Does your soap have a "Red Swan", a s/l or phrase or character that makes you groan?

[Khan]

If anything, Ron will make it sound like getting strangled was her fault.

[SFK]

On B&B…

Maya referencing her picture over the mantel, referring to herself as the Forrester matriarch ad nauseam.

For a show with a character named Hope, it became like a drinking game the way the word “hope” was worked into line after line of dialogue.

 

I never ever grew tired of Dorian calling for

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Carlotta but hearing ~*Badhra*~ got on my damn nerves.

This one is actually a little endearing in hindsight, but on AMC, Corvina and that damn leopard!

[Gray Bunny]

DAYS, back in '96.... Kate using the phrase "schemed and plotted" when referencing Sami's manipulative efforts to keep Carrie & Austin apart.  I actually kind of loved it though, lol. Years after the fact, I'd still use that phrase with my sister and she'd instantly know what I was referring to. 

[Faulkner]

Nurse Lynn had a funny repeated line, promising to expose Sami and she’s “going STRAIGHT… to KATE!”

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[will81]

I guess Cricket from Y&R would fit the bill. I never had issue with Lauralee Bell, but Cricket was suddenly the in demand model, teen advocate, teen slueth and desire of every young man in town. Then her mother turned up and married into the main family on the show, though oddly she had little to do with them during that period. 

[AMCOLTLLover]

General Hospital: Ice Princess…. As fun as the story was but even if the story wasn’t moving they still mentioned the ice Princess! That was way too much..

[Dion]

And 40 years later they still passing that ugly rock around lol

[cct]

OMG, the minute I saw the topic of this thread, my mind went straight to Corvina and the damn leopard! We used to imitate the actress and laugh our fool heads off at the ridiculousness of it.

Also from AMC, when Gloria was blackmailing Craig and saying, "...and if you so much as whistle Dixie..." It was a clever line during the initial scene, but they kept running it ad nauseam through flashbacks, I rolled my eyes every time it came on.

[Contessa Donatella]

And now it's even an OLD ugly rock!

[Planet Soap]

Y&R: anytime Nikki walked in on Victor talking to a woman she viewed as a threat-- and the woman was about to leave the room due to awkwardness-- Nikki would say "Please, don't leave on my account".

Examples: Diane Jenkins and Christine. 

 

Y&R: Nikki constantly crying, usually due to some jealousy or relationship based arguments, lol.

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[SteelCity]

All the worse, no one was pronouncing it correctly!

[Contessa Donatella]

Okay, I'll tumble. How should it have been said?

[SteelCity]

Lib ē dō zone

[Contessa Donatella]

Yeah, that sounds right!

[SteelCity]

The way everyone was saying it on the show was driving me up the wall! I guess they are from mid Pennsylvania.