These are the 5 most exciting cliffhangers of GTST EVER

‘No, life doesn't spare you’. Actually, the opening tune characterizes the whole soap. What a life they have there in Meerdijk.

Good Times has been on television since October 1990. Stepbrothers have been reborn, lost children found again, the villains and the good guys have been murdered, abandoned women have remarried, and everyone has at least been three and a half times divorced, in love, kidnapped, engaged, or depressed. Exploded caravans, poisonings during costume parties, sabotaged parachutes, giving birth to children on a boat without knowing who the father is. It's all part of it. Daily fare, there in Meerdijk.

But then just before the summer break, exactly today, a cliffhanger. So that everyone will watch again in the new season. Smart, it works.

That actually started very sweetly. In season 1, the trick of that whole cliff-hanging wasn't discovered yet, and nothing more happened than that Daniël Daniël (oh, Wim Zomer, do we still know him?) thought he saw the presumed dead doctor Simon Dekker. Sweet. Something like that just happens on an ordinary weekday in November now. No one is surprised anymore. It has to be worse, more intense, and wilder. Thus it happened. The most exciting cliffhangers of all good times:

Season 10: with Tanja Jess and good old Ludo. Ludo's real name doesn't even matter, okay his name is Erik, but actually, he is more of a Ludo than an Erik, right? Good heavens, he has become part of the GTST furniture by now. Bowien, played by Tanja, tries to worm her way into the Sanders family, and Ludo is not pleased with that. He literally throws her off a cliff. Look, that's where the whole CLIFFHANGER comes from. Literally happened.

Season 12: the craziest of them all. Janine gets buried alive. Okay, fun, young girls are watching this too, right? Her doppelgänger Sofie is the culprit. And what happens? She takes her place at her wedding. And tries to secretly marry her great love Ludo. Okay. He didn't notice, of course. Or did he? EXCITING.

Season 13: Charlie Fischer (then still played by Aukje van Ginneken) storms out of the house during a family argument. She is furious. But then she meets Robert Alberts, who likes a tight line of coke. He hits her, and she lies dead in the ditch. In that ditch, she learns that Barbara is not her real mother, but her sister Valerie. Next season, she is alive again, don't worry. And oh yes, then she suddenly also turns into Lieke van Lexmond. It can all happen.

Season 14: the fire in the trendy spot of the moment, Scala. Oh my god, how we would have loved to have a drink there once. Can someone please open a bar in Amsterdam called Scala that looks just like it? Thanks in advance. Back to the fire. A fire breaks out in the apartment, and everyone, yes everyone, from Meerdijk just happens to be stuck there. In other words: you don't know who is going to bite the dust all summer long. Benjamin is the one who is in trouble and can no longer show up in

Season 15: Well, three more times then, as a ghost. Aber natürlich. Also so cozy.

Season 16: Ludo is probably the most often murdered/slaughtered/hated/kidnapped of everyone. Boss above boss. A screaming Janine by his side. He is dead on the floor, blood all over. Robert Alberts, Sjors Langeveld, Morris Fischer, and Bing Mauritius did not have the best intentions for the ultimate GTST'er. They hide a real bullet in a gun that they actually use for a game. Unbeknownst to her, Janine pulls the trigger and shoots her own husband.

Sit down tonight for the latest cliffhanger. Because it will be hysterical, spectacular and yet another one for the lists of next year.