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Ugly Betty (2006-2010) is an [[
In a nutshell, the show follows the eponymous young woman as she pursues her dream of becoming a writer in the magazine industry. To achieve this, she works as [[Plucky Office Girl|an assistant at a shallow fashion
While being advertized as a [[Fashion Show]], clothing and modeling are really just a background to the helter skelter of the main character's daily lives. Having run for four seasons before being canceled, it delves deep into the lives and catharsis these characters share with one another. Every character, [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|shallow as they try to act,]] is deep and has a fleshed out personality, and the show follows how deeply their lives are interwoven. Expect major character development and dramedy to ensue.
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* [[Aloof Big
* [[Alternate
* [[Always Camp]]: Played with.
* [[Ambiguously
** Less so, now that he has a boyfriend.
* [[Animal
** Hilda tends to wear clothes with animal prints, which add to her Queens woman image.
* [[Bandaged
* [[Baseball
* [[Battle
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Daniel grows this several times over the run of the show.
* [[Best
* [[Big
** "-Amanda! Is that you?" "-Sorry, I thought that was MY butt."
* [[Bitch in Sheep's
* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"]]: Betty wears a necklace with a large capital B on it. This necklace is actually modeled after one worn in real life by Anne Boleyn.
** In the episode "Smoking Hot", Amanda wears a long necklace with a huge letter A on it, mimicking Betty's tiny necklace, adding comedic effect to the fact that nobody can tell both girls are actually wearing the same outfit.
* [[But Not Too Black]]: Wilhelmina Slater, averted with her daughter.
* [[But Not Too
* [[Camp
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: Betty once ignored a call from her sister due to a work obligation. Naturally, this call was to tell her their father was in the hospital so everybody could guilt-trip Betty for putting her job ahead of her family (which she otherwise almost never does).
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Fey Sommers of ''Mode'' is clearly based on Anna Wintour of ''Vogue'' (even their names pun: summer/winter). But later episodes mention Wintour as a separate person.
** Also no one mentions how much Kimmie looks Lindsay Lohan, who was mentioned in an early episode.
* [[Character
** Even the people who don't like Betty end up respecting her by the end of the series. Amanda is more-or-less the same self-centered, somewhat cruel ditz she was at the beginning, but she goes from despising Betty to having the biggest girl-crush imaginable on her.
* [[The
* [[Church of
* [[Comically Missing the
* [[Coming Out
** In "Backseat Betty", Justin is {{spoiler|voted homecoming queen and manages to laugh it off}}. His family acts as if he just came out, and Justin definitively states that he's not gay. No one believes it, but Marc respects his wishes.
** Also subverted in "Fire and Nice". Twice, Marc assumes that Justin is about to come out to him and leads him in the right direction, but Justin doesn't act in the way expected.
* [[Daddy DNA
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Christina in "In or Out" and Betty in "Family/Affair"; both "deals" were made with Wilhelmina.
* [[
* [[Dramed[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[Dream
* [[Drowning My
* [[Drunk on Milk]]: Betty with Chili Cheese Fries.
* [[Elephant in the Living
* [[Fag
* [[Fashion
{{quote|'''Molly:''' Everything I'm wearing hurts. That's good right?}}
* [[Fashion
* [[Fashion Show]]: Averted overall. Fashion is more of a background while the focus are the characters and their daily lives.
* [[Heel Face Revolving
* [[Heterosexual Life
* [[Hide Your
* [[
* [[Hooked Up
** To elaborate: {{spoiler|Daniel has realized his feelings, but Betty still hadn't been given enough time to possibly see it their relationship that way. In the end, the ending was left ambiguous with his catching up with her at her new job. She has to run but smiles as she walks away, leaving fans on either side to draw conclusions}}.
* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The people running Meade Publications clearly are insane. After ''everything'' she does to screw them over, why the hell [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|don't they just fire Wilhemina?]]
** Daniel not realizing just why he's lucky to have Betty as his [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]. She's probably one of the reasons the company wasn't run into the ground a long time ago.
* [[Important
* [[Invisible to
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Claire Meade, even though she's supposed to be cleaning up.
* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: {{spoiler|Daniel and Betty}}, as well as well as the much less developed {{spoiler|Marc and Troy}}. Possibly not entirely by the writers' choice.
** Kind of averted, since Claire was seeing sporadic, but evident, signs of this since Season 3.
* [[Les
* [[Longing Look]]
* [[Love
* [[Love
* [[Mama
** Same goes for Justin. Hilda ''will'' hurt you.
* [[Multi National
* [[Naked in Mink]]: Wilhelmina.
* [[Odd
* [[Open-Minded
* [[Parental
** Marc technically also counts, {{spoiler|with his mother rejecting him when he comes out of the closet to her, though it seemed she was aware and simply willfully ignorant}}.
* [[Pet Homosexual]]: Marc St. James.
* [[Pet the
* [[Plucky Office Girl]]: Betty, in spades. This is, in fact, the entire point of her character.
* [[Poor Communication
* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* [[Real Life Writes the
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Amanda. And she's very proud of it. Marc likes to brag about this, but Amanda's claims, specially in "After Hours", state just the opposite. Zander, Meade's security guard, couldn't care less about genders in spite of pleasure.
** Averted with Betty, when she admits she's "not that experienced" during Matt's psychiatric session.
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** Amanda pretends to be, but she's not rich in the slightest. Played very straight with Wilhelmina though.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Charlie.
* [[Rule of
* [[Rule of
* [[Rummage Sale
* [[Sassy Black
* [[Say My Name
* [[Ship
* [[Should Have Thought of That Before X]]: In episode "A Tree Grows in Guadalajara".
{{quote|'''Alexis''': [Hates the fact that Daniel is seeing her ex-girlfriend]
'''Daniel''': You're just jealous because I've got the one thing you can't have. Guess you should have thought of that before you gave away the family jewels, huh?}}
* [["Shut Up"
* [[Snub By
* [[Something's Different About You Now]]: "-Oh, it's not that funny."
* [[Spicy
* [[Subways Suck]]
* [[Title Drop]] First done in one of the Lindsay Lohan episodes where Kimmie calls her "Ugly Betty". Later, in the [[What If]] episode "Million Dollar Smile", Daniel makes a remark to Betty that on the inside "You're ''ugly'', Betty." Long story.
** Also, in "Grin and Bear It", Amanda calls a photo of the young Wilhelmina "Ugly Willie".
* [[Tomboyish
* [[
* [[The Vamp]]: Wilhelmina with Bradford.
* [[Villain with Good
* [["Well Done, Son"
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Sofia Reyes is in the same building as the Mode offices for (as far as we know) the rest of the series, but is never seen or mentioned again. Not even when plot developments would indicate some mention (Claire taking control of Meade Publications, and again when they're deciding which of the magazines to cut). This is especially strange since her portrayer, Salma Hayek, is one of the producers and would've been available to reprise her role.
* [[White and Grey
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: "Swag".
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: The "Debitz", Henry's bowling team name. The Z is for intimidation
* [[Yes-
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