soaps like Egoli: Place of Gold. The now-cancelled ABC soap opera One Life to Live would often poke fun at the genre as well, even featuring a soap within the soap called Fraternity Row, which many of One Life to Live characters had either worked on or watched. Months after ABC announced in April 2011 that it would cancel One Life to Live, the series featured a storyline in which Fraternity Row itself was cancelled, leading the character of Roxy Balsom (Ilene Kristen) to desperately try and save the series, to no avail. A special episode that aired on December 19, 2011, featured the cast of One Life to Live acting out an episode of Fraternity Row in a dream of Roxy's; the episode poked fun at both One Life to Live and the entire genre itself, featuring many soap opera stereotypes such as overacting, outrageous story lines, bad casting and incestuous relationships; it also parodied some storylines featured on the real-world soap. The second-to-last episode of One Life to Live showed characters watching the final episode of Fraternity Row and exposing the show's last big secret: the series' main heroine and protagonist, Lorraine King Vonvaldenburg Baxter Beumont, was really a man. Second City TV featured The Days of the Week: "Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. These are...The Days of the Week." The ABC comedy drama Desperate Housewives (which ran from 2004 to 2012) was a semi-satirical nighttime series that took many elements from the genre. The Fox broadcast show Futurama has a recurring spoof of All My Children called All My Circuits. The Adult Swim animated series Tender Touches, which premiered in 2017, is a parody of soap operas. See also Asadora British Soap Awards Indian soap opera List of radio soap operas List of soap operas List of American daytime soap opera ratings "Love in the Afternoon" Mobile soap opera Philippine drama Radio drama Radio theater Soap Opera Update Soap Opera Weekly Soaps in Depth Soaplife Soap opera rapid aging syndrome Supercouple Thai television soap opera Armenian soap operas References Bibliography Ang, Ien. Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Methuen, 1985. Bowles, Kate. Soap opera: 'No end of story, ever' in The Australian TV Book, (Eds. Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham), Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 2000. , Google Books link Geraghty, Christine. The Aesthetic Experience in Women and Soap Opera: A Study