A-Z of Soap

[Bryan]

I thought we could start an A-Z of everything you might see in a soap: i.e types of storylines, things that can happen to characters and stock characters/locations (not specirfic names more like villain/pub)

I'll start us off:

A - Affairs

[Lindy]

B - Babies

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

C - Crisis :)

How come Lindy's message is short and allowd?! :eek: Lol :) x

[pinkles14]

D= Death and there Has been a few

[Debs]

exciting plots ( well sometimes LOL)

[Bryan]

F - Fraud Cases (Especially Deidre's "I Didn't Do Anything" One :rotfl: )

[*-Rooney-*]

G - gangsters

such as johnny allen, the mitchell bros,

H - holidays

trips away from the original sets to blackpool, paris, england

[Bryan]

Incest

(Shannis, Cain & Charity, Nat & Georgia)

[pinkles14]

J Jail for.. martin, pat janine johnny and a lot lot more :) :)

[*-Rooney-*]

J - Junkies

janine butcher, jimmy corkhill, ashley saunders (flynn's sis in home and away)

[Lindy]

K = Killings, there's been plenty of them!

[Katy]

L is for Love - What charcters do an awful lot of these days. Falling in and out of it.

[x Amby x]

M is for Murders!! there have been quite a few!

[*-Rooney-*]

N - Nigel harmen

lets face it whilst he was on the show most of the females (and some of the males) where under his spell at one point

O - One night stands

michelle/dirty den, vicky/spencer, stingray/sky, sky/jp, lucas/lee, there has been a few. etc etc

[di marco]

P - pointless characters (every soap has some!)

[*-Rooney-*]

Q - Quiet lives

these are when soaps are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories

[Jojo]

R - ratings

The war between all soaps

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Sex - happens in every soap!! Obviously...

[Siobhan]

T - is for Tea.. had a big shock "i will put the kettle on". husband had an affair "i will put the kettle on", you leg got sawing off.. you know a good cup of tea solves all problems

[Chloe O'brien]

U= Unbelieveable for the amount of telly time wasted showing soaps when they could be showing more quality dramas like spooks.

[di marco]

V - is for violence, something every soap has a lot of

[Rach33]

Weddings.......................................... ...........:)

[*-Rooney-*]

x-rated (sometimes) such as the late night episodes of hollyoaks i.e the toby and ellie storyline or samm/andy/nicole

xciting
xtravagant

[Cornishbabe]

yule tide.

when everyone dies

[Chris_2k11]

Z is for Z-list soapstars (not naming any names). :cool:

[di marco]

A - is for arrests, most soapstars are arrested at some point

[Chris_2k11]

B is for BORES.

Every soap has one. :thumbsdow

[Siobhan]

c - is for Criminal pasts.. just when they thought it would never find them

[Katy]

D Is for DAring Characters

[Jessie Wallace]

Emotions - or lack of in some characters!

[*-Rooney-*]

factories

such as underworld and pollards factory,

[crazygirl]

grumpy old men........like the the ones in eastenders

[*-Rooney-*]

HANDSOME MEN

Dennis rickmen, jamie mitchell, jack holden, dan baker, justin burton, jake dean, dylan timmins, boyd hoyland, jamie baldwin,

[di marco]

I - is for illnesses, such as cancer storylines etc

[CrazyLea]

J is for Jack...There's always a Jack in soaps :p Jack Scully, Jack Duckworth, Jack Holden....etc...etc..

[*-Rooney-*]

kathy's

the name of the long standing cafe that ian owns in ee

Laughter

sometimes in the middle of a slump the supposide storylines and actually laughable

[Siobhan]

M - is for mothers, they keep their kids in check and scare anyone who messes with the family

[CrazyLea]

N - Neighbours... well it's a soap isn't it :D

[*-Rooney-*]

ORANGES

look around the houses in most soaps you will notice fruit bowls almost definately containing ORANGES

[di marco]

P - is for prisons, most characters are in there at some point

[LUSHLOOKE69]

Q is for Quarrels-two many to mention but usuaslly occur during births, deaths, weddings, xmas and all other special or sad occasions.:angry:

[crazygirl]

railway children? was that a series has well has a film