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A [[Stock Phrase]] for narrators describing [[Ms. Fanservice|an attractive female character]], and for [[Fanfic]] writers trying to make a female character [[Possession Sue|inexplicably more attractive than she is in canon]]. It probably describes an hourglass figure - that is to say, large breasts, round hips, and a small waist connecting the two - but ''exactly'' what it means is kind of vague and highly subjective, since readers' ideas of what "all the right places" are, and how ''much'' they should curve, will vary. While the figure it describes isn't going to go out of fashion any time soon, the phrase itself is rather tired and sliding into [[Discredited Trope]] territory.
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See also [[Impossible Hourglass Figure]].
== Anime And Manga ==▼
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* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''
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== [[Fan
* Overused to the point of becoming first a cliché and then a meme in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, concerning Hermione [[She
▲* Overused to the point of becoming first a cliché and then a meme in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, concerning Hermione [[She Is All Grown Up|getting a visit from the puberty fairy over the summer]].
== Film ==▼
▲== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[North by Northwest]]''
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'''Roger Thornhill''': Yeah, and in all the right places, too. }}
* Played with in ''[[Osmosis Jones]]''.
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* ''Murder on Vine''
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* In ''Go West'', [[The Marx Brothers|Chico Marx]] asked [[The Voiceless|Harpo]] what he had spent $60 on, and Harpo made an "hourglass" figure with his hands. Chico replied "Oh, [[Completely Missing the Point|you bought a snake]]." (The gag also appears in ''A Day at the Races'', in which Harpo's attempts to tell Chico about [[The Vamp]] who plans to seduce and frame Groucho are interpreted as, "A snake! A big, big snake!" After Harpo's gestures and whistles get more and more exaggerated, "That's-a no snake.")
== [[Literature]] ==
* From the ''[[Xanth]]'' series: "'But [[Ms. Fanservice|Nada]] weighs as much as you do!' Indeed, Nada weighed more, and in all the right places."
* In ''Stalking the Unicorn'' by [[Mike Resnick]], takes this [[Up to Eleven]], describing a [[Catgirl]] as having "curves in places other girls don't have places."
* A variant in [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[Three Hearts and Three Lions]]'' refers to [[King Arthur/Characters|Morgan le Fay]]'s "body with more curves than a scenic highway."
== [[Live
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Day One"
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* One episode of ''[[F Troop]]'' had Corporal Agarn come up with an advertising slogan for a corset: something about "it'll give you an hourglass figure, with all your sand in the right places."
* In the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', Koloth says "We do not equip our ships with, how shall I say it, non-essentials." It's hard to see because of some spectacularly bad (or deliberate) editing, but he makes an hourglass gesture with his hands as he does.
== Music ==▼
▲== [[Music]] ==
* [[Mika]]'s "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)":
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''With the girls around
''And curves in all the right places'' }}
== Theatre ==▼
▲== [[Theatre]] ==
* Lola's song "A Little Brains—A Little Talent" in ''[[Damn Yankees]]'':
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''And this queen has her aces
''In all the right places!'' }}
* "Honey Bun" from ''[[South Pacific]]'':
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''And she's broad where a broad should be broad!'' }}
== Web Original ==▼
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' characters Charlene Norris and Kallie Majors, from versions four and three respectively, are described this way.
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