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The Mail-Order Bride plot line is where a man marries a woman from a poor country sight unseen or seen once. Usually played for laughs or for very dark drama, but can also lead to Marriage Before Romance. A common setting for this is in The Western, but can easily evolve in any situation where there is a surplus of men in one place and a surplus of poor women in another place. The World War II version of this trope would be the "Army War Brides" movie. In that time period, many soldiers returned to their home country with a foreign bride. The bride's country of origin is stereotypically somewhere in Eastern Europe (particularly Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, or, in older works, Latvia, Romania, or Bulgaria), Southeast Asia (usually Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, or Cambodia), or Central America. If the trope is dealt with in a drama, it will be in a series like Law & Order. The mail-order bride plot causes a crime or scam that results in either an elaborate Gold Digger or Con Artist scheme if she's the perp (though usually a side of Sympathetic Criminal may be at play as she's escaping her home country's poverty). If he's the perp (or if it's SVU), it's a combo plate of forced prostitution, Domestic Abuse, Marital Rape License, forced labor, and/or murder. The man's played as a loser, misogynist, and creep who resorted to exploiting the desperation of women in third-world poverty and treating her as a combination of domestic labor and Sex Slave. Add plot complications caused by the bride's uncertain legal status.note Some Truth in Television, the case of Jack Reeves, who murdered two mail-order brides, being a notorious one. It's also the fodder for an entire genre of romance novels, in which a young woman from east of the Mississippi becomes a mail-order bride for a man who has gone out West to seek his fortune. Naturally given the genre, after the usual round of drama they genuinely fall in love.note This wasn't at all uncommon in the time period depicted, but needless to say, the usual genre conventions did not always apply in real life. noreallife |
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A similar episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had the detectives learning that their Victim of the Week was one of three sisters who came to America this way and that her husband had been abusive as well as being like the husband described above (he wasn't her killer, however). Her twin sister's husband was much nicer and the two are Happily Married. The twins' younger sister was rejected by her husband and forced into prostitution so the woman who arranged the whole thing could get her money back. | |
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Zandy's Bride: Hannah puts an ad for marriage in a newspaper and the one who responds is surly cattle rancher Zandy. The two get married the day she arrives, which is also the first time they meet. Their marriage is very troubled at first, but they gradually warm up to each other. | |
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Much Ado About Grubstake: Bridget, the hotel maid and waitress, came to Grubstake from Ireland (where she was an unhappy servant girl) as a mail-order bride for a successful prospector. His claim petered out before she came, and he skipped town without waiting for her. She's rather tranquil about the situation, as she likes her job and doesn't know if she would have loved her husband-to-be. | |
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On The Oblongs, one of the main characters' co-workers buys a mail-order bride. By the time she got to The Valley, she was dead. No one had drilled holes in the box. | |
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A friend of the Cartwrights ordered one in Bonanza. He broke his leg, so he asked Hoss to pick her up for him. Unfortunately, the woman becomes attracted to Hoss, much to his horror and to the friend's anger. | |
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An episode of Have Gun – Will Travel has Paladin escorting a mail-order bride to her new husband out west. | |
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One episode of Bones features a body with all its bones removed. It turns out the woman was a Chinese mail-order bride, but her American husband got a refund because she was sickly (and therefore, not what he ordered). Rather than lose their investment in her, the company then killed her and sold her bones to a local Chinese family to act as a "Ghost Bride" for their dead son (at least in-universe, a Chinese man needs a wife in the afterlife, so if he dies without one, the family acquires a skeleton for that purpose). Angela somehow finds the conclusion romantic. | |
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Wings had Roy order a Russian mail-order bride. The bride showed up and it was clear that she really didn't like him, but she had no choice but to marry him. At the last minute, Roy has a change of heart and lets her go to marry a man she fell for. | |
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A throwaway gag on The Simpsons referred to Groundskeeper Willie ordering a mail-order bride but being too cheap to pay the postage and her being held at the post office. In another episode, Marge is kidnapped by a biker gang, and Homer asks Bart to call a "Korean Love Brides" number if he fails to save her. At one point, Moe did have a mail-order bride, who left Moe because she was homesick for her previous life: diving for tourist pennies in a swamp in Micronesia. One episode reveals that Selma once ordered a mail-order husband. Upon opening the door, she discovered "he" was really a cardboard cutout of a man in a suit carrying flowers. The episode "From Russia Without Love" centers on Bart pranking Moe by ordering him a mail-order bride from Russia off the dark web. |
