Best Soap Opera Couples
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10. Santa Barbara's Mason and Julia
Though daytime's Tracy and Hepburn are by far the wittiest couple to make the list, the feelings beneath the legal eagles' banter were no laughing matter.
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9. The Bold and the Beautiful's Ridge and Brooke
Sorry, Bill. No matter how many (dozens of) other people come between the exes, we'll always consider them exactly what Brooke long did: one another's destiny.
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8. All My Children's Jesse and Angie
So popular were daytime's premier African-American supercouple that, before Jesse came back from the dead, ABC moved his "widow" to Loving/The City and paired her with his look-alike.
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7. Days of Our Lives' Bo and Hope
Since the Bradys' romance survived everything from Lisa Rinna to the Cruise of Deception, we find it hard, nay impossible, to believe that it was really ended by a plain old brain tumor.
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6. General Hospital's Sonny and Brenda
As hot as the mobster and the model were together, their affair was always bound to crash and burn. But, while it last — as he once said — "It was a great ride."
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5. Days of Our Lives' John and Marlena
No wonder it's never gotten stale between the Blacks: Since they first hooked up in the mid-'80s, he's been everything from a secret agent to a priest!
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
4. The Young and the Restless' Victor and Nikki
The Newmans have divorced and remarried so often that by now, they consider weddings foreplay. But after three decades, hey, whatever works!
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3. Days of Our Lives' EJ and Sami
The scheme team circled one another for less than a decade but were so beloved that John Oliver reunited them on Last Week Tonight as a gift for a fan who fled Syria.
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2. General Hospital's Luke and Laura
Aside from AMC's Erica Kane, the Spencers — arguably daytime's first supercouple — remain the only soap characters that absolutely everybody knows.
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1. Santa Barbara's Cruz and Eden
Legend has it that A Martinez and Marcy Walker's chemistry was so undeniable that the much-missed soap had no choice but to pair them. Frankly, we believe it.