Shocking Deaths and Surprises

[Soapsuds]

What death or surprising twist shock you?

 

Bobby dying on Dallas

Jill getting shot in the shower

Bobby falling out of JR chair after being shot

 

[mikelyons]

DEATHS

Harold the Dog dies (AMC)

Will's death by crowbar (AMC)

Cassie's death (Y&R) - I never thought they'd do it!

Cameron kills Gennie (Emmerdale)

Val's death in the Hall of Mirrors (Emmerdale)

Holly Barton's death (Emmerdale)

 

SURPRISES

James Stenbeck is alive (the first time) (ATWT)

Dirty Den returns from the dead (EastEnders)

Janet throws Natalie down the well (AMC)

Kim is locked in the basement of Hollyoaks High for months on end (Hollyoaks)

Debbie (accidentally) interrupts Michael's wedding to Charity (Emmerdale)

Sheila Carter is alive and well in Los Angeles (The Bold and the Beautiful)

 

Edited May 24 by mikelyons

[titan1978]

I will never forget when pregnant Lily died on GH while Brenda and Jax married.  Sonny is now free (in a horrible way) and now Brenda was taken.  I had no idea she was leaving, and I just happened to be home to watch that episode and I was shocked.

 

When Marlena was revealed as the desecrator on DAYS I was surprised.  Then she started floating and the rest is iconic soap history.

[Scrapple]

When Shannon returned from the dead on ATWT. The following story was crap,but the actual return surprised the heck out of me.

[SoapDope]

(Y&R)

When Ashley went bonkers and was put in an institution the first time.

 

Jill getting shot in the shower.

 

Lauren & Sheila lab catfight

 

(Dallas)

When Sue Ellen tells J.R. she's pregnant and she said all he cared was about was that precious Ewing heir no matter's who's it is. He jumps up out of the chair and slaps the piss out of her. This was 1978, there would be no way they would let him do that on TV now. 

 

I thought J.R. causing Pam to fall from the hayloft and miscarry was sick. It looked like an accident, but he was walking her towards the edge on his knees. He knew what he was doing.

 

J.R. knowing Kit was gay and insisting he marry Lucy anyway. 

 

Pam's fireball car crash.

 

(Knots Landing)

 

Sid's death.

 

Jill forcing Val to overdose on sleeping pills at gun point.

 

(B&B)

 

That bad story were Stephanie had been keeping her and Eric's bed ridden daughter Angela in a house for decades. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24 by SoapDope

[applcin]

Jefferson Brown, aka faux Sky Whitney, on EON...hands down shocked me the most.  He was in one of the most popular pairings with Raven. And I loved "Sky" & Raven. But they wrote that, despite his love for Raven, he decided he had to kill her to keep her from revealing his secret. Instead, he was shot to death by Damien Tyler in Switzerland. My teen-aged self was bawling my eyes out along with Raven, plus I didn't want Larkin Malloy off the show. 
Of course, unbeknownst at the time, they would come up with the story that the real Sky was still alive so we got our second version of Sky & Raven. 
 

Edited May 25 by applcin

[mango]

Y&R

- Cassie's death. I call it one of the most poignant moments in my daytime watching history and think it is some of the cast's best work to this day.

 

Melrose Place

- Kimberly blowing up the complex. Damn!

 

BH 90210

- when Toni died by accident, and Dylan found her in the car. I still get goosebumps thinking about that moment.

Edited May 24 by mango

[dragonflies]

Surprises? When Kimberly on Melrose Place pulled off her wig to show the huge scar on her head, I literally gasped at that one the first time I saw it

[Melroser]

Renee DiMera's death on Days at her engagement party. I was 10 and had no idea it was coming! I loved Renee. 

 

Shortly after, the reveal Tony was being held in the cell while an impostor (Andre) had taken his place.  Surprised!

[Gray Bunny]

9 hours ago, dragonflies said:

Surprises? When Kimberly on Melrose Place pulled off her wig to show the huge scar on her head, I literally gasped at that one the first time I saw it

 

That was the best. At 11 years old, I was genuinely freaked. I also liked the episode before, where at the end you see Michael finally accepting Sydney as his bride/partner-in-crime, and then outside the beachhouse, you see Kimberly watching from afar. That was probably my first "back from the dead" experience I had ever seen on a soap. 

[titan1978]

1 hour ago, Gray Bunny said:

 

That was the best. At 11 years old, I was genuinely freaked. I also liked the episode before, where at the end you see Michael finally accepting Sydney as his bride/partner-in-crime, and then outside the beachhouse, you see Kimberly watching from afar. That was probably my first "back from the dead" experience I had ever seen on a soap. 

Yes to both.  Talk about amazing cliffhangers.  

[Khan]

Off the top of my head: Linda Fairgate's murder on KNOTS LANDING.  I never saw that one coming.  What's more, even at 12 years old, I felt that killing her off was a HUGE mistake.

[titan1978]

6 hours ago, Khan said:

Off the top of my head: Linda Fairgate's murder on KNOTS LANDING.  I never saw that one coming.  What's more, even at 12 years old, I felt that killing her off was a HUGE mistake.

Was that Lar Park Lincoln?

 

I also think killing Sumner’s daughter (just to bring the actress back as his niece) was a mistake.  Imagine her and Paige and Abby and Claudia going at it for control of Sumner at different points while he lost interest (which he did often).

[Khan]

2 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

Was that Lar Park Lincoln?

 

Yep.

[DRW50]

6 hours ago, Khan said:

Off the top of my head: Linda Fairgate's murder on KNOTS LANDING.  I never saw that one coming.  What's more, even at 12 years old, I felt that killing her off was a HUGE mistake.

 

The whole thing was sickening and tonally way way way off with anything Knots had ever been. Even now the shot of the blood running down her legs still disgusts me when I remember it. Knots died in that moment.