What was the most unrealistic soap story line ever?

freshpopcorn

There's being a good few. Hollyoaks can be one of the worst for have really unbelievable stories.

So, what was the most unrealistic soap story line ever?

TommiesTank

The question should probably be the other way around. Most stories are entirely unrealistic.

walshb

Bobby in the shower?

tippspur

miley and that young wan in Glenroe having an affair,have a look at miley and then have a good look at her,no way would it happen in real life.I stopped watching it after that.long time ago now though.

Radio5

The Eastenders Baby Tommy/James death swop storyline.

Howard Juneau

The one where someone said, lets create a soap opera called Fair City..that was mad!

whitewave

Ailsa seeing Bobby's ghost in the fridge in Home and Away...quality tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05JYrfbGYAk

jos28

Michelle in Coronation St taking the wrong baby home from hospital :rolleyes:

Scaramanga 4

The way Farrah Phelan hasn't come home in about 15 years for her parents divorce, Grandmothers death, brothers illness/death, fathers wedding, just to visit her father.

Radio5

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

The way Farrah Phelan hasn't come home in about 15 years for her parents divorce, Grandmothers death, brothers illness/death, fathers wedding, just to visit her father.

Yes, they could have easily recast if the original actress wasn't available . Its daft that she never re-appeared for any of those occasions.

Yangedd

Dallas Season nine turning out to be a dream.

_Whimsical_

Every storyline that involved a new person arriving in town, mentioning they are adopted, later looking for their parents and discovering them to be a main character in the soap.
Home and Away is probably the worst offender on that one. That has happened countless times.

bellinter

Dirty Den... Alive!

Yangedd

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Every storyline that involved a new person arriving in town, mentioning they are adopted, later looking for their parents and discovering them to be a main character in the soap.
Home and Away is probably the worst offender on that one. That has happened countless times.

And everyone starts out a bad ass till they are "saved"

_Whimsical_

Yangedd wrote: »

And everyone starts out a bad ass till they are "saved"

Oh yeah, that is so annoying,knowing that every obnoxious toe rag will eventually come full circle and end up a cuddly family favourite. They more awful they are the sweeter they'll be in the end.
And they pretty much never deviate from that formula

pookiesboo

The 'twins' in Home and and Away that were telepathic Kirsty and Jade and they could tell when the other was in trouble but then it turned out they werent even related.
Actually how everyone in Summer Bay can get a job as a teacher even without any qualifications

Scaramanga 4

Zak Dillon being from Kilkenny

Scaramanga 4

And that big fella that raped Katy and Roisa in Ros Na Run being a transition year student.

Radio5

No adult can ever afford to buy a house in Home and Away. Even if they have a decent job enough like a teacher or whatever they must live with either Irene or Leah or in the Caravan Park.

2 or 3 generations of entire families still live together, even if they're supposed to be wealthy and could move out and buy somewhere, the Kings and now the Sharmas and Maceys in Emmerdale, the Mitchells in Eastenders, the McDonalds and any other family that lives in the pub in Corrie.

prettygurrly

A really recent one in Hollyoaks...Ste is going on a big trip with Doug...but hang on doesn't a suspended sentence mean you can't leave the country? Correct me if I'm wrong please...

Years ago when Jim McDonald in Corrie could suddenly walk again.

Radio5

Yeah, the miracle of walking again one is done on all soaps, Tommy Dillon in Fair City being the most recent one. I'm sure Nick in Corrie will be back working full time in the Bistro by Christmas.

Almost every guy that Carla Conner has gone out with or married in Corrie is now dead. Peter better watch himself.

The phone never rings in any supposedly busy office or business, unless its a personal call which the character will insist on taking.

IvySlayer

Billy Mitchell getting married.

Twice.

The turkey baster storyline in Sunset Beach

FloatingVoter

Fallon Colby abducted by aliens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8YH6ewoqQ

Cannot be beaten for stupidity or budget wasting.

SuperInfinity

Remember that time in Fair City when Sarah accidentally tripped on an uneven bit of carpet (something like that) and was bleeding from it, and then Barry trying to talk to her accidentally knocked her to the ground and killed her? :rolleyes:

Steven81

No money and recession but everyone can go to the pub at midday and that night. Also the amount of staff employed at each is unreal

LynnGrace

Harry Molloy's departure in Fair City...in fairness, I forgey what the storyline was, but he just seemed to disappear, and we heard nothing much about him again until Lucy turned up claiming to have his child.

Paddy Fields

How many fires have been in Emmerdale (let's forget the plane crash)? It must have the worst fire safety record in Europe. Those meetings to kiil off a few characters mustn't take long.
"Right we need to get rid of Viv, Bob, Frank, Eileen and Able Dingle."
"Let's have a fire..."
"Good idea!... Any other business?"

