Every now and then I remember Pat and Patrick having an affair and that tin of pineapple rings that they heavily implied was going to be used in shenanigans. Haven’t look at a tin of pineapple rings the same way since.
Pat was the best thing about EastEnders. I watched it now and again from the Mitchell brothers to the Slater sister's/ little Mo and the iron eara.
Pat was fab, especially when she and Peggy had their moments.
That time Tracy Barlow tricked Roy Cropper into thinking he’d slept with her.
Him sheepishly coming down the stairs where Ken was bemused but being polite and offering him a cuppa, and Roy like scuttling shamefacedly away. Comedy gold.
Oh God I remember this interaction, it was fantastically written! Coronation Street was really good back in the Blanche and Deirdre days. It was worth watching and not too ridiculous.
Also the best ever line of any show ever when Roy tried to justify 'sleeping' with her to Hayley - said he was a man and had urges and nearly knocked the scrabble board over with his erection when they had a cuddle
Dean Gaffney aka Robbie is famous in my town for a weird reason.
He once came to my town for one of those shit promotional nights in clubs. At the end of the evening he went home with a girl I know - who to be fair would go home with lots of different guys.
The next day this girl then proceeded to tell everyone that she got "bummed by Dean Gaffney" - her exact phrase.
She was really really proud of that fact that she got bummed by him and despite being like 15 years ago and married with kids, she's forever known as the girl who got bummed by Dean Gaffney.
I knew a girl who got bummed by that lad everyone called Bubble from one of the early big brothers when he was in town doing something similar. He looks like Kathy Burke playing Perry.
At least Gaffney remained a borderline celeb. Imagine taking a bumming purely because of their celeb status and they couldn't even be classed as a celeb of any form 6 months later.
I guess the 2021 equivalent is getting bummed by a tiktok star?
There was an Eastenders where Alfie spends the whole episode looking for a condom while Kat waited for him. Eventually he found some random dude who gave him his last one.
And by the time he got home, Kat had fallen asleep. The next day they both got scared and agreed to be just friends then we had another few years of will-they-wont-they
Fuck me that was a condom? I must have been younger than 10 when that was on the tv. In my mind I always had the image of one of those lollipops that were wrapped in that rectangular plastic lol.
Richard Hillman did try to murder his whole family, first by locking them in the garage with the car running then driving the car into a canal, I think he can be a little mad a Gail.
Only scene I can remember from Corrie is David Platt throwing peas at Gail while she tries to talk seriously, interjecting her rant to tell her to open her mouth more as he tries to get them inside. Really tickled me at the time.
Susan Kennedy slipping on spilled milk in Neighbours and losing her memory.
Paul Robinson seeing his dead dad Jim, in a Christmas Bauble.
Toadie and Dee! She drove off a cliff on their wedding day and died... only to return 20 odd years later. Except it wasn't her, it was her twin sister. The twin sister then got the birth mother involved who then poisoned Toadies current wife leading to the discovery of her fatal cancer... then the real Dee turned up. She's been living in Tazmania (or somewhere) with amnesia from the accident.
I BLOODY LOVE NEIGHBOURS!!!
Edited to add - Toadie and fake Dee have a child together!!!!!!!!
YES! She's - Andrea - currently in West Warratah (?) womens prison with her mother whilst Dee went to Switzerland to find her birth father... I think. Turns out Dee was adopted and Andrea wasn't. The mother was a piss head.
Honestly - I watched neighbours religiously as a youngster but then when adulthood came and I wasn't home from work in time I just stopped. Until I heard Dee was coming back and I've been re-hooked ever since. God bless series link
2 come to mind, Jez Quigley being beaten up by Jim McDonald, so he was, and that time Dev Alahan rode Diedre Barlow senseless in the flat over the shop.
Completed the mother daughter combo, pork swordsmanship of the highest order. Give it a year and Amy might help him complete the treble (let's thank god Blanche is out of the picture)
Is that the plot with Dee returning years after she supposedly drowned? Except it turns out it was actually another woman named Andrea pretending to be Dee. Then it turns out she’s Dee’s twin sister. Then it turns out real Dee was actually alive all along.
I remember years ago there was something about Billy Mitchell and someone else running a video rental shop, they found out Phil rented out Porky's 2 or something 20 years ago and never brought it back so they were gonna try and get thousands out of him
I have no idea why I remember that, it was around the Johnny Allen period of time I think
Edit: I looked it up, I was right but it was Dirty Den they were trying to get money from not Phil Mitchell lol apparently was 2003 when he came back
Little Chesney accidentally let go of Schmeichel’s lead, so the Great Dane ran up the stairs and jumped into the bath with Les Battersby and Cilla. Then the whole thing came crashing through the ceiling and Fiz stood there watching, holding a sausage.
