History Series / AsTheWorldTurns

** Luke once kissed [[DirtyOldMan Brian,]] his grandmother's husband, to get back at Noah for hanging out Maddie.

* PairTheSpares: Done when the show ended. With everyone except Luke, [[BuryYourGays whose boyfriend was killed]], Noah, and Vienna. John Dixon, who had been BrotherChucked years ago, was brought back just to be paired off with Lucinda.

* PairTheSpares: Done when the show ended. With everyone except Luke, [[BuryYourGays whose boyfriend was killed.]]

** Luke Snyder was also an alcoholic, and also never magically got better, although he did stop drinking eventually, his alcoholism continued to be mentioned until the end of the show.

* BigScrewedUpFamily

* DrJerk: Reid does care deeply for his patients, but anyone who watched the scene where he was going on about how awesome a woman having a rare something was because he got to show his genius by performing a extremely experimental procedure, only blithely acknowledging that his failure would be worse for her (as in, she would either be a vegetable or dead) than it would be for him can be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: Johnny, who is biologically Craig's son, but was being raised by his mother Jennifer and Dusty. After she died,and Johnny returned from his kidnapping by Lucy, Dusty and Craig fought over custody of Johnny. Craig won, but allowed Dusty visitation rights.

* FanSequel: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/bunchoflemons#grid/user/0598661CE1F4637E The Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga]] The series was cancelled soon after the Cartoon Sage began.

** Luke and Reid never even got to have sex.

* HospitalHottie

* ComingOutStory: Luke at 16. His love interest, Noah, as well.

* AmericanAccents: The media often has explicitly Texan characters speak in an accent that an actual Texan is unlikely to have. Reid doesn't have this accent, but it's never been confirmed that Reid was raised in Texas, only that he lived and worked there. [[{{Fanon}} Fandom]] seems to have decided that Reid is from Boston, where his uncle lives. Reid also went to Harvard, which is in Massachusetts; depending on how long he was there, that could have shaped his current accent.
* AndStarring: Eileen Fulton as Lisa

** Reid (a gay man) donating his heart to Chris.

** When Vienna may have done this to Henry, it's PlayedForLaughs.

* ClosetKey: Luke to Noah.

* DieForOurShip: The Noah/Luke/Reid love triangle. Literally.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Katie was in on Vienna's plan to trap Henry into marrying her (Vienna). She drew the line at faking a miscarriage. Not really evil though, she really thought she was doing a good thing, at that point it became OhGodWhatHaveIDone.
* FanSequel: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/bunchoflemons#grid/user/0598661CE1F4637E The Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga]] The cartoon was cancelled soon after the Cartoon Sage began.

* JerkassWoobie: Reid fits this one to a T.

* KarmaHoudini: Craig.

* MagnificentBastard: Lucinda

* MistakenForGay: Paul and Henry. Made all the more hilarious by the fact that they were in a lingerie store.

* MoralityPet: Luke is the Morality Pet for Reid in a MAJOR way

* OneTruePairing: Luke/Noah, Carly/Jack, Holden/Lily, and other Super-Couples.

* TheScrappy: Many characters have become this at one point; Janet may be the best example.

* TheBabyTrap: Vienna does this to [[ButtMonkey Henry]], he gets an annulment ASAP. Vienna pretended to be pregnant for months, wearing a pad on her stomach for months, and planned to fake a miscarriage.

* UndercoverAsLovers: Luke and Casey, Ameera and Noah. Ameera had been under the protection of Noah's father in Iraq and needed a green. It didn't work.

** It has never been confirmed that Reid is from Texas, only that he lived and worked there. [[{{Fanon}} Fandom]] seems to have decided that Reid is from Boston. His uncle lives there and he went to Harvard.

* CharacterDerailment: Adam Munson. For a few years he was a good person and loyal friend. When Gwen was introduced he was pushed into StalkerWithACrush territory and eventually became full-fledged {{Yandere}}.

* SeriesContinuityError: The death of Bryant Montogmery. Originally he died in a car accident after receiving the devastating news that not only was his girlfriend, Jennifer Munson, cheating on him with his cousin Billy, but his close friends Adam and Abigail knew about it and kept it a secret from him. A couple years later the cause for his death was changed his father ''Craig'' being responsible, and other characters continually threw Bryant's death in Craig's face to show what a monster he was. ''Including Jennifer''.

