History Series / TheBoldAndTheBeautiful

* RealityEnsues: The first time Eric pursued Taylor, she listed a ''lot'' of reasons it was a bad idea. . .and stuck with it, rather than a typical soap storyline of her throwing caution to the wind and embarking on a relationship with him anyway.

* CharacterDerailment: For years, Taylor was genuinely the "good" alternative to the "bad" Brooke. Writing turned her into someone who was just as bad as far as romantic entanglements, and made her a hypocrite to boot because she was ''still'' lecturing Brooke about her own immoral behavior.

** Subverted with Morgan [=DeWitt=], an ex-girlfriend of Ridge's who came to town still bitter about the abortion she'd had years ago. Flashbacks indicated that she had in fact ''wanted'' the baby, but had been browbeaten into terminating the pregnancy by Ridge's [[MyBelovedSmother controlling mother]] Stephanie, who didn't feel that Morgan was good enough for Ridge, nor that the two were ready to take on the responsibility of parenthood.

** 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 has seen the character devolve into a full-blown sociopath, fueled by a obsessive infatuation with Hope that developed amid his grief over the off-screen sudden death of Caroline from a blood clot hemorrage 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.

''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.

** Lindsey Godfrey (Caroline Spencer) was written out of the show temporarily twice within the course of a year for two different reasons:
** In June 2014, Godfrey gave birth to a daughter (with then-boyfriend and later, briefly, fiancée [[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless Robert Adamson]]); the pregnancy was not written into the show, even though her character was married to Rick Forrester (played by Jacob Young) and even contemplated having children with him.

* BackFromTheDead: Being a SoapOpera this happens frequently. Most prominently with Taylor (twice!) and Macy.

** After Steffy finds out she is pregnant with Liam's child in 2013, leading to them getting married, Steffy miscarries her baby, after crashing her motorbike. Upon discovering that the accident has left her infertile, she decides to divorce Liam and move to Paris.
** 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. ''Extremely'' mentally unstable, 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 Aly with a tire iron, which Steffy kills Aly with in self-defense when she 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) to blackmail Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" fashion line (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt" – sexualized – than if Steffy was in it), in exchange for her silence. Insisting that Steffy lied about the self-defense claim, 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 her own loneliness. 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.

* CallingTheOldManOut: At one point Brooke was pregnant by Eric (she was having Rick), and Eric wanted to get a speedy divorce from Stephanie without the latter finding out so he could marry Brooke. Ridge decided to go along with the plan to protect Brooke and her baby, but Thorne found the whole thing disgusting and ratted them out to Stephanie. Eric treated Thorne like he'd committed treason, and it was then that Thorne really let Eric have it about what he was doing. [[spoiler: Not that it made any difference, because Eric followed through with his plan regardless]].

* TheCameo: The most recent example would also be the weirdest- a [[http://www.tvinsider.com/article/101035/game-show-great-wink-martindale-guest-stars-on-the-bold-and-the-beautiful/ wedding-related storyline in October 2016]] had '''[[Series/TicTacDough Wink]] [[Series/{{Debt}} Martindale]]''' as Reverend Brown.

* CitizenshipMarriage: While the main goal was to help her stay in the country, Thomas and Gabriella might be the only example of this trope where the couple in question was genuinely in love with each other (rather than one half of the couple being in love with someone else) and had to convince the INS that their FourthDateMarriage was for real.

* CrossOver: Most prominently with ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless''. Characters from Genoa City like Sheila and Ashley Abbott show up in LA to be new love interests.
** On the June 17, 2009 episode Pam & Donna wind up on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' and Donna winds up playing on the show and winning big on the next day's episode.
* DeadGuyJunior: Several babies on this shown have been named after deceased relatives and/or friends (and even more have been named after living ones). Mary Warwick was named after her dead grandmother, the new Caroline Spencer was named after her aunt who died of leukemia, and Alexandria Forrester, who was conceived in an adulterous affair between her father and his then wife's best friend, was named after the betrayed wife...

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Averted. In the early 90s, the show launched a groundbreaking storyline when Jake, Felicia's boyfriend, came to grips with the fact that he'd been sexually abused by his uncle as a child.
* EasilyForgiven: A lot of men and women in the show are forgiven in a short period of time for affairs, most particularly Brooke. Bridget swore she would never forgive Brooke for sleeping with her then-husband Deacon, but they were back on speaking terms within a short period of time. Also, Stephanie is quick to forgive Eric for his affairs when they end and he begs her back.
** Taylor really nails this trope with Thorne though [[spoiler: after she accidentally killed his wife Darla]]. Thorne forgave her enough to the point that Thorne got into a relationship with her and almost married her, but his daughter Ally's outrage over it stopped him from going through with it.

* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Amber and Raymond, though their's was more of a FriendsWithBenefits situation.

* {{Yandere}}: Bill Spencer has evolved into one for Steffy. He just can't listen to her when she tells him that their relationship is ''over'', and does a lot of ''awful'' things to try and gain her love. And, in true Yandere fashion, it doesn't occur to him that if he wants to win Steffy's heart, repeatedly showing up at her house even after she tells him to get lost, trying to break up Steffy and Liam, and blackmailing her ''maybe'' isn't the way to go about it.

** 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. ''Extremely'' mentally unstable, 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 Aly with a tire iron, which Steffy kills Aly with in self-defense when she 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) to blackmail Thomas into making her a lead model of the "California Freedom" fashion line (under the guise of trying to honor Aly's legacy by trying to keep the line from becoming "overt" – sexualized – than if Steffy was in it), in exchange for her silence. Insisting that Steffy lied about the self-defense claim, 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 her own loneliness. 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.

** Ivy Forrester started out as the NeutralGood NiceGirl when introduced in 2014; however, tied into she flipped to a ManipulativeBitch [[TheResenter Resenter]] and persecutorial blackmailer as part of a BreakTheCutie incident caused by Steffy "stealing" then-boyfriend Liam from her (although Liam later states that he chose to leave Ivy – whom he broke up with at Aly's funeral! – for Steffy on his own terms) and then killing their cousin/her best friend Aly in self-defense (though Ivy, who held a cell phone video she took of the killing over Steffy's head and used Aly's death as a means to get ahead in the company, saw it as murder). Ironically, of those who noticed something wrong with her, Quinn's OutOfCharacterAlert toward her is the most telling, as she was surprised that Ivy started acting like a jerk (and not in a good way).

** Taylor is a pro at this as well. She constantly bashes Brooke for her many romantic entanglements, especially for dating more than one man from the same family and for getting romantically involved with her daughter's love interests. Taylor herself has been engaged to Storm Logan, had a relationship with Stephen Logan and been romantically involved with Eric Forrester, Ridge Forrester, Thorne Forrester and Rick Forrester (the last of whom was her daughter Phoebe's great love and Phoebe's distress over this led to the car accident which Phoebe died).

* TheCameo: The most recent example would also be the weirdest- a [[http://www.tvinsider.com/article/101035/game-show-great-wink-martindale-guest-stars-on-the-bold-and-the-beautiful/ wedding-related storyline in October 2016]] had '''[[Series/TicTacDough Wink]] [[Seriess/{{Debt}} Martindale]]''' as Reverend Brown.

* {{Hypocrite}}: When Katie had an affair with Nick, her niece Bridget's husband, Brooke went into full MamaBear mode and completely railroaded Katie for hurting Bridget. However, Brooke had also betrayed Bridget this same way. ''Twice''. One of these times with Nick!

* EveryoneIsASuspect: When Stephanie was shot, ''everyone'' literally was a suspect because they all had reason to be angry at her. [[spoiler: Storm did it.]]

* CrossOver: Most prominently with TheYoungAndTheRestless. Characters from Genoa City like Sheila and Ashley Abbott show up in LA to be new love interests.

* RapeIsLove: Inverted. As listed in RapeAsDrama, Ridge unintentionally rapes Brooke when she's drugged. Even though they're a supercouple of the show, and Ridge thought it was consensual sex, the act was treated by the show as rape, and Brooke even went through trauma over it. Possibly played straight as Brooke eventually forgave him and they reconciled.

** Subverted with Morgan [=DeWitt=], an ex-girlfriend of Ridge's who came to town still bitter about how the abortion she'd had years ago. Flashbacks indicated that she had in fact ''wanted'' the baby, but had been browbeaten into terminating the pregnancy by Ridge's [[MyBelovedSmother controlling mother]] Stephanie, who didn't feel that Morgan was good enough for Ridge, nor that the two were ready to take on the responsibility of parenthood.

** In recent years, both Brook 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.

* During a [[https://youtu.be/DHJ_aKoUltE Black and White]] DreamSequence in one episode, Quinn imagined that she has Hope tied down to a chair in her loft, surrounded by large pictures of herself. The [[{{Dominatrix}} leather-clad]] Quinn tells Hope that she loved her and her baby and wants to hear her say it in return. To get her to say it, Quinn tickled Hope’s arms and neck with a feather wand as Hope twitched and protested. "I love you, Mama Quinn, and I want you to be a part of my family", Quinn instructed Hope to repeat. Hope, agonizing beneath the tickling wand until she could take no more, repeated the phrase back to Quinn.

** 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.