What is a soap opera?
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肥皂剧（soap opera）是从英语传至中文的外来词汇，又称泡沫剧。通常指一出连续很长时间的、虚构的电视剧节目，每周安排为多集连续播出，因此又称系列电视连续剧，因最初播放期间经常夹杂肥皂广告而得名。一般称晚八点档的电视剧为肥皂剧，例如超长韩剧，现多指以家庭生活和爱情为主的电视剧。1922年8月22日，肥皂剧最早出现在美国的广播当中
what是关系代词，用于句型
a is to\for B what C is to\for D
意思是A之于B犹如c之于D,表示比喻。
例如 Air is to us what water is to fish.空气对我们来说，犹如水之于鱼。
本句可以翻成电视中的肥皂剧就像书籍中的畅销小说。
A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio and most recently on mobile phones. This genre of TV and radio entertainment has existed long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap. What differentiates a soap from other television drama programs is their open-ended nature. Plots run concurrently, and lead into further developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent story threads that may at times interconnect and affect one another, or may run entirely independent of each another. Each episode may feature some of the show's current storylines but not always all of them. There is some rotation of both storylines and actors so any given storyline or actor will appear in some but usually not all of a week's worth of episodes. Soap operas rarely "wrap things up" storywise, and generally avoid bringing all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time. When one storyline ends there are always several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes invariably end on some sort of cliffhanger.
【Plots and storylines】
Most soaps follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place. The storylines follow the day-to-day lives of these characters. In many soap operas, in particular US daytime serials, the characters are generally more handsome, beautiful, seductive, and wealthy than the typical person watching the show. This is true to a lesser extent in Australian and UK soap operas which largely focus on more everyday characters and situations. Many Australian and UK soap operas explore social realist storylines such as marriage breakdown or financial problems, and sometimes include significant amounts of comedy. However in general even the most realistic soap operas take everyday, ordinary lives and exaggerate them to a degree where they are still plausible, yet are more dramatic.
Romances, secret relationships, catfighting, extra-marital affairs, and genuine love has been the basis for many US soap opera storylines. The most popular soap opera characters, and the most compelling and popular storylines, have usually involved a romance between two characters, of the sort often presented in paperback romance novels. Soap opera storylines sometimes weave intricate, convoluted, sometimes confusing tales of characters who have affairs, meet mysterious strangers and fall in love, are swept off their feet by dashing (yet treacherous) lovers, sneak behind their lovers' backs, and engage in other forms of adultery that keep their audiences returning to find out who is sleeping with whom, who has betrayed whom, who is having a baby, or who is related to each other.
Remarkable (sometimes unbelievable) coincidences are sometimes used to enhance the drama. If a young woman in a soap secretly has a single sexual encounter with a boyfriend in high school, this forbidden affair will come back to haunt her at the very moment it would cause the most harm — such as on the day of her wedding. Previously-unknown (and sometimes evil) twins may emerge, and unexpected calamities disrupt weddings with unusual frequency. Much like comic books—another popular form of linear storytelling—a character's death is not guaranteed to be permanent without an on-camera corpse, and sometimes not even then. The death of Dr. Taylor Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful seemed permanent as she had flatlined on-camera and even had a funeral. But when actress Hunter Tylo returned to the show in 2005, the "flatlining" was explained away with the revelation that Taylor had actually gone into a coma.
More recently, the American soap opera Passions currently involves some supernatural or science fiction elements in their ongoing storylines (one of the main characters is Tabitha Lenox, a 300 years old witch). This can include, for instance, an alien character or a vampire character (most infamously seen on Port Charles). Often, these characters are isolated in only one of the ongoing story threads, which can seemingly allow a fan to ignore them if they do not like that element, a form of krypto-revisionism.
The grand-daddy of supernatural soaps, however, is Dark Shadows (1966-1971) which featured the vampire Barnabas Collins, the witch Angelique and various other ghosts and goblins, friendly and malevolent. Dark Shadows has the distinction of being the only long-running soap to have every one of its episodes released for home video (including a reconstruction of the one episode of its 1,225 that is lost), first on VHS and currently in progress on DVD.
