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3. "Ugly" women in the movies have no makeup on, wear thick glasses, have frizzy/nasty hair, and sometimes braces.
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Ugly can be replaced by "intelligent" too. Smart women usually wear dorky clothes, are barely able to crack a smile, and to put emphasis on their "intelligence" they often wear glasses.
Other cliches:
When teams are partnered up, be it cops or lovers or whatever, they hardly ever like each other when they first meet. (Lethal Weapon, Turner and Hooch, tons of romantic comedies etc.)
When somebody gets really badly injured there's only two ways out: death or full recovery.
When somebody's been in a coma, they usually wake up talking like nothing ever happened, or the whole movie is about recuparation that they in the end get > 100%!
(Mostly in TV) Blacks date blacks or are married to blacks, whites marry/date whites. Only friendships are interracial
I'm colored, and what irritates me most is that in most black TV comedies, the characters are either super intelligent and well to do (The Cosby's, Fresh Prince) or they are in any other way very stereotypical.
It still goes on today and is soooooo damned dated.
In soaps> one person's occupations can run from teacher, to brain surgeon, intermitted with model, accountant, newspaper owner etc.......
In horror movies> most creepy things happen at night or during bad weather. When people hear something in the house they GO where they hear it, they hardly ever run out of the house or get help.
In violent movies hardly ever innocent bystanders get shot during shootouts in the middle of the street!
In movies AND on TV women mostly go to bed wearing full make-up!