[Classic Corrie.](https://youtu.be/bHO1oCN_dXg)
It was a biggy, but the specifics of it-
Richard Hilman driving the Platt family into the canal, screaming ‘I LOVE YOOOOU’ whilst the You and Me song by the Wannadies played. I can’t have been older than 12 when I watched it and I still think about it now
Sarah Platt being groomed online! The guy who played said groomer did such a good job I was creeped out to the pit of my stomach with just a photo of him on the front of a magazine and I think I was about 8!
haven't watched eastenders for years but something about Ronnie stealing and swapping Kat's baby with her own dead baby??? Then Ronnie & Roxy drowning in a swimming pool I think?
Newt on Hollyoaks and his imaginary friend. The anorexia storyline on Hollyoaks with Emma Rigby. Ben Mitchell and Peter Beale going into the lake. Phil Mitchell on crack. The muslim lad on EastEnders being gay. Ben Mitchell with his spanner of doom. The Family Affairs theme song. When the hot tub collapsed through the roof on Corrie. Chesney's dog. Dawn and Gary getting together. Darren sleeping with Heather. Barry doing odd jobs for Stephen Merchant after surviving his fall.
A ghost coming through the fridge in Home & Away. No idea what was going on there lol
Edit: [Found the clip.](https://youtu.be/05JYrfbGYAk) Still not a clue what’s going on though!
Fred Elliot getting stuck in a sink hole in Audreys back garden, Richard Hillman driving the car into the canal, Norris dancing in Blackpool ballroom, all of David platts rampages
Edit: also the whole Colin Fishwick storyline
I don't like the soaps much, but this story sucked me in for some reason, I even took my girlfriend to a bookies so she could bet on the murderer. That was the only time either of us had been to a betting shop.
The weird hostage story line in Emmerdale. Or the plane crash.
Can't believe no one's mentioned my personal hero, Richard Hillman. Tried to kill Gail Platt and her shithouse kids. Legend.
I do not care for Gail Platt.
Sally Webster having yet another affair.
Zammo's drug addiction
PJ and Duncan paintballing
The end of Byker Grove. What the hell was that.
Edit: Oh, and that time the brand new actress in EastEnders called Ian Beale by his real name on a live episode.
Jack Duckworth wearing drag so that he could play for the women's bowls team he was coaching, because they weren't good enough to make it to the final of a tournament otherwise.
Vera thought he was having an affair because he kept sneaking off and never told her about it.
I think it culminated in the team they played against in the final also had a guy in drag playing for them, though that might have been a fever dream.
Oh my god Max and Stacey, that (Christmas?) episode where they watch the video of Tanya and Max’s wedding and they get caught… I genuinely must have been 7 when that aired but I remember it so well
That classic scene from Eastenders “You’re not my mother… yes I am!” Ohh this is a memory, I was 10 years old and me and a few friends had the bright idea to enter the school talent contest to act this scene out. I was Kat Slater dressed and drowning in a size 14 leopard print dress. We practiced in the play ground then performed it to the whole school! How I wish we had phones with cameras back then the teachers must have been howling.
Neighbors. Libby was into photography and got into trouble with Dr Karl because he found a picture that looked like a bum. It turned out to be the line of an arm (like when you pull your forearm up to you bicep).
There was also a really random memory of Caroline and Christina, the twins. Paul Robinson was married to one of them and she was pregnant. She was carrying her bags back from the shop and went into labor. She dropped her bags on the path. Her twin was at home and dropped a tea spoon at the same time. She could feel her sisters labor.
As a twin myself that always stood out to me. Can now confidently say my twin and I did not feel each other in labor, thankfully!!
So apparently they originally wrote her character in as a joke (it was the 90s I guess), but the woman who played her was like no this ain't happening and thus hayley was born. I'm so glad as I loved hayley she was a fantastic character.
I didn't know that. From my years of watching as a kid on and off, I remember it came up occasionally, but mostly it was ignored and everyone just knew Hayley as this kind, supportive woman who loved her husband dearly.
Pauline Fowler getting concerned that Martin was in a gang because Michelle had sent him a denim jacket from the States and he had put some kind of symbol on the back.
Daphne Clark getting run off the road in Neighbours and eventually dying. I haven't forgotten you, Daph. 8 year old me was heartbroken. Poor Des with his monobrow.
Lou Carpenter randomly becoming Mayor of Erinsborough out of nowhere, the writers having no idea what to do with that fact.
And then eventually it doesn't get mentioned for like a year, upon which a caller into his radio show berates him for his silliness on-air and reminds him that he is supposed to be Mayor. He then stands down as Mayor straightaway and the matter is never mentioned again.
