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{{quote|''"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round!"''
|"Fat Bottomed Girls", '''[[Queen]]'''}}
The '''Big Beautiful Woman''', or BBW for short, is a subversion of Hollywood's usual standards of size and beauty. She isn't sexy ''despite'' her full figure, she's sexy ''because'' of it. She's comfortable with the fact that her weight is part of her just like her hair color. [[Weight Woe|Any angst or insecurity over her body]] was [[Defied Trope|resolved long ago]] (or over the course of the story, if this trope is the end result), and she's a confident woman who has a healthy dating life and knows how to find outfits that look fantastic on her. In an earlier time, she'd be called [[Rubenesque]]. Sloppier works might give her the same feel as a [[Pet Homosexual]]: a raunchy best friend who's always talking about sex but is never seen having it. Writers can avoid this by making her part of the [[Beta Couple]] or (believe it or not) making her the main heroine as an everywoman.▼
▲{{quote|''"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round!"''|"Fat Bottomed Girls", '''[[Queen (Music)|Queen]]'''}}
There's plenty of overlap with [[Sassy Black Woman]] (she'll at least have the attitude if not the skin tone) and [[Fag Hag]]. Also a source of [[Fetish Fuel]]. When adding examples, avoid ladies who are [[Hollywood Pudgy]]. She must be visibly heavy-set for the trope to be in effect. May be part of the [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]] Pairing. Sometimes paired with [[Of Corsets Sexy]], as
▲The Big Beautiful Woman, or BBW for short, is a subversion of Hollywood's usual standards of size and beauty. She isn't sexy ''despite'' her full figure, she's sexy ''because'' of it. She's comfortable with the fact that her weight is part of her just like her hair color. [[Weight Woe|Any angst or insecurity over her body]] was [[Defied Trope|resolved long ago]] (or over the course of the story, if this trope is the end result), and she's a confident woman who has a healthy dating life and knows how to find outfits that look fantastic on her. Sloppier works might give her the same feel as a [[Pet Homosexual]]: a raunchy best friend who's always talking about sex but is never seen having it. Writers can avoid this by making her part of the [[Beta Couple]] or (believe it or not) making her the main heroine as an everywoman.
For authors who would like to use this trope, but prefer not to keep the change, a [[Temporary Bulk Change]] episode can be used to show off [[Fetish Fuel]].
▲There's plenty of overlap with [[Sassy Black Woman]] (she'll at least have the attitude if not the skin tone) and [[Fag Hag]]. Also a source of [[Fetish Fuel]]. When adding examples, avoid ladies who are [[Hollywood Pudgy]]. She must be visibly heavy-set for the trope to be in effect. May be part of the [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]] Pairing. Sometimes paired with [[Of Corsets Sexy]], as a number of full-figured women esteem corsets highly as a way to produce a perfect hourglass figure. Contrast with [[Brawn Hilda]] and [[Amazonian Beauty]].
▲For authors who would like to use this trope, but prefer not to keep the change, a [[Temporary Bulk Change]] episode can be used to show off [[Fetish Fuel]].
See also [[Big Beautiful Man]] (the [[Spear Counterpart]]) and [[Chubby Chaser]] (who may admire either of the above, if not both).
{{noreallife|some women and girls in real life have body image issues, and would not take being listed here as a compliment. There's no reason to trigger their anxieties.}}
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Cattleya from ''[[
* Baya San from ''[[Crying Freeman]]''.
* Satsuki Yotsuba in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is just on the near side of chubby, but is just plain adorable. Akamatsu compares her to a Koala.
* From ''[[Bizenghast]]'', there's [https://web.archive.org/web/20091231081852/http://sadwonderland.deviantart.com/art/Nareesha-25746201 Nareesha.] The author states that a cosplayer "cannot be too fat to be Nareesha".
* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yuria_100_shiki/v09/c069/6.html Lucy MK2] in Chapter 69 of ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'' due to thermal expansion.
* In one famous episode of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime ("A Mean, Lean, Team Rocket Machine"), the Team Rocket trio gain a ton of weight after gorging themselves at a buffet. Despite the extra weight and her angst over how badly she's let herself go, Jessie's still as gorgeous as ever during her brief struggle with obesity.
* All the fanservice in the manga ''[[Plus-Sized Elf]]'' focuses on the soft, squishy figures of Elfuda and the other hot monster girls trying and failing to lose weight.
