History Series / BellaAndTheBulldogs

* AcademicAthlete: Newt's father, a three-sport athlete at Yale University, who won All-American honors in each one. Newt himself also qualifies for this trope, even though he's not much of an athlete himself. Well, at least until [[spoiler: the ending of the episode that bears his name.]]
* [[spoiler: AmicableExes: Sawyer and Pepper agree to be these after breaking up in season 2's "Two Many Dates".]]

* CheatersNeverProsper: [[spoiler: In "Biggest. Game. Ever.", Wentworth accidentally end up with the Bulldogs' game plan after an accidental bag switch. Sure, they didn't steal it, but they still looked at it, and one of the players ''was dumb enough to tell the Bulldogs that they knew their plays'', allowing the Bulldogs to come up with a different plan to overcome their deficit.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Bella]] has a brief one with [[spoiler: Kyle]].

** [[spoiler: Same for Bella, who kisses Zach Barnes in the penultimate scene in "Tailgating", making them an OfficialCouple. In the two episodes that follow, which end up being the last two in the series, he is not seen or mentioned. You'd think he'd have at least been in the stands during the state championship game in "Biggest. Game. Ever.", cheering on his girlfriend.[[note]]This might be explained by the fact that "Tailgating" was the last episode produced. Funny enough, the two actors who played Asha and Zach - Jordyn Yarker and Matt Cornett, respectively - attended the show's Season 2 wrap party.[[/note]]]]

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* GirlyBruiser:

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: What Troy goes through after finding out about the horribly mean column written about him in ''Silverado Weekly''.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: In "Traitor Dater", [[spoiler: Bella is asked to Silverado West's upcoming Homecoming Dance by a boy named Zach Barnes...who happens to be the captain of the Silverado ''East'' Cobras. Bella doesn't realize who Zach is at first, but when she does, she attempts to break off the date, citing the fact that they play for rival teams, and happened to be playing each other ''the same night as the dance''. Zach tells Bella he already knew who she was when he asked her to the dance, and that the rivalry doesn't matter to him. Bella's secret is eventually revealed to her displeased teammates when the mum corsage Zach sends Bella is delivered to the Bulldogs' locker room after a practice. Skip ahead to the game, where Bella and Zach flirt with each other in front of the referee during the coin toss. On the first play from scrimmage, Zach, who's a defensive lineman, sacks Bella, and helps her up. The next play we see shows Bella ducking from a leaping Zach, and throwing a complete pass. She extends a hand to him, but he refuses it. Next, Zach hits Bella as she throws, and refuses to help her up. Bella scores the winning touchdown [[DownToTheLastPlay on the game's final play]], and after the game, Zach tells Bella the rivalry did matter to him after all, and leaves her without a date to the dance. In essence, he TookALevelInJerkass during the game.]]
** However, he does a HeelFaceTurn during season 2, and becomes a major part of the storyline, [[spoiler: eventually becoming Bella's boyfriend]].

* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: The ''Silverado Weekly'' columnist who penned an unnecessarily '''scathing''' piece about Troy's performances against Durango in the buildup to the Bulldogs' showdown with the Red Devils in "Oh, Baby, It's the Playoffs", in which he says Troy "choked" in his last two outings against Durango. Sure, Texas is serious about its football, but Troy is a '''''teenager playing at the middle school level'''''; he's not trying to replace Dez Bryant in the Dallas Cowboys' starting lineup.]]

* MaternityCrisis: [[spoiler: Pepper's mom goes into labor right after her baby shower in "Oh Baby, It's the Playoffs"...when her husband is at the lake, and the only people around are Pepper, Sophie, and Bella...who needs to get to the Bulldogs' playoff game.]]
* MoodWhiplash: In "A Good Bye Week", [[spoiler: Bella finally goes on a date with her childhood crush, Kyle. They have a great time, but the next morning, Kyle informs Bella he and his family would be moving to Dallas in a few days, as his father has gotten a new job. In the episode's denouement, this whiplash is PlayedForLaughs, as Sophie and Pepper listen to voicemails Bella left them on their phones:]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Bella:''' [''first message, this one on Pepper's phone''] "Hey, girls! What's up? Typical Wednesday here. Just got back from an ''awesome'' date with Kyle. So excited!"]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Pepper:''' "Nice!"]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Sophie:''' "Uh-oh."]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Bella:''' [''third message, this one on Pepper's phone''] "Hey, girls. Just did a hundred sit-ups. Might pump out a hundred more. You know, typical Friday."]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Pepper:''' "This can't be good."]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Bella:''' [''final message, this one on Sophie's phone''] "Hey, girls. Forget my other messages. I have a boyfriend! It's only for two days, but I'm gonna make them the best two days ever."]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Sawyer and Pepper, until they break up in season 2's "Two Many Dates"]].

