Great Moments In Soap History - Erica Kane vs. Bear

I haven't watched All My Children for many years. I watched the show one summer during high school, but apart from that I haven't watched the show too much.

Today is the last day All My Children will air on tv (it will continue online apparently), and is the last time we will all see the fabulous Susan Lucci as Erica Kane. Susan Lucci is beyond fantastic. I hope that she finds another acting role that is just as great, and that she's in the spotlight for years to come.

I could go on and on about why Erica Kane is such a great tv character, but I think this sums it up quite well: Erica Kane is so boss that she scares away a bear just by yelling at it. Best.

Bye Bye Erica Kane!

XOXO,
Emily

Great Moments In Soap History - Kimberly's Scar!

Words can't really do this justice. This is one of my favourite tv moments of all time. Do yourself a favour and go back & watch season 2 of Melrose Place. Amaaaaaaazing.

XOXO,
Emily

Great Moments in Soap History - Swans Crossing

For a few glorious weeks in the summer of 1992, watching the tv show Swans Crossing was my favourite thing to do. Even more than going to the mall! The show had everything: love triangles, rich vs. poor, scientific advancements, a girl living in a submarine, grown men who kept trying to steal one of the teen's poems...so many great moments!

Swans Crossing also has one of the best show openings of all time, up there with Saved By The Bell for sure. Not going to lie - a friend and I learned the Swans Crossing dance and used to dance to the theme at the beginning of the episodes. The dance doesn't really hold up, but the song is still pretty damn catchy.

There are toooooons of clips of Swans Crossing on YouTube, so treat yourself and watch some of the awesomeness. Yay!

If you want to learn all about Swans Crossing, you may want to look here and here.

XOXO,
Emily

photo via tvrage.com and nakedthanks.com

Great Moments in Soap History - Timmy

It was announced recently that the long-running soaps All My Children and One Life To Live will be cancelled in the coming months. I don't watch either of these shows, but the news made me a bit sad because I love soap operas and there are so few left on the air.

Soap operas are, for me, the tv equivalent of eating awesome junk food every once and awhile. They are like fantasy/sci fi, but still set in reality and campy. I get as excited about a zany Victor Newman plot line as most fellas would get about Lost or Battlestar Gallactica. It's an under-appreciated genre people! Every couple of weeks I'm going to highlight a particularly fun moment, character or plotline in soap history, to honour the genre I love so much.

First up - Timmy: Harmony's best and only doll/boy!

The show Passions was one hot mess. I didn't particularly love it, but would watch it when I was feeling lazy in university or when I was working shift work in my first post-uni job. There were lots of annoying characters (ugh...Sheridan Crane = worst!) and plotlines (Ethan loves Gwen! Ethan loves Teresa! No, Gwen!). There was even a character named Fancy. Oh...also, an orangutan who dressed as a nurse and was in love with a policeman named Luis. The superstar of the show and the only real reason for watching was Timmy.

One of the witches that lived in Harmony, Tabitha Lennox, sewed Timmy and brought him to life to be her companion. He ruled because he always spoke of himself in the third person, wore white gloves (I guess they were technically his stuffed hands) and drank lots and lots of martimmys. He hated Fluffy the cat, loved Charity (normal Charity, not Zombie Charity - another Harmony resident) and was pals with Julian Crane, the richest jerk in town. I believe at one point he became a real boy. It was icky when he went into "doll mode" to spy on the residents of Harmony. He had great chemistry with Tabitha, and they had lots of scenes that made up for his icky doll state.

Timmy was played by Josh Ryan Evans, who sadly passed away in 2002 as a result of complications during a surgery. In a sad and eerie coincidence, he died on the same day that a Passions episode aired where his character donated his heart to Charity and passed away. He was a really terrific actor and easily stole the show when he was on screen.

Yay Timmy!

XOXO,
Emily