History YMMV / TheYoungAndTheRestless

* BrokenBase: 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 Crinsom Lights is creepy.

* SuperCouple: Given it's a soap, quite a few but most famously Victor and Nikki's Pygmalion styled romance.

*** His tribute episode carried the same celebratory tone that Jeanne Cooper's had, while looking back at his life. Yet at the same time, the entire episode the casts' devastation at loosing their friend and colleague is much more transparent. While Jeanne's death was tragic, she had lived a long and amazing life, with Kristoff, you really do realize they all lost him way too soon, with many of them choking back tears while on camera, particularly Victoria Rowell, Christel Khalil and Shemar Moore.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The reveal that Theo isn't Abbot, especially after all his sleazy behavior towards Kyle, Lola and even [[AlasPoorScrappy Summer]], and the [[TakeThatScrappy fall out against the smarmy bitch boy]] has been very well received.

** ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' is the [[https://twitter.com/turbojoul/status/1565267009859887106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1565267009859887106%7Ctwgr%5Edb7e50f676df8729bcb40e77b1384acf28c2fee9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fknowyourmeme.com%2Fmemes%2Fthe-rings-of-power-entertainment-weekly-shoot new ''The Young And The Restless]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]] On August 2nd, 2022, Entertainment Weekly published a feature on Amazon's series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Included in that feature was a video montage of the series' central characters looking at the camera before fading into the next character. The people were quick to notice the similarities between the feature and the intro of ''The Young And The Restless'.'[[/labelnote]]

** ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' is the [[https://twitter.com/turbojoul/status/1565267009859887106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1565267009859887106%7Ctwgr%5Edb7e50f676df8729bcb40e77b1384acf28c2fee9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fknowyourmeme.com%2Fmemes%2Fthe-rings-of-power-entertainment-weekly-shoot new ''TheYoungAndTheRestless]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]] On August 2nd, 2022, Entertainment Weekly[1] published a feature on Amazon's series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Included in that feature was a video montage of the series' central characters looking at the camera before fading into the next character, similar to the intro of ''The Young And The Restless''[[/labelnote]]

** Summer Newman, the [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled]] ItsAllAboutMe AlphaBitch. Not only does she consistently display her mother's worst qualities taken UpToEleven, but she also completely lacks Phyllis' self-awareness. Phyllis at least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt knows what she's about]]; Summer is genuinely oblivious to how appalling her behavior is. Furthermore, Phyllis usually at least has ''some'' reason for her actions, even if it's a DisproportionateRetribution, while Summer frequently has ''no'' excuse. In high school, Summer cyber-bullied a kid to the brink of suicide, just because she could, only showing remorse and guilt when threats of legal action against her were brought up. She also has blackmailed her parents, and openly tried to seduce Billy when he was dating her mother. But worst of all, whenever anyone has had enough of her bullshit and bitchy behavior calls her out on it, she will whine and cry, usually uttering the stock phrase "Why are you being so mean to me...?" [[NeverMyFault refusing to take responsibility for her actions]] like the petulant, pathetic woman-child she is. Case in point, her treatment of Kyle really showcases her worst qualities. She consistently treats him like crap, despite claiming to be his friend. When he admitted he loved her, she basically laughed in his face, and continued trying to seduce Billy (again, ''her mother's then-boyfriend''). After Kyle moved on and fell in love with Lola, Summer then decided that she was in love with Kyle all along, and frequently tells Kyle that he loves her, too, ignoring his constant claims to the contrary. And this all goes down when Lola is in a coma ''fighting for her life''. She even has the gall to claim that Kyle only claims to love Lola because of the coma, as if she can't possibly fathom that he would choose Lola over her -- even though he has consistently done just that. Not helping matters is that Summer's constant pursuit of Kyle, ignoring his requests that she leave him alone, come off as extremely stalker-ish -- if the genders were reversed, it would almost certainly be treated as such. (Hell, even her pursuit of Billy was on the borderline, especially since they lived in the same house.) Summer also attracts some hatred from some portions of the viewership having issues with her actress Hunter King, due to her making a sexual harassment allegation against another, beloved cast member.

