Yam?

Every soap opera has to have an evil person. Usually they more than one evil person – but you gotta have at least one evil person to raise the adrenaline of the viewer. The soap Days Of Our Lives has its share of mean and evil people. The king of evil forces on Days seems to Stepeno. He reeks of evil.

Evil or not, Stepheno is also a smooth talker, suave, and says profound things.

Last week, while Anna was watching it I heard Stepheno say, “We are who we are.”

My quick response to that was “I yam what I yam!”

Do I have a quick wit or what? Ka-ka-ka-ka!!

Two For The Price Of One

I do not know about other soap operas but Days of Our Lives now have four actors who each play two parts. That means they are getting 8 acting parts with four people. I mean to say “At Least” there may be more that I don’t know about.

Tony also plays Tony’s look-alike cousin. They just had a sword fight – tricky, no?
Samantha also plays a nun in an earlier time period in their flash backs.
Elvis plays an Italian in that same flashback in hot pursuit of the nun.
Wild hot Bonnie sort of drifted out of sight and now the same actor plays a more reserved and respected lady of the community.

At one time or another, I bet at least 70 % of the actors and actresses on DOL has had an evil twin show up, or maybe a good twin who would be themselves playing their look alikes.


Characters in that soap changes bodies almost as often as I change socks.

Days Without Shirts

Every time I happen to turn on the TV and the Soap Opera Days Of Our Lives is running there is always a man standing there talking with no shirt on.

The man might have a towel around his bottom part because his aunt’s half sister happened to drop by to borrow something. Another man may be out chopping wood, shirtless, or a man might be tearing down a brick wall in New Orleans for a Habitat project, and of course, shirtless.

I think a producer of days was looking over the bills and saw that what the wardrobe department spent on men’s shirts was outrageous. So, now the policy, is whenever possible have the men parade around without a shirt.

It would not surprise me if at the Salem Hospital Doctor Horton is operating shirtless. Or maybe Victor going over his high sophisticated finances is behind his big mahogany desk shirtless. Or maybe police brothers Roman and Bo Brady fight off a team of thugs and everybody is shirtless – a version of River Dance.

What about Mickey Horton, a fine lawyer, presents his case to the jury with no shirt on? And you look up at the judge and not only does he not have a robe on but also n.s. Maybe they are involved in a very complicated law SUIT.

Good Old Salem, U.S.A.

From time to time you read a survey of the U.S.’s most high crime city; most expensive city; the most desirable to live in city, and others.

I think the crime figures many times are based on just how creative the police leaders and civic leaders can get in redefining what is considered a murder or domestic squabble, or robberies or whatever.

The most desirable city – I think Atlanta and Metro Atlanta ranks up high on the most desirable list and so does Raleigh, North Carolina, and New York City.

I think the most desirable place I would like to live in is Salem, U.S.A. Salem, U.S.A. is the county seat of a county called “Days of Our Lives”.

In Salem, you hardly see anybody work. Most people stand around and talk about their love lives all the time. Sometimes some of the men folk get to into a near-hitting fist fight, but they hardly ever get banged up with bruises or anything like that.

Many towns have a goose laying golden eggs to keep the economy healthy. In Marietta it used to be Lockheed Aircraft and the military bases, which, but now, it is being a hub of outer Atlanta; Canton, Georgia, it was the cotton mills; some towns it is tourism, and you get the idea. With Salem, there is no product, so the citizens don’t have to worry about productivity.

And sometimes they run their nemesis Stepheno (The Phoenix), or his kin, out of town. But on the whole, they just stand around and talk about their love lives, and how complicated things can get.

Another good thing is they the people don’t grow old. There are grandparents who look like teenagers who are always having hot-blooded love affairs.

Another good thing, if blood is thicker than water, then you don’t have to worry about going without a meal or a place to stay, because in no time you will be related to almost everybody in town and need a genealogy program to graph out just how you are related to each person.

Good old Salem, U.S.A.

Soaps

Back in 1975 when our first son Rocky was born Anna quit work to be a full time mother.

While holding the baby feeding him and rocking him soap operas on TV caught Anna’s eyes. Me too. I started watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman which came on late at night.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was produced by Norman Lear and starred one of Woody Allen’s ex-wives, Louise Lasser. It was very bizarre and unpredictable you never knew what would happen next. It dealt in many subjects in a salt-of-the-earth or profound approach. It lasted less than two years. I think they ran out of subjects to attack and also I don’t think there were enough people to appreciate it.

We also began keeping up with a certain daytime soap that still is on 30 years later. And we still keep up with it. We don’t make it the focal point of our lives or anything, but I tape it and on weekends the VCR rolls it while we do chores.

Being the genealogy nut I am, I find it very interesting the intertwined relations everybody has with each other. It would take a patient devoted genealogist to make a relationship chart that would graph the different relations. Genealogy soft-ware programs do that, but it might blow a circuit trying to sort it all out.

I noticed that time has little meaning as we know it in the soap we keep up with. I have seen the same two people in room conversation begin on Christmas Day, and off and on during the week they would cut to that room where the two people are still having the conversation, then at the end of the week of viewing, they mention going to someone’s New Years Eve party that evening. If a girl is age 8 or 9 one week you might see her character change next week to a teenager curious about sex and having a good time. Sometimes a character starts showing his or her age and suddenly they are replaced with a younger better looking actor.

Sometimes when a new actor replaces the old one a little wit in shown, a line may be something like, “Kirk you don’t seem to be yourself today.”

The women, even the most moral and innocent, are acceptable to having an affair – usually her environment is beyond her control – her and a male person will be stranded on a desert island or something, and neither of them would do such a thing – but they each come around. Infidelity is rampart on soaps, or at the least the one I know, but I bet they all go by the same formula.

Almost everybody has an identical twin and will have amnesia.

Many times somebody is killed or in an accident the body is not recovered, and more so for villains. So, sometimes they return.

There seems to be most of the time a good guy with a British accent and sometimes a bad guy with a accent in around the Romania part of Europe.

The men, or the young men at least, seem to naturally walk around with no shirt on. Either the scene takes place while they are working out, or just out of the shower with a towel wrapped around them, or maybe shaving.

The makers know their target audience.