We all know that soaps have their cliches, so I thought I would just take a moment to write them out and spark a conversation about these overused rules.
Ready? okay here we go-
If you are in a U.K. soap and you have a secret its going to come out on Christmas Day
If you have an affair it will almost always end with a baby by your piece on the side.
If you have a sibling than you will share at minimum one partner between you. ---Side note-- (and if you are on The Bold and the Beautiful than you share the entire cast!)
If you utter the words "this is the best ____ ever" something bad will happen and ruin everything.
If you are a female and your last name is Michelle you will end up sleeping with Jack Branning and than wind up having his baby.
Have a child? No problem, you will remain doing the same thing you have always been doing and will only acknowledge your childes existents when forced to.
Not even the characters in soapland watch soaps (unless you are in EastEnders)
When a fire breaks out someone will be trapped and unable to get free.
Every affair will be exposed.
You will get a job within the first week of arriving on screen.
If you are getting married something horrific will happen on both the wedding week and on the day itself.
It is perfectly acceptable to send your kids off someplace and when/if they come back they will be a lot older and have a different face then when you last saw them.
You always have a ton of enemy's pop out of the wood work right before you die so to make a dramatic who dun it storyline.
Someone is always watching your every move and talking to themselves about what they just saw you do.
So those are just the ones that I had out of the top of my head, what unspoken rules do you have? Post them in the comments below and we will include them in the unspoken rules 2 post coming soon!
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