To ask for your most hated/annoying things that happens in Soaps?

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I started listing these in a "things that annoy you" thread and I thought of so many I thought I'd make my own.

Soaps. I can watch them and be entertained by them but the characters stupidity and predictability in the storylines annoy me sometimes! Let me count the ways:

1. Most people, when having a secret conversation, try to keep things discreet like "don't mention what I told you earlier, ok"? Not in soapland. It's "don't tell anyone that I slept with my ex husband in his new wife's bed last month and now I'm pregnant with his child, ok?" Cut to new wife hiding behind door, listening to everything, plotting revenge.

1. Character claims to be poor and jobless and they are depressed. Next thing you know they're in the bloody pub or at the cafe having some tea and cake. Thought you were skint!?

1. "Have it on the house". I must say I'd love to know where all these friendly freebie-giving establishments are in real life because the only time I've been offered something for free is when I've had a bottle of wine accidentally knocked over me by the waiter. Staff in soap land are always giving stuff away free, even when they've only worked there five minutes!

1. So self-absorbed. (Think of Janine in EastEnders for this scenario). How come is it that she can set someone up for a crime and they are ranting and raving in the Queen Vic as the police bustle them out, screaming abuse at Janine and not one person sees that sly, evil look she always gives and think it suspicious? Also, whilst we're on the subject of Janine (and other baddies) why is it that when someone has seemingly pulled off a crime that is completely out of character for them, and they are blaming Janine, nobody stops to think "Hang on a minute, maybe this character is telling the truth and it actually is Janine, the woman who says and does bitchy and nasty things on a daily basis"?

1. Characters just "decide" they are going to move to America or Australia. Erm, no, you cannot just do that, it takes ages to sort out! And when they do move their whole life fits into one suitcase.

1. "I've got something really important to tell you. Meet me at the pub later". Two things: One: Which pub? What time? Two: Er, no, this really important thing is not waiting until we're at the pub later, you will tell me this instant"!

Please add your own and yes this is lighthearted.

IABU to bump my own thread especially as it’s not a soap but I’m watching Ackley Bridge and it’s come to a cliffhanger until the next ad break when a character accuses another character of (wrongly) backstabbing her. Instead of, like a normal person and explaining what exactly happened, accused character responds with “it wasn’t like that” and “You’re my best friend”

Well nobody need ever be out of work, you just walk into the nearest restaurant/pub/shop/factory and ask for a job, according to the soaps!

Developing an addiction overnight. Downing entire bottle of Vodka at speed, to show just how addicted they are. Then, like Phil Mitchell, abandoning that hideous beanie and getting over the addiction in a few episodes. No AA, no rehab...just a 3 day intense coke habit.

It took Ken Barlow about 5 seconds to make Toyah a cup of tea tonight. Also, Robert and Michelle doing the deed in the freezer - firstly, wouldn't that be unhygienic around food? Secondly, doesn't extreme cold do "things" to a man?

Everyone's been arrested and interviewed in the same room. Everyone's been rushed to hospital and ended up in the same single room. Never on a ward.

I work in a hospital, there was a drama on fairly recently where it was WILDLY inaccurate! I don't remember who was in it but it was about a surgeon whose patient had died on his table and the patient's father was out for revenge. He was bursting into the operating theatre and all sorts. It just wouldn't happen! Zero thought has gone into research how threatened and doctors work. I didn't watch past the first 2 episodes

And he also waited to confront the surgeon outside the hospital. How would he know his shifts? Ridiculous. I'm still angry about it

I hate the way their children are never around, ever and they are in the pub at night to.e instead of at home cleaning,cooking, doing homework and bedtime. They have these children but never have to look after them!

Nobody ever makes a cup of tea in a mug. It's always done in a teapot which is always brought to the table. Then when it's poured it's just a short splash in the cup, always looks cold too.

No work ever gets done in the factory, in real life noise from the machines would drown out all voices. Also whoever is the supervisor has only one thing to do, carry a clipboard.

Nobody ever says they can't afford to go to the pub, and when they go to the pub they get served immediately and often get told to sit down, their drinks will be brought over. No one ever moans about the price of a pint.

All the children are only friends with each other, no friends from off the street ever come for sleepovers. Everyone sits round the table, nobody's ever seen sat on comfy sofas watching tv.

A lot of their lives are played out outdoors, there's always loads of characters outside of their houses at the same time. Eastenders is the worse, outside is always a crowd of people coming and going at the same time.

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That was ITV’s Trauma. By the end, viewers were (unintentionally, I think) on the side of the surgeon thanks to the actions of the unhinged father.

The fact they turn every bereaved parent into a child snatcher.

The high number of murders and mass murderers, where has the humour gone. Stopped watching them all now.

In Corrie, the Rovers and the Barlows' house are arranged in such a way that the pub toilets appear to share the same space as Ken's kitchen.

I was absolutely sick of Pat Phelan getting away with murder for so long. And now I'm sick of Lachlan in Emmerdale. Oh well, Debbie and Chas should be able to give her some tips on how to catch a serial killer, both of them having been involved with the previous serial killer Cameron.

Not to mention how incompetent the police are, particularly in Emmerdale. You have both Robert Sugden and Moira Dingle walking around as free as a bird.

Janine Butcher turning to prostitution because she couldn't find a job. She explained she'd tried everywhere when she actually meant the cafe and the launderette.

People spending a fiver on a pint, taking a sip then leaving.

Sorry to bump an old thread but I was looking through old posts and noticed I was right about Steve and Tracy. 😂
Anyway I'm betting that Sally stays in prison til after Christmas but her conviction quashed when that weird creepy bloke tries scamming someone else but fucks up royally. Sally will get released on Easter Sunday

When characters leave after being in a soap for years and then are never mentioned again.

Loz except when it's convenient to pack a cast member off for a bit. Like David taking the kids to Barbados to stay with Becky or Norris to South America to stay with Emily.

I like the Sally prediction. I'm also betting that staunch lesbian Kate drunkenly sleeps with staunch chef Robert and conceives a secret but not so secret baby. Michelle will get to open her eyes wider and say something along the lines of "Why does every husband get someone else pregnant and then announce it in the Bistro?"
Love this thread. Thanks for bumping it.

Really finding the paddy and chas story a struggle

It's a tough watch but they've obviously done the research. Can't normally bear Chas but she was phenomenal. They took good care of that storyline.
I think Joe Tate is still alive.

Sorry if it's been said and it likely has as I haven't RTFT but my annoyance is living in the same street or even next door or frequenting the same places...

As the character that has raped/killed/traumatised you

When virtually none of you live in council housing. You all rent. You can all easily move and it is not normal for life to go on with you going about your business while they are round the corner and bumping into you at every turn

Oh and nobody uses phones to keep in touch with anyone

It's always a shock when a character returns with a new baby/partner/job/hairdo

Even when it's your mum or sister

You never bloody phoned them or they you to discover any of this

Years pass without anyone calling each other and keeping up

And murderers or severe drug addicts getting custody of children. Even being assessed by SS thoroughly- still awarded custody or able to adopt

I only watch eastenders and even that occasionally. It annoys me that so many people cohabit with other adults. There must be eight adults and three children living in the Slater house at the moment! They just keep letting more and more people move in, where do they all sleep! And the pub has far too many people living there as well at times.