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Prairie Fever: The Preacher Man of Clearwater arranged for 17 mail-order brides to be delivered, but three of them go mad from the 'prairie fever', and Preston Briggs is hired to deliver them to the railway station in Carson City so they can be quietly shipped back east. | |
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In They Knew What They Wanted, Tony never even spoke to Amy, he just saw her once at an Italian restaurant in San Francisco. He then contacted her boss and wrote her a letter proposing marriage, which she accepted. | |
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The astonishingly bad 1971 movie Blindman. A blind but deadly gunman is hired to escort fifty mail-order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double-cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head - an agency dumps a Russian woman on a looking-to-score Butt-Head...she's repulsed by him and smacks him if he gets near her. She then hooks up with thug Todd, and Butt-Head sees the bright side of it, where if Todd is doing it with his "wife", that somehow makes them related. Butt-Head loves Todd... | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force features Carl and Shake going halfsies on a mail-order bride...only to have her barricade herself in Carl's house when she first sees the two of them. | |
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Aussie soap opera Neighbours had Lou - a man well into his sixties - lie about his age in order to purchase a Russian mail-order bride from the Internet. When said bride, Mishka, arrived, it turned out she had lied about her age too and was about as old as he was. The pair hit it off, but the relationship is cut short after Mishka (who's in Australia illegally) bribes an immigration official and gets deported. | |
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Parodied in Dilbert, when Wally mail-orders a bride from Elbonia. She turns out to be a pig (literally). This apparently caused protests from some men with mail-order brides, as well as some groups who accused the creator of racism. Reportedly he was surprised, as he merely meant to imply the company was faulty. Elbonia is generally portrayed as Cloudcuckooland in any case. |
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A mail-order bride is also in Wagons East!. Very refined lady, horrified to discover that she's stuck with seven guys who make Neanderthals look civilized. | |
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Played in the short-lived sitcom Thanks. Differing from the usual, she's an English woman being sent to Puritan-era America. When she arrives looking like a modern-day supermodel, her husband-to-be is horrified. (People of that era having a much more healthy ideal of beauty.) She ends up with the town's blacksmith instead. | |
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In the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse, Cordula gets the direction to believe Maddin's new girlfriend is a mail-order bride from Russia. | |
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In The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Brisco & Bowler help a trio of women who had set themselves up as brides to some western characters sight-unseen. Brisco talks to them about how awful this idea is and they agree - although apparently, it's better than the alternative. | |
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Clerks: The Animated Series: Parodied when Randall orders a Japanese mail-order groom by mistake, who forces Randall to walk three steps behind, not talk, and have dinner on the table 5 minutes before the husband gets home. He also has Randall dress and act like the Yamato Nadeshiko type and eat sushi off of his bare body: | |
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Wish Carefully: By the middle of the fic, the Death-Eater controlled England is such a Crapsack World that they can't even get people to sell them mail-order brides. | |
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Midnight Sun (2016): Sparen marries a Thai woman, Mabée, whom he met online, so she can get citizenship in Sweden. | |
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Dead Man's Gun: In "Mail Order Bride", a blacksmith sends away for a bride, but his delivery includes the Dead Man's Gun. | |
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Jasper from My Name Is Earl has a Mail Order Bride from Russia. He lives in a storage container and tends to peddle *cough* suspect wares, though he told her he lived in a fancy gated community. | |
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The Toonsylvania episode "Phil's Brain" had Igor order a mail-order brain bride named Sarah Bellum for Phil's brain Larry Cortex. In the end, Sarah leaves Larry and runs off with Phil's pancreas Stu. | |
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Steve and his friends order a Russian mail-order bride in American Dad!. She disappears at the end of the episode, of course. Lampshaded in "Escape From Pearl Baily" when Toshi says "Didn't I have a wife once?" | |
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At one point in The Venture Brothers, Rusty asks Russian assassin Molotov Cocktease if Russian mail-order brides are any good, because the Chinese one was already dead when he opened the box. | |
