Last year, in honor of the holiday, we listed 5 Things SoapOpera Fans Have To Be Thankful For.
This year, we asked those same fans to list some of their
favorite Thanksgiving moments from the past 70-plus years of daytime
television.
One particularly high vote-getter was General Hospital’s
Frisco and Felicia Thanksgiving of 1985, which included a celebration at the
Brownstone with the same-initialed couple, as well as Frisco’s brother Tony,
and his then-wife, Tanya, heading upstairs after dinner and presumably leaving
Bobbie to clean up the mess. It also led to a morning-after Frisco and Felicia
discussing how many children they’d like to have one day. Felicia offered six –
or seven. Frisco didn’t look thrilled. Probably a major clue about the two
daughters he would abandon down the road (not that Felicia stuck around much
for Maxie and Georgie, either).
Kelly Applegate offered: My favorite was Guiding Light when
they held hands while "We Gather Together" played and The Young &
the Restless when Classic Billy and Victoria had their first Thanksgiving.
While Keith Alvarez recalled: There's All My Children when
the combined Kane/Montgomery family had their Thanksgiving at the Valley Inn.
And another AMC fan reminded that Thanksgiving 1990 was
Kelly Ripa’s debut as Hayley, all black goth wig and tough-girl attitude.
Meanwhile, few Days of Our Lives fans could forget 2004, when
Cassie was stabbed to death and stuffed into a turkey piñata the Salem kids
were battering with sticks. (Of course, later it turned out that Cassie wasn’t
really dead. She was merely another victim of a mind-controlled Marlena
thinking she’d killed a bunch of people. How that explains all the folks who
saw dead Cassie, I’m still not exactly certain.)
But the most interesting thing about calling out for
favorite Thanksgiving memories was how many fans, instead of merely suggesting
a scene or plot point, talked about year after year traditions.
In their honor, we count down the Top 5 Favorite Soap Opera
Thanksgiving traditions at Entertainment Weekly.
Happy Holidays!
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