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| | BBC - Comedy Guide - Soap |
 | | Soap was the creation of Susan Harris, who wanted to lampoon the daytime soap operas that proliferate on American television, not Dallas (a primetime series) but the really dross, schlock-operas like As The World Turns, All My Children, The Bold And The Beautiful and others of that woeful ilk. |
 | | Soap employed all the steamy ingredients of these unending serials but hilariously so, and in an ultra-fast paced, half-hour episodic format that usually, like its more serious counterparts, ended in the proverbial cliffhanger. |
 | | Soap ended on the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, with most of the characters put into terrible situations from which there was no chance of escape. |
| www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/s/soap_1299002898.shtml (612 words) |
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