History Series / TheBoldAndTheBeautiful

* ArchEnemy: Without a doubt, Stephanie and Brooke, although they sometimes [[FriendlyEnemy get along]].

* AxCrazy: Morgan fits into this, as does Pam and later Aly.

* PlotTumor: The Hope/Liam/Steffy triangle. Liam started out as a minor character, and has grown to the point where his love life has become the sole focus of every other character on the show for an entire year and counting (september 2012).

* {{Defictionalization}}: ''Room 8'', the web sitcom that Maya and Carter starred in during a 2013 storyline, was produced as a web series in RealLife that was streamed on CBS.com's ''B&B'' webpage.

* AxCrazy: Morgan fits into this, as does Pam.

** Also, when Sly poked a hole in the condom he planned to use while having sex with Jessica, hoping to get her pregnant so that he could "do the right thing" and marry her – and get his hands on the Forrester millions. It backfired, as he was too drunk to. . .complete the deed.

** Subverted with Steffy Forrester, who was named after her grandmother Stephanie who had just suffered a potentially fatal stroke at the time of Steffy's birth. However, Stephanie senior miraculously survived.

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Rick Forrester during his relatively short tenure as CEO of Forrester Creations. He treated many of his employees – particularly Ridge, Ivy and Aly[[note]]who's mistreatment and placation by Rick, who waited on him hand and foot on a false promise that he'd greenlight her shoe line, plays a limited role in the mental downfall that led to her trying to murder Steffy[[/note]] – like worthless peons; Ridge actually quit briefly, unable to take the mistreatment, and makes a failed attempt to get Eric to oust Rick and appoint him CEO as his stepfather was willing to overlook Rick's jackassery on account of him helping increase Forrester's revenue with his ideas. It leads to a successful takeover by Ridge, Liam and Steffy (the latter of whom originally wouldn't go forth with the plan unless getting back together with Liam, who was dating Ivy at that time and wanted to take over the company to save her from Rick's tyranny, was part of the deal) to get rid of Rick.

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* TyrantAtTheHelm: Rick Forrester during his relatively short tenure as CEO of Forrester Creations. He treated many of his employees – particularly Ridge, Ivy and Aly – like worthless peons; Ridge actually quit briefly, unable to take the mistreatment, and makes a failed attempt to get Eric to oust Rick and appoint him CEO as his stepfather was willing to overlook Rick's jackassery on account of him helping increase Forrester's revenue with his ideas. It leads to a successful takeover by Ridge, Liam and Steffy (the latter of whom originally wouldn't go forth with the plan unless getting back together with Liam, who was dating Ivy at that time and wanted to take over the company to save her from Rick's tyranny, was part of the deal) to get rid of Rick.

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** After returning to L.A. to take over Forrester Creations with Liam and Ridge in 2015, Steffy is repeatedly [[SlutShaming Slut Shamed]] by cousin Aly Forrester[[note]]herself broken and resentful of Steffy through a case of SanitySlippage, due partly because Steffy's mother Taylor had killed Aly's mother Darla in a DUI-induced auto-pedestrian accident when Aly was a child, and being treated like a servant by Rick and Maya when the former was Forrester Creations' president[[/note]] for "flaunting" her body and attempting to snare Liam from their shared cousin (and Aly's best friend) Ivy. Aly attempts to "re-enact" Darla's death[[note]]upon urging from a vision of Darla, who appears to Aly as a [[ItMakesSenseInContext floating head]][[/note]] by trying to run Steffy over on the same stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway where Darla died as her cousin tries to repair the tires on her car (which Aly punched) when it breaks down. Steffy, unsuccessful in trying to talk her cousin down, is nearly killed by the extremely unstable Aly with a tire iron, which Steffy uses to kill her with in self-defense when Aly tries to bludgeon Steffy with a rock. Adding to the trauma, a resentful Ivy – a witness to Aly's death, who ends up making veiled accusations that Steffy murdered Aly[[note]]Steffy, who initially blocked out the self-defense killing in shock, told a police officer on-scene that Aly died after tripping and falling on a rock[[/note]], not knowing the real story – decides to use a cell phone video she taped of Aly's killing (which makes Steffy appear as the aggressor, not Aly), to blackmail Steffy's brother Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" fashion line over Steffy (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt", i.e., sexualized), in exchange for her silence. Insisting that Steffy lied about Aly's death being in self-defense, Ivy even chastises Wyatt (whom she catches trying to delete the video upon Steffy's urging) for "siding" with Steffy's account, forcing him to back down when she expresses she feels alone. The fact Ivy even used blackmail to keep the tape under wraps from the police was even [[{{Lampshading}} Lampshaded]] by Ivy as being [[OutOfCharacterMoment out-of-character]] for her, given her previous NeutralGood status.

