Comments | iamsab: this is the story of two sisters

iamsab

this is the story of two sisters

Mar 25, 2007 20:18

Anyone who calls herself an Arrested Development fan and hasn't seen Soap is lying to herself! I know. I was one of you!

Soap is the 70s sitcom that AD borrows absolutely everything from. It's a proto-mock soap opera half hour sitcom, starring Katherine Helmond, Richard Mulligan, Billy Crystal (in his first big gay role -- he's dating the ( Read more... )

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iamsab March 26 2007, 03:30:37 UTC

It is so true, just swap a martini for a cheesecake.

cosmic March 26 2007, 03:34:20 UTC

It's ... possibly incredibly sad I never made the connection before, even though I've loved Soap as long as I can remember. I should watch that show again now that I'm old enough to get all the jokes I missed as a kid, shouldn't I?

arallara March 26 2007, 04:23:21 UTC

Soap! Yay! It's one of my earliest childhood television memories, actually. My parents like it, but I think my mom specifically chose it for me to watch because of the gay character. There was a lot of that in my childhood, which I always thought of as my parents being really cool and wanting to expose me to any kind of feminist and queer media that was around at the time. It wasn't until later that I found out it was partially because my started thinking I was going to turn out gay from the time I was about 4 years old. *g*

A friend and I started getting the dvds from Netflix a couple years ago, and watching it as an adult kind of blew my mind. It had some pretty crazy stuff going on in it, sociopolitically speaking! It made me think about just how far the counterculture made it into the mainstream during the 1970's, and how far the backlash took us back in the 1980's.

Anyway, some very cool, funny tv! And, yes, totally the foundation for Arrested Development.

zaneetas March 26 2007, 04:27:24 UTC

Soap! Wow, do I love that show. Except for possibly Chuck and Bob who are hilarious, but so totally off kilter that they terrify me a little. I'm not gonna lie -- I'd probably rather face a weapon-toting monster in a dark alley than Bob.

anatsuno March 26 2007, 06:51:44 UTC

What, you mean not everybody knows about Soap? I saw it all late at night on French TV a few years back, so I thought it was universally well known already... I'm late on AD so far though.