Mixing comic patter ("I guess I could tell you exactly what I look like, but I think that's a lousy thing to say about a guy") with his clever comic songs, The Abe Burrows Show was popular with listeners and critics but not with its sponsor, Lambert Pharmaceutical, then the makers of Listerine mouthwash but promoting a Listerine toothpaste on the show.
Together with Abe Burrows, O'Neal adapted his 1949 novel Three Wishes for Jamie McRuin for the short-lived 1952 musical Three Wishes for Jamie.
Don Burrows | Shinzō Abe | Abe Fortas | Saffron Burrows | Kōbō Abe | Abe Waddington | Shinzo Abe | Masao Abe | Yoshitoshi ABe | Michael Burrows | Jacen Burrows | Abe Reles | Abe Hartley | Abe Attell | William Ward Burrows I | William E. Burrows | Utu Abe Malae | Shinnosuke Abe | Malandra Burrows | Kazushige Abe | James Burrows | Fletcher, Burrows and Company | Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic | Abe Vigoda | Abe Saperstein | Abe no Seimei | Abe no Sadatō | Abe no Sadato | Abe no Munetō | Abe no Hirafu |
"Soap Opera" is a satirization of the tragic, twisted stories in the typical American soap operas and how people can get carried away with them; Stevens acts out all of the roles in the song, which are described in the album as "Nashville's answer to Abe Burrows, Victor Borge and Steve Allen, all rolled into one."