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The Stepford Wives

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The Stepford Wives	comment	The Stepford Wives is a 1972 thriller 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 soon becomes friends with fellow new arrival Bobbie Markowe, as the two of them also become more and more concerned with the behavior and attitudes of the other housewives in Stepford, all of whom seem to be impossibly beautiful, housework-obsessed, and totally submissive towards their husbands, who in turn are all members of the secretive "Men's Association."The novel was successful enough to be adapted into a 1975 feature film, directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Katharine Ross as Joanna, Peter Masterson as Walter, and Paula Prentiss as Bobbie. The script, by William Goldman, stayed relatively faithful to the original, with the major difference being a much more explicit finale that showed what was happening to the wives. In both versions, the "wives" turned out to be robot duplicates, which replaced the original women after their husbands had them murdered. Both the novel and film also had Downer Endings.While only a modest hit in theaters, the film subsequently generated a meme in the 1970s, with the term "Stepford Wife" becoming a popular catchphrase to describe female homemakers who were seemingly content to be "sexually repressed and concerned with domestic life, as opposed to being free and liberated women." (Later, "Stepford [Insert Noun Here]" became a generalized term for any people who behave in a repressed, conformist way.)No theatrical sequels were made, but over the course of two decades the film spawned three made-for-TV "sequels": The Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980), The Stepford Children (1987), and The Stepford Husbands (1996). The lack of either Levin or Goldman's involvement was painfully obvious, and all three films were also victims of bowdlerization: in Revenge and Husbands, the victims were not killed and replaced but instead merely brainwashed, while Children had the replaced teenagers left alive for no readily-apparent reason, allowing in all three cases for a rescue and happy ending. The basic plot was also Recycled IN HIGH SCHOOL! as Disturbing Behavior. The film, the poster in particular, also inspired The World's End.In 2004, Frank Oz directed a more Black Comedy remake of the original film, starring Nicole Kidman as Joanna, Matthew Broderick as Walter, and Bette Midler as Bobbie. The production suffered from severe behind-the-scenes turmoil, including actors walking off the film and some last-minute reshoots. Many viewers also found the revelations of the resulting finale to come completely out of left field and contradict the rest of the movie.
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The Stepford Wives / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Stepford Wives / int_108c268e	comment	And notably when we see Joanna's robotic double, the breasts have been enlarged. This suggests that part of the process can make a wife Hotter and Sexier than her human counterpart.
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The Stepford Wives / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Stepford Wives / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Walter and Joanna prove to be in love after all.
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The Stepford Wives / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
The Stepford Wives / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: Subverted. Bobbie suspects that there might be something getting dumped in the water that messes with the other women.
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The Stepford Wives / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Stepford Wives / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Director Bryan Forbes doubles for Joanna's hands when she has to stab the robot Bobbie.
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The Stepford Wives / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Stepford Wives / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Joanna nearly has one after realizing Bobbie has fallen victim to the Stepford husbands.
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The Stepford Wives / int_192853e5	type	Repetitive Audio Glitch
The Stepford Wives / int_192853e5	comment	Repetitive Audio Glitch: One of the robots glitches out and starts saying "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!" over and over again.
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The Stepford Wives / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Stepford Wives / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the movie, the word "archaic." Bobbie comments on it, and later Joanna uses it to test Robot Bobbie.
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The Stepford Wives / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Stepford Wives / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Bobbie in the novel. She mentions that there's hardly any women's groups in town besides a garden club and "a few old-biddy church groups—for which I'm not eligible anyway; 'Markowe' is upward-mobile for 'Markowitz.' " Later in the book, Bobbie says that she had wanted to move to Norwood instead of Stepford in the first place, but her husband said there were "too many WASPs."
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The Stepford Wives / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
The Stepford Wives / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Played straight with Charmaine's husband and Bobbie's husband. Ed had a rubber suit made for Charmaine, with "zippers and padlocks all over." Bobbie remarks that she had thought her husband had some "spooky" ideas, though she doesn't elaborate. Subverted, however, with Walter and Joanna. Noticing how their sex life has deteriorated, Joanna thinks about the remarks Charmaine and Bobbie had made about their husbands and asks Walter if there's anything she doesn't do that he'd like her to do, implying that she's open to the idea. Unlike Ed and Dave, Walter couldn't care less.
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The Stepford Wives / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Stepford Wives / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The men get away with murdering and replacing their wives with robots and suffer no negative consequences.