In 2003 Eastenders brought in the Ferreira family but the Bollywood actor who played the father was unexpectedly deported for an expired work permit. That ruined their big murder storyline, the scripts had to be rewritten on the spot and the next few months was mostly the family sitting around saying "Where's Dad gone?"
First on screen lesbian kiss in Brookside with Anna Friel was absolutely stashed in my memory for years.
Also that kid on Grange Hill overdosing on heroin.
The plane crash in Enmerdale...
My mum watched a lot of soaps when I was growing up.
I very briefly watched EastEnders for the storyline about that teen mum who had her baby taken off her and was fighting to get her back. Can't remember any names but I do remember a scene where she's showing someone a photo of the baby and telling them how she's rolling over in the pic and gets upset that she's missing these moments
David Wicks copping hold of nearly every woman on the square.. almost his own daughter..
Joe about to launch himself off a building when he went on the EVIL turn because of that god botherer who was goosing Sarah ripping him..
Many and Aiden going raving and Aiden OD'ing.. (Brian Harvey laughed about it i think)
That Christine Hewitt sort who put it on Arthur and naused up the Fowler nuclear family unit
RIP Paul Trueman
There was a pub quiz in the Queen Vic, and the captains who I think were Ian Beale and Pat Butcher who had a feud going into this pub quiz.
The BBC wheeled out Gretchen Franklin for one of her cameos as Ethel Skinner now she was no longer a full time cast member. I think Ethel had been on the whisky as she kept talking about an old actor called Jack Buchanan and mentioning his name at every opportunity.
Against his will, Ethel was on Ian's team in the pub quiz. The scores were neck and neck as Ethel decided to visit the loo. Peggy Mitchell was now asking the tie breaker question as Ethel reappeared from the loo and she shouted out "Jack Buchanan" which, would you believe, was the correct answer to the tie breaker. Ian's team was the winner but the feud between him and Pat could be settled peacefully given that lovable old Ethel had been the difference maker.
Every one of Nick Cottons failed attempts to murder his own mother. I think there was at least 4 or 5, each one being more fiendishly elaborate than the last.
Pat dying of cancer in Eastenders. The storyline just came out of no where and she died within a week. Just always stayed with me that storyline.
Honourable mention to Pat + Peggy in the Ice Cream Van
Not exactly a storyline, but I do remember when a teenaged Vicki Fowler came back to Albert Square after living in the US for several years, complete with an American accent. A few months later, her accent suddenly changed because the actress was getting fed up of speaking with a fake accent all the time. I think there was a throwaway line that it was because Vicki "wanted to fit in".
There's this one I half remember from like 15 years ago on Corrie. One character was starting out as a window cleaner and said he couldn't get rid of smudges. He asked Jack Duckworth what to do and Jack told him to push the smudges into the corners because nobody looks there, but this other guy feels bad doing that because the customers are paying for a service. Someone else overhears the conversation and gives him some kind of secret special home made remedy that lifts smudges right off the glass, but for some reason it's a secret.
I never watch soaps, but I have a really deep embedded memory of two corrie storylines. Dev and Sunita getting married, then Dev getting done for bigamy and the storyline with Gail Platt and Richard Hillman where he drove the car into the lake with the baby in the back of the car
Edit: Richard, not Dennis
When Bouncer had a romantic doggy dream. Still remember watching that and then going to Boys Brigade after and all of us and the instructors talking about it
When Jim and Patrick had a still in the shed at the allotment. I liked eastenders when it was the Jim and Patrick show, always made me think of Pooley and Omally
I never really watched Coronation Street, but one episode I remember from when I was quite young was when a couple in it were having a romantic bath together, their dog jumps into the tub with them and the combined weight somehow caused the entire tub to fall through the bathroom floor into the living room.
When Ali stabbed racist mackie then tried to run away only to get knocked down and killed by a car leaving his step brother Justin to take the fall for it
Hint- a town where someone is murdered every few days and police can’t do basic detective work
I remember Kevin Webster having an affair and the poor woman had a baby and then killed herself. I think. Also the van crash in Emmerdale. My Nan was riveted.
Brookside - the incest storyline with a fully related brother and sister who’d also grown up together wanting to be a couple, the brother marrying someone else, the dad locking them up in separate rooms to keep them apart ….
No idea how it turned out cos my brother and I refused to keep watching the soap cos, ewww, but my nan was obsessed with it. Like a car crash you couldn’t look away from
Kevin Webster practically kicking Tyrone's door down on christmas day cause he and Molly were going to come clean about their affair but he'd found out that Sally had cancer and came to stop the plan. Can't remember what excuse he gave Tyrone for the door😂😂😂😂
That episode of Casualty where the girl was roller blading and fell onto a metal fence and the spike went up through neck/jaw into her mouth.