Randomiser

Definitely Fallon going off in the flying saucer at the end of The Colbys.

Although pretty much everything in Hollyoaks strikes me as completely ridiculous these days.

stoneill

Eastenders - unbelievable that that crap is still on.

who the fug

Littlefinger wrote: »

The turkey baster storyline in Sunset Beach

Was that before or after Brookside

vitani

Radio5 wrote: »

Yes, they could have easily recast if the original actress wasn't available . Its daft that she never re-appeared for any of those occasions.

They've had three different actresses play Farrah. You'd think one of them would be available.

Stinicker

The lifeguards on the Los Angeles beaches are nothing like those in BayWatch, I was there expecting to find silicone bronzed beach blondes everywhere, barely the odd one. Most of the lifeguards seemed to be hispanic men.

Radio5

The Romeo cancer storyline in Home and Away.

RhubarbCrumble

vitani wrote: »

They've had three different actresses play Farrah. You'd think one of them would be available.

One of them plays Bronagh in "London Irish" now.

eviltwin

Ian Beales success with the ladies

deelite

Brookside - when the Close was sealed off due to an outbreak of some illness

Meangadh

The way there always seems to be work for people either in Summer Bay High or in the Diner.

duridian

Not a storyline exactly, but something I find very unrealistic in the soaps is the massive difference in people's ability to hear what others are talking about, while in very close proximity, depending on whether it suits the story or not.

No Pants

deelite wrote: »

Brookside - when the Close was sealed off due to an outbreak of some illness

That was the one that sprung to my mind. It did have a comedy moment when Jimmy Corkhill gave a urine sample from Cracker (his dog) instead of his own and the medical people came looking for him because they then thought that he was the first human to contract some doggy Condition.

starlit

Currently Tina and Peter storyline!

starlit

Joey and lauren in eastenders was more believable than tina and peter in corrie.Not sure about alicia and david/priya and david, paddy and chas....in emmerdale.

Pharaoh1

That the chocolate factory in Emmerdale - everybody just fiddles around with boxes although it needs at least four people in the office to run things.

Sam Dingle's facial expressions are a bit unrealistic too.

dixiedan

Surely the most unrealistic soap storyline of modern times must be the shenigans with Paul/Jane/Callum in Fair City ??

LynnGrace

duridian wrote: »

Not a storyline exactly, but something I find very unrealistic in the soaps is the massive difference in people's ability to hear what others are talking about, while in very close proximity, depending on whether it suits the story or not.

So true! I used to watch Home and Away, years ago, and people always discussed the most private things in the most open plan areas. Mostly nobody heard...
Same in the Rovers, where there appears to be only a tiny counter space. People can stand there and discuss almost anything while others, often standing at the counter also, are oblivious to the fact that they are being discussed, (or not), depending on the storyline.

LynnGrace

Pharaoh1 wrote: »

That the chocolate factory in Emmerdale - everybody just fiddles around with boxes although it needs at least four people in the office to run things.

True. As for the knicker factory in Corrie, it must be the greatest success story ever. How has it keep going since the dim and distant days when it kept Mike Baldwin in the luxury to which he was accustomed...the flash car, the apartment, the scotch, the cigars (God, I loved Mike Baldwin!)
And do the staff not sew some very crooked seams, at times, considering the amount of time they spend in the pub every day!

MJ23

Eastenders - nobody has a washing machine. They're all skint, but spend every waking hour "down the Vic"
Fair City - 4 or 5 shadows off someone when they're standing in their living room. Nearly everyone has their breakfast, then goes to Vinos for a coffee. Zumo Bishop, the local hardman, lives with his Ma. Barry O Hanlon was in Batman Begins.

vitani

MJ23 wrote: »

Eastenders - nobody has a washing machine. They're all skint, but spend every waking hour "down the Vic"
Fair City - 4 or 5 shadows off someone when they're standing in their living room. Nearly everyone has their breakfast, then goes to Vinos for a coffee. Zumo Bishop, the local hardman, lives with his Ma. Barry O Hanlon was in Batman Begins.

Radio5

David's harem in Emmerdale. All his recent ex's living in one village. All we need is Delilah Dingle now and he'll have a complete set within walking distance.

walshb

Martin Platt ? Where the f^%k has he been?

_Whimsical_

The way thatl they're all clearly psychic and have no need to ever verbalise times or venues to make plans.
Soap characters will meet each other in a bar or somewhere for the first time, clearly not having exchanged numbers or anything, but will then ask each other out with "do you want to do something sometime?" the other person will agree and like magic they'll both turn up in the diner/the woolpack/the rovers ready for a date on the same day at the same time! .