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== [[Film]] ==
* This trope is hilariously spoofed in ''[[Airplane!]]'', with a long line of passengers [[Right On Queue|lining up]] to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap the hysterical woman]], with increasingly lethal weapons.
** The gag is recycled in ''Airplane 2: The Sequel'' when the same woman testifies on [[The Hero|Ted Stryker's]] behalf in a [[Kangaroo Court]] -- the memory of her hysterics sends her into a fresh episode of hysterics, which prompts the members of the court to line up to beat it out of her.
* Lambert(Veronica Cartwright) in ''[[Alien]]''.
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{{quote| '''Kirk''': All right, Mister Spock, what do we have? A creature without form, that feeds on horror and fear, that must assume a physical shape to kill.<br />
'''Spock''': And I suspect preys on women because women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species. }}
* Soolin gets to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap]] a particularly annoying one of these in ''[[
{{quote| '''Tarrant''': You enjoyed that, didn’t you?<br />
'''Soolin''': There are two classic ways of dealing with a [[Hysterical Woman]]. You didn’t really expect me to [[Shut Up Kiss|kiss]] [[Les Yay|her]], did you? }}
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