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I should have named it in my last post. It's such a pathetically obvious way for a show's writers to avoid the controversy of having a woman decide to have an abortion but still find a way to get rid of the kid anyway. As I wrote above, the Jessica Buchanan example had to be the most ridiculous example of this trope--she gets hit by a car at nine months pregnant and beginning labor.

Anyone remember the Fabulous Five series? They were an updated version of the Against Taffy Sinclair club books (these were in elementary school, the "Five" were in junior high).

One Life To Live drove me crazy with this when Jessica Buchanan got pregnant. After the usual Good Girls Avoid Abortion crap--despite explicitly deciding to have one given that she was only a teenager and zero relationship with the baby's father, she and the father go through numerous potential adoptive parents before deciding to keep the baby. To add insult to injury, she gets hit by a car and loses the baby, so kudos to the show for failing to take a groundbreaking approach to any of the three options she could have gone with.

Pregnant or giving birth. Dramas do it too. The Babies Ever After trope. Passions took this to ridiculous levels in its finale, with the female half of EVERY couple announcing that she was expecting. I too appreciated that Wings didn't do that Helen. That might be the only example!

You nailed it. I often wondered how he could even stand up, because he was so friggin spineless. To be fair, Jen was no prize either. I hated that about him. The classic fair weather friend. I remember it was only halfway through the first season that I started to dislike him--it was unbelievably crappy of him to let Susan think he was on her side during her clashes with Kaysen and not let her know otherwise until things got to the boiling point. And then he did the same thing during her arguments with Kerry, and the same thing to Doug when he was seeking the pediatric attending position. ANYWHERE. That incident eclipsed any shred of respect I may have had left for him. The same guy who always blasted Doug for getting personally involved in cases and for his possible euthanasia of a patient is now doing something even worse. What a fucking hypocrite.

When this horrible incident occurred, I had just started sex education and this case is how I learned what "rape" was. Not until 2003, when she finally came forward, did I learn the "Central Park Jogger's name. This was such a horrific miscarriage of justice all around--aside from these poor kids being railroaded for something they didn't do, by the time the real assailant confessed, the statute of limitations had expired, which means Tricia Meili never got justice either.

Speaking of dressing. . . TV women never sleep nude or wear sexy nightgowns to bed. It's always frumpy pajamas/T-shirts, etc. Sexy lingerie is only for special occasions. (For added bonus, to demonstrate how downhill the relationship has gone, the guy will barely notice.)

EVERYBODY on TV almost always seems to be ridiculously and elaborately overdressed for whatever it is they're doing.

Same here. That's why that trope annoys me.

I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but I hate how often the word "Christmas" is used in the titles.

And it's always coffee. Nobody hates it? Nobody drinks tea?

It's not even summer yet. This is insane. And 40 new movies?! That's even crazier. When will they start airing them, September? Anyone ever watch a slew of these to see how many actors pop up over and over again? Candace Cameron Bure has done about six, right?

"Candy" This show had an unfortunate habit of recycling its scripts, but for the most part, they did a good job when they did. I love how Martin can barely keep from rolling his eyes at the lame story a suspect is giving him and finally shuts her up by showing her his sobriety chip and echoing Danny's line from a few months earlier--"I know a junkie when I see one."

How was the new Harry and Meghan movie? I went out yesterday and missed it. ETA that I just watched it and can answer my own question. UGH. AWFUL. And not even in a So Bad, It's Good way.

The Universal Drivers License. I always found it ridiculous that James Bond could pilot every type of vehicle he got into--car, truck, plane, boat, helicopter. OO agents must go through some hellish training.

I hate that little part where Blanche is debating whether to date her aerobics instructor and tells Dorothy, "This is strictly off the record, but he's nearly five years younger than I am!" First of all, "off the record", as is if this is going to be a huge shock to anyone. Then "nearly", as if she can't bear to admit that it might be more. And then "FIVE years", when a blind person could see that it's much more than that. I didn't mind her being vain about her age or even lying about it, but I hate how downright delusional she could be. Like when she met her father's much younger fiancée and declared, "She's practically MY age!", when the woman had to be a good 20 years even younger than Blanche.

I also dislike the One Hour Work Week trope, which occurs anytime something isn't a workplace sitcom or drama. Unless someone's filthy rich, there's no way we should always be seeing them at home/shopping/at lunch/anywhere but work. I appreciated that Friends of all shows acknowledged this when Joey of all people told the rest of the group that their bosses hated them because they were hanging out in a coffee shop at 1130 on a Wednesday.

Friends cited this also, when everyone expected Ross to go to his ex-wife's wedding and he angrily declared that no one would expect that if she were marrying another man. Speaking of Friends, Friends Rent Control. "I work one day a week and make $5/hour, but my place is nicer than what someone with a 6-figure salary could afford!" To be fair, I don't really hate it, but it really annoys me.

And even that took a while. Not until he realized that he'd always be second best to Sonny did he get an inkling of how badly he treated Skye.

Me too. I know how soaps are (and even Real Life), but I can't abide by so-called supercouples that result in someone being badly hurt and neither of them having any remorse for it.

Anything by Ann Rule, especially The Stranger Beside Me. I appreciate that she did so much to flesh out Bundy's victims and let the reader know what kind of wonderful people the world was robbed of because of this sicko.

Are you reading my mind? Stop it!

In the middle of a snowstorm too. Because he forgot that the next day was Monday. Jeez. The jerk couldn't even be bothered to try and act concerned about her, saying that he wanted to WAIT A FEW DAYS before coming back to talk to the cops. I'm not sorry that prick is dead, just that he took those poor boys with him.

I used to feel so bad for thinking this, but not anymore. I like Robin and I'm sure KMc is a lovely person, but I agree with everything you wrote here. I agree with this too, but with it being the only soap ABC has left, they're probably going to hang on to it until the Second Coming.

I have a feeling the series is going to end with Gibbs still in his coma from 1991, with this all having been a Dying Dream. Or better yet, they'll rip off "Newhart" and have it turn out to be a dream of his St. Elsewhere character.