** After the former returns to Los Angeles to take over Forrester Creations with Liam and Ridge in 2015, Steffy experiences this from cousin Aly Forrester[[note]]herself broken and resentful of Steffy through a case of SanitySlippage, due partly because Steffy's mother Taylor had killed Aly's mother Darla in a DUI-induced auto-pedestrian accident when Aly was a child, and being treated like a servant by Rick and Maya when the former was Forrester Creations' president[[/note]], being repeatedly [[SlutShaming Slut Shamed]] for "flaunting" her body and attempting to snare Liam from their shared cousin (and Aly's best friend) Ivy. Aly attempts to "re-enact" Darla's death[[note]]upon urging from a vision of Darla, who appears to Aly as a floating head[[/note]] by trying to run her over on the same stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway where Darla was run over as Steffy tries to repair the tires on her car (which Aly punched) when it breaks down. Steffy, unsuccessful in trying to talk her cousin down from her extreme mental unstablity, is nearly killed by Aly with a tire iron, which Steffy manages to knock loose from Aly's hand, and uses to kill Aly in self-defense when she tries to bludgeon Steffy with a rock. Making things worse, a resentful Ivy – who witnessed Aly's death, and ends up making veiled claims that Steffy murdered Aly[[note]]after Steffy tells a police officer on scene that Aly died after tripping and falling on a rock[[/note]], not realizing that Steffy initially blocked out the self-defense killing in shock – decides to use the cell phone video of Aly's killing that she taped from her car (which makes it appear as though Steffy is the aggressor, not Aly), to blackmail Steffy's brother Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" line over Steffy (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt", i.e., sexualized), to keep her silence. Not even wanting to consider there's more to the story, Ivy even chastises Wyatt for "siding" with Steffy's account of self-defense, forcing him to back down when she expresses she feels alone in this. The fact Ivy used blackmail to keep the tape under wraps from the police was even [[{{Lampshading}} Lampshaded]] by Ivy as being [[OutOfCharacterMoment out-of-character]] for her, given her previous NeutralGood status.

** Aly Forrester grows increasingly resentful of Steffy (partly due to the fact Steffy's mother Taylor had killed her mother Darla in a DUI-fueled auto-pedestrian accident when Aly was a child) after her cousin's return to Los Angeles in 2015 as part of a takeover of Forrester Creations with Liam and Ridge. Steffy ends up repeatedly being verbally attacked by Aly [[note]]herself broken through a case of SanitySlippage, due partly because of the aforementioned death of Darla, being treated like a servant by Rick and Maya when the former was Forrester Creations' president[[/note]] for her "flaunting" of her body and her attempt to snare Liam from their shared cousin and Aly's best friend Ivy. Now extremely mentally unstable, Aly attempts to kill Steffy[[note]]upon urging from a vision of Darla, who appears to Aly as a floating head[[/note]] in her own "re-enactment" of Darla's death on the stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway where her mother died by punching a hole in the tires of Steffy's car, and then trying to run her over when she sees Steffy trying to fix her car when it breaks down. Steffy is unsuccessful in trying to talk her down, with Aly grabbing a tire iron to kill her with, which a frightened Steffy (who immediately blocks the later events in the shock of the moment, before being re-jogged later on) manages to knock loose from Aly's hand, and uses to kill her in self-defense when Aly tries to kill Steffy with a rock.
** Ivy experiences her own breaking through losing Liam and Aly to Steffy. In an OutOfCharacterMoment, Ivy – who witnessed Aly's death, and ends up making veiled claims that Steffy murdered Aly[[note]]on account that Steffy told the police on scene that Aly died after falling on a rock[[/note]] – decides to use the cell phone video she taped from her car of Aly's killing (which does not show Aly as the aggressor on account of her back being turned and being recorded too late), to blackmail Steffy's brother Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" line over Steffy (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt", i.e., sexualized), to keep her silence. Not even wanting to consider there's more to the story, Ivy even chastises Wyatt for "siding" with Steffy's account of self-defense, forcing him to back down when she expresses she feels alone in this. The fact Ivy used blackmail to keep the tape under wraps from the police was even [[{{Lampshading}} Lampshaded]] by Ivy as being out-of-character for her, given her previous NeutralGood status.

