Ms. Fanservice/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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* [[Damsel Scrappy|Kim Bauer]] in ''[[24]]'', a glowing example of the [[Flat Character]] variant if ever there was one. However, for the first season, Nina and Mandy showed more flesh.

* Teyla Emmagan in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''. No-one else in the entire regular cast of both shows in that verse walks around the base off-duty in a low-cut, midriff-revealing top. Teyla's pregnancy (a [[Written in Infirmity]] case due to Rachel Luttrell's) led viewers to expect it to go down significantly. It didn't -- there was just more cleavage. Ronon Dex is [[Mr. Fanservice]].

* Lt. Vanessa James in ''[[Stargate Universe]]''. [[Good Looking Privates|Hot female soldier]] with one hell of a rack, and her normal off-duty wear is a tank top and shorts. On-duty, however, she wears standard combat gear.

* Lt. Vanessa James in ''[[Stargate Universe]]''. [[Good-Looking Privates|Hot female soldier]] with one hell of a rack, and her normal off-duty wear is a tank top and shorts. On-duty, however, she wears standard combat gear.

* Harriet Hayes in ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'', who once ended up being caught topless.

** Although in the show-verse [[Hello, Nurse!|this spot]] definitely goes to Jeannie.

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** Yeoman Janice Rand from The Original Series. And Uhura. Especially [[Bare Your Midriff|Mirror Uhura]]. Ooh la la.

** Leeta from ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' was introduced without even the pretense of a character, unless it was [[The Ditz]] (With a "D", spell it right).

* [[Joss Whedon]] has a very well-deserved reputation for creating [[Action Girl|strong female characters]] who aren't just there for [[Fan Service]], but that doesn't mean he doesn't provide plenty of fanservice anyway. [[Firefly|Particularly]], [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|Inara]].

** Zoe also requires mention. Although her clothing shows very little skin, it's practically painted on and involves [[Hell-Bent for Leather|plenty of leather]], combined with the fact that she's a [[Hot Amazon]].

** Though all of the other female cast members appeared in either skimpy outfits or partially naked, the only one to go onscreen [[Naked on Arrival|completely in the buff]] was River. And despite the fact that for the rest of the series she went around in [[Pimped-Out Dress|full-body dresses]], there's more than a few well-placed shots of her [[Foot Focus|bare feet.]]

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** In the new series, which for its first four seasons had an [[Author Appeal|openly gay producer]], most of the fanservice has been done by the men. All the women have done is an occasional bit of (very little) midriff and cleavage. Now that the new show-runner is a straight man, the pendulum is going back the other way, with Amy Pond in [[Fair Cop|a rather nice police uniform]] and regularly sporting skirts which show off her legs to good effect, also she has [[Fiery Redhead|flaming red hair]], [[Heroes Want Redheads|Hmm...]]

** Which is a [[Call Back]] to "Am I Ginger?" This troper believes. YMMV

** Martha. She's a [[Hospital Hottie|doctor]], has a scene as [[Covered in Gunge|Timey-slimey Martha]], and is [[Good Looking Privates|medical director for Project Indigo at UNIT]], and in one of the rare British examples of a [[Sassy Black Woman]] tells The Doctor to shut up... and he listens!

** Martha. She's a [[Hospital Hottie|doctor]], has a scene as [[Covered in Gunge|Timey-slimey Martha]], and is [[Good-Looking Privates|medical director for Project Indigo at UNIT]], and in one of the rare British examples of a [[Sassy Black Woman]] tells The Doctor to shut up... and he listens!

* Geena Davis in her self-titled sitcom. That being all that it had going for it (though admittedly, this was still nothing to sneeze at at the time), the show didn't last long.

* Somewhat parodied in ''[[The Office]]''. Several of the cast (mostly Michael and Kevin) treat Pam like she is Ms. Fanservice (Michael often making suggestions to her on how to sex things up a bit) but Pam, while pretty, dresses rather conservatively (which she has admitted at one point is to discourage this type of behavior) and outright shoots down any attempt to get her to dress differently.

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** Or the time she walked around wearing only a bra, boy shorts, and boots.

* Olivia "let's check out how many lesbians I can sleep with in [[wikipedia:Lucky Thirteen (House)|one episode]]" Wilde from ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''

** Dr. Lisa Cuddy. Low-cut tops, very tight skirts and pants and always in heels. Sometimes Cameron and Thirteen are seen in lab coats (damn it) but never her.

{{quote|'''House:''' Sorry -- you just don't usually see breasts like that on deans of medicine.}}

** Martha Masters, the new girl on the team, wardrobe seems to consist only of mini-skirts, Even her lab coat is short!

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** Also food-related, ''[[Top Chef]]'' hostess Padma Lakshmi fills this role, especially in her early seasons. Many fans expressed surprise about her tendency toward low necklines, bare midriffs, and shorts in a kitchen environment. Given that much of the viewership is female or gay, this was not as popular as one might expect, and she is now typically seen in elegant dresses.

** The Season 6 (2010) winner of ''The Next Food Network Star'', Aarti Sequeira, is now hostess of ''Aarti Party''. The food is not [http://cookingvideos4u.com/wp-content/uploads/mvbthumbs/img_52429_aarti-sequeira-the-dancing-girl-1.jpg the only thing that's spicy] on that show.

* The tragically short-lived series "Jungle" was a ''nature documentary'' hosted by a Miss Fanservice, Charlotte Uhlenbroek. One particularly breathtaking scene had her [[Jungle Princess|walking along branches]] [[Foot Focus|barefoot]] and moving between vines in half-trapeze artist, half pole-dancer fashion.

