History Main / SoapWithinAShow

* This page would be negligent to omit ''{{Soap}}''. Oh look, it's here now.

-->"No Roger, that's not what I want to do."
->"-I LOVE HER! And we're going to be together."
-->"Never..."

-cue overdramatized soap opera music-

''cue overdramatized soap opera music''

+cue overdramatized soap opera music+

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' had a parody of K-Dramas entitled ''Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive'', or ''Taedo''. It featured accidental BrotherSisterIncest, assassins, FunWithSubtitles, doppelgangers, IncurableCoughOfDeath, and John Cena.

-->-- '''Tristan''', who is [[MisterSeaHorse male]], ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

* Joey's soap in ''{{Friends}}'' is not strictly fictional (being ''DaysOfOurLives'') but the ShowWithinAShow stuff we see fits perfectly anyway... It's outlandish even for SoapOpera (brain transplants?!)...
** Not that outlandish to anyone whoever watched ''DaysOfOurLives'' regularly.

* ''MadTV'' had a parody of K-Dramas entitled ''Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive'', or ''Taedo''. It featured accidental BrotherSisterIncest, assassins, FunWithSubtitles, doppelgangers, IncurableCoughOfDeath, and John Cena.

* Harold, {{Batman}}'s mechanic, was once shown to be a fan of a soap, something that the prim and proper [[BattleButler Alfred]] chastised him for. Later shown to be HypocriticalHumor as Alfred begins riffing on the show, with obvious knowledge of previous plot points.

--> "I love you...but I have a problem."

* In an episode of ''TheWildThornberries'', the only tv channel they can get shows Russian soap operas, which Debbie feels... none-too-excited about, at first. later, when Eliza comes to ask her something:
-->'''Debbie:''' Shh! Yuri just told Svetlana that he's leaving her for Olga!
-->'''Eliza:''' You don't speak Russian.
-->'''Debbie:''' You are so young -- the language of soap opera is universal.

* Parodied like many other tropes in the 200th episode of ''Series/StargateSG1''; one concept for the rebooted ''[[ShowWithinAShow Wormhole Extreme!]]'' was a 90210-like DarkerAndEdgier soap with young, beautiful model-actors.
** It should be notet, that was before they started ''Series/StargateUniverse''.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had an episode where the crew went back in time to Earth and Neelix and Kes got hooked on several soap operas.

--> (''sobbing''): I just can't believe Stark would stoop to that right in the middle of Montana and Dakota's wedding.

* In the WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck episode, "Star Crossed Circuits", Darkwing's new super computer is convinced that "she's" a character from a Soap Opera called, "The Young and the Brainless" and that she's in love with Darkwing.

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* ''Cobbers'', another ''{{Neighbours}}'' parody in ''[[JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny And The Dead]]'', enjoyed by Johnny's grandad and the ghosts.
* The ''novelas'' described in ''AuntJuliaAndTheScriptwriter'' by MarioVargasLlosa are supposedly not too far removed from actually South American radio dramas of the time. Until, that is, the plots of the separate ''novelas'' start to merge into one...

* Grim of ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is addicted to the show ''[[MyLittlePony My Troubled Pony]]''. Two [[StockParody Stock Parodies]] for the price of one!

* An episode of ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had her opening a magical "Can Of Worms" that turned her life into a version of ''All My Circuits'', complete with amnesia, crazy twists, and hunky janitor.

* ''DuckTales'' has ''The Young and the Featherless''.

* ''The Northern Barstows'' in the KimNewman ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' story "The Serial Murders", a parody of ''CoronationStreet''. Richard Jeperson is horrified to find he's the ''only'' member of the team who doesn't watch it. After watching every episode so far as research, he's even more horrified to realize he ''wants to know what happens next''.

* Parodied like many other tropes in the 200th episode of ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''; one concept for the rebooted ''[[ShowWithinAShow Wormhole Extreme!]]'' was a 90210-like DarkerAndEdgier soap with young, beautiful model-actors.

** Master Splinter has picked it up in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003 toon]]. It's briefly {{lampshaded}} in the CGI movie (made doubly funny with VA Mako's delivery), and ''TurtlesForever'' starts with him watching a man say "I'm not your stepbrother - I'm your ''[[DroppedABridgetOnHim half-sister]]''!"

* The Autobots of ''TransformersGenerationOne'' were partial to ''[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/As_the_Kitchen_Sinks As the Kitchen Sinks]]'', which features drama such as an affair between Donna and Gordon, Sheryl's will (which Jack apparently didn't know about), and (in a deleted line), the will actually belonging to Bob, who named Katy as his successor!

* The movie ''{{Soapdish}}'' was all about this.

* Rene Zellweger's titular character in ''NurseBetty'' has a brain snap after watching her husband's brutal murder and thinks she's a character on her favorite soap opera, and drives cross-country to work at the hospital the show is based in (or at least one in Los Angeles with a similar name). The DVD even includes episodes of the show in their entirety. They're only five minutes long and exist just to show clips during the movie, but there's a coherent plot running through them. Expectedly, all the soap cliches are shown in full, right down to that damn fuzzy camera.