Lentorama 2009: Great(?) Moments in Catholics on Television

December 6, 1977: Father Tim Flotsky checks into the Pussy Cat Motel with Corinne Tate on Soap

Originally childhood friends, Corinne Tate developed an interest in Tim Flotsky as an adult. Unfortunately for her, this blossomed after he became a priest. This didn't stop her from trying to woo him away from the church, making confessions that would double as come-ons and telling him about her plans to move in with tennis pro Peter Campbell.

This strategy eventually worked, and just in time. While they were engaged in their less than hoy sacrament, Peter was murdered. Corinne was a leading suspect, based on Peter's infidelity and her threat to kill him if he cheated. She at first said that she was alone at the time of the killing, in order to protect Tim, but she later admitted their affair.

Tim would leave the priesthood and he and Corinne would move in together. Corinne would get pregnant shortly thereafter, delivering a baby six weeks after learning she was pregnant, apparently because the baby was posssessed by the devil.

And for all that, this probably still only the eighth-strangest plot in the show's history.