For fans of the soap Passions a head up for today

**canadian gardener** · 01-13-2006, 02:09 PM

I get the day ahead broadcast out of Winnipeg (good things come out of the Canadian prairies including CJ and day ahead Passions).

OK if you love the funny bits in this soap you have GOT to watch today near the end. Theresa's attempts at CPR are hilarious!!!!

I saw it yesterday and rewound the tape just to see it again, it was so good.

And Endora the baby witch is messing with the space time continuum.

**homesteadmamma** · 01-13-2006, 02:28 PM

Ladies, everytime Margery and I talk on the phone, we have a discussion on the show Passions. I don't get it, however I live vicariously through Margery much of what happens on Passions. I always get a chuckle when Margery tells me about it.

**Michelle** · 01-13-2006, 02:48 PM

Margery, did they cancel that show at one point and bring it back?

**Kimberlina** · 01-13-2006, 02:53 PM

OMGoodness- that sound like one interesting show.... Way out there, huh?

**canadian gardener** · 01-13-2006, 04:51 PM

LOL well you'll either love it or hate it. It's kind of an aquired taste. It's come close to being cancelled a few times.

It's a send up of a soap opera wrapped within a soap. The creator and head writer is responsible for Days of our Lives.

I've never watched Days so I don't know if they are a lot alike.

It takes all the worst aspects of classic soaper techniques and drags every story line out with a campy sort of wink to the audience. Amnesiacs vie with comatose patients, and people coming back from the dead with amazing regularity. No cliche is left unused!

For example New Years Day has been going on since right after Christmas and it's still New years Day. A lot has happened in some story lines, nothing at all in others. People spin their wheels and have the same arguments over and over. Alastair has been stabbed and everyday for 3 weeks he almost tells us who dun it but right at the last, falls back, unconscious again. It's only one day on Passions, but 3 weeks in reality.

There is a 400 year old witch with a 2 year old baby daughter on the show causing a minor amount of mayhem. The patriarch of the rich and famous clan is evil and always doing dastardly deeds to stick it to the poor but honest folk of the town.

I got started watching when I was recovering from my hysterectomy. At that point the heroine Sheridan had been underwater dying for 6 whole weeks. She lived.

I was very taken with Edna the mother of the evil bad girl Beth. Beth had hired an orangutan nurse played by an orangutan to look after Edna who had supposedly suffered a stroke. She and the monkey would sit on the couch sucking back gin and offering a sotto voice commentary on the doings of evil Bethy boop.

Beth was after Sheridan's man, and stole Sheridans baby.

There is a lot of baby stealing going on. The young on Passions haven't a clue who their parents are as they change hands all the time depending on who is after them.

At least they are wanted. By all too many.

In between the baby stealing, the man stealing and the cat fights there are tsunamis that result from the witch and her baby witch having an accidental spell collision.

or the annual Christmas miracle in which somebody (usually in a coma, but occaisionally dead and buried a while) comes back to life and health surprising all.

and then there is the annual New Years attempt on Alastair's life which he always survives in true villainous character.

Right now he has been revived every day since boxing day I think, giving long monologues and falling back onto the bed when he gets to the point of saying who stabbed him this year.

Last year he was poisoned.

The year before that his face was revealed.

This year his long dead love came back from death, (we saw her body in its' coffin as a member of the cast kind of surfed thru the tsunami wave on top of the coffin which saved her life but I digress)

along with these plots and campy interplots are such overused and thoroughly worn out cliches such as amnesia, comas, murderous revenge that never goes anywhere-- Alastair survives every attempt on his life with an evil chuckle and then there is the thoroughly weird such as the whole town being sucked into hell and burped back out again and so forth.

I don't watch it to see any story line ever get anywhere, that is not the point of the show. It's to see how long they can stretch it out without breaking the storyline altogether.

It's one cliche after another but the humour behind it is what makes it funny.

**canadian gardener** · 01-13-2006, 04:53 PM

kind of like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes meets daytime TV.

**Kimberlina** · 01-13-2006, 05:02 PM

Oh my. Very funny! The girls at work used to talk about it all the time, but I never really paid any attention, and those people are all gone now.

**AmyMCGS** · 01-13-2006, 05:25 PM

I watch Days of Our LIves whenever I can, and Passions comes on after it.

It's definitely an aquired taste-- some days I can't stand it, other days I watch it. Margery put it well in saying that every cliche is used. And the baby stealing-- yikes!

And, back to today's CPR.... it was pretty funny. Here's this 80-pound woman jumping on top of her elderly husband beating on his shoulders in her own version of CPR. The funniest part to me was 1.) that two police officers couldn't pull her off-- give me a break!

2.) That another character commented on that exact thing-- that two grown men should have no trouble pulling the tiny lady off.

**homesteadmamma** · 01-13-2006, 06:51 PM

See you don't even have to watch it. Margery gives a play by play of it.

I'm always chuckling when I hear about this soap.

**canadian gardener** · 01-14-2006, 07:31 PM

Oh and if you do like it, my time saving watching technique is to tape it, then watch it on fast forward till I get to the bits I'm likely to enjoy and any fresh new bits.

Saves all that droning on in the really dragged out story lines and repeated variations that have been going on for weeks. You can watch it in about 10 to 15 minutes on high speed and still not miss the good bits.