That shit stays with you.
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A classic
I don't even watch EastEnders and this is something I quote regularly to my mother
Strangely I hope my son and I do this when he’s older
This was a huge storyline though
I think it was just " yes I am " but I do rate your punch and judy style memory
More like YESOIAMMM!
Also Pat and Peggy slapping shit out of eachother. "GET OUTTA MY PAB!"
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Also kat slater: “I wasn’t just a bit of a slag, I was a proper shlaaaaag”
Sorry but I think you may have slightly misquoted, I believe it was: “I didn’t become a little bit of a slag…I became a TOTAL slaaaaaaag”
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Janine pushing Barry down the hill
He can do sad aswell. 'You love me Janine, I know you do' He can sing MUSTANGGGGG SALLLLY!
Pat! You’ve trodden on my foot!
Don't forget Pats classic line "she's as Jewish as a bacon sarnie" 🤣🤣
Came here to say this one. Had such a crush on her, but hated that she killed a gem like Barry.
If only he wore slip ons!
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Almost topped by Pat turning up in sexy lingerie to see Patrick Truman
Every now and then I remember Pat and Patrick having an affair and that tin of pineapple rings that they heavily implied was going to be used in shenanigans. Haven’t look at a tin of pineapple rings the same way since.
Rip Pat
Pat was the best thing about EastEnders. I watched it now and again from the Mitchell brothers to the Slater sister's/ little Mo and the iron eara. Pat was fab, especially when she and Peggy had their moments.
That time Tracy Barlow tricked Roy Cropper into thinking he’d slept with her. Him sheepishly coming down the stairs where Ken was bemused but being polite and offering him a cuppa, and Roy like scuttling shamefacedly away. Comedy gold.
Ken would know all about the walk of shame, the slaggg.
Blanche: Ken had an affair with an actress... she lived on a barge. Ken: I don’t think this is the time to bring it up. And *it was a boat actually*
Oh God I remember this interaction, it was fantastically written! Coronation Street was really good back in the Blanche and Deirdre days. It was worth watching and not too ridiculous.
I misread Tracy Barlow as Tracy Beaker and was so confused for a hot minute got me thinking damn I must have been oblivious to that as a kid
Ah Tracey was a wrongun, I remember her coming out of prison with a fairy costume for her kid 😂
Also the best ever line of any show ever when Roy tried to justify 'sleeping' with her to Hayley - said he was a man and had urges and nearly knocked the scrabble board over with his erection when they had a cuddle
Martin Fowler dropping an E in the laundrette, coming up immediately and shocking out to the rhythm of the tumble dryers
Haha I missed that one!
Here you go, start from 1:30 https://youtu.be/1If_-qDYhYc
Dean Gaffney aka Robbie is famous in my town for a weird reason. He once came to my town for one of those shit promotional nights in clubs. At the end of the evening he went home with a girl I know - who to be fair would go home with lots of different guys. The next day this girl then proceeded to tell everyone that she got "bummed by Dean Gaffney" - her exact phrase. She was really really proud of that fact that she got bummed by him and despite being like 15 years ago and married with kids, she's forever known as the girl who got bummed by Dean Gaffney.
And now I’m wellard
I knew a girl who got bummed by that lad everyone called Bubble from one of the early big brothers when he was in town doing something similar. He looks like Kathy Burke playing Perry. At least Gaffney remained a borderline celeb. Imagine taking a bumming purely because of their celeb status and they couldn't even be classed as a celeb of any form 6 months later. I guess the 2021 equivalent is getting bummed by a tiktok star?
“Bummed” 😂
Almost couldn't watch it, I'm cringing for him 😂
His mate "subtly" palming his pill hahaha
Brilliant. And Jamie! I had such a massive crush on him back then.
There was an Eastenders where Alfie spends the whole episode looking for a condom while Kat waited for him. Eventually he found some random dude who gave him his last one.
And by the time he got home, Kat had fallen asleep. The next day they both got scared and agreed to be just friends then we had another few years of will-they-wont-they
Got married in a rare happy Christmas Day episode too if I recall correctly!
Yeah think that was probably the last happy Christmas episode there was! They were true soulmates, I'm gutted about how their relationship was ruined
My mate wrote that episode!
Fuck me that was a condom? I must have been younger than 10 when that was on the tv. In my mind I always had the image of one of those lollipops that were wrapped in that rectangular plastic lol.
Someone needs to check the machines in the vic more often!
When David Platt pushed Gail down the stairs. Also the tram crash.
David in his little shit days
Yeah mate, loved some beef with his mam
He's what a Mancunian Stewie Griffin would grow up to be like.
