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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." The novel was successful enough to be made into a movie in 1975; [[William Goldman]]'s script was fairly faithful to the original, with the major difference being a far more explicit finale showing what was happening to the wives. In both versions, the wives were robot duplicates that replaced the original women after their husbands had them murdered. Both versions of the story had [[Downer Ending
While just a modest hit in theaters, the film quickly sprouted a meme in the 1970's, with the term "Stepford Wife" becoming a catchphrase used to describe [[Housewife|female homemakers]] who were sexually repressed and only concerned with domestic chores.
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* [[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 (this is a minor [[Special Effects Failure]], as they're supposed to be empty
* [[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 {{spoiler|the robot Bobbie after Joanna stabs her with a knife}}.
* [[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 ''die'' if I don't get that recipe!"]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]: [[The Simpsons (animation)|Julie Kavner's]] character in ''Revenge''.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Joanna experiences this in-universe, when she realizes that either her husband is going to have her replaced with a robot that no one will be able to tell isn't her, or she's going crazy and this is all in her head. She isn't sure which of these two scenarios is worse.
* [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]: One of the Wives malfunctions while attending a garden party.
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* [[Uncanny Village]]
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Yes, there actually ''was'' a reality show about putting a married couple's relationship to the test by separating them on an island full of sexy people. And ''yes'', it was on Fox.
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