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The Stepford Wives / int_342f0ffa	type	Discriminate and Switch
The Stepford Wives / int_342f0ffa	comment	Discriminate and Switch: Ruthanne is worried that her family would have troubles in Stepford due to being black. However, the Men’s Association have no problem accepting her husband in their ranks, so she really should have been more worried about herself being a woman…
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The Stepford Wives / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Stepford Wives / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Walter references "The Wind Beneath My Wings". The song was a huge hit for Bette Midler, who plays Bobbi, in 1989.
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The Stepford Wives / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Stepford Wives / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: The viewer is led to believe that Mike is behind the operation, but really he's just a Stepford Husband created by his "wife" Claire, the real Big Bad of Stepford.
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The Stepford Wives / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Stepford Wives / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The director chose to have bright colours and sunny visuals to contrast with the horror that really goes on in Stepford.
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The Stepford Wives / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Stepford Wives / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Thanks to the setting update, this happens. It turns out that no, you can't convince every man to brainwash or replace their wife because not every husband is an Entitled Bastard even if they're having marital problems, especially when divorce is an option. Walter becomes a Fake Defector so that he and Joanna can save all of the wives because while they could escape and expose the scheme, it would leave all the women as brainwashed hostages, and besides which they have no proof. What's more, the publicity revives Joanna's career. A contest that ends up in two of the contestants divorcing and the husband going crazy and shooting his wife, her lovers, and trying to kill the executive producer is only going to end up Overshadowed by Controversy and heads are going to roll. Joanna probably also didn't did herself any favors by trying to pitch a "reunion" special with all of the injured parties.
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The Stepford Wives / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Stepford Wives / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Unlike his previous incarnation, Walter loved his wife through and through and put a stop to the Stepford husband's scheme.
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The Stepford Wives / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
The Stepford Wives / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: It takes a few moments for Joanna to realize she's been fired in response to the destructive debacle she had inadvertently caused.
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The Stepford Wives / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
The Stepford Wives / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: Some of the sequels had this as the method of creating the Wives/Husbands, instead of out-and-out replacement.
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The Stepford Wives / int_41eab669	type	Daylight Horror
The Stepford Wives / int_41eab669	comment	Daylight Horror: Most of the film takes place during the day. Joanna discovering that Bobbie and Charmaine have been replaced with robots happens on particularly sunny days.
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The Stepford Wives / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Stepford Wives / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: No deaths actually happen on screen (or on the page). It's just heavily, heavily implied.
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The Stepford Wives / int_44d1e445	type	With or Without You
The Stepford Wives / int_44d1e445	comment	With or Without You
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The Stepford Wives / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Stepford Wives / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: What appears to be the villain's main motive for turning the women into robots.
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The Stepford Wives / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
The Stepford Wives / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Joanna notes that both Bobbie and Charmaine were replaced after they had been living in Stepford four months. And it's implied that Ruthanne will be next, making a total of four victims.
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The Stepford Wives / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Stepford Wives / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Mike Wellington, Stepford president Dale Coba's remake counterpart.
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The Stepford Wives / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Stepford Wives / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: Walter only pretended to betray Joanna, all so they could take down the conspiracy together. And since the wives were simply mind controlled instead of, their success bring them back to normal.
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The Stepford Wives / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
The Stepford Wives / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Claire is implied early on to be one of the first wives who was turned into an android by her husband. Turns out she was the one who killed and replaced her husband and is, in fact, the Big Bad of the film.
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The Stepford Wives / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Stepford Wives / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Joanna is murdered and replaced by her own Stepford Wife double. In the final scene where Joanna is buying groceries with the other wives, we see a new couple briefly arguing about Stepford - where the man is insisting it's a good area. This implies that he too will have his wife replaced. In the book, Joanna tries to flee to Ruthanne's house, believing that Ruthanne would help her get to the city where she has friends that could help her, and also to warn Ruthanne. The Men's Association hunt her down and corner her. The men ask Joanna how they could prove to her that she's wrong about women being replaced by robots. Joanna finally agrees that if Bobbie cuts herself (which the real Bobbie would do, being her friend) and bleeds, that would convince her. At Bobbie's house, Stepfordized Bobbie takes out a large knife and beckons Joanna closer. Joanna desperately tries to convince herself that Bobbie hasn't been replaced by a robot, that the loud music playing upstairs isn't there to cover up the sound of her screams, and that Bobbie won't kill her. Later, the book switches to Ruthanne's perspective. She runs into Joanna at the grocery store but doesn't think too much of Joanna's changed looks and personality. Also, it's been just about four months since Ruthanne and Royal moved to Stepford...
