History Series / SwitchedAtBirth

* VictimBlaming: All the other characters seem to like to do this with Bay in a minor way.

** LoveDodecahedron: Wilke decides he likes Daphne, who decides to fight for Emmett, who wants to make things work with Bay.
*** Plus Toby dates Simone, who has an affair with Emmett.

** And this being an Creator/ABCFamily show, it'll only get more complicated from here.

* ManlyTears: Toby after [[spoiler: he and Nikki decide to get divorced so she is free to travel doing missionary work.]]

* NoPartyGiven: John's run for office. He's either an old-school New England style Republican (in Kansas!) or a Blue Dog Democrat - liberal on "live and let live" social issues, fiscally conservative. Good luck getting through the primary!

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming after works of art, such as ''[[AmericanGothicCouple American Gothic]]'', or ''Dogs Playing Poker''.

Bay was raised in a BigFancyHouse by the wealthy John and Kathryn Kennish. Daphne, who went deaf after catching meningitis as a toddler, was raised by single mother Regina Vasquez in a tough neighborhood. Neither girl knew that they weren't biologically related to their families, and in fact didn't know about each other, until Bay requested a DNA test. Once the secret is out, the Kennishes invite the Vasquezes to move in, and the two families start to get to know their "real" daughters. In addition, we have generalized family drama in the form of boy problems, the growing pains of the elder Kennish sibling Toby, and various personality conflicts between the parents.

** In "Ecce Mono," John imagines that Regina came clean about discovering the switch in 1998 but lost custody of the girls due to her drinking. Daphne is raised with the Kennishes, getting an cochlear implant to help her hear and not identifying as Deaf - but is a manipulative brat. Bay is now a studious young woman who falls in her sister's shadow; Toby is still gambling, and Kathryn is having an affair with another man {[[spoiler:Chip Coto]]). The girls grow up thinking that Regina stopped contacting them altogether. [[spoiler: She actually has tried to make contact with them their entire lives, but the Kennishes stash away the letters and presents instead of giving it to the girls. When they find this out and go to find Regina, they instead only find Adrianna; they find out from her that Regina died of drinking on their birthday.]]

** Also the season 3 finale, in which [[spoiler: Bay, Daphne and their friends graduate from Carlton, but learn Carlton will be permanently closed. Then Bay confesses to vandalizing the construction site so that Daphne won't go to jail and ruin her chances of going to medical school, although this means Bay can't move to LA with Emmett.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: Daphne and her {{Temporary|LoveInterest}} SatelliteLoveInterest Jace blackmail Senator Coto with his affair with an intern, in order to kill an abstinence-only education bill. [[spoiler:Coto eventually catches Daphne, and blackmails her (and John) right back. In order to spare John from having to pay off Coto, Daphne sends info of the affair to the news media, taking Coto down with her.]]

* ShutUpKiss: Both Ty, and later Emmett, do this to Bay.

* StopHelpingMe: InUniverse. Emmett gets offended when Bay tries to interpret and defend him.
** Again when Bay [[spoiler: tells Melody about Emmett's desire to drop out of high school]]. And ''again'' when Bay [[spoiler:expresses concern to Cameron over Emmett's well-being, leading to Cameron giving up Emmett's custody to Melody.]] To say that Emmett isn't pleased would be an understatement.

** "Dance Me to the End of Love" gives almost everyone, with their varying degrees of ability, a chance to dance.

** In "Ecce Mono," John imagines that Regina came clean about discovering the switch in 1998 but lost custody of the girls due to her drinking. Daphne is raised with the Kennishes, getting an cochlear implant to help her hear and not identifying as Deaf - but is a manipulative brat. Bay is now a studious young woman who falls in her sister's shadow; Toby is still gambling, and Kathryn is having an affair with another man {[[spoiler:Chip Coto]]). The girls grow up thinking that Regina stopped contacting them altogether. [[Spoiler:She actually has tried to make contact with them their entire lives, but the Kennishes stash away the letters and presents instead of giving it to the girls. When they find this out and go to find Regina, they instead only find Adrianna; they find out from her that Regina died of drinking on their birthday.]]

** In "Ecce Mono," John imagines that Regina came clean about discovering the switch in 1998 but lost custody of the girls due to her drinking. Daphne is raised with the Kennishes, getting an implant to hear but is a manipulative brat. Bay is in her sister's shadow, Toby is still gambling and Katherine is having an affair with another man while the girls discover Regina died of drinking on their birthday.
** In "Yuletide Fortune Tellers," the girls are upset about their families' Christmas traditions only to wake up in a world where the switch never happened. Daphne is Bay, a star athlete with Toby a moody musician and John and Katherine having marriage problems. Bay is Daphne, raised with a younger brother but Regina still drinking and Emmett only a friend.

** After Bay and Emmett broke up in season 2 and she starts dating again, there are several Betty and Veronica's with Emmett pining for Bay as the Betty while she dated a couple Veronicas.

** And earlier in the series, Emmett was the Betty and Wilke was the Veronica to Daphne's Archie. They really seem to like pairing people with the Veronica.

* BizarroEpisode: "Yuletide Fortune Tellers" counts as it's an AlternateRealityEpisode which aired as the last episode of season three episode, directly after... well, see BittersweetEnding above.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Angelo is the cnetral focus of "The Image Disappears" [[spoiler: which follows on from his car crash at the end of the previous episode... and switches tropes to become ADeathInTheLimelight around halfway through]].

* AbsenteeActor: Sean Berdy gets an onscreen credit for "Las Dos Fridas," but Emmett only appears in the PreviouslyOn segment and not in the episode itself. Similarly, Gilles Marini gets PromotedToOpeningTitles in season 2, but Angelo doesn't appear in every episode.

-->"'Reporter:'" What will you do next? Was anybody hurt in there?
-->"'Bay:'" Um, you know he's deaf, right!

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In "Human/Need/Desire" when Toby and Nikki are in the car, Cassi Thomson's Australian accent notably comes through when she says "I love it."

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: "Uprising" starts with Katie Leclerc (speaking in her normal voice) and Vanessa Marano explaining the setup for the episode, including Marano assuring the viewerss that "there's nothing wrong with your TV." All of the episode's dialogue is delivered in ASL, and the only spoken conversations are in the first scene between Bay and Noah. [[spoiler: The only other spoken line of dialogue is the episode's final line, when Bay tells Daphne (who can't hear the approaching police sirens) "The cops are here."]]

* AbsenteeActor: Sean Berdy gets an onscreen credit for "Las Dos Fridas," but Emmett only appears in the PreviouslyOn segment and not in the episode itself.

* DoNotAdjustYourSet: "Uprising" starts with a bumper which announces that "there's nothing wrong with your TV." All of the episode's dialogue is delivered in ASL, and the only spoken conversations are in the first scene.