History Literature / BridgetJones

* ThisLoserIsYou: Loveless yet Loving Bridget stuck at boring job though with enough overtones of CoolLoser that fans don't complain. She later lands a job on TV.

* CoolLoser: Further explained under ThisLoserIsYou. Bridget doesn't have much luck in maintaining romantic attachments with non "fuckwit" guys and is really hard on herself due to people nagging her about her single status and a culture that reveres cool, collected, thin couture-clad slyphs, she is also a great friend who is a pleasure at parties and is considered pretty sexy by guys who know her.

* DramaticTVShutOff: A deleted scene shows Daniel obsessively watching sport on TV, until Bridget switches it off to get his attention. He then reveals how he has booked them to go on a mini-break: when she reacts with delight, he quickly switches the set back on.* DrowningMySorrows: From the movie: "I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect. Instead, I choose vodka."

* DrowningMySorrows: From the movie: "I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect. Instead, I choose vodka."

---> I said "I love you" for God Sakes!

-->'''Mr. Darcy: '''[[CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces Oh marvelous, marvelous! Yes. Nice, healthy, well-built girl! Can't be doing with a girl that's just skin and bone. I like a woman with an arse you can park a bike in and rest a pint on. Hmmm"]]

---> '''Bridget''': Are you or are you not sleeping with Rebecca Gillies?\\

---> '''Bridget''': I read that you should never go out with someone if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.\\

* ItsACostumePartyISwear: The "Tarts and Vicars" party. The hosts decided to call the scheme off, but forget to tell several people, Bridget and her father among them.

---> '''Daniel:''' Why don't you tell me in detail the story of your school netball tour, with particular reference to the unsavoury incident in the communal showers?

---> '''Mark''': Last Christmas, I thought if [[StopSayingThat my mother said the words 'Bridget Jones' just once more I would go to the Sunday People and accuse her of abusing me as a child with a bicycle pump]]. Then when I met you… and I was wearing that [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell ridiculous diamond-patterned jumper that Una had bought me for Christma]]s…. Bridget, all the other girls I know are so lacquered over. I don't know anyone else who would [[EatingTheEyeCandy fasten a bunny tail to their pants or…]]\\

---> '''Bridget:''' Because if I had to cook Cosmo’s dinner then get into the same bed as him just once, let alone every night, I’d tear off my own head and eat it.

* HasTwoMommies: In the third film, Tom and his husband adopt a Cambodian baby; leaving Bridget as the last childless one out of their group [[spoiler:although she gets pregnant very shortly after.]]

* SexySoakedShirt: The first movie had a scene where Daniel was fooling around while he and Bridget were rowing their individual boats in a pond, he ends up falling into the water and the camera soon focuses on Daniel and the soaked shirt clinging to his body.
** The second movie has a variant with a dress, where [[RaceForYourLove Bridget arrives at Mark's workplace to get back together with him]] and two passing buses splash water on her, which end up [[BuxomIsBetter highlighting her very round and ample assets]].

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Bridget. When she reaches her goal weight in the 1st book, she's elated until she realizes [[BuxomIsBetter her bust is smaller]] and her friends openly ask if she's sick, she then muses on how she's spent about 15 years getting down to said weight along with wearing clothes that disguise the size of her backside and walking backwards after sex so her partner doesn't see her backside and it's all for naught. This doesn't cure her WeightWoe.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In the second film, Bridget feels very insecure next to Mark's [[BrainyBrunette brainy]], [[ShesGotLegs leggy]], [[SexySecretary comely assistant]] Rebecca; it gets worse when [[PopCulturedBadass Rebecca answers the final question of a trivia game correctly after Bridget was acing it]].

* ShesGotLegs: Two film examples.
** Rebecca Gillies in the second film is noted for having "legs up to here" *armpit area*, not that she shows them off a lot but it's fairly obvious with her tall and thin frame.
** Bridget wears miniskirts and dresses that show off her "climber's legs", with the 1st film having a close up on her slim ankles and calves on her shapely frame after stepping off the scale.

** The third book has a subplot where Bridget has put on a substantial amount of weight (through a combination of "middle-aged spread" and having had two children in the last few years) and is treated at an obesity clinic but even then, if she is average height, her weight would put her as slightly short of the medical benchmark for obesity. This was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when the nurse that recommended the clinic to her told her that it had nothing to do with Bridget being obese, but it's an effective way for her to meet her healthy weight of 130-140 pounds.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The films usually have Bridget tastefully showing off her breasts, but there are a few outfits that show off her cleavage, her PlayboyBunny costume being a prominent example.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Bridget's rivals for Mark's affections are always classy and slender brunettes, but Mark truly loves the curvy, blond Bridget. Daniel puts this UpToEleven in the third film, where his funeral reveals that he has countless old paramours, all of whom are young and blond.

** The 3rd book has Nicollette, who is a poised yet cold {{Foil}} to Bridget, is very demanding of her young (and insecure) sons putting [[UpToEleven 200%]] into their school and sports; she thankfully loosens up but not before a [[SirSwearsALot digital breakdown]] sometime after being called out for her parental skills.

* TwoTimingTheBestie: Daniel Cleaver tells Bridget that his friend Mark Darcy slept with his fiancé, causing the present distance between them. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the opposite: ''Daniel'' was the one who cheated, with Darcy's ''wife''. Bridget's perspective on Darcy completely changes once she discovers this.]]

* TwoTimingTheBestie: Daniel Cleaver tells Bridget that his friend Mark Darcy cheated with Daniel's fiancé, causing the present distance between them. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the opposite: ''Daniel'' was the one who cheated, with Darcy's ''wife''. Bridget's perspective on Darcy completely changes once she discovers this.]]

* TwoTimingTheBestie: Daniel Cleaver tells Bridget that his friend Mark Darcy did this with Daniel's fiancé, causing the present distance between them. [[spoiler:It turns out to be the opposite: ''Daniel'' was the one who cheated, with Darcy's ''wife''. Bridget's perspective on Darcy completely changes once she discovers this.]]