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The Stepford Wives / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Stepford Wives / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: In comparison to the original film, Joanna is dressed down considerably and presented as less attractive. Bobbie too (but that was true to the original book). This is so that their robotic counterparts are Beautiful All Along.
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The Stepford Wives / int_50c49af4	type	Robotic Spouse
The Stepford Wives / int_50c49af4	comment	Robotic Spouse: The members of the Men's Association are replacing their real wives with these.
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The Stepford Wives / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Stepford Wives / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Claude in the men's association seems like an endearing stutterer, and he's one of the few that Joanna likes. But as he's heavily involved in the robot process...
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The Stepford Wives / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Stepford Wives / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Bobbie in the novel was shorter, toothier, and had a thick, pear-shaped figure; the tall, slim Paula Prentiss was cast to play her. Walter was bespectacled and a bit pudgy, which Walter Masterson was not. Joanna in the book was said to be reasonably pretty or average-looking, in the film she is portrayed by the very gorgeous Katharine Ross. Averted with Charmaine, the book talks of her as resembling Raquel Welch, and the movie casts the just-as-gorgeous Tina Louise.
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The Stepford Wives / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
The Stepford Wives / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: The wives in the novel and original treatment were dressed sexily. In the film they're just wearing maxi dresses. Joanna, Bobbie, and Charmaine often wear pants, miniskirts, show off their flat stomachs, and some loose shirts before they become robots.note See the Trivia section for William Goldman's explanation for this (tl;dr: Forbes wanted to cast his wife, Nannette Newman, as one of the women, thus meaning they all had to be non-glamorous like her).
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The Stepford Wives / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
The Stepford Wives / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: The 2004 remake had its own shocking surprise ending, where it's revealed that the wives weren't actually replaced by robots, directly contradicting several scenes.
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The Stepford Wives / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
The Stepford Wives / int_5c554458	comment	Dumb Jock: Compared to Joanna and Bobbie, Charmaine is shallow and not particularly smart. She also believes in astrology. But she's pretty damn good at tennis.
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The Stepford Wives / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Stepford Wives / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: As with Ira Levin's earlier Rosemary's Baby, this is played with a bit before being averted.
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The Stepford Wives / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
The Stepford Wives / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: Turns out Walter only goes along with the other husbands' conspiracy in order to help Joanna bring them down from the inside.
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The Stepford Wives / int_615a96fb	type	Immoral Reality Show
The Stepford Wives / int_615a96fb	comment	Immoral Reality Show: Joanna made several of them during her time as a network executive.
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The Stepford Wives / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Stepford Wives / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The movie quite clearly indicates the wives are robots (see the ATM wife). Then at the end, they are not. This was due to test audiences disliking the Downer Ending, leading to Executive Meddling and a hastily shot revised ending. It helps that the overall tone of the movie is closer to a Romantic Comedy than the horror/satire of the original. The original ending does feel somewhat out of place with the more comedic tone this one takes.
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The Stepford Wives / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Stepford Wives / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Unbeknownst to the kids of Stepford, their mothers become this after being killed and replaced with robots made to please their fathers.
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The Stepford Wives / int_677c65ea	type	Scream Discretion Shot
The Stepford Wives / int_677c65ea	comment	Scream Discretion Shot: After being fired from her executive job, Joanna shows a facade that she takes it in stride, even bidding everyone a cheerful farewell. Once she's in the elevator, however, she lets out a mighty Skyward Scream.
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The Stepford Wives / int_6924443d	type	Girliness Upgrade
The Stepford Wives / int_6924443d	comment	Girliness Upgrade: Joanna and Bobbie especially after their robots are made. Even when Joanna meets her robot double, the robot has perfectly styled hair.
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The Stepford Wives / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Stepford Wives / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Pretty much every single show Joanna made was designed to make men worthless and promote women as the superior. This led to the events that caused her to be booted from the industry.
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The Stepford Wives / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
The Stepford Wives / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Joanna visits one of these at Walter's insistence. She's a Type 3 - believing that Joanna has reasons to be suspicious, and offering to help in any way that she can.
