Alan Sarapa
@alansarapa.bsky.social
Monthly soap columnist for The Pop Break. Co-host of The Chat podcast.
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Alan's Soap Box: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With
Alan's Soap Box breaks down the op 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With for all those new to the world of daytime soaps.
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New column: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/10/27/a...
New column: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/10/27/a...
Alan's Soap Box: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With
Alan's Soap Box breaks down the op 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With for all those new to the world of daytime soaps.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New column: Top 10 Things Soap Fans Have to Go Along With #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/10/27/a...
Randomly thinking about when the last time Nikki Newman ate at McDonald's was. My first instinct was probably when Reagan was president when she was stripping, but then I remembered she's a drunk, so she probably had an Egg McMuffin and hashbrowns delivered to her last year. #YR
October 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Randomly thinking about when the last time Nikki Newman ate at McDonald's was. My first instinct was probably when Reagan was president when she was stripping, but then I remembered she's a drunk, so she probably had an Egg McMuffin and hashbrowns delivered to her last year. #YR
I'm listening to The Devil Wears Prada musical cast recording and I'm not liking it so far. Elton should have called up Tim Rice to do the lyrics because they worked so well together on Aida. Hopefully this will be like Mean Girls where I can say a few songs are legit good.
October 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I'm listening to The Devil Wears Prada musical cast recording and I'm not liking it so far. Elton should have called up Tim Rice to do the lyrics because they worked so well together on Aida. Hopefully this will be like Mean Girls where I can say a few songs are legit good.
New column: Has General Hospital Fixed Michael With The Hiring of Rory Gibson? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/09/29/a...
Alan's Soap Box: Has General Hospital Fixed Michael With The Hiring of Rory Gibson
Alan's Soap Box for September ponders if General Hospital has fixed Michael Corinthos with the hiring of actor Rory Gibson.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New column: Has General Hospital Fixed Michael With The Hiring of Rory Gibson? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/09/29/a...
New column: The Case (Once Again) Against Josh Griffith- The Top 10 Reasons Why #YR Needs a New Regime thepopbreak.com/2025/08/29/a...
Alan's Soap Box: The Case Against Josh Griffith (Again) - Top 10 Reasons Y&R Needs a New Regime
The case, once again, why Young & the Restless needs to move on from writer Josh Griffith.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New column: The Case (Once Again) Against Josh Griffith- The Top 10 Reasons Why #YR Needs a New Regime thepopbreak.com/2025/08/29/a...
New column: The Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Past Decade #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/07/29/a...
Alan's Soap Box: Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Last Decade
Alan's Soap Box looks at The Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Last Decade in the world of Daytime Soaps.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New column: The Top 20 Biggest Missed Opportunities of the Past Decade #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/07/29/a...
We are on the "Sonny brings death and destruction" writing right now, but I know in a month tops we'll be back to people kissing that man's ass for being nice to a guy with AIDS in 1995. #GH
July 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We are on the "Sonny brings death and destruction" writing right now, but I know in a month tops we'll be back to people kissing that man's ass for being nice to a guy with AIDS in 1995. #GH
New column: Mid-Year Report Card #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/06/30/a...
Alan's Soap Box: Mid-Year Report Card 2025
Alan's Soap Box drops its Mid-Year Report Card 2025 for Beyond the Gates, General Hospital, Days, Bold & the Beautiful and Y&R.
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June 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New column: Mid-Year Report Card #BeyondTheGates #BoldandBeautiful #Days #GH #YR thepopbreak.com/2025/06/30/a...
Topics in order:
*Tyler Perry sued for sexual harassment
*Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart hosting a soap podcast for CBS
*Billy Flynn is the new Cane on #YR
*Conner Floyd is the new Chad on #Days
*A bit of #BeyondTheGates chat open.spotify.com/episode/7DN9...
*Tyler Perry sued for sexual harassment
*Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart hosting a soap podcast for CBS
*Billy Flynn is the new Cane on #YR
*Conner Floyd is the new Chad on #Days
*A bit of #BeyondTheGates chat open.spotify.com/episode/7DN9...
Season 8, Episode 30 (#225): "The World Will Never Know"
The Chat · Episode
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June 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Topics in order:
*Tyler Perry sued for sexual harassment
*Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart hosting a soap podcast for CBS
*Billy Flynn is the new Cane on #YR
*Conner Floyd is the new Chad on #Days
*A bit of #BeyondTheGates chat open.spotify.com/episode/7DN9...
*Tyler Perry sued for sexual harassment
*Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart hosting a soap podcast for CBS
*Billy Flynn is the new Cane on #YR
*Conner Floyd is the new Chad on #Days
*A bit of #BeyondTheGates chat open.spotify.com/episode/7DN9...
Sasha: "I want to be a single mother and make chicken pot pies for my baby daddy's family while living with them and have no influence from him or them. That makes so much sense even he though he's probably to inherit this house. I'm smart!" #GH
June 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sasha: "I want to be a single mother and make chicken pot pies for my baby daddy's family while living with them and have no influence from him or them. That makes so much sense even he though he's probably to inherit this house. I'm smart!" #GH
I really hate how prudish Gen Z is. From wanting sex scenes to be abolished to think pieces about Sabrina Carpenter's tongue-in-cheek sexuality, y'all are annoying.
