History Series / TheBachelor

* Out of 25 seasons of ''The Bachelor'', 15 ended in proposals; nine ended without a proposal but an agreement to keep dating; and one ended with no one picked for any kind of relationship. Only one final couple eventually got married (from Season 17); the Season 17 couple now has a child. The bachelor from Season 13 called off his engagement with the winning woman on the season finale and resumed a relationship with the runner-up; they married in a nationally televised ceremony, and also have a child. The Season 25 couple broke up briefly but got back together. The other couples broke up, with one doing so after the woman was arrested for assaulting her fiance.
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children and are still married. The Season 9 couple is also married with two children. Season 13’s couple is HappilyMarried. The couple from Season 12 is still engaged, as are the couples from season 16[[note]]Though Clare and Dale, the first couple from season 16, briefly broke up after their engagement[[/note]]. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Mixed with DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale at one point in Matt James’ season. During Matt and Katie’s date, they pull a prank on Matt’s friend (and former contestant) that involves them giving instructions to a masseuse to basically molest him during a massage. It ends with Matt switching places with the masseuse to surprise his friend. Although his friend found it funny, it is obvious the the reverse of this would ’’not’’ be funny. More than a few viewers called the show out for this, as Matt and Katie were most likely told to do this by the producers.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Mixed with DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale at one point in Matt James’ season. During Matt and Katie’s date, they pull a prank on Matt’s friend (and former contestant) that involves them giving instructions to a masseuse to basically molest him during a massage. It ends with Matt switching places with the masseuse to surprise his friend. Although his friend found it funny, it is obvious the the reverse of this would ‘’not’’ be funny. More than a few viewers called the show out for this, as Matt and Katie were most likely told to do this by the producers.

As of this writing, 20 seasons of ''The Bachelor'' and 12 of its DistaffCounterpart, ''The Bachelorette'', have aired. The former show started in 2002, the latter in 2003. The final pairings haven't exactly been successful...
* Out of 20 seasons of ''The Bachelor'', 12 ended in proposals; seven ended without a proposal but an agreement to keep dating; and one ended with no one picked for any kind of relationship. Only one final couple eventually got married (from Season 17); the Season 17 couple now has a child. The bachelor from Season 13 called off his engagement with the winning woman on the season finale and resumed a relationship with the runner-up; they married in a nationally televised ceremony, and also have a child. The other couples broke up, with one doing so after the woman was arrested for assaulting her fiance.
* ''The Bachelorette'' has been more successful with respect to proposals—every season so far has ended in one. While the relationships have been more successful than those on ''The Bachelor'', that's not exactly saying much. The first couple from this show got married, in a lavish televised ceremony, and have since had two children and are still married. The same holds true for the Season 7 couple. The Season 9 couple married and are expecting their first child, and the winners of Seasons 11 and 12 are still engaged. The rest broke up.[[note]]They don't even try to hide it anymore. Most of the last several seasons have featured contestants from previous shows... and a former Bachelor returned for another shot.[[/note]]

* BreakoutCharacter: If there has been one contestant both the Bachelor Nation and the Producers love its Tayshia Adams. She started out as one of the favorites during Colton's season, then her romance with John Paul Jones became one of the bigger and more popular focuses during "Bachelors In Paradise", and finally with great fanfare, after Clare Crawley left the Bachelorette, Tayshia was brought in to take her place.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Season 25's AlphaBitch Victoria mocked a fellow contestant as a "ho" to her face. When Matt pointedly asked Victoria about the incident, she replied that her namecalling was "taken out of context," leading to this all-time zinger:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Season 25's AlphaBitch Victoria called a fellow contestant as a "ho" to her face. When Matt pointedly asked Victoria about the incident, she replied that her namecalling was "taken out of context," leading to this all-time zinger:

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Usually at least one a season. Clare Crawley's one to Juan Pablo is likely the best and most famous example in the franchise. Ironic as Clare herself received a pretty epic one from Chris Harrison himself, about her and Dale's behavior and treatment of the other Bachelors before asking her to vacated the role of Bachelorette.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Usually at least one a season. Clare Crawley's one to Juan Pablo is likely the best and most famous example in the franchise.

* TheReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech: Usually at least one a season. Clare Crawley's one to Juan Pablo is likely the best and most famous example in the franchise.

The success of the sister shows have resulted in a sprawling universe of spin-offs, usually featuring former contestants from previous seasons. These have included ''Bachelor Pad''[[note]]former contestants stay in a mansion and compete for a cash prize[[/note]], ''Bachelor in Paradise''[[note]]former contestants stay at a Mexican beach resort[[/note]], ''The Bachelor [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Games]]''[[note]]former contestants compete in winter sports[[/note]], and ''The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart''[[note]]musicians date each other[[/note]]. It has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]] and [[MultiNationalShows international versions]] in over twenty countries.

** ''The Bachelor Winter Games'' was a winter sports competition featuring former contestants used as counterprogramming to the 2018 Winter UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. A "Summer Games" was planned for the next Olympics until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic delayed both the Olympics and the filming schedule.

The success of the sister shows have resulted in a sprawling universe of spin-offs, usually featuring former contestants from previous seasons. These have included ''Bachelor Pad''[[note]]former contestants stay in a mansion and compete for a cash prize[[/note]], ''Bachelor in Paradise''[[note]]former contestants stay at a Mexican beach resort[[/note]], ''The Bachelor [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Winter Games]]''[[note]]former contestants compete in winter sports[[/note]], and ''The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart''[[note]]musicians date each other[[/note]]. Has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]].

* TestingTheLoveInterest: The bachelor does this on a lot of dates.

%%* TrailersAlwaysSpoil

Has also inspired [[FollowTheLeader countless copycats]].

%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy

%%* PoolScene

%%* RealityTVShowMansion

%%* SexyDiscretionShot
* SpinOff: Two (three if you count ''The Bachelorette'').

** The second spinoff was ''Bachelor in Paradise'', which was a lot closer to the traditional format, but with a mix of Bachelor Pad as well. Men and women from previous seasons spent the summer at a tropical resort, going on dates and making connections. At the end of each episode, the two people without roses had to leave the resort, but the next week would bring in two more previous contestants. There was no cash prize either - the goal was to spark new relationships, just in greater numbers than the standard show.

%%* BalancedHarem

* ClingyJealousGirl: Common in every season.
%%* CockFight
%%* ConfessionCam
%%* DevotedToYou
* {{Fanservice}}: Every person on this show is relatively attractive to some degree.

* HaremSeeker: The bachelor(ette).

%%* LongingLook

** The end of the 22nd season saw Arie, choose Becca as the winner, and leaving Lauren as the runner up. Moments later, Arie decided to break up with Becca (on camera) and get with Lauren, and the two are still together.

** The first, ''Bachelor Pad'', was a more traditional reality competition show where the former contestants where split by gender and competed against each other ''Series/Survivor''-style for the first few weeks, then as pairs for the last leg of the competition. It also had a twist that at the end the winning couple had to vote separately on whether to keep the $250,000 prize for themselves or share it between the two of them. If they both voted share, they would both receive $125,000. If one voted share and the other voted keep, the one who voted keep would get the whole prize. If they both voted to keep, then ''neither'' would win, and the prize would be distributed amongst the eliminated houseguests. The series lasted three seasons.

[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/best_of_the_bachelor_8104.jpg]]

!!Tropes:

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: every season of The Bachelorette features this type of character. Justin "Rated R" Rego from Ali's season, Bentley from Ashley's season, Chad from Jojo's season. Sometimes they make it far, other times they don't.

* VacationEpisode: usually about half-way through the season, they start to travel to different places all over the world.