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The Stepford Wives / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
The Stepford Wives / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: Both Joanna and Bobbie's Stepford Wife selves are blonde (and therefore more attractive).
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The Stepford Wives / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Stepford Wives / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Roger Bannister, who has a very flamboyant and effeminate personality compared to his husband. When his partner has him undergo the "program," Roger is much more Straight Gay but reverts back at the end.
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The Stepford Wives / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Stepford Wives / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Downplayed but Walter tries to convince Joanna that she's getting unusually suspicious about the wives in Stepford, asking for her to see a therapist.
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The Stepford Wives / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Stepford Wives / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Joanna's hair and clothes are visibly lighter at the end of the film than at the beginning, indicating that even without conforming to the Stepford ways, she is genuinely trying to soften her personality.
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The Stepford Wives / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Stepford Wives / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Joanna, Bobbie, and...really all of the original Stepford Wives for that matter, given that in this version the husbands just installed easily reversible mind control chips into their brains instead of murdering and replacing them with robot look alikes.
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The Stepford Wives / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
The Stepford Wives / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Joanna at the start of the film. Part of the reason for the move to Stepford is so she can spend more time with the children.
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The Stepford Wives / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Stepford Wives / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Walter and the rest of the Men's Association think so and design the replacement wives accordingly.
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The Stepford Wives / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Stepford Wives / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question:
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The Stepford Wives / int_7be46966	type	Heroes' Frontier Step
The Stepford Wives / int_7be46966	comment	Heroes' Frontier Step: Walter spends the story being pushed around in a troubled marriage. In the end, he proves he's a true man by refusing to brainwash Joanna and helps her rescue the other wives.
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The Stepford Wives / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Stepford Wives / int_7e07f634	comment	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.
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The Stepford Wives / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
The Stepford Wives / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: When Joanna meets her robot double in the film, it hasn't quite been finished yet and is sporting a pair of these. It's also sporting a new large bustline. This is a minor Special Effects Failure, as they were supposed to be empty sockets — the black contact lenses reflected the ambient lighting. However, Tropes Are Not Bad, as they serve to highlight the creepiness of the double and the monstrosity of the people who created it.
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The Stepford Wives / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Stepford Wives / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Julie Kavner's character in Revenge.
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The Stepford Wives / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Stepford Wives / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: In addition to the obvious, Walter is also one of these, until he cracks.
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The Stepford Wives / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The Stepford Wives / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: The first film's climax takes place during a thunderstorm.
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The Stepford Wives / int_8504e5ff	type	World of Buxom
The Stepford Wives / int_8504e5ff	comment	World of Buxom: Joanna and Bobbie have both noticed this, and they discuss it in the book.
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The Stepford Wives / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Stepford Wives / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At one point in the movie Joanna and Walter's two children disappear, and are never seen or heard from again. During the Larry King Live interview, they are clearly seen sitting in the background behind Walter, alive and well.
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The Stepford Wives / int_86c280b3	type	Unnecessary Makeover
The Stepford Wives / int_86c280b3	comment	Unnecessary Makeover: In-universe. The process involved making over the wives into living dolls with perfectly styled hair, an excess of make-up and frilly 1950s housewife dresses. It serves to make the wives so perfect they're creepy.
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The Stepford Wives / int_86e17259	type	Alas, Poor Yorick
The Stepford Wives / int_86e17259	comment	Alas, Poor Yorick: After Mike's head gets ripped off and he's revealed to be a Stepford Husband, Claire (his wife and creator and the actual Big Bad) takes his head and gives out a Motive Rant before giving him a Last Kiss, which ends up fatally electrocuting her.
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The Stepford Wives / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Stepford Wives / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: This remake is more like a romantic comedy instead of the horror and satire of the original.
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The Stepford Wives / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Stepford Wives / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Joanna should not have left her coat and handbag (with her car keys and wallet) downstairs with Walter after angrily telling him that she intended to leave and take their kids with her, knew what the Men's Association was up to, and asked him if he "put a rush on the order" (for the robot, to have Joanna killed). Even though she planned on escaping out an upstairs window, the storm windows made that impossible, and trying to escape on foot in the cold proved to be a bad idea.
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The Stepford Wives / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
The Stepford Wives / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: There is a clergyman in the background, not specified if he's a priest or minister, but he is revealed to have an involvement in the conspiracy.