*
== [[Comics]] ==▼
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▲* Alex Robinson likes this trope: Hildy from ''Box Office Poison'' and Caprice from ''Tricked'' are BBWs.
* ''[[Love and Rockets]]'', created by the Hernandez brothers (Jaime, Gilbert and Mario), has Maggie, [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/3e/09/c43e0973c8eb7aa76c6725b64c00d527.jpg who has become a BBW over time]. Another example is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120804054219/http://lambiek.net/artists/h/hernandez_jaime/hernandez_jaime_whoa_nellie.jpg ''Whoa Nellie!'], a set of pics of lady wrestlers done by Jaime.
▲* [http://fatwonderwoman.blogspot.com/ Cartoonist Jamar Nicholas has a blog devoted to artists' pin-ups of a fat Wonder Woman].
* In [[Marvel Comics]], it's subverted at first by the Great Lakes Avengers' Big Bertha, a skinny model whose superpowers are only available when she takes on her much heavier superhero form. She does, however, become a straight example of this in the 2016 run where she's rebranded herself as a plus-size model, and is drawn to be pleasingly plump when she isn't using her powers.
* Volcana from the original ''Secret Wars'' mini-series: she's got a Ruebenesque figure compared to other villainesses, but is no less attractive for it. Just ask her lover Molecule Man.
*
* In the Five Years Later continuity of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
** This trope was somewhat averted with Bouncing Boy's one-time girlfriend Iresa from the Silver Age. Plump, sure, but she was rather plain. The joke, however, was that BB had dated her after he lost his powers and become svelte.▼
▲* Tarot's mother, from ''[[Tarot Witch of the Black Rose]]''. She's not really fat, just a ''wider'' version of her daughter, and with an increased bust size to match.
▲* In the Five Years Later continuity of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' Dream Girl became this, although this depended on her wardrobe.
▲** This trope was somewhat averted with Bouncing Boy's one-time girlfriend Iresa from the Silver Age. Plump sure, but she was rather plain. The joke, however, was that BB had dated her after he lost his powers and become svelte.
* Francine from ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' is often depicted as such.
* [[Superman
* Minor ''[[Spider-Man]]'' character Sadie Frickett is a plump older woman who has not one, but ''two'' supervillains in love with her. Sandman and Hydro-Man famously waged war over winnning her affections, only to accidentally fuse and turn into the monstrous Mud-Thing.
== [[Film]] ==
* Any character played by Mae West.
* The tobacconist in Fellini's ''[[Amarcord]]''.
* Sophie from ''[[Anastasia]]'' is a beautiful, full-bodied Russian blonde of minor Noble position and great wealth living in Paris and housing the former Ruling family.
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* Page image [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy6j2LUyh24 Mama Morton] from ''[[Chicago]]''. Queen Latifah is gorgeous in everything she does.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Deuce Bigalow|Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo]]'' with "Jabba the Slut".
* [[Fat Slags]] - Sean Cooley plays the man who uses his infinite wealth and media power to make
* Motormouth Maybelle and Tracy Turnblad from ''[[Hairspray]]'' (Motormouth Maybelle is another Queen Latifah role in the more recent movie); she later convinces Edna Turnblad to join her, in part due to inspiration from Edna's daughter Tracy.
* Gloria, the hippo in the ''[[Madagascar]]'' movies. Designed to be sexy. In fact, her large size became a status of attraction to [[Romantic False Lead|a male hippo]] named [[Big Beautiful Man|Moto Moto]] (the name so nice, you say it twice).
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* [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Yarna_d%27al%27_Gargan Yarna d'al' Gargan] from ''[[Star Wars]] Episode VI: Return of the Jedi''
** Your mileage will most likely vary on the "beautiful" part with her.
* America Ferrera's character in ''Real Women Have Curves''.
* Ogress Fiona in ''[[Shrek]]'', intermittently in the last half of the first movie and almost the whole second film, then all the time from the third movie onwards.
* Queen Latifah again in ''[[Bringing Down the House]]''. She is pretty much the embodiment of this trope.
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* The French movie ''On Tour'' fits this trope perfectly.
* Big Rhonda in ''[[Road Trip]]'', played by plus-size model Mia Amber Davis ([[Tear Jerker|who sadly passed away in 2011 aged just 35]]).