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Quantum Leap once had Sam leap into a man who just got back from WWII in time for his new Japanese war bride to introduce herself to his family. | |
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A September 2002 comic for Something*Positive has Aubrey reading off descriptions from a website for Russian amputee mail-order brides. | |
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Briefly referenced in The Shepherd's Crown as available for the lumberjacks in the remote forest areas of the Ramtops. This being the Discworld, the "mail-order" bit is taken entirely literally, with the brides ordered from the same catalogue the lumberjacks use to buy everything else. | |
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One The Simpsons comic saw Bart accidentally order one of these when trying to order a decommissioned submarine. While she wants to stay in America, she can't unless she's married; since Bart is obviously too young, he and Lisa try to introduce her to Springfield's selection of bachelors to help her out. She ends up so revolted by them all that she flees back to her native country. | |
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Lucky Luke's Wife had the titular cowboy escort a large number of women across the land to their potential husbands, due to a serious gender imbalance in their respective communities. (Curiously, it was the women who got to pick from pictures of the men, while the men had no say.) The problem arises when one girl's betrothed is temporarily unavailable and Lucky Luke has to fill the husband role. It turns out to be an attempt to ensnare Luke so he can become their sheriff permanently. | |
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The infamous 'Russian gamer brides' fake ads from Knights of the Dinner Table. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries episode "Ministry of Virtue" is set around a Christian charitable organisation, the Virtue Ministry, which gives female convicts in London's Holloway Women's Prison the option of being transported to Canada for "virtuous marriage" to the men who've paid their passage (based on the Real Life "Salvation Girls"). Murdoch is uncertain about the morality of this but rationalises that they had a choice. Dr Ogden doesn't feel they had any choice at all, while Inspector Brakenreid opposes it for the opposite reason; the UK is sending criminals to run free in his city. The Victim of the Week is one of the brides, and it eventually transpires that in fact the organiser's "charges" killed her, and the supposed victim took her place. | |
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Wonderfalls: A boy orders a Russian bride for his widower dad. Although, at first, the boy seemed intent on marrying her himself! | |
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One episode of Law & Order had a mail-order bride desperate for a real life, whereas her husband just wanted a maid he could fuck. The bride and her lover were two of the more sympathetic murderers in the franchise's history. | |
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Black Saddle: In "Client: Dawes", Clay defends a mail-order bride who is accused of murder when he new husband dies in a seeming accident. Maggie Dawes mentions her husband having picked her out of a catalogue. | |
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Healy from Orange Is the New Black married Katya as a mail-order bride from the Ukraine. | |
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The Harvey Girls stars Judy Garland as one of these, but when she arrives, she takes one look at the prospective groom and gets a job as a Harvey Girl instead. (The Harvey Girls, who actually existed, were waitresses at Harvey House restaurants.) | |
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The plot of Once Upon a Time in the West is kicked off when a mail-order bride (played by the incomparable Claudia Cardinale) arrives at her new home just hours after everyone there was slaughtered as part of a land grab. Definitely not played for yuks since he wanted a mother for his children and she wanted a new life. | |
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It is implied that Alan Partridge's girlfriend Sonja in the second series of I'm Alan Partridge came to England on such an arrangement. She's a gregarious woman who clearly cares for Alan, which is a bit unfortunate for her since he views her with little more than contempt and is clearly only in it for the ego boost of getting to sleep with someone 17 years younger than him. | |
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"Mudd's Women" in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode of the same name. Harry Mudd is taking them to be the brides of a mining colony. | |
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One of the main characters from Krakow accidentally orders one from Russia. It turns out to be his Russian professor's sister. Then he orders another one and it's the professor's mother. | |
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In Lars and the Real Girl, Lars claims to be dating a girl who came from a horribly abusive life in a foreign country... but it turns out she's a sex doll. | |
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Subverted in Malcolm in the Middle. Francis' elderly roommate in Alaska announces he is getting a mail-order bride. Francis tries to convince him not to, and on the day she is supposed to arrive, they find out it was a blow-up sex doll. It is actually quite a Tear Jerker when this is revealed. | |
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Flower Drum Song revolves around this trope. | |
