Soap opera

:Soap Opera redirects here. For the album by The Kinks, see Soap Opera.

Soap parodies

• A few soap opera spoofs have been made. Two of the most famous U.S. spoofs were Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Soap. Australia also produced a spoof of its own unique brand of soap opera in the form of Shark Bay, which featured many former Australian soap stars from Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Home and Away and Neighbours.
• On British television, comedian Victoria Wood had a long-running spoof soap entitled Acorn Antiques on her sketch show (loosely based on ITV's Crossroads).
• In the United States, Carol Burnett frequently ran a soap opera spoof on her show, called As the Stomach Turns, modeled in name after As the World Turns. Dramatic coincidences and missed cues (parodying a time in which soaps were broadcast live) were seen frequently, as well as the melodramatic welling of organ music, which was a staple on American serials until the 1970s.
• A frequent staple of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was a soap opera spoof involving unsuspecting members of the studio audience called The Edge of Wetness, the title of which is a takeoff on The Edge of Night.
• Futurama frequently features scenes from an almost all-robot soap, called All My Circuits. The robot Calculon is the show's star.
• In the episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends entitled "Berry Scary", the plot twists in the episode resemble those in a spoof of The Young and the Restless entitled The Loved and the Loveless.
• Australian sketch comedy series Fast Forward featured the recurring Dumb Street skit, which parodied soap operas in general, but in particular Neighbours, Home and Away, E Street and A Country Practice.
• "Moody's Point", a soap spoof appearing on several episodes of The Amanda Show.
• U-Pick Live's "As The World Picks" segments.
• Queer as Folk's show-within-a-show Gay as Blazes which humorously parodies Queer as Folk itself.
• The Muppet Show parodied medical serials such as General Hospital and The Doctors in the skit Veterinarians' Hospital.
• In the That '70s Show episode entitled "Vanstock," an out-of-work Red becomes addicted to soap operas and has a dream in which he and his wife play roles on a soap called "Point Place." The soap parody pokes fun at stereotypically "cheap" production (boom microphones peeking into the camera shot), "cheesy" soap dialogue and crying, and organ music.

:Red: Oh, Kitty. What have I become?

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:Kitty: I don't know! You're not the man I married! And I'm not Kitty!

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