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Soaps That Were Good at Comedy?


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Like so many things with that show, I think the comedy on Santa Barbara was over-rated. It was usually just an excuse for an actor to overindulge themselves and go over the top (Lionel, Keith, Gina, Pearl, Mason). 

In 1984, the only attempts at humor were some scenes with Lionel and Augusta, and stuff with the 4 college kids. The former usually worked, while the latter was dreadful. The culmination of the latter was their teacher My Favorite Martian Ray Walston accidentally finding himself in a hotel room with a hooker and the kids bursting in, taking pictures, and blackmailing him to leave them alone, all meant to be hilarious. This was done over two episodes and dropped, never to be mentioned again; mercifully so, it was so embarrassing. 

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