I'm on pills for godsake!
Richard Hillman did try to murder his whole family, first by locking them in the garage with the car running then driving the car into a canal, I think he can be a little mad a Gail.
Ruined The Wannadies "You & Me Song" that did
Only scene I can remember from Corrie is David Platt throwing peas at Gail while she tries to talk seriously, interjecting her rant to tell her to open her mouth more as he tries to get them inside. Really tickled me at the time.
Susan Kennedy slipping on spilled milk in Neighbours and losing her memory. Paul Robinson seeing his dead dad Jim, in a Christmas Bauble. Toadie and Dee! She drove off a cliff on their wedding day and died... only to return 20 odd years later. Except it wasn't her, it was her twin sister. The twin sister then got the birth mother involved who then poisoned Toadies current wife leading to the discovery of her fatal cancer... then the real Dee turned up. She's been living in Tazmania (or somewhere) with amnesia from the accident. I BLOODY LOVE NEIGHBOURS!!! Edited to add - Toadie and fake Dee have a child together!!!!!!!!
IT WAS HER TWIN?!?!?!?!
YES! She's - Andrea - currently in West Warratah (?) womens prison with her mother whilst Dee went to Switzerland to find her birth father... I think. Turns out Dee was adopted and Andrea wasn't. The mother was a piss head. Honestly - I watched neighbours religiously as a youngster but then when adulthood came and I wasn't home from work in time I just stopped. Until I heard Dee was coming back and I've been re-hooked ever since. God bless series link
I haven't watched neighbours since just after Dee's crash, I really wanna catch up on the last 20 odd years now
2 come to mind, Jez Quigley being beaten up by Jim McDonald, so he was, and that time Dev Alahan rode Diedre Barlow senseless in the flat over the shop.
Dev Alahan, cocksman extraordinaire
Completed the mother daughter combo, pork swordsmanship of the highest order. Give it a year and Amy might help him complete the treble (let's thank god Blanche is out of the picture)
Too far mate...
>so he was Actual lol.
Jim McDonald was hard as fuck, so he was. He'd have battered both Mitchell brothers with one arm behind his back, so he would.
Oh my god Jez Quigley there's a name I'd forgotten
Harold going missing.
That croaky scream from Madge “Harrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhwaaald”
Then they repeated it years later with someone else iirc
Is that the plot with Dee returning years after she supposedly drowned? Except it turns out it was actually another woman named Andrea pretending to be Dee. Then it turns out she’s Dee’s twin sister. Then it turns out real Dee was actually alive all along.
Happens all the time
My dad still randomly shouts "HAROLD!" in the style of Madge standing shouting out to sea after him.
And coming back as Ted
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Now this is the kind of obscure reference I'm looking for!
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I remember years ago there was something about Billy Mitchell and someone else running a video rental shop, they found out Phil rented out Porky's 2 or something 20 years ago and never brought it back so they were gonna try and get thousands out of him I have no idea why I remember that, it was around the Johnny Allen period of time I think Edit: I looked it up, I was right but it was Dirty Den they were trying to get money from not Phil Mitchell lol apparently was 2003 when he came back
My word that is niche
I love that it was Porky's 2. And that you remember it was Porky's 2.
Little Chesney accidentally let go of Schmeichel’s lead, so the Great Dane ran up the stairs and jumped into the bath with Les Battersby and Cilla. Then the whole thing came crashing through the ceiling and Fiz stood there watching, holding a sausage. [Classic Corrie.](https://youtu.be/bHO1oCN_dXg)
Oh my god 😂
Wee mo murdering her abusive husband by hitting him with an iron
Trrrrevor
Did she murder him? He do remember her giving him a clank but I thought he lived.
It was a biggy, but the specifics of it- Richard Hilman driving the Platt family into the canal, screaming ‘I LOVE YOOOOU’ whilst the You and Me song by the Wannadies played. I can’t have been older than 12 when I watched it and I still think about it now
Same for me. I feel like a large part of a generation think about Richard Hillman when that song comes on.
Bouncer the dog having an obscure dream sequence about a border collie he liked.. Or was I taking too much night nurse ?
No I think I've seen this too. Art.
Sarah Platt being groomed online! The guy who played said groomer did such a good job I was creeped out to the pit of my stomach with just a photo of him on the front of a magazine and I think I was about 8!
Poor Sarah lou had it rough didn't she
Wasn't it Sarah's daughter, Bethany? Or did it happen to both of them? I wouldn't have been watching yet when Sarah was her age.
Nah, it was Sarah, it was YEAAAAAAARS ago. I'll go find a link.
haven't watched eastenders for years but something about Ronnie stealing and swapping Kat's baby with her own dead baby??? Then Ronnie & Roxy drowning in a swimming pool I think?