* Rosemary in ''[[Shallow Hal]]'' (played by Gwyneth Paltrow and body double [https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/actress-ivy-snitzer-attends-the-premiere-of-the-film-news-photo/678650 Ivy Snitzer]). An [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-11-22-0111220025-story.html unflattering portrayal] in which the character is breaking chairs, gulping a milk shake and cannonballing into a pool with a mighty splash which knocks a child into a tree. The use of a thin actor in a "fat suit" (much of the Gwyneth Paltrow footage) and the many "fat jokes" in the first twenty minutes also went over poorly with real-life BBW's.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Boule de Suif{{context|reason=What work is this from?}}
* This seems to be a matter of [[Author Appeal]] [[Chubby Chaser|for]] [[Terry Pratchett]].
** Lady Sybil Vimes of the [[
** Death's adopted daughter is repeated said to be [[BBW|"chubby",]] too. Her soon to be love interest even notes that her chest ''alone'' "contained enough puppy fat for a whole ''litter'' of Dobermans."
** In ''[[
** This is noted as the standard of attractiveness in Ramtops. Lancre men are much more interested in big women from families that clearly enjoy their food than they are in slim figures and corsetry.
* The main character of ''[[The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency|The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]]'' novels and TV series is the "traditionally built" Precious Ramotswe. On TV she's played by Jill Scott, who counts as well.
* Prof. Colette of ''[[The Princess 99]]'' has elements of this.
* Mae from [[The
* [[Sassy Black Woman|Lula]], former prostitute turned bounty hunter('s sidekick) in the ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' series.
* Title of the book escapes me, but there was a book about a high-school girl going to work at a dance/strip club for extra
* Lady Cunegonde and the baroness in ''[[Candide]]''
* Freya Rasmussen from ''[[Mortal Engines]]''.
* By 2085 in [[Larry Niven]] and [[Steven Barnes]]' ''[[The Moon Maze Game]]'', this type has become the fashion ideal.
* Mary {{spoiler|Callahan, later Callahan-Finn}} of the [[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
== [[Live
* Mellie from ''[[Dollhouse]]''.
* Jane (or really Deb in Jane's body) in ''[[Drop Dead Diva]]''.
* [[Playful Hacker|Penelope Garcia]] of ''[[
* [[Roseanne]] is mostly this; she appears to have a healthy sex life with Dan and while she's depicted as just an average-looking woman, she certainly doesn't come across as ''un''desirable.
* Suzanne Sugarbaker of ''[[Designing Women]]''.
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* Michelle Corrigan of ''[[Doctors]]'' has her fair share of relationships. Mind you, they [[Brother-Sister Incest|don't always work out so well]]...
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', when we first see Snow White's body (not very well) in her ice tomb, we assume she looks very much like her Disney incarnation, fair enough. But when she disappears from the coffin and actually appears in her spirit incarnation she is both larger in proportions than the standard fairy princess and still lovely.
* Having exhausted every other fetish known to man, ''[[CSI]]'' examines this trope in the episode "Big Middle".
* Nell Carter on ''Gimme A Break.''
* In an alternate reality episode of ''[[Friends]]'' where Monica had never lost weight, she's still quite attractive with a doctor for a boyfriend and Chandler even still falls for her.
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* ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'' is widely regarded as one of these in-show.
** Dawn French gets cast as this a lot in comedies, including some episodes of ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]'' and ''[[Murder Most Horrid]]''.
* Kadijah James in ''[[
* Sadie on ''[[Awkward (TV series)|Awkward]]''. She has body issues but has enough confidence to be both a [[The Cheerleader|cheerleader]] and the school's [[Alpha Bitch]].
== [[Music]] ==
* One of the first examples from modern media - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbI84m2HBVI Short Fat Fannie] - though it may have simply been made as a song ''filled'' with [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] to other songs.
* The titular Rosie from the song "Whole Lotta Rosie" by [[
* [[Queen]]:
* [[This Is Spinal Tap
* ''Perfect 10'' by the Beautiful South. "She's a perfect 10/But she wears a 12" Unusually, it's a duet, and both the male and female singers comment favourably on the size of their partner - although Wikipedia says [[Bigger Is Better in Bed|that's not the kind of size the woman is talking about]].
* "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" by Mika.
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* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzh8G4HdWVU What I Go To School For] by Busted, the [[Teacher-Student Romance|teacher]] is played by plus-size model [http://www.judgmentofparis.com/Lorna.htm Lorna Roberts.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eEgPE0NmpM&feature=related Big Fat Blonde] by the Rainmakers is a very good example of this trope, as well.
* An [[
*
* Bow wow's song Big Girl.
