Jump to content

ALL: Most Memorable, Iconic Lines from Soaps


Recommended Posts

  • Members

Probably memorable to no one else, but some that have stuck out to me from Days:

"You don't know, do you?" - After finding out he'd tampered with her computer, Marlena realizes John Black is an amnesiac in 1986.

"Drugs!!!!" - Marlo, Rolf's niece, has gone into labor with the baby Stefano plans to switch.

"Look! Tom! They're breakdancing!" - Alice Horton before the 1984 concert.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 77
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Members

“And I thought about it. And I gave it a great deal of thought, Grandpa…” Part of Nancy’s line to Grandpa Hughes, interrupted by news of JFK’s assassination, ATWT

”The Phoenix always rises from the ashes.” Stefano, Days 

“Let’s all gang up on Julie and watch her crawl. Well, I’m not gonna crawl. You can keep me down here in this jail for years. I don’t care. Why should I care? Nobody else cares. Nobody in the whole world.” Julie’s meltdown to Tom, Days

“Only because Alan gave it to you.” Tracy to Monica, GH

”Not Barbara Jean. Not Barbara Jean’s heart.” Felicia to Bobbie, GH

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

That's more a catchphrase. See also "I'll be damned".

A Victor trademark is calling people he doesn't like/trust by their full name and its sounds like one word, ie. Jackabbott, Billyboyabbott, Dianejenkins, Tuckermccall.

Edited by kalbir
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

"I am grateful for the awareness of the sheer munificence of life as it keeps on rolling on despite our little problems. Sharing our lives with our friends and our family is far stronger than anything that world out there can do to us. Today especially, though indeed every day, Rachel and I our truly blessed. Our riches are at this table with us today. [Looking to the viewer] As indeed you are in our hearts every day. And so I give you, all of us, I give you life!" Mac's Thanksgiving toast, 1988

'sheer munificense'

Please register in order to view this content

always got me

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

"No Iris, the daughter I knew. The daughter I loved. She's dead Iris," Mac Cory to Iris Carrington, Another World

"The compass is broken," Carly to Jack, As the World Turns

"Have a seat, on me," Jack Abbott to Victor Newman, The Young and the Restless

"Good night," Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless

"Even if he could, he's not interested," Diane Jenkins to Nikki Newman, The Young and the Restless

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

This isn’t famous but it tickles me. It’s from GL 1985. India is warning Maeve about Reva, whom she believes has her gold-digging sights set on Phillip and Kyle.

Reva, who was married to H.B. at the time, walks in on the chat, and India calls her every ugly white-trash/slut name in the book.

India tells her to “stick to Old Man Lewis and count your blessssssings,” with that amazing Mary Kay Adams’s accent, before working her way to a final degradation:

”DO YOUR BIOLOGICAL TWITCHINGS IN HIS BEDROOM!”
 

Please register in order to view this content

This one is more infamous:

”There’s only one last thing left to say. So long, you miserable hypocrites! It’s been real fun! *jazz hands*” - Barbara before leaping through the window in the courtroom on ATWT

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I know many GL fans don't love this period in the show's history, but I do.  I love mid-to-late '80's GL as much as I love any era of GL's history up to the late '90's, when I *really* thought the wheels had come off the old wagon.  Perhaps it was due to the level of acting, or perhaps it was due to the fact that even when the show was experiencing a run of bad stories, there still were great moments and scenes to be found.  I don't know.  But the truth is that I miss just about all of GL - the good, the bad and everything in-between -  today as much as I did when I watched the final episode.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

 

There are some shows that, even when they weren’t the greatest back in the day, were still watchable on the strengths of the actors, as you say, @Khan, and just the vibe. GL is certainly up there for me. That said, I started watching circa 1990 as a kid, so I don’t have the same deep anger surrounding the decimation of the Bauer family and the other characters who were dismissed around 1983-85. I can certainly imagine people feeling the way I felt when the Santos crime family and the San Cristobal set displaced some of my favorites. But how can you not love Mary Kay Adams jousting with Beverlee McKinsey, for example?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • GH was good? I havent watched since Joss went away to do her traininig and Lulu had just called Brooklyn out for having Dante's baby and not telling him
    • BTG: A-  DAYS: B+  Eastenders: C
    • There was a rumor that Jean will die and that’s probably why she’s back then
    • There has been some confusion about Michael & facial burns. Please see this post: https://bsky.app/profile/shallotpeel.bsky.social/post/3lqkrryu54226 I've chosen to put this here instead of the Classic Thread because it is now with the appearance of recast Michael that this has come up. Different places online, including at least one podcast, remarks have been made about how remarkable it is that he is without facial scarring. Other fans say it was clear from the first that he did not have facial burns. What is included in this post is 2 screengrabs where you can see his face at the hospital & a very quick edit of that day in the hospital. 
    • Put me in the LOVE KMH camp. As a poster alluded to above, her detractors seem to come from people who first experienced the 80s Emily actress. And that's often the case with soaps, myself included. I enjoy the original actor so much that I just never take to the recast. However, KMH played Emily far longer than the original - for almost 20 years - and when she had great material, she was great. I get the sense she didn't like playing the whiny oh-woe-is-me Emily which was all the material she got from about 1996 until she took over the Intruder in late '99/early '00 and got to play a stronger kiss-ass woman who didn't care what anyone thought of her. (Some would call that a bitch but, if a man was in that role, he'd just be called a smart and savvy businessman.) Her relationship with Hal was great. The transformation was done realistically and I thoroughly enjoyed those years the best out of all. Once the writers decided to break up those two, they went back to writing Emily half the time as whiny and pathetic. I preferred when the writers made her stronger.
    • Hahaha - I do. I've always been the type, though, that can't miss anything. I get FOMO, so I'll not skip episodes or fast forward anything. There are only a few TV shows I've dropped because they got so bad vs. sticking it out to the end.  The promise that GL 1997 is better is what keeps me going. I especially want to see the fallout of Blake's lie about her twins and then Annie's descent which I believe won Watros's Emmy.
    • Rita's rape is an episode i constantly search on YouTube hoping one day that it will show up. I always feel like I may have seen it, but I was only 6 at the time and can never figure any of the things I have vague recollection of 
    • FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1973 & MAY 1973:

      Please register in order to view this content

        FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUGUST 1973 & NOVEMBER 1973:
    • The rape was in 1979 after they were married. Blake was the result of Holly cheating with him while she was married to Ed. I believe she was born in 1975. 
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy