ALL: Soaps paying homage to classic moments by recreating them

[Maxim]

I got this idea for a topic... because today's episode of The Bold And The Beautiful... began in the same exact way the first episode of the show debuted nearly 40 years ago. It was second by second re-creation.

This is a topic where we can post scenes/pictures of moments where soaps are returning back in time to re-create a /scene/look/vibe in the exact same way.

I think it may be interesting to see what examples are out there.

I can give more examples... from Bold later today.

VIDEO 1 - Comparison. Bold's first episode/Bold today. (Video edit made by me)

 

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Edited April 25 by Maxim

[Maxim]

Examples of recreations. Bold recreates intro-shots.

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Edited April 25 by Maxim

[Contessa Donatella]

DAYS OF OUR LIVES

Vivian & Dimitri

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[BoldRestless]

Y&R's opening scene featured Brad Eliot, played by Tom Hallick, hitchhiking a ride into Genoa City:

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When Gina Togoni debuted as Phyllis, she hitchhiked to Genoa City on a truck driven by... Tom Hallick. 

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What's 36 years between appearances? Tom Hallick, an original cast member of The Young and the Restless, is returning to the CBS soap but not as Brad Eliot, the heartthrob neurosurgeon turned news reporter he played from 1973 to '78. Instead, on Sept. 26, Hallick will be seen as a kindly truck driver who helps an on-the-lam Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) find her way back to Genoa City. The setup is a trippy homage to the premiere episode of Y&R — in fact, the soap's very first scene — which had Brad getting a lift from a truck driver heading to GC.

"They found the same kind of truck and dug out the old script — only now I have the truck driver's dialogue and Gina has mine," Hallick tells TV Guide Magazine. "It was weird recreating the scene that way, but really pretty wonderful."

It wasn't exactly old-home week. "Y&R still shoots at CBS on Stage 43 and they gave me Jeanne Cooper's old dressing room, so that much was familiar, but so much time has passed that the cast and the crew were all new to me," says Hallick, who left Y&R even before the show's longest-running vets, Doug Davidson (Paul) and Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki), came onboard.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/exclusive-tom-hallick-returns-young-restless-134700476.html

 

[Maxim]

Amazing! I would love to see these two scenes in action.  Do you know where I could find them? 

This is just so iconic. 

[Contessa Donatella]

Let me see. I am downloading them now.

Edited April 25 by Contessa Donatella

[DRW50]

Thanks for the caps @Maxim I will give B&B credit for not doing direct ripoffs. Stephanie had some iconic shots early on (Brooke had some good shots too).

EastEnders loves to rip itself off, which is one of many reasons I don't watch anymore.

This may be the most blatant. 

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[Bright Eyes]

Emmerdale paid homage to it's first episode in what is arguably (I'm arguing it!) the best funeral episode of a long time character (Jack Sugden). The show started with the funeral of the Sugden patriarch, Jacob Sugden, Jack's father. A returned to the village Annie asks who the lady riding her horse is, the answer being Natasha Wilde, just like her now deceased daughter Peggy asked her then husband Matt Skilbeck about who they would soon learn was Marian Wilks.

Ron Carlivati has paid homage various times on OLTL and DAYS to the point of nausea, but he definitely did so in a way where you eventually felt he was just blatantly copying. One of the first that comes to mind is when he had Sarah Roberts go over the waterfall just like her mother Tina.

Edited April 26 by Bright Eyes

[P.J.]

GL did a homage to Reva's Slut of Springfield moment when Jonathan splashed around in some kind of water with Reva. But I doubt it was a true recreation.

ATWT did some kind of thing I swear where they recreated Lisa moments using Teri Conn/Columbino/Peck and Daniel Cosgrove as Lisa and Don. I don't recall liking it.

Otherwise, I can't recall the soaps I watched doing that. But I've probably forgotten a ton.

[Alan]

 

[Contessa Donatella]

I thought it was pretty close.

 

 

[Alan]

There is a definite line between a subtle Easter egg, like the B&B scene above, and a blatant act of self-plagiarism. The obvious self-congratulation feels a bit sad, like the soap is running on the fumes of past glories rather than boldly driving forward.

[Contessa Donatella]

The very idea of Ron boldly driving forward is ludicrous. We know what he does but we also know what he doesn't do. It matters. 

 

[Alan]

On Coronation Street, Elsie's exit scene was the character walking down the street, remembering some of her iconic lines as the walked past her and her neighbors' homes. The lines were re-recorded by Pat Phoenix. For a show that never used flashbacks this was a very affecting scene. 27 years later, the same concept was used with Liz, this time using audio from past episodes. This was great too, but Liz came back just a couple years later, while Elsie was gone for good after her exit.

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I just thought of a Coronation Street example even more in line with @Maxim's topic. The first episode in 1960 started with two girls playing outside the corner shop, then moved to a scene between two women inside. The show's 10,000th episode started the same way with Ruby and Hope playing outside the corner shop. Below is a short piece about the homage:

Here is the homage in question:

 

To close the circle, at the end of the 10,000th episode, we see Rita walking around Rovers with audio flashbacks of lots of iconic characters in a kind of homage to both Elsie and Liz's exits. Luckily this wasn't Rita's exit episode and she is still with us!

 

Edited April 26 by Alan

[Liberty City]

I think it was meant to be the same fountain.