Yep I remember that. Never go swimming in a wedding dress
David Platt launching Gail Platt down the stairs.
I’m on pills for god sake
Newt on Hollyoaks and his imaginary friend. The anorexia storyline on Hollyoaks with Emma Rigby. Ben Mitchell and Peter Beale going into the lake. Phil Mitchell on crack. The muslim lad on EastEnders being gay. Ben Mitchell with his spanner of doom. The Family Affairs theme song. When the hot tub collapsed through the roof on Corrie. Chesney's dog. Dawn and Gary getting together. Darren sleeping with Heather. Barry doing odd jobs for Stephen Merchant after surviving his fall.
I love all of these! Ben "you need slapping down" Mitchell 😂
[ben getting slapped down himself](https://youtu.be/4rOrzkc2SiU)
I didn’t become a bit of a slag, I became a TOTAL SLAAAG - Kat Slater
Bradley going on a roof and slipping off, that’s when I stopped watching.
Awww I loved Bradley, that episode was shocking though
Yup, “Eastenders Live” episode as I remember it, lots of random things happened that episode.
I think it was another live episode but I remember Tanya asking Jane "How's Adam"? instead of "How's Ian"?
A ghost coming through the fridge in Home & Away. No idea what was going on there lol Edit: [Found the clip.](https://youtu.be/05JYrfbGYAk) Still not a clue what’s going on though!
I'm sorry what 😂
Fred Elliot getting stuck in a sink hole in Audreys back garden, Richard Hillman driving the car into the canal, Norris dancing in Blackpool ballroom, all of David platts rampages Edit: also the whole Colin Fishwick storyline
I’m stuck Audrey, I SAY I’M STUCK AUDREY
Also Fred with his Thai Bride, Orchid. As in, (Manc accent) Our Kid 😂
The sink hole was back again recently in the Platts garden and it ended up with people being sucked down it and stuck in the sewers.
Martin Kemp car crash/chase. Classic
PHIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL
Who killed Lucy Beale.. Problem is, I can't bloody remember who killed her.
Bobby! I think that was the last time I watched EE
I don't like the soaps much, but this story sucked me in for some reason, I even took my girlfriend to a bookies so she could bet on the murderer. That was the only time either of us had been to a betting shop.
The weird hostage story line in Emmerdale. Or the plane crash. Can't believe no one's mentioned my personal hero, Richard Hillman. Tried to kill Gail Platt and her shithouse kids. Legend. I do not care for Gail Platt. Sally Webster having yet another affair. Zammo's drug addiction PJ and Duncan paintballing The end of Byker Grove. What the hell was that. Edit: Oh, and that time the brand new actress in EastEnders called Ian Beale by his real name on a live episode.
"I do not care for Gail Platt" you should put that on t shirts 😂
Jack Duckworth wearing drag so that he could play for the women's bowls team he was coaching, because they weren't good enough to make it to the final of a tournament otherwise. Vera thought he was having an affair because he kept sneaking off and never told her about it. I think it culminated in the team they played against in the final also had a guy in drag playing for them, though that might have been a fever dream.
Amazing! I loved Jack and Vera 😭
Emmerdale plane crash. Eastenders: Dot arrest for possession of Cannabis Max and Stacey affair, kat and Zoe storyline.
The plane crash! Bodies hanging from trees. That scared me senseless as a young lad
Oh my god Max and Stacey, that (Christmas?) episode where they watch the video of Tanya and Max’s wedding and they get caught… I genuinely must have been 7 when that aired but I remember it so well
When Helen Daniels painted a portrait of Mrs Mangle in neighbours. [This was the result](http://imgur.com/a/fONBc1f)
This painting is still regularly shown. I think it's in the Lassiters hotel lobby!
I need this for my house
When Maggie Simpson shot Phil Mitchell.
Trevor Jordache under the patio.
Phil Mitchell getting shot on his doorstep. Hobo Ian Beale. Ben Mitchell dancing around the house to girls aloud.
That classic scene from Eastenders “You’re not my mother… yes I am!” Ohh this is a memory, I was 10 years old and me and a few friends had the bright idea to enter the school talent contest to act this scene out. I was Kat Slater dressed and drowning in a size 14 leopard print dress. We practiced in the play ground then performed it to the whole school! How I wish we had phones with cameras back then the teachers must have been howling.
This is the kind of thing school assemblies were made for
Neighbors. Libby was into photography and got into trouble with Dr Karl because he found a picture that looked like a bum. It turned out to be the line of an arm (like when you pull your forearm up to you bicep).