【Soap parodies】
A few soap opera spoofs have been made. Two of the most famous U.S. spoofs were Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Soap. Australia also produced a spoof of glamorous beach-side soap operas in the form of Shark Bay, which featured many former Australian soap stars from Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Home and Away and Neighbours.
Within the story of Australian soap opera Prisoner two characters in the 1985 season became addicted to daytime serial Days of the Week and would eagerly discuss plot twists within the fictional show.
On British television, comedian Victoria Wood had a long-running spoof soap entitled Acorn Antiques on her sketch show (loosely based on ITV's Crossroads).
In the United States, Carol Burnett frequently ran a soap opera spoof on her show, called As the Stomach Turns, modeled in name after As the World Turns. Dramatic coincidences and missed cues (parodying a time in which soaps were broadcast live) were seen frequently, as well as the melodramatic welling of organ music, which was a staple on American serials until the 1970s.
A frequent staple of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was a soap opera spoof involving unsuspecting members of the studio audience called The Edge of Wetness, the title of which is a takeoff on The Edge of Night.
Futurama frequently features scenes from an almost all-robot soap, called All My Circuits. The robot Calculon is the show's star.
In the episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends entitled "Berry Scary", the plot twists in the episode resemble those in a spoof of The Young and the Restless entitled The Loved and the Loveless.
Australian sketch comedy series Fast Forward featured the recurring Dumb Street skit, which parodied soap operas in general, but in particular the then current shows Neighbours, Home and Away, E Street and A Country Practice. Fast Forward also featured Rampant Stupidity a recurring skit which spoofed melodramatic series in the Dallas and Dynasty mold.
"Moody's Point", a soap spoof appearing on several episodes of The Amanda Show.
U-Pick Live's "As The World Picks" segments.
Queer as Folk's show-within-a-show Gay as Blazes which humorously parodies Queer as Folk itself.
The Muppet Show parodied medical serials such as General Hospital and The Doctors in the skit Veterinarians' Hospital.
SCTV featured the soap opera parody Days of the Week (an obvious reference to Days of our Lives). The intricate storyline, which ran as a recurring segment on the sketch show, featured such soap opera cliches as amnesia, terminal illness, the return of long-lost relatives, disastrous weddings, and court-room trials.
Sitcom Moesha featured an episode that parodied The Young and the Restless. Entitled The Mo' and the Restless, this episode spoofed Y&R even to its opening.
"Palm Beach", a skit on Saturday Night Live which lampooned the 2000 US Presidential election, featured an opening titles sequence that parodied that of The Young and the Restless.
Sunset Beach featured a parody within itself. During one of the Thanksgiving episodes, the soap did a nod to VH1's Pop-Up Video by conveniently pointing out to viewers that a turkey baster used to baste a turkey wasn't the same one used in a storyline where one of the characters was impregnated by a turkey baster.
The musical comedian and parodist Spike Jones recorded the spoof track "None But The Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta)" in the 1940s.
In the That '70s Show episode entitled "Vanstock", an out-of-work Red becomes addicted to soap operas and has a dream in which he and his wife play roles on a soap called Point Place. The soap parody pokes fun at stereotypically "cheap" production (boom microphones peeking into the camera shot), "cheesy" soap dialogue and crying, and organ music.
Red: Oh, Kitty. What have I become?
Kitty: I don't know! You're not the man I married! And I'm not Kitty!
In the Red Dwarf episode "Kryten", Kryten watches a soap named Androids, a parody of Neighbours.
The 1990s sitcom Martin featured references to Pam and Gina's favorite soap opera, "All My Young'ns", whose title is spoofed from All My Children.
In the music video for the Queen song "I Want To Break Free" the band parodies a popular British soap opera.
In the television show The Simpsons there is a recurring soap opera called Search For the Sun, including such satirical situations as a man entering a room dressed as a reverend, followed by a woman saying "Father McGraff, I thought you were dead!", to which he replies "I was."
1 a : a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and melodramatic or sentimental treatment b : a series of real-life events resembling a soap opera
2 : the melodrama and sentimentality characteristic of a soap opera <even cops need a little soap opera in their lives — Joseph Wambaugh>; also : something (as a novel) having such qualities
a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)
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