* Number Six serves this function on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]].'' She exists to radiate sex and get naked, which never seems to serve any purpose for the plot.

* Paddy seems to have become this in the second series of ''Seacht''.

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** [[Dungeon Master|Host]] Treguard supplied the [[Mr. Fanservice]] for the female viewers.

* [[Real Life]] example: A great many female anchors and reporters in television [[News Broadcast|News Broadcasts]] seem to fit this trope, particularly on local and cable news and in sports or weather reports. Just do a Web search for "newsbabes" sometime to discover the large, devoted, and well-nigh obssessive following some of these women generate among male viewers. [[Fox News Channel]], in particular, is notorious for this.

** More specifically, a lot of news shows seem expressly set up to show off their female anchors' [[She's Got Legs|shapely and uncovered gams]]. By having them sit higher than the desk, for example. Or beside the desk. Or behind a glass desk. Or with no desk at all.

** Then there's the [[wikipedia:Naked News|Naked News]], which takes this to its logical extreme, or parodies it, or both.

** The ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' feature "It's About Time!" parodied weather shows, suggesting how to enliven the dull subject of the local time with the presence of a perky buxom hostess, "your 'Good-Time Girl', Ticky Tock, with the latest time reports..."

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* Kahlan Amnell in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]''. There is a serious fixation on her cleavage.

** And Cara. Hot [[Bi the Way]] blond with BDSM tendencies who habitually dresses in tight leather?

* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' (Debra provides this in at least two episodes- one where she "tells off" a woman who she thought accused her of dressing provocatively by overdoing it in front of her, and another where she tries to seduce Ray wearing only a nightie. Generally though, it's relegated to her wearing tight, but not out-of-place in reality clothing)

* In ''[[Chuck]]'', Sarah provides most of the overt fanservice ([http://doena-journal.net/en/628/sarah-walker-ms-fanservice-personified Proof]), though Ellie and Anna also contribute in their own ways. Captain Awesome qualifies as Mr. Fanservice.

** Pretty much ''every'' female guest star on ''Chuck'' could also apply.

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** She was initially an aversion of this trope. Fox was reluctant to cast Gillian Anderson at first, wanting someone more conventionally fanservice-y, someone tall and [[Buxom Is Better|well-endowed]]. [[Chris Carter]] was adamant about giving her the role, though, which worked out beautifully.

* Some fans of ''[[Life]]'' were irked at the obvious Ms. Fanservice makeover given to Detective Dani Reese in its second and final season. Particularly memorable was a gratuitous slow-motion hip-swinging stroll in thigh-high boots whilst [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|sucking on a lollipop.]] The change was seen as an obvious attempt to "sex up" the series by putting Sarah Shahi in more revealing clothing: replacing her sensible shoes with heels, taking down her hair which had been previously worn up in a no-nonsense bun, wearing lower cut tops (which was lampshaded by Crews with the suggestion that she utilize a few more buttons at the top of her blouse before entering a complex which housed former prison inmates).

* Mac, Catherine Bell's character on ''[[JAG]]''.

* Kaley Cuoco from ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' is one fan-serving appearance.

** And then there was the Sheldon's female scientist friend that {{spoiler|sleeps with Leonard. And Raj.}}

* Jody Banks (Heather Thomas) in ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|The Fall Guy]]''.

* Nikki Cox in ''[[Unhappily Ever After]]''.

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* ''[[Married... with Children]]'': Kelly '''Freaking''' Bundy.

** Not to mention any other woman who wasn't a shoestore customer (aside from a couple of the mothers), or any woman in Marcy's "clucking hen brigade." Ironically, in episodes which focused on turmoil in Marcy's marriages, SHE became Ms. Fanservice.

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'': Detective Inspector Alex Drake. Where does one even ''begin''? [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/keeley440.jpg The dress that gets her mistaken for a hooker in the pilot]? The men's shirt she's sporting for the rest of the episode? The Catwoman costume, complete with corset, from the party scene in 1.03? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4THFiqZxkM Stripping down to her bra in 1.04]? Her love of [[Combat Stilettos]] (usually in boot form)? Hooker outfit #2? The constant, lingering [[Male Gaze|shots of her ass]] in tight dresses/pants?

* Mel Burke from ''[[Melissa and Joey]]''.

* Lara Spencer on the U.S. celebrity/Hollywood news program ''The Insider.'' Viewers get to vote for what she wears on the next show. Although there's no cleavage bearing, they always seem to compliment her figure well. The main desk also has a transparent front, so that her legs can be seen.

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* ''[[Smallville]]'': Lois Lane and her collection of costumes. [http://doena-journal.net/en/577/lois-lanes-costumes Case in point.]

* Pretty much every female character in ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]'', in particular Servalan and Dayna.

* The [[Hee Haw]] Honeys.

* More than half the scenes in ''[[The Cape (TV series)|The Cape]]'' involving Orwell have her in one tight outfit or skirt or another set of revealing clothes.

* More than half the scenes in ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]'' involving Orwell have her in one tight outfit or skirt or another set of revealing clothes.

* ''[[Glee]]'' has the Santana and Brittany, who, when not dressed as [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|Cheerios]], wear some of the more revealing outfits in dance numbers. The writers seem to be making an effort to show that Lea Michele has a pretty smokin' body lately, as well.

* Pick a show on Univision. Any of them. 99 out of 100 times, they'll have one. Even funnier if said Ms Fanservice is [[Lampshade Hanging|actively aware of it]].