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Please do not vote on the poll until you have read what is below!

OK this is the deal, Brian and Erin and Shaun who are now officiall Grey's Anatomy Junkies are also in denial. They are not willing to admit they are watching an evening soap opera! They feel that some how this show is has some higher moral ground than let’s say Day's of our lives, Falcon Crest or 90210! Please read the following definition by a man who is an expert in media and culture and you decide!

The defining feature that makes a program a soap opera is that it, according to Albert Moran, is "that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode". Soap opera stories run concurrently, intersect, 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 other. 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.

Evening soap operas sometimes differ from this general format and are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode. Additionally, evening soap operas and other serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end of season cliffhanger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera


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I was on goggle earth and I plotted the distance of my swim and it was 736meters! No wonder why I looked so swollen!