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Okay, you guys have shown me that my misconceptions can't be that bad.

When I began watching AMC, Marian Colby was, of course, not getting much airtime, but she was right there in the opening sequence every other day, and I thought "Wow, I didn't know Phyllis from Mary Tyler Moore on was this show!"

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Watching all of this 90s Y&R has reminded me of how, in my earliest memories (the same memories of Rex placing the necklace on Katherine, so I was literally 3 or 4 years old), I associated Nikki and Paul as a couple. I have no idea where the heck I got that from, but in my mind, the hierarchy of Y&R faces went Victor, Nikki, Paul, and Neil, and somehow Nikki and Paul were together.

I'm sure there are quite a few of us who thought ATWT was science fiction.

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Why did they chose the name Jabot? Is there a story behind that apart from the resemblance to Abbott?

 

When I was a kid I thought every married couple was supposed to divorce - much like everyone would do on B&B. So I asked my Catholic mother once "So when are you and dad getting a divorce?". LOL

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I figured Jabot was named for the founder John Abbott with the extra letters removed and French pronunciation to seem more glamorous. Remember the 1980s was when daytime dramas got influenced by Dallas/Dynasty so that's how a cosmetics company on the level with Clinique, Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder was headquartered in Wisconsin.

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I've assumed OLTL was strictly about Viki's life and the city of Llanview when I was younger. At one point I felt uncomfortable watching that softcore porn opening when I was a kid in Elementary School. I think my mom turned my head from the TV when it first aired lol. 

 

I also thought AMC was about characters stuck in a photo album that couldn't get out... LMAO

 

And with GH I looked forward to seeing Dr. Steve Hardy daily when he died it felt like a member of my family died. Along with Asa from OLTL

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When I was younger and this is when there were only soap magazines that didn't really spoil very much.  When I was watching a soap and you'd hear  "the role of XXXX is now being played by (insert name)".   I thought it always meant the actor had died or were let go because they weren't doing a good job.  When actually they'd pop up in primetime and I didn't understand...I thought working on a soap was much more prestigious ahahahha.  I remember when Kevin Bacon left Guiding Light and just reading it thought - why would he leave?  He won't be anything...boy was I wrong.  Same with Ian Ziering.  

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I was a toddler when my mom was watching the NBC soaps in the late 1960s. I ended up with a mental imprint of what I thought was a person's or mannequin's severed forearm. Turned out to be the peacock logo back in the day.

Although I had sometimes noticed Liz Hubbard in the soap mags over the years, I never watched ATWT and wasn't "up" on her. I had no idea she was "Althea" from The Doctors, one of those soaps that my mom watched when I was that toddler and whose character's name I heard sometimes throughout the years. 

Watching GH back in Luke and Laura's heyday, I didn't know there was as big of an age difference between the actors as there was. I thought GF was a little older than 18 and that AG was maybe in his late 20s instead of close to 35.

I totally didn't recognize Joel Crothers the first time I recently saw him on Dark Shadows, despite having seen him on EON. Never saw him without the 'stache.

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Before I watched Y&R with any regularity (aired during school) and just read soap summaries, I thought Jabot was pronounced like Jab-ot, no idea why. 

 

Due to how some soap magazines covered some shows and focused on only a few characters, I was surprised when I watched them and realized the cast was bigger than it actually was. SOD did a good job with promoting much of the Days cast, but with the P&G soaps for example I knew maybe 5-6 actors at any given time before I watched those shows. 

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