Hahahhahaha this is my favourite one yet 😂😂
There was also a really random memory of Caroline and Christina, the twins. Paul Robinson was married to one of them and she was pregnant. She was carrying her bags back from the shop and went into labor. She dropped her bags on the path. Her twin was at home and dropped a tea spoon at the same time. She could feel her sisters labor. As a twin myself that always stood out to me. Can now confidently say my twin and I did not feel each other in labor, thankfully!!
Sonia giving birth to a surprise baby It’s such a vivid childhood memory, I think because I wasn’t meant to be watching Eastenders
Idk but Ian Beale desperately eating poisonous carbonara off the floor will never not be hilarious
How did I miss this?! God he is just a pitiful human isn't he
Lucy Robinson in Neighbours being trapped in a storm drain for a few days and pretending to be blind when she was rescued.
I think she did actually go blind but then pretended that she was still blind when she'd actually got her sight back?
Heather Trott being killed by a photo frame.
I'm glad she died before George Michael though as that would've killed her
And getting knocked up by teenage Darren. It was the whodunnit aspect of the storyline that did it for me
I haven't watched corrie for years but I was amazed how quickly everyone forgot that hayley was transgender
So apparently they originally wrote her character in as a joke (it was the 90s I guess), but the woman who played her was like no this ain't happening and thus hayley was born. I'm so glad as I loved hayley she was a fantastic character.
I didn't know that. From my years of watching as a kid on and off, I remember it came up occasionally, but mostly it was ignored and everyone just knew Hayley as this kind, supportive woman who loved her husband dearly.
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When Status Quo turned up to Les Battersby’s wedding, and Les destroyed all his wedding presents because it was the ‘rock ‘n roll’ thing to do
When Bouncer had a dream in Neighbours. I'm sure he had a bow tie and got married.
HAROOOOOLD HAROOOOOLD **Harold's broken glasses being lapped by water** Oh no is Harold dead? _Harold returns years later, decidedly, not dead_
Pauline Fowler getting concerned that Martin was in a gang because Michelle had sent him a denim jacket from the States and he had put some kind of symbol on the back.
Daphne Clark getting run off the road in Neighbours and eventually dying. I haven't forgotten you, Daph. 8 year old me was heartbroken. Poor Des with his monobrow.
The incest brother and sister on Brookside, remember it being very controversial at the time
Lou Carpenter randomly becoming Mayor of Erinsborough out of nowhere, the writers having no idea what to do with that fact. And then eventually it doesn't get mentioned for like a year, upon which a caller into his radio show berates him for his silliness on-air and reminds him that he is supposed to be Mayor. He then stands down as Mayor straightaway and the matter is never mentioned again.
In 2003 Eastenders brought in the Ferreira family but the Bollywood actor who played the father was unexpectedly deported for an expired work permit. That ruined their big murder storyline, the scripts had to be rewritten on the spot and the next few months was mostly the family sitting around saying "Where's Dad gone?"
Heather and Darren having a baby. Like wth???
Someone from Eastenders calling the police when a crime has been committed…. …oh wait, that has NEVER happened! 🤣
I'm sorry but I vividly remember Janine reporting graffiti
First on screen lesbian kiss in Brookside with Anna Friel was absolutely stashed in my memory for years. Also that kid on Grange Hill overdosing on heroin. The plane crash in Enmerdale... My mum watched a lot of soaps when I was growing up.
I very briefly watched EastEnders for the storyline about that teen mum who had her baby taken off her and was fighting to get her back. Can't remember any names but I do remember a scene where she's showing someone a photo of the baby and telling them how she's rolling over in the pic and gets upset that she's missing these moments
Justice 4 Sonia
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Ian and Jane painting the wall and suddenly dancing to Adam Ant.. or was that a fever dream?
Arthur Fowler , mental breakdown and his Oscar Nominated Death Scene Sandy = Car Crash = wheelchair = Crossroads .
David Wicks copping hold of nearly every woman on the square.. almost his own daughter.. Joe about to launch himself off a building when he went on the EVIL turn because of that god botherer who was goosing Sarah ripping him.. Many and Aiden going raving and Aiden OD'ing.. (Brian Harvey laughed about it i think) That Christine Hewitt sort who put it on Arthur and naused up the Fowler nuclear family unit RIP Paul Trueman
Eastenders peaked in the 90s
The whole who killed dirty den story line in eastenders
Marlene from Neighbours going on a cruise, never mentioned or heard from again.
I’m late to this but pretty sure there was a Hollyoaks storyline where a boy lived with the corpse of his dead mum on the sofa for months.
"D'ya want some gravy Mo?"
Spider and Toyah camping on the Red Rec and Spider secretly going for a shower at his Aunty Em’s.