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The Stepford Wives / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Stepford Wives / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Invoked In-Universe and Played With. When the Men's Association recruits Walter, he and the other men seem motivated by the fact that their wives are not the All Women Are Lustful type. After they get transformed, they're shown to be extremely enthusiastic whenever and wherever. However, one of the first signs Joanna gets of Walter's betrayal is that, rather than having sex with her, he prefers to masturbate. Their sexual relationship also gradually becomes poorer and poorer in the book.
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The Stepford Wives / int_93ce6293	type	Phlebotinum Breakdown
The Stepford Wives / int_93ce6293	comment	Phlebotinum Breakdown: One of the Wives malfunctions while attending a square dance.
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The Stepford Wives / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The Stepford Wives / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Played for Drama. The men of Stepford think their wives should do so, remaining in traditional gender roles. Even the Affably Evil Claude Axhelm is quite pissed that Joanna would only record her voice for his alleged Forensics project (actually to obtain the voice for her robot double) if he convinced the other Stepford wives to attend their her consciousness raising session instead of staying in the house and keeping it clean.
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The Stepford Wives / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Stepford Wives / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A lot of foreshadowing happens in the film. In the opening scene, Joanna and her children witness a man carrying a rubber doll "woman" on a busy New York street. When Carol is put into a police car, which doubles as an ambulance, Joanna comments on how despite only just arriving in Stepford she's pretty sure the hospital is not in the direction the car took her. When Joanna first meets Dale Coba, he tells her: "I like to watch women doing little domestic chores.", to which she replies "You came to the right town." It's also revealed that Coba worked in Disneyland in the past. When she speaks to the psychiatrist, Joanna says they turn the women to "Disneyland robots" in Stepford. Of course, she doesn't know at that point, that it's actually very close to the truth. When Joanna is driving around town, and later when she and Bobbie are driving out of town, you can see a number of biochemical and computer tech research laboratories located just outside Stepford. When Ike Mazzard draws sketches of Joanna, the camera gazes at the drawing's eyes for a long time. This foreshadows the very eerie black, empty eyes of her unfinished robot counterpart, as well as the dull, lifeless gaze of the replacement Joanna in the final scene. "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!" .... "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!" ... "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!"
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The Stepford Wives / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
The Stepford Wives / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: If this bunch of suburban husbands can create robots this realistic, they could make fortunes in all sorts of legitimate ways... and after that, if they want hot babes, they'll have all they can handle.
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The Stepford Wives / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Stepford Wives / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Walter seems to have a moment like this after a Men's Association meeting, presumably after he's agreed to join and have Joanna replaced. Later in the film, however, Walter has obviously gotten over his doubts at having Joanna killed. Ed is shown as distraught when Charmaine is taken away, but he too obviously gets over it, as shown by his triumphant smile when the tennis court is being uninstalled.
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The Stepford Wives / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
The Stepford Wives / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: The wives, anyway, with a little enhancement after they're replaced by robots.
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The Stepford Wives / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Stepford Wives / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The husbands of Stepford get away with everything. Overlaps with The Bad Guy Wins.
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The Stepford Wives / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Stepford Wives / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Unlike the novel and original movie, the wives here have computer chips implanted in their brain, enabling their husbands to control them with a remote. Imagine being trapped inside your body and watching it be made to go wherever someone else wants, and do whatever that person chooses, all the time with no way to fight back.
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The Stepford Wives / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
The Stepford Wives / int_a90f0639	comment	Thanks to the setting update, this happens. It turns out that no, you can't convince every man to brainwash or replace their wife because not every husband is an Entitled Bastard even if they're having marital problems, especially when divorce is an option. Walter becomes a Fake Defector so that he and Joanna can save all of the wives because while they could escape and expose the scheme, it would leave all the women as brainwashed hostages, and besides which they have no proof. What's more, the publicity revives Joanna's career.