* Comedian Mike epps made a song with the same name as Bow Wow's .
* "I Wanna Be Fat" by the Go Go Girls.
* The Donnie Fritts song "Three Hundred Pounds of Hongry,"
*
* The obscure pop song, ''Two Ton Tessie''<ref>
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* Cherry from the animated band [[Studio Killers]] is a perfect example of this trope. She's beautiful, sexy, flirty, and adores other women of all shapes and sizes.
* Hoagy Carmichael's "Huggin' and Chalkin'": "I got a gal who's mighty sweet / Big blue eyes and tiny feet / Her name is Rosabelle Magee / And she tips the scales at three-oh-three..."
* Sinergia's song "Mujer robusta" ("Heavyset Woman") is all about a dude who's literally crazy for his BBW girlfriend.
* German Hip Hop group "Fettes Brot" uses this trope in the party song "Erdbeben" (earthquake), where they celebrate girls shaking ther huge (and beautiful) asses, while thin girls envy them for their asses' "shakability".
* Canadian indie pop singer Don Bryk's song
* "Real Big Ladies" as a [[Bob Rivers]] parody of [[Eminem]]'s "Real Slim Shady" ("Would the real big ladies / Please stand up...")
== Professional Wrestling ==
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* Awesome Kong anyone?
* Now retired joshi wrestler [http://i.imgur.com/bu77K.jpg Yuki Miyazaki]. Hell, her nickname was even the Sexy Tank.
== [[Theater]] ==
* Effie White from ''[[Dreamgirls]]'', [[Captain Ersatz]] of founding Supremes member Flo Ballard. In [[The Movie]], Jennifer Hudson was certainly gorgeous in the role, but she actually had to gain weight for it, and is normally at the upper end of [[Hollywood Pudgy]].
* Burlesque star [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meCzRWF3i0w Miss Dirty Martini.]
* Magda in ''[[Tanz
* Seraghina from Nine is supposed to be a large woman who is beautiful and sexually confident, and teaches the protagonist about romance and sexuality in his childhood (the film adaptation had a decidedly [[Hollywood Pudgy]] Seraghina).
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[
** ''[[
** A female PC in either ''Fable II'' or ''Fable III'' could be one; while fatness normally detracts from attractiveness (except in the case of "fat-loving" NPCs found on Knothole Island in II), one could overcome this with the right hair, make-up, and outfits.
*** As well as one of the vendors of Oakdale who finds a female player more attractive the more she gains weight.
* Ririka Yamamoto, star of the h-game ''Debu Plus.''
* Kurumi Kasugaoka from the cancelled dating sim ''Hachi Koi.''
* Lenora from ''[[
* Polly in ''[[
* Letty Whiterock is often portrayed as one in [[
** Yuyuko Saigyouji is also sometimes portrayed as a BBW due to her [[Big Eater|eating habits]].
* Justine in ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]'' appears to have been one before her death.
* Kitten and some NPCs in ''[[Venetica]]''.
* Misha in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]''. She is rather plump but still attractive. {{spoiler|You can sleep with her but doing so opens Shizune's bad ending.}}
* Mei from ''[[Overwatch]]'' is definitely packing some extra weight, but all in the right places. Her adorably chubby cheeks have endeared her to many a fan, while her bust, butt, and slight potbelly won admirers for... ''[[Rule 34|different]]'' reasons.
* Marnie from ''[[Stardew Valley]]'' is overweight, but still objectively cute, and is considered beautiful enough in-universe to have two different men madly in love with her.
* Nick's boss Rhonda from ''[[Dead Rising 3]]'' has a plump gut, and enough curves to give most pin-up models a run for their money. When she runs into her ex-boyfriend Gary, they waste no time in screwing each other's brains out once they get some private time.
*
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* Samantha Lovi from ''[[The Zombie Hunters]]''. Her heavyset figure can actually make her seem more attractive than the other female cast.
* Jamie from ''[[Girls with Slingshots]].'' Candy counts as well, but it's offset by her abhorrent personality.
▲* [[The Blonde Marvel]] is a superhero that is also a BBW. Site has a NSFW warning.
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▲* [http://templaraz.com/?p=1406 Reagan] from ''[[Templar Arizona]]''
* Lorenda the Demon-Cow from ''[[DMFA]]''. She's noticeably fat, and apparently put a lot of effort into getting that fat, as seen most clearly in the strip [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_101.php when Dan first meets her].
