History Series / TheBoldAndTheBeautiful

''The Bold and the Beautiful'' is a DramaticHalfHour American SoapOpera that airs on Creator/{{CBS}}. The show premiered on March 23, 1987, making it the youngest American soap opera on television; it is also the last remaining half-hour soap opera on network daytime television, in no large part, because its CBS timeslot was abbreviated to allow stations to carry their midday newscasts at noon local time.

''The Bold and the Beautiful'' is a half-hour long American SoapOpera that airs on Creator/{{CBS}}. The show premiered on March 23, 1987, making it the youngest American soap opera on television; it is also the last remaining half-hour soap opera on network daytime television, in no large part, because its CBS timeslot was abbreviated to allow stations to carry their midday newscasts at noon local time.

* OedipusComplex: Inverted, in what some psychologists have termed "The Jocasta Complex". Stephanie was so obsessed with Ridge that several people outright suggested that she's in love with her own son. Even favorite daughter-in-law Taylor got fed up with it when she finally realized that the real reason Stephanie had always supported her over Brooke in the battle over Ridge is that Taylor reminded Stephanie so much of herself that she figured that since she herself couldn't sleep with Ridge, she'd settle for him being with someone just like her.

Set in Los Angeles, California, ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' centers around the fashion industry, and the struggles of surviving in such a competitive environment. At the center of the show are two families; the influential and elitist Forrester family – headed by Eric and Stephanie Forrester, founders of the fashion company Forrester Creations, and the once upper-middle class Logan family – primarily headed by oldest daughter Brooke Logan. Both families become integrated together through marriage, affairs, and bitter feuds. Adding to the conflict includes the Marone family, headed by Jackie, and the Spectra family, headed by Sally.

* TookALevelInKindness: Steffy notably became ''much'' kinder and more morally conscience when she had her first son with Finn. Since almost losing him, she's essentially become one of the more upstanding characters on the show.

* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard:]] This relates to Stephanie's plan with Andy Johnson. At the time, Ridge was engaged to Ashley Abbott, but Brooke was trying to win him back. Stephanie liked Ashley and wanted Brooke to back off, so she hired Andy to seduce Brooke and show Ridge [[spoiler: once again]] what a slut she was. Well, the plan completely backfired on Stephanie. Andy ''raped'' Brooke when seducing her didn't work, and Ridge was there to pick up the pieces and help her through it. Tending to her and helping her deal with her rape reawakened Ridge's feelings for Brooke and he dumped Ashley to be with her. Most of all, ''everyone'' turned on Stephanie when it was made known she had hired Andy.

* MeddlingParents: This trope ''is'' Stephanie. She frequently butts in on the personal lives of her children, and if Brooke is in a relationship with any of them she'll do everything in her power to convince whichever son it is to give up on her. This has also extended to other Logan women, like Donna.
** In recent years, both Brooke and Ridge have become like this with their own children. And when Taylor thought [[spoiler: Thomas and Brooke had slept together]] she entered Stephanie-territory with her rage at Brooke, screaming at her to stay away from Thomas.

* HistoryRepeats: The Brooke, Ridge, and Taylor LoveTriangle has pretty much been transposed to Hope, Liam, and Steffy, with Brooke being the best [[MeddlingParents analog]] for Stephanie. {{Irony}}!
** Not only that, ''Hope'' is the "Good Girl", the opposite of her mother Brooke, while ''Steffy'' is the "Bad Girl", the opposite of her mother Taylor.

* HotScientist: Brooke is actually an incredibly skilled chemist, and one thing that makes her an asset to Forrester Creations is that she created a formula that permanently removes wrinkles from clothing.

* MistakenDeathConfirmation: In a 2022 storyline sometime between Spring and Summer, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Li somehow saved Finn from Sheila's assassination attempt on Steffy, and that Sheila had attempted to stop [[SheKnowsTooMuch Li from revealing the truth]] and kept him hostage in her home while keeping the entire world in the dark about the fact that he was alive]].

** In the running for the show's most egregious example of the trope, Thomas Forrester. As an adult (as played by Adam Gregory and Pierson Fodé), Thomas was a standard Bad Boy Lothario, but the version played by Matthew Atkinson saw the character devolve into a full-blown sociopath for a time, fueled by an obsessive infatuation with Hope that developed amid his grief over the off-screen sudden death of Caroline from a blood clot hemorrhage in the Spring of 2019, causing him to rack up a large amount of amoral actions rivaling those any other soap baddie has committed in such a relatively short timespan. Over the last eight months of 2019 alone, he found out and hid the true identity of Liam and Steffy's adopted daughter Phoebe, who was really Hope and Liam's thought-to-have-been-stillborn daughter Beth, and manipulated multiple people involved in Dr. Reese's cover-up of the faked miscarriage (including Flo and Zoe) in order to prevent Hope from getting back together with Liam; manipulated and basically mentally abused his young son, Douglas, to get closer to Hope and to keep him from revealing the Beth secret; used Brooke accidentally pushing him off a cliff (an incident he survived) after she catches him manhandling Hope, during a failed effort to convince Hope to forgive him for keeping Beth's identity a secret, to drive a marriage-ending wedge between Brooke and Ridge, whom he manipulated into believing he's changed; faked a [[{{McLeaned}} McLeaning]] into a vat of acidic chemicals during an incident with Hope, leading her to briefly believe that she accidentally killed him; tries to coerce Hope into having sex with him in exchange for receiving custody of Douglas; drugged Liam and planned to drug Hope; and... oh yeah... caused a '''''vehicular homicide''''' by running Emma off the Pacific Coast Highway to keep her from revealing the truth about Beth. Along with the mental health issues related to Caroline’s death, it is later revealed that his behavior and hallucinations were also caused by bleeding in his brain that necessitated surgery.

* BrokenBird: Steffy began to show signs of this after Finn's death, and it became evident after her parents received a phone call that she had checked into a mental health facility in Monte Carlo. Justified due to thinking Finn was killed (something she never had happen with her previous lovers), and even after learning he was alive and reuniting with him, she's still irrevocably damaged from the entire incident.

* LargeHam: Sally Spectra. Big, bold, and larger than life, Sally was never afraid to [[ChewingTheScenery chew some scenery]]. Her niece and namesake is proving to be this too.

* BreakThemByTalking: A rare instance where it's one of the good characters doing this is with Finn; in the episodes shown at the end of July in 2022, he finally manages to break free of Sheila's grasp literally by making it clear she's not considered his mom and that she will ''never'' be forgiven by him or accepted as his family.

* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:Sheila shooting her son Finn is portrayed as especially heinous even by the standards of the show, with everyone, even the likes of Deacon, shocked and appalled by the act. If not for Li, Finn would have been KilledOffForReal]].

* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:Sheila killing her son Finn is portrayed as especially heinous even by the standards of the show, with everyone, even the likes of Deacon, shocked and appalled by the act]].

* MistakenDeathConfirmation: In a 2022 storyline sometime between Spring and Summer, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Finn was somehow saved by his adoptive mother, Li, and that Sheila had kept him hostage in her home while keeping the entire world in the dark about the fact that he was alive]].

* MistakenDeathConfirmation: In a 2022 storyline sometime between Spring and Summer, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Finn was somehow saved by his ''real'' mother, Li, and that Sheila had kept him hostage in her home while keeping the entire world in the dark about the fact that he was alive]].