General Hospital is a long-running soap opera, debuting in 1963. As often happens with soaps, the show's scope grew beyond the hospital of the title, often involving criminal intrigue and complex romances in Port Charles (which became the title of a spin-off series).

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• Dr. Bob can't see any patients in the December 13, 1983 The Muppets comic strip because he's in the middle of some medical research: watching General Hospital.

• Big Bird pretends that a letter X he's playing with is a grandmother watching "X-Ray Hospital" on TV in Episode 2024.

• The title was punningly reworked for The Muppets episode called "Generally Inhospitable."

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• Tom Arnold played Billy Boggs (1994)
• Larry Block played Cal Jamison (1978)
• Tia Carrere played Jade Soong (1985-1987)
• Brie Carter played an ER nurse (2021-2022)
• Rosalind Cash played Mary Mae Ward (1993-1994)
• Scott Clifton played Dillon Quartermaine (2003-2007)
• Matt Cohen played Griffin Munroe (2014-2022)
• Tyne Daly played Caroline Beale (1968)
• Linda Dano played Rae Cummings (2002)
• John DeLuca played Aaron Roland (2016)
• Sky du Mont played Claudio Maldonado (1989)
• George Gaynes played Frank Smith (1979-1980)
• Mark Hamill played Kent Murray (1972-1973)
• Nicholas Hammond played Algernon Durban (1985)
• Eva Longoria played a Brenda Barrett lookalike (2000)
• Cameron Mathison played Drew Cain (2021-)
• Kimberly McCullough played Robin Scorpio (1985-2021)
• O'Neill Monahan played Rocco Falconeri (2017-2020)
• Donna Pescow played Gertrude Morgan (1999-2000)
• Tristan Rogers played Robert Scorpio (1980-1992, 2006-2024)
• John Stamos played Blackie Parrish (1982-1992)
• Kirsten Storms played Maxie Jones (2005-)
• Jason Thompson played Patrick Drake (2006-2016)
• Lisa Waltz played Melinda Bauer (2010)
• Maura West played Ava Jerome (2015-)
• Jacob Young played Lucky Spencer (2000-2003)