History YMMV / TheBear2022

* UnintentionallySympathetic: While not hostile in any way, shape or form, Claire gets the blame for distracting Carmy from his duties to The Bear, even though she is shown to be extremely understanding, supportive and a healthy influence on him, teaching about work-life balance, which improves his mental health considerably. What she gets for this is being dumped at the season 2 finale, for he chooses his career over her.

** Marcus is hit with this to a lesser extent. Like Sydney, he made a bad situation worse by neglecting his responsibilities and walking out during a crisis. His decision to return on his own partly alleviates this.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: While not hostile in any way, shape or form, Claire gets the blame for distracting Carmy from his duties to The Bear, even though she is shown to be extremely understanding, supportive and a healthy influence on him, teaching about work-life balance, which improves his mental health considerably. What she gets for this is being dumped at the season 2 finale, for he chooses his carrer over her.

** Marcus making the first of his desserts for The Bear in "Honeydew" and his satisfied smile as he recognizes his own progress. Double-so when Carmy and Sydney try his work "Bolognese" and are vocally impressed.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Richie's role through the first season and a half basically consisted of making fun of Carmy for being into fancy food, responding to every reasonable point Carmy made about food or the restaurant with a string of profanities and getting into trouble. The episode "Forks" is where he finally finds a purpose, discovers something he cares about and begins truly turning his life around. Afterward, he's a much more reasonable person and productive contributor to the restaurant.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Richie's role through the first season and a half basically consisted of making fun of Carmy for being into fancy food, responding to every reasonable point Carmy made about food or the restaurant with a string of profanity and getting into trouble. The episode "Forks" is where he finally finds a purpose, discovers something he cares about and begins truly turning his life around. Afterward, he's a much more reasonable person and productive contributor to the restaurant.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At one point in "Braciole," Fak has a conversation with a character in the "Ballbreakers" arcade game. Although the show often features dream sequences and hallucinations, they're usually from Carmy's perspective and clearly identified as such. In contrast, nothing like this moment happens anywhere else in the episode, and it's never referred to again or explained.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At one point in "Braciole," Fak has a conversation with a character in the "Ballbreakers" arcade game. Although the show often features dream sequences and hallucinations, they're all from Carmy's perspective and clearly identified as such. In contrast, nothing like this moment happens anywhere else in the episode, and it's never referred to again or explained.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At one point in "Braciole," Fakk has a conversation with a character in the "Ballbreakers" arcade game. Although the show often features dream sequences and hallucinations, they're all from Carmy's perspective and clearly identified as such. In contrast, nothing like this moment happens anywhere else in the episode, and it's never referred to again or explained.

*** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Donna, the matriarch of the Berzatto family and [[AbusiveMom the number one source of Carmy and Natalie's present-day trauma]]. Her [[KnightOfCerebus presence singlehandedly transforms the episode]] into ''the'' [[DramaBomb most stressful episode in the show]] since "Review." It should also be noted, however, that she does briefly reappear in the Season 2 finale [[spoiler:showing remorse for what she put her children through.]]

** During the fire suppression test, when the employees worry that failure will mean the end of their culinary journey together, they all flash back to the good times they've had together, underscoring how much they care ofr each other.

** Creator/MollyRingwald as the moderator of Carm's AA meeting in episode 3, who gives a very emotional speech of how she enabled her dead husband's alcoholism and imparts a lesson about steering clear of a toxic environment, a lesson that would eventually become key to Carm's CharacterDevelopment.

* OneSceneWonder: Both seasons feature some fairly recognizable actors in very brief guest starring roles.

** Creator/BobOdenkirk as Uncle Lee, the man [[SmallRoleBigImpact who may have singlehandedly]] driven Michael past the DespairEventHorizon in "Fishes."

* OneSceneWonder: The first season features some fairly recognizable actors in very brief guest starring roles.

* HarsherInHindsight: Carmy's romantic arc with Claire in Season 2 and its rather heartbreaking conclusion hits harder when you consider that Jeremy Allen White's wife filed for divorce about a month before the season's release.

%%* FanPreferredCouple: Carmy and Sydney are a hugely popular ship on social media, regardless of the show's lack of explicit direction about whether their dynamic will ever be anything more than platonic, causing ire when the show instead shilled the much less popular Claire as a love interest in Season 2 at the expense of Carmy and Sydney having more scenes together.

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's unclear exactly what's wrong with Donna. While it's clear that she has a drinking problem, multiple people have speculated whether she also has bipolar disorder or BPD.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Carmen suffers from flashbacks about his former boss and dead brother, which has made many believe that he has undiagnosed PTSD. He also says, "Who doesn't?" when Richie tells him he has panic attacks.

** Of all things, ''Love Story'' by {{Music/Taylor Swift}}. Richie belts it after nailing his new role as front-of-house.

* FanPreferredCouple: Carmy and Sydney are a hugely popular ship on social media, regardless of the show's lack of explicit direction about whether their dynamic will ever be anything more than platonic, causing ire when the show instead shilled the much less popular Claire as a love interest in Season 2 at the expense of Carmy and Sydney having more scenes together.

** Carmy and Tina should wear hair nets.