** Summer Newman, the [[SpoiledBrat Spoiled]] ItsAllAboutMe AlphaBitch. Not only does she consistently display her mother's worst qualities taken UpToEleven, but she also completely lacks Phyllis' self-awareness. Phyllis at least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt knows what she's about]]; Summer is genuinely oblivious to how appalling her behavior is. Furthermore, Phyllis usually at least has ''some'' reason for her actions, even if it's a DisproportionateRetribution, while Summer frequently has ''no'' excuse. In high school, Summer cyber-bullied a kid to the brink of suicide, just because she could, only showing remorse and guilt when threats of legal action against her were brought up. She also has blackmailed her parents, and openly tried to seduce Billy when he was dating her mother. But worst of all, whenever anyone has had enough of her bullshit and bitchy behavior calls her out on it, she will whine and cry, usually uttering the stock phrase "Why are you being so mean to me...?" [[NeverMyFault refusing to take responsibility for her actions]] like the petulant, pathetic woman-child she is. Case in point, her treatment of Kyle really showcases her worst qualities. She consistently treats him like crap, despite claiming to be his friend. When he admitted he loved her, she basically laughed in his face, and continued trying to seduce Billy (again, ''her mother's then-boyfriend''). After Kyle moved on and fell in love with Lola, Summer then decided that she was in love with Kyle all along, and frequently tells Kyle that he loves her, too, ignoring his constant claims to the contrary. And this all goes down when Lola is in a coma ''fighting for her life''. She even has the gall to claim that Kyle only claims to love Lola because of the coma, as if she can't possibly fathom that he would choose Lola over her -- even though he has consistently done just that. Not helping matters is that Summer's constant pursuit of Kyle, ignoring his requests that she leave him alone, come off as extremely stalker-ish -- if the genders were reversed, it would almost certainly be treated as such. (Hell, even her pursuit of Billy was on the borderline, especially since they lived in the same house.) Summer also attracts some hatred from some portions of the viewership having issues with her actress Hunter King, due to her making a sexual harassment allegation against another, beloved cast member, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment but that's best discussed someplace else]].

** Alyvia Alyn Lind, the child actress playing Faith, gets a surprising number of chances to show off her chops. Her sadness after Sharon and Nick break up yet ''again'' in a 2018 storyline is palpable.

** Sheila remains to this day the shows most beloved batshit insane villain, just because of how evil, between her drugging and raping Lauren's husband, stealing Lauren's baby, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like Phyllis and that's just her acts on Y&R, with her going on to Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful committing such actions as shoot both Brooke and Taylor, "killing" the latter, she got better, dropping Ridge into a burning furnace, and manipulated evidence to make it look like Quinn was having an affair in order to sink her claws into Eric.

* MagnificentBastard: Victor Newman.

** Shelia remains to this day the shows most beloved batshit insane villain, just because of how evil, between her drugging and raping Lauren's husband, stealing Lauren's baby, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like Phyllis and that's just her acts on Y&R, with her going on to Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful committing such actions as shoot both Brooke and Taylor, "killing" the latter, she got better, dropping Ridge into a burning furnace, and manipulated evidence to make it look like Quinn was having an affair in order to sink her claws into Eric.

** With no help from the writers what so ever, Sharon Newman. The character remains a fan favorite through some of the most infuriating, {{Squick}} inducing and reviled plot-lines, all due to Sharon Case's amazing ability to act above them. So less ''Rescued'' and more ''Refuses to Sink Into the Scrappy Heap.''

** Of course everyone knows Adam killed Delia in a hit and run...wait a minute didn't he get out of the car to check and see what he hit and only drove off after not noticing an obsured by darkness Delia and seeing a limping but over all unharmed puppy scamper off the road?

* TheUntwist: When J.T. Hellstrom was revealed to be alive over a year after his "death" at the hands of Nikki (with the coverup being done by Victoria, Phyllis, and Sharon), the response was essentially, "Well, ''duh''."