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''[[The Stepford Wives]]'' started life as a 1972 novel by Ira Levin. In it, Joanna Eberhart, her husband Walter, and their two young children move from New York City to the eponymous Connecticut commuter-town. Joanna becomes friends with fellow new arrival Bobbie Markowe, as the two of them also become more and more concerned with the behavior of the other housewives in Stepford, who are all impossibly beautiful, housework-obsessed and totally submissive towards their husbands, who in turn are all members of the "Men's Association
While just a modest hit in theaters, the film quickly sprouted a meme in the
No theatrical sequels were made, but the movie spawned, over the course of two decades, three [[Made for TV Movie|made-for-TV]] "sequels": ''The Revenge of the Stepford Wives'', ''The Stepford Children'', and ''The Stepford Husbands''. The lack of Levin and/or Goldman's involvement was painfully obvious, and all three films were also victims of [[Bowdlerise|bowdlerization]]: in ''Revenge'' and ''Husbands'', the victims were not {{spoiler|killed and replaced}} but instead merely brainwashed, while ''Children'' had the replaced teenager left alive for no readily-apparent reason, allowing in all three cases for a rescue and happy ending.
In 2004, [[Frank Oz]] directed a more overtly comedic [[The Stepford Wives (2004 film)|remake]] of the original film. The production suffered from [[Troubled Production|severe behind-the-scenes turmoil]], including actors walking off the project and some last-minute reshoots. Many viewers found the revelations of the resulting finale to [[Gainax Ending|come completely out of left field]] and contradict the rest of the movie, but as always, [[The Stepford Wives/YMMV|Your Mileage May Vary]].
=== The orginal film/novel, and its sequels, provide examples of: ===▼
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: With the remake providing the page image. In the final scene of the original film, all the women have them.
*
* [[Stepford Consumer]]
* [[Stepford Snarker]]
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]:
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: [[Robotic Reveal|When Joanna meets her robot double in the film]], it hasn't quite been finished yet and is sporting a pair of these
* [[Brainwashed]]: Some of the sequels had this as the method of creating the Wives/Husbands, instead of out-and-out replacement.
* [[Broken Record]]: In addition to the example under [[Foreshadowing]] below, there's also
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The word "archaic
* [[Foreshadowing]]: "I'll just ''die'' if I don't get that recipe!" .... "I'll just ''die'' if I don't get that recipe!" ... [[Broken Record|"I'll just
* [[Motor Mouth]]: [[The Simpsons (animation)|Julie Kavner's]] character in ''Revenge''.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Joanna experiences this in-universe
* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: One of the Wives malfunctions while attending a garden party.
* [[Pyrrhic Villainy]]: One of the few high points in ''Revenge of the Stepford Wives'' was an older Men's Association member revisiting [[My God, What Have I Done?|the painful realization]] of what he had given up by having his wife remade.
* [[Recycled in Space|Recycled in]] [[High School|HIGH SCHOOL!]]: ''[[Disturbing Behavior]]''.▼
▲* [[Recycled in Space]] [[High School|HIGH SCHOOL!]]: ''[[Disturbing Behavior]]''.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]
* [[Robotic Reveal]]: Again, only explicitly done in the movie(s).
* [[Robotic Spouse]]
* [[Sex Bot]]
▲* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: [[Trope Namer|Ditto.]] The empty sterility of American suburbia is a major theme in the original film.
* [[Take That]]: Or else a [[Shout-Out]]. The mastermind behind the whole Men's Association conspiracy used to build animatronic robots at [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]].
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: One of the archetypal examples.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: The town pharmacist. Justified, since he's married to a Stepford Wife.
* [[Uncanny Village]]
▲* [[Stepford Smiler]]: In addition to [[Trope Namer|the obvious]], Walter is also one of these, {{spoiler|until he cracks.}}
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