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** Before getting the role of Betty, the previous role of Ana María Orozco was a BrainlessBeauty who wanted to be a Miss Colombia in ''Perro Amor''.
** In the Japanese dub, Betty is voiced by Creator/TakakoFuji, better known in Japan and abroad as... ''[[Film/TheGrudge Kayako Saeki]]'', [[NightmareFuel of all things]].
** Before getting the role of Betty, the previous role of Ana María Orozco was a BrainlessBeauty who wanted to be a Miss Colombia in ''Perro Amor''.
** In the Japanese dub, Betty is voiced by Creator/TakakoFuji, better known in Japan and abroad as... ''[[Film/TheGrudge Kayako Saeki]]'', [[NightmareFuel of all things]].
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* HollywoodHomely: [[http://static.pulzo.com/images/20161031123219/ana-maria-orozco-actriz-que-interpreto-a-betty-la-fea.png Betty's actress is a very beautiful woman]] in RealLife. However, the producers and makeup artists went to great lengths to characterize her as Betty, including hiring a specialist in colour to choose all the colours which were most unflattering to the actress. The "Ugly Squad" also has this; it was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Betty, after meeting them, and learning their collective nickname, asks why Aura María, arguably as beautiful as the models who work for Eco Moda, is included in the group (her supposed sin is that she is a very short woman who wears clothes too slutty for an office). There is also Mariana who is outwardly gorgeous, but due to racism and colorism of Latin American society, she is "ugly".
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* HollywoodHomely: [[http://static.pulzo.com/images/20161031123219/ana-maria-orozco-actriz-que-interpreto-a-betty-la-fea.png [[https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jTvQ7N3txOkEBYv7iPjhUzxsBDE.jpg Betty's actress is a very beautiful woman]] in RealLife. However, the producers and makeup artists went to great lengths to characterize her as Betty, including hiring a specialist in colour to choose all the colours which were most unflattering to the actress. The "Ugly Squad" also has this; it was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Betty, after meeting them, and learning their collective nickname, asks why Aura María, arguably as beautiful as the models who work for Eco Moda, is included in the group (her supposed sin is that she is a very short woman who wears clothes too slutty for an office). There is also Mariana who is outwardly gorgeous, but due to racism and colorism of Latin American society, she is "ugly".
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* ArcFatigue: While Betty finding Calderon's letter is seen as one of the series' highlights and a turning point for the soap, the aftermath is incredibly drawn out, with the following episodes being a recap of Armando and Betty's relationship under this new perspective, and the letter being read out loud over and over by the characters.
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* FashionDissonance: Having been made between 1999 and 2001, the series is firmly lodged in late TheNineties fashion, especially with women's business clothing. One episode has Patricia, struggling with money, trying to keep people of realizing that she commited the awful faux pas of... not wearing pantyhose, which certainly can make modern viewers scratch their heads since nowadays it's not considered an essential garment unlike it was back then.
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* HollywoodHomely: [[http://static.pulzo.com/images/20161031123219/ana-maria-orozco-actriz-que-interpreto-a-betty-la-fea.png Betty's actress is a very beautiful woman]] in RealLife. However, the producers and makeup artists went to great lengths to characterize her as Betty, including hiring a specialist in colour to choose all the colours which were most unflattering to the actress. The "Ugly Squad" also has this; it was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Betty, after meeting them, and learning their collective nickname, asks why Aura María, arguably as beautiful as the models who work for Eco Moda, is included in the group (her supposed sin is that she is a very short woman who wears clothes too slutty for an office).
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* HollywoodHomely: [[http://static.pulzo.com/images/20161031123219/ana-maria-orozco-actriz-que-interpreto-a-betty-la-fea.png Betty's actress is a very beautiful woman]] in RealLife. However, the producers and makeup artists went to great lengths to characterize her as Betty, including hiring a specialist in colour to choose all the colours which were most unflattering to the actress. The "Ugly Squad" also has this; it was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Betty, after meeting them, and learning their collective nickname, asks why Aura María, arguably as beautiful as the models who work for Eco Moda, is included in the group (her supposed sin is that she is a very short woman who wears clothes too slutty for an office). There is also Mariana who is outwardly gorgeous, but due to racism and colorism of Latin American society, she is "ugly".
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* AbortedArc: Inés's incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofía's. They both probably had to be ignored or cut short for time issues.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: An odd case with Marcela regarding her enmity with Betty. Some fans of Marcela think that she only antagonized Betty because her fiancé Armando cheated on her with Betty, ignoring that Marcela was among those who belittled Betty as "ugly" long before she became aware of the affair. That's not to say that she didn't have symphatetic qualities, though (see below).
