History Series / TheYoungAndTheRestless

* DracoInLeatherPants: Quite a few of the most popular characters started out as villains, including Victor, Phyllis, Michael and Kevin. They turned out to be popular with viewers so they were retooled by writers to be more likable, albeit still with an edge.

* EvilTwin: A number of these have popped up over the years. Catherine, Phyllis and Lauren have all been bedeviled by evil doubles at some point.

''The Young and the Restless'' is an American soap opera, first aired in 1973 on Creator/{{CBS}}, about the residents of the fictional town of Genoa, Wisconsin. When the show first aired the show focused on two main families, the Foresters and the Brooks.

* BaseBreaker: Phyllis Newman.

* VillainSue: Many fans have accused Victor Newman of being this ever since the mid-90s. The characters who lampshade the amount of times Victor's transgressions have been overlooked or praised, even by his victims, tend to be the DesignatedVillain.

* TheGamblingAddict: Billy Abbot, to the point of racking up a huge death and [[geting his wife kidnapped]].

* Catfight: A staple of any soap. Characters have been known to duke it out with everything from mud, to wedding cake to ''giant crates''.

* OfficerO'Hara: Averted. Both Ronan and Paul are Irish, though they both avoid typical 'Irish cop' tropes.

* BrokenBase: Phyllis Newman.

* BrokenBase: Phyllis Newman and Adam Newman.

''The Young and the Restless'' is an American soap opera, first aired in 1973 on {{CBS}}, about the residents of the fictional town of Genoa, Wisconsin. When the show first aired the show focused on two main families, the Foresters and the Brooks.

* {{Dramatic Half Hour}}: Ran for a half hour from its debut in 1973 until February 1980. It was the last soap opera to expand to an hour.

* {{Lady Drunk}}: Kay, Nikki
* {{Loads and Loads of Characters}}: Due to multiple main families and many supporting families. There are many characters currently in the cast.

* {{Re Tool}}: The show is notable as one of the few soaps to completely {{retool}} and write out the bulk of its core families. According to {{The Other Wiki}}, this was the result of the show's expansion from 30 minutes to an hour in 1980. The expansion forced the producers to renegotiate contracts; when many actors chose to leave, the writers wrote out the remaining main characters from the Foster and Brooks families, except Jill Foster. They then refocused their attention on a new pair of main families, the Williams and the Abbots. The writers later added more families: the Newmans, the Winters and, more recently, the Fisher-Baldwin family.

* {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}: This causes a lot of the broken bases in ''The Young and the Restless''. Every character gets one. Is Victor a {{Magnificent Bastard}}[=/=]{{Noble Demon}} without whom the show would be nowhere, or is he a {{Villain Sue}}[=/=]{{Complete Monster}} whom the show would better off not having? Is Jack completely justified in constantly trying to regain his family, or is he a loser trying to hold on to something he really should abandon? Even minor characters can’t avoid this: Is Esther a really good friend to Katherine, her employer, or is Esther an annoying idiot, or both?
* {{Broken Base}}: Almost everything and everyone on this show. The only things that are not base breakers are the fact that ''The Young and the Restless'' is a soap opera that they watch and that random background puppet at Crisom Lights is creepy.

* {{Half Hour Drama}}: Ran for a half hour from its debut in 1973 until February 1980. It was the last soap opera to expand to an hour.

After the show expanded to from 30 minutes to an hour due to thet large amount of main character recasts and departures from the show, the writers were forced to write out the remaining main characters except Jill Forester. They then refocused their attention on a new pair of main families, the Williams and the Abbots. The writers later added more families: the Newmans, the Winters and, more recently, the Fisher-Baldwin family.