* CharacterDerailment: Adam Munson. For a few years he was a good person and loyal friend. When Gwen was introduced he was pushed into StalkerWithACrush territory and eventually became full-fledged Yandere.

* ArmouredClosetGay: Noah, initially.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Lucinda, Dusty, Craig.

* DrJerk: Reid does care deeply for his patients, but anyone who watched the scene where he was going on about how awesome a woman having a rare something was because he got to show his genius by performing a extremely experimental procedure, only blithely acknowledging that his failure would be worse for her (as in, she would either be a vegetable or dead) than it would be for him can be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

* FanSequel: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/bunchoflemons#grid/user/0598661CE1F4637E The Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga]] The cartoon was cancelled soon after the Cartoon Sage began.
** Which the actor playing Reid is aware of and has said [[ApprovalOfGod he enjoys]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* MagnificentBastard: Lucinda
* MamaBear: Lucinda, although she seems to handle things better when her grandchildren are involved rather than her children; many argue that Lily being so screwed up is due to Lucinda herself.

* MistakenForGay: Paul and Henry. Made all the more hilarious by the fact that they were in a lingerie store.

* StalkerWithACrush: Craig toward Carly.

* TheBabyTrap: Vienna does this to [[ButtMonkey Henry]], he gets an annulment ASAP. Vienna pretended to be pregnant for months, wearing a pad on her stomach for months, and planned to fake a miscarriage.

* WeInterruptThisProgram: The live broadcast of ATWT on November 22, 1963 was interrupted by WalterCronkite reporting the first bulletins regarding the shooting of JFK. The actors were not immediately informed, and continued their efforts as CBS cut back to the show between bulletins before abandoning the broadcast entirely in favor of continuous news coverage. Because CBS was routinely videotaping the show for time zone delay and rebroadcast, the entire sequence survives and can be viewed on YouTube.

* BackFromTheDead: James Stenback does this '''a lot.''' For the last few years, the actor who played him lived in Argentina and he would come back every so often. He was eventually KilledOffForReal.

** It has never been confirmed that Reid is from Texas, only that he lived and worked there. Fandom seems to have decided that Reid is from Boston.

* ArmouredClosetGay: Noah, initially

* BackFromTheDead: James Stenback does this '''a lot.'''

* ComingOutStory

* FanSequel: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/bunchoflemons#grid/user/0598661CE1F4637E The Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga]] The cartoon was cancelled soon after the

* WhatTheHellHero: Everybody has been called out for something at some point.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Katie was in on Vienna's plan to trap Henry into marrying her (Vienna). She drew the line at faking a miscarriage.
* FanSequel: [[http://www.youtube.com/user/bunchoflemons#grid/user/0598661CE1F4637E The Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga]]
** Which the actor playing Reid is aware of and has said he enjoys.

* OneTruePairing: Luke/Noah, Carly/Jack, Holden/Lily, and other Super-Couples

* PairTheSpares: Done when the show ended.

* StalkerWithACrush: Craig toward Carly,

* TheOtherDarrin: Some characters have been played by so many people the mind boggles.

* UndercoverAsLovers: Luke and Casey, Ameera and Noah.

* KissingDiscretionShot: Mostly done concerning Luke and Noah.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Chris Hughes(Sr.), Nancy Hughes, Hal Munson.

* OneTruePairing: Luke/Noah, Carly/Jack, Holden/Lily, and other Super Couples

* StalkerWithACrush: Craig toward Carly, Craig and Carly

* BackFromTheDead

* DefrostingIceQueen

* HappilyMarried: Tom and Margo.

* StalkerWithACrush

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Chris Hughes, Nancy Hughes, Hal Munson.

* RapeAsComedy / RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale / RapeAsDrama: When a crazed Julia kidnapped her ex-husband Jack, held him prisoner, and eventually forced him to have sex with her (she wanted to get pregnant to replace the baby she's miscarried), the scenes were initially played as dark comedy, something that would never have happened had the genders been reversed. However, the scenes took a much uglier tone when she tried to kill him afterwards, and when he later revealed what had happened to his fiancee, she reacted with horror and sympathy and never once blamed him or insinuated that he was a willing participant.