Remember When: The Bold and the Beautiful's 38th anniversary (Part Five: 2007-2012)

The Bold and the Beautiful went psychedelic

The Bold and the Beautiful premiered on Monday, March 23, 1987 – making this past Sunday the show's 38th anniversary. And ever since, we've been doing some major throwbacking by revisiting a highlight from each year of the show. As the 2000s morphed into the 2010s, B&B went HD and outlasted cancelled soaps Guiding Light, As the World Turns, All My Children, and One Life to Live. Katie stepped out of the decades-long shadows of her older sisters by getting a heart transplant and a heart-on with hot husband Bill. Phoebe died tragically, Stephanie got shot (again!), and Brooke and Thomas endured a did-they-or-didn't-they (boof, that is) after eating hallucinogenic berries trying to survive on a deserted island. Save your blogging for later and crank up the autotune so you can reminisce about the Forresters of the mid-to-late 2000s!

2007: Hiding the eggs

Despite Taylor's overall dislike of Brooke, she sure tends to get with men connected to her. (Hey, everyone on this show shares lovers eventually.) In this case, Taylor found love with Brooke's ex-husband Nick, and they decided to have a child through in vitro fertilization. Everything was fine until Taylor had her baby, Jack, who needed a bone marrow transplant. That was when all hell broke loose: Brooke had donated eggs for research, but Bridget mistakenly marked the sample “Marone” – Brooke's former married surname – and it was implanted in Taylor. Simply put, Taylor had given birth to Brooke's son. Taylor freaked out and was unable to care for the infant, Brooke sued for custody. Ultimately, Nick split from Taylor and became Jack's full-time guardian, both last seen when Nick sailed off in 2012. You think Taylor and Brooke have conflict now over their three millionth scuffle over Ridge? Imagine if Jack came back, pissed off that both of his mothers abandoned him! Make it happen, B&B.

2008: Sugar...aw, honey honey

Stephanie got “new” family members with the introduction of her mother, Ann, and her meek little sister, Pamela. But the meek shall inherit the earth: something in Pam came undone when Eric ditched his longtime on-again-off-again wife and gravitated toward the younger and sexier Donna. Working under the rationale that she had to protect Stephanie like she hadn't been able to do with their abusive father, Pam went on the attack and medicated Eric, putting him in a coma; Pam then planted drugs amongst Donna's belongings to frame her. Pam had only meant to render Eric unable to have sex with Donna, not incapacitate him – but after he came to, Pam tied Donna up in a cabin, doused her with honey, and invited a bear to take care of Goldilocks. It turned out it wasn't murder Pam had on her mind, but scar tissue that was driving her to aberrant behavior. A year later, Donna appeared on The Price Is Right with Pam, as well as fashion talk show The Catwalk. Amazing what will bond people.

2009: The Island of Misfit Toys

Queen Stephanie had already spent years battling Brooke, but by the time Brooke's nubile younger sister, Donna, became Eric's new wife, Stephanie had had enough. Packing up her brooches, La Forrester defected to rival fashion house Jackie M, run by Stephanie's foe Jackie Marone, in a building that used to be owned by Sally Spectra, Stephanie's prior rival. Despite Stephanie having accidentally knocked Jackie off a two-story terrace a few years before, the golden girls became friends, and Stephanie had a blast blasting “the Logan girls” on webcasts. Stephanie happily worked with former frowned-upons Nick, Whip Jones, Owen Knight, and even one-time almost-lover Clarke Garrison while admirably competing with Forrester Creations. In the end, though, Stephanie came to Forrester's aid when the newly arrived Bill Spencer, Jr. tried to wrest control of it from Eric, and she wrapped up at Jackie M. Stephanie's time there was brief, but refreshing, and, in those halls, she seemed something she never seemed anywhere else: happy.

2010: I'm a Daddy Yankee dandy

Maybe Hope should have had her milestone shindig at Chuck E. Cheese instead. Channelling her mom's flair for the dramatic, Hope designed a party in which guests would wear identical outfits and masks. (Okay, the guys all wore jackets, and the girls all wore sequined dresses, but work with me.) For extra boom, Hope hired Puerto Rican “King of Reggaeton” Daddy Yankee to DJ. The “club” was pumping – but it wasn't the kind Brooke had in mind. Wanting to get her kink on, Brooke and Ridge agreed on a secret phrase so they could get busy on the balcony in their camouflaged couture. Before you could say “Pose” (POH-say, the name of Yankee's hit), Hope's boyfriend, Oliver, uttered the exact words that gave Brooke the go-ahead to boink him instead of Ridge; it didn't help that Hope and Brooke were wearing identical necklaces. Hope was traumatized, Ridge “Oh, Logan”ed his way into an acceptance (too bad now every time Brooke merely kisses someone, it's breakup time), and Steffy used the mistaken sex event to blackmail herself into whatever she wanted at Forrester. Word to the wise: save the masks for respiratory droplets.

2011: Forget the Bermuda Triangle...

It's only inevitable that daytime children will be aged and thrown into grown-up storylines, but there was a time when “overkill” meant nothing to B&B. It started when hot-to-trot Steffy, deciding she wanted another of Hope's boyfriends (she first tried to steal Oliver from her), offered to give Liam what virgin Hope wouldn't: sex. Innocuous enough, but soon the oversaturation began – Hope ditched fiancé Liam, who put her still-warm engagement ring on Steffy's finger. With lightning speed, Liam married Steffy, then went back to Hope, then went back to Steffy...you get the idea. Bill's long-lost son not only defied even soap logic with his whiplash waffling between Hope and Steffy, but these three were on our screens constantly. Even Soap Opera Digest deemed them their Worst Triangle that year...and Worst Story the following year, because these fickle folks took up so much airtime, both Leffy stans and Lope stans were wishing all three of them would get lost at sea.

2012: Abdicating the throne

The elderly Forrester matriarch had already had her share of health troubles – a mini-stroke in 2009 plus Stage IV lung cancer and a related brain tumor in 2010 – but when portrayer Susan Flannery decided to retire (could being sidelined by the profusion of the Hope/Liam/Steffy triangle have had something to do with it?), B&B made the choice to bring Stephanie's disease back and give her a terminal diagnosis. The revelation brought out-of-towners Kristen and Felicia back to comfort their mother, and Eric threw his wife a celebration of life party honoring her Irish heritage (which, admittedly, had only come to the fore in recent years). Over a decade later, fans are still divided over whether or not Stephanie should have died in sudden BFF Brooke's arms, but there was no filling the void that Stephanie's absence left. And there probably never will be.

You've just Remembered When with this retrospective of The Bold and the Beautiful, bringing the show out of the mid-2000s and into the early 2010s! Got a favorite storyline from this era? Fill the comments with flashbacks! Next up, it's time to call your friends using 3G before posting on Vine as we have a peek at B&B from 2013 to 2018. Maybe you can read it on your iPhone 6! Unless you're still carrying an iPhone 5S around.

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