What Haven't They Done?

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Just a random topic...

We all say how most of the familiar/long-running characters have gone through EVERYTHING there is to go through. Some things, more than once. Characters who have been married 125 times, popping babies like it's nobody's business, being kidnapped at least once a year, cheating and being cheated on is the norm, shot every two years.... But is there stuff that, surprisingly or not, hasn't happened to those long-running characters? For example, I'm thinking that Ashley Abbott has never been arrested but am not sure.... So, what are the characters and what has never happened to them? [Hopefully these won't give the Idiots in Charge any ideas!]

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Incest. I thought GH had a great opportunity to do a great incest story with Johnny and Claudia Zacharra, but incest seems to be a taboo soaps want no part of.

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Guiding Light did that with Johnathan and Tammy. They were one of the biggest couples on the soap. :blink:

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For example, I'm thinking that Ashley Abbott has never been arrested but am not sure

Ashley was arrested when GCPD thought she shot Tom.

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Sonny (GH) has never had amnesia...I don't think he's gone blind or been paralyzed either. And despite standing trial, he's never been convicted.

Mac's (GH) never had any secret children (or even gotten anyone pregnant for that matter! though it was WTD with Felicia) despite being on the show for 20 years. Though to be honest he hasn't really done anything for the past ten anyway.

Hope (Days) has never really had any kind of physical illness such as cancer.

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I can't recall any of the GH male characters ever going to ShadyBrook, FernCliff or Rose whatever..just the women.

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I can't recall any of the GH male characters ever going to ShadyBrook, FernCliff or Rose whatever..just the women.

Didnt Kevin go to one of them when he had his mental breakdown?

I also beleive Lucky went to Roselawn in 2006 for his drug rehab. I recall him being in the same facility as Laura

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Animation! lol

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Bisexuality - no I will NOT count Adam from Y&R

Asexuality - Kevin and Chloe from Y&R would be perfect for this, together and separately they have as much spark as Louis Anderson

Animation! lol

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Bisexuality - no I will NOT count Adam from Y&R

Asexuality - Kevin and Chloe from Y&R would be perfect for this, together and separately they have as much spark as Louis Anderson

Wow I was joking. No wonder why OLTL was never on my radar!

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Animation! lol

Passions did an entire episode as a cartoon for one November sweeps

Bisexuality - no I will NOT count Adam from Y&R

Maggie from AMC was. I believe Lena also might have been

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Male Anorexia/Male Breast Cancer

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Cannibalism!

Who wants a manburger?

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Maggie from AMC was. I believe Lena also might have been

Lena was a plot device, as much as I liked her, and Maggie was mostly just with men until the last minute relationship with Bianca and a throwaway line that she had cheated with another woman. I would like to see a true and longterm story on a soap about bisexuality.

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Ooooh How I miss Gabrielle Medina!!

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Agree that great minds can think alike :)
In terms of Derek, I see the show doing one of two things based on the most recent episodes that featured him.
1) They do the gradual fade-out of the character until he stops appearing and is occasionally mentioned by Jacob (i.e. still living and existing in town, just not being seen). We saw some evidence with him having a group of co workers he's friends with, plus a female co worker interested in him... so possibly we see him regain his walking and go back to his life with the Fire crew and eventually we stop seeing them on air.
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Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
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What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

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