Both sides of my family have roots in the south and both sides have some crazy people. Some of the stuff that my relatives have done could be on soaps.

Speaking as a Southerner with crazy on both sides, bless your heart for posting Julia Sugarbaker! And yes, I agree, Billy Clyde and Kate Collins' Janet from Another Planet were two of my favorite crazies!

I have crazy's on both sides too! The most dominant is my Aunt Shirley on dad's side. We call her "Shirley from planet Squirrely".

One day she found a daddy-long-leg spider in her sink and it wouldn't get out when she told it to come out so she decided to call the Cops!!

Y&R

Veronica Landers

Meggie McClaine

B&B

Sheila Carter

Heather Webber, darling! Just don't call her cray cray to her face!

Billy Clyde and Jewell (AMC)

Clare Devine Cunningham (Hollyoaks)

Sally Spode (Emmerdale)

Zoe Tate (Emmerdale)

Kit Vested (The Guiding Light) - One of the characters I would love to be able to see the most

Annie from GL

I will, too.

Poor Maria Roberts. There really had been love between her and Clint "once upon a time." Unfortunately, time and distance were their enemies; and Maria just could not accept that.

What made Maria so great, and what soaps don't understand about psychos now, is you should, in some place, sympathize with them and see why they became what they became.

Another example of this would be Nola on Edge of Night, as we saw her clinging to a shell of a family and a past, only to lose them all (her comeback movie, her son, her husband) before starting on a campaign of terror against "the other woman."

Billy Clyde and Jewell (AMC)

I thought about Jewell after I posted. God, I love Christine Baranski!

Love that one! Julia's rant about men also stands up to the test of time, I think.

My favorite has always been her speech about the matriarchs of Atlanta, in that calendar episode with the wonderful Wendie Jo Sperber (the one where they ask Julia to bite down on pearls and straddle a chair). I don't think that scene is on Youtube.

Melrose Place's Kimberly and Taylor. Loved them!

I like Marcia Cross a lot more on Desperate Housewives than on Melrose Place. I liked Taylor a lot, but she was mostly just a bitch (a fun one, and I always rooted for her over wretched Amanda who was so overrated) rather than insane. Sydney was my favorite character!!

I loved Liz Sanbourne on Passions. She, Rebecca, and Aunt Irma were the only characters I even remotely liked on that lame soap, and neither of them were important characters or anything.

Mitch - OLTL

Irene - OLTL

Niki Smith - OLTL

Janet Greene - AMC

Peter Blake - DAYS

Heather - GH

Edited August 28, 201213 yr by Mathewson

My favorite has always been her speech about the matriarchs of Atlanta, in that calendar episode with the wonderful Wendie Jo Sperber (the one where they ask Julia to bite down on pearls and straddle a chair). I don't think that scene is on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e796xpmj8sA

Nurse Ali - Days

Annie - GL

Gwyneth - Loving