That means soaps writers have a lot of airtime to fill, to put it mildly.
Sometimes, when things get particularly out-there, soaps tip over into full-body cringe.
“My momma always had it on the tube in tha crib growing up.”
He played himself on the show, performing hits like “Sensual Seduction.”
While Snoop seems to have had fun on the show, he wasn’t the only one.
In the 2000s, “All My Children” featured one of daytime’s first transgender characters.
“The goal is to cause a conversationand that’s happening,” Carlson toldPeople.
(It was 2007, remember.)
A for effort; C (for Cringe) for execution.
One of those challenging storylines involved Kevin being forced to rob banks.
That sounds like standard soap fare, no?
It even talked to him at his worst moments.
It seems that Rikaart knows full well just how out-there the storyline was.
“That story was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he said.
“It was hard to make it make sense.”
The Chipmunk Bandit is still legendary among fans of “The Young and the Restless.”
She even levitated, shocking viewers everywhere.
In 2020, Hall told"Today"that the possession storyline would be what she’s remembered for.
The following year, “Days” announced that they would be revisiting Satan’s battle with Salem.
A number of formercharacters even returned from the dead, haunting Salem on Halloween night as zombies.
Still, Hall was just as proud of her second dance with the devil.
“It’s been fabulously entertaining and very cleverly done,” she toldThe TV Watercooler.
“I thought this storyline was beyond dumb,” one viewertweeted.
Anotherwrote, “It was stupid twenty-five years ago, it is PATHETIC today.”
“They are planning to clone Reva.”
The fans organized, attempting to put a stop to Reva’s clone before she even existed.
“Guiding Light” cloned Reva (Kim Zimmer) anyway.
Thankfully, the storyline didn’t last too long.
A few months later, Dolly died in Reva’s arms.
“I love you, Dolly,” Reva said.
“And losing you is like losing myself, because you are a part of me.”
We can only imagine how hard the fan-site owners cringed.
Metcalfe played Miguel, a bit of a playboy with a heart of gold.
To her disappointment, Zombie Charity was still able to seduce Miguel.
If this all sounds ridiculous, you’re not alone.
This is frustrating to the zombie."
“It’s check-out time,” Tabitha proclaimed, before the lightning bolts began to fly.
Folks … what were we even doing?
This time, however, David Vickers was a dog.
Furthermore, after her owners discovered that she was female, she began going by Princess David Vickers instead.
“It cracks me up to watch Tallulah on TV,” she said.
“I had friends who were huge fans of ‘One Life,’ but I had never watched before.
Of course, I’m an addict now.”
Did we forget to mention that Princess David Vickers is not just a dog, but a talking dog?
“Be angry at me!
teased writer James E. Reilly toEntertainment Weekly.
“It shows that you are involved.”
It’s not shocking for people to die on soap operas.
It’s not all that shocking, either, for people to come back to life.
The storyline flopped so hard that fans speculated something major must have happened behind the scenes.
“I’m glad they came back,” one fan wrote on theSoap Opera Networkforums.
Sure enough, his character the fittingly-named Franco turned out to be a serial killer and all-around weirdo.
As the magazine put it, “There was no one who was not confused.”
“Dallas” in particular took a big swing that would live on in television infamy.
The cringeworthy reversal angered plenty of fans.
Fans weren’t the only ones disappointed in the shocking episode.
“And it had a big impact.”
The actors, too, were proud.
Incredibly, the sequence even won them a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Original Song.
Nowadays, of course, we would comfortably call this “cultural appropriation” of the highest degree.
Fans knew it at the time, too.
On gossip websiteOh No They Didn’t, fans discussed the questionable optics of the sequence.
Another was more straightforward in their reaction, writing, “What the hell.
Bollywood would not approve.”
“I think Denise Richards actually likes it better,” joked Thorsten Kaye toAccess Hollywood.
“I think she gets more from the mannequin than she does from me.”
In one cringe-tastic episode, Hope walked into the room to find Thomas deep in conversation with the mannequin.
“You’re not making any sense!”
she told him, while he shouted, “She’s evil… in the mannequin’s face.
Understandably, fans were bewildered by the silly storyline.