* TheOtherDarrin: Standard Operating Procedure on soaps, the latest being [[AllMyChildren Thorsten Kaye]] as Ridge, replacing Ronn Moss, who played the role from the start of the show until 2012.

** Aly Forrester grows increasingly resentful of her cousin (partly due to the fact Steffy's mother Taylor had killed her mother Darla in a DUI-fueled auto-pedestrian accident when Aly was a child) after Steffy returns to Los Angeles in 2015 as part of a takeover of Forrester Creations with Liam and Ridge. Steffy ends up being repeatedly verbally attacked by Aly [[note]]herself broken through a case of SanitySlippage, due partly because of the aforementioned death of Darla, being treated like a servant by Rick and Maya when the former was Forrester Creations' president[[/note]] for her "flaunting" of her body and her attempt to snare Liam from their shared cousin and Aly's best friend Ivy. Now extremely mentally unstable, Aly attempts to kill Steffy (on urging from a vision of Darla, who appears to Aly as a floating head) in her own "re-enactment" of Darla's death on the stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway where her mother died by punching a hole in the tires of Steffy's car, and then trying to run her over when she sees Steffy trying to fix her car when it breaks down. While trying to talk her down, Aly tries to kill Steffy with a tire iron, which a frightened Steffy (who immediately blocks the later events in the shock of the moment, before being re-jogged later on) manages to knock loose from Aly's hand, and uses to kill Aly in self-defense when she tries to kill Steffy with a rock.
** Ivy experiences her own breaking through losing Liam and Aly to Steffy. In an OutOfCharacterMoment, Ivy – who witnessed Aly's death, and ends up making veiled claims that Steffy murdered Aly[[note]]on account that Steffy told the police on scene that Aly died after falling on a rock[[/note]] – decides to use the cell phone video she taped from her car of Aly's killing (which does not show Aly as the aggressor on account of her back being turned and being recorded too late), to blackmail Steffy's brother Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" line over Steffy (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt", i.e., sexualized), to keep her silence. Not even wanting to consider there's more to the story, Ivy even chastises Wyatt for "siding" with Steffy's account of self-defense, forcing him to back down when she expresses she feels alone in this.

** Aly Forrester, through a case of SanitySlippage, grows increasingly resentful of Steffy (partly due to the fact Steffy's mother Taylor had killed her mother Darla in a DUI-fueled auto-pedestrian accident when Aly was a child) after she returns to Los Angeles in 2015 as part of a takeover of Forrester Creations with Liam and Ridge. Steffy first experiences this after Aly [[note]]herself a victim of this trope due partly because of the aforementioned death of Darla, being treated like a servant by Rick and Maya when the former was Forrester Creations' president[[/note]] (became increasingly unstable, verbally attacking Steffy for her "flaunting" of her body and her attempt to snare Liam from their shared cousin and Aly's best friend Ivy), leading her to attempt to kill Steffy in her own "re-enactment" of Darla's death on the stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway where her mother died by putting a hole in the tires of Steffy's car, and then trying to run her over. While trying to talk her down, Aly tries to kill Steffy with a tire iron and then with a rock, leading a frightened Steffy to kill Aly with said tire iron in self-defense.
** Ivy experiences her own breaking through losing Liam and Aly to Steffy. In an OutOfCharacterMoment, Ivy – who witnessed Aly's death, and ends up making veiled claims that Steffy murdered Aly[[note]]on account that Steffy told the police on scene that Aly died after falling on a rock, after immediately blocking out what happened in the shock of the moment[[/note]] – decides to use the cell phone video she taped from her car of Aly's killing, to blackmail Steffy's brother Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" line over Steffy (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt", i.e., sexualized), to keep her silence. Not even wanting to consider there's more to the story, Ivy even chastises Wyatt for "siding" with Steffy's account of self-defense, forcing him to back down when she expresses she feels alone in this.

