History Series / TheBear2022

* SlobsVersusSnobs: A major point of conflict in the first half of the season is Carmy's ''haute cuisine'' background clashing with his staffs more humble line cook origins. In an interesting turn for the trope, the narrative leans towards Carmen's side of the argument, with the kitchen becoming much smoother and the chefs starting to flourish in their respective roles once he implements a brigade system. Season 2 expands on this, with Richie finally coming to respect fine dining.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Fishes" is set five years earlier, during a Berzatto family Christmas that goes spectacularly off-the-rails. The only regulars who appear are Carmy, Ritchie and Natalie, and its notable for being the longest appearance of Creator/JonBernthal as Mikey and the introduction of Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Donna, the Berzatto matriarch.

* LetsGetDangerous: In "Beef", anxiety about the timeline for paying back Cicero drives Carmy, Sydney and Natalie to pull an all nighter and draft plans to open The Bear in ''three months'' instead of an initial six.

* SlobsVersusSnobs: A major point of conflict in the first half of the season is Carmy's ''haute cuisine'' background clashing with his staffs more humble line cook origins. In an interesting turn for the trope, the narrative leans towards Carmen's side of the argument, with the kitchen becoming much smoother and the chefs starting to flourish in their respective roles once he implements a brigade system.

* TruthInTelevision: Carmy's flashback to his time in a fine-dining kitchen shows the executive chef treating him and his colleagues as ''subhuman,'' expecting complete and utter submission in the face of nonstop verbal abuse. Sadly, this exemplifies the [[https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/05/17/abuse-baked-into-restaurant-industry/ well-known]], real-world problem for professional chefs, who are subjected to verbal or even physical abuse because it's seen as inherent to the position--"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

''The Bear'' is an Creator/FXNetworks {{Dramedy}} created by Christopher Storer. It stars Creator/JeremyAllenWhite, Creator/EbonMossBachrach, Creator/AyoEdebiri, [[Music/OddFuture Lionel Boyce]], [[Creator/LizaColonZayas Liza Colón-Zayas]], and Creator/AbbyElliott.

''The Bear'' is an Creator/FXNetworks {{Dramedy}} created by Christopher Storer. It stars Jeremy Allen White, Creator/EbonMossBachrach, Creator/AyoEdebiri, [[Music/OddFuture Lionel Boyce]], Liza Colón-Zayas, and Creator/AbbyElliott.

* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: A professional instance. Carmi is the one [JerkassHasAPoint:to apologize to Marcus and Sydney for his actions in Review, while their actions are hand waved and they suffer no consequences for abandoning the Beef during a crisis (Sydney is a double offender cause she was the reason for the mess in the first place), simply coming back to work like nothing happened.

* NeverMyFault: Sydney. [[spoiler:When quitting in Review, she claims the mess is "not on her", when it is very much the result of her mishandling the options on the to-go tablet which itself was only implemented because of her pressuring Carmy over and over again. Implied this kind of thing happened a lot in her past jobs.]]

* NeverMyFault: Sydney. [Spoiler: When quitting in Review, she claims the mess is "not on her", when it is very much the result of her mishandling the options on the to-go tablet which itself was only implemented because of her pressuring Carmy over and over again.]]

* WhamEpisode: "Review." Aside from being (mostly) a BottleEpisode and TheOner, it features Sydney accidentally stabbing Richie, Carmy reaching his breaking point, and both Marcus and Sydney quitting.

''The Bear'' is an Creator/FXNetworks {{Dramedy}} created by Christopher Storer. It stars Jeremy Allen White, Creator/EbonMossBachrach, Creator/AyoEdebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Creator/AbbyElliott.

* TruthInTelevision: Carmy's flashbacks to his time in culinary school show his instructor treating him and his colleagues as ''subhuman,'' expecting complete and utter submission in the face of nonstop verbal abuse. Sadly, this exemplifies the [[https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/05/17/abuse-baked-into-restaurant-industry/ well-known]], real-world problem for professional chefs, who are subjected to verbal or even physical abuse because it's seen as inherent to the position--"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

* LoanShark: Cicero's position isn't made clear, but implied to be this. Unlike most loan sharks, he's rather friendly and doesn't seem to be in any hurry -- at worst, using it as pressure to get Carmy to sell him the property to make it square. [[spoiler: He loaned Mikey over $300,000, but it doesn't seem like a dime of it was poured into the business. Given Mikey was an addict...the ending leaves some unanswered questions, however, as to exactly what he was up to.]]