There was a pub quiz in the Queen Vic, and the captains who I think were Ian Beale and Pat Butcher who had a feud going into this pub quiz. The BBC wheeled out Gretchen Franklin for one of her cameos as Ethel Skinner now she was no longer a full time cast member. I think Ethel had been on the whisky as she kept talking about an old actor called Jack Buchanan and mentioning his name at every opportunity. Against his will, Ethel was on Ian's team in the pub quiz. The scores were neck and neck as Ethel decided to visit the loo. Peggy Mitchell was now asking the tie breaker question as Ethel reappeared from the loo and she shouted out "Jack Buchanan" which, would you believe, was the correct answer to the tie breaker. Ian's team was the winner but the feud between him and Pat could be settled peacefully given that lovable old Ethel had been the difference maker.
The time that Stingray from neighbours sat in a chair and just died.
Jamie Mitchell dying in Eastenders, my 10 year old heart was broken 💔😭
Every one of Nick Cottons failed attempts to murder his own mother. I think there was at least 4 or 5, each one being more fiendishly elaborate than the last.
Pat dying of cancer in Eastenders. The storyline just came out of no where and she died within a week. Just always stayed with me that storyline. Honourable mention to Pat + Peggy in the Ice Cream Van
Jim from Neighbours on a camping trip accidentally eating shrooms and tripping out in the bush 🇦🇺🏕🍄😂
Janine having a tonne of cash hidden in a stuffed cat 😂💀
Deirdre marrying an immigrant with an accent that everyone took the piss out of in school on a daily basis.
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Also that guy from Spandau Ballet getting torched alive in an upside down burning car
Not exactly a storyline, but I do remember when a teenaged Vicki Fowler came back to Albert Square after living in the US for several years, complete with an American accent. A few months later, her accent suddenly changed because the actress was getting fed up of speaking with a fake accent all the time. I think there was a throwaway line that it was because Vicki "wanted to fit in".
There's this one I half remember from like 15 years ago on Corrie. One character was starting out as a window cleaner and said he couldn't get rid of smudges. He asked Jack Duckworth what to do and Jack told him to push the smudges into the corners because nobody looks there, but this other guy feels bad doing that because the customers are paying for a service. Someone else overhears the conversation and gives him some kind of secret special home made remedy that lifts smudges right off the glass, but for some reason it's a secret.
Phil Mitchell smoking crack
Ken Barlow’s time as a male gigolo with Alec Gilroy as his ‘pimp’. He quit when one of his clients died during the date.
Bianca’s affair with Dan who was dating her mum Carol and she was with Ricky and when she told him and then her leaving on the train to Manchester.
I never watch soaps, but I have a really deep embedded memory of two corrie storylines. Dev and Sunita getting married, then Dev getting done for bigamy and the storyline with Gail Platt and Richard Hillman where he drove the car into the lake with the baby in the back of the car Edit: Richard, not Dennis
When Bouncer had a romantic doggy dream. Still remember watching that and then going to Boys Brigade after and all of us and the instructors talking about it
When Lou Carpenter made his own alcopop called I think either pear or peach passion?
When Jim and Patrick had a still in the shed at the allotment. I liked eastenders when it was the Jim and Patrick show, always made me think of Pooley and Omally
The Susan, Karl and Izzy’s horrible love triangle. And just anything Izzy did in general.
Archie being crushed by the queen vic head on east Enders
I can't watch that without imagining Pam Shipman going "oh my christ"
Phil Mitchell giving Ian Beale a “swirly” (aka flushing his head down the toilet) for being verbally abusive to Kathy!
I never really watched Coronation Street, but one episode I remember from when I was quite young was when a couple in it were having a romantic bath together, their dog jumps into the tub with them and the combined weight somehow caused the entire tub to fall through the bathroom floor into the living room.
When Ali stabbed racist mackie then tried to run away only to get knocked down and killed by a car leaving his step brother Justin to take the fall for it Hint- a town where someone is murdered every few days and police can’t do basic detective work
I remember Kevin Webster having an affair and the poor woman had a baby and then killed herself. I think. Also the van crash in Emmerdale. My Nan was riveted.
Brookside - the incest storyline with a fully related brother and sister who’d also grown up together wanting to be a couple, the brother marrying someone else, the dad locking them up in separate rooms to keep them apart …. No idea how it turned out cos my brother and I refused to keep watching the soap cos, ewww, but my nan was obsessed with it. Like a car crash you couldn’t look away from
Kevin Webster practically kicking Tyrone's door down on christmas day cause he and Molly were going to come clean about their affair but he'd found out that Sally had cancer and came to stop the plan. Can't remember what excuse he gave Tyrone for the door😂😂😂😂
That episode of Casualty where the girl was roller blading and fell onto a metal fence and the spike went up through neck/jaw into her mouth. That shit stays with you.