Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Girl (in this case, Hope Logan) sees boy (her devoted fiancé, Liam Spencer) kiss another girl (her stepsister, Steffy Forrester). In a huff, girl No. 1 removes her engagement ring. In response, boy — boy oh boy oh boy! — waits all of a few days… Wait, no. Hours. Wait, no. He waits mere minutes to use it to propose to girl No. 2. So yeah, Steffy’s expression here pretty much sums up our reaction, too.
Despite the indecency of Liam’s proposal, Steffy still tied the knot with him, then refused to give him an annulment, which would’ve meant that their marriage had never been real. When finally she said, “To hell with it!” and signed the document which freed her husband to make Hope his next wife, he tore it up. Argh!
How we made it through this storyline without learning how to say “knucklehead” in Italian, we’ll never know. Because on the day that Liam and Hope (then Kim Matula) were to wed in Puglia, he mistakenly believed that she’d left him. And instead of wait to find out if she had, he made out with Steffy and was all set to reunite with her — until Hope showed up. Then he un-reunited with Steffy, turned around and pledged his everlasting devotion to Hope.
After Hope saw video footage of Liam and Steffy’s pre-wedding make-out session, she insisted on an “I do”-over. As if to prove just how relieved he was not to have lost Hope, he spent the night before their nuptials… wait, what? Partying with Steffy. To the point that he showed up late and hungover, with newly-dyed hair and a temporary tattoo, to his own wedding. Which we shouldn’t have to tell you at that point was off.
By and large, we think of Liam as being a sensitive sort. But in looking back, it may be only his own feelings to which he is attuned. How else to explain that he gave the heave-ho to Ivy Forrester literally moments after they’d attended a memorial service for her beloved cousin, Aly. Having to break up with someone isn’t like having to use the restroom, bro; it can wait.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Girl (in this case, Steffy) wrongly thinks that boy (as always, Liam) has dumped her, so she turns to the next available boy (Liam’s half brother, Wyatt). Upon catching an eyeful of them together, Liam didn’t say, “Sup? You didn’t think I’d dumped you, did you?” he just stormed off, making it easy for no one to notice when he was kidnapped by Wyatt’s mother and convinced to play house. In retrospect, that he had come down with amnesia was probably a blessing.
Trapped with Sally Spectra after dad Bill Spencer blew up her building, Liam shared what he thought was a dying kiss with the redhead. It was just a kiss. No big deal. They thought they were goners, after all. But Liam… [bleep]! Liam nonetheless insisted on telling wife Steffy, who blew the liplock so out of proportion — had she been taking lessons from her husband? — that she turned around and slept with Bill.
Eventually, it became harder and harder for anything that Liam did to surprise us. However, we have to admit that we were like, “Whaaaat?” when being hit on the head with a branch so thoroughly convinced him that he was “remembering” having taken aim at his dad that he confessed to the crime. Of course, it turned out that he had no more pulled the trigger than made a smart relationship decision; Steffy’s mom, Taylor, was the actual culprit.
Tricked into thinking that Steffy was still involved with Bill, Liam decided against doing further investigating and instead leapt into an engagement with Hope (now Annika Noelle). When eventually he learned the truth, his and Hope’s wedding was called off, and he began planning one with Steffy. Just in time for him to discover that Hope was having their baby. Did Bill never sit Liam down to explain the birds and the bees?
Pop quiz: In the wake of so many mistakes, Liam reacted to the sight of wife Hope kissing Thomas Forrester by a) rescuing her from the man he believed was so dangerous, b) calmly inquiring, “WTH?” or c) looking at least closely enough to realize that that wasn’t Hope but “Fauxpe” the Mannequin? If you answered any of those things, BZZZT! Wrong! He assumed that Hope had betrayed him, skulked down a well-trod path to Steffy’s, and because again, he’s never heard of birth control, launched her into a “Who’s the Daddy?” storyline that made all concerned look bad.
After accidentally running down rookie paternity-test tamperer Vinny — thus turning him into Poor Dead Vinny — Liam did what you or we might and passed the hell out. Upon coming to, however, he did something that none of us likely would and let Bill talk him into pretending that the only thing he’d hit that fateful night was the speed limit — a massive lie that landed the father/son duo behind bars until a telltale video revealed that Vinny had set out to make himself roadkill.
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