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* GoldDigger: Patrick's college mistress Bubbles. Also the Maddox sisters are always in hope to land a rich bachelor.

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* MoodyMount: Sally [[JustForPun saddles]] Mame with one of these, Lightning Rod. [[AdaptationNameChange In the movie]], he is much more [[IronicName unfittingly named "Meditation"]].

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* %%zce* MoodyMount: Sally [[JustForPun saddles]] saddles Mame with one of these, Lightning Rod. [[AdaptationNameChange In the movie]], he is much more [[IronicName unfittingly named "Meditation"]].
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* GuessWhoImMarrying: Patrick is due to be married to Gloria Upson, whom Mame finds, along with her parents, to be boring and bigoted.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: On top of all their other faults, the Upsons are anti-Semites, to the point of getting outraged at the thought of a shelter for refugee Jewish children being built near their house[[note]]In the 1974 film, it's a home for unwed mothers, which gets much the same reaction from the Uptons.[[/note]]

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: On top of all their other faults, the Upsons are anti-Semites, to the point of getting outraged at the thought of a shelter for refugee Jewish children being built near their house[[note]]In the 1974 film, it's a home for unwed mothers, which gets much the same reaction from the Uptons.Upsons.[[/note]]
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* AccidentalAthlete: Auntie Mame, when she manages to stay on top of the mad horse that Sally Cato makes her ride on.

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* AccidentalAthlete: Auntie Mame, when she manages to stay on top of the mad horse that Sally Cato makes her ride on.ride.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sally Cato, Beau's former fiance who would do anything to get him back. Even MurderTheHypotenuse. While pretending to be Auntie Mame's friend and the perfect SouthernBelle. Also Gloria Upson and her family.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sally Cato, Beau's former fiance fiancé who would do anything to get him back. Even MurderTheHypotenuse. While pretending to be Auntie Mame's friend and the perfect SouthernBelle. Also Gloria Upson and her family.



* CassandraTruth: Sally Cato's younger brother warns Patrick several times about his sister's true intentions towards Name, but Patrick doesn't catch on until he overhears Sally trying to seduce Uncle Beau. He then tries to warn Mame, but she doesn't buy into it until it becomes too obvious.

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* CassandraTruth: Sally Cato's younger brother warns Patrick several times about his sister's true intentions towards Name, Mame, but Patrick doesn't catch on until he overhears Sally trying to seduce Uncle Beau. He then tries to warn Mame, but she doesn't buy into it until it becomes too obvious.



* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Maddox sisters come from a wealthy OldMoney family who used to lord over Maddox Island (ensue the name). They lost their wealth in the 1929 crash and in the late UsefulNotes/1930s they are still not adjusting with being poor.
* LadyDrunk: Mame and Vera (and sundry other chums of Mame's) are very fond of wetting their whistles, usually with something like a martini...or two, or three.

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* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Maddox sisters come from a wealthy OldMoney family who used to lord over Maddox Island (ensue the name). They lost their wealth in the 1929 crash and in the late UsefulNotes/1930s they are still not adjusting with adjusted to being poor.
* LadyDrunk: Mame and Vera (and sundry other chums of Mame's) are very fond of wetting their whistles, usually with something like a martini... or two, or three.



** Telling that Mame is met with hostility by her mother-in-law, Mama Burnside is {[Understatement}} (she doesn't approve her son married a Yankee and ditched Sally Cato). Things ''do not'' get better. At least she's welcomed by cousin Fan and all the other Burnside relatives.
** Patrick gets engaged to Gloria Upson and she introduces him and Mame to her shallow, snobbish and racist parents. With Mame's help Patrick comes to the conclusion that Gloria is not suited for him at all.

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** Telling that Mame is met with hostility by her mother-in-law, Mama Burnside is {[Understatement}} (she doesn't approve that her son married a Yankee and ditched Sally Cato). Things ''do not'' get better. At least she's welcomed by cousin Fan and all the other Burnside relatives.
** Patrick gets engaged to Gloria Upson and she introduces him and Mame to her shallow, snobbish snobbish, and racist parents. With Mame's help help, Patrick comes to the conclusion that Gloria is not suited for him at all.



* StacysMom: When Patrick gets to college there are several of his peers who flirt with Mame, much to her delight since she's in her forties at this point.

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* StacysMom: When Patrick gets to college college, there are several of his peers who flirt with Mame, much to her delight since she's in her forties at this point.



** The Maddox sisters are unbelievably so. They're unbearably snobbish, have delusions of grandeur and are completely useless in anything else.

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** The Maddox sisters are unbelievably so. They're unbearably snobbish, have delusions of grandeur grandeur, and are completely useless in anything else.



* ForeignQueasine: At one point Mame serves the Upsons pickled rattlesnake. Though they actually liked it before she told them what it was.

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* ForeignQueasine: At one point point, Mame serves the Upsons pickled rattlesnake. Though they actually liked it before she told them what it was.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Babcock's right in that a school where one class involves the kids all being naked and apparently re-enacting fish mating probably isn't a suitable place for Patrick...or any child...'''ever'''. Mame's pause after Patrick finishes explaining "Fish Family" implies even she wasn't prepared for that response.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Babcock's right in that a school where one class involves the kids all being naked and apparently re-enacting fish mating probably isn't a suitable place for Patrick... or any child...child... '''ever'''. Mame's pause after Patrick finishes explaining "Fish Family" implies even she wasn't prepared for that response.
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* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Mame goes from interest to interest, all through the books.

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