“Singing in the shower is fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth. Then it’s soap opera”

“Singing in the shower is fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth. Then it just becomes a soap opera” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. “What’s another name for singing in the shower?” was posted to the newsgroup alt.humor.puns on May 23, 2003. “Daffynition: Soap opera- Singing in the shower” was printed in Boys’ Life magazine in August 2008.
 
“Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth, then it just becomes a soap opera” went viral on Twitter on August 26, 2013.
     
   
Google Groups: alt.gossip.celebrities
OWEN HART’S FALL FROM GRACE
Charmayne7
5/26/99
(...)
We are constantly told that wrestling is not a sport.  Even the term “sports entertainment” is trashed.  Semantics.  The key word here is “entertainment”.  Why does everyone get hung up on the “sports” aspect?  Why doesn’t the media trash the daytime soap opera?  The modern soap has little to do with soap, and it’s as much an opera as me singing in the shower.
 
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Puns of the Weak 05-23-03
Stan Kegel
5/23/03
(...)
What’s another name for singing in the shower?
A Soap Opera! (Daily Groaner)
 
Google Books
August 2008, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 51, col. 3:
Daffynition: Soap opera- Singing in the shower.
Sean Ward, Waldorf, Md.
 
Twitter
Asyraf Akbar
‏@asyrfkbr
I was singing in the shower, and it hit me. Soap opera HAHA.
7:38 PM - 1 Jun 2010
 
Twitter
Daily Groaner
‏@DailyGroaner
Q: What’s another name for #singing in the shower? A: A Soap Opera! #jokes #humor #funny
3:02 PM - 15 Sep 2010
 
Google Books
Side-Splitting Riddles
Illustrated by Kevin Reichin
Columbus, OH: Highlights for CHildren, Inc.
2012
Pg. ?:
What do you call singing in the shower?
A soap opera.
 
Twitter
Casey
‏@hippiespace
“Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth, then it just becomes a soap opera.”
11:48 AM - 26 Aug 2013
 
Twitter 
Sarcasm
‏@ComedyPosts
singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth
then it just becomes a soap opera
3:04 PM - 8 Oct 2013
 
Reddit—3amjokes
What do you call it when you’re singing in the shower while simultaneously applying shampoo? self.3amjokes
Submitted October 14, 2014 by that_introverted_guy
soap opera
 
Reddit—Jokes
Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth
submitted February 4, 2015 by AvoidedCoder7
Then it just becomes a soap opera.
 
Twitter
Bad Dad Jokes
‏@baddadjokes
Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth…. Then it’s a soap opera
#DadJokes #joke #dadjoke
6:37 AM - 16 Jun 2015
 
Reddit—Jokes
Singing in the shower is all fun and games until you get shampoo in your mouth
submitted December 11, 2016 by chapspls
then it becomes a soap opera