June 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I really hate how prudish Gen Z is. From wanting sex scenes to be abolished to think pieces about Sabrina Carpenter's tongue-in-cheek sexuality, y'all are annoying.
Topics in order:
*Sex appeal mattering in relation to #GH 's Rory Gibson and #BeyondTheGates Keith D. Robinson
* BTG's Anita's secret and Hayley being a flop
* #YR sucking ass
*Luna going off the rails on #BoldandBeautiful
*John dies and Bo wakes up on #Days
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuN...
*Sex appeal mattering in relation to #GH 's Rory Gibson and #BeyondTheGates Keith D. Robinson
* BTG's Anita's secret and Hayley being a flop
* #YR sucking ass
*Luna going off the rails on #BoldandBeautiful
*John dies and Bo wakes up on #Days
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuN...
Season 8, Episode 29 (#224): "A Lovely Lover"
The Chat · Episode
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June 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Topics in order:
*Sex appeal mattering in relation to #GH 's Rory Gibson and #BeyondTheGates Keith D. Robinson
* BTG's Anita's secret and Hayley being a flop
* #YR sucking ass
*Luna going off the rails on #BoldandBeautiful
*John dies and Bo wakes up on #Days
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuN...
*Sex appeal mattering in relation to #GH 's Rory Gibson and #BeyondTheGates Keith D. Robinson
* BTG's Anita's secret and Hayley being a flop
* #YR sucking ass
*Luna going off the rails on #BoldandBeautiful
*John dies and Bo wakes up on #Days
open.spotify.com/episode/1BuN...
Soap actor leaving a soap: "So long, suckers! I'm going to be a star!" *anywhere from 6 months to 2 years later* "Can I have my job back? The rent is due." #GH
June 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Soap actor leaving a soap: "So long, suckers! I'm going to be a star!" *anywhere from 6 months to 2 years later* "Can I have my job back? The rent is due." #GH
Having Rory Gibson playing Michael makes Willow look less crazy for cheating on Chase with him. The judge doesn't know that Michael used to look like a software engineer who only dates Asian women and uses 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner and body wash. #GH
June 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Having Rory Gibson playing Michael makes Willow look less crazy for cheating on Chase with him. The judge doesn't know that Michael used to look like a software engineer who only dates Asian women and uses 3 in 1 shampoo, conditioner and body wash. #GH
New column: Does General Hospital Still Need Sonny? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/05/30/a...
Alan's Soap Box: Does General Hospital Still Need Sonny? - The Pop Break
Alan's Soap Box examines if General Hospital still needs one of its longest running characters -- Sonny Corinthos.
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May 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New column: Does General Hospital Still Need Sonny? #GH thepopbreak.com/2025/05/30/a...
Sasha is a dummy for this whole scheme, so I don't feel sorry for her if she gets exposed on the stand. "I can't have my baby around the mob or raised in the Quartermaine family, but I'll go along with Jason being the fake daddy. That's the ticket!" #GH
May 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sasha is a dummy for this whole scheme, so I don't feel sorry for her if she gets exposed on the stand. "I can't have my baby around the mob or raised in the Quartermaine family, but I'll go along with Jason being the fake daddy. That's the ticket!" #GH
Cody and Gio are proof that characters can come back from a botched introduction. Though soaps can do too much damage to fix. They shit the bed so hard with Natalia that there would be no forgiveness from the audience. #GH
May 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Cody and Gio are proof that characters can come back from a botched introduction. Though soaps can do too much damage to fix. They shit the bed so hard with Natalia that there would be no forgiveness from the audience. #GH
I really hope #GH uses this recast as an opportunity to really make Michael a leading man. The only time he really felt like a lead was 2015.
May 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I really hope #GH uses this recast as an opportunity to really make Michael a leading man. The only time he really felt like a lead was 2015.
Those pizzas must be so damn cold. Just sitting out while Martin gives a speech about family and priorities. #BeyondTheGates
May 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Those pizzas must be so damn cold. Just sitting out while Martin gives a speech about family and priorities. #BeyondTheGates
Topics in order:
* #BeyondTheGates renewed and all the messy drama
* #BoldandBeautiful is doing a location shoot
*Denise Alexander's passing
*Lot going on with #GH
* #Days chat
open.spotify.com/episode/2evz...
* #BeyondTheGates renewed and all the messy drama
* #BoldandBeautiful is doing a location shoot
*Denise Alexander's passing
*Lot going on with #GH
* #Days chat
open.spotify.com/episode/2evz...
Season 8, Episode 28 (#223): "We're Live!"
The Chat · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Topics in order:
* #BeyondTheGates renewed and all the messy drama
* #BoldandBeautiful is doing a location shoot
*Denise Alexander's passing
*Lot going on with #GH
* #Days chat
open.spotify.com/episode/2evz...
* #BeyondTheGates renewed and all the messy drama
* #BoldandBeautiful is doing a location shoot
*Denise Alexander's passing
*Lot going on with #GH
* #Days chat
open.spotify.com/episode/2evz...
Peapack era Guiding Light had more stories going on and that had montages of people doing literally nothing as the shittiest song you've ever heard played. #YR
May 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Peapack era Guiding Light had more stories going on and that had montages of people doing literally nothing as the shittiest song you've ever heard played. #YR