Daytime Confidential's 10 Worst Soap Couples of 2009
No. 5: Ryan and Erica, All My Children
What do you do when your show's writing is in the toilet, fans are in an uproar and the critics are circling with stake knives? In the case of All My Children's brilliant Chuck Pratt you try to pull a fast one, distracting everyone by capitalizing on pop culture's craze of the moment, in this case the "Cougar" phenomenon. AMC, claiming they were listening to "the fans", put their most recognizable character, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), in a bogus, icky relationship with lead hunk Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison) and then bombard the media with "Erica Kane is a Cougar" headlines. Yeah, we really wanted to see Erica lusting over Ryan, the ex-husband of her daughter Kendall (Alicia Minshew), and son of Erica's ex. Erica had been a mother figure to Ryan for years. Sorry, one inappropriately hot scene in the rain was not the makings of a supercouple. We love us some Erica Kane, and we're all for her getting her cougar on, but next time, can it be with someone who didn't father her grandchild? Yuck!
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30 March 2009
2 days 7 hours
*sits back, grabs a cranberry & vodka and anxiously awaits for EET and JaSam Lovers to read post*
LOL...this is going to be fun....
26 June 2009
3 years 6 days
jasam don't deserve to be up there.
2 July 2009
1 week 1 day
Smitty:
U are so right!!!! I'm waiting for EET, GH Lover, and all the rest of Jasam fans.
Oh this is gonna be good because everybody know Liason. If this was real life all Y'all Jasam fans know you would not forgive someone that has done all that QuickSam has done to Liason.
Ok I'm ready to laugh now!!!
LIASON FOR LIFE!!!!
26 June 2008
3 hours 5 min
"but our mourning over the loss of Liason had absolutely nothing to do with why JaSam finds itself on our list of the Worst Couples of 2009"
sure..........
I won't even bother to read the rest of this list.....
8 June 2008
1 year 33 weeks
Oh boy, Jasam DEFINITELY deserves to be up there. And I am SOOOO glad that they are.
When Sam is with Jason she regresses into someone who has absolutely no independence whatsoever.
And the mobstacular adventures together.....?...Ugh, gag me now.
I think DC did a wonderful job with this list.
1 June 2008
1 year 14 weeks
If JaSam is here so should be Liason .......
22 August 2008
2 years 10 weeks
Luke u guys better barricade the DC headquarter doors because the JASAM fans will be coming with their pitchforks
29 December 2008
16 weeks 12 hours
I agree about every couple on this list good job on this list.
8 May 2008
7 weeks 2 days
Y&R have horrible couples except for Kay and Murphy and billy and chloe, but that about it. NIz is great and Liz is not in love with Lucky now, she just needs him and she wants Nik. Go NIZ
22 November 2007
1 year 32 weeks
*sits back, grabs a cranberry & vodka and anxiously awaits for EET and JaSam Lovers to read post*
LOL...this is going to be fun....
I'll sit right next to Smitty, while partaking from my own flask of gin and tonic (with a splash of lime).
4 December 2009
4 hours 14 min
"...our mourning over the loss of Liason had nothing to do..." BITCH, PLEASE!
29 December 2008
16 weeks 12 hours
I hate getting in the middle of liason vs jasam wars because i could care less about either but this list is for 2009 liason did not have scenes in 09 and according to jasam fans they were never a couple.
26 February 2009
40 weeks 1 day
I don't think Clementine Ford is the entire problem with Billy and Mac. Then again, I never hated Brenda Epperson (who is probably only slightly less robotic than Eileen Davidson, who manages to wake up and give a strong performances a few times a decade -- Ashley isn't exactly a role with great emotions). Billy and Mac were horribly written and lacked any chemisty. Ford has had some chemistry with Thad Luckinbill. Miller had some with Sharon Case. Given that he had, in my opinion, zero with Adrienne Frantz, Christel Khalil, and Liz Hendrickson, he's not exactly a chemistry machine.
Miller is a good actor, but he's much more noticeable for his tics and mugging than for giving a performance which adds to the scene. He is extremely disconnected from co-stars and helps make Billy completely unsympathetic.
9 June 2009
15 weeks 1 day
Oh what a great list. So glad Gig/Rex/Stacy made the list and so high on it, so deserved.
I'm both glad and mad Adam and Rafe made number 1. On one hand, it's so deserved due how awful the story was, but also makes me mad, cause they could have made a kick ass couple.
19 August 2008
8 weeks 4 days
You know, yesterday was the 1st time a cared about Sam in over three years. Because she was doing something other than chase Jason around. For any pairing to work for me there has to be a connection of course, but I have find something to root for regarding the individuals in the pairing. GH has never really spent anytime developing Sam, and they just seem to throw things at her hoping that they stick. I want her away from Jason, mainly so she can develop some sort of identity.
25 December 2008
1 year 10 weeks
Good list however Jasam doesn't belong on it, they stick out like sore thumb.
I'm surprised by no Casey and Alison on ATWT or like you did last year (Alison and anyone LOL good one)
I totally agree with Clementine Ford being the big problem with Billy and Mac. BM is acting his heart out but she is like a wall. Oh why don't they recast her?
