If your reading over SOC then actor bash needs to be on your list. Except its only actor bashing when you hate certain characters or say certain actors can't act.

LOL. I literally went over there for 10 seconds and grabbed the first thread I saw and scrolled. Doesn't take too long to find an overused/misused term.

"Chem test" is an annoying one, too. Like...come on, let's not get that scholastic.

LOL! Everything is a chem test these days. "[boy] and [girl] just breathed the same air! CHEM TEST!!!"

Perfection.

Can I add "core" to that list?

YES! Core characters, legacy characters, vets. All in the same category.

LOL! Everything is a chem test these days. "[boy] and [girl] just breathed the same air! CHEM TEST!!!"

They're gonna be endgame!

I really really really don't like him. Ugh.

Speaking of school subjects. "History." "Nod to history." "Using history." A character goes to a psychologist named Dr. Smith. Another character saw a chiropractor named Dr. Smith thirty years ago. "Nice nod to history!"

Well speaking of RC and nods to history. I really don't see how renaming Jake's "The Floating Rib" was a nod to history. The Floating Rib wasn't a divebar.

Perfection.

Can I add "core" to that list?

Sure, although I've probably overused that one myself.

I should add "Cartini." (I use that ironically...I hope)

and I think Nellie used to use "sexational" a lot, unless my therapist is lying to me.

"off the Charts chemistry"

Eye sex. (when characters just look at each other)

"contrived"

"Social issues." Any time a soap tells a story that isn't about people screwing around, it gets the social issues label, and that's not right.

I think soap hunk is overused as well. Some of the gusy I've seen called soap hunks in recent years. Well their a far cry from the men that would be in those magazines spreads when I was a teen to entice us to watch soaps in the summer.

"Plot-driven." I understand many frustrations toward stories, but this word is thrown around way too often when a story (especially a couple) isn't going a person's way.

"Social issues." Any time a soap tells a story that isn't about people screwing around, it gets the social issues label, and that's not right.

I think part of it is because then many times a bad PSA will be thrown onto certain epis of that story.

Dead eyed

Wooden

Charisma

Great actor

Okay, I'm guilty of overusing the following:

regime

genre

Dead eyed

Wooden

Charisma

Great actor

That's one of my favorites

But lately it's been used for everyone except the actual dead eyed people.

But lately it's been used for everyone except the actual dead eyed people.

True. I just have fond memories of using it constantly during OLTL 2009-2010. I'll always have that.