Annoyingly unrealistic things in soap operas

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Ones I've noticed are:
People frequenting cafés and pubs, especially when the characters are supposed to be skint (I'm not skint thankfully, but I can't afford to do that).

People who seem to earn a good wage working for the local family firm or start up.

In the case of doctors, GPs that are caring and read between the lines and chase up patients. Oh and the reception staff rehearsing for a dance competition

And why when a woman is pregnant does she constantly cradle her bump?!
All shows do this.
I only held my bump when I was in a crowded area or had a pain otherwise my hands were at my side.

(Ok that's it! I won't post again I'm sorry 🤣)

When they decide to move the house is sold and they've completed on a new place the opposite end of the country in a week without even going there.

People who never work living in houses in London worth £1 million

In the case of doctors, GPs that are caring and read between the lines and chase up patients. Oh and the reception staff rehearsing for a dance competition

This! I watch Doctors and all I can say is I wish this was a real surgery, the number of times I've seen the GPs go dashing round to someone's house because they were worried about them! Also far too few receptionists - 3 staff for 3 surgeries, yeah right! 😄

In other soaps - the way people are always able to get someone to watch their shop/stall with no notice while they dash off to do something else.

Also the fact that whenever someone in a soap announces they are pregnant they always follow it up with 'I'm gonna have a baby', like there might be people watching who don't know what pregnant means. 😄

This is why I can’t cope with soaps. Or a lot of sitcoms!

Whenever the emergency services are phoned they are there within 1 minute. There is only one local copper and it's Craig. And he's ALWAYS on duty when something kicks off. Characters have a head transplant and nobody notices. Children are never seen or heard (actually a quad was seen this week 😱) Corrie is the only soap I watch, incidentally 🙂

Stag nights the night before the wedding which (at least on Neighbours) involve a hilarious prank that almost ruins the day.

Tracey on Corrie had a cat at one stage but don’t know if it’s still about.

i was just thinking the other day watching classic Eastenders - Ian and Laura got engaged and then got married the following Thursday. Don’t you have to give a month’s notice??? See also ‘spontaneous’ weddings on US shows.

If you have unprotected sex you WILL get pregnant especially if you're a teenager and probably won't realise until it's too late for an abortion, which is never mentioned.

No one ever has an abortion.

Men never have erectile dysfunction.

People keep secrets.

Men never have erectile dysfunction.

They do in Corrie @felulageller 😄

People do have abortions but usually there’s some sort of terrible ramifications - like Sharon on EE who got an infection and couldn’t have kids. (Except the two kids she had later obviously).

did Amy on Corrie have an abortion though a few years ago?

Also I think Stacey in EE and Tina in Corrie had abortions but their partners were angry

Roy Evans had Erectile dysfunction too!

No one claims benefits - Stacy and her 43 kids in Eastenders a prime example of this

no one watches TV

they all have each other’s mobiles - even those who are enemies

Stacy (again) sets up food lorry thing - just like that with her (pretend) wife

Everyone moans as being skint but they go to the pub, launderette, cafe every day

Random people moving into each other house. Houses seem to have unending bedrooms to put things. Houses are always neat and tidy despite multiple people living there

Have a kids playground - 2 swings nothing else (right in front of a garage) (eastenders) we get a slide and one swing where I am - proper posh

no nicks the squares xmas tree decorations!

Oh yes the benefits thing.

Chesnah what will we dooo we’ve only got three poond in us wages till next week with all these mouths to feed …

Well I don’t know, Gemma. How about claiming child benefit for five kids, UC with the child elements, the housing element, looking into DLA, and charging Bernie a few bob in rent. Just a crazy thought.

Wasn’t someone in Eastenders working part-time in a local post office to get work experience while doing an MBA?

Nowt wrong with post office work but not very relevant in that situation although I may well be misremembering

Breakfast is always a full English and when said breakfast put in front of (usually Phil Mitchell) he says angrily “I ain’t hungry” why did he watch his latest squeeze cook it then? Phil then storms out of the house and latest squeeze angrily scrapes it into peddle bin.

The amount of "bad things" that happen to one person / family .... sudden / unexplained death, divorce, injury, illness, debt, fire, affairs, general crime, infiltration by the Mob etc.

I know the sensible answer is that if they focussed on the life experiences of my street then it wouldn't make for hugely entertaining TV .... but these poor people have EVERYTHING happen to them, in the space of less than a month 😂

Cain Dingle/Debbie Dingle garage in the middle of the village , basically a shed with big door .

Someone randomly drives up with a huge expensive motor and asks them to service / sort out the ashtray etc

Why not take them to the Audi/Tesla/Range Rover garage where the car is under warranty and less likely to be joy ridden by Cain on a "job"

Once a baby hits 6 months, it is never seen crawling. Always carried or pushed in a buggy, until at least 3 years old.

Everyone has all of their neighbours phone numbers saved on their phone even if they are bitter enemies

If you are diagnosed with cancer, you must keep this a secret from your entire family and not tell anyone who might be able to help or offer support. You should generally refuse the simple treatment or operation that could help you recover as well.

Business goes bust, bankr upt, weeks/months later they buy a pub, business,house or a flat. No mention of credit rating. Money appears by divine intervention.