TV meme: day 14
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wouldbedorothyDay 14 - Favorite female character
Jessica Tate, Soap
(Psst, I didn't have a Jessica icon, so my icon is for my honorable mention, Illyria from Angel. Of course, Illyia was in a female body but was actually a god and didn't have a gender, so... :-b)
Soap (1977-1981) was a sitcom that parodied soap operas and is absolutely one of the most brilliant shows ever on TV. It's in my personal all-time fave top ten.
Jessica is hard to describe. She's one of the two matriarchs of the show, and pretty much the central character, though it was an ensemble. She is... wide-eyed. Kind of innocent and daffy and sweet and weirdly wise. She would totally get what Joey on Friends was talking about with "a moo point," lol. She has this beautiful spirit and always wants to see the best in people. She says funny, sometimes seemingly not-so-bright things, but then she proves she's smarter than you think. And tougher. She loves her family ferociously and will fight for them.
Here are two classic Jessica clips that immediately come to mind: Jodie teaches Jessica some homosexual history, and Jessica exorcises Satan!
First, Famous Gays 101!
And this one... well, let's just say Days of our Lives was not the first to do a demon possession story. Jessica's daughter Corrine's baby was possessed by the devil. Yes, that's what I said. And yes, it was funny, mostly. But in this clip, Jessica has had enough and fights for her family. If you've never seen it, I don't know how it'll come off out of context, but she still fucking makes me tear up! Katherine Helmond is amazing!
Jessica Tate, Soap
(Psst, I didn't have a Jessica icon, so my icon is for my honorable mention, Illyria from Angel. Of course, Illyia was in a female body but was actually a god and didn't have a gender, so... :-b)
Soap (1977-1981) was a sitcom that parodied soap operas and is absolutely one of the most brilliant shows ever on TV. It's in my personal all-time fave top ten.
Jessica is hard to describe. She's one of the two matriarchs of the show, and pretty much the central character, though it was an ensemble. She is... wide-eyed. Kind of innocent and daffy and sweet and weirdly wise. She would totally get what Joey on Friends was talking about with "a moo point," lol. She has this beautiful spirit and always wants to see the best in people. She says funny, sometimes seemingly not-so-bright things, but then she proves she's smarter than you think. And tougher. She loves her family ferociously and will fight for them.
Here are two classic Jessica clips that immediately come to mind: Jodie teaches Jessica some homosexual history, and Jessica exorcises Satan!
First, Famous Gays 101!
And this one... well, let's just say Days of our Lives was not the first to do a demon possession story. Jessica's daughter Corrine's baby was possessed by the devil. Yes, that's what I said. And yes, it was funny, mostly. But in this clip, Jessica has had enough and fights for her family. If you've never seen it, I don't know how it'll come off out of context, but she still fucking makes me tear up! Katherine Helmond is amazing!
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Date: 2010-07-29 10:30 pm (UTC)Soap was absolutely fantastic and I loved every damn bit of it, every terrible joke, every kooky story line (even when Jodie fell for a girl--ew), and campy character. I saw every episode in one weekend while Comedy Central was having a marathon and it made my terrible, horrible, no good family vacation tolerable.