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French Maid
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While the French Maid costume has some basis in the black and white uniforms once worn by actual maids (though not the original "French maids") in the 19th century, the original costumes were almost never as fan servicy as those found in modern times. The attitude is also part of the package, inasmuch as she is essentially the soubrette of old French comedies and operas (the original character type didn't necessarily have to be a maid - though she often was - but was always pretty and seductively flirtatious, and dressed in a fancy, abbreviated outfit; Gaby Deslys was one early 20th-century actress and dancer who became famous by playing soubrettes): she will be extremely flirty, often with a feather duster. She also acts snippy, pert and cheeky to everyone who isn't her employer (and sometimes him) and superior to any of the other servants except the butler and maybe the cook. The French Maid will speak with an over-exaggerated French accent and use Gratuitous French. Contrast to Meido, which is a Japanese concept developed from this one. The key difference being that a Meido is intended to be Moe and subservient, while a French Maid is sexy and saucy. Contrast even further to the Scullery Maid, who is decidedly less sexy, but has much more power in the plot. For the costume rather than the character, see French Maid Outfit. Examples |
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Some productions of Così Fan Tutte make Despina one of these. | |
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The Jetsons: When Jane goes shopping for a robot, in the first episode ("Rosey the Robot"), one of the models is a French maid robot in a metallic French maid outfit. | |
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An episode of CSI: NY involved an expensive New York maid service that supplied maids who met the requirements of this trope. | |
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Invoked in the Decoy episode "Night Light" by a maid who speaks with a heavy French accent despite not actually knowing the language so her employer will think she's classy. | |
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In the French TV comedy show Vous Les Femmes, Judith Siboni seeks to spice up her sex life by donning the classic French Maid's outfit. Unfortunately for her husband, she gets rather too much into character as a maid and begins to spot little cleaning imperfections around the house; she impatiently bats him away as she has become too intent in eliminating a stubborn stain in the carpet. | |
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The 1943 movie Heaven Can Wait (1943), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, features a prime example of this trope, with the character of "Madame". She lacks the classic black and white maid uniform, but acts very flirtatiously with the main character, and has one of the most over the top (fake) french accents you're ever likely to hear. | |
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Magda in Tanz Der Vampire doesn't wear the traditional frilly maid uniform, but she's put into an equally objectifying tavern-wench costume that suits her role as the inn's girl of all trades. | |
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Babbette in Scavenger Hunt (1979), who dresses in the requisite French Maid Outfit, and combines this trope with Brainless Beauty. | |
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In Ninotchka we get to see three, sexy French maids. | |
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The maid from Beauty and the Beast, who was transformed into a feather duster. Even moreso in the stage show, where her role is greatly expanded. She was named Babette in the stage adaptation, and named Fifi in the midquel Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World. | |
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In American Horror Story: Murder House, the maid seems to be this trope. She is indeed Ms. Fanservice, to all of the males in the house. The women see her as a much older, more matronly maid. There turns out to be a very good reason for this later in the season. She also is depicted as a (relatively) normal person and is quick to point out her independence despite her job and unique predicament. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, Turk fantasizes about being married to Elliot. Carla (Turk's wife) is portrayed in the same fantasy as being the maid, complete with uniform, with whom Turk is having an affair. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show gave usnote WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? Magenta, a cross between this trope and the Creepy Housekeeper. | |
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While the three maids in Ready or Not (2019) don't wear the exact outfit, they are dressed in slinky, low-cut black dresses that are designed to show off their figures and call this trope to mind. One of them, Dora, even claims to not be a real maid, simply a dancer who Tony Le Domas hired to wear that costume for the event. | |
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Please Turn Over has Beryl's Naked Revolt counterpart, the glamorous Madeline. | |
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All female maids in The Sims are dressed like this. (The male maids are dressed in a Fanservice way as well, with an unbuttoned shirt, exposing the chest.) | |
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BeTrapped! has Juliette, a maid very similar to Yvette. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers", Major Monogram hired two French Maids to clean the secret lair. | |
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Parodied in The Flintstones, where Wilma had Betty pretend to be a French maid to impress Stony Curtis. | |
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Jeanette the maid in the murder mystery episode of Saved by the Bell. Turns out she's also a Clingy Jealous Girl and is a brief suspect in the game. | |
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A Whammy on the Press Your Luck revival was a French maid using a feather duster to erase the contestant's score. | |
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Archie Comics: The Lodge family have some of these in their mansion. Once Archie was too attentive to Veronica's new French maid. | |
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The Maids, who take the whole Perverse Sexual Lust thing too far. | |
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In 'Allo 'Allo! Yvette and Mimi might technically have been waitresses, but they were the incarnation of this trope in everything except name. | |
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The music video for Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" features a French maid acting out a Cinderella fantasy. | |
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Lucy dressed in a G-rated version in one Peanuts strip where Snoopy wanted a "pretty serving girl" to bring his dinner. | |
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"Yvette, The French Maid" (pictured above) in the movie Clue. She also wore a relatively modest version of the sexy French Maid's outfit. Although she apparently wasn't REALLY French, or a maid... | |
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In Pv P, Robbie hires a French maid called Suitecannes (pronounced Sweet Can) to staff his mansion. It turns out she was a call girl who dressed as a maid because she thought it was his fetish. | |
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A Snooper and Blabber cartoon had the detectives dress as a butler and French maid respectively in order to guard the jewels of a matron whose birthday was being celebrated. | |
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Used for the obligatory Double Entendre in The Goodies. "This car has parts from all over the world. British made, German made..." (Bill removes girl in a French Maid Outfit from the car) "French maid." Butler enters with two hot maids bearing tea trays. "While you are waiting sir, I thought you'd like tea and crumpets." |
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In Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest, there is a stereotypical French maid named Fifi who exemplifies all of these traits. | |
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The Catwoman Elseworlds comic Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham was set in an alternate reality were Catwoman filled Batman's role as protector of Gotham. Where Batman has Alfred, a loyal Battle Butler who acts as Mission Control and patches his wounds, Catwoman had Brooks, a maid whose main purpose seems to be sexing up the story by wearing a skimpy French Maid Outfit, vaguely dusting the mansion while in suggestive poses, and encouraging Selina to get laid. | |
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Louise from 8 Women fits here as well, though she's not as blatantly sexual (usually). | |
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Parodied in Cold Case "The Pledge", where a frat pledge is dressed as french maid as form of hazing. | |
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