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

Personal and life-changing information and secrets will be discussed loudly in the street, while someone just round the corner listens and hears every word.

As someone else mentioned, men like Eric Pollard, Phil Mitchell and Ian Beale are successful with women. And before anyone accuses me of being misandrist, it goes both ways. Laurel in Emerdale has gorgeous guys competing for her. In real life it would be the dregs competing for her, not kit or Jai.

Nearly everyone reaching for the bottle if something stressful happens. Shouldn't it be a cup of tea?

If someone buys a big bunch of flowers to say sorry, the flowers will be plonked angrily in a rubbish bin.

Any event thought of by someone working in the pub ie carnival/karaoke/fancy dress party is organised and put on in 24 hours, and is always packed to the rafters despite not being advertised for weeks.
If there's ever an impromptu sing song around the "ol Joanna" everyone knows all the words to every song.

Yes I hate that, so wasteful

Give them to someone else

I'm surprised there's room in the bin, what with all the abandoned breakfasts and dinners scraped into it.

Yes, @woodhill - annoyingly wasteful!

This is exactly how ALL recruitment is done at my boyfriend's garage.

Close family members don’t turn up for events like marriages or funerals.

Phil Mitchell’s safe and it’s never ending stash of cash is a thing of wonder.

Mine are medical inaccuracies!

shocking an asystole rhythm
people spontaneous coming back to life and talking following brief CPR
minimal basic life support before declaring death !
tbh I could go on and on !

yep I lead a boring life 😂

The fact that the majority of the young women are all physically beautiful. Even the 'ugly' girls. Example being. Amelia off Emerdale, supposed to be unnatractive, but actually very pretty.

Oh, and in real life Naomi off Emerdale would eventually get some trousers that fit her properly.

Children go from cute newborn to 7 to 16 in a matter of months. Adults age slowly

Characters who suddenly become qualified as, say, a solicitor and start their own firm, having only just left uni and with no experience let alone professional qualifications.

and they do every single type of law - so Adam will be going conveyancing for someone one day then the next defending someone else for murder.

Then sort out someone’s divorce in his lunch break

...and always have time to give a quick legal opinion to a neighbour, however complex the issue, sometimes for the price of a pint in the Rovers.

Resurrecting this thread!

Someone cooks someone a special it always gets burnt. Not just a bit burnt but charred to this big black mass extremely quickly.

Some underling workers will sit down to a big fry up breakfast but then Phil or Steve Owen or Ian Beale (insert other local bigwig of your choice) will come in and say "Oi, you're late! I need you now!" Underlings get up, leaving their freshly served breakfast and rush out. Then one of them rushes back in, picks up a bit of toast, rushes out again!

On a more serious note I stopped watching EE early in the pandemic. But I don't remember him having to shield for months as a vulnerable person after his liver transplant. I also don't remember seeing him having to have numerous medical appointments and be a slave to a pill regime. Except for, maybe, one week after his transplant.

*cooks some a special meal

Everyone has everyone elses mobile number.

WRT qualifications , you just neeed to pick up a tyre iron and suddenly you're a mechanic doing car services and MOTs
Or a knife and you are working the a resturant kitchen
Pick up a hairbrush , you can do perms and balyage

If you look after someones child (if the KiddieKupboard is suddenly full) you can start charging as a ChildMinder

Don't bother looking further than the Market for your next DH/DW/DP.
But if you do wander OffGrid , the person you bring back will have History and Family Connections .

Buy all your clothes off the market , the 100% polyester tat that you just hurl into the laundrette washing machine with your jeans and bras and it'll come out pristine and not shredded to billy-o

If you need to move , for whatever reason, there's a house or flat or a sofa somewhere . Or a room in someones Elastic Walled House .

Move to a new area and suddenly a School Place becomes available . No waiting lists here . Be it Nursery ,Infants,Junior or Secondary .

Yes no one goes to college and has to do theory etc and qualify

Kim and Denise running the salon, ahh but I forgot her 1 GCSE😀

But if you do wander OffGrid , the person you bring back will have History and Family Connections

OffGrid - is that the official regulator for soap characters who wander too far from home? I reckon its judgement about Alfie Moon leaving was harsh, but the one about him returning was bloody brutal.

I can't work out how the flat above the Queen Vic houses such nhuge families. You see the stairs, a little corridor with about 3 doors. You see a sitting room, kitchen. Presumably there's a bathroom too?

Where do they sleep?

People have clothes that look like they've just been dry cleaned and professionally pressed. And yet they've all relied on the service wash by Pauline Fowler or Dot Cotton at the launderette.

Everyone gives birth, gets married, dies on Christmas Day