* TheAlcoholic: First, Macy, then Taylor. Taylor's alcoholism tends to resurface when she's under deep stress. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, her relapse caused her to temporarily lose custody of her son, Jack.]]

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of His Kind]]: ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' became the last remaining half-hour daytime soap on American television in 2003, when ABC cancelled the ''Series/GeneralHospital'' spin-off ''Series/PortCharles''.

* MonochromeCasting: One of the most shameful examples ever, as the show is set in Los Angeles, yet in 25 years, the amount of minority characters can be counted on one hand. The show got better about this in 2015, with the expansions of existing African-American character Maya Avant's family (with younger sister Nicole as a regular, and parents Julius and Vivienne as recurrings) plus the return of Zende Forrester Dominguez, an orphan adopted from Africa by Kristen Forrester and her husband Tony Dominguez 13 years earlier.

* LosAngeles: The show's main setting, and the only current daytime soap not set in a fictionalized version of [[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless a real-life city]] or a city that doesn't exist in RealLife at all. Reflected in the awesome helicopter shots of the city seen at the beginning of each episode and at the start of each act following a commercial break.

* MonochromeCasting: One of the most shameful examples ever, as the show is set in Los Angeles, yet in 25 years, the amount of minority characters can be counted on one hand.

''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. Set in Los Angeles, California, ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' centers around the fashion industry, 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.

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''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. Set in Los Angeles, California, ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' centers around the fashion industry, 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.

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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Steffy Forrester has recently meddled in on relationships and is unabashed about it. When the Logans--particularly Brooke--confront her about her misdeeds, she throws all of their previous crimes in their faces.

** Also, when Sly poked a hole in the condom he planned to use while having sex with Jessica, hoping to get her pregnant so that he could "do the right thing" and marry her--and get his hands on the Forrester millions. It backfired, as he was too drunk to. . .complete the deed.

* ButtMonkey: Thorne. Not only has Ridge overshadowed him for most of his life, but he's had to deal with Stephanie's obvious favoritism towards Ridge. The fact that he exposed Eric's plot to elope with Brooke wasn't enough to turn Stephanie away. He's also repeatedly accused (primarily by Ridge) of being an idiot and a loser with no original ideas. He's often had to gain strength from the women in his lives--Macy, Darla, and Taylor--in order to stand up to Ridge or fight for his place at Forrester Creations. [[spoiler: he even initiates a physical fight with Ridge one time Ridge unnecessarily insults Darla.]]

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: In 1994, Taylor had a one-night stand with a man named James both while she was separated from Ridge and while they were trapped together after an earthquake, believing that they would die any moment. This remains a secret until 2006, a year after Taylor comes back from the dead. Brooke finds out about the fling and after repeatedly throwing it in Taylor's face and almost blackmailing her with it, the truth is made known to Ridge. Ridge reacts to a fling Taylor had twelve years prior ''while they weren't even together and occurring under extreme duress'' as though she were committing adultery in the present and immediately dumps her with the intention of hooking back up with Brooke. His treatment of her becomes even more despicable when you recall that he cheated on her with Morgan--in addition to ''years'' of ignoring Taylor's complaints about Brooke's constant interference. DoubleStandard, much?

