Best/Worst Soap Funerals

[MrQuartermaine]

They're going to do both. John's going to get an "In Memoriam" at the begining or the end of an episode probably next month, and then down the road a few months, he'll be killed off in a big storyline.

[Khan]

Here's my question: did any soap, past or present, put on a funeral for a character that made you think, "That heffa wasn't on long enough to merit THIS kind of send-off!"

[BoldBeauty]

I liked B&Bs Taylor's funeral of 2002 a lot. It was beautiful.

Now in retrospect... well....

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

[MissLlanviewPA]

For anyone who was watching then:

What did they do after Luna died on OLTL? Did they have some special New Age funeral like they did for her wedding?

I'm still pissed Gabrielle didn't get a funeral. Bastards.

[BKuzak]

Thanks for the information. ah! of course he's going to be killed off...this is General Hospital. Nobody dies quietly anymore. I'm suprised they aren't going to put a stunt man in and have him die in a shower of bullets! I'm just glad the poor guy didn't die a month ago because they would have killed him off during that Jerry Jax "killing through water" story.

[DRW50]

I seem to remember people saying this about Babe's funerals.

[MrQuartermaine]

I was so against Dixie having to share her funeral with Babe back in 2007. That was so wrong.

[allmc2008]

I second that. I think that there is an actual correlation between soap viewer's and the soap's themselves. I watch soap's partly so I can see how certain character's deal with a certain crisis or unusual situations. Erica, Tad, Dorian and Tracy are a few of my role models.

[AdelaideCate007]

+1

It was in North Carolina with just Max, the kids, and her family. Everyone else in Llanview just stood around in Angel Square talking about her.

And yes, Gabrielle needed a funeral.

That was a wonderful moment.

[Khan]

No, "wrong" is killing off Maureen Bauer on GUIDING LIGHT and then not bothering with an on-screen memorial. AMC's two-fer funeral for Babe and Dixie was ghetto.

Wait, BKuzak. Just. Wait.

[Khan]

No, Gabrielle needed a Viking funeral. I'm talking ship, I'm talking water, I'm talking setting the damn thing on fire. Not because I disliked the girl -- far from that! -- but that's what you do for a force of nature like Gabrielle Medina.

[DRW50]

I thought it was OK outside of the shameful Katie propping and Terri Conn's bad performance.

I just never understood why they remembered Susan Hughes but not Penny or Don.

[juniorz1]

In their defense though, ATWT had practically no time to put her funeral together and we were lucky we got anything at all.

[Khan]

IIRC, Helen Wagner's death occurred just as ATWT was gearing up for their last few weeks of episodes. So, yeah, it wasn't as if they had the luxury of time on their side. On the other hand, while bringing back a host of former characters might have been too much of a logistical nightmare for a production team that had enough on its hands, what was to stop the scriptwriter from throwing in a simple line or two, explaining Penny and Don and their families had to leave immediately after the funeral?

[juniorz1]

Lack of knowledge of their existence.