2 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

Haha, I never watched B&B, but AMC sure had a lot of it too Your others, like paternity tests and IVF, are good examples too - same for me!

Now as I think about it more abstract....I learned some stuff about human relationships. I learned that till death do us part usually means a year or two... In many cases 😂

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Maxim

After the last several posts I just remembered I learned about the viability of freezing sperm from the Y&R story with Victor, Diane, Nikki and Ashley. I had heard of the process before, but not the actual details about how long until implantation, etc. that story was so gross!

11 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

I first learned about concepts like shareholders and stocks and board meetings from watching Y&R as a kid (when they actually showed the business stuff onscreen!). It certainly isn't discussed regularly on television and I wouldn't have heard about it IRL

Me too, from the time Jack lost Jabot to Victor through them getting it back, I was so invested and also felt like I understood the concepts, even if they were dramatized for effect.

2 hours ago, janea4old said:

I started watching OLTL in 1969. I remember the original Viki/Niki split. The terminology "D.I.D." (dissociative identity disorder) did not exist back then.

They simply called it "split personality". When the book and movie "Sybil" came out in the mid-1970s, I already knew about splitting from Viki/Niki. I was surprised that Sybil had so many alternate personalities, because I had thought there could be only two (the real/main one like Viki, and the other one like Niki).

(This was long before OLTL changed it to show Viki having many alters)

UGH I wish I could see the OG Viki/Niki split. I hope one day a video surfaces.