** Whether or not he knew she was drugged, it doesn't change the fact that she made it clear that she wanted him to leave her house--and he didn't.
** There are fans who also believe Nick raped Brooke when he told her Ridge had died--while he knew Ridge was still alive--and had sex with her while she was in a vulnerable state.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Storm pretty much dug his own grave when he shot Stephanie and didn't show any remorse for it. When he accidentally shot Katie--his little sister who had a heart condition--he was so overcome with grief that he committed suicide in order to donate his heart to her and save her life. His sacrifice paid off because the heart took in Katie.]]

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* Main/{{McLeaned}}: Darla Einstein Forrester was killed by a drunk Taylor, when she hit her after Darla fell to the ground on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway after Darla lost her grip on a tire iron while trying to change the tire on Phoebe's car.
** This storyline also was revisited seven years later in 2015, when Darla's daughter Aly (then a young kid when Darla died, but aged up to her late teens through SORASing) experienced SanitySlippage as a result of being unable to cope with her mom's passing all these years later. This culminates in Aly trying to kill her ArchNemesis Steffy (whom Aly hated because she is Taylor's daughter, ItMakesSenseInContext given Aly's growing psychosis over time), resulting in Aly's AccidentalMurder (really a self-defense killing[[note]]though Steffy's rival for Liam and Aly's close friend, Ivy saw it as the opposite by way of eyewitnessing the incident and filming a cell phone video she took of it from her car, not knowing that Aly was the original aggressor[[/note]]) when a frightened Steffy hits Aly's leg with a tire iron, causing her to fall on a rock (ironically, the same weapon that Aly was going to kill Steffy with), killing her instantly.

* MayDecemberRomance: Quite a few. Eric and Brooke, Eric and Donna, Eric and ''any'' woman who isn't Stephanie or Jackie, Ridge and Bridget, Nick and Bridget, Jackie and Owen, Rick and Taylor.

* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: All of the children at one point or another.
* SuddenlySexuality: Karen Spencer came out as a lesbian in 2012 at the same time as her actress.
* TheOtherDarren: Standard Operating Procedure on soaps, the latest being [[AllMyChildren Thorsten Kaye]] as Ridge, replacing Ronn Moss, who played the role from the show's beginning to 2012.

* UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}: In April 2015, [[spoiler:Maya Avant]] was revealed to have been born a male named [[spoiler: Myron. As part of the story, which occurred around the same time Bruce Jenner came out as transgender, the show also cast transgender male actor Scott Turner Schofield as Maya's friend Nick, originally one of the only other people who knew Maya's secret before Bill Spencer chose to reveal it in one of his magazines]].

* WhosYourDaddy?: Brooke was so sure that Bridget was Ridge's child that she named the baby Bridget--which is a combination of Brooke and Ridge's names. However in actuality she wasn't sure ''who'' Bridget's father was but wanted Ridge to be her father. [[spoiler: It turned out that Eric, Ridge's father and Brooke's former husband, was Bridget's father.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Taylor and Brooke for Ridge, respectivly. Nowadays, the focus is on Hope and Steffy for Liam. However a larger focus had been placed on Wyatt and Liam for Hope since Wyatt's introduction, with Caroline and Maya for Rick getting some steady increase in screen time and plot relevance as well.

* TheCastShowoff: Many cast members have demonstrated considerable singing talents, to the point where the cast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKEeJma8Ks staged a full concert in the Netherlands]].

* BettyAndVeronica: Taylor and Brooke for Ridge, respectivly. Nowadays, the focus is on Hope and Steffy for Liam.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: The late Darlene Conley's Sally Spectra
* [[TheCharacterDiedwithHim The Character Died with Her]]: Inverted. Darlene Conley was still on the cast playing Sally Spectra when she died in 2007. But Sally is still [[CharacterOutlivesActor considered alive by the characters]].

The Bold and the Beautiful enjoys international popularity, and gets high ratings in Italy. More information about ratings and the history of the show can be found at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bold_and_the_Beautiful The other Wiki]].