Unrealistic expectations in tv soaps

[onlynotafan]

I used to watch EE but haven't for the last 2 years. But even then so many inconsistencies it was unreal but yeah it's not real but it is meant to portray real life.

Only on going drama I watch is casualty bbc1

I'm currently to tired to list some of the things that happen in soaps/dramas that would not or never happen in real life! I'd like to see what you can come up with

One contraction, and they're in full labour shouting 'call an ambulance!'

And anyone who has a miscarriage, grabs stomach and screams jn pain. Then the dr tells them they can never have kids!

All desperate financial problems can be solved by part time shifts in the local pub/cafe.

If you want to change your path in life you can do it in days/weeks.

Sonia in EE announced she wanted to be a nurse, 2 wks later she's wearing a nurses uniform.

And the way they move around d the houses and flats in the street ,the Webster's ,Barlows,platts etc have all.lived in several.of the streets residences .

Don't watch soaps any more but it boiled my piss that ee writers repeatedly tried to convince viewers that attractive, successful women would fight amongst themselves to sleep with fat bald Phil Mitchell

No one ever said bye on the phone, they just receive news and hang up

No one ever got change in the shops

Employment law never existed

Families who had poverty storylines (ee ) were permanently in the caff or pub...

People just moved in and out with nothing more than a couple suitcases. Never needed a moving van...

But the first one passes me off the most. I boycotted all uk soaps after yet another Mitchell affair storyline and haven't looked back for over a decade!

😂😂

I just don't understand how Phil Mitchell, Ian Beale and max branning all had moderately attractive girlfriends/wives on a regular basis. None of them are/were appealing in looks or personality.

Yes but if you can only meet your partner base on the exact ,street,square,village of where you live, its slim.pickings really 😂

Max branning looks like a big ginger testicle. See it once and you'll never not see it again.

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He’s always Elvis from OFAH to me.

Casualty staff frequently leave hospital wards full of very sick patients while they spend extended periods outside on the car park having deep and meaningful discussions about whatever issues are troubling them at that time. This usually ends up with them leaving their jobs giving no notice, with no other job lined up and frequently moving to another country.

Haven't watched a current episode of a soap for a few years but

People hardly ever watch tv, or steam or scroll on their phones in downtime.

In rl lots of people talk about tv; X Factor or Love Island or whatever. Or soaps

If you have important things to sort out on your laptop, like a university or job application, you head for the local coffee shop and sit at a table, and do it there.

Elvis? Was that his characters name? I didn’t think he even had a name in his 20
second stint!

Or go for a job interview in the pub!

Haven't watched it in years but if anyone in Ramsey street had an accident or was in hospital Dr Kennedy would always appear.

It doesn't seem to happen anymore but Drs in casualty always used to ignore their bleepers while they had a long conversation on the stairs with whoever they'd slept with the night before.

If you take a pregnancy test and you don’t want to tell anyone, you leave it uncovered right at the top of your bin with the positive result blaring for all to see!

Yep!

I only watch CS now... But I do wonder about the Bailey family... Their house is the same as all the others in that row, but it's bloody massive!!! They seem to have an entrance hall and a serious looking "not a cupboard" door under the stairs! Does that lead into the Barlows?! Huge living room with an enormous 8 seater dining table and a lounge suite! My DH doesn't and never has watched Corrie. I mentioned my observations last week, just as it had started and he was on his way upstairs to watch something. He said well, they've knocked through haven't they?! I said, to where?!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

They moan that they're skint and how are they going to pay the gas bill, but then go to the pub and takeaway.
They work with machinery, yet go to the pub in their lunch break, have a couple of pints and their boss who is also in the pub, doesn't bat an eyelid.
They come round from a coma and immediately start having a conversation.
They're obviously telepathic because they arrange to meet somewhere, but never give a time, yet the other person seems to know what time it will be at.
No one ever says hello and bye on the phone. They always answer it with a yeah then just hang up.
No need to make a doctor's appointment, just see him in the pub and discuss your ailments with them there, or better still, discuss a family members medical stuff with them.
How come no one in the Barlow household noticed that Tracey luv was washing her hands upstairs for 17 years, then reappeared with a head transplant?

People saying 'flaming' when in real life it'd likely be something else beginning with F.

And people in soapland seem wholly unaware contraception exists, given the number of surprise pregnancies. Which must always be announced by following the words 'I'm pregnant' with 'I'm gonna have a baby!' just in case anyone watching doesn't know what 'pregnant' means...

Agree to start a family when you don't want to, then leave your pill packet where it can be found by your husband, why not just have the depo jab instead, or you know like, hide them in your knicker drawer.
Get a job in the local hairdressers or pub and you can just go swanning off whenever you like. Better still, get a job in a pub kitchen and you can conduct your social life while cooking the lunches, or even leave midway through them to sort a drama out.