Would you watch an OTT parody-style soap?

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• RodriguezMan267 Posts: 28,156

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  30/12/10 - 12:49 #2

  That was pretty much Footballers Wives

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• zombie woof Posts: 6,906

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  30/12/10 - 12:50 #3

  I thought that's what Peter Andre and Jordan were trying to achieve.

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• Get Den Watts Posts: 6,039

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  30/12/10 - 14:30 #4

  Isn't that what we do already?

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 3,391

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  30/12/10 - 15:11 #5

  I'd recommend watching telenovelas; no-one will beat Latin America for OTT-ness.

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• Hellingly Posts: 8,405

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  30/12/10 - 15:24 #6

  I watch Hollyoaks. Does that count?

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• Face Of Jack Posts: 7,181

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  30/12/10 - 15:30 #7

  Sounds rather like Crossroads Mk III to me That was fun.
  
  My all-time favourite american parody was 'Soap'. I don't know how they played it so straight, while the audience were in stitches!

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 3,352

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  30/12/10 - 16:28 #8

  This describes Hollyoaks in the Lucy Allan era. It's not like that anymore.

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• omnidirectional Posts: 18,815

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  30/12/10 - 18:26 #9

  Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..

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• LemonadeMan Posts: 81,710

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  30/12/10 - 18:29 #10

  Yes, I would watch something like Sunset Beach!
  
  I want to watch Sunset Beach again! I miss it.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 3,352

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  30/12/10 - 18:36 #11

  I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. How could I miss it?!!? It sounds hilariously ridiculous!

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• davey_wavey Posts: 27,406

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  30/12/10 - 18:48 #12

  Yes, I would I love OTT ridiculous storylines.

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• Kyle123 Posts: 25,782

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  30/12/10 - 18:49 #13

  I think I could tolerate it for a while, but long-term it'd just be ridicolous.

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• bspace Posts: 14,303

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  30/12/10 - 18:51 #14

  you mean like 'SOAP'
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_%28TV_series%29

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• Flamethrower100 Posts: 14,106

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  30/12/10 - 18:53 #15

  Hollyoaks is a bit like that.
  
  So was Bad girls.
  
  And Home and away. Was very OTT when I watched it.
  They found a girl on the beach who was raised by people who spoke a completely made up language. And she could speak english in a few weeks time.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,285

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  30/12/10 - 18:57 #16

  Don't think I'd watch.

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• Hound of Love Posts: 80,072

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  30/12/10 - 19:06 #17

  gmc93 wrote: »

  This describes Hollyoaks in the Lucy Allan era. It's not like that anymore.

  
  
  
  Sunset Beach was brilliantly trashy though
  
  Corrie's Kate Ford is doing a one-woman OTT-parody at the moment

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,248

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  30/12/10 - 19:14 #18

  omnidirectional wrote: »

  Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..

  
  Totally agree with this statement! I miss Father Fit and Dimples :D:o

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• SuperAPJ Posts: 10,402

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  31/12/10 - 02:14 #19

  I recall reading that Harry Hill was to star in a soap opera parody which, like the American one, was also simply named Soap. Did that ever materialise?

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• BigDuck Posts: 4,309

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  31/12/10 - 02:19 #20

  I think we had something like that which flopped majorly...
  
  Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper anyone???
  
  I think that was the one Harry Hill was involved in too.

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• RiDsTeR Posts: 12,227

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  31/12/10 - 02:37 #21

  If it was like SB yes I would. It'd be a laugh

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• ChuckyBlackhart Posts: 2,468

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  31/12/10 - 05:43 #22

  Has this been inspired by Eastenders under Bryan Kirkwood?
  
  A cgi fire.
  A character (a serial killer preacher no less) faking his own wifes death. Only for it to turn out she was locked next door all along. And none of the residents bat an eyelid.
  Characters changing in to other people.
  A cgi train.
  
  We're already past the point of parody my friend.

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• mr muggles Posts: 4,601

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  31/12/10 - 13:17 #23

  Victoria Wood did an amazing parody in the 80s with Acorn Antiques. All the episodes are collected on one dvd. The making of acorn antiques is IMO the funneist piece of tv ever."Whats this??", "Its a haemorhoid preparation , to be brutally frank! Cut?!":p

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• davey_wavey Posts: 27,406

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  31/12/10 - 13:22 #24

  I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. It sounds so ridiculously brilliant! :D:D

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• SillyBillyGoat Posts: 22,266

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  31/12/10 - 13:31 #25

  I like the mini soaps on E4 ... real piss-takes of American soaps.
  
  "I'm gonna ask Faye to marry me"
  "Where?"
  "I don't know! Facebook?!?! Or Twitter?!?!?!?!"
  
  Complete with dramatic head swishes
  
  
  
  By the way, wasn't there a storyline in Days of Our Lives where there was a serial killer, but it was eventually revealed that nobody was killed, and all the victims were being held on an Island that was a carbon copy of the original town

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• jonparadise Posts: 6,052

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  31/12/10 - 13:40 #26

  Sunset Beach was 'class' (if that's the right word).
  
  They knew they were churning out something that was incredibly nuts, yet managed to keep straight faces all the way through.
  
  The disasters were fantastic, with the earthquake that lasted about 3 weeks and the Posideon Adventure that lasted even longer.
  
  I'll never forget Annie, or the amount of times Lesley Anne Down could say 'Trey, trey' in one episode.
  
  

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