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Daytime [[Soap Opera|soap opera]] that premiered on ABC in 1968.
 
The series originally focused on the wealthy Lord family and the blue-collar Riley family of Llanview, Pennsylvania. Heiress Victoria Lord (played by Erika Slezak since 1971) became the centerpiece of the show, later marrying into the Buchanan family, which has served as the series' core ever since. Over the years, Viki has suffered breast cancer, heart disease, a stroke, being shot, and most famously, [[Split Personality|Dissociative Identity Disorder]].
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** Except the actor who plays Shaun sucks and his delivery of the line was more like "I'm ''Shaun''" which didn't sound right and wasn't as cool.
** Another example occurred when Sam burst into a hotel room where Echo had been holding Dorian hostage, in a Spiderman costume, and taking Echo down with toy web shooters. Did we mention the kid is seven?
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In 2001, Jessica Buchanan's [[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air|life got flipped turned upside down]]. First [[Talkative Loon|Allison]] claims [[Switched At Birth|she returned the wrong baby]] after baby Jessica (Natalie) was kidnapped. Then it's revealed Jessica and Natalie are half twins when it was discovered her father was Mitch Laurence and not Clint Buchanan. Then after developing DID to repress childhood sexual abuse, her alter falls in love with a man and gets pregnant by him, just as she comes around to loving the guy...he dies in a freak accident. That freak accident was caused by her aforementioned twin sister's deception. She lapses into her DID again and imprisons her sister, and she's pregnant again. Unfortunately this baby doesn't survive, so ANOTHER alter steals her teen cousin's baby. Eventually, the ruse is lifted and she loses another child. She gets institutionalized (a recurring theme) and finds love with another crazy. Mitch escapes and fucks that up by erasing her mind to when she was a teenager. Her new beau can't cope and thus sleeps with said twin sister. She comes back though...mid coitus with the town pervert who impregnates her. Despite this she attempts marry him, until the ugly truth comes out. You guessed it, DID time. She hooks up with the town pervert and begins to like him, but Jessica takes over again and it's square 1. Just as Jessica and the town pervert begin to fall in love, Mitch returns and kills ''HIM'', somehow a DNA test is found and it's revealed that {{spoiler|Clint's her biological father all along.}} Did I mention she lost a kid before all this too?
* [[Evil Old Folks]] - Victor Lord was one very vicious old man. Also, Echo Disavoy.
* [[Flashback Withwith the Other Darrin]]- lampshaded when during ex-husband Asa's "funeral" Blair (played by a Caucasian actress) flashbacked to her own wedding to Asa...which occurred when Blair was being played by an Asian American actress. Cue the confused look into the make-up compact.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Mitch is the ''master'' of this. Everything he does is passive-agressive, which makes him all the scarier.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Justin greeted Matthew's return to school with a hurricane of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]] (including one on the figurative and literal meanings of the word "lame"); think [[Ignore the Disability]] done ''deliberately''.
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* [[Live Episode]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Locked in Aa Freezer]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]] - Schuyler
* [[Long Runner]] - 7/15/68-1/13/12, 11,105 episodes
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* [[The Rival]]: Dorian Cramer towards Viki.
* [[Pretty in Mink]] - Until the early 1990s.
* [[Rape Asas Redemption]] - Played straight after Marty's gang rape.
** Practically every bad girl in Llanview [[Unfortunate Implications|has been raped]] or it's been [[Attempted Rape|attempted]].
* [[Rape Is Love]] - Subverted once Marty got her memory back.
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