But there was some shampoo, thank God, and decent American soap.

The vignette also touched on stereotypical aspects of production values in American soaps.

Edwin was chubbier, with the lazy confidence of a young Bolivian raised on American soaps.

On September 7, 2011, the series switched to high definition, making it the second-to-last American soap to make the switch, at the time.

Dangerous Women is a syndicated nighttime American soap opera about a group of women who served time in prison together.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, daytime soap operas became the main user of cold opens, with most American soaps employing the format.

Family Passions was an hour long, as is typical of American daytime soaps; all of the others were half hour programs.

They also started washing with American soap, a smell familiar and friendly to the dogs.

Unlike American soaps, telenovelas always come to an end, which means no network can count on having a hit from one year to the next.

Like other American soaps, it focuses on the rich and the comfortable upper middle class rather than the working people who make up a majority of viewers.