The Week contest: Soap Opera - September 30, 2011

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

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Last week's contest: After 41 years and more than 10,000 episodes, All My Children is going off the air. We asked you to kindly come up with the name of a new soap opera that deals with the vital issues of today.

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THE WINNER: All my Children ... are Living in the Basement

Marianne Crane, Cambridge, MA

SECOND PLACE: Love Is a Many Gendered Thing

Lisa Kaplan, St. Louis Park, MN

THIRD PLACE: As The World Tweets

Natalie Fevig, Brooklyn, NY

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

All My Passwords

Lara Seeburg, New York, NY

All My Parents

Jody Potter, New York, NY

All My Passwords

Lara Seeburg, New York, NY

All My Problems

John Hebbe, Fairfax Station, VA

All My Children, Your Children and Our Children

Peggy Hartley, Boone, NC

All My Surrogates

Marcia Thomas, Springfield, IL

All My Baby Mamas

Susan Sullivan, Portland, OR

All My Children’s Issues

Margaret Gittinger, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX

All My Children Have Tattoos

Bob Colman, Pam Desert, CA

All My Child Support

Claire Kelly, Lake Charles, LA

All His and His Children

Peter Calistri, Bergenfield, NJ

(I Have Nothing to Leave) All My Children

Susan Hargett, Madisonville, TN

One Job to Grab

Mary June Gaffrey, Deadwood, SD

The Broke and the Beautiful

Wendy Thomas, Glenwood, NJ

The Old and the Jobless

Herman Waltzer, Alabaster, AL

The Young and the Wealthless

Monica Esch, Lancaster, PA

The Taxed and the Texted

Ryan F. Carron-Smith, Clawson, MI

The Elderly and the Restless Legs Syndrome

Eric Sibelius, Durango, CO

Debt Valley

Elizabeth Rogalin, Chatham, NJ

Palin Place

Alan Parven, Commerce Twp., MI

As the World Turns Warmer

Barb Skalsky, Ham Lake, MN

As the World Defaults

Patti Lodato, Evansville, IN

As the Market Swings

Adam Dansky, San Diego, CA

The Guiding Right

Eloise Hills, Schenectady, NY

Gays are Our Wives

Carol Blackburn, Rockville Centre, NY

The BFFs and the LOLables

Mark Gibson, San Antonio, TX

The Duped and the Downsized

Leslie Grossman Fintz, Brooklyn, NY

Job Fairs Revisited

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, CO

Another Virtual World

Joel Foisy, Potsdam, NY

The Guiding Compact Fluorescent Light

Rita Emerson, Orlando, FL

Ask and Be Told

Rollie Welch, Aurora, OH

General HMO

Rob James, San Francisco, CA

As the Forefathers Turn

Barb Zimmerman, Stewartstown, PA