Drugs in Soaps

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Just heard Edward Grundy smoking a spliff. Not that I watch many episode of soap but when it happens the portrayal of drug taking in soap operas seems absolutely rediculous. There were some religious corrie watchers in the last house I lived in and I remeber one episode where a couple of kids droped some e's in a laundrette, it was the funniest thing ever. Discuss.

Also despite officially hateing soaps isn't it odd how radio four is often on at 7 on weekdays and 10 on sunday morning.

― Ed, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love the drugs are bad, dont do drugs refrence on american TV.

― anthony, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I watch Brookside, so in my soap, people use Drucks (it's set in Liverpool and is fiercely Scouse). Of course, it always leads to ruin. Jimmy Corkhill coming up on E was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.

And is it me or does Lindsey = Marc Almond circa Bedsitter?

― suzy, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nothing can touch the (har har) 'Euphoria' episode on _Beverly Hills 90210_ when they went to a 'rave.' I put 'rave' in quotes because they seem to have gone to a goth club by mistake -- why else would everyone be dancing to the Sisters of Mercy and Tones on Tail?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grate E ep in Dawson's (tho sadly DC himself did not die of overheating brane and thirst).

― mark s, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely impossible for Dawson's brane to overheat given huge surface area of forehead and therefore unsurpassable brane cooling capabilties?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Danny Kendall in Grange Hill dead in the back of Mr Bronson's car, he was a glue sniffer?, Sammo did cocaine, Just say No! Grange Hill is more or less a soap!

― james e l, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zammo was a smack junky, IIRC. Grange Hill anti drugs song Just Say No was actually covered by a straight edge band in all seriousness and is therefore classic on toast.

Jimmy Corkhill's cocaine addiction was apparently none too popular with public because the storyline took too long to develop. Cue much yakking in the press about how this was ironic because Jimmy was becoming addicted to it unreasonably quickly. Which I found odd as the only person I've known who'd developed a serious problem with coke took all of two months to go from first use to gibbering mess.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were some religious corrie watchers in the last house I lived in and I remeber one episode where a couple of kids droped some e's in a laundrette, it was the funniest thing ever. Discuss.

Surely, this was Eastenders wasn't it? Martin Fowler and Azif if I remember rightly. Possibly Ashley Cotton too (may he rest in peace).

The best was Neighbours ludicrously strong anti-smoking stance (as far as I can remember, only two characters have smoked, albeit briefly, the first burnt down the coffee shop, the second had a massive asthma attack). I did think Lou's recent addiction to painkillers was done quite well on the whole though.

I would love it if, just for once, a soap had the balls to run a storyline where a (popular) character developed a drug habit that didn't involve him being expelled/being sacked/dying/killing someone else/becoming a hardened criminal etc etc. If just for once, someone took drugs and led a perfectly normal life.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forget illegal ones, howabout teen smoking on Thirteen?

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Could have been eastenders, other people watch soaps I'm just around when they happen to be on.

Also i seemt o remember an episode of degrassi juniour high where someone sold people vitamin pills for huge amounts of money and they all span around and went wheeee.

― Ed, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Any drug use in 90210 is automatically funny. My ex-roomie would only ever watch it when someone was on drugs.

Wasn't there a plot on Eastenders involving "Junkie Nick" who was like the Grandson or something of one of the regular characters. (I just remember him cause the more smack he did, the more he ended up looking like the lost member of the Manics) And his grandmum locked him in her attic in an attempt to get him off smack. But then he ended up witnessing a murder while locked up there, but no one would believe him because he was a junkie in withdrawl.

God, please tell me I didn't hallucinate this, in one of those feverish sorts of states that I have to be in to make soaps remotely interesting to me...

― masonic boom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dot Cotton's beloved *son* Nick: now a paraplegic since Mark threw him off a roof.

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You people are crap at soaps. Nick was in a wheelchair but was last seen dragging himself round on crutches. Danny Kendal did not die from glue sniffing, he had some weird disease (I am sure this is right, though maybe my mum tried to protect me from the horrors of the world by convincing me this was the case).

There was that great plot on Stenders where Dot was taking 'herbal' tea and tried to give a cup to a visiting police officer. Tee hee.

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Danny Kendall did have a brain disease, he just looked like a glue sniffer. Neighbours doesn't really involve itself in drugs but there was the classic Jim and Doug moment. But they weren't really taking drugs to get boxed, they just thought they were eating wild mushrooms.

― Jonnie, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick is going to "recover", isn't he? Hurrah!

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That is one of my favorite 90210 episodes evah. Euphoria was branded as evil and wrong, because it gave Brandon a slight headache the day after...and I think he also lost his car somehow. Also slightly ironic because Jason Priestly allegedly hoovers up all manner of drugs.

― Nicole, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What a waste. Why doesn't he just take them?

― Jonnie, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A classic of this kind of thing is the Degrassi High episode where someone (Shane ?) after some binge on I-don't-remember-what ends up falling down a cliff and brain-damaged.

― Patrick, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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