OLTL. But, GH is matching that cheesiness now.

Edited September 15, 201411 yr by Golden Duck

I'm not a viewer but I always thought just the title "The Bold & The Beautiful" was cheesy so I figured the show would be, too.

B&B was good back in the day. I haven't been able to set through it for years though.

Bold & Beautiful became outdated as we soared passed 2000 and they continued with the same stories, background music, and theme song. Their 2004 update wasn't much of an improvement. It wasn't til they updated their transitions, music, and opening (2011) that it suddenly became the hippest, most modern day soap.

Edited September 16, 201411 yr by Gray Bunny

sunset beach, passions

Passions was pure cheese with a capitol C! haha

all soaps to be fair have cheesy moments....I would say the current cheesy soap IMO is probably B&B

Should PASSIONS count, though, if the show was supposed to be a parody as some hardcore fans have maintained?

Edited September 16, 201411 yr by Khan

I would count it, as cheesy as it was I admit it became really cheesy only towards the end...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3V_z-9oYvU

I simply do not have the time for the so-called Gloria Monty "glory days" of this serial.

There was nothing so-called about it. GH had a popularity no soap has ever had before or since. Those were the glory days, weather machines and all. Nothing even comes close except the rest of the ABC daytime lineup from that same period brought along by GH's popularity. To deny that those were its glory days is like saying the 60s were not the glory days for Motown.

Edited September 17, 201411 yr by quartermainefan

Hands down - Passions. Pure cheese served with plenty of whine! *coughTheresacough*

There was nothing so-called about it. GH had a popularity no soap has ever had before or since. Those were the glory days, weather machines and all. Nothing even comes close except the rest of the ABC daytime lineup from that same period brought along by GH's popularity. To deny that those were its glory days is like saying the 60s were not the glory days for Motown.

I don't deny its popularity, obviously, but I've watched enough from the era to know that I don't really find anything all that glorious about it.

Maybe it's one of those things where you have to be there to appreciate it.

Days during the supercouple era (1983-1990) and Reilly's sci-fi era (1993-1997). Practically everyone I went to school with was obsessed w/ Days back then but I could never get into it.

My sister sure was - the Reilly era, that is.

The obvious answer is Passions. But to be fair, the show was pretty open about what it was: high camp.

Sunset Beach would come in second.

You could make an argument for Generations, but the show might well have evolved (if it had the ability to survive at all).

Days of our Lives has always been the cheesiest of the major soaps.

I definitely think that NBC daytime has an attitude that is distinctive from the other networks. It felt very weird when Hogan Scheffer was writing--it didn't look like an NBC soap.

All of that being said....the stupidest thing ever written was on ABC. Erica's un-abortion. Nothing can ever compete with the idiocy of that story.

Edited September 22, 201411 yr by StevieM