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soap opera

a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)

Synonyms:

• Grand Guignol,
• Passion play,
• Tom show,
• antimasque,
• audience success,
• ballet,
• bathos,
• bleeding heart,
• bomb,
• broadcast,
• broadcast drama,
• burlesque show,
• canned show,
• charade,
• cliff hanger,
• closet drama,
• cloyingness,
• comedy drama,
• commercial,
• commercial program,
• critical success,
• daytime serial,
• dialogue,
• documentary drama,
• drama,
• dramalogue,
• dramatic play,
• dramatic series,
• duodrama,
• duologue,
• electrical transcription,
• epic theater,
• experimental theater,
• extravaganza,
• failure,
• flop,
• gasser,
• giveaway,
• goo,
• happening,
• hearts-and-flowers,
• hit,
• hit show,
• improvisational drama,
• legitimate drama,
• masque,
• maudlinness,
• mawkishness,
• melodrama,
• minstrel show,
• miracle,
• miracle play,
• monodrama,
• monologue,
• morality,
• morality play,
• mush,
• mushiness,
• music drama,
• musical revue,
• mystery,
• mystery play,
• namby-pamby,
• namby-pambyism,
• namby-pambyness,
• network show,
• newscast,
• nostalgia,
• nostomania,
• opera,
• oversentimentalism,
• oversentimentality,
• pageant,
• panel show,
• pantomime,
• pastoral,
• pastoral drama,
• piece,
• play,
• playlet,
• problem play,
• psychodrama,
• quiz show,
• radio drama,
• radio fare,
• radiobroadcast,
• rebroadcast,
• rerun,
• review,
• revue,
• romanticism,
• sensational play,
• sentiment,
• sentimentalism,
• sentimentality,
• serial,
• show,
• sitcom,
• situation comedy,
• sketch,
• skit,
• slop,
• sloppiness,
• slush,
• soap,
• sob story,
• sociodrama,
• sound effects,
• spectacle,
• sportscast,
• stage play,
• stage show,
• straight drama,
• success,
• suspense drama,
• sustainer,
• sweetness and light,
• tableau,
• tableau vivant,
• talk show,
• taped program,
• tearjerker,
• teleplay,
• television drama,
• television play,
• theater of cruelty,
• total theater,
• variety show,
• vaudeville,
• vaudeville show,
• vehicle,
• word-of-mouth success,
• work