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Rio Mangini (Ace [=McFumbles=]) for season 2. [[spoiler: He doesn't appear in one second of the season premiere. In fact, he's absent for three of the second season's first four episodes.]]

* RelationshipUpgrade: In the second half of the first season, [[spoiler: Sawyer and Pepper become a couple. Their relationship ends near the halfway point of season 2]].

* SatchelSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: In the series's final episode, "Biggest. Game. Ever.", Bella's grabs the bag of a Wentworth player, while he ends up with her bag...which happens to have the Bulldogs' game plan inside.]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: Sophie blocked Newt's number, which he saw as her playing hard to get. [[spoiler: Since Newt is now with Asha, maybe Sophie has released the block.]]
* SeriesFauxnale: "Biggest. Game. Ever.", where [[spoiler: the Bulldogs defeat Wentworth to win the program's first-ever state championship.]]

* WackyCravings: One of the "weird things" Pepper tells Sophie her mom is doing is "eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...dipped in mayo." Sophie guesses her mom's pregnant, and further predicts that she forgot something in the principal's office after apologizing for Pepper being late to school. [[spoiler: Yep, she's pregnant.]] In a later episode, she gets another craving for peanut butter...on a burrito.

** Pepper saying "[[OrangeIsTheNewBlack Orange is the new blecch]]" in "Tornado Afraido" when refusing to wear an orange high-visibility vest for her walk around the school with Sawyer.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Troy.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series' premise about a girl playing on a boys' sports team is quite similar to the premise of the 1990s teencom ''Series/HangTime'' (except replace football with basketball).

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Rio Mangini (Ace [=McFumbles=]) for season 2. [[spoiler: He [[AbsenteeActor doesn't appear in one second of the season premiere.]] In fact, he's absent for three of the second season's first four episodes.]]

* DownerEnding: The end of "No Girls Allowed": [[spoiler:They get enough signatures to reinstate Bella, but are told that it would take 30 days to enact...thus after the championship game, so Bella wasn't allowed to play. At the championship, everyone on the Bulldogs puts their helmets on the field, saying if Bella can't play, neither will they. Thus, they forfeit the game. The opposing coach celebrates, while the players of the other team apologize and play a pickup game with the Bulldogs...and Bella.]]
** Subverted at the end of "Oh Baby, It's The Playoffs": [[spoiler:It looks like Bella's arrived too late as Troy's last pass falls incomplete with no time on the clock. But a pass interference penalty against the opponents gives the Bulldogs one last shot...and it involves Bella becoming a one-girl convoy escorting Troy to the end zone for the win.]]

* BadassMustache: A fake one, sported by the school's media man, Ace [=McFumbles=]. A baby picture shows him wearing one back then, as well. The actor who plays Ace, Rio Mangini, looks quite different without the 'stache. Looking at the opening titles for season two, which Mangini has [[PromotionToOpeningTitles earned a promotion to]], it seemed they had decided to have the character abandon the false facial hair, however, it is eventually shown that Ace only wears the mustache when on-camera.

* InstantBirthJustAddWater: [[spoiler:Although she doesn't actually say her water broke, Mrs. Silverstein goes from totally fine to "I'm having this baby now" in about the span of a football game]].

-->--'''Line from the show's theme song'''

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the first season finale, "No Girls Allowed", Troy is in the locker room, listing the new contacts he's gotten in his phone since the Bulldogs made the playoffs. It's mostly girls, but he ends with a guy named Carl. His teammates give him funny looks, causing Troy to respond, "He seemed like a nice guy."
** In "Girls' Night", it is shown that Troy's dorm room at Wentworth has a tablet with an app that can lower and shut the blinds, play smooth jazz, lower the lights, and have the TV switch to a channel that shows a fireplace. Why would you give this feature to ''teenagers''? Not to mention the fact that Troy discovered all of these features while being shown this app by his ''male roommate''.
*** In the same episode, Troy turns the slow music on whilst Sawyer goes to the door to receive his order. He mentions being able to "make-out" with the hot wings; as well as Newt beginning to ''slow dance'' with one of Troy's pillows. Everyone gets disgusted by this.

* {{Adorkable}}: Bella, Pepper, and Newt.

* {{Expy}}: Sophie can be seen as a slightly more peppy version of Emma from ''Series/{{Jessie}}''.

* UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}: In season 2, we are introduced to Asha, a girl from Newt's country club, who stands to serve as his new love interest. She retains the UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent of the actress who plays her, Jordyn Yarker. The character was actually going to be an American, but the producers decided to have Yarker play Asha as an Aussie, rendering her reading the lines with an American accent pointless.

* {{Australia}}: In season 2, we are introduced to Asha, a girl from Newt's country club, who stands to serve as his new love interest. She retains the UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent of the actress who plays her, Jordyn Yarker. The character was actually going to be an American, but the producers decided to have Yarker play Asha as an Aussie, rendering her reading the lines with an American accent pointless.