* Emma of ''[[
* Karen of ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' is no lightweight, even post-makeover, but has "learned how to work it." Also subverted a bit in that the confidence is an act; she remembers her pre-makeover days and fears that people (especially her boyfriend) will "realize" she's not pretty.
* Cho from ''[[Kagerou]]'' is this, though it's not apparent until later in the comic, after [[Art Evolution]] has taken place.
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* Faye from [[Questionable Content]]
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▲== [[Web Original]] ==
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▲* Clara from ''[[The Guild]]'' is a full figured [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] who got married and had kids, but never grew out of her wild tendencies. While the skinny but spineless Codex spent a whole season pining for the hot stuntman Wade, Clara ended up making out with him shortly after she met him.
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▲* There are whole site dedicated to either galleries of photographs of [[Big Beautiful Woman|plump/chubby/fat girlfriends/friends/neighbours,]] and erotic fiction about women who fatten up, intentionally or not, to become [[Big Beautiful Woman|BBWs.]] There is also a lot of fanfiction with the same idea, but based around favourite characters.
▲* [http://www.writing.com/?i=1 Writing.Com] has an enormous number of "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories that the reader can add to. The majority of them are Weight Gain stories or Fanfiction, or Weight Gain Fanfiction.
* [http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ The Judgment of Paris] is a huge resource focussing on plus-size fashion models (who are by definition required to be both curvy and to be viewed as attractive in their milieu), with endless images & videos and plentiful discussions of the whole concept of plus-size female beauty.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140529114641/http://www.judgmentofparis.com/board/showthread.php?t=1588 This] work-safe "thickspiration" video juxtaposes present-day BBWs with classical art. (Originally available [http://www.youtube.com/user/TamChronic#p/a/u/1/H71cl8imO28 here], but [[YouTube]] has flagged it.)
* "Lard Biscuit Enterprises" has a whole section on [http://www.lardbiscuit.com/hotchicks.html "Hot Chicks"] which, as the name of the site suggests, is full of fuller figured femme fatales.
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** There are other forums dedicated to similar topics.
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* [[
* [
** One of the most popular Internet gainers is the famous (and frequently vanishing from the Internet) Jeshicuh, who went from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNzE5PKhmek&playnext=1&list=PL92CA2D1739461BC0 this] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5NqdTcT2U this] (slightly NSFW) in about ''two years.''
** And as long as there's [[No Such Thing As Notability]], the woman in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0etbA_Wy3hY this] video.
** The blonde girl in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCL3gYxuAlM&feature=related this] episode of the Tyra Banks Show.
* Siobhan McCarthy of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': [[Spin-Off|The Program]] seems to be one of these, thanks to her..."assets".
* "Annoying Girl", later renamed "Special Girl", the character based on the woman who later became the author's wife, in ''The [[Binder of Shame]]''. At first he refuses to date her for fear of what his friends might think of him seeing a fat girl, but upon realising exactly what a [[Dysfunction Junction]] his gaming group is, he decides to drop them in favour of her.
* The erotic cosplayer known as "Luu
* Jillian Zurawski, aka [[The Cinema Snob
* Vtuber [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO7JDD1mJBo Ruko Sizuoka]'s sex appeal stems from her big belly, and many of her outfits go out of their way to highlight her plump figure. She even encourages people to draw fanart emphasizing her chubbiness, making her something of a sex symbol among chubby chasers.
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* Vivian Garcia-Shapiro (Isabella's mom) from [[Phineas and Ferb]].
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*** This may be because they were too busy making fun of what an utter weiner Stewie turned out to be. For example, said cherry-popping was such a horrendously embarrassing experience that if you had precognition and saw that in your future, you'd just stay a virgin all your life.
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* Thalia,
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* Susan Strong from ''[[
* An episode of [[Futurama]] had Fry and Bender stranded on the moon. A farmer offers them shelter with the stipulation that they stay away from his [[
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** Also, the robot stripper from "The Lesser of Two Evils" episode.
** Farnsworth's new girlfriend in "300 Big Boys" after the stem cell reveal.
* The Scottsman's wife from [[Samurai Jack]]. He is absolutely in love with her and considers her the most stunning woman in the world. The fact that [[Action Girl|she can crush Aku's mooks in flying fits of rage]] only makes her ''[[Hot Amazon|more desirable]]'' to him.
* Pam from ''[[Archer]]'', until season 5 where she lost a ''lot'' of weight. She gained it back in later seasons, but is still considered pretty hot (especially by Archer).
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