good as Days of our Lives!
"The Undead and the Restless"
It is, but with zombies.
How?
Most things are.
Game of Thrones.
Deadwood.
House MD.
Star Trek TNG...the goddamn robot had an evil twin for crisesake.
😆
In Ireland we have Fair City. It's garbage I feel so bad for everyone working on it. There's one story line that's been progressing for so long. There was a petition made to RTE to kill it already
TheGhostFilmer Oh God I remember that. Lmiao.
lol i live in the states and i have watched fair city, i will say while it has a few decent moments it does get bad at times i finally gave up on it
And people say to watch Tatort to help you learn German, but it's awful! Sure, there's some naked guys occasionally, but not enough to hold much attention.
lmao. I love when there's a comment of someone repping Ireland.
Keith Fitzgerald IKR!!!? LMIAO. I feel the same way. We have to start repping ourselves. So proud to be a daughter of Ireland. I'm a County, Clare girl. WBU, Honey?? 🇮🇪 🍀 🇮🇪 🍀
Say what you want, but Victor Newman has the greatest mustache in the history of television.
Phil Michaels: Mister Mumbles!
There were probably 15 to 20 daytime soaps that aired in the 1980's. Now it's only four. Times have certainly changed.
You know, some genres just die out eventually. I read somewhere that in 1959 about a third of the primetime TV shows were westerns. Fifteen or twenty years later they were all gone.
I wonder if westerns in space will ever become a thing...
you mean like some sort of "wagon train to the stars" i can't see that catching on
Last Christmas, i decided to watch an episode of General Hospital as a joke. For the rest of my Christmas break, I tuned in from one to two to see where the show was going. I had to see what the heck the writers were going to do, because it was so ridiculous. It turned out that this women had a miscarriage, but it turns out that the baby was okay, and has been kept a secret for five years. It was glorious in how hilarious stupid it was.
I grew up watching soaps with my mom and especially my nanny. Anytime my sister or I were sick or had a snow day, my nanny would look after us and we would go through the daily regulars from 1:00pm to 4:00pm of One Life to Live, All My Children, Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. Once you got to know a few characters it was exciting to watch. My mom kept up with some of the shows semi-regularly so when we would visit my nanny they would talk about what happened on the shows that week. I still watch Days of Our Lives with my mom when I am home to visit and it’s something you can pick up anywhere and become invested in something that’s happening. Honestly by having no rules of what is possible or impossible something exciting is always happening and nothing is off-limits. You never know when someone will return unexpectedly or will be kidnapped or a huge disaster will strike. I think they are harmless and entertaining and provide something consistent for people to come back to everyday. People have watched some of the same characters for decades, and there is a sense of familiarity there. They know they aren’t masterpieces but honestly they are no different from scripted reality shows or other types of mass cheap entertainment. No need to hate just because they don’t have the production value and plot line of an Oscar film
My guess on why soap operas are still a thing is grandmas. Mine still lets her tv run them, but luckily she realized it’s crap and says “Eh it’s just background noise”
in defense of soap operas they are a good starting point for actors to get some experience in acting while it's not ideal it is a way to get your foot in the door. Case in point Jensen Ackles from Supernatural he was on Days of Our Lives from 1998-2000. Also if anyone wanted to get into film/TV production soap operas would be a good start while they wouldn't be doing complex things they can hone in on the basics of the profession as well get some references for future work
Eva Longoria was on Young and the Restless for quite a while too. Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) has been in some pretty big movies over the years, most famously in Titanic where he played John Jacob Astor (the resemblance they have is uncanny). Tommy Lee Jones was on One Life to Live in the 70s. Julianne Moore was on As the World Turns for the longest time and even won a Daytime Emmy.
Soaps may not be great, but they keep people employed.
The Hemsworths and Heath Ledger started on a soap in Australia
Sarah Michelle Gellar was a soap actress before buffy and Emilia Clarke was one before game of thrones. Lets not forget Shemar Moore of criminal minds.
@Reader B same thing with Disney Channel and Nick teen live action shows and the Power Rangers.
I love the art of acting, but I wouldn't even work in soap operas for initial practice. I would never want to embarrass myself like that.
My dad knew guys in the army in the 80s and after a character died they kicked a tv in.
DouchebagAtheist 31 😂😂😂
4:25 - 5:40
This will forever be one of my all-time favorite time-related gags in a UA-cam video. I hope you know that I referenced this in a presentation once (on the subject of binge-watching for a journalism project).
Craziest moment hands down: Charity had HELL in her closet on Passions. Literally, her closet was a portal to hell. Passions as a whole was an exercise in insanity. But it was SO. MUCH. FUN!!!
To answer your initial questions in order:
Some polish guy from a local asylum.
He changed his identity and used the money to write, direct, produce and star in 2003s "The Room".
Abducted by aliens.
No.
No.
Yes.
Respectively.
SudsyMedusa53
Nailed it
SudsyMedusa53 he wasn’t actually a polish guy
Oh hi, Mark.
I have no clue how you could think he's a Pole.
Xeno He talks using polish expressions like "keep your opinion in your pocket"
"People standing in rooms and talking to each other." So . . . the Star Wars prequels?
I was also reminded of a crazy alcoholic man complaining about "shot, reverse-shot" in the Star Wars prequels.
Uk soap operas are a different story because advertising is really strict over here so a follow up video is needed for this
From one Missourian to another, I thank you for this wonderful channel.