Cheesy soapnames

[BoldBeauty]

Well, needless to say there are many cheesy names on soaps. I am wondering more about what names you think soaps overuse to the point that you are fed up with the names, and what names you think are absolutely ridiculous.

I hate the name Josie on soaps. I don´t really know why, but I seem to be allergic to it. Also, I think names such as Carly, Emily, Lily, Casey, Nick, John, Rick & Elizabeth (with its nicknames Liz, Lizzie, Beth...) are extremely overused on soaps.

Names I think are just plain ridiculous.... Babe! And I just keep thinking Ken-doll when I hear Kendall.

[All My Shadows]

There was a thread about this a few months back. I still love this topic, though, because there really have been some screwed up names in soap history...not the least of which is Freddie Zarf Luper.

[BoldBeauty]

Oh bugger, I missed that thread.

[Daphne]

I never liked the name "Greenlee." I always think of spinach or mustard greens.

Cheesy names? I think GH takes the cake:

Jax

Jagger

Blackie

Decker

Lucky

[You're Soaking in it]

"Zach Slater."

I mean, who knew that Megan McTavish was a Saved by the Bell fan?

Oh, and let's not forget "Spike" for a baby name (which means McT was either a fan of early episodes of Happy Days... or strangely curious about a certain after-hours bar in West Hollywood).

[All My Shadows]

I hate GH's Ric. The absence of the "K" just bugs the crap out of me.

[Daphne]

You know what else bugs me? The way OLTL's Viki spells her name. Where the hell is the "C?" And for the life of me I have trouble spelling Schuyler.

[Quent]

The most ridiculous soap names have to be from B&B. Ridge, Brooke, Storm, Thorne...what are these ...names or National Geographic? But the all-time worst soap name was a character from ATWT years ago...Hutch Hutchinson. LOL (p.S. Why isn't Marie Wilson's character on ATWT ever referred to as Meg Ryan?)

[DavidEvanSmith]

Oh Quent, what about Tea's brother on OLTL in the 90s, Del Delgado?!

Ridiculous!

[Soapsuds]

Guiding Light's Tangie Hill

What an awful name.

[All My Shadows]

Schuyler Joplin, as a whole, is an epic fail as a name. It's a surprise the kids didn't laugh him out of the classroom when he introduced himself.

I loved AMC's Greenlee's grandparents' names: Woodruff and Millicent Greenlee. How old money can you get?

[Paul Raven]

Yep,we had a similar thread last year,but what the hey!

Always fun to revisit...how 'bout..,

Laken Lockridge SB

Minx Lockridge SB

Jinx Avery EON

Mignon Sentell SFT

Brandy Shelloe GL

[quartermainefan]

I love soap names. A good soap name is one you will never come across in real life.

"Palmer Cortlandt". Is there anyone anywhere with such a stuffy name that screams "I am rich!!!" ?

I loved the name Delilah Ralston from OLTL. Brandon Kingsley was a name which just screams "effete".

Lars Bogarde and Kent Bogarde were cool soap names I thought. And one soap name I will never forget is Senaca. What the heck is a Senaca?

These days the characters don't get such cool names. "Carly"...why do soaps choose that? It's so undramatic.

[R Sinclair]

I'll never forget 10 years ago when AMC announced they were going to be debuting a new character named GREENLEE SMYTHE!

A bunch of us were like, "WTF?! Is this a joke?! What kind of name is that?!"

I still despise the name Babe, even though the pig is skewered and roasted, that's one of the most tragic names in AMC history in my opinion.

Spike took some getting used to. It's cute -- for now. As long as they don't SORAS him.

Also, still talking about AMC, I despise the fact that they keep calling Adam Chandler, III "Little A."

I'm not sold on Brot Monroe, either.

And a little bit of trivia -- if Reese would've married Simon, she would've been Reese Marshall -- the name of the Pratt/Guza-created character Kari Wurher played on General Hospital opposite Tamara's Carly.

Speaking of GH, that show is on my nerves with Morgan Corinthos and Spencer Cassadine.

I never liked "Jax" or the last name "Jacks."

I'm glad Emily dropped the Bowen from her name. The full name of Emily Bowen-Quatermaine was weird to me.

I don't understand how Jax considered "Metro-Court" to be naming it after Courtney. It's a horrid name for a hotel.

I won't even address the mess that is "GiGi" on OLTL. Or "Rex" (I had a pet goldfish named Rex in the 4th grade). Plus the name "David Vickers" sounds so nerdy and fake to me.

[AMCHistory]

This isn't so much a soap name as a soap actor's name: Tasia Valenza (ex-Dottie Thornton)

In your mind, how would you guess saying that? I thought it was a weird way to spell "Tasha," and that is what I have always called her. Talking to Carmen Paris last week, I realized I was saying it: A) All wrong and Had no idea who she was talking about when she mentioned her name.

The proper way to say the name is: TAY-sha, like the end of the word "Fantasia."