Soaps you hate!

[DynamiteKiddo]

Absolutely cannot do B&B, at all. I've never been big on the CBS soaps, but I've checked into Y&R, ATWT, and GL over the years . . .

"Days" and "Passions" were my first soaps, and shortly after, I started watching the ABCD lineup.

[Darn]

And the show displayed an onscreen graphic to assure us it wasn't the same turkey baster.

I've seen like two eps of that show and that's one of them.

[frequentsoapfan]

Lol that part was real? I saw the Thanksgiving clip online and thought some fan added it in!

[DRW50]

This was the height of Pop Up Video's influence, so they added a few of those for a joke. That was one of them. Another was when they had some painting of Maria, and many fans felt the painting looked nothing like her. A pop-up said something like, "We know this doesn't look like her."

[Khan]

I'm with Gray Bunny: "hate" is a strong word. However, for me, PASSIONS never worked even as a parody of soaps. After all, true soap parodies such as "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "Soap" managed to hire good actors who knew how to make characters relatable to audiences in spite of intentionally ridiculous storylines. But when the most captivating actor on PASSIONS turns out to be a chimp (or ape, or whatever the hell he was), something's wrong.

[R Sinclair]

B&B. I've watched exactly TWO episodes over the last three years. I watched one to see Martha Byrne's attempt at scriptwriting back in '09 and I watched specifically to see a Michele Val Jean script back in March. Every time I watch this show, I get this sense of middle-aged to-near senior men and women are running around Los Angeles acting like immature 20 year olds.

[MissLlanviewPA]

I don't think I could ever truly hate a soap itself (not counting a time period where it's just bad), although I did refuse to watch Passions for years out of respect of Another World (which I never even watched when it was on...now, however, I might give Passions a chance).

One I never got into, though, was ATWT, which kind of hurts, because that was my grandmother's soap (I even sent her the tribute issue when it was cancelled and she appreciated it so much), and I always loved the theme songs and she even let me keep the coffee table book she used to have (Because at the end of the day, I pretty much love ALL TV history). I feel kind of guilty sometimes that my number one soap ran directly opposite her soap, LOL. (We do have B&B in common, though--I haven't watched it regularly in over a decade, but I can see myself watching it again.)

I also was never really interested to watch AMC, even though I got Susan Lucci's book for Christmas. I've seen classic wedding episodes on Soapnet years ago, and have the coffee table/People tribute issue (and again, love the theme songs), but I never showed much interest in watching the show itself. But someday, I may just try to watch more of it on YouTube.

I've also never shown much interest in Y&R, but maybe I'll watch some of the older stuff sometime (and Lord knows I love the theme song, too).

[teplin]

I never hated them, but I never got into Y&R, B&B, Capitol, Generations, Loving, Port Charles or Passions.

Okay, I hated Passions.

[Soapsuds]

Santa Barbara, Another World, Generations, Loving, The City, Port Charles, Sunset Beach, Passions, Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope

[SweetPea36]

I was working evenings and Port Charles came on shortly after I got home every night, so I watched it. That was after they got rid of the hospital part of the cast who were actors for the most part and replaced them with people who were hired for their looks.

It was a sad excuse for a soap, but it put me to sleep every night, so no complaints.

[edgeofnight]

Well, to be totally frank, the two shows that get on my nerves are GH & B&B. I never watched an episode of the Cable TV hit 'Sopranos,' so I don't care to watch the daytime version of it. It is NOT the GH that starred John Beradino, Emily MacLauglin, Lucille Wall etc...

And, I do not care for B&B. When I watch, I feel as if I'm watching 'porn.' If I even accidentally tune in and see a few minutes of it, I have to take a shower, because I feel so filthy. Call me old fashioned, call me 'Calvin Coolidge,' if you want to...but the endless game of musical chairs in which everyone has boinked or been been married to every one in the cast is not my cup of tea. Twice, I have written to the then head of CBS Daytime...Barbara Bloom. My complaints were valid and deserved an answer. When Lesli Kay's character had Stage 4 Cancer, she went as far as even shaving off her hair, which I applauded for its authenticity. But for Stephanie to whisk Lesli's character away...via a secret ambulance and clinic where she was miraculously cured did not sit well with me. I am convinced that had they allowed Lesli Kay's character to die...she would have a 2nd Daytime Emmy to add to her mantle. Doesn't the TPTB realize that when one reaches Stage 4 -- that's it 'Que Sera, Sera,' as Doris Day would say. Did they ever begin to wonder the false hope they gave to audience members who were similarly afflicted or had loved ones similarly afflicted? No!

Now, for my second complaint. Several years ago, in my immediate area was the infamous 'Wrongway Driver on the Taconic State Parkway' in Westchester County, in which a mother driving home to Long Island from the family's camp retreat slammed into another car...driving the wrong way, killing herself and seven others, including her daughter and three nieces. Toxicology reports indicated that the driver was high on drugs and alcohol. Well, several years before this real tragedy, Hunter Tylo's character, while driving under the influence of alcohol, killed Thorne's wife. Because she was a core character, a ontract player, her character was given a simple slap on the wrist. Had it NOT been a MAJOR contract actor, the character would have been hauled off to jail to serve time for vehicular manslaughter. And, what they had the audacity to do, but to have the grieving Thorne fall in love with Taylor. I guess if I was a member of MADD (Mothers Against Driving Drunk), perhaps, Barbara Bloom or someone would have responded to my letter. Has Booby Bell ever seen the cold, hard statistics of how many innocent lives are lost in this country to drunken driving? No, all he cares about are the f'n ratings.

How this monstrosity of a show, this cra*fest of a show, has been allowed to stay on the air for 25 years is beyond me.

[Gray Bunny]

Wow, LOL, well they certainly grew to make fun of themselves. I think after their first year, they knew it was a joke of a soap (and then Passions came along, and SUN was like Shakespeare...)

[DRW50]

edgeofnight, I do think they should have just killed Felicia off.

B&B makes me very angry regarding social issues. I'm glad they have dropped them, hopefully for good. It was incredibly offensive to tell a story about how Storm made this noble sacrifice by blowing his brains out so Katie would have a heart. This is a very dangerous and romantic view of suicide, and it came out of nowhere - he became insane solely to tell this story. Then there was B&B's warped idea of Alzheimer's, which leads to a pool fight with Stephanie drowning Beth Logan and this all being forgotten in about a month. Why????

[edgeofnight]

I concur with your sentiments, CarlD2, on B&B -- 1000%,

[frequentsoapfan]

To be fair though I've hated the PSA storylines of the 2000s on GH as well and hope they are done with them.