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An episode of The Lone Ranger zigzags this: a Chinese Launderer and his mail-order fiancee are very happy with each other, but a group of townspeople use increasingly nasty methods to try to break them up or even kill one or both of them: they are perfectly happy using the laundryman's services, but they don't want any children increasing the town population of Chinese(-American) people. | |
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In the Western arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space, Isolde is a mail-order bride to Mark, as the closest Western equivalent of marrying a princess you've never met for political reasons. | |
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In the 1932 drama The Purchase Price, Joan (played by Barbara Stanwyck) decides to be a mail-order bride to escape her gangster ex-boyfriend and begin a new life. | |
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Series three of Little Britain had Dudley and Ting Tong, the characters of a repulsive middle-aged man and his Thai mail-order wife. Each episode would reveal something untoward about Ting Tong (such as that she was actually a "ladyboy" and born in London) until she eventually invites her whole family to Britain, kicks Dudley out of his house and turns it into a Thai restaurant. Little Britain Abroad shows that Dudley's brother has a Russian mail-order bride as well. | |
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Loren seeks out one of these, realizing that he's getting on at his age and not wanting to be alone for the rest of his life, but ultimately decides against it. | |
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The Duckman episode "My Feral Lady" has Duckman ordering a bride who turns out to be a jungle savage. | |
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In the 1949 movie, I Was a Male War Bride, Cary Grant plays the part of a Frenchman who marries a female American soldier at the end of WWII and encounters various problems as a male version of this trope. | |
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Played with on CSI. One man ordered a Russian mail-order bride and then killed her when she wasn't really in love with him and was planning to leave him for a less-controlling man. By the time the CSIs find her body years later, he's already remarried to another mail-order bride from China. | |
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In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, one character is shown to have an Asian mail-order bride that hates him. Hubby is completely oblivious. | |
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Johnny Bravo had a second season episode about this, "To Helga and Back". Johnny ordered a girl from a dating service who turned out to be a Brawn Hilda. He did eventually fall for her after many Zany Schemes to repulse her but lost her when he started acting like his usual, narcissistic self. | |
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In the animated film Gay Purr-ee, Mewsette, a naive cat from the country, is tricked into being a mail-order bride to a rich American cat. | |
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In the 1951 movie Westward the Women, an entire wagon train made up of over a hundred women looking for a second chance is led to a male-only settlement in California. Due to a loss of male workers on the wagon train, the leader has to train the entire group of women into tough, capable Homesteader Wives, much to the delight of the men when they arrive. Lots of implied happy pairings ensue. | |
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During one of his adventures, Tex Willer had to escort a number of women across the country while they went to their potential husbands. Horribly Subverted at the end when it's revealed it was a scam to lure young women and force them into prostitution, and while this group escapes their fate due to Tex gunning down the bandits the scam had been going on for quite some time. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Veronica Mars. A woman claiming to be a Russian immigrant looking for an ex-boyfriend she met through the Internet turns out to be a member of the Russian mafia searching for a witness. | |
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Barney Miller: Inspector Luger has a Filipina mail-order bride. He coerced Barney into writing his letters for him. They remain (more-or-less happily) married through the end of the series. | |
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Monkey Dust had a recurring sketch much like the Little Britain example above, where a truly disgusting middle-aged man has a mail-order bride who remains permanently adoring of him no matter what repulsive thing he says or does. | |
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Frasier: When Woody from Cheers comes to visit Frasier he reveals that Cliff Clavin almost got married to a woman he met this way, but she called it off after spending a few days with him before the wedding. | |
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An episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch had Salem stealing the aunts' money to buy whatever he wants, a Japanese mail-order bride being one of them. At the end of the episode, the bride shows up and merely shrugs when she learns her new husband is a talking cat. | |
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Played very seriously in Birthday Girl, where an Englishman hires a mail-order Russian bride. Then she and some accomplices extort him into robbing the bank that he works for using a variant on the "Spanish Prisoner" act. | |
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