oh yeah, had to look it up but my first memory of the bill is when cass rickman got murdered. they kept killing all the characters i fancied in that show

it is a repeated problematic hollyoaks trope that relationships with minors are fine if they are a boy. other problematic hollyoaks trope is anyone who was given up as a child will turn out to be a murdered

she went to prison and got stabbed for it though
although granted yeah they sort of portrayed her a bit too sympathetically

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yeah and they did it again with hunter and neeta. hollyoaks often gets in a pickle where it can’t reconcile ‘true love’ and something problematic, so they just kill someone off to solve it, they did that with the incest storyline too

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The incest storyline was so WEIRD! Proper car crash TV, loved it.

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Remember watching the first ever episode of Hollyoaks :older_man:

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i’ve seen a couple of episodes of Hollyoaks during lockdown for the first time in years, and little Tom is still in it and was trying to bang a girl which made me feel ancient

also Tony seems to have a whole new family (similar to Paul Robinson in Neighbours who when i saw an episode a few years ago seemed to have a whole different set of grown up children now)

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little Tom was in a throuple at one point. think tony will marry every woman in hollyoaks at some point

Actually think I might have seen the first Eastenders.

Not the first Corrie though!

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RIP

great acting

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love that Mark E Smith wrote a song about the Neighbours episode where Susan got amnesia

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went down a youtube rabbit hole of related clips, came across a pretty shocking one where julie martin accuses neighbours of eating their dog

I remember going to a restaurant on holiday around the time Harold disappeared and there was a waiter who looked.just like him. We persuaded our parents to get him to pose for a photo with us. Then he reappeared!

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The BBC and the programme makers were heavily criticised for the stereotypical way they portrayed Irish people.[7] Viewers were angered by scenes that they felt portrayed Irish as resentful towards English, drunk, dirty, poor and rude – one scene showed a drunk man pouring beer over Pauline Fowler (later revealed to be her brother-in-law), and then demanding payment for the drink.[7] Others were angered by the scriptwriters’ decision to include various farm animals in a street scene on the outskirts of Dublin

lol fuckin hell

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Great thread this.

Can’t help think we might need a "best’ big soap event as first is somewhat different.

Bouncer’s Dream would walk that though. Oddly not available on YouTube last time I looked which was prob 5 years ago.

Ailsa seeing Bobby’s ghost face in the fridge is my personal favourite (Home and Away).

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Now! That’s What I Call Livestock 106

Mid 90s Neighbours when Mark walked out on Annalise on their wedding day to become a priest.

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Bumping this thread just cos I liked it

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