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Some fans of the telenovela ultimately found themselves liking Marcela due to having several symphatetic qualities: Besides being a victim of Armando's philandering (and ultimately finding herself with Armando leaving her for real for Betty), she was actually friendly to the Ugly Squad (bar Betty), and showed genuine concern at how Armando's actions threatened Eco Moda given that it was her family's company; compare and contrast with her brother Daniel, whose plan for the company if it fell into his hands was to simply sell it.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Some fans of the telenovela ultimately found themselves liking Marcela due to having several symphatetic qualities: Besides being a victim of Armando's philandering (and ultimately finding herself with Armando leaving her for real for Betty), she was actually friendly to the Ugly Squad (bar Betty), and showed genuine concern at how Armando's actions threatened Eco Moda given that it was her family's company; compare and contrast with her brother Daniel, whose plan for the company if it fell into his hands was to simply sell it.
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* ValuesDissonance: Needless to say, a story about a homely woman falling for a womanizer who is both lying to her about being in love and using her and already engaged to someone else (even if he ended up later BecomingTheMask and falls in love with her for real) plus the "ugly" woman becoming "beautiful" along the way, sounds much less endearing today than it was in 1999-2001.
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* ValuesDissonance: Needless to say, a story about a homely woman falling for a womanizer who is both lying to her about being in love and using her and already engaged to someone else (even if he ended up later BecomingTheMask and falls in love with her for real) plus playing the "ugly" woman becoming "beautiful" along BeautifulAllAlong cliche (although it could be said that here it was still applied better than in infamous offender ''Film/ShesAllThat'', made around the way, same time) sounds much less endearing today than it was in 1999-2001.
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Well, it ended in 2001, so I guess that it crosses the 20-year threshold.
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** Betty could get more special by not becoming one of the women under the womanizer's spell even if she appreciated him as a BenevolentBoss. That would emphasize her [[OnlySaneMan intelligence]] more, and make her effect on Armando more believable as an ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou than loving her because she was especially vulnerable and devoted to him. Ironically, the US version of the show, ''Series/UglyBetty'' would go down this road from day one, with the added twist that Betty refuses to take her boss's shit or listen to his excuses when he tries to avoid doing the right thing
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** Betty could get more special by not becoming one of the women under the womanizer's spell even if she appreciated him as a BenevolentBoss. That would emphasize her [[OnlySaneMan intelligence]] more, and make her effect on Armando more believable as an ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou than loving her because she was especially vulnerable and devoted to him. Ironically, the US version of the show, ''Series/UglyBetty'' would go down this road from day one, with the added twist that Betty refuses to take her boss's shit or listen to his excuses when he tries to avoid doing the right thingthing.
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* ValuesDissonance: Needless to say, a story about a homely woman falling for a womanizer who is both lying to her about being in love and using her and already engaged to someone else (even if he ended up later BecomingTheMask and falls in love with her for real) plus the "ugly" woman becoming "beautiful" along the way, sounds much less endearing today than it was in 1999-2001.
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* GeniusBonus: Betty really loves uruguayan poetry, even leaving one of Delmira Alfonsini´s poems for Armando to find. Days later during one of the copule outings Armando out of nowhere quotes Mario Benedetti's Te quiero "...mi cómplice y todo, y en la ''oficina'' codo a codo, somos mucho más que dos."
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* GeniusBonus: Betty really loves uruguayan Uruguayan poetry, even leaving one of Delmira Alfonsini´s Alfonsini's poems for Armando to find. Days later later, during one of the copule outings couple's outings, Armando out of nowhere quotes Mario Benedetti's Te quiero "..."Te quiero": "''...mi cómplice y todo, y en la ''oficina'' codo a codo, somos mucho más que dos."''" ("... my partner and everything, and in the ''office'' side by side, we are much more than two.")
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* AbortedArc: Inés incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofías. They both probably had to be ignored or cut short for time issues.
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* AbortedArc: Inés Inés's incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofías.Sofía's. They both probably had to be ignored or cut short for time issues.
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* GeniusBonus: Betty really loves uruguayan poetry, even leaving one of Delmira Alfonsini´s poems for Armando to find. Days later during one of the copule outings Armando out of nowhere quotes Mario Benedetti's Te quiero "...mi cómplice y todo, y en la ''oficina'' codo a codo, somos mucho más que dos."
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* AbortedArc: Inés incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofías. While neither was very abrupt; neither had a really satisfying conclusion, possibly because of time issues.
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* AbortedArc: Inés incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofías. While neither was very abrupt; neither They both probably had a really satisfying conclusion, possibly because of to be ignored or cut short for time issues. issues.
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* AbortedArc: Inés incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofías. While neither was very abrupt; neither had a really satisfying conclusion, possibly because of time issues.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Partly due to ValuesDissonance, but current audiences vastly prefer Michell over Armando as Betty's LoveInterest, since he treats her kindly from the start and most consider what Armando did (lying to her about being in love and using her, even if he ended up BecomingTheMask) to be unforgivable and toxic.
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** Marcela is, informedly, a strong woman, which in theory would give some interesting exchanges with Armando, as he constantly cheats her on. Instead, she condones being constantly cheated on like an ExtremeDoormat.
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** Marcela is, informedly, a strong woman, which in theory would give some interesting exchanges with Armando, as he constantly cheats her on.on her. Instead, she condones being constantly cheated on like an ExtremeDoormat.
