https://popculturereferences.com/the-hideous-teenage-girls-of-old-school-tv-sitcoms/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://popculturereferences.com/the-hideous-teenage-girls-of-old-school-tv-sitcoms/#comment-5347 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:58:46 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2165#comment-5347 Fraser, I liked that movie, but I really did think Garofalo was cuter than Uma Thurman.

]]> https://popculturereferences.com/the-hideous-teenage-girls-of-old-school-tv-sitcoms/#comment-5345 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:49:11 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2165#comment-5345 As the above commenters poit out, this isn’t limited to old TV shows. “The Ugly Truth” wants us to believe simultaneously that “men care nothing about personality, only how hot you are” and “Katherine Heigl can’t get laid because she has a bad personality.”
Or “The Truth About Cats and Dogs” where cutie-pie Jeanine Garofalo is supposedly so plain that nobody’s interested in her.

]]> https://popculturereferences.com/the-hideous-teenage-girls-of-old-school-tv-sitcoms/#comment-3416 Thu, 19 May 2022 20:08:27 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2165#comment-3416 TV Tropes’ website calls it “Hollywood Homely,” where an otherwise beautiful woman is given glasses, a sweater (or ill fitting clothes, but sweaters are common) and/or a bad haircut. Basically when they make an actress who could (or did) work as a model look like Irma from “Ninja Turtles.”

]]> https://popculturereferences.com/the-hideous-teenage-girls-of-old-school-tv-sitcoms/#comment-3102 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:30:12 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2165#comment-3102 This still continues with the whole trope of “glasses make you ugly” that a lot of movies and shows rely on.

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