Rant: As The World Turns
Rod: Or could it be solar flares?
Barry: Let me see those listings……………..ROD!!! You did it again!
Rod: What do you mean?
Barry: Those are not documentaries, they are what humans call soap operas!
Rod: Soap operas? I didn’t see any soap on them.
Barry: How literal minded can you get??? They are called that because soap companies used to be their main advertisers.
Rod: But they are so real…..
Barry: Only in the writer’s minds. They are written for the audience that watches at that time, mainly the females.
Rod: I guess I should have figured it out from the names: One Life to Live
Barry: Well that title is true, until the actor or actress gets recast in a different role.
Rod: Then there is General Hospital.
Barry: Is that a hospital you’d want to wind up in ill?
Rod: And then we have Guiding Light.
Barry: I hear their light is going out.
Rod: Yeah. Another one is Days of Our Lives.
Barry: I remember seeing a recording of an old episode of that one. Thought I spotted an Omnipotent being on it but am not sure.
Rod: There’s another one called The Young and the Restless.
Barry: After seeing As the World Turns, I shudder what kind of trouble they get into on that one.
Rod: Another one is called the Bold and the Beautiful.
Barry: Bold…..you know, that gets me thinking. Take your basic soap opera, change the location to space, and make certain adjustments and what do you get?
Rod: SciFi Channel’s new show, Caprica?
Barry: It could be. I’ve heard some call it a space opera.
Rod: One of these must be a documentary, as the Supreme Overlord has me transmit it to her every day.
Barry: Oh noooooooooooo!
<In space, we see the Supreme Overlord on her throne, with the monitor showing All My Children.>
Supreme Overlord: Time to see what happens to poor Erica today.