The Stepford Smiler is a dark twist on the Purity Sue — a character obsessed with projecting an image of wholesome happiness in order to be accepted. Tragically ... The Stepford Wives · Best Quotes for Stepford... · StepfordSmiler / Live-Action TV

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 …

Stepford Suburbia is the sister-city to the Uncanny Village, and both are located in the Crapsaccharine World. Can also be part of an actual Coming-Out Story.

The fraternal twin of the Stepford Smiler. The Stepford Snarker has intense feelings of sadness, anger, numbness, loneliness, or other negative emotions, …

The social satire here is pretty blatant with the men replacing their liberated feminist wives with submissive domestic robots - but it served to show audiences ...

In advertising, customers are routinely shown to be extremely and conspicuously ecstatic about the product, no matter how mundane — or in fact boring — it is.

A page for describing NightmareFuel: Stepford Wives. Just the idea that men would kill their wives and replace them with lifelike robot replicas, ...

There's a rare humorous example of an Empty Stepford Smiler in Annie Hall, with a couple that Alvy Singer approaches on the street for relationship advice.

A page for describing PlayingWith: Stepford Smiler. Basic Trope: A character puts up a cheerful appearance to hide their true insanity/depression.

In the 2004 version, there's something particularly heartbreaking about Claire's motivation behind the whole Stepford scheme.