What are some classic soap opera situations ?

Question

What are some classic soap opera situations ?

Answer 1

Amnesia

A pregnancy with "who's the daddy"

Back from the dead

A person appearing and telling some unsuspecting person that he is their father

Love triangles

Star crossed lovers

Answer 2

A woman sleeps with a man and then she sleeps with another the same night, occasionally his brother, and then she must figure out who's the daddy

A character is dying so she tries to push her husband to move on with someone else by matchmaking only to discover she isn't going to die and now must fight for her husband back

Answer 3

memory loss: AMC's Ryan Lavery, DAYS' John Black, GH's Jason Morgan

look-alike relatives or strangers (turn on the way-back machine): OLTL's Carlo Hesser and Mortimer; AMC's Jesse Hubbard/Loving's Jacob Foster; GH's Ryan Chamberlain and Kevin Collins

returning from the dead: I can't count how many DAYS characters can't stay dead, or how many times they come back. They don't call it "Days of Our LIVES" for nothing.  

Answer 4

fining out your real brother/sister is some one u don't like or a rival

finding find the real father of your baby

u fall in love with some one who is related to u

your mother/father abandons u as a child then comes back to try to reclaim the years they lost

your mother manipulates u into marrying some one that she likes but u don't love her

your children will try to do any thing take control of their parent's company

u fall in love with some one else while your husband/boyfriend/girlfriend is in a coma

u get engaged/married only to find out that some one else has feelings for u

Answer 5

A woman is dying and while she is on her deathbed, her ex, which has been married to her twice before, marries her again to fulfill her dying wish.  Once this happens, she pulls through and he must decide whether to stay with her.  

Answer 6

Amnesia

A child out of wedlock

Divorcing and marring your husband's brother and having it work out

A twin returning after a death

A baby switch

Finding a long lost relative

Finding out you have a brother or sister right in the same town

Finding the father of your child isn't dead

etc.