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[[File:SOAP_5070.jpg|frame|Missing: Corinne and Benson]]
{{quote|''This is the story of two sisters: Jessica Tate, and Mary Campbell.
''Jessica lives in a neighborhood known as Rich. Jessica likes life. The only thing she would change about life, if she could, is that she would set it all to music. The Tates have more secrets than they do money.
''Mary, too, likes life. Unfortunately, life doesn't seem too crazy about her. As you can see, the
|The [[Opening Narration]]}}
''Soap'' followed the misadventures of the wealthy Tate family, and the equally bizarre misadventures of their relatives, the far less wealthy Campbells. Over the course of a few years, they face adultery, a murder trial, abduction by aliens, demonic possession, cultists and mental illness (several times). The cast consisted of a large ensemble, including [[Richard Mulligan]], [[Katherine Helmond]], [[Robert Urich]], [[Billy Crystal]], and [[Robert Guillaume]] as Benson, the cynical housekeeper to the Tates, who would eventually be spun off into [[Benson|his own show]] (in which he would eventually become [[Ascended Extra|lieutenant governor]] of his state).
It is also notable for being one of the first major series to feature a homosexual major character. Also notable in that said character managed to [[Bury Your Gays|survive]] [[Gayngst|relatively unscathed]] throughout the entire series.
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* [[Adolf Hitler]]: Now apparently making a living as a waiter in South America.▼
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of the [[Soap Opera]] genre.
* [[Alien Abduction]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Burt, but it takes him forever to get anyone to believe him}}.
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* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]: Jodie. Though in all fairness, [[Informed Attribute|this was probably necessary]], as he was seen with women just as often as he was seen with other men.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After Burt runs away from the mental institution (to buy a newspaper) Mary demands he tell her what's the problem as he's keeping from her. They've been through a lot and they can deal with it, she says. He tells her he killed her first husband. Burt tries to speak to her after this but she's effectively frozen on the spot.
▲* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Hot for Preacher]]: Corinne, towards Father Tim Flotsky. Tim's reciprocation of these feelings eventually becomes too much for him and he leaves the priesthood.
* [[If I Can't Have You]]: After Billy turns Leslie down she first goes suicidal and then tries to kill him repeatedly. [[Played for Laughs]] as nobody notices.
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* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: An odd variation. {{spoiler|Alice chooses to leave Jodie when Carol's mother says she isn't comfortable with a lesbian being with her baby granddaughter. Alice refuses to let Jodie pick between his [[Platonic Life Partners]] and his daughter so she makes it simpler}}.
* [[I Was Young and I Needed The Money]]: {{spoiler|Sally had done a pornography film and this was how Ingrid was blackmailing her to break up Mary and Burt}}.
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]: Bob (who is, after all, basically Chuck's id).
* [[The Kindnapper]]: Jodie's daughter Wendy is kidnapped by her mother Carol. Whether for [[Rule of Drama]] or [[Hollywood Law]], apparently the authorities can't do anything about it "because she's her mother" DESPITE the fact that Carol sued for custody and lost prior to the kidnapping.
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