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The Stepford Wives / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
The Stepford Wives / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: A whole town full of them. Apparently not a single husband in Stepford objected to having his wife murdered and replaced by a fembot because said fembot is beautiful, submissive, and traditional. That includes Walter, who seems happy letting his kids have a robot for a mother so long as she is submissive, docile, sexually attractive, and not a threat to his masculinity. The only exception may have been the Pilgrim family patriarch, as they moved out before the events of the movie — but we don't know if they got wise and decided to escape, Killed to Uphold the Masquerade, or if the wife was murdered anyway and her robotic double was simply taken along to Canada. May be somewhat justified, as it appears that all the men moved their families to this town precisely because they knew what was happening and wanted in on the action, not that they got there, found out, and were talked into the idea. Stepford doesn't make men misogynists; it was made by misogynist men.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ac9af088	type	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
The Stepford Wives / int_ac9af088	comment	Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: It's revealed that the Stepford plot accidentally fixed Walter and Joanna's marriage. While Walter was threatening to divorce Joanna, he became fearful of her safety and disgusted that the townsfolk wanted him to brainwash her. They then conspire to stage a fight and take down the organization from the inside out.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Stepford Wives / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: One of the few high points in Revenge of the Stepford Wives was an older Men's Association member revisiting the painful realization of what he had given up by having his wife remade.
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The Stepford Wives / int_affc0c98	type	Significant Wardrobe Shift
The Stepford Wives / int_affc0c98	comment	Significant Wardrobe Shift: When a woman has been replaced with a Stepford Wife, she's shown in a frilly 1950s style dress. In the scenes where it's established Walter won't be on Joanna's side, he wears his shirts with two buttons undone from then on.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Stepford Wives / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: One of the archetypal examples.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Stepford Wives / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: The Stepford Wives do nothing except follow their husbands' wishes, and cook and clean. This especially evident at the attempted feminist meeting Joanna and Bobbie set up, where most of the other wives initially cannot talk about anything as they are away from their husbands, and revert to talking about cleaning products, almost like in an advertisement.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
The Stepford Wives / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Bobbie is a lively, energetic Motor Mouth. Notably when she's been replaced, her robot's attempt to recreate this is incredibly creepy.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b3deb1c6	type	Sexbot
The Stepford Wives / int_b3deb1c6	comment	Sexbot: Part of the duties of the perfect robot housewife. In the book, they were model sexy. See the Trivia page for Levin and Goldman being upset with the casting and costuming.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Stepford Wives / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Walter and Joanna both are horrified and disgusted when they realize that all the wives are being brainwashed. In defiance of the original version, Walter says he likes that Joanna is her own person.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Stepford Wives / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "So I wondered, where in the world would nobody notice a town full of mindless, lifeless robots? And then I thought, of course! Connecticut!" The original's Disney reference is updated with additional digs at Microsoft, NASA, and America Online ("Is that why the women are so slow?"). Most of Disney's pioneering work with animatronics was done in the '60s and '70s, making the reference somewhat dated by 2004.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Stepford Wives / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: After spending half the film paranoid about the Men's Association and seeing what happened to Charmaine after a "weekend getaway" with her husband, Bobbie happily goes off on a surprise vacation with Dave.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Stepford Wives / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Royal and Ruthanne, prominent supporting characters in the book, are just referred to as "a black couple" and appear in the background in a single scene in the film.
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The Stepford Wives / int_b9f6cc0a	type	The Bluebeard
The Stepford Wives / int_b9f6cc0a	comment	The Bluebeard: The entirety of the Men's Association.
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The Stepford Wives / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Stepford Wives / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The Men's Association believe that women should be completely submissive to their husbands, and have no remorse about killing and replacing their wives with robotic duplicates programmed to serve them.
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The Stepford Wives / int_bb44af57	type	Robot Dog
The Stepford Wives / int_bb44af57	comment	Robot Dog: Joanna discovers that Bobbi and her family have one after their "robotization". He's VERY heavily implied to have once been their actual dog.
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The Stepford Wives / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
The Stepford Wives / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: Charmaine is bitter that she is this, that Ed never loved her but only married her because of how she looks. Robot Charmaine does not care, of course.
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The Stepford Wives / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Stepford Wives / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The town pharmacist. Justified, since he's married to a Stepford Wife. Joanna even lampshades it when talking with the psychiatrist, as an example of why she believes there's something sinister going on in Stepford. Many of the men in Stepford have wives that are more attractive than them, albeit not to the extent of the pharmacist and his wife. Again, justified for most of them. Charmaine thinks that her husband chose her as something of a trophy wife, and does not love her. And notably when we see Joanna's robotic double, the breasts have been enlarged. This suggests that part of the process can make a wife Hotter and Sexier than her human counterpart.
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The Stepford Wives / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
The Stepford Wives / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In the movie there's Joanna (blonde), Bobbie (brunette) and Charmaine (redhead). They're replaced in the reverse order.
