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{{quote| '''Melissa:''' When our food's gone, we can eat Elvis!}} |
{{quote| '''Melissa:''' When our food's gone, we can eat Elvis!}} |
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* [[Fiction Business Savvy]]: The new fashion designs did not look cool in the 1990's or in the world of fashion. |
* [[Fiction Business Savvy]]: The new fashion designs did not look cool in the 1990's or in the world of fashion. |
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* [[Free-Range Children]]: Subverted since Sue Ellen is almost 18 and pretending to be 27. Played straight with everyone else. In all fairness, their mom ''did'' hire a babysitter to avoid this trope. |
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Again, the line about all women over 25 having a cucumber in the house. |
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Again, the line about all women over 25 having a cucumber in the house. |
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* [[Hard Work Montage]]: When they clean up the house before the fashion show. |
* [[Hard Work Montage]]: When they clean up the house before the fashion show. |
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* [[Hey It's That Guy]]!: |
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** [[The X Files|Fox Mulder]] as a slimy office nitwit? |
** [[The X Files|Fox Mulder]] as a slimy office nitwit? |
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** [[Married With Children|Kelly Bundy]] finally applied herself, BS'd into a job, and did pretty darn well. |
** [[Married With Children|Kelly Bundy]] finally applied herself, BS'd into a job, and did pretty darn well. |
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* [[Tomboy]]: Melissa. |
* [[Tomboy]]: Melissa. |
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* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: This movie is ''painfully'' early 90s, caused mostly by it's focus on fashion. The catwalk [[Fashion Show|show]] finale is particularly exemplary, and is a riot of [[Totally Radical|gaudy neon and spandex.]] |
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: This movie is ''painfully'' early 90s, caused mostly by it's focus on fashion. The catwalk [[Fashion Show|show]] finale is particularly exemplary, and is a riot of [[Totally Radical|gaudy neon and spandex.]] |
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* [[What Happened to The Mouse]]: The fate of Mrs. Sturak's body and the money is finally answered right before the credits. {{spoiler|She was given a nice burial by the mortuary workers who found the money and spent it in Vegas. Her tombstone reads the same as the note the kids left with her - "''Nice Old Lady Inside. Died of Natural Causes.''"}} |
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: The fate of Mrs. Sturak's body and the money is finally answered right before the credits. {{spoiler|She was given a nice burial by the mortuary workers who found the money and spent it in Vegas. Her tombstone reads the same as the note the kids left with her - "''Nice Old Lady Inside. Died of Natural Causes.''"}} |
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* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Rose actually ''begs'' Sue Ellen to work for her after a quick skim-read through her (ridiculously embellished) resumé in the office reception. |
* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Rose actually ''begs'' Sue Ellen to work for her after a quick skim-read through her (ridiculously embellished) resumé in the office reception. |
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* [[Woman Scorned]]: Carolyn, who seems like a top grade female dog even ''before'' Sue Ellen takes the job she was after. She sets out to destroy Sue Ellens prospects at GAW. |
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Carolyn, who seems like a top grade female dog even ''before'' Sue Ellen takes the job she was after. She sets out to destroy Sue Ellens prospects at GAW. |
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