What a welcome surprise seeing Gigi/Stacey and Rex on the list.
Seriously I can think of at least 10 couples that should've been on the list over Jasam
4 January 2009
22 weeks 2 days
LMAO.. Thats exactly what we have been saying for a YEAR NOW...
JASAM SUX! REUNITE JASON & LIZ!!
FRONSIE YOUR VISION HAS SUCKED THE LIFE OUT OF GH! GO AWAY!
23 July 2008
14 weeks 3 days
Oh boy!
4 December 2009
4 hours 14 min
They can't reunite Liason right now cuz she's SWIMMING over to Spoon Island for some "Afternoon Delight"!
30 August 2009
2 years 38 weeks
ARE U KIDDING ME!!!!!!!
Since 2004 they have been a blending of friends, lovers, partners and protectors. They have supported and loved one another and it was only due to writers enema's that they broke up under the STUPIDEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
I willing sit back and take the slings and arrows of you Liason fans but seriousely Jason and Sam where together for over 2 years and Liason had stolen moments here and there her true partner WAS Lucky till she bed hopped her way out of it.
I am proud to be a JASAM Fan and I think they are an incredible couple.
Bad Couples for GH would be Solivia, NIz, Fake Em and Dark Prince Dick, Ethecca, Maxis and JonLu,
SO YOU CAN TAKE YOUR BIASED CHOICE and KISS MY LIST
3 December 2008
1 week 1 day
What? No Casey/Alison even though they've spent much of 2009 stinking up the screen with their "epic love story" on ATWT?
Ok, what gives?
While I don't have problems with the other couples you picked - though I am neither a JaSam nor Liaison lover - this list feels incomplete without Casey/Alison. Especially as they stank up the screen more in 2009 than the Vortex of Suck.
4 August 2008
1 year 28 weeks
Good List. Niz needs to stop.
11 April 2009
1 day 2 hours
Come on! Most soaps wish that they had the incredibly passionate fan bases that comprise the JaSam and Liason groups. I applaud both groups for their passion and desire to see their favorite couples on air!
Team JaSam & Team Liason deserve our applause. They may snark at each other but without their passion, GH fandom would be a lesser place.
11 February 2008
6 days 11 hours
So I guess we are to belive that it is pure coincidence that Sam and Jason are the first couple on the list (albeit number 10).
Sorry, but I as a long term JaSam fan cannot summon any great sympathy for the way tptb are treating Liz, when they did the exact same thing to Sam last year. Why the tptb feel they need to assasinate a character just because a coupling isn't popular is beyond me.
Jason and Liz were more like brother and sister. Jake was not conceived out of some great love, but out of a few desperate moments between two people who had been thru an emotional wringer.
Jason and Sam have real heat. Sam is not judgemental and needy, but supportive because she knows and loves Jason for who he really is, not for who she would like for him to be.
24 January 2008
29 weeks 6 days
well, what to say? an hour ago i was lamenting no sam and jason on the best list and they start off the worst list? bitter much? i feel they are at #10 just so they could be on the this list.
one cannot say that liz is a better couple with jason over sam and that sam loses herself in jason in the same paragraph. who had liz become during her time with jason? someone chasing after him over and above all things. this time around jason had to go after sam and he is still trying to reassure her. sam spent Christmas with her family while liz spent her gathering being guilty and uncomfortable with the mess she's started.
the truth is i just don't get liz and jason and i love sam and sam with jason. so no matter what you say i won't change my mind anymore than anyone will switch teams to my couple - although we did convert jillian...
1 July 2009
2 hours 5 min
Can't argue with the list guys, even though I don't watch CBS' soaps I see why you have these couples on here.
Guys, I think you should have extra security in your headquarters because you know the JaSam fans are going to pounce. I don't care who Jason is with I just want him to be a Q again.
As for Frandi, well you guys pretty much covered it. I prefer they get rid of Randi and bring back Laura or perhaps pairing Frankie with Greenlee.
As for RyGranny, I hope breaking them up is one of the first things on LB's to do list. Who are these fans that said they wanted this pairing I want to know.
And OLTL, I am just glad that Stacy's leaving.
1 June 2008
1 year 14 weeks
next year in this time .. Jason and Sam will be married and have their family ..... Because Sam is not a girl that use her man to help keep her bed warm when she loves someone she loves him in all her heart .........
3 August 2008
5 weeks 2 days
Yeah, right. *rolls eyes*
Let the JaSam vs. Liason fanbase war #100,758,598,976 begin. LOL!!
Nasty Niz and Billy/Mac are on there. So, I won't make a fuss about this list.
25 March 2008
1 week 3 days
Touche...
I need some popcorn and a drink for this one...
22 January 2008
14 hours 15 min
well, what to say? an hour ago i was lamenting no sam and jason on the best list and they start off the worst list? bitter much? i feel they are at #10 just so they could be on the this list.
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LMAO You're joking right? You don't seriously believe we voted JaSam on this list because of your "lament"? We voted on this list at the top of the month of Dec. Sorry to be disappoint. Clouds in my coffee...