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The Stepford Wives / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Walter agrees that they'll move out of Stepford in about a month. And Bobbie got her husband to agree to move too. But then Bobbie gets replaced and Joanna soon realises that she's going to be soon as well.
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The Stepford Wives / int_c47f7ce6	comment	Evil Reactionary: Claire, who created Stepford to restore a time when "men where men and women were cherished."
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The Stepford Wives / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Katherine Ross in a see-through gown that lets you see nipple? It's from a robot double of her that's about to murder the original.
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The Stepford Wives / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Joanna. In the beginning, her pet project at the network she works at is a reality TV show similar to Temptation Island. At a press conference, while hyping up her show, she is confronted and shot at by a man whose marriage was ruined by the show, and who shot his cheating wife and her lovers in rage. Afterwards, Joanna is already planning out the reunion show to exploit the carnage she has accidentally inflicted, only to not only be fired from the network, but also blacklisted from television due to her utterly irresponsible decisions in programming.
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The Stepford Wives / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: (In the book) When Joanna happens to be taking some pictures outside and tries to take a few of the Men's Association house, a policeman shows up. After speaking to someone on the radio, he comes over to Joanna and begins asking her questions about what she's doing (taking pictures), what sort of camera she uses, what sort of film, and so on. Only after the policeman leaves and she tries taking pictures of the Men's Association house does she realize that something's amiss. The lights in the rooms upstairs had been turned off and the shades had been pulled down. Joanna realizes that the policeman had radioed someone in the Men's Association house to warn them, then stalled Joanna with questions while the lights were turned off and shades pulled down. (In the movie) After Joanna managed to sneak out of the house, Walter talks to a policeman who calmly reassures him that everything will be fine. The phones are jammed and the roads are blocked off.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Used to show how conservative Stepford is. It causes a stir among the residents when there's news that a black couple are moving there.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Stepford Wives / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Than the original movie and book, both of which had a Downer Ending.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Stepford Wives / int_ceec4df5	comment	A contest that ends up in two of the contestants divorcing and the husband going crazy and shooting his wife, her lovers, and trying to kill the executive producer is only going to end up Overshadowed by Controversy and heads are going to roll. Joanna probably also didn't did herself any favors by trying to pitch a "reunion" special with all of the injured parties.
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The Stepford Wives / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
The Stepford Wives / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: Ditto. The empty sterility of American suburbia is a major theme in the original film.
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The Stepford Wives / int_d9e7ccf	type	Uncanny Village
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The Stepford Wives / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Seemingly crossed by Joanna after she sees her own replacement, as she is shown slowly backing away and either unable or unwilling to fight back.
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The Stepford Wives / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
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The Stepford Wives / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
The Stepford Wives / int_e085feeb	comment	"I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!" .... "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!" ... "I'll just die if I don't get that recipe!"
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The Stepford Wives / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: At the end of the book, the perspective switches to Ruthanne. (She and her husband Royal are the black couple that moves to Stepford.) At the grocery store Ruthanne runs into Joanna, who now resembles all the other Stepford women.
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The Stepford Wives / int_e38d605	comment	Big Girl Little Girl: 5'3" Katharine Ross (Joanna) and 5'9" Paula Prentiss (Bobbie).
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The Stepford Wives / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Indistinguishable from the real thing, unless they have a breakdown, or you stab them.
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The Stepford Wives / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The Stepford Wives are usually seen in white or pastel colours.
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The Stepford Wives / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
The Stepford Wives / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: The core of what's going on in Stepford (though the duplicates aren't the ones doing the killing).
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The Stepford Wives / int_efdc0552	type	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain
The Stepford Wives / int_efdc0552	comment	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: The rest of the Men's Association are pretty clearly villains, with their braindead, old-fashioned wives and passive sexism towards Joanna. However, Joanna is horrified to discover that her own husband Walter has been recruited as one of them. Whether or not the audience shares her surprise is debatable.
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The Stepford Wives / int_f1ac9897	comment	Female Misogynist: Claire is the true Big Bad, blaming feminism for ruining men.
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The Stepford Wives / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Stepford Wives / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: This is the undoing of the baddies. They never consider the idea that Walter would prefer a wife who challenges him and is her own person over a robot who only caters to his every whim.
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The Stepford Wives / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: The Straight Gay in the gay couple. His partner later becomes one as well.
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